001Everyone, I'm going to call the meeting to order in just a second, but we're going to rearrange a whole bunch of stuff off the agenda in different order because there's people who have to leave and have to be someplace. So, I'll call the meeting to order and then explain how we're going to go. I'd like to call the meeting to order. I aliance 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 everyone. So, we are going to have a brief executive session towards the beginning of the meeting. But first, we're going to move PTSA up, which is item F under reports to the board. And then Mr. Drestler is going to give his
002report because they have to go over to the elementary school for kindergarten. And then we'll do our executive session students highlight and go back into the normal. So you're up Veronica. >> Oh, perfect. >> Hi. Thank you for bothering me. We don't want to do the students first. >> No, because I want to make sure you guys get on. [laughter] I'm good with that. All right. Thank you very much. Um, so as I keep announcing to everybody, we are now actively planning our create with kindness program that's scheduled for April 28th. Um, if you got an email last night, we are looking for staff or board members or coaches or administration that may want to help out with the event. All of the tools are provided. All of the work tracks are provided. We are
003just looking for people to actually help us put the program together in front of the students and their families. Um, with the high school music club coming up, we will be there with both flower sales and we are asked to do concessions. So, you will see us there during our lunchship. Um, we also right now have our um, elementary school spirit wear sale going on. Um, we have the designs worked up. There's, uh, some sample shirts hanging up in the main office. >> Yes. >> So, um, I've heard that there's already a lot that's come in. Everybody's been pretty excited about it. Um, and, uh, the company that we are working with is also throwing in an extra little goodie Marauder spinner that they put together. So, all the orders look at that and kids
004love that kind of stuff. Um, our meeting next week, uh, in true fashion, we will get it done pretty quickly because we have something to do. We'll be stuffing Easter eggs for the senior Easter egg hunt next week. So, we expect to be in and out in like an hour if you want to join us. Um, and then from here, uh, we've been asked by Scott to join over at the UPK kindergarten information night, which will be fantastic. So, we can start to present ourselves to new families coming in. That's all I got. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh now we're going to do part of the administrative reports and Mr. Trash. >> Fantastic. Thank you so much. So we continue to make great progress towards again our action plan that are aligned
005with district goals specifically in instruction and our data and the systems that we use. We've had our most recent faculty meeting and building round table looking at data objectively. So we're trying to really look at our progress monitoring tools which is I ready and our benchmarks and developing thresholds or cut scores that would help us determine which students qualified for tier three support which is our highest level of academic support in reading and math or tier 2 support. and looking at that instructional model with our teachers at the building round table of how we can really focus in on our tier 2 for the most part and strengthening our tier one through continued professional development and partnership with Karen with our collaborative classroom and how we can utilize those resources in tweaking our instructional models
006and reading and then math expressions. The same way whenever you came over and you were loving everything that you saw within that math expressions lessons that you saw just building and helping our teachers with their toolbox there. So we did that on those two literacy engagement across the the building. Buddy readers, we had over 100 plus volunteers from the middle school that were interested in coming over to the elementary school to read. We can't house a hundred of them at one time. So we're going to bring a couple of groups over for Thursday and Friday because this week is the read across America week. So we have two groups coming over tomorrow and Friday. And then that just leads us into a foundation of of more volunteers coming to read at the elementary level from
007the middle school, hoping to expand it again to the high school. So get ready, Dr. Snider. Um this week again is read across America and we also have Lego literacies that we started with our fourth graders reading with our first graders and our third graders reading with our kindergarteners. And that's a fantastic opportunity. And most recently for our school culture, we had a studentled um integrity, I'll say assembly. So our next value word is integrity as part of pride. So we had 8 to 10 students that modeled a skit in front of our prek through first grade and our two through fourth grade. Very wellreceived. We have some actors and actresses that are going to be coming up and getting they get Oscars. Um so they did a great job. It it was really phenomenal.
008So, we're working on that and then when we come back from spring break again, we will reit all of our station rotations talking about schoolwide expectations and things of that sort. We did send out the culture of caring survey and we're looking at the preliminary results from our staff on how we are doing as administrators supporting their needs. Um, and it's coming out positive. So, that is a lot of our updates. >> Thank you. You're good to go. >> Okay. Uh, >> I'm gonna skip executive session for a second because we want to get the students to do we have any announcements just for Mr. Dler had to excuse himself early event this evening. We've already taken care of student highlight. It's like my favorite show. >> Okay, now I need a motion to enter
009executive session. >> So moved. Uh I sorry [laughter] I was the executive session >> for the employment history of a particular person or >> corporation. >> [clears throat] >> Somebody needs to in open session and now we'll move on to reports to the board. So women first. >> Hey, so I [laughter] have a brief uh a brief report on what's been going on the past few weeks and it has been general uh generally relatively steady the past few the past like two weeks that we've been uh since our last meeting and uh the students have been really excited for as we just uh saw the upcoming Mamma Mia production. Um I certainly am part of it but um so I I personally want to invite you on behalf of the students um again to uh
010get your tickets online uh for the 13th and 14th of March. to to support us. Um and besides that, I I have worked again with Dr. Snyder to provide um operational re resources for the students based on student input. Um as well as discussing with Dr. Snyder how um how we can improve the transition uh from the the transition of the exeicio position for next year. And so we're going to have uh me present in a forum about my experiences this year for the the next year, the the next person because I'm almost out. I'm almost done. So um yeah, I know it's been really fast. It's been crazy. Um just when you're starting to like set into it, it's already done. Um and this will probably happen next month, early next month. Um so
011we'll just have to see that happen. And that concludes my report. There are questions or Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Uh reports from district administrators. >> Thank you very much. You're being modest. I think you are presenting on a panel for the for county board in May, correct? >> Yes, I am. >> Yes. >> So, he's actually going to sit and present for county with a number of his peers who have been serving as executive board members. um very grateful the two of us are going to get to go and be there together then. So being very modest reports [clears throat] from district administrators. So we already had our elementary school reports. So we'll have our middle school report. >> Good evening everyone. Um so the middle school is a busy place lately. Um, as
012part of our essential objectives the district uh within student achievement as you may heard me talk about last time, we analyzed data and uh we saw some of our students who were sort of on the cusp of uh being below grade level but not far below grade level. We thought we could really target them and see how much growth they made um within a 10-e period preparing them also for our state uh tests. And so, um, I'm happy to report that every student who we called, uh, their families said, "Yes, I would like them to participate." This is at the fifth and sixth grade level. And so, uh, all of our students [snorts and clears throat] attended attended last night and it was for one hour and Miss Abdon reported they were enthusiastic. And, um,
013they're going to do a variety of things. They're not just going to do one thing. They're not just going to sit on I ready. It's a variety. And again the focus particularly at our for our fifth and sixth grade level is skill um development and meeting those gaps and assessing those gaps. Um our seventh eighth graders will be commencing tomorrow and I believe uh Mrs. Bills will be starting with our seventh grade seventh and eighth graders tomorrow for ELA and then Mr. Brinley will be doing it for math on Tuesday. So that is student achievement under our culture of care. One of our uh uh BPT objectives this year under culture of caring is to increase students uh time in class and so they get more instructional time and once again based on data we
014saw a need probably at mid year and again as I mentioned before to thank Dr. Schneider and his um we developed um lanyards lanyard passes and Mr. Baker made them all. They're beautiful. So now our students everywhere, every time they're out of class, they have to have a lanyard or a written pass for their SAB. We have noticed a market decrease in students out the hall, which is also decreasing some of the shenanigans in the bathrooms that we were seeing as well. Fingers crossed. And also part of community connections, you heard uh Mr. Dressler talk about we have a lot of middle [clears throat] school students who are very interested in participating in reading to our elementary students and they are very excited. So that's going to start tomorrow. And lastly um as part of
015our community connections we have done this before but it is very important u Mrs. Graene and her husband Dennis Graene and Mr. Buell who's a former social teacher at the middle school are working with Mr. Baker to uh start uh tapping our trees for the maple syrup. It's sugaring season and if you know sugar snow it is the sugar snow time so uh the the sap is running and so Mrs. Petroski is also very generously allowing us to cook it down. So the syrup. Okay. So [laughter] and that's what's happening in middle school. [laughter] [laughter] >> Thank you. Mr. Snider. Um so student achievement related uh we have been administering our ISL uh monthly um benchmarking assessment to students. They did that when we came back from February break. We had an opportunity to unpack
016some of that with staff um including doing a literacy share out uh last week where each staff member came prepared with the literacy strategy they're using to teach vocabulary with their students and their content areas. It was a really nice way for some crosscurricular collaboration with our teachers. um a lot of good energy um when they did that and I got a lot of good feedback from that. Uh related to our culture of care, yesterday at our BPT meeting, we unpacked our culture of care survey that we gave to our students. Really happy to say that um it's about a 20% difference from the end of the year survey last year to this year for the number of students who identify a trusted adult in the building. I'm still not where we want it to
017be, but our end of the year panorama survey um the data is showing on our locally made assessment survey the students um better results than we had last year. So, we're excited to see where those will land in the spring before students go home. Um we also uh [snorts] oh, college and career day. I just wanted to celebrate our college and career day the day before February break. Um it was an awesome day. We replaced the morning with uh a day of play with doing a college and career readiness day with our students. Uh the first three periods we had I believe 24 sessions going on with a wide range of facilitators from different fields. Um we had engineers, lawyers, mechanics, uh police officers, um artists um who came and talked to our students about
018their fields and various aspects of it. So kudos to the counseling team, Chelsea for helping make that possible. And then our students uh went from there to either a college and career planning session in the auditorium where they went and visited tables in the gymnasium where we had I believe 30 more uh various vendors whether it's colleges or recruitment centers, local unions there to speak with students. Um it was one of those days where the principal like the energy is really high. It feels like after graduation you walk away like that was awesome. That's definitely how that day felt. It was a really nice way to go into the break. So kudos to everyone who made that possible. Shout out to Mrs. We going to Costa Rica with our students over break. She took 11
019students and all of them came back. Um [laughter] and uh we also in our next capital improvement project might need more trophy cases because our track team can't seem to lose. [laughter] >> Thank you, Dr. Schneider. And I guess that's a nice piggyback to our athletic director, Mr. >> Yeah. So, it's not just our track team who's having a phenomenal uh year. It's our winter athletic or athletics are coming to an end here. Um, speaking of track, so we have uh both boys and girls won their uh their sectional champions uh for this is the third time I believe in a row for the girls and so [clears throat] it's five five times even even better five time for the girls and first time for the boys. Um we have 12 athletes leaving tomorrow um
020to go to Newark, New Jersey for states. So good luck. We have two in the audience today, I believe. So good luck to them. Um we had in our bowling, so we are a shared program with Sodas. Both our boys and girls Wayne um were Wayne league champions. Um we had two players also. They were first team allstars that were Williamson students. This one is pretty significant. So we have a shared as you know wrestling team with Marian Sodas and a Marian student Zack Culing. He won the New York State tournament in his weight class which is the first time ever for a Marian Williamson or Soda student. So congrats to Zach and Coach Wyatt and Jim Newbie for that incredible achievement. Uh the boys and girls basketball team both hosted they were the number
021four seed in their um tournament. that we hosted uh at Pen and Holly. Um it was pretty cool having the Holly students point of pride for Williamson. The Holly students are entering and I hear sick gym like they're just [laughter] they like the new floor and the um the window. So we played Holly the previous year for them to say that pretty uh pretty cool. Um but both boys and girls lost in the um semis. And then we have spring sports uh starting on Monday if you can believe it or not. Hopefully the snow melts away quick. And I think the most for me six out of seven of all of the programs in the winter were scholar athlete teams which is pretty impressive. >> Thank you very much. >> Yep. >> Sorry I [clears
022throat] was distracted for just a moment. Director of people personnel services Nancy. All right. Um, so, um, there's one thing I would like you to know. We our OT is out on maternity leave and we've struggled filling her position. We've posted for it several times. So, as part of being fiscally responsible, we posted for it several times with no um qualified applicants. So, we've had to reach out to um um a contracting company to contract an OT who will begin with us March 18th. um which is a little bit of a cost but we are legally mandated to reach those OT services for our students with IEP. So we are thankful that we were able to secure that um starting in March. Um now that I'm more settled into my new role um I'm really
023looking forward to the spring to really digging into that needs assessment um and really looking and focusing in on our programming next year, meeting with our different departments. I know that I've had many conversations with our principles um talking about um special education programming and what will best meet the needs of our students. Um we really focused in on our referral process and tightening that up um looking at our students who are struggling and inside of our MTSS tiers and how we can get them into uh cse process when and if needed um in a nice strategic way. Um, I have some walkthroughs planned, some dropins planned, um, to really talk to our staff about our special education programming and how we can really make that look better throughout the district. >> Thank you very
024much for all your work on that. >> Looking forward to your recommendations after you conducting these, >> our coordinator of instruction, innovation, and intervention, Karen. here. >> Um, a little bit later I'm going to be speaking specifically to the academic achievement report, but I didn't want to let today go by without uh discussing a meeting that Penny and I went to for early college access through Boseis through a poster with Boseies. Um, we know that Boseies does uh offers us a lot of supports and and what this will do will make early access to college courses more accessible for our students while providing some reimbursement for the district. So we have a number of kids who who participate in Fingerlakes Community College courses through the Geminis or through online distance learning. Um many of our
