001I call the regular board meeting to order. All members of the board are present except exeicio student board members Carconis Maurice and Perva. Miss Blackinger, would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance to the flag? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May I have a motion to recess into executive session to discuss current litigation, collective negotiations, and employment matters related to particular persons? Mr. Bulan, Miss Puland, all in favor? Motion carried unanimously. May I have a motion to return the regular board meeting to public session? Dr. Spicer, Mr. Bulan. All in favor? Motion carried unanimously. I call the regular board meeting to order. All board members are present.
002During the immediately preceding executive session, our board discussed resolutions related to current litigation. May I have a motion on this item? Miss Puland, I move the adoption of the following resolution. Be it resolved that the board of education in accordance with policy 6540 and the New York public officers law and in response to requests from Dr. Garen J. Brown Hall, superintendent of schools. Christine Harding, District Medical Director, and Chris McDuffy, principal of Mill Middle School, received November 26, 2025. We hereby agree to defend and indemnify Dr. Brownh Hall, Christine Harding, and Chris McDuffy in the litigation captioned do at all v. Williamsville Central School District at all. Case number one 125 CV 01196 JLS as presented. So we have a motion by Miss Puland. Is there a second? Mr. Mana. All in favor? Motion carried
003unanimously. Good evening and welcome to all in attendance. Please be advised that in the event of a fire emergency and an evacuation should be necessary, an alarm will sound. Please note all marked emergency exits and evacuate well away from the building. At this time, we request that everyone turn their cell phones and other electronic devices to silent. Thank you. We are on item three. Dr. Brown Hall, I turn it over to you for recognition. Thank you very much, board president. Each fall, our high schools create incredible productions with their plays. This year at Williamsville East, the actors, actresses, crew members, and directors truly show their range by sharing the real life history of Radium Girls. It was absolutely mesmerizing. Please welcome East Principal Jason Swinson, fall play advisor Lisa Lavalo, along with student members of
004the cast and crew from the fall play Radium Girls. Excuse [clears throat] me. Okay. Good evening and thank you very much for allowing us to join you and this evening to celebrate the amazing work of our East Drama Club. I would like to take a moment to introduce some student members of the cast that joined us this evening. Uh hopefully I got everybody. Uh, Lily Scorzonei, uh, Shami Aenula, Kiara Dulp, Ella Hinckland, Claire Bartholomew, and Anitka Polio. How do I do? Can I get everybody? Okay, great. Uh, I'd also like to recognize um, you know, um, Mr. McCcluskey here, Tom McCloskey, who's joined us as well. Recently, the drama club put on a truly amazing performance of Radium Girls. It is a play based on historical events in which female factory workers were exposed to
005radium poisoning while uh painting luminous dials on watches in the early 20th century. The cast of Radium Girls was filled with so many talented students from the performers to the stage crew, stage designers, and the audio video crew many of whom are seniors this year. On behalf of East High School, we'd like to thank the board of education, Dr. Brown Hall and the rest of the district administrative team for all of their supports of the arts in our school. And of course, I'd like to congratulate the cast and crew as well as their adviserss, Mrs. Lavllo and Mrs. Mahaney, on a tremendous performance. So, with that being said, please enjoy our school spotlight of 3D girls. Awesome. [music] Welcome to Williamsville East's drama club production of Radium Girls. Radium Girls is the true historical retelling
006of a group of girls in Orange, New Jersey who were dial painters and they fell ill due to the radium in the paint that they were using and their legal battle to get compensation for the awful sickness that they gained from it. Girls, the dials paint saved lives. Our boys in the field depend on them to read them in the dark, not mistaken what they see. As Mr. Reader, I play a very morally confused character. He digs himself deeper and deeper as the plot goes on because he's the president of the US Radium Corporation and he's just trying to preserve the company that he's worked so hard to lead. Once the judge hears our testimony, he's going to rule for us. All they got to do is take one look at us. Grace Frier worked
007at the US Radium Corporations. She found her inner strength to speak out for the other girls in the factory. Grace Frier has such a historical significance. Even though people may not know her name, what she stood for and what she did for workers in that time period was really significant. Irene Irene Rudolph is one of the first [music] to succumb to her injuries from radium poisoning. I think a good thing to remember about this play is it is based on a true story and the majority of the people in this play are playing real people. Everybody is really like able to rise to the challenge and they work together really well. They're going to close down here and move across the river to New York to open up another factory like nothing ever happened. What
008are we doing here? There are some difficult scenes that we really have to dig deep and fully understand because this story is not properly talked about. We have a responsibility to share this story in a way that is respectful. [music] I didn't know. You didn't know. You invented the paint and you didn't know. HOW CAN YOU LIE LIKE THAT? I can't even express how much accomplishment I feel. I feel like the show was so much hard work. There was a lot that had to be done backstage in the booth with mics working and lights and, you know, run crew and ropes just to put it all together at once in front of a crowd. It was really great and I'm very proud of how it turned out. The end of a production, especially as a
009senior, gives you a chance to step back and realize it's really not about the production. It's about the bonds that you've formed with the people in the cast, these people that you've been working with [music] for 4 years. And it's really nice to take a step back after this show and be like, I helped to build this wonderful community and this will keep going after me. Congratulations. Awesome. Oh. Oh, I got I'm much cooler than you. [clears throat] Are they back on? Okay. Awesome. Next. Tonight, we are recognizing an individual whose hard work, dedication, and perseverance led her to the top of the podium, not once, but twice at the state swim meet in November. Williamsville East Lauren Golden became the first swimmer in program history program history to win a state title claiming the
01050 and 100yard freestyle championships. Not only that, all season long she rewrote record books books across the region. Here is a look at her championship run and impact on the Flames swimming program. [music] has to come down to the touch. I can't make a determination who it'll be. Lauren Golden is your New York State champion. Boy, was that close. And it was just by 1/100th of a second. To be state champion, it it feels incredible. It's what I worked for my whole high school career. It's a goal that a lot of swimmers have, if not all. And to be called a state champion, it's just incredible for me to say that. And our freestyle high school champion, senior from Williamsville East, all of consideration for the 23-21. Congratulations, Lauren. She is the best swimmer we've
011ever had come through the program. I've been coaching on this team for 23 years and I was a part of this team in the 90s. She's the first swimmer I have coached with a state title. She's also the first swimmer that Williams Elise East has produced for girls or boys swimming that is a shea state title. Lauren Golden is going to touch the wall first time of 51.29. She is the New York State champion in the 100yard freestyle. This year I broke the two free, the 50 free and the 100 free school records and the 50 free section 6 record. Beyond that, she is a part of 22 records that were broken this year, school and pool alike, throughout the whole area. That kind [music] of dominance is just something I've never seen or been
012a part of. It's I mean, it's hard to find the words, but it's really cool to know that my name is in the record books. My coaches and my teammates support me immensely, and they're the backbone to my swimming. They make me push myself harder every day and drive me to my goals. She has helped transform this program into a program where fast swimming is expected. And I think that the legacy that she leaves will endure for many, many high school generations to come. The girls that she's swimming with now, the eighth graders, the freshman, even the sophomores, they will talk about having practiced with her and trained with her and swung in leaves with her for years, decades maybe. when they reminisce on their time here at East, my first hope is that they
013talk about the friendships and the relationships they built with each other, but I know they're going to be talking about how they got to swim the floor in Golden as well. [music] Oh, right. Coach Miller said that type of dominance. ABSOLUTELY. That feel Lauren, now you can tell people Google me. [laughter] Well, I love it. It's my pleasure to welcome and congratulate twotime state champion Lauren Golden, East swimming head coach Mr. Chris Miller, and East athletic director Miss Melissa Speda. Please come up. Hello. Thank you so much for having us and for celebrating Lauren. This is you, girl. [laughter] This is your moment. You worked hard for it. Thank you so much for acknowledging all of her achievements. I know um Nick Philpowski, thank you. And um David Morales did a wonderful job in that
014video. And it doesn't even touch on all the records that this girl has broken. We were joking the other day that Coach Miller misspoke. She actually broke 23 records this year. Um but that's just this year. If you look at her whole career at she has broken numerous records across the section like she is an absolute superstar but even more than that is her leadership ability and the fact that she's won multiple sportsmanship awards. So she just embodies what we want in athletics in our district because she's more than just a dominance in the pool but a dominance in the classroom, a leader in the classroom and great sportsmanship all around. So we are so proud of you. swim doesn't always get the acknowledgement being an individual sport that some of our team sports get.
