001Good evening. Welcome to the Wilson Central School District Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. My name is Tim Carter Superintendent of Schools. And as the uh I usually mention at the beginning, if you're here in person, you have an opportunity at the end of the meeting for public comment. Uh this this uh board meeting and all our board meetings are available live on the district website. Also, tape. If you are at home, you have the ability to uh call in to the district office. It's 716751-9399 and Mrs. Dean will get your message to the board or you can email her or myself and all those messages go to the board. Also, at this time, I'll turn the meeting over to President Charlie. Thank you, Superintendent Carter. The state of joy to the
002flag 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. >> It be approved meeting minutes dated September 9th, 2025. I have a motion. So move >> a second. >> Certainly. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? I oppose. >> Motion car. We've got two special presentations tonight. >> Good evening everybody. Um I've had the pleasure of working with the Wendo um team that is on the screen. Um we've been doing a study of the U electrification of our bus routes and um the infrastructure needed um if we do go down that road eventually having electric buses here at Wilson. So um this study was available to us free of charge through NERA. So it's something we've been working on
003for several months together and they are going to be presenting to the board um the presentation of the final report. So, um, I will turn it over to my main contact, which was Katie Echo from Wendell. Katie, take it away. >> All right. Thank you very much, Carolyn. I am going to just share my screen and make sure that everyone can see it. Okay. Does everyone see the first slide of the presentation? >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay, great. All right. Um I will hand it off then to John to get started and we will do some introduction after this here. >> Good evening everybody. Uh what we'd like to do is just go through a few things on the agenda. Uh first introduction of the white team, the New York State zero emission vehicle
004mandate, what it is, what it says. Uh then I'll hand it back off to Katie and she'll go through the scope of work. Uh what the bus routes are and the results of our analysis of what bus routes are, what the battery electric vehicles could do, uh what the utility requirements are and then we looked at what how would could be phased to do to meet the 2027 through 2035 time frame and what those costs might be to the district. So my name is John Pendella. I'm the principal in charge u for this project. I'm an owner recommend. I'm also the director of alternative fuels and I'm responsible for anything that's on gasoline diesel. So propane, compressed natural gas, battery, electric, hydrogen fuel vehicles are all my area of expertise within U. And my role
005is to make sure that one team had what they needed to provide a good job for the school district. >> Katie, Katie Ecko. Hello. Nice to meet you all. Um, I was the project manager and this project I'll hand it off to Scott. >> Hi, my name is Scott Ryder. I was the energy engineer for this project and I performed the analysis calculations. Thank you. >> And nice to meet you. I'm Cono another engineer working on the project. So I also assist you with some reports, calculations and clients. Nice to meet you. Thank you. >> So just very briefly about Wend uh Wendles is an 85 year old company. It was started in Lockport, New York. We are now 300 employees with 16 offices across the country. Furthest west being Phoenix, Arizona. As you can
006tell, we're an architect, engineering, and energy efficiency company. We also are construction management company. And we've been doing alternative fuels uh for quite a long time since the mid 90s. We've been doing battery electric vehicles and battery electric buses since 2010. So we've got a lot of experience in this area. You see the blow up of the New York State map. Those are our New York offices. We're very New York. Our headquarters is in Williamsville, New York. We have an office in downtown Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and we're also in Long Island. So, the zero emissions bus mandate uh by was passed in the New York State budget several years ago. By 2027, all new school bus purchases need to be zero emissions. Uh and by 2035, all school buses on the road need to
007be zero emissions. And zero emissions means no tailpipe emissions whatsoever. Only two vehicle types today meet that requirement that is battery electric and hydrogen do so. Uh hydrogen fuel cells are not available commercially yet in the school bus market. so that only these school districts with battery electric buses keep the standard. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and Merta was tasked to provide technical assistances to school districts to help determine what this means for them. Uh it is under aert program that we were hired to the school district and develop road map uh to meet those books. And with that, Katie, give it back to you for the scope of work. >> Thank you. And as Caroline said, we were awarded a clean green schools initiative program to be able to do