025Wayne Tech kids um utilize the same kind of programs through MCC. Um this is just a an offer that brings us together. We we will work on the closer together in terms of offering more. It's very exciting in that they're coming out with a lot more information about how some of our kids can be dy enrolled and actually walk out. um in some cases if they with a little bit of extra work can walk out with an associates degree before they even leave college. So it's a pretty amazing opportunity for our kids. Um and and we are just working to see what what pieces of that u we incorporate. We already offer quite a few through the high school already through the Fingerlakes. Um so it would just be a little bit of tweaking and
026a little bit of exploring what that might look like as we continue to explore that. But between the early college access and the distance learning there, there's a lot of good opportunities to expand our our offerings for the high school. >> Thank you. >> And from the business office, honey, um I just wanted to start by um giving you an update on um everyone's favorite topic um the EV buses. Um, as you know, um, 2627 is the last year, um, to buy gas, um, diesel buses, unless you receive the 2-year waiver in which you can apply again after that for another two-year waiver, but you have to show that you are making some progress towards that electrification. Um, one of the ways to show that progress is to have a a fleet uh transition study
027done um in which we had previously already had one done, but we were offered a free one. So, I took them up on their offer um just to kind of compare. Um this um study came back with a few findings. Um number one um that our um existing power would be insufficient for a um complete um electrification of our whole fleet. Um that would of course um require some some u major upgrades. Uh cold um in cold weather um it can significantly impact the batteries. um their analysis was based on 23 degree weather and of course you know it can get well below that in our area which would have um an effect. Um currently we have 26 routes. Um they are saying that two of those routes are not achievable with today's technology. However
028that they are estimating that it would be by 2035 when you have to be fully transitioned. Um there are however three additional routes that are um considered critical which means they would be returning back to the bus garage with less than 15% battery which would be a problem in those colder temperature days. So um all in all it doesn't look like we would be able to transition at this point to completely electric vehicles because we can't the power just can't support it. >> Would we ever be able to transition if we have cold weather? >> [laughter] >> But we have to wait for technology to [laughter] >> do they come up with a price on the study for the >> So it does not with the infrastructure and you often have to work with the
029utility company with that and sometimes they're not even willing to work with you until you're willing to commit. So, [laughter] >> right. >> Um, >> have we posed even the question of do the buses need to charge as soon as they come back and what if a gay drill goes off after the bus? >> That was one of the questions that I actually asked um this last group and of course they don't have the answer to it because it is like you have to your buses would have to be ready to leave in case of an evacuation and if one if they're just coming back and they don't have enough power I mean that's a concern. That's a huge problem. >> That's a problem. [laughter] >> Well, these are things that people the members in
030Albany will come up with an answer. Imagine [laughter] how many parents would be like at the school like trying to >> So what you're saying in the add it's even tougher. [laughter] Um, one other update I wanted to give, um, is to kind of piggyback off of Karen's, um, early college access, um, update is that, um, right now they are still also trying to, um, put together what the total cost is going to be for the district to be part of the Coaster. So, we do have to buy into the Coaster in order to be a part of it. Um, right now we have a like $8,000 fee. However, that New York State is coming up with additional guidelines such as OC's now has to have um a counselor on staff for the districts. And
031whether that's going to be one guidance counselor or two to support all the districts, they are not um certain how they are quite handling that yet. So there is a chance that that will increase our cost. um for the program. Um one of the benefits is that we can um uh get aid back on the teacher salaries for their portion of time that they teach Gemini classes. Um so that will allow us to generate aid. Um, but the the whole like how much we're going to get is often to like how much we're going to benefit from it is going to depend on how much that coaster is going to cost to to buy into. Any questions for Penny? I'm [clears throat] going to touch on that in just a moment, but it was a
032very much a hurrying way. You got to sign on to the coaster for the UCA and they're building it while we're trying to fly it. And unfortunately, there's more unanswered questions than there are answers for how we would proceed. It's unfortunate because Dr. Snder and Karen have been collaborating. It it could potentially be one mechanism by which uh we could actually offer a lot of different programming and get revenue back from the state if they figure out the answers to this because we could actually bill for some of our teachers time. So, it could be a revenue source for us because we could bill for all the teacher time spent delivering Gemini instruction. But again, now they're creating different restrictions and limits on that source of frustration. I feel like that's going to be a
033theme for just a moment. Angela, I was just thinking about the legislative breakfast and Penny started talking about Eevee busting and I could feel myself. I'm getting that feeling again. Breathe deeply. Breathe deeply. [laughter] I actually do have quite a bit this evening I'd like to share with the board and with our community. And so the first thing I want to point to your attention is uh in front of you I did distribute a communication that went out from the Naples Central School District. Uh the acronym is NCS Naples. Of course, that was near and dear to my heart. There was that's where I was a high school principal. The reason I'm sharing with this with you is not because that's where I was a high school principal. It's because uh Naples was one of
034the districts in New York State that was awarded the grant funding to actually onboard two buses, electric buses. And it has been extremely problematic from the entirety of the time that they awarded the grant. And so I think that this is really important for you to have an awareness about. Uh the superintendent and the board of Naples have agreed that they are actually going to go uh more loudly uh outspoken with media. And so what you're going to see is that there's going to be quite a bit of media reporting on this. The the problems with the electric busing are not limited to uh number one, uh cold weather creates an issue. In fact, um Kevin Schwarz Kevin Schwarz reported to us that some of the bus the two buses they had sat uh out
035of commission for over 40 days in cold weather couldn't even run the buses. uh the cost of the bus has gone up exponentially from when they first came out with this and it is a much bigger uh much bigger impact on our budget if we have to go electric versus our diesel fuel buses right now they started at 435 they're at 481 and again all of this is in the communication we have in front of you battery life of the buses is problematic grid capacity remains an issue uh Kevin Schwarz as well as our Fingerlakes counterparts they've been meeting with Ontario County town administr I'm sorry not town county administration specific to They're actually halting housing projects because they don't have the grid capacity for housing, let alone the grid capacity for electric buses. Uh
036what he most recently shared, which I don't think is in this communication, is it cost over 10 times the amount per mile to run an electric bus as it does for gas and gas and diesel. So just thinking about our utilities at all of us in our homes and also at the school level, what we've seen as far as increases, can't even imagine how astronomical uh the increase price is going to be. I think it's important for the board to know this is and has been a legislative priority for the superintendents in the region. Uh myself and I think there's 11 of us out of 25 who sat on a legislative advocacy group and we are pushing hard on if not a repeal at least reforming because we see the inherent challenges. Uh this is
037one that gets me frustrated because we're putting a lot of time and energy into something that functionally simply can't happen. Again, just thinking about from the grid alone. Uh but I want you to know that we are still continuing to try and move mountains with that. I wanted you to have an awareness. I did actually after Kevin shared this with uh superintendents on Monday, I did already see it come up on my social media uh thread and then Kelly Dixon also shared like, "Hey, just so you have an awareness." >> So, so just so you have an awareness again fighting the good fight and the nice part about Kevin being part of our region is they actually have the practical pragmatic experience with having the two buses. uh at the time he got granted the
038award. Not that I was competitive at all, but I happened to be the superintendent at Honeyway and I applied for the grant and didn't get it. So I was like, "Oh, Naples got it, neighbor." And I'm so grate I mean, and I'm certain Honey right now is sitting in the same position, grateful that they didn't get the grant because it just has been problematic since its inception. So that's for your awareness. Again, uh in the news, uh just you have a copy of the text that was sent by Kevin Schwarz over at Naples. Uh the next thing I want to present on is I had the pleasure of attending the Niscus Conference. That's the New York State Council of School Superintendent Conference is in Albany. Uh this weekend the conference runs three days. Uh superintendents
039are invited to participate from Sunday morning through Tuesday late afternoon. And so I did participate in the conference. Uh most uh I guess most uh intriguing and inspiring for me was uh actually the last day keynote speaker commissioner Rosa and Jeff Deputy Commissioner Jeff Ma Jeff Madison spoke and they talked at length about the different initiatives happening across the state. Inspire New York. Uh, important update for our administrative team, for all of you. They are doing a really close review of the part 100 regulations and looking at what are the required units of study and what will constitute credit towards graduation as we think about their ship from decoupling the region's performance exams moving forward. So now they have to be able to define what are the experiences, credits, units of study that we're going
040to have to uh have for us to grant a diploma. They anticipate being able to present that to the board of regents in June. That's really exciting. So, we actually are seeing momentum. One of the things that I thought was also encouraging was they said, "We're listening to you out in the field saying you got to give us more so we can get started. This is a heavy lift for school districts and we need more to be able to move forward in um our work with uh Inspire New York and Portrait of a Graduate." Speaking of Portrait of a Graduate, uh they also spoke at length about that. There are six attributes. I'm sure Karen could name them off. She could rattle them off. I probably could not without reading them. A critical thinker, effective
041communicator, collaborative contributor, self-directed learner, innovative and creative problem solver, responsible engaged citizen. It is very important to them that every student in New York State sees themselves in those critical attributes. And they spoke at length about in particular our special education populations who have been potentially marginalized and have not seen the greatest level of success and outcomes across our state. And so they're really focusing on that in particular special education and saying we have got to do better uh for that group of students in our state. Uh we asked the question what can we do now? And so in addition to the work that I'm thrilled Karen is already conducting now uh she's looking at saying what are we currently doing in house around uh the six attributes of a portrait of a graduate they
042also encourage districts to start asking the two questions. Number one, what constitutes credit of learning and what will be the evidence of learning? So we know what that is when the time comes. There's going to be a lot of local control in what we develop as far as the uh inspire portrait of a graduate. Also from the commissioner uh this is a passion project financial literacy saying we have to do a better job preparing our students for life readiness and that has to be that has to include financial literacy that will become regulatory. Uh, one of the other pieces that has not been as publicized is that is not the intent that it's just going to be a course at the high school level, but the really the hope and expectation is that it will
043be part of a K12 uh thinking about how do we do that across the curriculum spanning all of our uh building levels. They also spoke at length about climate education and saying we have to do a better job with how we're teaching our students about protecting our uh the climate and our environment. Another topic that came up was numeracy briefs. You might remember a couple years back uh there was a lot of commotion about the literacy briefs. Hopefully you remember what I'm talking about. And that ultimately was the springboard for science and reading. Ultimately the same thing is happening now. We're going to be legislated or mandated around what we're going to do with math. Uh the good news for us was that the uh collaborative classroom which is our program for reading at the
044elementary level really checked most of the boxes and Karen is working with Scott and with our elementary folks to see that if there were any boxes that didn't get checked with collaborative classroom that were filling in those gaps. They're going to mandate that districts take a very similar approach with math. And so they released uh numeracy briefs. And so that's I imagine something that Carol will be working on in the very near future conducting a similar crosswalk around how does our new math expressions program align with the numerousy briefs and have we uh filled checked all the boxes. Uh last piece from state ed was just uh we are asking about please support us with hiring uh recruitment retention and uh the two things that they they are proud and they wanted to boast about
045was uh number one that they have modified the APR process and so we now have the latitude to shift to what's called the steps program. Uh Williamson has not yet engaged in that process. We have till 2032 to do so. I'll be upfront with you. It's something I'm very excited about. Uh and nobody in our region has done it yet. So it is my hope to start working with our building level administrators maybe as soon as this summer to at least do it for principles and then potentially think about for teachers. And then the last thing they offered about uh recruitment was that they are working on alternate pathways to certification. Certification is a barrier for us in New York State. We don't have the reciprocity with other states and that poses a huge barrier
046and so they are looking at alternate pathways for instructional staff and so they they have we don't know what all that looks like yet but they feel very proud about that. Uh we are still continuing to push on uh tier six versus tier four. So right now tier six if you're in the retirement system as a tier six teacher you got to work 40 years. That is not quite the incentivization it was at tier 1 through four where you could work x number of years retire and have the pension. That was a huge incentive for folks with master's degrees going into public education. Um and so we're still pushing on that. One of the other sessions I attended and I alluded to this during policy at the Niscus conference. I went to an AI session
047uh AI and cyber safety. I have to share with you they launched the session uh Francis I loved the question what is your appetite for risk and I was like this is my session because I don't have much of an appetite for risk and ultimately the gist of that session was again just ensuring that you have policy to protect the district as things are happening where we find the greatest uh vulnerability for districts is where there simply isn't any language about use of AI certainly recommending and reinforcing that it's a necessity folks are using it but then just be being sure that you have policy to protect the district when things potentially go ary. Uh the last thing I'll share about Niscus was I also went to a session uh from a an office person
048who works in the governor's office. Uh and we are not hopeful that that work they did last year with the Rockefeller Center. So they did that complete study. We were hoping they were going to make recommendations that would potentially enhance foundation aid. We do not believe that is the case at this juncture. In fact, it is likely we if we see any increase in the legislative bus budget, it would only be an additional 1% which for Williamson would just amount to just under $100,000. So, that's an important update for the board. Couple other updates. Uh regionally, uh as you know, Lynn Rutnick, our district superintendent, uh resigned and she has started a new job in the CAP 1 region. And so, we currently have uh interim district superintendent Kathy Hower, who actually came from Marian.