015So, it's great to celebrate her and all of her hard work. So, we're so proud of you. Colorado State's going to be very lucky to have you on their team next year. She's going D1. So, congratulations. And thank you uh to her coaches, Chris Miller, Jess uh Jessica Shine, and Brooke Pettis for all that you did to coach not just Lauren, but their whole team that was really dominant this whole year. People hated going against William. [laughter] We were a force. So, thank you for all that you did as well. Amazing. Congratulations, [laughter] you very much. Picture time. board president. I turn it back over to you. Wonderful. Are there any board acknowledgements this evening, Miss Fletch? Um, I just wanted to congratulate Williamsville Norththeast because it's a combined wrestling team. Had their first um,
016tournament this Saturday against Roy and they placed number one. Oh, great. Congratulations. Thank you for sharing. Any other board acknowledgements, Dr. Spicer? I just wanted to commend the um, PTSA Council's craft show this past weekend. Um, very comically, December 6th and 7th. You're welcome, everyone. Um but uh it is a huge undertaking um by volunteers that coordinate it and volunteered during the two-day event. Um and it was it was absolutely wonderful. So if you haven't been, please please attend one of the years. Um but kudos to them for that. Thank you, Dr. Spicer. Well, I just got to say it was huge. It was huge. We pulled up. My husband said, "What else is going on in these schools?" I'm like, "Nothing. It's the craft show." It is huge. A lot of great stuff, too.
017Any other board acknowledgements? Okay, thank you everyone. We are now on item 4A, public expression. I call on parliamentarian Puland to review our public expression format. Welcome to all who have come to observe the regular board meeting. Per policy 1510, the board allows up to 30 minutes for this first public expression period. This is a time when we invite members of our school community to share [clears throat] ideas, opinions, and concerns with us. While we are here to listen carefully, we take your concerns seriously. Public comment is not designed to be a discussion. Therefore, please do not expect us to respond tonight. Instead, you will receive a response by email after our meeting. Because we want to maintain mutual respect and civility, please ensure that comments are delivered in a respectful manner to the board
018directly. Also, under state and federal privacy laws, we are unable to entertain any comments related to employee personnel information or any topic that may disclose information about a particular student. On these matters, we ask that you go through appropriate administrative channels. Please note that individuals are required to sign up prior to our meeting and each speaker is allotted three minutes for comments. You'll be signaled at two and a half minutes so that you may conclude your remarks. At this time, we'll begin our public comments. After I call on you, please step up to the podium and state your name. Ona Strang over there. I know she's way back. [clears throat] Hello, I'm Ona Strang. I'm finally here. Um, so I am here. Hi, my name's Ona String. I wrote this so I'd read it so
019I don't get nervous. Um, and it's aptly titled Why School Board Members Should Not Be Paid. Hi, my name is Ona Strang and I've been a member of the Williamsville community for over 16 years when we moved here from Ohio in 2009. I've had two children graduate from Williamsville Central Schools and one is currently at North High School in 13th grade aka a super senior in the 121 classroom there. I'm here to talk here tonight to talk about the compensation committee that was voted on. School board service is fundamentally about public trust and civic responsibility, not personal financial gain. Paying board members risk shifting motivation from serving students in the community to seeking compensation. When individuals volunteer, they do so out of a genuine commitment to education, which helps maintain integrity and accountability. I understand
020school budgets are tight. I believe it was said at a board of education meeting in early fall or summer that we needed to be creative with how we budget our money this year as we are waiting on state funding to come out. Every dollar counts. If we spend money on board salaries, that's money we're taking away from classroom teachers and programs that directly benefit students. Our priority should always be putting resources where they matter most and educational opportunities for students. Paying board members could attract people for the wrong reason. Instead of people who truly care about our schools, we might get candidates who see it as a way easy paycheck. Volunteer service ensures that those who step up are doing it because they care. Almost all the public school boards and most public committees work
021without compensation and they do just fine. I've been an active PTA member for 23 years. Exclamation point. Exclamation point. that goes against all writing rules. Yes, I have been volunteering since my daughter was six months old in an early childhood PTA when I lived in Ohio. I have been a scouting leader for over 15 years. I just recently gave the Eagle oath to a new Eagle Scout as a scouting commissioner. And I've had not had a scout in a pack or a troop for over six years. I am currently here speaking and not selling popcorn or pizza at the boys varsity basketball stand because I feel so strongly about this. I came here instead of volunteering my time to help others. I can send my volunteer res to me resume to you if you would
022like because it goes back 40 years to the first time I sold chili and cookies at my high school in seventh grade to raise funds for something that our school needed. I was trained and learned how to teach ENL to high school students when I was 15 years old. If we are paying people to volunteer, then I may believe I am a billionaire. Look around. Countless school boards operate without pay and do just fine. That tradition reinforces the idea that educational governance is a shared civic duty, not a job. It's a tradition that reinforces the idea that educational governance is a shared responsibility and not a paid job. I will say it again. So, here's the bottom line. If you're serving on school board, it should be because you care about students community and in
023our school, not because you care about paychecks. Let's keep the focus where it belongs on students, not salaries of sal volunteer positions. And yes, chatb helped me write this because I do not excel at writing. I excel at volunteering and giving back to the community. Thank you. And that concludes our public expression for this evening. Thank you. And please note that we will be discussing the compensation committee later this evening during the present report that follows our superintendent report. And on that item five, Dr. Brown Hall, I turn it over to you for your superintendent report on items 5 A, 5B, 5 C, and 5D. Thank you very much, board president. We'll start with 5A, which is our community update [clears throat] for December 9th, 2025. I wanted to stress this year we will actually
024be doing videos for our DEI plan, our strategic plan, and the portrait of a graduate. We've established anformational page for portrait of a graduate because we want our school community to know exactly what portrait of a graduate is and the timeline that's associated with it with it. So, the timeline expanded to include additional information shared by the New York State Education Department on our website. We also have the breakdown of what is included in each phase of implementation. So, when you look at the timeline, you'll realize that the students currently in fifth grade once they get to high school, the entire portrait of a graduate will be implemented and new guidelines, requirements will be all at one single uh diploma for graduation. All those things will be implemented by the time our fifth graders reach
025high school. So you can look at the timeline on our website. Again, we'll also be doingformational videos this year. That will be part of the superintendent speaker series so our school community can know exactly what it is. Upcoming presentations. There have been a lot of questions in the district about artificial intelligence and what's allowed in our district, what type of training our teachers are getting in our district. And so, um, I asked our assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, our chief academic officer for the district, Dr. Marie Balon, to have a presentation, um, for the board and our community. And that presentation will be in April. All of the, um, artificial intelligence initiatives in the district do fall under Dr. Balum. So, she and her team will be presenting at the April board of education