008this. So, this um entire study was funded 100% by NARA and it has been quite a long process. I want to thank Carolyn again for um all of your help and you know sitting through the meetings providing information. It's been extremely helpful and our transition plan really consisted of these tasks that you see here which we'll be going through in more detail our slides but basically there were a lot of status meetings throughout extremely important in terms of getting information about your routes and your district in particular followed by a route analysis and charging strategy to see what would be needed for riding those routes through buses and what chargers would be needed bringing the utility in creating concept plans and phasing plans for the charging infrastructure and upgrades necessary and what would it all
009cost followed by a final report. So our first couple of tasks with a prop analysis and charging strategy. Again, we use um current route data, so start and end times, mileage is to determine what energy requirements were for every single route. Based off those energy requirements, what is the minimum battery size that would be required to perform that route? Then is that electric bus size on the market? In other words, is it actually feasible for a route to be done by that electric bus? Um, we also look at what the charging requirement would be based off of how long they have to charge between routes. Um, and then how long they would need requiring uh for charging based off of what charger sizes are available and then looking at total energy impact. So what is
010going to be the load of charging all of these vehicles? So before we get into results from the route analysis, I want to go over some assumptions that we made. uh we are extremely conservative in our assumptions because it doesn't really matter what kind of mileage you're getting on a fast case day or an average day. What we really cared about in this study is that worst case day. So that worst day in the middle of January when we see the assumptions of a full bus. So all students are on there's extreme cold. So you can see in the bottom left of this chart really between -20 and 20 is when your anticipated driving range or the mileage that these battery electric buses can go is really seeing it its worst um it's bottoming out
011at this point in other words. So we did use this temperature range to show our results and energy requirements. We also included heat being on that entire time. some of heat usage as well as preheating the bus for 15 minutes before the bus even goes out on its routes for the kids. We also assumed that the bus had seen some degradation. So just like your phone battery, it might not hold its battery quite as well a couple years after having your phone. Same goes with the battery on these battery electric buses. So we did assume a 10% degradation. We also assume that the bus battery will never go below 10%. So that's always in reserve and then that the battery will not be charged over 90% which is a best case practice for extending the
012life of the battery and for the health battery. So you can see in the top left image here um we really have a usable battery that we use for your rout of about 72% of the battery. And we also use a 11% safety factor for efficiency which is based off of real world data that has collected in the transit industry based off of what manufacturers may say that these vehicles can travel for what we are seeing in the real world which is affected by things like terrain um topography traffic driver um training you know are they driving these as perfectly as they should So with all of those assumptions in mind, we then performed our route analysis and came up with the following results. Uh we looked at 21 existing route buses and we found
013that of those 21, 76 of them can be completed with current technology as it is today. You can see our district um our proposed bus sizes based on district manufacturers. Um, this is really district contractor preferred manufacturers which are currently Bluebird and Collins. Unfortunately, Collins does not have a battery electric bus large enough to be able to perform these. So, we did have to bring in IC as a second manufacturer which had to complete these routes. We also have five buses here that you can see say no current replacement. We'll be going over those five buses and their routes a little bit more detail on the next slide, but they are on here. You can see there's no current replacement. And then we have our different charger sizes that are being proposed. And these sizes
014are really minimum size required based off of worst case worst case assumptions. And what is really the limiting factor of the charger size is going to be how much time the buses have to charge during the midday period because that's really the shortest amount of time when they need to come in charge quickly and can go back out onto their routes. So there's a couple of different charger sizes you see here. Um we recommend during design you look at limiting the unique number of both bus manufacturers and charger sizes. So maybe you go with one model of the buses and one charger size to limit the numbers help operationally. But for the scope of this study again we're looking at what are the minimum charger size that are required. So this comes to a total
015of 26 buses and 26 charging positions. Um you'll notice that the spare bus charger does have an asterct next to it. For the spares, we do typically recommend that you have the char largest charger size available, which is the 120, and that those be used as a 2:1, where two buses may be charging at once, and they would be receiving 60 kow each. But if one bus is only plugged in, then you can be using that full 120 kow, which will charge the bus twice as fast as a 60 kowatt or five times as fast as a 24 kowatt. So those will be available for your spares for visiting buses for athletics or if anything happens where you need to charge buses extremely quickly. So looking at those five bus routes that cannot be performed.