049Uh we are all very encouraged by her effort and energy around how she is trying to create the uh most smooth transition for when we get a new district superintendent. Uh she did share with us Friday at our superintendent meeting that they hope to have a process started this spring with potentially a start date, you know, September 1st. That is the hope. Uh the other piece out that's lingering out there is the commissioner has to make a determination on if we will hold the Wayne Fingerlakes region intact as is. uh there's regulatory language that requires every time a district superintendent exits a region they have to engage in what's called a survey of all the superintendent and at that juncture we're allowed to give feedback surrounding the composition of our region. So for instance, do
050you uh recommend that the region stay as is 25 component districts? Do you recommend that some districts be able to leave to a dist a different Boseies? Would you recommend like splitting up the Boseies and having all of us dispanded to different Boseies? So the commissioner has not yet shared the results of that survey. All of us had responded to the survey. Now we're just awaiting and they can't start conducting the search until they know what our region will look like. So that's important moving forward. a couple of dates specific to fiscal stewardship and responsibility. Uh thinking about our essential objectives which are in front of us every board meeting. You know, one of the things I feel very uh confident about the board's task for myself and for Penny is to explore all possible
051pathways for the district. And so I don't want to make folks nervous by by sharing a couple updates, but I think it's important they know that you've asked us to explore what options we have. And so Penny and I will be meeting with BPD Associates and vice president Sarah Bradshaw next week to talk about the possibility if we were to explore closing a building whether it was the middle school and/or elementary school what that might look like for the district. Again that doesn't mean that there's any commitment. It doesn't mean that we're making any recommendation to you. We're just having the conversation to see what that might mean for Williamson. Would there be sufficient cost savings for the district if we were to explore potentially co closing a building? Jeff, to your question, I believe
052two board meetings ago, you asked the question specific to could it potentially be a closure of the elementary building? And the answer is no. Because of our space utilization study, there would be insufficient space at the elementary to bring everyone I'm sorry, backwards, insufficient space to bring folks from the elementary to the middle school. Even if we pushed seven, eight to the high school in a potential model. So again, not trying to make folks uh angsty or nervous. Certainly uh we don't have a definitive recommendation at this this juncture. just exercising our due diligence to bring you more information so that you know that potentially could be a pathway that we look at for cost-saving measures. Uh similarly uh we are also exploring and I raised this at the last board meeting. Uh there are
053a number of districts there are uh six districts who are going to engage in strategic planning with a consultant. Uh we'll run a coaster through Boseies. Uh we right now are looking at potential dates. I want you to understand it's slow moving, probably more slow than I would like to admit or that is my preference. Uh, but we're hoping to have a first meeting on the calendar in April. And the objective of those meetings isn't to engage in a merger study. It's to say what would be the process for six or seven districts in the Wayne County to look at different pathways where we might look at additional shared programming. Uh, a look at uh shared regional high schools. Again, not trying to make folks nervous, but just saying what are the possibilities? How do
054we do best for our students in our uh specific communities and what might be an approach we might take? So, uh and I certainly will keep you apprised of updates as they uh become available to do so. Uh want to bring a quick update specific to staffing. Uh as you know, our you're going to move on a a resignation this evening for our director of facilities. Uh Penny and I will be collaborating to push out a communication to the community uh by week's end surrounding what that process is. I would like the board to anchor in and our community to anchor into because it's a competitive position. We are bound by civil service law which means we must look at the top three candidates who uh take took a test for a director of facilities
055to position and so we'll start there. Uh if we are unsuccessful in that effort then potentially we could post as a district. uh and certainly uh Penny who assumes oversight for that department. She'll take lead on pushing out communication, but the two of us will collaborate in the near future to get something out soon. Speaking of hiring, uh again, legislative uh priority for the region. Uh myself and the superintendents across the region. Uh we have been asking for clamoring for Boseies to do some type of a job fair for us similarly to how they have done in Monroe County for years. I'm very proud as a result of our efforts. We are partnering with the Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies and we have our first ever career expo happening this Friday. Uh myself and Penny are going
056to go because it isn't just for instructional staff. It's also for operational staff. Uh we also took a very organized approach. We actually prior to the event we all plugged in what the positions we anticipated having and that way folks can uh cater their time more purposefully with us at the event. I'm not going to speak much about superintendent's conference day. very excited about next week on Friday. Kathy Abdanesser is planning incredible wellness activities for the afternoon. Uh very proud of the work Karen Hood is doing in collaboration with our building administrators and the rest of district administration around portrait of a graduate vertical alignment for departments and review of essential standards. Uh she's building in voice and choice into the work sessions and just in time PD for math uh because we just rolled
057out a math program at the elementary. So kudos to you for being responsive, giving our teachers exactly what they're asking for. Last but not least, who knows what the topic is? What have I not talked about yet? >> Facilities. Yes. >> Capital improvement project. [clears throat] >> Uh capital outlay 2024 capital outlay gymnasium floor at the high school. Great news on this. So uh Penny and I had an OACM meeting this morning. Uh the vendor is is prepared to come before the end of the school year uh to have our high school gymnasium floor refinished. So I reached out to Brian and to Rob this afternoon and ask that they coordinate with our coaches and with our PE uh instructional staff to provide a recommendation for when is least disruptive before the end of the
058school year. Our students will probably remember last year you couldn't use the gymnasium for a period of time. It's all for good purpose. We want to get it finished for you guys. Uh that's exactly how we'll have to approach it again. It'll be three weeks. The hope would be that we can build in spring break as one of the weeks. So it's only two weeks disruption for instruction and coaching. But they're going to get back to me. >> You said three weeks last time and it ended up being >> what? Three months. >> I mean, how do we? >> Well, we're going to I'm going to remain perpetually optimistic. [laughter] >> Perpetually optimistic. >> I was perpetually optimistic the first time. I [laughter] am perpetually optimistic because this is the second goaround, right? Learning and
059growing. The vendor has learned and grow grown [clears throat] grown and just so we're clear, they don't get paid until it's done, right? So now they are, it matters to them now because we still have paid them. And I think that's also why they're like, "Okay, we can do it before summer. Great, let's get it done." So, uh, 2025 capital outlay is doors. Uh that's a safety measure uh that is identified on the building condition survey. We are now positioned to send our application to state ed. Just so you know that capital outlay has to be complete and expense by June 30th and we are looking at the 26 capital outlay. We will be pushing that out as part of the 2627 uh budget. We do anticipate including 100,000 capital outlay as allow allowable by
060regulation. That will also likely be high school doors. We're going to try and wrap up the doors and safety issues at the high school before we shift to another uh building. And then two last things, the 2022 SIP update. Again, we remain at a standstill as far as litigation for completion of the 22 project. The two outstanding items are tresporized by voters. Very excited. Our architects are ready to start bringing in user group meetings. And there will be three particular user groups that we're going to want to bring in. Number one for the coral and band rooms because as you know that's part of the project. So we're going to renovate your coral and band rooms finally. And we will make sure that uh user groups have voice in the design phase of that. We
061also are going to have uh user groups participate Karen and Michaela as well as anyone else who's interested in the uh technological infrastructure. That's absolutely an area of growth for us as a district and we want them at the table as part of that when we're in the design phase. And then lastly, obviously, uh facilities will be a part of all of the other uh asset preservation facets. And that concludes Oh, one last one. Uh very proud uh thinking about community partners. I I nominated and I'm going to sit on the rural school association board moving forward. Just waiting for the board to approve me and then I will be uh representing the Fingerlakes region as a board member for RSA. >> Thank you. >> I feel like you don't do enough. >> Got to
062be at the table to advocate. Francis, [laughter] >> thank you for doing that. >> Yes. >> Pretty efficient, huh? [laughter] >> Okay. Uh, district committee reports. We didn't know any names, right? Okay. Uh, district events. We had elementary school and books available February 13th. Global school play day also February 13th. February break the 16th through the 20th. UPK through four half day and parent teacher conferences on the 25th and again on March 5th for county school boards association and rural schools association. Anyone have anything? Just if anyone wants to attend um the general membership meeting in May to let me know sign up. Roman will be presenting. >> I don't remember the exact >> May 13. >> What's the name of the restaurant? Club >> Club 86 in Geneva. >> That's where they normally have
063their names. >> Uh PTSA we already did. So now we are uh at board reports. I need a motion to approve the cse case summaries. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed passes 5. Uh I need a motion to approve the January treasures report. So moved. Any discussion or anything we note? All in favor? >> I oppose. Passes 5. Quarterly achievement report. All >> righty. All right. Well, welcome back to the quarterly achievement report, which is actually only our second one this year. um we did a little shifting with the [clears throat] um dates so we could accommodate sharing elementary [snorts] school, middle school and high school at the same time. So the end of the marking period for the middle and high school was the end of
064January, midFebruary for um elementary school which brings us to our next meeting where we will share. So here we are stay with our Apple theme but we just changed the season so we're now in winter. Um obviously it is the academic so we will be staying within the pillar of student achievement and looking at our literacy our math um specifically um talking about uh the professional development career in tech all the things in terms of that meet our academic achievement again this report is different than different in appearance than previous years so uh when we're done I'm taking suggestions um I can speak a little bit more to that at the end as well all right let's start with the elementary school. Um, now the last time we did this report, we it was broken
065down into the different uh proficiencies. So, our level one students are students who are receiving a one on the on the rubric um are are below proficiency. Our twos are partially proficient and our threes are showing proficiency grade level standards and then with our four demonstrating mastery of the skills. Um, and so this is a sideby-side comparison. The lighter version is the first report card that they had and the darker one is the second one. So, as you can take a look, you can see how they generally compare. In most cases, we're staying within that same range of numbers of kids that are falling within the proficient and the partially proficient range with some fluctuation, which is not unexpected in that curriculum changes all the time and kids will respond differently to different pieces. Um
066out to the side I did do a comparison of our marking period one and our marking period two um proficient students in general and that would be uh our threes and fours together. And as you can see there we have math problem solving. We see some nice improvement in terms of our kids ability to problem solve between the two marking periods. A little bit of a dip in fourth grade. And so that's just something we're going to keep an eye on. Um there is they're still at that phase where they're between that third and fourth grade they are learning to be students. Not just learning to learn but to learning to be a student. And so this is we had we are working on you know getting them ready for the middle school. uh within
067our math fluency for the first marking period. Our grade one and our grade two were not positioned to offer a fluency grade, but as you can see now, all four of our um grade levels have been um administering assessments and doing work around math fluency. All of them have made some just some some really nice growth um in terms especially uh grade three going from 35% to 62%. So really some nice progress there working um she just shows the effort that's going in um on the rigor the stamina and the pacing with the with those basic number of skills. Uh then we go if we go to our foundational reading skills um we also do see some nice progress there let me turn my own page here. Um so we are seeing progress in terms
068of our reading skills set. So that's our phmic awareness, our phonics, our vocabulary work. Um again we're staying in a similar range. Seeing some big growth in grade one which is not uncommon. The growth in grade one just just flies because the kids start to connect the dots between the reading. Um and then we see some steady progress in grades two and three. Again, we do see that little bit of a dip in grade four. So that'll be something that we'll be working with grade four on and actually have done see um our reading comprehension scores we while we have seen some improvement we do see a couple of areas u that have gone down. So in grade two and three we are seeing some improvement in our reading comprehension. This to me is a
069a primary area of focus for us in terms of the literacy work that we have to do is really digging in further to those reading comprehension skills and strategies that we're working with our kids on and some nice nice jumps um in writing. Uh take a look at grade 1, 20 to 48% um 5 to 25% uh in grade two. So some definitely some significant growth in our writing skills, but again more work to be done for sure. Uh this is the second administration of the I Ready assessment and as you can see um the top line represents window 2. So that ad represents the uh end of January administration of I Ready um and with below it is the September administration. So you can see we've gone from 19 students who are above grade
070level um to 56 students that are above grade level which is fantastic. All of our numbers went up. you know, from 41 to 51 students who are um in the early grade level and so on and so forth. We still are focusing, as Scott spoke to it earlier, really focusing on those tier three students, the kids that are three, two, and three more grade levels behind to really refine that uh instruction that they're getting. But in all of our domains in terms of literacy, we showed progress. And here's our math. Math looked out with only four domains, but all very important. And again, we are seeing that steady improvement. I just realized though that one doesn't show the comparison between the two. Oops. Sorry about that. [laughter] >> That is an oversight on my part.
071>> Can you speak to that? >> I know we went up. I can speak to that. I know we're doing better. I will show I there is a projected compression sequence state assessment and so that will show you where we had made progress and here it is. So our this is the um based on the results of the um I ready benchmark they predict your proficiency and this is if assuming in all cases the kids continue to make typical progress and typical growth. And so as you can see they're predicting about 37% of our kids being proficient on the ELA assessment in grades three and four. um our math is quite a bit higher in terms of the proficiency. Um I will say we were probably uh more equal to reading in performance on the
072assessment for the second period, but our proficiency their predicted for deficiency of our math is a little bit higher and that has to do with how close the kids already were to their target. So that's showing there's a greater likelihood for us to show some um progress in u math grade three and four in terms of the assessment. That's nice to see. Any questions for elementary school? Piece by piece. Are we going to wait till the end? >> Are you thinking about something over there? >> I'm thinking about something. >> Okay. Uh, middle school. So, uh, middle school we it teased out just a little bit differently. We moved from looking at it just as literacy or reading skills and reading comprehension and we look at it as English overall. Page here. And again um
073same patterns were um or I'm sorry the same structure was set up. So the lighter version is the first marking here and the darker is the second. It does show you can see in grade five we've made some some we're still maintaining quite strong our English instruction in grade five. But as you can see in grades six, seven, and eight, we have um taken a little bit of a dip in terms of our profic proficiency. Still proud of those percentage passing rates. Um but it's just to to be noted that we have worked hard on talking about the kids around um the rigor of the instruction, the expectations of what good readers and writers do. Um and so it will be in all likelihood we will see some dips before we see some growth again.