026meeting. In addition, I want to make sure we provide our board of education and our stakeholders an update on where we are at with our special education implementation of the findings and recommendations from the Western New York Education Service Council. You remember a couple of years ago, the council came and did a sixmonth indepth study of our district and our special education program. That July, our the executive director of the Western New York Education Service Council came and um shared their findings and their recommendations. So, Assistant Superintendent Scanuzo and his team will be presenting to show our school community how we have implemented the recommendations and what we have on deck for the future. And that presentation will be in May. The Williamsville Wall of Fame nominations can now be submitted for the 2026 Williamsville
027Hall of Fame. Applications are due by April 13th, 2026, which seems like a long way away. It will come very quickly and the induction ceremony will take place on November 13, 2026. So, if you know of someone that you feel should be inducted in the Williamsville um wall of fame, please make sure you review the application and complete it for that person. Speaking of the wall of fame, a good way to get candidates for the wall of fame is to look at some of our alumni, right? So, we have established the alumni association in the district for each of our high schools. The individuals at the high schools who are the alumni liaison are listed here. So, at East High School, Miss Deb Mahaney and Michelle Weber, they share the duty. At North High School
028is Mr. Mark Percy. And at South High School, it's Miss Eleanor Gayy. So, they are the alumni coordinators in those high schools. The coordinator sent a message out to everyone that's interested in learning more about the education foundation and the alumni associations at each of the high schools. You can also still click here for the alumni interest form and you can submit that through the district website. So, if you are an alumni or know someone that's an alumni, please encourage them to actually sign up to be a part of the Williamsville Alumni Association for their specific high school that they graduated from. As Dr. Spicer mentioned, the PTSA craft show was a huge success. 21,000 people I'm sorry 2100 [laughter] parking was bad but myself because I'm looking ahead at the next line because they
029they raised more than $20,000 raised by the PTSA council and much of that money is uh used for scholarships. So that's very very exciting. But 2100 people attended and again as always every year there are great things to see and buy at the PTSA craft show. We thank them for that. And next year, as um executive director Philipowski reminded me, it is the 50th the 50th PTSA craft show. Onboard magazine had a very interesting article that we actually have on the district's website and the internet safety page. The November 10th edition of Onboard Magazine featured the story online predators to blame for suicides and sex trafficking. We want parents and students to be very aware of what is happening on the internet. And this article we found was very informative and important. So we actually
030have it on our district's website underneath the internet safety page. It includes information on resources and reporting of incidents. Just a reminder, this is the last board of education meeting before winter recess. Winter recess will be a total of two full weeks. It'll run from December 22nd until January 2nd. So with the last day of school being next Friday, December 19th, it's a total of 16 days students will be out of school. So be sure to rest up because 2026 will be here before you know it and we have a lot of great exciting things in our schools planned. That is a community update. Any any questions from our board of education members? Awesome. The next item is item 5B. Item 5B is our staffing projections report for the 2026 2027 school year. Our human
031resources department, they take into consideration the enrollment report that was presented by Dr. Steve Gman at the November meeting. They take those enrollment projections and then they align them with our high schools, our middle schools, and our elementary schools to come up with a staffing projection report for the next school year. So looking at those enrollment projection numbers, we look like we will be down three full-time equivalent teachers at our elementary schools, up one full-time equivalent teacher at our middle schools, and down one full-time equivalent teacher at our high schools. And we also due to enrollment fluctuations, um, secondary level student course selections and master scheduling accommodations, it's prudent to include 4.0 O FTE positions for unprojected needs. So this entire report is in board docs under item 5B. So we have a net increase
032of one FTE next year. Um and that report is again in board docs. Any questions about the long I'm sorry about the staffing projections report for 2627 board members. [clears throat] Awesome. If not, I am going to then ask our acting assistant superintendent for finance and management services. I'm going to pass it over to him for our presentation on the long range financial planning report that is pertinent to the 2627 schoolyear budget and the 5D annual claims auditor report. Dr. Chris McInley. Great. Thank you, Dr. Brown, and thank you, board. So uh this presentation here tonight is simply put together as a starting point and a reference tool for us. While this is a brief presentation, a much more detailed written report is available online. That report covers several topics including our audit requirements and
033the methodologies that we used as we prepare for budget planning and to evaluate expenditures. In this annual long range plan, my goal is to highlight the pressures we face each year. The plan is prepared at a specific point in time and estimates um and estimates uh provided are realistic not only in the initial year but for each year throughout the projection. [clears throat] We aim to draw attention to areas of budgetary concern and understand how current budgets influence future budgets through compounding effects. Again, this document is intended as a reference tool to guide our planning as we move forward. When we look at our budget requirements, our board is already familiar with them. But for the community's awareness, it's important to note that on the revenue side, we are legally required to complete the New
034York State tax cap calculation, which ultimately informs the tax levy for the district. We also know that state aid amounts vary each year and they're based upon New York State's approved budgets and formulas. Essentially, the total revenues we have each year dictate the total expenses of our budget. On the budget reporting side, uh these are all required by law. The contingent budget, the budget notice, property tax report card, annual budgeting meeting, mailing of budget materials, the budget vote, and if the uh budget doesn't pass, we have the option of adopting a contingent budget or conducting a second vote. So looking ahead at the budget facts on the revenue side, the tax levy represents about 61.15% of the revenue and state aid is about 28.81% um and sales tax is 5.9%. With all others representing the
035difference, you can see that the tax levy and state aid together comprise almost 90% of our budget revenues. So we have about 90% of our revenues essentially controlled by the state. On the expenditure side, you're also seeing how salary and benefits make up the majority of our budget. Again, the other areas uh that we may sometimes go back uh and take a look at to make reductions in difficult years. They represent about uh they represent a smaller amount of the budget uh about 6.25% for buildings and grounds. Bus transportation is about 5.68% and all others is 12.6. 63%. And it's important to keep in mind that all others includes things uh such as the supplies that we purchase, contract services, and energy costs. Uh from this, you can see how our budget is laid out.
