001to 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. Right. Good evening everyone. No anticipated executive session this evening. Um any announcements? How about student highlights? So, I brought a fourth grader with me. He's very eager to talk to you. For the past five years, we've tried something in elementary we've been finding really successful, and that is buddy classrooms. So, what we've done is buddy a younger grade with an older classroom. So, I asked Payton to come and talk to you about his experiences, both the older student, he's in fourth grade this year, and what it felt like when he was in first grade, too. You ready? Like you talk to me. All right. My name is
002Payton. I'm in fourth grade. This year I'm buddy with first day first grade class. Um it's very fun. We've done crafts and movies. We've also read books to them. And when I was the younger student, it was fun, too. Um, they would teach us stuff. And we never really knew when they were coming in, so it was weird. Do you remember who any of your like buddies were when you were in first grade? Um, no. No. What's your favorite thing that you guys like to do? Watching movies. Anything else you think we should tell them? Do you think it's a good thing that we do in the elementary? Yeah. You think it's important to do? Think we should keep doing it? Definitely. But K's moving to the middle school. So, we'll have a new group
003of fourth graders next year. I know. I know. It's very exciting. It's very exciting. You're going to love having Yeah. All right. Anybody else have any other questions? What book did you read? No, it was around Christmas time. So my Christmas book. And who was your buddy class first? Who first? Um, Miss Scale Boy. The movie was the most recent thing you did though. Do you remember what movie you watched? It is based on um it's a good movie. And we also have popsicles that day too. You didn't have meatballs. We had meatballs for one. Complain that we should start playing that. Awesome. Any other questions? Thanks for letting us share. Thank you very [Applause] good job. All right. Either or whatever you want to do. Whatever you want to do. We're not formal. So,
004right now in the high school, we have a lot of projects going around, a lot of different fundraisers. Um, I think this Saturday has a I believe it's a 5K going on at the town park which is fine. Um we also have cart orders going on right now for all the grades to collect nonparable food items to donate to the coroner pantry. Um my grade right now is focusing on preparation. So we're selling tickets for I believe the next couple weeks. And then um right now for sports we just had a recent track record broken for well which is now 8 and 8 in um by Hayden Wing. And then I believe Mr. Ktock also said that the girls track team at least is projected to do really well as again this year. Um yeah,
005I think that's great for Thank you. Are you excited that you're in the four. Yes. Long stretch. It is. And you as well or you would say really fun Wednesday night activity. It's okay. We're gonna move it up. Well, I got the option. You got the option. It is a bad thing. All right. 7 in front of district administrator reports. Okay. Did you remove that? Um, so next year we are moving the trip back to Columbus Day weekend just because it's a lot easier. Um, and it's usually cooler wherever we travel. So it's a little bit nicer. It's getting a little hot next week in DC. Um, but we chose Cleveland because we've never done it before and there are some cool things there. They have a giant science center um that we're going to
006take the kids to which I believe qualifies for our title one status which is kind of nice. It helps us out. Uh we're going to do the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have a nice aquarium we're going to visit and they have a much larger zoo than we see more animals we're going to see. Um and we're explor This is the great trip. for next year. The current seventh graders, we're just, it used to be precoid, it would be they plan all seventh grade and then we go in uh Columbus Day weekend and it's less time we got to take out. So, we write down at 10:00 you're going to tape doors, what does that actually mean? So, that is our security measure. Um, and the kids like to try and fool me
007before we leave. What we do is when they close their door, we put tape on the outside of it. So if they open their door, it tells us they left them at night. So then, you know, lenses for that. And it's fun to see the kids try and figure out. No, we don't seal them shut. They put an escape. I don't but I change the location. I put on the door next to you start buying some fancy colored tape different sizes. Nobody sets out with a mirror under the door to see what the tape is. You know, some kids tried to tell me that they did sneak out. Like, it's not possible. Like, you cannot put the tape back on the door unless you pay like the person at the front desk. And I don't
008think there's a that much will like that much. They're so tired by 10:00 at night after being out walking all day. They want nothing to do with Anything else? Any questions? I know it's a new trip. We've never been there. I think it sounds cool. The kids picked it. Uh, we picked it as uh advisors just to do something new because it was kind of like a throw together. Let's get this back to the fall real quick. I'm curious to know if the kids would want it to go to DC and if this would be a departure from that or if um didn't really seem to care what we brought up like okay that sounds kind year from now on do we have a proposed cost um it is off the top of my head.
009I think it's per and I know we're trying to like find ways to move it so it's a full class trip to see if there's fundraisers or grants. Um we've been looking into that but it's been crazy planning two trips at once this year. What percentage of kids like well using go like so this year we're at close to like 5560 next year 55 60 kids per yeah we have 37 kids going this year and only 22 signed up for next year u and it's just like trying to get kids like I asked a few kids what I thought would go and they're like I don't feel like traveling that's usually the response I get But if it were school funded in some way, I think it might help because I do get a lot
010of kids that say, "Well, that's kind of expensive. I don't know." And so we did there's are there are a few kids that have approached us about that kind which is helpful, but not every kid's going to come up to us and say, "I'd like to go back." Yeah. So, we were able to work it out a couple, which is nice. We started doing fundraisers. So that's probably upset for kids. Awesome. I think I I think travel is so important. So the fact that our district provides opportunities, I would love if we can figure out how to make it something that all kids can participate in. But I love that we do it. Thank you to the advisor because I know that that's not easy maybe to be a chaperon to It's the honest season.