016Um we have a list of them here. They are all the type A smaller buses about 21 to 28 passenger. The route distance associated with them ranges between 50 miles to 65 miles. All of these routes that these buses are associated with actually can be performed on an average day or a best case day. But again for this study, we're really concerned about that worst case. So the big flag here for the report and told the state is that these cannot be currently replaced by battery electric buses. that minimum bus size and that middle column does not currently exist for typea battery electric buses. We do believe that it will become they all will become available within the coming years and within that mandate period. So we do have a note that it is anticipated
017to become available which basically means flag it because it is not possible right now but let's carry these five buses and their chargers required and the load required for the rest of our task. So we can still be conservative in our next couple of tasks where we're looking at what the chargers will be fit, what are going to be the cost and what will be your new load. So those are still brought through the rest of the report. And then what we did was we took all of the proposed bus sizes and charger sizes and we plugged them into an hour by hour model which mimicked what the buses would look like in January with historic temperature data for the region um of Western New York and used the efficiency that buses would see in
018those January temperatures which again is the worst case and modeled what it would look like in terms of the buses is coming back and charging. So, you can see there's a peak of that load or total demand in the middle of the day when the buses are coming back from their routes and all plugging in. You're seeing two different uh options here. We're seeing without demand reduction, which would be the blue line, which would be all of your buses coming back and charging to as much as they can in the time period they have and then going back out on their routes. With demand reduction, it's just an option where if you have charge management installed with your chargers, you can implement demand reduction where you're only telling the buses to charge to what they
019need to be to complete their second route. So maybe they only need to be charged to 70% or 50%. Charging it to what it needs to be. So these are just some options that you might see in terms of your absolute worst case scenario low demand. And then with this load, we were able to determine again that worst case peak demand that um Wilson would see at their parking lot. with all of these buses, including those five that could not be completed yet charging. We then submitted these to grant and asked them for an assessment on their side to determine if they would be able to provide all of this load. Um they did say that it passed that both the feeder and the substation would be anticipated, which is great news. So there are
020not any large um utility side upgrades that are foreseen. They did state that a transformer would be required, but we always recommend a new service or a new service transformer to be installed anyways to support the charging as it will need to be a, as you can see on the district side, a 480 volt 3-phase service. Um, a 750 KBA transformer that would be owned by the utility. They would install that and then past that transformer is going to be everything that's owned by the district at that point, which would be a new 3000 amp switchboard lineup to feed some charging equipment andor switchboard. Okay, so moving on to kind of what does this look like to implement. Um, so the first slide we have here is the nice bed charging vouchers that are currently
021available. Um, so Wilson would be a priority district and so you would receive a voucher amount of 35,000 for every charger. However, since you have completed your fleet electrification plan, which is this. So you're all done with this. Um, you'll now receive 65,000 for every single charging voucher that you have instead. you would be limited to $2 million in these vouchers, which is equivalent to about 31, which would be perfect for your district because that would be more than the amount of chargers that you would need. So looking at what that look like for phase one. Um so phase one includes that new utility surface on the utility side. So that new transformer on the district side it would require that new switchboard and um feeding switch the main switchboard and the switchboards that would
022be fed from that to the power distribution equipment the power feeds and then fire protection upgrades which we'll touch on in the next slide here. Um, it includes nine chargers and the total phase one cost would be about $1.8 million for all of phase one. And that would cover your buses, chargers for buses of about nine buses. In terms of the fire protection, um, you can see kind of a layout of where the new parking lot is proposed to be located. We did the concept plan and the fire protection based off of this new layout. Um, with the outdoor bus storage, we are proposing a new 6-in water service to be installed off of the existing water utility and the existing hydrant as well as two new hydrants that are being proposed as well. Phase
023two, we also have our distribution equipment, which is just going to be two more switchboards that will be fed off of the existing main switchboard power fees. And we have 10 additional chargers being installed this phase for a total of 1.9 million for phase 2. And phase three is one more switchboard which will feed five additional chargers and their power feeds for a total of 1.2 million. So looking at what all of this means. Um so here are the estimated costs of your phases fire protection broken out in phase one of that point 2 and your total estimated infrastructure cost of 4.9. That 4.9 million includes labor, equipment, any type of installation costs, any site work for pavement repairs, trenching, um your soft costs such as your design fees, AM fees, contingencies, construction fees, and