036When it comes to financial pressures in this particular long range plan, state aid increases are estimated at about 2 and a4% or 1.1 million on average during the years of this plan. The tax levy is kept at about 3% staying under the tax cap with an average annual increase of about $4.7 million. [clears throat] With regard to sales tax, at least at this stage, we're seeing very minimal increases. I also put a note here that we are continuing uh gradual reductions of our fund balance of about $9 million over the plan. So, the average revenue increases is about 5.1 million per year across this plan. Looking at the same pressures on the expenditure side for salaries and benefits, an average increase of about 4.5% was used for salaries, which is about 5.5 million per year.
037Benefits are higher at about 3 million per year and busing at 5% is almost 800,000 per year. Our current transportation contract ends in June 2029. So, we'll need to negotiate a new contract starting in the 2930 school year. Uh, we've adjusted that year to reflect this potential increase. Overall, we're looking at an average about $10.2 million in increases per year. What I want to highlight here on this slide is the methodology so everyone understands how these figures are calculated. I won't go through every number. You can review uh the uh this in full in the written plan. On the top half of the table, it shows the differences between revenues and expenditures in the plan. Remember that revenues drive the budget and our revenues are not keeping pace with our expenses. Therefore, reductions are needed
038each year to balance the budget. This table also illustrates the cumulative effect of those reductions over time. You can also see the projected budget change. In the revenue section below, you'll notice how increased state aid, the tax levy, and other revenues together account for a total revenue change of about 4.9 million in the 2627 school year. So, at a very high level, the key takeaway is that our expenses are outpacing our revenues, which means we will need to make adjustments through reductions. Each year is different, though uh with its own requirements, and factors like salary and health insurance costs remain uncertain. So finally, as we reach the summary, it's important to emphasize that increases in state aid remain the most significant factor. They directly influence how much fund balance we may need to use and
039play a critical role in shaping our next year's budget. While some other revenues such as t sales tax will increase, and those gains are expected to be modest. On the cost side, we anticipate significant increases in health insurance for the 2627 budget. Transportation expenses will also continue to rise, especially as we enter a new contract in the final year of this plan. Looking ahead, any expansion of the instructional program will always a goal does create a compounding impact on future budgets. Wage increases will continue to put pressures on our finances, especially during economic downturns as these increases are contractually mandated. Lastly, if we face budget pressures or economic uncertainty, reducing our fund balance will be difficult. We will need to moderate its use to support the budget responsibly and ensure we are making the best
040financial decisions for the district. Thank you very much, Dr. McInley. Any questions, board members, [clears throat] for the long range plan? Thank you very much, Dr. McInley. So, the next item is the annual claims auditor report. And as the board knows, school districts are required by law to utilize a claims auditor. So, this report isn't anything that we haven't already seen when we get our monthly reports. This is just our annual summary. And I'm just happy to report that there's been um there's been no um no issues with compliance. Everything was fine. And it's really just I want to point out and highlight the hard work of the business office that really uh does a phenomenal job at ensuring that we remain in compliance with the law. Awesome. Thank you very much for that. Also,
041I turn it back over to board president. Thank you very much, Dr. Brown. We are now on the president's report. Starting with item 6A, events. On November 19th, we held our conversations with staff event. And I want to thank everyone again, all board members for their participation at our December 3rd board retreat. Item 6B. Would any student board members like to provide a report on activities at their high school? Maurice. Yes, I can start. Starting. Yes. Thank you. Um, to go off of our last meeting, uh, the student council November's be good, do good campaign, Operation Turkey was a great success. They made 12 total Thanksgiving boxes with each box holding around 10 or more items for Thanksgiving dinner. And over 1,000 cans and ingredients were collected. So, the remainder of the proceeds were donated
042to local food pantry. And then for our Polar Plunge, we were able to raise $15,000 schoolwide. And all the money goes to the special Olympics athletes um providing training facilities and we had a lot of students involved obviously how much money we raised. So it was a great success. Um as we also had our uh gingerbread competition with student council for our December uh be good do good spars campaign and that was teams made up of school clubs and friends made houses on the the 5th and all this money that they paid to represent their team also went to towards Polar Plunge just for the Special Olympics. Um, and now they're on display in our library and PE students are able to vote and the winning team gets hotspot bucks. And the hotspot, if you
043don't know, is our studentr run cafe run by our business department. So students completely make everything in there. They make the coffee, the food, uh, they have really good bagels actually. And, uh, it's very popular. So, uh, the winning team will get hotspot bucks. Tomorrow on Thursday, we have our Spectrum concert, which is a holiday themed concert through our whole entire music department. a lot of solos, trios, quartets, and every ensemble is represented. So, if you would like to come out, I believe it's 7 pm tomorrow and Thursday. Um, the Williams North Student Section, also known as the Squall, won 2025 New York State student section champions, according to the International Student Section Report. So, right now, they're in the Nationals process. So, I'm not sure how far we'll go, but uh that just kind
044of showing how much school spirit we have. And our student section this, uh, year was amazing. And uh at the playoffs games, we definitely had a lot of people show up. The North Wellness Advisors this month are hosting December daily acts of kindness challenge to kind of make kindness a daily habit. And today's challenge for December 9th is check in on someone you haven't talked to in a while. Um we are further connecting to younger grades through a North Student volunteer opportunity at High Middle 7th grade pajama party this Friday. And the the pajam is just a lot of games, activities, and kind of hang out with high school students. So, I know a lot of my friends are actually going to volunteer and just connect with some friends and wear pajamas and have fun.