011They're different kids when you get outside the building. But pushing Boston Red Sox. I got it in the Red Sox. I like where you're going. We can mix up more. And they are a stellar organization. World Series. Who doesn't want to be part of that? Yes. For some of our students now, it is such um an experience for them that they normally would not have even though sometimes shepherd is like it is actually you see them like open their eyes it's like well you know and again again you know we don't the students that we have now don't have quite the life experience they might have had 15 20 years ago it is so it's so wonderful now when they're like oh it is kind of neat so yeah and really the kids you wouldn't
012expect to be asking like questions and paying attention because they don't do it in class, they're the ones up front because they're so excited. They're like, never done this before. That's why like for me, if we could figure out how to create opportunities for all kids. I would I just think there's this thing about getting kids outside of their everyday, you know, that opens up their eyes to different Yeah. different cultures, different things. And so, so yeah, that is our plan. Just been crazy. Two trips at once. One more thing to add maybe. I move that we approve the postal travel club trip to Cleveland, Ohio October 10th, 11 12. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Passes forward. Thank you. Thank you very much. Back to reports from district administrators. My pleasure to welcome Colin,
013a couple things. Today was administrative professionals day. So, I just want to give a shout out to our wonderful front office ladies, Carrie Hopkins and Kelly Vanderald. They do a tremendous job in the office and in the building. We're in the throws of preparing for the New York State test next week. So, Carrie's being deep in that. And Kelly has picked up some additional duties. Um, as you know, our attendance clerk in the nurses office resigned and so Kelly has been helping out there, too. She's been invaluable. So, big shout out to both of them. Um, and the other people I'd like to highlight is our special ed teachers. We have five wonderful special ed teachers in the building. We have three self-contained classes. Um, two 1211s taught by Megan Burba and Shannon Cornell. We
014have a 611 taught by TJ Sansby. And then we have two special teachers who work in integrated settings. That's Becca Denny and Lisa Hendendrickson. The five of them, I think Kelly would echo me, um, just do a fantastic job of making sure that our students are supported. And not only that, they all have teams that they manage. Most of these classrooms have classroom aids and TAs with them. So, in addition to managing the students and what they need, they're also um, in charge of the staff and they all do a great job. And I appreciate Kelly's help as well, but the five of them, kudos to them. Middle school, Kelly. Good evening everyone. I have a length clear one today, but I also echo Mrs. Miss Saxby recognizing our administrative professionals and that is Kelly
015Slater, Denn Hill who's also the deep in state testing and Mary Joe Bailey. They do a lot of work. They make that office and we appreciate it. Um I would also like to highlight two significant special uh special events today. Um it was a very exciting day in middle school. So in forum today under the guidance of Jack Patise and the volunteer club uh they raised the amount of $1600 the volunteer club and then they had uh the Williamson fire company, the East Williamson Fire Company, the Ctonville Fire and Water Rescue Company, and the Williamson Ambulance uh representatives from each of those companies come to forum and they gave each one of those four companies a $400 check. So, uh that was their donation to uh and again the volunteer club recognized uh people who
016volunteer their time and service to our own community and they gave them a generous donation. And so that was a good uh moment of opportunity for all of our students to see what it is to give back for both us to give to them volunteer and they are volunteering for our community as well. Um and that again was under the leadership of Jack Tyson and the volunteer club. And then secondly, on a little bit lighter note, but still equally as important, our own community resource of Les Bule came to school today and once again gave of his kind and took our seventh graders um out of the building and we went on a field trip or they went on a field trip in three separate rotations and Les did it with his walking stick, took
017our seventh graders around downtown William and they were able to look at architecture. He talked about history and he had photographs of what Williamson used to look like and show the kids it compared. And so our seventh grade students got an opportunity to leave the building, see what they're doing and learn about their own history from our own resource. So thank you out to our club at the high school. We have two amazing Amy here in the counseling office and Tiffany scar office. So many things happened up there because of them. So special shout out to them. Um Jocelyn mentioned cart wars. Cart wars has been fun this year. Our junior class or last year's junior class this year senior class uh donated almost nothing last year and we showed them the stats at the
018beginning of the week last week or before the break and they are dominating now. So I think that little fire underneath them. um they have almost 100 more items in the next class. So that's fun to see every class is donated. I think at this point it's like close to at least an item student, but we do have students who are completely secure. So it's nice to have conversations with the forum about that and it's just been nice to raise awareness to that point. Um and then I want to make everybody aware of our assistant principal hiring process. Uh the application closes tonight at midnight I believe. Uh to date I applicants um which is awesome. um a combination of internal, external, somebody out of state. So, it's nice to see a wide range of
019people interested in the assistant principal data coordinator job. Um we're going to be doing screening interviews on April 30th. That will be with myself and some of the district office administrators and the other two principles. On May 5th, we have stakeholder interviews. Uh thank you for signing up for that. So, we have a combination of teachers, administrators, clinical folks that do similar to my process and then On May 8th, Bridget and I will meet for a final round interview. Hopefully two or three of the candidates and then we'll bring it to the board on May. Appreciate the update. Uh, Office of People Services, Kelly. Hi everyone. Um, I'm going to join with everyone else and just really recognize the administrative um, professionals in the district office. I know a lot of them don't directly support
020me, but every single one of them I can go to with anything and they're always willing to go above and beyond to help. So, Jen Delianti, Nikki Opout, Don Everheart, Kelly Dixon, um Annette Whitmore, and Katrina Gaziano Spirit. They're just they're a phenomenal team. Um and also I wanted to recognize the PAUSE team at the elementary school. So, the PAUSE team is our proactive approach to student behavior. And that group of people, like they've just built such great relationships with students. Um, and they're always ready and willing to support students with behavioral challenges, but then with the goal of returning them environment as quickly as possible. They would probably agree they're just an invaluable group of people. And from Karen Hoodie, intervention coordin interventionist coordinator NDSS. I would also like to act on my gracious
021my gratuitity gratuitousness to all of the secretaries. I don't have a specific one, but I ask favors of many of them and they all rise and are so lovely. Um, so I appreciate everything that they do for us. Um, today I would like to just uh thank send a thank you to Rachel Liberator, Dr. Schneider, Mary Wild, um Shayla Paser, and Jody Goyak up at the high school. We are starting a new process for making tier 2 and tier three recommendations for student services. Um and so they have all been part of the conversation with me in help developing um the process and the and the information that we're going to be collecting and just really the the conversation has been invaluable for me. I appreciate them. And our assistant superintendent. Good evening everybody. Um,
022so I would also echo uh I feel like if I don't it's gonna look bad. Um, no, we really have a phenomenal uh team across the district I would say of admin assistants. Everybody is always so welcoming when you come into the buildings. Um, and to Karen's point, anything you ask them, they are ready and willing to help out. So, um, kudos to all of them. uh on right just before break, I think it was on April 8th, we uh engaged in a learning block with our instructional coaches and our coaches. We did this learning walk across all three uh buildings and it was it's always just so good to get out and about and into classrooms. Um and so one I would say I'm so gracious to our teachers for having that open door
023and welcoming us into their learning environments. I know it can be distracting to have visitors. Um I think our kids are used to it though. So it it doesn't seem to phase them. But um one thing I wanted to share with you is during this walk it was very clear to us um just I mean we know this but to see it in action is another thing to see the high quality teaching that teaching and learning that's happening across the district. So some of the uh practices that they highlighted um when they debriefed was personalized learning that that continues in our district. Um clear expectations for learning, clear routines and structures are in place and our students really at all levels are engaging in rigorous discussions. Um there's a lot of collaboration. So all of
024those things that we would hope to see to prepare kids for life beyond us um really was very clear and evident in our um observations. Our coaches do use the information that they gather across the learning walk to be able to take that back and work with their building leadership teams to then develop any professional development that their specific building may need or want. Um, so we always kind of take note and then use that in the future. Um, and then lastly, uh, I just want to highlight Stacy Newmire. So Ellen and I had the chance to meet with Stacy today. uh she's just such an energetic teacher um and has such great ideas. But um as you may recall, we approved a fourth grade tech class. So our our fourth graders no longer participate