074with our math. Overall, our math middle school scores, as you can see, they um pretty much stayed the same or went up as well. Grades five and six uh like the elementary school are participating in the math the new math program. And u I'm sorry, just grade five and next year with the intent of extending that to grade six. social studies. We [snorts] did see a little bit of a dip in grade six um social studies probably in in in several of the content areas. We this is not uncommon for this time of year because this is the first time the students have started changing every single class during the period of the day. Um specific to English as well. Um they had a substitute teacher as a teacher has been on a maternity leave.
075So a lot of little factors there. I don't want to make any excuses for them. Again, we while you might assume fifth grade is the big transition year um for going to the middle school, I would argue that sixth grade is the major transition year because it's it's really bringing your ADA to sixth grade. >> I would agree. >> Nice progress though there with our grade eight social studies. And here are our science results. Still significantly strong passing percentage rates. and our middle school I read ready again we see that same kind of growth we went from 26 to 34 above grade level readers 24 to 33 grade level readers um down from uh it's down six to 69 to from 79 students but that's because we have kids moving up the spectrum that's the
076way we want to see them going um but definitely something to keep an eye on it is fairly [snorts] evident the struggle continues there um with the comprehension, vocabulary and comprehension at that level. Um and the ELA department and myself and Miss Taylor and Mr. Roco are working on looking at different opportunities for instruction and how that might look different next year. And here we have our math. And here is our projected proficiency. Um, in terms of grades 5 through 8 in terms of the assessment, ELA and math are running pretty much neck and neck in terms of their proficiency rate. Just keeping in mind we still have a a good chunk a little bit of time anyway to hopefully s or supersede that project projected for the whole five week everyone together. >> Yeah,
077it is. >> Karen, before you shift over to high school, would you mind providing the board a quick update on the work you're doing with Kate and Brian [clears throat] around uh curriculum resource materials and programs for next year for Ela and math? Again, just a gist. So um the ELA what we start what did the committee started doing? We took the ELA committee Brian myself and K sat down and we started by taking a look at we started with five different programs that um are out there in terms of looking at resources. So we looked at um something called common lit education amplify h&h toten mifflin something and another one I'm sorry I can't put them off to memory um but what the teachers did is they spent about a half a day together
078just looking at the materials um for their value. We used a rubric from ED reports that helped us evaluate the effectiveness of that pro of each of those programs and we actually had the middle school teachers do it with the high school teachers in the knowing that the middle school students are all feeding into the high school and so we wanted to make sure that there was that alignment there um for this upcoming after that we had a another meeting where we narrowed down what we wanted to look at. So, we do have a couple of front runners. I don't want to give away any spoilers at this point, but we do have a couple of front runners and we are intending to bring back the company to speak to the ELA teams um on
079the next superintendent conference day as well as um uh take a look at the elementary school program and see how that feeds into the middle school program as well. Uh so, that's kind of where we're at with that right now. We have two, you know, we have two very solid choices to look at and we'll go from there. We've spent a lot of time focusing on the fact that there is no perfect instructional tool out there and there really is not. But we do feel we have some strong contenders to look at and um now let's move forward and the hope similarly as we do with the elementary school program is the hope that they will land on one and we'll purchase this year with this year's general budget and that way we can set
080them up so they can launch that as we're uh entering the next school year so that she can plan for all the professional development specific to the rollout of a new program. >> Yes. In terms of the math programming, um the intention was to do some research around math assess or excuse me, math programs grades five through eight as well or six through eight. Um the ELA is taking up a little bit more energy than I would have anticipated. You know, you just don't know till you know. Um so, uh in terms of the math, we are planning on moving forward with sixth grade. Um continuing on the math expressions program. Um and as you can see by some of our data, our math data is looking a little bit stronger right now. So, we're
081going to wait and see um the watch the continued work that Jenny and Lori Rustin do in seventh and eighth grade math to see what determine what our next step should be. >> For for you, Elliot, it felt good with having two senior teachers with two newer teachers to the field having that collaborative conversation. So, [laughter] >> are you okay? >> Please feel free to do not touch the ground. [laughter] So that's a Do you want to lift it back up? >> No. >> I'm not sure I can take it as seriously. [laughter] >> All right, let's wrap this up with the high school. All right, as you can see, um here are our results for our high school English. We consistently show strong um scores in terms of our English performance at the high
082school. Kudos to those teachers. Um, you do see some one thing that you do notice in more in the high school report than you'll see in the middle school and the elementary school reports is that the numbers stay a little bit more static in terms of enrollment. With our high school kids, enrollment looks a little different. They we have kids that are um potentially leaving the programs after the semester because they passed a regent. There's just a little bit more fluidity there. So, that speaks to the numbers and also see a dip sometimes in courses because of midterms. Mhm. Yes, the second rookie period is definitely >> and here are math passing percentages. Algebra one continues to be um a challenging piece. There is no doubt that algebra one continues to be a challenging piece
083uh content for our students. Um additionally we have many not many we have some students though who although might be 10th graders in nature are still in algebra one because they were unable to pass. So being that um the struggle is there, Dr. Snyder, myself, everybody uh is just, you know, keeping a very close eye on things and making sure the kids have the supports they need to feel successful. >> Math is also tricky. We talked about this last year where the students um who are accelerated when they come to the high school are not sitting in our algebra one classes. So those students are sitting in the geometry class. So let's see those students out of that population. So that the eighth graders aren't included in >> I did not include the I put
084the eighth grade algebra one kids in with the eighth graders. I liked the idea of keeping them as a cohesive group while I could this teases out more by a different grade level in the course. >> But the ninth grade geometry students would be in geometry. >> Yes. Yes, they would. Question real quick. You mentioned midterm. Does every course have a midterm? >> Uh yeah about some some don't. Um, obviously all of our core content offer them. Some are during the week, the midterm week, some do it in class, but um just I believe all of them offered an intern offered a midterm during midterm week that have a regam associated with them at at minimum. And then I believe all of our core courses that do not have regions exam associated with them gave
085a midterm in class or a midterm type project. >> One is required. Is that your virtue required as well? >> No. That's what it just called the gatekeeper course. >> Yeah. By the time the kids are are headed up, I mean that is a little different for algebra 2. A little surprising, but I guess it's just some angle plate assignments that didn't get done perhaps in time. Um because that is not the typical trajectory. But when you're looking at algebra and geometry, um and prefelt, those are more chosen by the student because they're inclined to enjoy it or want to follow that pathway. Once you have letters, it's all about. >> Uh, and then here's our science. Relatively steady, a little bit of a dip in the living environment, but nothing that is too alarming
086at this point that different topics, different units create different scenarios for kids in terms of their grades. and social studies for all you social social studies loving folks out there. Nice job. The global studies is uh tends to present more of a challenge than the US history and the economics. Next marking period it will be uh participation in government. So which is what these kids are here for now. Um so thanks for coming guys. um school. It's just it's less of a familiar topic to the kids in terms of their awareness, but they're still, you know, plugging right along and we do have good passing percentages for them. >> And then I know uh Dr. Shiner, you spoke a little bit to the ISL um assessment that you were doing. They the high school had
087been working on the using utilizing the ISL reading and literacy diagnostic. I don't know if there's anything else you want to add to that. I was saying we haven't figured out quite as we're [clears throat] using it for the first time how to make the fancy graphs like IR does for you. Uh but what our stats has been working on is what the data shows us the tier 2 vocabulary which is kind of those like high frequency crosscontent words like analyze interpret um those are struggles for our students to grasp um when they're reading and how to interpret those words in the right context. And so we're pushing teachers to think about that and that's what we did our last staff meeting on was how are you teaching those tier 2 vocabulary strategies here. And
088I will say that was spearheaded by the English department at the high school. Um and science, social studies, and math all have jumped right on board. They're all in favor of kind of that cohesive vocabulary, that common vertical lens on on the instruction. [snorts] And then just moving forward, this just speaks to a little bit. It's nothing I probably haven't already said at this point, but the things that we're going to be focusing on is we're really going to be focus on that explicit instruction and reading comprehension. Still continue the strong work around um writing and the vertical alignment K through 12. I I say K through 12 right now. The elementary school is really focusing on their vertical alignment and grades um 5 to 12 are focusing on their vertical alignment. there is the
089obvious intention of bringing them all together, but they're both in very unique places right now. Um, same with math. We have to, you know, we saw that great improvement with math fluency in the number sense. So, we want to keep capitalizing on that, but knowing that problem solving is still an area where we could continue to work. And for in both cases, um, each building works uniquely in their own way to be very data driven about their decisions and to really continue that work. Oh, there it is. data use data to drive instruction and intervention um and to strengthen the vertical alignment. So, thank you very much. I don't know if there's any questions. >> I had a quick question. Some of you guys met you last year. How does this um data compare holistically
090to the data you've seen in previous years? And has it shown the pattern of uh where we can improve upon in like ELA and literacy in past years or is this like a new uh thing? >> That's a great question. So it is similar in nature to previous years right now knowing that our elementary school and our middle or excuse me our elementary school adopted a brand new ELA program and a brand new math program this year um they are kind of at that fledgling stage still of everything is a first in terms of teaching here. So while we are seeing some gains and some growth there, we hope for more as a teacher to continue to um gain more experience and that is the intention is to see more deliberate um instruction around these
091areas and uh the progress we hope to see with the kids. But that is a that is a been a a task. Taking on two curriculums is a lot for a teacher this year. And so kudos to them for kind of hanging in there with us and and doing that right now. Historically for the middle school, at least in my time here, the second quarter grades are a little bit lower than the first quarter because that's when our teachers are challenging our kids a little bit more and that's why we see that a little bit. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Yes. I'm wondering uh for the board, are there other data points you would like to see when we're doing the quarterly academic achievement >> results? Yeah, just wondering again. And so we will
092be presenting those works. >> Well, the last time we were here, we talked about the board the binder for the summer retreat and we talked about all the different components and what was really necessary. And so I did create a survey to ask you to solicit information from you um about that what you specifically wanted to see the board in the board summer project >> annual report but I also created a section specific to academic achievement reports because there are so many different directions we could go to like we haven't even touched on tier one tier 2 tier three instruction and our response to in those kind of interventions um there's just so many different ways we could go. So I did also create a list of things that we have typically presented but want
093to al also open it up to being a little bit more creative and um >> so when should they expect to get that survey? >> As soon as it's vetted by you >> tomorrow. [laughter] Just right into that [laughter] it's mostly just a stamp of approval. >> So very short. >> So you're going to send it to us by email? >> I'm going to send it to you by email. >> Yes. So as as these changes have been made um somewhat Ron said like are we looking at five years out that that the changes we made will have we should hopefully see some kind of effect right >> I would hope by five years for sure and I would hope even more so by three years [clears throat] >> especially um when you take a
094look at the elementary students who are not you know you take a look at your K12 kids who are not necessarily working under the same instruction that some of our fourth fifth sixth and so on started with. So, we should I'm hopeful to see um the shift happen a little bit faster down there. I think somebody alluded to really enjoying the math lessons um when you were when you had your board of education visit. We had the math rep out the other day um and did walkthroughs with the math program and it was just amazing to see the kindergarten, first and second grade classes just engage and interact and be independent with the math. It was fantastic. So, I'm really excited for as that continues to trickle up. But we are saving a little bit
095of [clears throat] time. >> Yeah, that's the hard part. You make a change, but you don't see it for >> and you want it to be done yesterday. >> Yeah. >> I think I I think I heard someone mention this before. I'm curious in the the bar charts that you have the students are in the red. >> Yes. >> How many of those students are in the red more than one class? >> So, are they the same students? >> Yeah. >> And that is something that's part of the five. So every five weeks we do a data review at the building level. So each building holds a tier 2 data review day and those are the things that they are digging into specifically um because uh and they're really digging into the the very specific
096detail. If a student is failing one, why is it? So they're digging into the school GRE, but if it's two or more, then we're then we're deciding what kind of shifts we need to make to accommodate that. >> In a small district, a small number of reds percentage wise is a big number. >> It is. You're right. >> I was curious. Yeah, that's why I wanted to show the numbers, [cough and clears throat] student numbers as well as the percentages though because one student can make such a percentage point difference just to see it from both courses. And then I'm also curious, not that this has to translate to a different report, but I'm curious um [snorts] ELLL like English language learners like how that's playing out in the >> and that's a piece that
097we've never really dug into is all the accountability areas and um that was just a conversation at the uh at our at my Rick meeting with the regional information something or others. that go with acronym acronyms. Um, but we were just talking about the accountability um of the different subgroups and what kind of instruction I can bring back to the admin team to really facilitate that conversation and then bring it out to you. is very valuable between that the special ed data um you there's so many ways to desegregate it that we that we haven't really dipped into the academic achievement report >> and that is something we shared at the last year's >> I want to call it a retreat >> the board workshop there's some of that in the annual report >> but
098there are some detail >> performance >> I don't think I've ever seen any quarterly reports But I feel like there's something >> there's there's reporting from the ASA the ASSA report that was in this because I had the back door open the other day while I was creating my form. There's something >> was I remembering this right like if if if we don't have a certain percentage of [clears throat] that population they don't have reported or something is it below I would think it's like if a below 30 it's not necessarily something that you have to if it'll necessarily d you but if you have more than 30 you can get um penalized or can get cited >> 30 students or 30% >> 30 students >> but we see the numbers regardless if it's under
099that. >> Yes we do. >> Yep. Yep. Lots of fun. So, when I send the survey tomorrow, we have like four meetings. >> Oh, I see what you did. >> I know, isn't it? >> I'm sharing. [laughter] >> I liked it. Um, so when we do send it, please throw in all those ideas and because then that gives Bridget and I something to sit down and map out what next year looks like really deliberately to support offering you a unique academic um look at the district and things that you might not have thought about before. >> A profile. Thank you. >> Well, thank you. I mean another like last wondering is is from subject to subject looking at like just [clears throat] like global I think you mentioned something about global the the grade the
100percentage of passing is lower than some of the other classes. I'm wondering if some of these differences is just different grading um we tried really hard to work on articulating some common understanding around grading and um with the teachers this year. Uh some are more content heavy in terms of reading than others though. Some are a little bit more, you know, you take a look at a science class, it's going to be a little bit more interactive and that's going to speak that has a tendency, I'm going to generalize to speak to more kids because it's so engaging. Um, so a lot of it does come down also to teacher style, teacher execution, a lot of factors. I mean with English is a lot of reading. They have a high percentage of passing grade. Sure.