024most of all escalation. We have escalation starting next year all the way through 2035 for every single year. So, a lot of that amount is going to be Not included in that cost is going to be the cost of the um buses. So the buses would be a separate cost, but those are currently contracted out. And then you can see I have an estimated charger incentive. So with that 65,000 for every charger that you would purchase, you would get 1.69 million in vouchers. So total estimated conversion cost would be 3.21 million. Moving on to schedule. So how to start implementing this? Um you can see that we have utility design or service starting at the same time as site design. So that phase one design and seed review. Um it would start with a work
025request to national grid who would do their own official design and jump start their process to get you that new transformer. And then at the same time you would be doing your phase one design which would go to SCB review followed by an award followed by ordering of material which you can see is the longest lead time item here. Um we have been seeing swish gear delivery backlogs of upward of 20 months for a past couple of years now nationwide. Unfortunately it has gone down to about 15 months in the past couple of months luckily. However, um with all of the schools needing to perform this transition and needing these electrical upgrades, we do not anticipate that that is going to get any better and of course that might even get worse once these districts
026start ordering all of this material. So that is definitely a constraint for the district, not only Wilson, but every district that is in New York State followed by construction. So we're looking at about 3 years for a total from start to the end of phase one construction. So looking at constraints, we've kind of talked on most of these throughout. Um but obviously these were kind of the red flags or constraints found during the report. Um the first is the routes for five of the buses not being able to be completed by a battery electric bus today. Though we do believe they'll become available, it is a constraint at this time to meet those 2027 deadline fees. Um though the utility has not seen foreseen any upgrades required, we really don't know what the utility is
027going to charge the district in terms of putting that transformer in. Um so really until that work request is submitted to National Grid and they begin their process and they install everything it is an unknown. Um so it is a constraint. Again that schedule is a pretty big constraint. 15 months for a switch gear though it's not unique to your region. It is nationwide. Uh it is huge constraint to that schedule. Clarifications on mandates coming out. So this mandate is though it has strict deadlines of 2027, 2035 and those new waiverss that have come out um it is pretty broad in general and so we do foresee more clarifications coming out that may change recommendations of this study. So, it is important to keep up to date on what that mandate is and what is
028required. And as uh um present advisor of Wilson, Wendell is looking to assist you with that, reaching out to Carolyn and keeping her up to date on everything going on with this and with the state. And then specific timelines for um vouchers and incentives. There's a lot of moving parts when it comes to the incentives and vouchers. Um, typically in order to purchase a charger voucher or receive a charger voucher, a bus voucher first needs to be um, submitted and accepted or by Naerta. So, you'll need that. However, in Wilson's case, you aren't going to be purchasing your buses. You're going to be having your contractor purchase your buses, but you'll be needing to possibly purchase chargers. Um, I have checked on this specifically for Wilson with Kaizerta and you would be able to receive
029a waiver of some type where you would be able to purchase a charger and get a charger voucher as long as you can show that your contractor is looking to purchase buses. So, a lot of information there, but it's a constraint because there are so many moving pieces to that for Wilson as you are in unique situation. And then next steps. So here are some possible next steps for you. Um first is going to be a pilot or what we like to call phase.1 which is really rather than jump starting um your phase one design and starting utility upgrades and getting a transformer. What you would do would look would be to look at what your existing capacity is and determine how many chargers can we install on our site with what is there currently
030without needing a new transformer, without needing new switch gear, you know, just basic chargers just to get us started. Make us show the state that we are trying to meet these deadlines. get training for your drivers on how to use them and kind of just test them out in general. Uh we call it a phase 0.1 rather than a pilot sometimes because they won't become obsolete. Those will be the same chargers as the ones that you would receive in your phase one. So it's really just dipping your toe in. Um, so Wendel will be providing a proposal to Wilson, which basically just shows what it would cost and timeline look like to do that pilot and create that design. And then next, if you wanted to jump right into phase one design, um, total time
031frame based off of that schedule that we had from starting that to construction ending is about 32 months. And then that work request to national grid again would be done in parallel with that phase one design and time frame could take between six and 18 months though because they don't foresee any upgrades. you are probably looking more so at that six month kind and I know that was a lot of information um questions and discussion I guess >> I do have one question on the transformer that's going to be either provided by national grid or that we purchase is is that a groundmounted transformer former or is that something that's mounted in their substation or where is that located in return in comparison to our parking area? Yep. That would be owned and installed by