025in a formal library class and instead they come and they take um this career or this technology class and she is just doing such great things with them. She's introducing them to AI and helping them understand the pros and the cons and what digital citizenship looks like under AI. They're doing a lot with robotics. Um they they do animation, just like such engaging topics. Um and then she wanted to share with us some ideas that she has for just continuing to strengthen that next year. So just wanted to shout out that that course I think has been a great success for the kids. They seem to love it. Um, and I think her vision is to be able to expand that in the future. I I think an executive order was signed today that we
026have to start to introduce AI. So, I did not get anything. Interesting. So, um, I've been a proponent of the teachings about AI, but like so I think it's really awful that we're doing it at the elementary before they move into the middle and the high school to expect to like maybe a higher level of rigor where AI you could use it in the wrong way, you know. So, I'm excited that we're teaching both. Yeah, she has so many ideas. She's like, I not going to get to all of these. We're like, it's okay. We'll keep building. That's great. and our business official who's now been here six weeksish. Um I too would like to give a shout out to all the administrative assistants in the district office. They are amazing and um they're always
027willing to help with anything. Um this past week I've been, you know, really pushing hard on the budget, trying to make sure it gets finalized and uh ready for tonight's meeting. Um finally got there. Um, and I've also been working um on securing the DASI bond um that we're going out for for uh the project we're just finishing up. I had the due diligence call today with um the underwriters and whatnot and um went well and I was grateful she had dragged me. Thank you very much. Any questions for any of the administrative team members? I'll try and be brief. Okay. Uh, first I just want to give an alert. Actually, I should probably start with a shout out to all our administrative assistants as well. Uh, special kudos to Kelly Dixon and the help
028out at the district office. They frankly are just right and left hand. Uh, could not produce the work that we produce at district office without both them. So, thank you very much. Uh, and a special shout out to all of the other administrative assistants across the district who recognize any significant you bring to the work that we're doing each and every day. Um, I'd like to then move into uh today it was announced that uh we still don't have a state budget. They actually uh did agree on another extension through tomorrow. It is not expected that they'll actually land on or finalize the budget tomorrow. We fully expect another extension. Uh what's currently holding them up? They're not even discussing right now school budgets or money. They're really looking at policy agenda items that are
029being put forth by the governor. So uh stay tuned for that. So what that means is we ultimately are presenting a budget to you this evening that we're going to ask that you adopt without a finalized state budget. So there is potentially some variability with the state aid hopefully to our advantage. We're looking for another 1%. Uh strategic planning is in full swing. Very excited and energized by the group that's participating in the strategic planning sessions. Uh they're structured so we have some before elementary school and we have some structured after middle and high school. Uh we have instructional team members supporting the uh prior identification and prioritiz prioritization of uh different areas around the essential objectives that the board helped to identify at the beginning of the year. Ultimately by this summer we'll assemble
030a larger stakeholder group to have them provide additional feedback on the strategic plan and then we will have a forward facing document for the community specific to what is the work in front of us in the short term and then also how are we futureing in the long term. So very excited and grateful for the folks who are participating in that. Along those same lines, I'm also very excited. Uh this is something it's a passion project. Uh I'm happy to share with you that the superintendents from Wayne, so does Gananda, Palm, and Marian have agreed to enter into conversations with myself as superintendent of the Williamson Central School District. and we'll be meeting between now and May 15th for our first session around how can we potentially create a regional approach around shared service programming
031and services for students and looking at differing models i.e. things like distance learning and or shared programming like what they've structured at BOSI. So is there a way to have half day sharing if there's certain pathways that our students might might want to participate in? What are those districts again? It is Wayne. So that's the non Mac and Marian and uh grateful that they've all uh signed on to support these conversations. So I certainly will keep you posted as there's more information to share. Right now I'm just grateful that we have the commitment. So at this juncture it's just the superintendents. We'll identify what our commitments are for our districts and then we'll identify actionables and then we'll get other folks involved in those conversations to make sure that we can start uh making things
032happen in a regionalized approach. I'd like to give a quick update uh capital improvement project and I don't want to step on Francis or Jeff's toes because you're probably going to get to talk about the facilities committee meeting that we had earlier today. But in gist, I do want folks to know at the middle school uh we're still waiting on tresp panels uh that uh right now are the plywood boards that you see that are painted like a gray black. Uh those are long overdue. They should have been done by a substantial date of completion November 24th. We're still waiting on their arrival. Uh we were promised that they were going to be in from Colombia, the country on April 21st. They still are not in. Uh so we're still waiting. And then obviously you
033can anticipate that upon their arrival it'll be several weeks for their completion. Uh we're also waiting on that the middle school part of the project was we had to have the curtains cleaned at the middle school and the auditorium. We're still waiting on the date to be identified for that to be finished. Uh lastly for the middle school component of the capital improvement project. We are going to address the flu to the boiler and we're going to have the kiln installed in the middle school. Please note the boiler is on its last legs and you're going to hear me talk in just a few moments about we're going to have to put together another project pretty quickly. Up at the high school, our plumbing issue, we have signed a contract and we are currently working
034on a stakeout to be completed where the uh natural gas lines are. And so as soon as that stakeout is completed, we do anticipate work commencing prior to the summer, which is great news. Originally the uh vendor said it would be summer before they would would be able to be on site and so we anticipate that happening pretty quickly. Just a reminder that will not interfere with any of the current memorials that we have up at the high school. Also up at the high school our auditorium uh we did have the cleaning of cleaning of curtains completed as I mentioned on April 3rd. The actual cleaning of the auditorium itself you'll recollect that we had a lot of residue from some sawdust etc. uh that happened during spring break and now I'm happy to report
035the entirety of the auditorium has been clean. Good news. Our gymnasium floor up at the high school is looking good and surprised you didn't mention that Dr. Snder. It's looking great. Uh the three coin areas have been completed. The floors have been stripped. Uh we're still waiting on the sealant. We expect in fact they were slated to be finished by the end of this week. We're still hopeful that they will have the ceiling completed by the end of this week. More to follow as that gets finished. Beautiful. It is beautiful. I've seen pictures of the strip floors. looks amazing. Uh, elementary and I'm sorry, Ellen, this is not necessarily a point of pride. Uh, we are still working with the architects around what we're going to do with the roof. The roof of course at
036the elementary, a segment of the roof is problematic. Uh, we recognize and from the architect's standpoint, it may or may not be something that we can wait until the next capital improvement project. I've asked that we make sure that we have a final determination. And I hope to be able to come to you on May 7th. If we're going to have to uh ask for an emergency project to be completed, the board will need to take action on that. And it would be my hope and expectation that I'm working with the architects. We can bring that to you on May 7th if we're going to have to do an emergency repair of that roof. In the long run, we are going to have to do a tear off that put a new roof on that
037building. It simply has exceeded its lifespan. Just so you're aware. Uh that that's a great lead into my next topic on facilities. I've been I guess planting seeds along the way. Uh it's fully my hope and expectation to get board support for us to move forward with the 2025 capital improvement project. Uh what that means for all of you is that uh really as soon as we get through budget uh we're going to be starting to develop a scope of work on the next project. Uh myself uh Penny F and our director of facilities will take the lead working with our architects uh to identify possible scope items in addition to the work that we'll do looking at the building condition survey. And you'll remember that's the document that spells out what deficient areas we