101So >> I would add though to uh in English 9 to that point for the global num in algebra a lot of those students the same students taking those classes all the commonalities failing >> right >> there's probably a lot of the same kids there a lot of the same trends >> a lot of our repeaters taking both of those classes whereas we don't see a lot of failures in the LA >> I would also offer that as part of our essential objectives an area focus is and continues to be grading practices you can't build Rome in a day and so I would say absolutely This year's focus for Karen has been thinking about the vertical alignment professional development around that. Elementary math and ELA, that's been the bold. Those are the boulders we're trying
102to push. So, I think that we can continue to look at grading practices. It's always >> and I think in our workshop last summer, we really dove into that and we really want to see some substance at three years out. >> Yes. >> A lot of traction at that point and then pivot accordingly. >> Right. It's like it's it's hard in the older grades when you're going off of grades for the marking period versus the testing and the lower grades. >> Yeah, the focus kind of shifts a little bit. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks. Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Okay, Tony, budget presentation. Do the slide D. Petty and I are going to partner on our budget presentation from this point forward just because we'll also be offering uh programmatic considerations
103in addition to the financial structures. So, we're going to start with uh a budget development update. I would consider this budget draft number two. You'll recollect the last time last couple times we've presented it has really been what's considered a rollover budget. And so the agenda for this evening with you is we're going to set the stage for budget development. Penny's going to take you through revenues and expenditures. Ultimately, we're going to give away where we are for a budget gap right now and then talk about what the next steps are in balancing that budget. And so again, just thinking first about vision and mission. Uh the budget really should be the mathematical expression. Oops, I got ahead of myself. Really should be the mathematical expression of what you've identified as the vision and mission
104of the school district. I'm not going to read the slide for you, but I do think in each of the conversations, myself, business official, and the entire administrative team, we're anchoring into what is the the charge of our work here at Williamson. Similarly, uh the board, you've been very specific and I appreciate that setting the guiding direction for us specific to what is the work you want us to be focusing on. And so, all of our conversations, I hear at every board meeting now when our administrative team is presenting to you, uh also happens while we're having these budget conversations. How do we protect and preserve programming that support student achievement? How do we ensure that we're not diminishing culture of care, community connections, and as I reported uh this evening, what what are we
105going to do potentially? What are the possibilities uh that support fiscal responsibility for the district? So, setting the stage, I already alluded to uh the mathematical express, the budget is the mathematical expression. We think about how do we get to where we want to get to with the vision and mission. It really stems from budget allocation, strategic budget allocations. Important some some important data for the board of education and for our students to participate. By the way, all of this is on the website. So I see you're writing fast and durable. You can get the whole slide deck on the website if you want it. >> I thought you should know. So just thinking about enrollment um >> because I talked to [laughter] >> I've never want to explore the data further. That's what I
106was thinking, right? You want to analyze the data and come up with questions? That's what I thought. >> Um, again, not a new topic for Williamson or for any other uh small rural school district in New York State. Uh, we are all uh right now battling declining enrollment. Uh, and obviously that has a law of diminishing returns for us because basically as you were just talking about all the courses that we're offering that are regions bearing, we still have to offer all those courses. We still have to have uh that same number of seats available for our students because they're required for graduation purposes. We'll see what happens with the Inspire New York and if that shifts, but right now what you can see with our enrollment projections for next year, we do anticipate being
107down by 35 students, I believe. >> 37 37 I can do the math. I just couldn't. [clears throat] >> Uh this is an important one. Uh Scott and I are watching Well, the rest of the administrative team as well. So, elementary school enrollment, you're going to see that obviously our larger classes are going to be exiting and shifting up to the middle school over the next two years. Uh lower enrollment levels at our primary grade levels. The one I have an arrow next to is we were originally hopeful that enrollment looked like at kindergarten level potentially we wouldn't need that fourth section. And I'm not saying that we're happy about a lower enrollment number, but we were hoping that might be a naturally occurring uh reduction of one uh FTE at the elementary level. However,
108given our current enrollment projection at 59, that three is likely going to bump up to four sections. Can't imagine having uh class sizes of over 20 kids at the kindergarten level just because of the learning that needs to happen at the kindergarten level. So, even as recently as since this uh slide deck was put together, I do see that shifting. Uh obviously, we're going to continue to watch that. Myself and Penny have a meeting with the administrative cabinet on Monday, and it's likely that may be updated to reflect four sections of the kindergarten level for 2627. Graduation rates again why are we here purpose outcomes for the students who are seated here right now that is absolutely our primary objective that's our function uh looking at our our graduation rates [clears throat] what our percentages
109is you can see we've had some uh variability obviously that one year in particular during the co year uh most districts saw an increase that year just because they did uh shift what the requirements were for passing the regent exams and so you see a little variability right around the time of the co uh pandemic program programmatic considerations that really impact budgeting. Thinking about um strategic budgeting to make sure that the students who are participating in our Wayne Tech and career program that we ensure that we can still provide those opportunities for students. It's really incredible to think uh I wish I could read that. I'm so sorry. 41% of our 11th graders, 44% of our 12th graders are participating in WTCC programming. That's important data for us to consider. That means we have to
110make sure that we have sufficient allocation for the students who are interested in those programs to continue in that programming. Also important to note that last year at this time we had 19 uh programs that students were participating in. This year actually really exciting. Thank you for to Chelsea for providing me this data. We went from 19 uh programs that kids were participating in to 29 this year. That's really exciting. That means we're really expanding their interest base and participating uh maximizing what's available at the Wayne Techch Career Center. Similarly, also want to point out a point of pride at the high school. Just thinking about the number of Gemini courses we are currently offering from last year to this year. Uh Dr. Snyder and Karen were able to introduce or we were able to
111offer five additional Gemini. AP remained flat. We had three last year. We have three this year with a little flexibility. looking at the percentage of students who are participating in Gemini and AP. That's really important. Also really important for the board to know when I meet with students in superintendent student advisory, what they're asking for is more of these opportunities. They're asking for us to have more advanced courses and greater number of electives. That's really important when we're thinking about that balancing of trying to have a balanced budget, but then still trying to be responsive to what students are asking asking us for as part of their academic experience at Williamson Central School District. Please note this slide is really important as we're futuring. I asked specifically Karen and Penny to mention the ECA coser
112that's the >> college >> early college access coaster because I very excited when I meet with Dr. Snider and Karen around how we could expand what we currently have with Gemini programming. If this comes to fruition, if the ECA coser comes to fruition in the way that they originally were talking about it, we potentially could shift many of our additional electives to Gemini type programming and that would be really advantageous for our students leaving here with more [clears throat] college credits. Also important to note thinking about our special education and 504 population uh when you look at the total of uh students who are uh designated as special education it's 144 students that represents 15% of our total student population uh which is also 13% of the general budget. Our 504 population is 10%. So
113if you combine those 25% of our students are receiving either special education and or academic intervention support services to support potentially uh their designation other global programmatic considerations uh I'm not going to read the whole slide but I already mentioned a number of those thinking about state ed rolling out portrait of a graduate portrait of a graduate inspire New York uh expanded CTE all of those initiatives require additional resources and have to be strategically ly planned in and budgeted for as we're building the 26 27 budget. Uh Sarah, to your question, I did throw in the slide here our ENL population uh by building level at the elementary school, middle school, and high school and what percentage of students that represent. So it is a very low percentage uh unlike some of our neighboring districts
114which see a much higher percentage. Also thinking budgeting the greater percentage of the Williamson budget in fact uh usually about 80 75 to 80% is staffing and so this is our current uh staffing designation 107 csea that would be all our operational including aids transportation food service uh facilities we have 117 instructional staff members that would include teachers and teaching assistants and we currently have 13 administration and operational supervisors that includes our directors of our operational side. So that 13 is not an increase. You'll remember we took a reduction last year in administration that still remains. That includes our transportation facilities and uh kitchen operational supervisors. And then we have three confidential staff members. Uh for instance, Kelly Dixon serves as a confidential because she's board clerk and she's the secretary to the superintendent. And
115so she's designated as a confidential staff member. So we are currently 240 WCS faculty and staff strong. And of course that very greatly gets factored into the next slides when we start breaking down our expenditures for the budget. Similar similarly thinking about facilities and transportation being fiscally responsible to ensure that we have a fleet replace. Oh it says feet. Oh no that's right. Not where I'm not at transportation yet. I thought it's supposed to say fleet. Okay. Anyways [clears throat] this is about facilities [laughter] transport. I was like oh my gosh square feet. Our feet are fleet or feet. No. [laughter] uh this represents our facilities. Uh it's important to note that we do have currently 26 fleet vehicles, not feet vehicles. Uh and we do have a device device fleet replacement plan which Penny's
116going to speak about in a subsequent slide. And the we cover 36 square miles in our district. So we have to make sure that we have uh safe vehicles bringing our students to and from school each day. And with that, that's going to u move us into actually the mathematical expression part of our budget presentation. And Penny's going to speak about the revenues first and then shift over into expenditures. >> The first uh revenue I want to talk about is um the school taxes. Um in 2012, New York State implemented the um tax cap um which does set parameters for um the revenue side of our budget. Uh a lot of times people hear the uh 2% tax cap think that the tax levy can't be increased by more than 2% but that is not
117entirely true. The um inflation factor or the CPI is what is capped at 2%. Um there are many other factors that go into the tax cap calculation. If um we are going to the tax cap or below um in order for our budget to pass, we need um a 50% uh approval rating plus one vote. If we were going to exceed the tax cap, we would need a 60% approval, which is a super majority. this here. If you're bored and want to calculate the tax cap um levy limit um someday you here's the formula for um calculating that. Um but I will go over it here on the next slide. Um to calculate the tax levy limit, you're going to start with last year's um tax levy, which is $12,548,645. You'll then multiply it by
118the tax based growth factor. Uh add in your prior year pilots, multiply it by the uh inflation factor, which is the the 2% this year. Uh it was actually 2.63 I believe this year, but again it's capped at 2%. Uh the pilots for next year are going to be 62,000. We were allowed a $6 carryover from the prior year making our [laughter] coffee. >> Yes. >> Um making our tax [laughter] levy 12,869 or $869,261. uh we did not have any allowable exclusions this year. Looking at uh the comparison from the 2526 year to the 2627 year, we uh have a $320,000 difference which equates to a 2.55% increase. >> A pilot is payment in lie of taxes. So instead of your house being assessed as so much or a business being assessed at so much,
119you make an agreement that that business pays x amount of dollars. [snorts] >> Next, I want to take um talk about the state aid. [laughter] >> Could you go back one slide just for a moment? >> Two slides. [clears throat] U >> Oh, forward. Sorry. Uh just an important note for everyone here, a 1% in the tax levy amounts to $125,000. So it's important for everyone to recognize again at our previous board uh budget presentation at a $1.3 million budget gap to actually get that from the levy. We would have to go out a 10% increase. So I think it's important just to anchor all of you into what 1% increase on the taxes equals as we're thinking about budgeting for the school district. Thank you. This slide here shows the breakdown of the state
120aid that we will be receiving. Um the executive budget is shown in the first column there and then what um we are projecting here that we're going to get in state aid. There is a slight variance in what we are projecting. Um, for instance, if you look at the Boseies aid, uh, this the executive budget run from the state says that we'd be getting just over $2 million. Uh, we're projecting about 1.7 1.8 million. And that is because typically the Bosey's aid numbers are over inflated. That has been um, historically what has happened. And then um, it's important to note that the Bosey's aid is based on actual expenses. So the aid that we'll get in 2627 will be based off of what we spend throughout the rest of the throughout this year in 2526.