045And this Friday, we have our annual Connect Life Blood drive. And with ECMC being a level one trauma center, blood is always a need. And we're fortunate enough that a lot of students do donate. So, uh during the winter, uh we try to do at least one blood drive. So, please be open to donating. It is all day Friday and I know a lot of people already signed up. So, thank you so much. Thank you so much. That was Jazelle Moraurice from North High School. And is Cel going next? Cil Koharnes from East High School [clears throat] video. So, yeah, I just managed to get um some pictures from I just want to say thanks. Thank you to Mrs. Weber for providing me with all these pictures. spec specifically the ones from um we had
046uh Williams East had its uh senior like day of service uh December 3rd last week. Um oh wait before that these were some pictures from our commons that I remember at the beginning of the school year I talked about how east due the distraction-free school policy because students can go on their phone however our schools implemented like board games, lockout boxes and all sorts of activities for students to do you know so they don't get bored. And then these are some pictures from our uh day of service where students would go read the kids at Maple East. And this is like a graduation requirement for seniors. And as you can see, they're just hanging out, having a fun time. And I believe um some students also went to St. Luke's Mission for Mercy to um
047help serve food. Awesome. And then here, this is our HOSA field trip where HOSA went to Jacob's um Institute of Medicine where they learned about cardiovascular health and they received like information on certain like new techniques and new technology that's being developed in the facilities as you can see. Um there's also some activities that they performed to just get a better idea of the process and the students got a tour of the facility. And then this, like Jazelle mentioned, we also had Stukco hosted its gingerbread decorating clubhouse contest, which students from different clubs would build gingerbread houses. And then as of now, the club houses, they're all outside the main office. Students can come look at them. They all have their names and everything. And you can go online and you can vote for the
048for your favorite clubhouse. And as you can see, these are all the designs. Um, apart from that, uh, this past weekend, Williams East science Olympia team, they went to invitationals at St. Joe's Academy and the results came out and Williams placed first overall. So, congrats to them. Um, as for our winter concerts, uh, our Winterfest concert will be next week, Wednesday, Thursday, I believe, 700 p.m. start time. It also features you know solos um band band orchestra chorus solos duets quartets as students can audition for like in ensembles and then they're spread out throughout like the the pit. So you'll have like performances happening on stage and the [clears throat] tech crew they'll feature like the lights on like a different part of the odd and that's really a fun interactive experience and I'd invite
049everyone to come just experience the show and they're also going to have a sideby-side assembly with Transit Middle School which I believe is on next week Wednesday and then um the ACT is this weekend at Wimise so just good luck to anyone taking it. Um there was a NHS meeting for juniors from the class of 2027 today where they learned about the induction process and what all they need to do. Uh Mr. Meyer runs the whole process. So he just delivered like the wholeformational meeting today. Uh newspaper club will also be um upload publishing their fifth issue uh which will be Winterfest special and they usually do a um Williams torch special and I believe Miss Charleston Smith was the future teacher. It's basically like they write about the um a stu certain staff member
050and they just basically give out like information about where they were like about where they got into teaching and all that. Um I think that's about it. Awesome. Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing all of that. DSP from South. I'm going to start out with our student government which created and distributed appreciation notes for all staff staff members in honors in honor of Thanksgiving. [clears throat] Then we had our connect connect life blood drive which is annually annually hosted and 50 units were collected which will actually go towards helping 150 people. Then we have our SAD club which stands for students against destructive decisions. They're having snow notes where students volunteer during their free periods to help sell snow notes outside of the cafeteria in order to help support and grow sad club. And
051our home rooms are having a door decoration comp competition where the top three will be selected and they'll win donuts. Last year, I believe they won the it was just one home room and they won breakfast and the comp competition is going on right now. Then we have our winter spirit week coming up December 15th. Uh we have pajama day 16th we have oh the white out. And then also on December 16th, we have our winter spectacular concert which is where all the music people come and they participate. I heard the auditorium like fills up like the whole thing like during that concert. Yeah. Then Wednesday we have puffers versus flannels. Thursday holiday character day. Then Friday sweater weather. Um, we also held our athletic signing day. A total of eight students commit uh committed
052to compete at the college level. Here's another picture. You can see the audience in there. It's pretty much all students supporting their friends. I thought that was that was that was wonderful. And then all of our winter sports started and completed their triyouts. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you all. Thanks to all three of you for sharing those reports on all the activities going on at all three of your schools. There seems like there's a lot of similar activities going on at each three school this season. So that's great. Thank you so much for sharing. Are there any questions? Okay, we are [clears throat] on item 6C. On November 25th, there was a student board member selection committee meeting. Miss Puland, can you please provide an update on that? I I can. Um, we just was
053a will of the board that we review the student selection process for this because we just got started with our student board members, but now we have to start thinking about adding new ones for next year. So, um, it's a goes by really quickly. So we we got together with the people who had been on the initial committee for developing the selection process which included um Dr. Singh uh [clears throat] Dr. Spicer and Mrs. Bless Blackinger um as well as the principles and counselors from each of the high schools and we didn't have the same students but we now have experienced student board members who participated in that committee meeting. And so we reviewed first of all just the basic policy of procedures. Um so there we felt that there was no need for any
054changes to what is in board policy. The board policy which states that student petition students will have to complete a petition obtaining signatures of 4% of their class their school um population and two teachers. The principles will conduct an interview with each of the candidates with a team that they select and that a all students will then vote on the final three of the final three candidates for the positions. some of the things that um are really about implementation and how things actually work on the ground in the school buildings and um we had a lot of discussion about that in terms of making sure that we were being very consistent from one school to the next. We did talk about when um campaigning could start and we set we all agreed on that particular
055date that that would not start until all interviews had been conducted and that the students had been identifu finalist students had been identified. Now what what's going to happen in terms of campaigning and what that looks like from building to building there were some definite differences in the past. So we did ask the administrators because those are the people who are responsible for that to get together and to come up with some basic guidelines. Some of the things that we did talk about and agree upon is that there would be no posters in any classrooms. So that would keep classrooms as kind of neutral zones. It would not um give the illusion of a teacher endorsing a particular candidate if no cl posters in classrooms um where they could be in halls and so forth
056and how much campaigning each particular student could do. Those will be worked out between the three principles. They're going to get together. they're going to um come up with a very distinct plan in writing and submit that back to us as a board just for our information because this is an implementation area. Um we did talk about the voting which happens on the same day that we've have the public election last year. Students voted using their cell phones and electronic devices which they no longer have access to. So it was decided that all students would be allowed about five minutes that maybe the first five minutes of their class social studies time. Most all students are taking a social studies class throughout their career. So they will have the opportunity to do that. And a
057voting station is also going to be placed in the career center at each school that will be open from 7 am to 4 pm for anyone who did not have the opportunity to vote through a social studies class. So anything I missed group? I think we're going to have them till 4 o'clock, right? Four o'clock. 7 to four. Got it. All right. I had I also want to commend my group because I had some technological difficulty and couldn't get in. So I had to actually phone it in as they say. So um Dr. Spicer was very nice to let me know when people were nodding appropriately. So happy to narrate. Yes. Wonderful. Thank you so much and thanks to all that participated in the group. It sounds like you had a productive discussion and sounds
058like our process for the most part is working well. So thank you. Any other comments or questions on that before we move on? Okay, we are now on item 6D. As a recap, at our September meeting, our board approved seeking a legal opinion on board members receiving compensation for their service. At our October meeting, we approved a school board compensation committee to further investigate this topic. And then at our November meeting, we determined the committee's composition. Then on December 2nd, the committee interest forum was posted on our district website and a related communication was sent to all families and staff board members. Is there any discussion on this item? Miss Puland, I I would just like to make a suggestion. [clears throat] There's an item in this um commission that talks about getting legal advice.