038have in district around all of our facilities. Uh right now we're still sitting on about $55 million of deficiencies. So this project will be framed as asset preservation. Uh there likely will not be anything fancy, glamorous fund. Really the community needs to understand that this is simply going to be about taking care of our existing facilities. The only exception to that is it will be my hope that we can slide the high school band room into that because I feel terrible that that that alternate for this project. It did not make it and it's just unfortunate. I really hope to be able to provide that for the high school folks and for all the students who the significant number of our students who are actually part of the new program. So it' be my hope
039that we can include that. Bridget, we're sitting on 55 million in deficiencies and our typical projects are 5 to 10 million. Are we still talking about a typical project in that? Great question. Uh, I think for this project, especially with the uncertainty around what pathways we may explore as a district as we're thinking short-term and long term, it I I would anticipate maybe up to about a $15 million project that would still allow for us to go out to referendum without any additional tax impact on the taxpayers. So we have sufficient in reserves right now to allow for us to do a project of up to about $15 million with again not having to tax the community and any addition. Should that be voted on next spring? There might be a special vote or there
040great questions. Actually I'm hoping hoping and positioning for December 25. The reality is again when I look at the state of our roofs by having a December 25 vote that allows for us to once that the board has approved and we make sure that we have the seeker approved you remember seeker is we have to make sure that there's no environmental impact on any work that we have done to the uh facilities. Uh that allows for us to have the projects done get approval by the state and hopefully by spring of 26 we're having roofs taken care of. We can't wait a year and a half after approval to address the roofs. So we're going to really kind of push this one along. Uh it's all within regulatory language. We have the reserves. There's no
041disadvantage. Uh we we'll get all We need a community vote. Correct. So it'll be a special vote in December. That's correct. Thank you. Yes. Um and it's important to note I would want you to know and also the community that uh this is this would be completely building a a eligible. I'm sorry I'm talking so fast. Building aid eligible. Uh really the reason why they talk about doing capital improvement projects in fiveyear cycles is to make sure you reset your building need a reality is we have enough of a reset in ours because we haven't done large projects. So we're okay if if we did a 15 even up to a $25 million project the entirety of that project would be building a eligible and that's really important. We want to maximize the aid coming
042back on the project because our aid ratio is you know 85 to 86% of the what we spend. Any questions about that? So next step so you have an awareness uh really frankly after Penny and I present this evening we're both going to feel grateful that we've presented to you hopefully a budget that you'll feel good about. Um beginning on Monday we're going to start looking at the facilities and building condition surveying and putting together scope of work. More communication will come out to you as well as to the community around user group access to us because certainly we want to hear from the community about other things they may have noted around facilities that may or may not have uh appeared in the building condition survey. So that would certainly be factored in. Any
043questions about that. Okay. A quick update on district safety. Just want you to have an awareness. Still working with district safety team on our emergency response plan. Uh proud of the work that the district safety team did conducting a crosswalk between our existent uh building safety plan and the state education uh guidelines. And so really still working on that. uh very proud of the remote learning addendum that is now complete and will be uh positioned to take to the board uh after a public hearing uh probably during the reorganization meeting in July. Thank you to uh Rachel and our building leaders for all their work and and support putting that together. And I also want to thank our new athletic director. We are also positioned to bring forward to you an extracurriculars and athletics uh
044ERP done which is really important. It's a consideration and factor we haven't had in the past. so grateful and um thrilled about that. I wanted to bring to your attention that the administrative team and myself have been doing a lot of work around student discipline and ensuring that we're crossing our tees, dotting our eyes procedurally. As you may or may not be aware, oftentimes uh we we we can step in it if we if we aren't really cautious about following regulatory language around student discipline matters. And so we've engaged in training with Nick Mendeler from Caillou Anandaga. Most recently, we've engaged in training with Sarah I lost her name. Thank you, Palacino. Sarah Palisino from Bon Jon and King most recently uh with another hour training and then most recently we assembled as a group
045and we actually created our own cheat sheet basically a sequencing of what's supposed to happen in the event of any uh discipline matter that requires suspension and more specifically if there's a suspension that could lead to a hearing just to make sure that we are all following uh the regulations around how those things have to happen. Next steps, we're actually going to get together. We're going to assemble as a larger group including our clerical support staff and we're going to engage in a couple tabletop exercise to make sure we're all clear on the procedural uh steps around how we have to respond to discipline matters. Also excited about facilities usage. Uh myself, Kelly Dixon have been working together on putting together a facilities usage document that will go out to all external user groups. uh
046we put together a draft and now it's gone out to our building leaders as well as facilities and waiting for commentary from them. Uh feedback is due on April 25th and so my hope is that I could bring that to the board on May 9th so that you have eyes on it before it goes live. And really it's intended to be a courtesy to all of our user groups. Here's what you can expect. Here's how it works. Here's safety considerations. Um just really trying to be as clear and concise. provide clarity to our user groups around if you're going to use our facilities, what needs to happen beyond what we've done in the past. Almost there, folks. Uh athletics, very excited. I had my one uh one of my first one to ones with our
047athletic director today and I just want you to know like he's hitting the ground running and identifying areas of growth and opportunity without necessarily having engaged in a full entry plan. But what's interesting is what he's bringing uh to the table and what I was hearing as I was engaging in my own entry is they are completely aligned. And so just so you know uh the priority areas initially are going to be scheduling in conflicts with facility facilities usage. We have had a practice where our practices have not been included in facilities usage. And so what happens is sometimes our outside user groups think that the spaces are available and they in fact are not. So we're going to remedy that right away. Uh the other two priority areas going into the summer will be
048eligibility. As I mentioned earlier, uh Rachel's going to be reading some work around code of conduct. Eligibility is an absolute area of growth and opportunity. Uh and that's all I'm going to say. Brian will certainly be a part of that work with stakeholders. And then lastly, dual participation. We haven't had a consistent approach to dual participation. We know we have students who are eligible and who want to have dual participation. We're going to come up with clean language around that this summer. What you can expect from our athletic director is he's absolutely going to be working on an equipment replacement plan uh short and long term he's absolutely going to have my hope is by fall a uniform replacement plan so that we understand what uniforms are in good shape which ones are not and
049we have a plan for how we're going to make sure we take care of those over the short and long term uh our coaches handbook needs work as well as our athletic handbooks need to work and those will have to be done before we launch the uh fall season. And so those are the uh things that we have on deck for our athletic director. The last thing I want to bring to your attention is uh it has absolutely been a point of pride and frankly a bucket filler for me. I've been working uh with students from the high school graves 9 through 12 in a superintendent student advisory council. They have been extremely insightful, honest, open, vulnerable, and they have shared what are tremendous points of pride for Williamson Central School District. but they have
050also been willing to share how we can enhance the experience for the students of Williamson. And so it's my pleasure. I invited uh Dr. Snyder and Mr. Prey from the high school to join me in my next two meetings where students are going to be willing to present to our high school uh administration and then it's my hope that they will take me up on actually coming to a board me meeting and sharing in brief to the board of education. So you can also hear directly from their uh their own voices. So, and that concludes the superintendent. I was going to say I talked to a couple of students that actually came up to be a mention and very welcome to see you. Excellent. Thank you. And I'm It brings me joy. Thank you. Thank
051you. Great. Thank you. District committee reports. There was a buildings and grounds committee report. I think that was well covered. Uh while you guys were at buildings and grounds, Angela and I were at scholarship committee. Um and uh a lot of work was done this afternoon and we're going to meet again next week to continue that that work this year. Uh district events grades 5 through 8 ELA testing was April 9th and 10th. The Triam Prism concert was April 10th. End of the 30week marking period April 11th. Spring break recess April 14th to 18th and policy committee meeting tonight um was at 5:30 and we got through almost all the 6,000 table for county school board association does anybody have share on that uh PTSA? No update from PTSA. All right, moving into board reports.