032National Brid. You would likely receive a bill for it for the installation, but it would be on district property. So, it would be located on your property in that parking lot area right next to your main switch port. >> Is that a grounded transform? >> Groundhog. Okay. Thank you. >> Anybody else have questions? I don't think I have any other questions right now. So, thank you so much for coming to our board meeting and presenting the work that we did together. And, um, I look forward to working with you later. >> Absolutely. If any questions do come up, um, Caroline, you have my email. Feel free to send them over as they come along. >> I will. >> All right. Thank you all very much. >> Thank you everybody. board members keep in mind kind
033of that construction is considered construction project that happen but part of doing this study one if we end up going that way back there's no cost to the study and also it extends the time period a little bit so it does help us you know quite a bit And since our first uh presentation um kind of went longer than anticipated, the second second one really had to do with just a update uh as it related to our conversation that was brought to us by one of our community members about [Music] the stadium and other areas. I did meet with Mr. Moore and the company that he was suggesting um and talked quite a bit about it. There's still some more research we need to do. I think we can hold off that presentation till the
034next board. >> Mr. Carter, I have a question on the uh electrification project. Is that aidable? Would that go under a capital project or would that be separate? It would it would fall under the capital project of construction. So, it would be Thank you. I mean the portion there's still there's still a district portion would have either way go to open the Item three, consent agenda for financial operations. 3A is result of the Wilson Central School District Board of Education approve the following. Item B is financial consent agenda as submitted by the administration. Can I have a motion? >> A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Item four, personnel resignations. Accept the resignation of Barbara Darwat, the micro computer coordinator, effective October 3rd, 2025. Can I have
035a motion? >> So move. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> I opposed. >> Motion carried. Uh Mr. Harson. introduce. >> Good evening, board. Uh, it's my pleasure to introduce Noah Brown. Noah came from the came to the facility department about four years ago asking to be a student worker. At the time, I did not have an open spot for him. But Noah was so willing to show he wanted to become part of facilities, he started to volunteer every Friday for a couple hours. Uh, he did this for months before there was an opening for a student work. I originally hired him as a student worker. Now he's been a substitute labor for us working steady for over a year. He's always worked hard. He takes pride in everything he
036does. I always receive compliments on the areas that he's working in and still get compliments to this day. He's an unbelievable He has unbelievable work ethic and his personality is humble and caring which fits facilities department. He came into the interview did a fantastic job. He he is a he has matured into a fine young man and I'm so proud of him and his accomplishments. It is truly a proud moment for me to be able to recommend Noah for a labor position to the board tonight and I promise you that Noah will have a great Thank you, Mr. 5A. Personnel appointments. Noah Brown is full-time labor effective September 24th, 2025. Job group seven, step one with benefits first CSEA agreement. No met New York State fingerprint clearance. Can I have a motion? So move. >>
037A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Welcome [Applause] Welcome. Thank you. Personal consent agenda item 6A, approve personal consent agenda items D through F for the September 23rd, 2025 agenda. Do I have a motion? >> A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? Opposion. Item seven, personnel administrative leave. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of Superintendent Carter, the board of education of the Wilson Central School District hereby approves a continuation of administrative leave with pay for employee number 70. And I have a motion. >> So move. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? I >> oppose. Motion carried. >> Item AA approve Wilson Centric School District goals for 2025 2026. Can I have a motion? >> Second. >> Any
038questions? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Item B, approve the memorandum understanding between the Wilsa Central School District and the Wilsa Teachers Association regarding the hiring of middle school special education long-term substitute position covering the period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Can I have a motion? >> So move a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carry. Item C approved the memorandum of understanding between the Wilson Central School District and the Wilson Teachers Association regarding the hiring of an elementary special ed long-term substitute position covering the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Can I have a motion? >> So move. >> A second. Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Item D award the purchase of electricity to the lowest
039responsible bidder energy co-op of America at the index battery rate of per kilowatt hours used from November 1st 2025 to October 31st 2026. Can I have a motion? So move >> a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? I >> I oppose. Motion carried. >> Item B, student teacher, William Culo from Sunni, Portland will be student teaching in the high school with William Adams, physical education teacher from March 23rd, 2026 through May 13, 2026. Approval is pending New York State Fle. Can I have a motion? So move a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carried. Nothing under policies. Under conference requests 10A, approve conference requests for the September 23rd, 2025 agenda, items B through G. Can I have a motion? So move a second.