059Um I would like to really encourage the committee to seek legal advice through the NISBA attorneys that are available um as part of our membership. we have free access to those attorneys that can answer the the generic kinds of questions that we're would be looking at at this point in time um rather than incur expenses by using our district attorneys. Mr. Mana, uh I think it's a great idea. Um, I just want to make sure that, you know, that we still adhere to the timeline we promised the community, which was meeting starting in January and hopefully some kind of, you know, an answer back in February because the co-chairs had planned to have one brief conversation with the attorney who gave us the initial opinion really to to lessen the amount of time that the
060the committee members ers would have to ask questions that we felt if we had some little more fleshed out answers to her legal opinion, we would actually save time and money by answering those questions. So to use NISBA as an addition to the attorney that uh the the committee planned on meeting with who the board authorized to issue that initial uh legal opinion. I mean, I'm all in favor of if if that's your intent. Yeah, I I think it's quite easy for the NISSBA attorneys to give you that information. You know, I think you the NISBO attorneys when I have used them for various questions um are get back to you almost immediately. I I I I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing that, you know, we have a legal
061opinion from our attorney that the board authorized to get and the co-chairs want to discuss with that attorney to flesh out her opinion and to ask questions on that. I don't want to uh uh switch one attorney for a different attorney on this. I want the the co-chairs to have a discussion initially with the attorney who wrote the opinion. I'm more than happy then to open this up and have NISSBA can contact me, their attorneys can the co-chairs uh uh a and we can ask further questions, but I think it's important to go by what the committee charter said uh and to um have this initial conversation again with the attorney that wrote the initial opinion. So, I mean, I are you are you suggesting are you asking that we disregard the attorney that the
062board authorized to write the opinion and do not speak with that attorney and instead speak with only the NISSBA attorney? I'm suggesting that we avoid any extra expenses on on this at this time. As you know, I've spoken from the very beginning that I've not been in favor of this. So, I'm just trying to protect the district resources. Well, I I I I I think and I think that it [clears throat] is fair to say to the NISSBA attorney, we have this opinion from our district attorney. We just need to get this fleshed out a little further. Well, do we know if we can share that opinion, our attorney's opinion with the NISSBA attorney, or is the opinion that was given to us protected by attorney client privilege? The opin the opinion would be protected.
063So, we would really be asking the NISBA attorney to kind of start over from day one, which would which would go back on the board's uh um commitment to the uh committee on adhering to a timeline. And I understand trying to there's to save money by using I listen, I wish we could farm out all of our legal work to the NISBA attorneys. Does anybody on the board recall how much we voted to budget for legal fees for this year? Over $600,000. Okay. Now, I read every legal invoice that we are sent. I go through and page by page how many hours the attorneys are spending on it and what they're doing on behalf of the district. And I wish when I look at them, I'm like, what a waste of money. I wish NISBO
064would come in here with their super attorneys and do all the work for us, but it's just not feasible for this issue and in the timeline that we have. Mr. Man, yes, I'm going to jump in. Sure, please do. Thank you. Save me from myself. Happy happy to jump in right now. Um, so I think it's reasonable to entertain both things in that, um, Miss Puland, I respect the suggestion. Um, I think as long as the NISSBA attorneys can be um can be move at a pace that we need them to move at in response, which sounds like they have in the past, um, it is a resource that we pay into. I don't see anything wrong with reaching out and seeking um, an opinion. Um, thus keeping in mind the bottom line, which is
065what we always do as a board, all of us. Um, so I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as it doesn't exacerbate the timeline. Um, with the respect, you know, Mr. Mana, of what you just said, um, I I don't disagree with that either, but if it's a resource that we pay into, um, I don't see why we can't do that. Can I interject one thing? Go ahead. Sure. [clears throat] I guess I don't feel like we're talking about hours and hours either, right? I I don't, in my opinion, I didn't think it would take I I I I envisioned a 30 minute conversation. That's I just wanted to set right the tone too because I just want to make sure that the public and people don't think we're talking about and
066and you know and and you know I I just want to make sure that you know we're not talking about torpedoing this committee or or hamstringing it uh by waiting for outside attorneys to then really start over from scratch because we are relying upon our attorney's opinion that we need specific legislative intent in order to make this happen at all, if it does happen at all. And now we're going to ask what exactly what we ask. We're asking our attorney about her opinion. I don't see how we could ask any other attorney about our attorney's opinion. And I understand saving money, but there I think there's a difference between trying to save a few dollars and going back in our commitment to the community on keeping a timeline. I I am 100% in favor of
067what I think we should do. I think is the most fiscally irresponsible and responsible to to the to the community is to have the co-chairs have the initial conversation with the attorney who gave us the opinion from which we are relying upon to to go continue with this endeavor and then anything after that I'd be more than happy to not use our attorney because we already fleshed out and answered got uh our answers question uh questions answered by our attorney and then any other further steps use the NISBA attorney. I I don't think it's one or the other. I think it's ours first and then the NISBA attorney. Can I ask a question? Can we I'm sorry, Mr. Bean. Can we not um ask the attorney and can we not agree to wave uh attorney
068client privilege to That's a bad precedent. You're shaking your head at me. Oh, I would not I would not do that. And can I just make before we go too far, I just want to clarify one thing. I believe what Mr. Mana meant when he said that he reviews the legal bills line by line and says what a waste of money. Not that we are wasting money or that our attorneys aren't quality, but some of the things we have to defend against. That's exactly right. The frivolous lawsuits that launch against this this this district and these taxpayers, that's what I shake my head and I go, "Oh my god, I can't believe we have to defend this." Right. Not because we are getting uh substandard legal advice or or or work or they're charging us
069an exorbitant amount. It's exactly what Dr. Brownhouse said. Frivolous and meritless lawsuits and attacks against [clears throat] this district that the district and his taxpayers are forced to defend. Thank you. Well, thank um I just want further clarification. What is the danger of doing that of waving the for the opinion? What's the danger of of waving the client privilege there? When you have attorney client privilege, that's exactly what it is. I don't know. I I don't know that number one, we can wave it because it came from our attorney. Or number two, I don't know that we want to set the president precedent of the board waving attorney client privilege and and and there's a lot of go ahead. There's a lot of things that come to this board and we want to protect attorney
070client privilege. No, I I I just want to if I may Spicer. Thank you. Um whatever it is that we decide here, I just want um us to be mindful, Mr. Mano, of just minding the inflammatory language. I don't think the goal is to I [clears throat] don't think the goal is to ham hamstring. Sure. Handcuff the committee. Um I think the goal is to have the committee. So I would just be mindful that we all have that goal because we voted on that. So let's let's keep the focus on the on the how rather than um worrying about the committee not serving its function. Yeah. And just to the attorney client privilege uh issue. I I just as a board member don't want to have the waving of an attorney client privilege subject to