052I need a motion to approve the CSE case summaries. Any discussion? Have a question? Uh, parent attendance. I know you're going to bring that up. Um, typically, so sometimes it's hard. We we make every attempt. We send letters. We call um I call that day. We send Zoom links. I use the kids. Sometimes they won't answer for us, but they'll answer when they're calls with their cell phone. Um, we've just had a couple of families recently that have multiple children and the families haven't been able to attend. So, that really reflected there. Is that something that like I know from my own say you guys have been able to do a zoom conference. Is that something that's offered? Okay. We always call I I see Annette who's just fabulous. She calls when she's scheduling offers
053in person Zoom. Sometimes they call that day or send an email. We send a Zoom link that day. So it's always an option. Okay. Just you know that's always a concern. I want to see 100% parental participation. I'm sure you do. Um all in favor I post passes 40. I need a motion to approve the March treasure report. Sorry. Any discussion? All in favor? I posted passes 4. Um all right, let's jump into the budget presentation. [Music] So, the last um board meeting I did a pretty thorough budget presentation. Um, tonight's is going to be a lot of the same, but I'm going to do more of an overview instead of going in as in depth as I did. Uh, so we'll talk about the revenues, expenditures, and then our barelet propositions. We'll start by
054taking a look at the revenues. Um, this slide shows uh what percentage certain revenue sources make up of the budget. And you can see that state aid and property taxes make up about 95% of the budget. There are a few other sources uh like local sources um user reserves, pilot payments, etc. This slide shows the tax cap calculation for this year. The tax cap calculation includes uh the tax gate based growth factor. This year and last year pilots uh tax levy exclusions etc. You can see that this year's tax levy is going to be 12,548645. That is a $341,250 increase over last year with uh which equals a 2.8% increase. Another major source of our revenues is the state aid. Uh foundation aid is our biggest state aid. Uh we're expecting 2% which would equate
055to about $182,000. This is subject to change pending the release of the New York state budget as it has not been approved. We're hoping that goes hoping hoping it goes up $71,000. The year to uh year change in the state aid is an increase of $447,000 which equates to 3.06%. The other sources of revenue are pilots, sales tax, other local revenues, and fed aid and Medicaid, which is Medicaid. That's remaining relatively the same from last year to this year. This slide gives you an overall breakdown of uh the revenue sources from last year to this year. We and it also shows what reserves we are using to help balance the budget. You can see that this year we are not appropriating any fund balance and we have reduced the reserve usage. The budget increase for
056the year will be 4 36,000 in SE uh approximately. Some of the big expenditure drivers this year are healthc care increases, contractual obligations, new contract negotiations, and retirement incentives. The um inflation is also a factor this year. It's about 3%. Bridget is going to talk a little bit about this slide. So we did share this information at the last meeting. U just a couple additions. So again if we think about ads or enhancements for the 2526 year uh again we are committed uh at the elementary level to ensuring that we have two AIS providers which Ellen is currently actively um working to hire uh new and KT is going to be very excited about this. We did actually make the determination uh anticipating and or hoping that the budget will the state budget will allow
057for the additional 1%. We are including at this juncture the 1.0 FT at the middle school level so that she can increase uh her uh by one additional section at grade five. When you look at enrollment uh projections for the next several years up to five years she is going to actually meet that. Uh, so we actually what you I hope you noticed was that our total expenditures increased by $78,000. 78,500. Okay, thank you. I was close 785. And that allows for us to include this 1.0 FTE. Again, hoping and anticipating that potentially we'll see the ad from uh state aid, the foundation aid formula. If not, we we'll have it from reserves. And the other thing you'll notice on this uh chart, no other difference other than the inclusion of and very excited and
058pleased that our assistant principles will now be 12 become 12 month instead of 11 month employees. So that also is an ad from the last presentation. Thank you. In balancing the budget, we took some expenditure reductions which were mainly due to attrition breakage, the administration reconfiguration and right sizing of the budget lines. This slide shows the percent increase of 1.52% over last year's budget, which equated to 436,765. As Bridget just um talked about, it is a $78,500 increase over the last budget presentation due to that um 1.0 FT edition. The pie chart here shows where a majority of our expenses lie and that is um instruction and then employee benefits and then the other um some of the other areas are transportation u inner transfer general support and our debt service. The three-part uh budget
059consists of the first part of the three-part budget is the administrative component which um provides for the general support and management of the school. Uh it includes like the district clerk, the business office, um legal auditing and many other um areas. The instructional component covers uh the general uh education costs for the district, salary expenses for the staff, uh special education programs, and transportation. You'll see a slight increase on this slide due to adding that 1.0 FTE. And then you have the capital component that um consists of maintaining the school grounds uh maintaining the buildings. It includes utilities, the debt service payments. There was really no change on this slide here from the last presentation. Here you can see the three part budget all on one slide and you can see that it equals out
060to the 436,765 for the year-to-year change. And this pie chart gives you a good sense of what each section of the three-part budget um looks like. And you can see that the program/instruction piece is the biggest piece of our budget. We have included in the budget a $100,000 capital outlay product uh project which helps the district maximize tax dollars uh by doing these many res uh renovation products projects can't talk um the district is able to use building aid or get building aid on that money. So instead of it costing us the full $100,000 in the next year we will get building aid back uh which will equate to about $84,000 for us. Uh we plan on doing uh updates to the high school doors interior and exterior uh which includes the doors hardware and
061association associated construction. These pictures here show some of the areas where the doors um have had new hardware added um or they've had pieces added to where the doors can close properly and then where there's some gaps in the doors. The last presentation I had um thoroughly gone over this slide on how much buses cost the district throughout their life. Um just to highlight this slide, it shows what we pay for a bus, how much aid we're receiving, and then how much that bus actually costs after five years. And then if we were to trade the bus in at in 6 years how much that bus will cost 8 years and 10 years etc. And you can see that throughout the years the maintenance costs increase drastically. And then just quickly to wrap up uh
062proposition one of the board you'll you'll note that the dollar amount changed just by that $78,500. Again, that reflects the inclusion of the additional 1.0 FTE and our 12-month assistant principles from 11 month to 12 month. Uh so that is the only change in that slide. Proposition proposition two which is specific to our bus purchases did not change. That remains the same since our last uh bud since our last budget presentation. We think about next what's happening. It is our hope that this evening the board will adopt formally adopt the budget as required by regulation. Did you have a question? Just wanted to say that proposition two for the buses is not talking about electric buses at all. I'm so glad you said that. Absolutely not. No electric buses. Correct. Diesel and gas power. Good
063to know. Thank you. I appreciate that you said that. Thank you. Uh next steps would be again my hope is that this evening, a little bit later on the agenda, the board will move and adopt the actual budget. Then it becomes board of education's budget uh for the community to vote on on May 20th. uh for those community members and for those seated here this evening uh if you're interested in additional budget information we did release the series of videos they are all now posted on the website uh budget one through three we have two uh board of education seat vacancies the expiring term of Ashton as well as Jamesville uh proud to say that we have two candidates Sarah Shambry and Ray Verbridge uh they will be here on May 7th uh for meet
064the candidate night where they'll be able to talk about uh their interests and uh passion commitments specific to why they want to become board of education members. Uh we will also be conducting a budget hearing on that same evening. And that concludes our budget presentation for this evening unless there are any questions. Okay, moving on to the consent agenda. Thank you very much, by the way, for the project presentation. Anybody have any questions? I actually have one. I just want to go into the consent agenda. Under expenditure drivers, one of your bullet points was retirement incentives. We didn't have any formal retirement incentives. Anyone who retired for the purpose of anyone who resigned for the purpose of retirement. That would be you have to pay them out. That's part of what you have to pay.