121[clears throat] Foundation aid represents the largest part of our state aid. Uh and unfortunately [clears throat] this year we are only expected to see about a 1% increase which is equal to $94,866. Uh foundation aid is subject to change pending the release of the uh state's final budget which is supposed to be uh mid to late April but they are historically late and never on time. So, [cough] uh, this is a year-to-year comparison. From 2526 to 2627, we are expecting a $394,000 increase, uh, in state aid, which takes into account all the state aid car categories, not just the foundation aid, uh, which is a 2.61% increase. There are some other categories of revenue which uh make up a smaller portion of our budget. Uh the pilot payments which are the payments in le of
122taxes is expected to increase by approximately $41,000 and that is just due to the uh pilot agreement. We are also expecting approximately a $10,000 increase in other local revenues which is due to us um due to shared athletics. Uh this is a great uh graph. I think it shows gives you a good perspective on what makes up our revenue sources and what the biggest components are. And as you can see, state aid makes up about 52% um of our revenue and property taxes make up about 40 approximately 44%. Uh the one thing that is not showing in this graph or is not included in this presentation is um the use of reserves or uh appropriated fund balance. So, it is important to note that the estimated revenues here are going to be lower than the
123um expenses that are going to be talked about later. This is just a summary of uh all the different types of revenues that the district receives. It looks like we're going to have approximately $765,000 increase um with all of the revenues combined uh which is a 2.68% increase. Now taking a look at the expenditures. There are several uh cost drivers that can um impact the expenses. Uh some of the bigger ones are the healthc care increases um which is about 18.5%. Uh it amounts to approximately $700,000. >> So double the increase >> just the increase. Just so like the expense for just insurance is double [clears throat] what we're getting an increase in eight just making sure [laughter] all that we >> No pardon me. >> So we're we raised our total revenue $765,000 and
124it's all going to healthcare >> pretty much >> and doesn't cover any of the rollover budget or any other enhancements. >> So thanks to shares for we can maybe pay that bill. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> in the $6 rollover. >> Everybody, >> did I just hear a motion to shift that to a 1.08? Did you [laughter] >> Kate just gave me death glare [laughter] and he's super happy. >> Okay. contractual obl obligations along with our contract negotiations that we're currently in um and inflation. Those are all other um big cost drivers for us. And again, you can see that the inflation is higher than what we were capped at in >> two, right? Like so. Okay. >> Yep. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Uh, in addition to the expenditure drivers that Penny just talked about, there
125are some enhancements for 2627 that we would like the board as well as our community to be aware of. And the first on the instructional side of things, uh, in working closely with Nancy and at her recommendation to ensure that we're doing best by our special education population, we are building in an additional 1.0 FTE for special education. uh that's going to remain in the budget for 2627. So it is our hope that we get the budget approved and then we can onboard another special education teacher. Uh Karen has been working diligently around use of a different universal screener. So we've been talking a lot about I Ready. There's pros and cons to continued use of I Ready. She's been working with uh building principles as well as teachers around potentially uh onboarding a new
126universal screener. Our hope is that that will be costneutral and that's why you see in parenthesis cost neutral. It's an ad, but we're hoping it's not going to actually cost us much or nothing as a result of we'll take off I Ready from our programming professional development. Uh Karen is also working on some uh very innovative Oh my goodness, right into the job title, coordinator of instruction and innovation. Uh looking at innovative new models of professional development. So two things, number one, we are going to be onboarding a relationship with Wayne from your Lakes Boseies and buying into a service with them to have uh some folks from there come over and help support us with professional development. And then secondly, she has stumbled upon what what looks to be a very promising new platform
127that she will be uh piloting with the administrative team in the near future and hopes to pilot with all instructional staff next year. That will have a cost attached. uh early college access coaster. It was important for you to understand that we are hopeful about that because ultimately if that all works out, it could potentially generate revenue. As Penny alluded to in her business office report, that does have a buy in. Uh so we are going to be committing to buying into getting into that coaster to ensure that we can hopefully reap the benefit of the uh revenue. [clears throat] Um in working with Michaela, we are required to uh update our access point licenses. This all has to do with technology. I wish I could give you a more uh comprehensive explanation of exactly
128what that means to us, but I am told that we must do that because I tried to get it out of the budget and we could not do it. >> I don't know what it says. Get rid of it. [laughter] >> That was like a big like, do we have to do it? We have to do it. >> I'm very proud. Uh Dr. Snider and Chelsea have been working on uh student management at the high school and something that was brought to their attention was uh students and our pass system making sure kids get to class when they're supposed to. And uh one of the things he's recommending is the inclusion of securely pla securely pass at the high school that is costneutral to the general budget because he's going to take care of it
129within his own budget and take whatever reductions he needs to ensure that he can cover the cost of that because he feels so strongly about uh correcting for that at the high school. And then lastly, this will be an ad. Unfortunately, uh Kate Taylor will not be able to reduce her budget by sufficient enough to include vape sensors at the middle school. We have seen uh some positive results at the high school with having the vape sensors in your restroom. Hopefully you would all tested that they're positive. Uh we feel strongly about including them at the middle school as yes or no. >> Yes. >> Um I don't know. >> They're not making as much in the bathrooms, right? >> Oh. Oh dear. Oh dear. talk in the morning. [laughter] >> That was a good
130answer. I don't know. >> Um at this juncture, we are feeling positively and strongly about uh adding vape sensors at the middle school. So that will be a budget addition for 2627. And then on the operational side of things, uh we currently have uh language in the CSA contract around head bus driver. uh the person in that role is uh far exceeding what the contractual language is uh for her to adequately do business in the transportation department. So it is going to be our recommendation to add uh dollars to the head bus driver role and then I'll have to work with CSEA around an MOA to allow for us to do that. So that's an add capital outlay. That's the $100,000 every year towards some type of capital improvement uh for your facilities. We certainly
131want to do that every year because it generates building a back on it. And then lastly, and Penny will talk a little bit more about this in a subsequent slide, uh, as part of our fleet, not feet replacement plan, uh, we hope to buy two 28 passenger buses, which are gas powered, and three 64 passenger buses, which are diesel. Again, uh, shy of us getting the exemption or waiver. This potentially is the last year we could be buying [snorts] gas and diesel buses because unless we get the waiver approved by state education department. Any questions about the enhancements? Thank you. This is um what we are expecting at this point for um the expense budget. Um this is obviously subject to change as we continue throughout the budget process. Uh one of the lines with
132the biggest uh change is the employee benefits line, the 90. Uh you can see that it was $666,000. uh that does take into account health insurance, but there are other benefit categories within that. Uh for instance, the teachers retirement system and that rate did go down this year. So it did reduce it the numbers just a little bit from the impact of the health insurance. Uh the dollar change in the expense budget is uh is projected to be about $1.2 million. [clears throat] And this does include about $497,000 in anticipated reductions, which is including right sizing of budget lines. [snorts] This is more of a summary. It's basically it's collapsed some of those categories on the prior slide. You can still see the $1.2 million and then the percent change in the expense budget is
1334.2%. This compares last year's budget to this year's proposed budget, the 1.2 million and the 4.2%. Again, this is an important slide because you've already done the math and figured out it's about $700,000 increase from health insurance alone. So, if you subtract out that $700,000, the year-to-year budget increase really only reflects 400. Yes. $521,000. Uh that's pretty incredible. Uh that means we don't spend a lot of time looking at our budget lines and right sizings because ultimately if you think about from year to year, and this is a lesson I've been working with the administrative team, it's about a 5% rollover every year just because of uh contractual obligations. When you look at salary increases, uh drivers such as utilities, etc., you can anticipate about a 5%. So the fact that we're coming in at
1344.2% that includes the 18.5% increase in healthcare, that's pretty incredible. We've really been doing a lot of work trying to rightsize our budget lines. [cough] [clears throat] All right, the gap. Um the anticipated revenues this year are about 29,353,000 and our anticipated expenditures are $30,348,000. That leaves a gap of approximately $995,000. [snorts] What can we do to balance the budget? Um there's natural electrician. Um we can look at breakage for people leaving and then new people coming on. Look for efficiencies. Rightize the budget lines and look at reductions. [clears throat] I heard the question. So, just so you know, I mean, at our previous the first iteration of the budget draft, we were at about 1.32 million as a gap. And so, this would the downward is what we need to do. Uh, so you
135can see we continue to work on that. Uh, Penny in the last slide just talked about the strategies we'll employ to continue to close that gap. And then the next thing I think it's important for the board to understand is we likely will be making recommendation for the board to close that budget gap using uh reserves and appropriated fund balance. I asked Penny to come prepared this evening just to talk a little bit about the historical trend of the district doing engaging in that practice and I hope you could just speak to that briefly. >> Yes. So, um I've looked um through the past 10 years of um the budget and we have um historically used uh appropriated fund balance and appropriated reserves to close the gap and it's gone up and down as to
136how much we have used um anywhere from like 465,000 between the two to um 865,000. So, it's uh it's fluctuated through the years. >> I'm just going to go back for a moment. That 994 either represents significant programmatic reductions and or it means a recommendation for use of reserves and appropriated fund balance. So, [cough and clears throat] at the next meeting when we come back on the 18th, uh obviously Penn and I will continue the work we're doing. We're meeting with the administrative cabinet uh on Monday the 9th. And so hopefully we can bring that gap down, but it's likely on the 18th we're going to come to you with a recommendation or proposal for use of reserves and appropriate fund balance. And [clears throat] I'm sure as uh Bridget uh talked about a few
137slides ago, um we are going to be replacing some of our buses. Um we are hopeful that the the proposition passes so that we can buy the two 28 passenger um gas fueled buses and the 364 passenger diesel fuel buses in accordance with our um vehicle replacement plan. >> Are the 28 passenger ones the mega min that we >> No, the these ones are not. They are um a different one. Um, and I don't remember what Vicki had said as to the reason why they were going with that one, but there was some um some reason that she chose those ones instead. >> We can get you more information. >> I can give you more information on that. >> And they seemed like they wanted to get more of the mega minis. That's >> all
138right. >> I think it's important to note uh we're going to continue in all print to include the phrases gas fuel, diesel fueled. Uh thank you to Penny who worked with Kelly who had our propositions when you act on the propositions for bus purchases. We want to make sure that our voters uh recognize that they are gas and diesel fuel that they are not EV. We're not even making such recommendation at this juncture. >> Do we have a timeline for when state is supposed to notify us if we get the waiver? >> That's a great question. So Penny and I are I shouldn't say gaming. We're gaming it a little bit. We want to apply as late as possible because ultimately as soon as you apply it starts the clock. So we want to extend
139our clock as long as possible to get the full four years. There's two two-year waiverss that you can make application for and we're trying to push that down as long as we possibly can to postpone and hope that there's shift in the regulatory language around the bus. Have they said have have they said anything and say that about like if you apply once you apply for the waiver the turnaround is x amount of time >> or it's just whenever they want >> but the class starts once you turn the waiver in >> and then how long [clears throat] >> they have not said well how they have not they've said that any waivers that go on will be considered next year and we'll get our approval when the next school year starts. So we originally
140it was a March 1st March 1 March 15 March 1st deadline and we are both like we are not submitting at March 1st we want to submit as late as possible because the date of our submission >> turn it in or when they >> date of submission >> so again we're delay that's what it sounds like [clears throat] they did not >> if you apply this year even if you apply like June 30th >> yes >> they'll let you So there isn't a definitive when they'll give you the response. >> So our very last application, our last year of the waiver, hopefully they give you a year heads up, right? >> Well, my hope is we have more information about shift and regulatory by that juncture. >> That's a great question. I don't >> But
141if you don't, we have a bus replacement. >> Well, here's the thing. The reality [clears throat] is, let's say, let's go worst case scenario, and they decline. Let's say they decline this waiver request because we're going to submit it as late as possible to try and buy us the most possible time. That means next year, because we didn't get the waiver, we would have to go out to our community with a transportation purchase of EV buses. >> And then the and then the community can overwhelm say no. >> That's correct. >> And then we cannot purchase them. >> And we still do not have data from the state around how they'll respond if your community says no. >> Right. Okay. So, if you cross it, you might be able to apply again. >> Uh, no.