071board approval. I think that that just opens the door um that we don't want to open. But I guess I'm just still confused on are we are we voting? Is there going to be some kind of vote to to not talk to or not allow the co-chairs to talk to the attorney who gave us the initial opinion and only work with the NISBA attorney and on their schedule? I mean, is there some kind of vote or I would suggest if you want to make a motion, Mr. recommended that you make a motion to utilize the attorney who provided the opinion for no more than whatever the specified amount of time. Well, it's in the charter that we can, you know, we can use the district approved attorney, which is the attorney that gave his initial
072opinion. If you want to set a two-hour time limit, I make a motion to what the committee is allowed to to discuss. uh um matters with the district appointed attorney, which would be the attorney that gave us the initial opinion to no more than two hours total. I can you point out where it says that in the charter? I think there's a motion on the table. There is. I'm sorry. Sure. Is there a second on that motion? Is there Miss Bleureer? Okay. Is there any discussion? My discussion point is where the sure the it's under.3 authority and the sentences addition the b the boecac may request information from the district attorney or designated law firm of applicable laws. Okay. Current district policy and when available other relevant information. So, I I I made a motion
073to have the attorney kept at two hours. Uh, moving forward. Okay. And there was a second by Miss Bleinger. Is there any further discussion? I I I the discussion would be it further that we will absolutely if the two hours is exhausted and in conjunction with what the board is doing contact NISBA and use their vast resources. I look forward to that. I think it's a great idea board member Puland to use them. I never thought of it. I'm [clears throat] glad you brought it up but I I I I've said enough. Yes. And just because you're saying a two-hour limit doesn't mean that we have to do two hours. No. Like right. We're just going to save. I envision 30 minutes, [snorts] right? I just want to make sure. Dr. Singh, I mean, I
074was just wondering why can't we do both? We can reach out to Nisba and we can talk to our attorney, get two opinions. I agree. I I think that's what everyone's in agreement. I think it was just a matter of making sure that the board was in agreement of accessing the attorney for a specified amount of time instead of one or the other. Both. but our attorney first and then NISSBA if needed and and I will I'd be happy to see if their co-chairs will be happy to reach out to them. Okay, so we have a motion, we have a second second. Is there any further discussion? [clears throat and cough] Okay, all in favor of capping any further attorney use on the board compensation committee to two hours. Motion carried unanimously. Okay. Thank you
075for that discussion. Now, is there any other discussion related to the board comp uh compensation committee? Yes, I would like to say uh hold on one sec. I see DSP. Yes. Seeing as the board does want to be compensated, I think something that could help is a public summary of how many hours the board members put in each week or each month and see what that work is and those hours include. I think showing the community like the actual work and the time and the preparation that goes into this role would help build trust and get people a clear understanding of the workload. Thank you for that comment. I do want to clarify that we none of us have voted on um providing compensation to board members at this point. We've only voted to explore
076it through the compensation committee. I just want to make sure that's clear to everyone. It's an important distinct clarification. Yeah, we're not asking for compensation. We're asking a committee to review it. And you know, um, it's just, you know, I compensating school board members is not a new concept. It it's been discussed before. It's been brought by other districts before. Recently, a few districts wanted to bring forward uh brought forth a motion. I believe it failed. NISBA, who's been against this uh for a long time in any form or fashion. Uh some school districts wanted to have a um tax break similar to what volunteer firefighters receive. Um this but turn it down for a lot of reasons. A lot of school board members who live in cities don't own property, don't pay taxes. Uh
077so it wasn't fair, but for a lot of other reasons. And you know, we've heard, you know, NISSBA has said publicly and we've heard uh uh um publicly that, you know, the concern is, you know, um people would run for the wrong reasons or the wrong people will run. You know, people run for a school board for all kinds of reasons. Perhaps it's because they may get compensated. Some may run because they want to impose their particular religious views on the students and want to influence curriculum and what books and clubs students have access to. Some may want to run because they want to impose their political views on the district. When have the district stop teaching anything that that does not adhere to their own political ideology, but I don't decide if someone's running
078for the right reason or the wrong reason. And no public speaker decides who is running for the right reason or wrong reason. And no anonymous flamethrower online decides who is running for the right or wrong reasons. Because you know who decides who sits up here? The voters. And I always trust the voters to use their judgment. I have faith in the voters. They make the right decision. Okay. Other discussion on this topic. Mr. Pascalia. Oh my gosh. Um, I actually agree with what Mr. Mannet was just saying in terms of why people run. Um, for example, originally I ran because [clears throat] I'm dedicated to the students first and families second. And those uh it as an educator myself, that's what matters. Um, we're all here. I believe working on this board, I believe every
079single one of us is here for those reasons. I've never seen it different. Um my worry is I've noticed around the state, particularly in some districts, you know, close to Western New York is is they're actually having writeins become board members. they are having uh to [clears throat] actually choose people [cough] instead of having the number of uh board members running. So Williams has nine. Some districts if they had nine only have five people running. Um not to say this this would help in other districts, but [clears throat] um it's just another way to look at things to get more community involvement. It may not be right. It may not be it may be right in some people's eyes it may be wrong in some people's eyes but to explore it I believe that's the
080reason um to make sure we are having dedicated community members joining school boards or you know going out to be elected to school boards and getting more involvement um you know I'm a teacher I don't have a boat house I don't have a um you know I'm not a doctor making heart surgery I'm not here for the the money. I have three children in this district. Um I teach them about volunteering. I myself have volunteered at St. Luke's. I volunteered at my church. Um but there's there's reasons people look at things and um you know, I wanted that to be clear. It's not looking at this to fund my boat houses or uh anything like that, but I just want that to be known for the public and community. There's there's positives and negatives, but
081this is just a look at, not oh, we're deciding to do this. [clears throat] Mr. Mscalia, other comments or questions? DSP, I think if we're just looking at [clears throat] We're telling the community to look at like if board members should be compensated or not. I think a thing that thing the community can look at is like how are boards that are paid versus not comp or compensated versus not not not compensated like how their performances. Okay. Thank you for that suggestion. Other comments Miss Fletch. I guess I just want to add one more thing that [clears throat] there never once has been a number talked about either. I think that's really important whether it be $100 or $1,000 like nobody a number hasn't been talked about and to Mike's point this is not a
082done deal. [clears throat] This is to explore. So just wanted to share that. And I think I think we're done. Well, [laughter] actually, I have something. I'm so sorry. But um absolutely not. No. Based um on the interest that we've had so far and the number of people that have filled out our interest form, I would like to make a motion. I move to amend the committee charter to increase the number of randomly selected district stakeholders to eight. Is there a second? I'll second that, Dr. Spicer. Eight from the community, three from the PTSA. Correct. So, it would it would currently we have three co-chairs from the board. We have three selected by PTSA council and we had three community members that will obviously need to be randomly selected and I am um proposing that