065Okay. But but that's not in a sense to retire. Correct. No, that's not early retirement option. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that that was clear if somebody saw that that we did not provide any normal that's right contractual specific to a retirement incentive incentive built into contract. Thank you. Just wanted to clarify. Thank you. Um okay. I need a motion to approve consent agenda items 5B through 5D is our code of the superintendent. Second. Okay. Moving into old business. I need a motion to approve the second reading and adopt new policy 7440 student voter registration and pre-registration. So second. Any discussion? All in favor? Passes. I need a motion to approve the second reading and adopt new policy 6151 notification of disclosure of employee disciplinary records. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I
066opposed. That's 4 Z. I need a motion to approve the first reading of updated policy 10:30 number of members and terms of office. I mean 11:30. So move second. I was thinking I wanted all in favor. I I opposed. Okay. Reorganization update. Guess that's for Bridget and I to share a little update. So last week, um, Bridget and I met with Rob and Ellen, the board president and superintendent at Marian. We had an informal conversation about our, um, next steps. The conversation was really focused on still the desire to provide what's best for our kids um and and keeping fiscal responsibility at the forefront of what we're doing. Um, I really am appreciative to hear that other districts in our area are very interested in joining the conversation about that. Um, and making sure that
067one of the uh, directives from this board to project was to look at all options possible for our community as well as opportunities for our kids. So, that's a great step in the right direction. um our meeting with with Marian, we also talked about um moving forward with another um joint meeting. We talked about different um shared services. There was really I mean it was a pretty lengthy uh meeting where we del we really dove into a lot of uh conversation about things that we've been trying. Um, and one of the things that, you know, I think kind of came to light, bubbled up to the surface of the meeting was that it's easier to say we're going to share something than it is in practice at times. And one of the roadblocks I think
068it's going to need to be dealt with is the fact that the two districts operate very independently. And what what I mean by that is we have different sets of policies and procedures. And so to take one employee and share them between two districts that's operating in very different ways almost means that person is doing two full-time jobs because if the districts were had very you know similar or very aligned policies and procedures it would be much easier to step into a shared role like that. I don't know if that conversation has ever really come to light before, but that really seemed to be the the impetus maybe for why some of these why it's harder than it should be to share some of these positions. And so I think that that's something that um
069Rob Marshall and I talked to Bridget and Ellen about as like we need to figure some of that out and we need to figure out a way to become a little bit more aligned on some of those things to uh to make sure that we can can share positions and we can share resources. I think the only thing I would add is just a more thoughtful consideration around needs based assessment. So making sure that there is a need and it's mutually beneficial. Like we I think we spent a lot of time talking about how we have to identify that there's a need in Marian and there's a need in Williamson for it to be an effective partnership. And I'm not certain necessarily that in some of the scenarios it has been a mutual need that
070maybe neighbor helping other. Yeah, we used the word uh partnership to think about it more than a shared like sharing of an employee. Um, when we share an employee to help out a neighboring district, it becomes very easy to say, well, that's our employment that's not working and so we can change the we want to change that. But when it becomes something that's mutually beneficial that we enter in to to purposefully benefit both districts at that time, it's an easier transition, I think, than it would be to take an employee from one district with the other and move. So we recognize that our employees who have been uh operating under that shared services u scenario have uh really put in a lot of effort and uh I'm super grateful for the Williamson employees who have
071uh tried that and we've you know they've really tried to make it work. Two last things. Uh I guess one just that there was a unified commitment that we're very eager to explore additional shared programming opportunities for kids. And so we left that table knowing that it likely wouldn't just be Marian and Williamson that it would be the collective western money side. And then the other thing potentially revisiting a conversation where the arts from both come back. That's right. So the um if you recall from our joint meeting we went into an executive session. After executive session, both boards opted to not move forward with one of the merger study or reorganization study proposals. Neither of the presentations really met the needs that each district was looking for. So we asked doies to go back
072to the drawing board and send out an RFP for a smaller scope project that really focused on the sharing of services between districts versus a what they kept calling a larger study that felt too definitive to both districts at the time. So, a smaller scale study that would really look at um not only what services could or should be shared to districts, but how do we really make that happen? What's the most effective way to do that? So, Boseies um is has created a new RFP. They've sent that out. I can't remember the date exactly like the end of Aprilish those RFPs are due and we should hear um if there's an option moving forward to procure that service and when I say service that's a benefit to our district because that means OSES is
073actually going to run it under a coser which will provide state aid back to our district should we opt to do that whereas that reorgger study that they had proposed before was not able. So that would have been a serious hit to uh our budget and this um would be a tenth of the cost possibly and April. So really a very different study in scope with very different objectives. So if comes back, do we need to or can we just say we can elect independently? We can Yes, we can say we'd like to use RFP. Uh I'm going I mean I haven't seen them yet, but I'm going to guess that it's going to be much more closely aligned with what we were looking for, but maybe not. And if not, then we will go
074out and we can also do some of that work on our own. We can find consultants on our own if we need to. It may not be at that point, but it's still significantly different cost structure than what the initial RFP I think. So that was incredibly expensive to tell us something that we weren't ready for. Yep. Incredibly. Yes. Um, one question I just had, um, when getting together with multiple superintendent is, uh, one of the first things you guys are going to talk about just the bell times, make sure all districts to see if they can start roughly at the same time. I would say that becomes an actionable. So, we'll probably, it's more about commitment. What's vision? What are they looking for? Make sure not one of the first discussion point. Absolutely. Yep.
075But I think we're pretty a lot of smart superintendents out there that could make something very simple out of that not make it complex and fewer districts. Correct. We're going to prove to them that we can be right because that really is something that can be done. um be an innovator side of the we are going to be the innovative right districts any other reorg update uh culture survey revisions you emailed us updates this afternoon uh including some of Francis's uh wonderful suggestions Um, and I'm guessing we're going to just I mean you had you had question. I had some questions. So like the student survey or high school? Well, so that's one of my questions. There are two separate ones. Correct. So elementary and then everything else. Correct. Okay. Um, so the first one
076I had was the like I have them in the order you sent. So you see this the header and the one you're looking at uh student survey May 2020. Um so I I think if I understood it correctly like we added I think it's relevant to note there were significant changes in each of the surveys. Yeah, that's why I I was trying to make sure I understood what the change relative to the feedback that Fran gave, what they looked like before, but it was hard to follow. So, um, if I understood right, and I guess I got to look at the previous ones, too. like student survey. Last year, there was a question 12 that I think Fran said to delete about I feel positive about my education. No. Yeah, we kept it as number
077eight on the new. There were some recommendations random respectfully there were some that we felt were important information that we as a district we have to keep in mind that it serves a purpose for the board but it also serves a purpose for district building administration. So we did attend I think all of the recommendations you made uh Francis but we also we added our own based on what information we want to get because it serves our purposes too. like three different bugs. Can I just for my own can you at some point go add these from the email into board docs? Sure. Because to me when I look at this a year from now it's a heck of a lot easier to find it in board docs. Yeah. You just make a new um
078file. Whatever's easier for you. Okay. Yeah. But if I know we talked about it in the spring, I could go start looking through agendas if I try to find it in six different emails. Do you want like last year's? You want them like Yeah, it might be easier just because then you could look at what did we have in 2024 versus to see what we took out versus what we added. Okay. So, I I guess I'm okay with the student survey one the and the changes that were made. There's like additions that I think are good additions. Um, is it just I I don't think I got the student one. I got the elementary school. I sent two separate emails. There were two emails. Yeah, there were two attachments in the first. So, did I
079got the elementary school and the this one came earlier, the student parent and Oh, the teacher wanted came early. Literally, Rachel and I were working at this two to three day and so she had to produce them after 3:00 after we got on the last two. So, they came out as soon as she finished them. I got another meeting and I pushed them back out and emailed to you guys. So, the the parent one confused me. the 2025 parent one. The bottom of the first page says Williamson Elementary School. Is the survey different depending on what? No, it's all the same for every building. It we just I just didn't want to use all the duplicate question. So, so it says elementary school, but every parent would get the same survey regardless of So, they