142Then the state will have to respond to how we're going to handle the fact that we don't have voter authorization to my bosses. >> And I would be >> I mean, we assume that people would say no, >> right? >> Yes. I think that's a safe assumption. [laughter] >> If I were a vetting person, >> um, if you apply for the waiver and they turn you down, can you apply again ever or you >> do not have the answer? you're just done. >> I think going back to something Penny said, >> this sounds like >> going back to what she said in her presentation, you have to demonstrate good faith >> that you are trying to make movement towards electrification of your feet. And so I imagine if they declined, it would be there isn't
143evidence of that good faith. And we likely would have to take some steps to demonstrate our good faith towards electrification. >> like a vote. And then we reapply again, right? >> You can do a second vote, which would be more overwhelmingly no. I mean maybe >> I just >> thank you. >> This next slide here uh shows the overall cost of a bus after state aid is factored in. Uh [snorts] so one of the large buses is $180,000. We get 81.3% back in aid after five years. So, the district cost after five years is $33,000 for the bus. Um, it usually takes us by the time we put in an order for the bus and get the bus, we usually have the bus for six years. Um, and then for that sixth year, you can
144add in maintenance and then subtract out your trade in and the bus will cost about $22,000 approximately. You can see from that that it looks like we do trade our buses in and get the new ones at the right time. If you were to keep the bus for eight years, that bus would end up costing you $34,946 due to the maintenance needed on it. And then your tradein decreases. And again, for the 10 years, you're looking at a cost of bus overtime of $54,894. Um, and then on the right hand side, I did the same um, calculation for the small buses. And at with our replacement plan, we're looking at $13,421 at the end of six years for a small bus. >> Is this the 28 passenger one? [laughter] >> Yes. Yeah, that's the one
145we're purchasing this year. >> And it's not the mega what they call >> not the mega mini, >> but the other one. >> Nope. Do >> we know what this would look like for the other >> uh it was in my presentation from last year. So um I can pull that up and get you that information >> and we're almost done. So next up just thinking about what's coming uh in the next coming weeks and months. Uh on March 18th the next time we meet we'll actually be meeting here at 4:30 in NA for policy committee for a budget workshop. Disappointing, isn't it? >> It is. It is. [laughter] So, budget workshop at 4:30 on March 18th, uh, followed by budget presentations April 8th, April 22nd, and then May 6, we'll have the budget hearing
146candidate night. Oops, I didn't have the slide up. I apologize for that. Important to know, we do have two seat vacancies this year, the expiring terms of board president Angela Fischer, as well as Jeff Governor. Uh, three-year terms from July 1st, 26 through June 30th at 29. Uh, thank you to Kelly Dixon, board clerk, who has all of the updated information on the website. So folks who are interested in running for the board, uh they can start picking up their they can start picking up information any time now from our district office. Again, uh just reminder, the vote is scheduled for the annual election after the board takes action this evening is scheduled for May 19th, 2026 from 1 to 9:00 p.m. And again, reminder about the budget hearing and meet the candidate night. And
147if folks want more information, this might be my favorite slide because poor Penny cringes every time she sees her picture on it. [laughter] She does. On the lefth hand side, uh there's where you can access all of our budget materials. We're trying to do our exercise our due diligence to make sure each uh budget presentation we do for you, they're going on the website. So, uh previous to this evenings, all of the presentations are already there. After tonight, this presentation will also be there. And then we are also going to produce uh budget videos. And so, Penny's going to star in all three of them. Just kidding. Uh, and those are >> thrilled about [laughter] one of her favorite parts of having joined our team. >> I would like to see her sing in those
148videos. [laughter] >> Honestly, I would too. It would like take my month. Uh, so honor about April 1st will be the first budget video. We'll talk about the three-part budget. Honor about April 15th, we'll talk about revenues. And honor about May 1st, we'll do expenditures in the balanced budget. We're going to take a very similar approach to what we did last year with the budget videos and frankly have a lot of positive uh response to any questions about the budget presentation. >> Can you um I know we've seen it before all of our reserves. Can you show us the numbers of reserves and then actually how much we make an interest off each year? >> Yep. >> For the next meeting. >> Great. You got it. >> Since it's a workshop, would you like me
149to have it be a fun instructional lesson? I would >> I would love to do that. >> I would like you to sing during it. [laughter] >> I could probably pull that off, too. >> Could you give a detailed $6? [laughter] >> I do not know >> additional. [clears throat] [laughter] >> Thank you. >> Bye guys. >> Bye everybody. >> Okay. Uh consented just I I do >> so much fun. [clears throat] >> I do have to note that under item E on the consent agenda it does say uh varsity tennis coach and it's really the modified tennis coach at least on the print heads. I think online it's fixed, but if anybody's looking at a hard copy, we should say. I need a motion to approve consent agenda items 5B through 5G as recommended
150by the superintendent. >> So, any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. Passes. I need a motion to approve the retirement resignation as presented. So second any discussion thank you for 20 years of service and we wish you well in your retirement city. >> All in favor? >> I oppose passes 5. I need a motion to approve the retirement resignation as presented. >> Any discussion? Thank you Dr. Daniel for his three years and remove him while in his retirement also. All in favor? >> I opposed passes by zero. And I need a motion to approve the retirement resignation as presented. >> So move. >> Okay. Any discussion? Thank you to Deb Love for her 15 years of service and we wish her well in her retirement. All in favor? I oppose. Passes 5-0. Old business.
151I need a motion to approve the second reading and adopt policy 6115 additional emergency appointments 6430 political activities 7201 use of school district intellectual property and 7221 non-resident. >> Make a motion to wave the second reading and adopt >> policies. Second. [clears throat] Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed passes 5-0. Uh discuss dates for summer 2026 workshop. So, I kind of drafted based on the responses I got back for the week of July 13th. And we kind of talked about having the rework on the evening of the 14th. So, we're proposing a possible half day onboarding depending on how outcome of the vote if it's needed. >> So, this would be Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. >> So, we're so or Thursday's out of the question because Francis said that he is unavailable
152on Thursday. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I couldn't get that graphic to move or to >> Okay. >> So, either so all day Wednesday and a half day Friday or we can utilize Monday. take off from work. So just do a skip a day in there. >> What do you mean like skip >> like you go 15? >> Well, that's why like I couldn't do Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. >> Okay. Like if you want to skip a day, right, to request time where it's like two days, skip a day, go to work, and then you go back to the ammo. >> It'd be a half day Tuesday, right? >> Yeah. >> All day Wednesday and >> Friday >> part of the day Friday potentially. Or we could utilize Monday, >> which I almost feel like that as
153I look at this and say that out loud is less time Because we did two full days before. [snorts] >> Did we do two or two and a half with >> We did two and we said we should be doing >> two and a half. >> So the onboarding on the 14th. Can we start with that if you're going to do a reord could we agree that the onboarding would happen on that half day or or is it Monday because >> you here's a here's a question. Can you do on boarding with people before you've sworn them in? [clears throat] >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I mean, yeah. >> I mean, I can have them sign the old book on July 1. I mean I mean they can come sign it prior to the reorder.
154>> Prior to >> I just I didn't think about that. Yeah, they just have to sign it within 30 days of taking office. >> I mean, I'm okay with that. Or do you do like half day of onboarding on like do a half day morning Bridget Karen half half day onboarding Monday and then I don't know >> half morning data dive with you >> morning was here and we spent half the day with him and would want to go through the handbook and obviously we can talk about whether you want to bring a facilitator or just do it but >> right but still >> right >> so you're you're basically the >> no she's saying that we do it on the 14th before only coming once >> I'm okay with that in a So full
155day Monday, >> I just vote for like consecutive days. >> Oh, see I'd say the opposite because then I can go to work and get work done. >> Otherwise, if you said do Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I'm working at work on Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday night because I can't go three days without going to work. [laughter] [snorts] the job that pays me. And I person I think I said this before, I would personally prefer to stay away from Monday because otherwise other people don't get paid for the work they did. >> Okay. So to me and and I'd rather if I'm coming Tuesday night anyway, I'd rather do Tuesday afternoon and just come earlier on. >> But that's my personal >> What's the one to two and the four to five? >> Well, I just those
156were just like start at 1 or two and go until >> and reorg typically starts at what time? Well, since our meeting start at 5:30 now, I put it at 5:30 and normally would have served at 6, but since our regular meeting starts at 5:30, I put it then and typically an hour or less. So, could we treat the 14th as like a Vshift and start early at 1. That would give us 4 and a half hours [snorts] before the reor. I mean, obviously some type of meal, but so shift on a Tuesday. Is Wednesday problematic for anyone? If that was all day, then that would be an A shift, right? We do morning, start at 8. >> So then would Wednesday be the night with everybody, the activity and dinner? >> Well, I was
157just wondering if Well, this doesn't help Francis though because Thursday I was going to say, is if we wanted to do an evening, this might work for you. What if we did Monday late afternoon like another B shift and we did the dinner? So typically there's a dinner that includes the administrative cabinet and if we did a Monday B shift that would allow you time at work in [clears throat] the morning to >> Is there a reason you wouldn't just do it Wednesday? Uh, no. We could do a B shift on Wednesday, too, >> because typically that 3:00 time is when we then go do our uh board goals and grow your way and that stuff. >> I'm not worried about chunking out the agenda. I'm worried about just making sure it works for all
158of you and, you know, there's access to administrative team. So I think we agreed the 14th is going to be like a B shift start at one o'clock we'll go 1 to 5ish break 5:30 we have the reor Wednesday is there a motion for a shift or B shift on that one I'm sorry that's how I think about it is day or night for Wednesday all day >> we just do day and night can we just be done >> so you're talking about like a 12 hour start going to eight >> can we just do like just one so it went so it went all day together and then the activity and dinner Wednesday evening. >> Yeah. So it doesn't get you out of it because we're doing a evening activity >> and then you
159still have >> But then you really are doing like a 12 hour 10 to 12. >> We already do that. >> I mean >> we already do that. We got 12. [clears throat] >> So I think what you're saying is a day shift on the 15th 8 to 3 to 4 and then the dinner would be that night with the administrative cabinet. every call your admin get it on the calendar. Wednesday the 15th. >> Obviously, I so that's one full day plus an activity. You have basically just over a half day on the 14th. So now you have to look at the 13th, 16th or 17th. [clears throat and cough] >> And France said he didn't do the 16th. So that's why Kelly put the 17th half day >> instead of starting at on the
16014th. Are we starting at 1 or can we just start in the morning? >> Do you want to do a 12-hour day? >> Just do 12-hour days and we don't have to come back. >> I look at this room right now and it's 8:00. It started at 4:30 was three and a half [laughter] hours and they all look like zombies. I would I would do a 12 hour day. >> I wouldn't do two 12our days. >> Not bad zombies. >> Well, if you think >> benevolent zombies, >> if you think about the data we go through, I wouldn't want to sit there for 12 hours. >> No, that's get you have to stop it. >> It's just glossed over at that point. >> Yeah. You're not >> you're not getting you're not getting anything out
161of it >> at that point. >> Nope. So to me, I would say just do Friday because if if Thursday's not available, I would do Friday. >> So the only other could be to say the 13th if you did more of a I know you need to work, but what if it was like late afternoon? Like what if we started >> and we almost did kind of a split between day. So we do two to 7:30, 2 to 8, >> 3 to 9, >> got rid of Friday, >> 3 to 9, and get rid of Friday. I am rooting for the administrative team. I hope you hear it. I am >> What do you think, Jeff? >> Whatever the majority wants. >> What do you want? [laughter] >> I will defer. [laughter] I will I
162will only point out >> we had said we wanted a plan A and a plan B because if you have new board members, >> right, you need a plan B and >> which makes sense. >> And we also said we felt like we needed more than two days and this really only gives you two full days. >> I thought the last we left off was we were going to be really strategic about our conversations and the data we're looking at. We're going to come prepared and >> that's true. throw out there if you have members. >> I'm just going to throw out there if you have two new board members. >> You said it. You can go in there saying we're going to be really strategic. You could be answering a lot of questions. >>
163You can have two new board members. Even if you and I run, that doesn't mean we would win. >> I'm just saying >> even when you two run. So, the other thing we talked about was doing something on an evening, not in the same week, which is not on here, but I would still do. >> So, to me, from a work perspective, [clears throat] >> I'd rather come three weeks in a row, a half day, than take a whole week. >> So, for the rest of the administrative cabinet, just factoring this on vacation start the 20th and go right through. So we'd have to bump one up a week and just be mindful of the administrative team is going to participate fingerling leadership institute on [clears throat] the 8th and the 9th >> or do
164you I mean >> so you can't have a plan B so you better tell whoever runs when they pick a packet block off these days because you just said the 20th >> that's the only week you can do it. Well, the 20th is everybody's we start a a different summer calendar for all of them, but they're plugging in their vacation now, >> right? So, >> we can do a nice [clears throat] Friday dinner with everybody as I send off to vacation. >> I'm sure that they would love that >> on a Friday night vacation. >> Don't be that person. [laughter] >> Typically though, >> typically they team only participates in a half day. Sorry. >> Just have the admin team on that Wednesday >> and that eliminates the admin team and then the board >>
165does another evening to finish up afterwards. >> Yeah. >> Which could be the week after, don't you think? >> Well, it depends when Bridget was gone because she said >> I'm on the 27th weeks. >> Yeah, she's gone 27th through the 31st. >> You're gone the 27th through the 31st. Do we need to just defol? >> I don't think so because I think you need to be able to tell people when they come pick up a packet, these are the dates you need to block up in the calendar. >> Otherwise, you're going to be in the same boat we were in last year. >> I think you need to make a decision. >> My decision was beat down. So, lucky you guys. So, we're doing a half day on Tuesday with the reorg. We're doing
166a full day on Wednesday >> with as team in the morning >> and they'll do dinner >> and Yeah. And they'll do dinner. >> So, we're just deciding if we want to do Friday morning or >> next the week after. >> Do we need do we need more than a morning? >> If we need more than morning, I would say it's me a day in the next week. So another way to think about this, I'm in my mind putting together the agenda for the days if on the 14th [clears throat] Kieran and myself and we could certainly invite our building admin uh building level leadership to participate if they'd like. If we present the annual report on the 14th, you have to see that before we have our building principles present on the BPT the
167outcomes of their 2526 work. So on the 15th they can plan on as well as Nancy would be presenting on the outcome of the 25 26 work. I think they each typically get about an hour. They would present that on the 15th and then go to dinner. So really the thing we're bumping is your um onboarding for [clears throat] the board. So we could almost say the 14th and 15th are devoted to annual report BPT and then it's when are we alternately going to do your onboarding for potentially new board members if that if there was a need. So maybe to your point Angela, what if he came up with a couple different options for when that might happen and we could present that the onboarding session for the board members could is going to
168be scheduled based on these possible dates something like that. >> So are we still going to have pre-org [clears throat] on the 14th? >> Yes. which they would be. >> So then on boarding should probably be before that. >> Not necessarily. >> Okay. >> We did they these guys got sworn in and then we did our workshop after last time. >> What did we do for the boarding? like what the on boarding is versus the rest of it all the same. >> This year we did it all together. Last year we did it all together first day. >> What's the what's the purpose? And I'm not being like silly. I'm just curious. What's the purpose of onboarding versus the boarding and then the stuff that happens after we >> handbook? It's supposed to be like
169you go through your handbook talk about you know your norms your commitments to service as a board and that obviously wouldn't include the administrative team and you do have a new handbook so I don't know how much time you'd want to put into that but really last year we didn't do that because we didn't have an updated handbook that was more general stuff with like >> because it needed to be updated >> and ideally you're taking a handbook and putting together like some instructional delivery model where you're doing a couple activities and then anchor it into the handbook. >> I'm just wondering like as a new board member like the learning ongoing just like having a mentor on the board like I'm always relying on just asking questions I don't know if an on boarding
170other than just a friendly welcome and this is what we're doing today not sure just have a different look for on board. Here's your go-to person on the board. If you have any questions, talk to them. Like, welcome. We're going to do this today. Like, I don't I don't know what I don't know if I'm missing something. >> I think there's some stuff that if some trust falls. >> I think there's some I think there's things that if you don't make sure a new board member understands that, you might be right at this. >> Did Did you fully understand what you signed up for when you got sworn in? Did I Did you on board? >> Did you Did you like >> No, it was it was just like typical anything else. Hey, good luck.