083we increase that to number to eight. So, I have a first, I have a second. Is there any? Yeah. No question. So I I I So we we're going to announce that shortly. Do you want to talk about the the uh if it were to pass? Um we can talk about that after that. So I'd like you to stick to this motion and then we can talk about the details after that. Yeah. Any other discussion on this? Dr. Sing, that's what I uh [laughter] I came up with. conversation. I I I I'll tell you as one of the co-chairs, you know, I could tell you I'm in favor of this for a lot of reasons. Um ju just to give the public an idea of the interest forms. Um we had twice as many residents
084stakeholders fill out interest forms for the distraction-free school zones as we have for the compensation committee. I think it's about 80 something. Um my fear is that if we only stayed to the original three PTSA and three from the community, you run the risk of if three people can't make it, you start then we don't have a quorum. So um you repeat that. What did you just how many people you said distraction free zone? I think there was 60 there was double the number of people that expressed interest in Oh, in the distraction. Okay. Correct. And I believe there were 15 total committee members on distraction fee or how many? 19. Okay. I I just think that we want to, you know, um and I'll talk about this after the vote, what the co-chairs kind
085of have as a mini game plan when we talk about maybe expanding the the the committee, but I think it's important. there's been interest, you know, um it'll be randomly selected and we don't want to have three people not be able to come to a meeting and then we don't have a quorum and then kind of, you know, everybody's time that they committed to uh is has kind of been wasted for that night. [clears throat] Any other comments on that before we vote on this? I I like the number uh board president. At least it's not 67. [laughter] It's still an odd number then. 83, right? Just trying to lighten up the mood here. Jeez, [laughter] that's so Maybe that was why Maybe that was why like I decided on a [laughter] I just had
086to do it. All right. I'm sorry, Mr. Biscal. Yeah. [laughter] All right. All in favor of the motion to increase the number of randomly selected district stakeholders on this committee to eight. Motion carried unanimously. So I believe back to what you had brought up earlier Mr. Mana then um if it's the will of the board we can extend the entrance for interest form submission deadline to December 17th so that that would be a week from tomorrow we can send out another communication to the community ideally tomorrow um letting them know that the number has been increased so that if that pro um promotes any further interest in community members they'll still have time to fill out that form then I believe we would hope to a draw on December 18th and then notify those selected
087by December 19th. Does that seem agreeable? Yeah, I think Dr. Spicer was anxious to discuss the Google random randomizing numbers. Yes. So um you know so that you know transparency builds a high trust environment. So in the uh interest of that high trust environment um you know we would like to make sure that it's very clear how folks are chosen for committees. I know there's always every committee there's always a narrative of how folks are chosen. So um we talked with our director Nick Philippowski here about um best way to do it. So um using a um I'm going to call it a random number generator. Um he said something more technical um but folks would be assigned all folks who filled out the interest form would be assigned a random number. We would use
088a Google random number generator um to choose the committee members. Um, so that's that would be the process and we would do that um as a with the board president as and as committee chairs um and Mr. Filipowski. So film it or something. Thank you so much for that clarification that helps. Okay. So um I'm sorry board president I forgot something. Um we that meeting we would record that meeting to make it available for the public. I forgot to add that piece. Perfect. Thank you. So is um is everyone in agreement? We don't need to take a form for formal vote on this is everyone agreement to extending the deadline. I see everyone saying yes. So we will move forward with that and getting a communication about that out to the community as soon as
089possible. Hopefully tomorrow. We are moving on [laughter] to 6E ECASB 6F NISBA and 6G liaison assignments. They're all in board docs. Are there any comments related to any of those items? Correspondence was received regarding bus stop location, transportation concerns, and potential board member compensation. [clears throat] We are now on consent agenda. May I have a motion to approve the agenda items eight minutes, nine personnel, 10 business and finance, 11 district facilities and support services and 12 exceptional education special needs and student activities as presented. Miss Bleinger, Dr. Singh, any discussion? All in favor? Motion [clears throat] carried unanimously. There are no matters to discuss under 13 instruction and 14 legislative matters. 15A. May I have a motion for the second review of policy updates? 3271 Solicitation of charitable donations. Operation of Motordriven Vehicles on District
090Property. 6430 employee political activities. 7513 medication and personal care items 7557 which is a number changed from 750 7540 on suicide and 7670 due process selection and appointment of impartial hearing officers as presented Dr. Spicer Mr. Mana. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Motion carried unanimously. May I have a motion to adopt these policy updates? Mr. Mana, Miss Puland. Any discussion? All in favor. Motion carried unanimously. Item 14B. May I have a motion for the first reading of policy updates 5413 procurement uniform grant guidance for federal awards 5681 school safety plans and 7522 concussion management as presented. Miss Bucker, Miss Fletch, any discussion? All in favor? Motioned carried unanimously. And may I have a motion to postpone those same policies for a second reading and adoption at our January meeting? Mr. Bulan, Dr. Spicer.
091All in favor? Motion carried unanimously. Item 16. Does anyone have a topic to discuss under committee of the whole? Mr. Bulan. Yes. I just wanted to wish those who celebrate a happy Hanukkah that starts uh this weekend. Wonderful. Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate. We are now on any other committee of the whole. Okay. We are now on item 17A, our second public expression. If anyone in the audience would like to speak at this time, please step up to the podium. She is she Oh, okay. [laughter] Someone's coming up. They can't You speak twice. Um, just as a second public expression, if anyone in the audience wishes to do so, the same policies from the first public expression apply to the second expression with the exception to the overall time limit. If you spoke
092at the first public expression, the topic for the second public expression must be unrelated to your first topic. Please state your name and topic. Hello, Ona Strang. PTSA. [laughter] Yeah. Okay. Okay. Hi. Um, so I just wanted to say um, thank you for all the um, work that the district did um, for the PTSA Council um, craft show um, for just having us on the podcast and all that. Um, I'm the treasurer so I get the exciting do of doing all the treasury for it and um, it is just such a great resource and um, I did want to say that I'm super excited for Radium Girls to be here because it's all about um, seeing what's happening. So, it's like super amazing that the cast is here for such a great discussion tonight. Um,
093and so I just wanted to say obviously thank you for having public discussion because I know that's kind of a crazy thing. The second one wasn't here for a while. Um, so just really just thank you for letting the public um, come to meetings and speak and um, being available to the public. Um, and again just for all the help that you guys give the PTSAs here in the district. So, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to speak? You may spe you may step up to [laughter] the podium at this time. All right. I don't see anyone else approaching the podium. So this concludes our regular board meeting. We hope everyone enjoys the winter recess and has a joyous holiday season and a very
094happy new year. The [clears throat] next scheduled regular board meeting is January 13th. Is there a motion to adjourn the regular board meeting? Miss Puland, Mr. Bulan, all in favor. Motion carried unanimous unanimously. I need to go to bed. Good night, [laughter] everyone.