080click that, it's going to say that and then it'll take them to whatever section for their building. the same question. Okay, that it confused me. Okay. Um the question number three in that one. So Fran had suggested the wording say something about William the school fosters a positive and respectful environment for students. And this wording says a safe learning community for all. It comes right from the essential objectives. So took the language from the children. Okay. So can you help me understand the difference between three and five because one says safe learning community for all and the other one says my school is safe for students and staff. Oh, we were looking at uh SEAL versus physical safety. I think we need to say that because the way it was worded with positive and respectful
081environment does not imply physic safety to me. But to me, when I read those, the way they're proposed, I said they're very similar. So, are people going to understand what you're getting at? I hear what you're saying between the two. It made sense to us when we were going through it. I hear what you're saying. Uh, three is absolutely SCPs five. I guess the recommended change would be I I believe I feel my child is safe when they're at school, but really we're trying to get into safety, physical safety, right? I I figured that was probably the difference, but I I think if you're taking this survey, you'd be like, didn't that just answer that question? The other one my questions why we were keeping was about students being number 13 students being recognized for
082demonstrating pride behavior. Is that an important question to ask parents? Well, if we're if again essential objectives about communication, academic and behavior, like we want to make sure that our parents are feeling like they're they're being notified that the child needs acknowledge. Okay. I guess I was questioning like that specific communication because I feel like we ask about public communication like we ask about communication in general. So is that that specific um type of recognition important? Well, the different number six says I'm satisfied with overall communication. Seven is specific to the personalized communication, right? And then that one I guess we can reorder them, but that one is more about their conduct in school, their pride behaviors. Are there you think there are students that demonstrate private behaviors that don't get recognized? Well, I guess
083that's what we're trying to get at from the parents like that potentially identifies a gap or a hole for us if it's not happening. Like if 40% of parents say my child has been recognized like that's a problem because I think there's an expectation that every especially your child to the back um the teacher that was the next and I think there was like there was a second revision like there was a that one It came in the afternoon and then it came again. Um, which I think I printed. No, this one would come later. We didn't even get to this till 2 o'clock this afternoon. This would be last. Okay. It's the one that says Okay. Um, so that one I question. So there's redundancies because it's different for each building. So like question
084five on the whole one is the same as question 19 and I think it's because one is for yes one building and one for two questions in a section. However, except in one instance, every question where we said take it off question six on the old one which so give me a second and I'll staff communicate staff communicate effectively with students and parents regarding classroom level information. We took off six But it's al also the same as 20 which is for a different building. Why would we keep that one question for one building? And then you see that in the new one. I wonder if I accidentally printed multiple sections. No. Okay. In the old survey, question six was the same as question 20 in in the old one. In the new one, question six
085went away, but question 20 was still there. So, so is this I guess let me start over. Is this new teacher survey the same for every building or is it building specific? No, it's going to be the exact same survey for each building. Okay. So, is there a reason we wanted to keep that question? I'd have to find the number. It is in the new one. 20 I'm reading is teachers are providing high quality professional development. We absolutely want that. I want that. 20 from the old one. Sorry. 20 from the old one. Was staff communicate effectively with students and parents regarding professor level information? So I'd have to find what it is in the number 10 district or building. So we took that one off of the new and we we changed it over
086more to like our staff feeling good about the communication um from coming from the building and then another one about coming from district level. Okay. Almost trying to embed almost like a 360. So there's a number of them. We're looking for feedback from building level administration. How are folks feeling about building and how are they doing about district level? So you'll see that there is quite a bit of redundancy because we're asking because you're asking different ways. Yeah. Because the answer could be different, right? Depending on what lines you're looking at. Okay. Number 18 on the new teacher one. Um there are tier two and tier three supports to address. Well, frankly, we need Well, there are or there aren't. So, is that question more supposed to be about how we apply it? Execution. because
087I feel like that is a yes or no question and you're asking people for a range. You probably really want to get at their perception about implementation, not does know what tier two and tier three. This one's for this teacher teacher. My hope is they do know. [Music] So we missed a word. There should be like an adjective. Well, that's I'm saying I'm assuming that we're really want them to tell us yes, there are. No, there are adequate tier two and tier three supports to address new behaviors. It should say it should say this is given just to teachers, right? This is just teachers. I just wondered if you wanted to change teachers to I and all the question all the states. We talked about that too. Like I think having teachers is this weird
088kind of sacri. Well, in some in some ways it is because like 19 says I but 20 says teachers. Yeah, there's actually a couple that we didn't do. I think there's only two that we didn't change. I thought the changes you made were really good. I like the district level and the building level. Both of those. I do too. Um the one at the end on the last page at the number 26 then it says middle school. Is that just because of the way it printed or is that question only for middle school? That question is no longer there. We're not even using that question 27 and that page is gone. Okay. Just checking like we just ask that question of middle school people and everybody else gets the same. Okay. I didn't have any
089other questions. Do because Fran just said it. Do we do a similar survey for other staff that are not teaching staff? We do. So through the counseling plan um we have to do a survey and we do break it down by support staff and instructional staff but it's not necessarily it's more for the counseling team to be able to dig through that and and drive further development on their plan. So we don't necessarily have something we if we're doing culture surveys looking through the culture buildings and posts I would really like it to go out to our support staff because some of the questions in the teacher survey while I get some of them are teacher specific there's a lot of those that we should really be asking all of our staff not just maybe
090just pull out the very instru So they also know that their voices are being heard what the culture is. And when is this going out? In May. Yes, usually. So typically we give this during a faculty meeting or a district round just to make sure that we give people the time to do it. And it is usually like mid to end of May. Okay. But it's online so the results should be immediate so we can get those. Yeah, we typically provide them in with that board retreat um binders but we could provide them earlier. Well, we only have one since I read this student if I have questions. I want to make sure she works with operational staff to allow some dedicated time because we're giving the teachers the time. We want to make sure
091that's a good point. It would be really I think it would be really beneficial to get that you know we've had a a big shift in change here in the district. I would like to see that. So Penny really uh we haven't talked about it but Penny already was working on that for uh at least one of our areas of operations that she's going to be administering today building professional development department. So we already on deck but we can just do things for all operational areas. Just out of curiosity, how much time was defin I was just curious as to what time we need to give give them as all just a day. Um, so as far as work time, I mean, she's she's being real the whole day. I just have one question. Would
092you want to see all of the results? So, we typically send out the parent and student ones around the same time, but we give them a little bit more time to complete it. So, I mean, certainly like if I'm looking at the board dates, June 18th, I think we would close it by then. Or would you want to see results from all three of those surveys or just to share whatever is even rolling as they come in like whoever you want to share it would be fine. Okay. But I think it would be nice to see before your end that might help conversations around goals and whatnot moving forward to be prepared. Like normally we don't get that data until our retreat and so will we get a week before the retreat, right? But it
093maybe gives us more time to have conversations and think about it. Okay. Because realistically, we probably should reference it during the retrieval, but you said it's a lot to digest. The binders are like small. The binders. Yeah. They're not We made it a little bigger. That's the app. What if you could digest it? inch binder this year. You got it. Asking you, do they make 5 in? Yes, they do. Yes, they do. I know. Great administrative assistant. I've never seen them. I was just going to say every single shirt was like, "Well, yes, they do." Okay, moving on. You remember the culture survey revisions? Thank you for doing that. I think that it's uh as tedious as it is, the results are going to be really important for the future. So, thank you for that.
094Uh, all right. We've already done the uh 7A. So, move to 7B. I need a motion to approve a resolution for the instruction of paper ballots from the May 21st, 2024 annual meeting and board of education. So, second. Any discussion? All in favor? I need a motion to adopt the 2025 226 William Central School District property tax report card. Second. Any discussion? Yeah. the budget first. I do that all the time because it prints out. Oh, I'm sorry. I try and go. I know. I know. We really want to get that adopted. I need a motion to adopt the 2025 2026 Williams Central School District budget in the amount of 29,126,665. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I passes 4. Congratulations. Six weeks in the district. Your next test is next week. Okay.