171>> Yes. >> But I think that's honestly that's how I learned the best when it's good luck. Figure it out. >> Yeah. >> You you you tend to then have to really pay attention. >> I have a proposal. I wonder about for the onboarding if we commit to the two dates and actually that'll work out fine. Karen and I present on the annual report on the 14th. We do our reord. Whatever's left from the annual report, we work on in the morning. And then the administrative team is scheduled for the afternoon to present BPT on the 15th. The roll out and onboarding could actually be board president, vice president. We would know who they are because that would happen at the reorg and then that could just be a separate meeting scheduled with new on
172new members as necessary to do so. the entirety of the board could be invited and based on your availability, what would be key would be the president and vice president and potentially me if you wanted me to be a part of it. >> I just highlight the things that you think they need to know the most like from the handbook, the things you might be worried about. >> Well, you could create the whole I mean, we can go [clears throat] through the whole thing >> or they can read it and then come with questions and you could just highlight the things that are most important. >> Every year we say we've run out of time. Yeah, we're carving away time. >> That's all I'm saying. >> I think the difference in this model is Tuesday,
173Wednesday are not going to be anything about onboarding the board. Tuesday, Wednesday is going to be >> last year was the only year we deliver >> annual report >> and every year we say we don't have >> and stuff doesn't >> we might do lesser. >> There's a reason we hadn't done our >> we might do lesser other activities, Angela. >> Okay. Like it might be that Karen and I are going to drive. I wonder about driving. >> Where are we driving? Um just imagine a different type of binder too. Like I pulled out the binder to create the the list and it was a good three solid three bulging solid 3inch binder. So I mean you remember obviously um so and I'd really like to see trimming that down. >> So that in in
174terms of making that maybe a more efficient >> use of our time. >> I understand >> more super focused. I will I will make the argument that the bulging 3-inch binder when is the last time you or you remember getting through all of it in the two >> that's why if we trim it when you >> trimming it down you might still not get through everything you want to talk about >> you skip lunch and you skip that breaks and you get that >> lunch >> well maybe we have to create different norms or commitments around what that looks like so it is a very focused convers like just saying like this is what you're going to come prepared to speak to and then we like I'll set a timer. Angela, >> I have no
175problem doing that. >> I'm just [laughter] someone to it doesn't matter. I'm excited. >> We could go back. >> If I'm on the board and somebody says we ran out of time, I'm going to go I don't think so. >> Sounds like it's going on next year's agenda. >> I tried to say but >> do you think we need more time before we meet with admin or just more time in general? I think more time to jump. >> So if we add in an extra day, maybe even the next week, it could work. >> Yeah, but then it's just the board. >> And when you talk about like this year, how many extra workshops did we do >> because we went through everything? So, we talked about doing a evening one like a week or
176two later, but but if people want don't want to do that, that's fine, too. It is what it is. >> Well, why don't we decide on the 15th [laughter] if we've gotten through enough to >> Well, I thought we did decide on. Does everybody have any >> No, no. on the actual day of the 15th. >> Oh, >> decide then if you need another day >> and then we can literally pull out our calendars and say, "What do you got this week? Can we do that?" And that would not be the administrative team. That would be for us. >> Yeah. >> I think I'd pencil the day in now because look how hard it was to >> when you're in that month. I think somebody said it this year like that stuff's already those days
177are booked. >> Yeah. because it's open. Yep, I can do that. Yep, I can have that meeting. And then when you're trying to get five or six people scheduled the next week, good luck. >> So, given the sequencing of what we need to cover with the annual report and then BPT presentations by principles and director PPS, it is safe to assume we would have to have that follow-up meeting the following week. So, perhaps could Kelly push out a communication that says we could meet. Do we have another meeting by the way? Board meeting. Would you anticipate another board meeting in July or No, >> I'm not anticipating another one. That >> so in lie of a >> or I can move this one that's tenative for the 5th up to the 29th. I mean I
178could do that. >> But you said bridge is gone that week. >> Yeah. >> Oh, bridge is gone. Yeah. So no. [clears throat] >> So it has to it have to be the something the week of the 20th. >> Right. So the tough part for me I'll share with you operationally is the longer we push that all of this is actually driving strategic planning too like it pushes it puts a pause on definitive what are we what are we doing with all this >> um but again from a sequencing standpoint I can't imagine meeting prior to the 14th to start well no I mean I guess Karen and I could [clears throat] I can volunteer her with me >> it's that week >> and we could start on the week of >> the week of
179the Jeff said he was not around until after the >> Well, also the week of the you talking about July because they're still wrapping up their year [clears throat] stuff, >> but they don't have to participate. It would only be night. >> Oh, >> yeah. But you guys were participating in the admin stuff on the 8th and 9th. >> Would you come back Thursday afternoon? >> Yeah. >> And do it? >> Sure. >> Okay. You have a commitment from Karen and I both that we would come back on Thursday the 9th if that would work for the board. We could do a three and a half four hour late afternoon evening event. We would even leave early to make this happen, wouldn't we? >> I would >> start at four o'clock. >> Yep. >> Right.
180>> Absolutely. >> Okay. How's that? 4 to 8, 4 to 7:30 on the 9th. >> Sure. >> Perfect. So how that changes the [clears throat] structure of our agenda would be we would start annual report on t I'm sorry on Thursday the 9th we would finish annual report on the 14th on the 15th for uh building principles and Nancy would present on BPT and we'll do dinner that night and hopefully that'd be something like with tremendous levity >> song and dance >> and Rob and Brian will sing [laughter] >> you said 48 on the Ellie, does that work? Well, you don't have to do that. >> Well, I do if I >> Yeah, those days are >> the 14th is 1 to five. >> Are we doing a full day? >> I'm reorder. >> Full
181day on the 14th. >> Right. >> I'm not going to lie. >> I thought she said half day on 14. >> I had half day on 14th. >> Oh, I had full. Sorry. 48 on Thursday the 9th, 1 to 5 on the 14th, and full day on the 15th, >> or do you want a full day on the 14th? >> Jeff? >> Yes, ma'am. >> I'm waiting for you to weigh in full day. >> No, I'm going to defer to the majority and it'll it'll work itself out. >> So, that's what I'm hearing. >> 8 to three for the 15. >> Yes. 8:00. Well, it's not really 8 to 3 because then we come back for even so the day. >> That's the 12 hour >> and then we will establish an onboarding protocol at
182a later date. We'll figure that out. Well, a couple of years I um we brought the new people in prior to the end of this school year and they would meet like with the superintendent and the business official and myself to get them ready for board docs and all of that. So, we could have one person. It's >> easy to schedule something with one person if you have two people open, >> right? So, we can look at that model too. >> [snorts] >> Kelly, will you put those in our calendar? >> Yes. >> And I'll clean this up and resend it out. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And then we can work on our board meeting dates or 26 27. >> Perfect. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Success. >> Uh, moving on to new business.
183I need a motion to approve the resolution to add the bus purchase proposition to the notice of annual meeting and election. >> So moved. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I opposed passes 5-0. I need a motion to approve the resolution to add the 2026 capital reserve fund proposition to the notice of annual meeting and election. >> So moved. Anyone second? >> Yes. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. >> The capital [clears throat] reserve fund proposition. >> Uh yes, that um we are asking to um establish a new one because the current one has reached um its limit um of funding. So we're just asking to uh create a new reserve fund. >> There's a maximum amount you can have in it and we will exceed that. We have to start another hand. >>
184All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Passes 5. >> I need a motion to approve the notice of annual meeting and election. >> So moved. [clears throat] >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Opposed? Passes 5-0. I need a motion to accept the donation of technology items to the Williamson Middle School technology department from the high school robotics club. >> Any discussion? This is in accordance with regulation specific to extra class. Uh this is a defunct class. So high school robotics club is no longer operable, but they had money left in their account. Penny worked with uh high school folks to ensure that we could uh properly uh take care of what was left in their account. All in favor? I oppose passes. 5-0. I need a motion to approve the memorandum of
185agreement with CSEA regarding payment to employees who must report during an emergency closure, delayed starts, and or holidays. >> Any discussion? >> Just this applies to limited number of folks who be responsible for clearing snow and getting our buses ready for transporting kids during emergency days. Thank you. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Passes 5. >> I need a motion to approve the memorandum of agreement with CSEA and employee. >> So moved. >> Any discussion? >> No. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Passes 5-0. I need a motion to wave the first and second readings and adopt updated policy 7520 athletic program. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Passes 5. Uh [snorts] then we have budget transfers. Anything special we need to note, Penny? >> None. uh meetings upcoming district
186meetings um safety committee meeting on March 11th. Kelly, I didn't see that on our board. But it might have just been and then we have a wellness committee meeting March 12th. Did that get >> Yes, they postponed that wellness committee has is going to get postponed. >> Okay. look into that. >> Did you have Did anyone have safety on their calendar? >> I looked and so did I. I looked and I didn't see safety, but I don't know. >> Yeah, district safety 2:30 to 3 on the board. >> Well, it's not because how we we did it a little bit different. We invited the people in the invite, but I'll add it to the board calendar. >> That's why it's not on the board calendar. without me. >> But I feel pretty confident you got
187my reminder email, right? >> Yes. Yes. >> I'll get it on there. >> I just look because I look to see who's done what >> I'll get it on there. I see it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Um upcoming district events. We have the end of the 25week marking period this Friday. Uh Wayne County Music Educators Association call county for elementary school. Friday and Saturday at North Rose. Uh, the senior citizens preview for Mamma Mia is next Thursday at 7 p.m. at the high school. Friday the 13th is superintendent conference day and there is no school for all buildings. UPK and kindergarten registration is also due on Friday the 13th. Middle school and high school interims are available on Friday the 13th. And the musical is the 13th and 14th at the high
188school. I think that's at 700 p.m. both days. The time's not on there. Um, and our board of ed workshop, budget workshop is here on March 18th at 14. Uh, closing items. Board of Education highlights. >> And I did get a chance to go to get down to the meeting. I'd say email. >> No. I did see something about it, but I don't remember email or >> on the 26. >> Sorry. Pull that up right now. [laughter] >> Maybe you didn't get it. >> I don't remember. >> It was It was a lot. It was >> It was It was well written. >> But I know I read something. I just want you to know they had a they had an executive meeting at the beginning that took an hour and a half. >> So
189I sat there for an hour. >> Yes, I did read that because I remember >> you had a nice conversation with somebody else while you're waiting. >> Yeah, I got to talk with your superintendent. >> Public comments. >> Transportation department. >> Public comments. >> Anybody else? [laughter] >> Sorry. I if you have no public comment, I'm not going to read this whole thing. >> Would you like to speak to [laughter] >> um I need a motion to adjourn to executive session. >> I need a motion to adjourn to executive session for the favoration. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi. >> I don't see it. >> All right, we got that knocked out. Listen.