095Now I need a motion to adopt the 2025 226 Williams school district property tax report. So any discussion? All in favor? I opposed four zero. I need a motion to approve the instructor fees for the adult ed spring 2025 semester. So move second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Passes 40. I need a motion to vote yes or no for the following positions. So Kelly, what's the best way to do it? If you just list them and I'll work on my sheet. Um, we can do it all in one motion though. You can do it all in one motion, but I got a mark on this, too, just so I can So, I move that we vote yes for the following positions. President Robin Johnson, vice president Julie Nevilleer, bank depository, Community Credit Union,
096signing on bank accounts, executive director, president, vice president. Any discussion? All in favor? Yes. roll. No, go ahead. Okay. Did you want to add anything to the questions that were on the ballot as well? Um, it's this the same. What topics do you want to see? If you think of anything, just I'll just email me. I'll if it's not obvious. We're not super participants here at this board. No, because we don't just I don't know if we have time. What's the cost of it? It's a little I think it's between like three and four. Not uh not a huge expense. We don't we don't go to the meetings which actually be another expense to the district meetings but the lobbying on our behalf I believe is we one or two things each year but not
097I think that it not every meeting ever it keeps us aligned in other districts every day so I think it's I'm not proposing we don't participate I'm just we're not super active participating I They're Saturday morning which is legislative and the other ones are in New York at night and it's just this board is very involved more so than most other boards in the day-to-day districts up here. So adding that on top of it is very difficult and a lot of times they're okay. this next one. Y um we have to do these individually. Yeah, we do. And we have to select, right? Yes, you do. So, you want to talk about who you're selecting first? Well, I think I talk about it. Um I think I made a note here. So, of I have
098two others that I So, I like Heather. I think she's great. But then we've got um to pick two more. And it's interesting to me like Robin I've met through she's been around for quite some time. I've not personally I don't This is his would be his second term. I think your first term is just learning the ropes of so multiple times. So I don't watch OC's for meetings. I know that I'm sure there's riveting as are we are we required to vote we should I can't answer your question whether we should but I feel like it's our we spend how much money every year question how like um the mostly services um that when I did this uh sign up today was just overion million I'll just say it is I struggle. Hey, I
099that stands out where it's I would Easter from Victor. I wouldn't I wouldn't vote on that because look at me 40 years. That's all I need to say. Well, I struggle, but we don't have to vote for him, right? I'm just saying my opinion on that one. I struggled with that one, but Victor has had an interesting past seat. Correct. They uh most recently made application not exact language within the application to actually uh shift from these proceeds to Monroe for a number of different reasons. proximity to the row, differing opportunities, uh feeling like potentially their students weren't able to maximize optimally proceeds. You say that that expresses discontent with our proceedings. I wouldn't want to speak on their behalf. That's what I would read into it. Public meetings specific to that. Why would you
100Why would you try to leave if you were having I just struggled with some as I struggle with that 1995. 30 years. 30 years. I'm sorry. I You think that's bad? Well, he's supposed to list his previous board experience in that section. So, he's been on the Victor school board for 30 years. I want to see some substance. Give me something. Then you're he was on the Fingerlakes board. That's all. I just I struggle when someone says, "Hey, been doing this for x amount of years. Good." I struggle with that. Oh, I struggle with that. I didn't see it that way. I I do I struggle with that. I see it as he's part of a district that maybe has a little discontent. And how do you feel about services? Yeah, I see it as
101he'd be somebody knowing that I don't know what's the right word. Push for some change. I I see where you're coming. I understand where you're coming from. I just which I wouldn't be. I I wish someone who's been there long enough would What? Put something on there. I feel that there's nothing on there. Well, he did. I mean, he did go on the board through literally. Let's speed up this investigative. No, I'm just saying. So, whatever you guys really Whatever you guys want to do, I'm I'm paying for it. But I sometimes think that people who are going to push a little bit and not think status quo status quo, like I'm okay with that. We've been pushing a little bit lately. I think it wouldn't hurt for us to push a little bit as
102well. I don't disagree with that, but I think he's a candidate that would I would make a motion that you have to give us an Yeah. Um, do you want me to vote again? I vote for him. If you guys are on board, I'll be on board. I just want to see something. That's all. That's all I'm asking. You should. So, Tim, I know you're watching this meeting next time. To me, it just I know it's just me. It's my personal opinion, you know. All right. Thank you for your vote. That was um the most long drawn out vote we've ever had. Uh next, I would like to motion that we vote for Heather Bman. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I need one more candidate, please. I would That's where I would put David
103Lane there only because he just started. I feel like give him time to actually I feel like we need some change there and one person pushing isn't going to be enough. We need another pusher. is brand new, right? To that board. If you want a full person, of course, okay, sorry. Deborah. Those are my three. Okay. What about you? Debra. Hold on. I got to tell her. Make the motion motion you motion. Sorry. Okay. Thank you. Okay, we're good. Moving on. Vote on the budget now. Turn my page to the budget. Make sure Kelly come up. I need a motion to approve the 2025 2026 tenative administrative budget part one of Board of Cooperative Educational Services in the amount of 4,16382. So we just voting on the administrative budget. The other budget increased by $12
104million. That's a huge only vote on the administrative. I think it's part of regulation. I assume their boards don't I think it's part of the component districts of only it's part of the law. Okay. Am I wrong? No. But okay. So we utilize these services. I I don't think I'm going to vote no. I'm just it's just questioning. We're only I mean we're voting on $300,000 increase but the rest of the budget is 12 million. So that's a huge increase 7.8% % of their well passed down to us, right? So like it it will get passed down to us, right? At some point that's here. Yeah. And so that I guess that's one of the downsides to utilizing so many voice of services is you don't actually have control over costs when it's your own
105contractual employee for example right you negotiate those fall and the contracts have been negotiated locally at the district level when you utilize shared services like that you get state aid back but you also only get state aid back on certain parts of salary not fair salary necessarily and they can continue to raise those salaries. We don't have any control over it except when we go for it. It's kind of like a capital project. You just don't know how to adjust. I would motion that we approve this budget. We're discussing now. I guess you can move if you want. I can draw my motion. I'm trying to say right now. Okay. All in favor? I pass this. I was trying to get to the point vote. Yes. Okay. Sorry. Don't worry. I messed up tonight. I'm
106allowed to. You're okay. Let's see how many. All right, Kelly. I hope you're ready. I'm ready. Clicker finger working. Okay. And a motion to approve the tutorial rate as follows. Effective March 1st, 2025. Tuary rate for one student $35. Try rate for more than one student $30. So, can I ask a question before? Like, do you guys want discuss? Do you have any discussions on these? No. Can we just lock them all together? We can't we can't put um if there's no discussion, I'm go straight to vote. Sounds good. All in favor? I post. This is 4. I need a motion to approve the agreement to release school district and employee effect from July 1 to July to June 30th. Second. All in favor? I passes for I need a motion to approve the agreement
107between William School District and employee effective July 1 to June 30th. So all in favor ultimately we did discuss. Uh I need a motion to approve agreement between school district and employee effective July 125 to June 306. So second favor I both I need a motion to approve the agreement between school district employee effective July 12th to June 30th. So second. All in favor? I vote for I need a motion to approve the agreement between the William Center school district and employee effect July 1 to 2306. All in favor I posted. I need a motion to approve the agreement to school district employee effective July 1 to June 30th. Second. All in favor score zero. I need a motion to approve the agreement between the release of the school district and the employee effective July
1081.5 to June 30th 26. All in favor? Oppos. I need a motion to approve the agreement between school district and employee effective July 1 to June 306. All in favor zero. Penny, any budget transfer information we need to know about? No. All right. Fantastic. Thank you for that update. Upcoming district committee meeting and assessment committee meeting will be May 1st at 3:30. Upcoming district events report cards will be available April 25th. Grades 5 through 8 math testing April 29th and 30th. Grades 3 to 4. ELA testing April 30th and May 1st. Solo Fest May 3rd High School. And the fourth grade spring concert May 6th 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. Closing items. Board of Ed highlights. I have one. I would like to highlight Miss Ellen Saxby who is a recipient of the
109GBSC supervision. [Applause] Excellent. You want to hide under a rock over there. Go to hide under a rock over there. She loves public record. You all are invited to attend. I sent you the link so you can if you are able to attend, please join us in celebrating. There will not be yacks. Welch any other board of ed we don't have public in presence that I'm actually surprised you don't have anyone tonight I expected our candidates from the board of ed to be here this evening I also saw that they would be here okay um anticipated executive session I Move that we enter executive session to discuss the employment history of the personal corporation and matters leading to the appointment employment promotion motion suspension. All in favor. Thank you everyone. Thank you.