040>> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carried. Under fundraiser request 11A. Improve the senior class fundraiser from September 26th through 27th, 2025 to sell light up classes at the football game and homecoming dance to improve to encourage school spirit. All proceeds will be used to fund senior class activities. Can I have a motion? >> A second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? Oppos? Motion carry. Under uh use of facilities request, Sand Club requests use of the high school library media center on October 2nd, 2025 and November 13, 2025 from 300 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for 5 hour pre-licicensing uh course. Can I have a motion? >> So move >> a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? I >> oppose. Motion carried. Item 13, nothing from
041Vice President Stewart or nose. No uh student report. And we have a superintendent report. Thank you board members. I just said just one quick thing besides saying welcome. Thank you for uh joining us this evening. Um this is uh homecoming week. It is spirit week and it's been awesome to see the kids um not only participating in it but uh you know the excitement is in the area as they said as they say leading up until Friday's homecoming football game uh pep rally all sorts of events at the elementary school and middle school and high school throughout this week. And of course on Saturday evening is the homecoming dance along with um there's also a wall of fame um reception and dinner um presentation. So this is a pretty busy week uh in Wilson pretty
042big weekend school. So I just wanted to mention those few things especially since Maddie is not here but she's actually on the jerk field for the junior senior flag football. Um, so, uh, I figured home questions for us playing the home game. >> Silver green. Thank you. All right. Appreciate that. Okay. Looks like we have a good size uh group today. Sounds like we're going to probably get few people addressing the board. So, at this time, um what I'd like to do is read, um basically um the rules for addressing the board. Um please be respectful. Um this portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for residents of the Wilson Central School District to be heard. Any person who wishes to address the board is invited to do so at this time. Please state your
043name and address. Complaints or criticisms about individual school personnel are not appropriate in this forum and not be allowed. The board may not respond to questions. They should be referred to the superintendent schools at another time. Please be respectful and limit your comments for 3 minutes. Um it just no personal attacks on people. That's all we're basically asking. And please don't use individual names. uh we're really restricted by law to read respond to any comments. So, we're going to be listening. If there's concern regardless of what side you're coming from bringing up issues, uh we are going to um be responding. Don't take that as indifference to your comment. Uh we're we we're welcoming everyone to make a public statement and get your thoughts out there. Um so whomever would like to come forward first,
044please state your name, your address, and again please be respectful. My name is Frank. live in Randle Road in Ranchville, New York. The reason I'm here tonight is that I I was appalled by some rhetoric I read on social media that was written by a teacher in the school district who I shall not name. When I read the article, I was stunned was hateful, evil, and hostile. This is the rhetoric. The rhetoric reads, and I quote, "Honestly, the amount of hypothetical posts and outpouring of love for Kirk are affable. The majority of these people are hardcore racists, hate poor people, and care even less about education. They collect their government checks one way or another and turn a blind eye to school shootings. America is wild. Today's restaurant's missiles into prolonged unquote. I would like
045to voice my opinion about this article. In her first statement about Kirk, she states is laughable. The sashing of Kirk on TV is laughable. A three-year-old asking her daddy when he's coming home, then telling him he's not coming home. That's laughable. This person shows no empathy and is offense. People all over the world are Charlie Kirk, but yet she speaks hate and evil. Evil can deceive and manipulate her students, leading them to make decisions that are harmful to themselves and to others. It can also cause a student to act impulsively and fearfully leading to reactive aggression. One of the main reasons of radicalization is social media. She then states that the majority of these people are hardcore racists, hate poor people, and care less about education. You have any data on this or you're just
046making this up? Do you hating poor people? over here of town towers of T2T towers have um placed over 10,000 homeless sets into homes. So that's we should learn something from this. This organization has helped like I said over 10,000 homeless stats. I served on the board of education for approx for 9 years, two years and close to seven years because I care about education and everyone here at this board of education you do it on your own time. You don't get paid. We all care about education even our administrators. I applaud administration of the board I think very highly of Thank you. She also talked about all these she also talked about getting paid. The US spends more money on education than any other country in the world. She's speaking out of feelings versus
047data. She continues to say they collect their government checks one way or another and turn a blind eye to school shootings. I'm 73 years old and I paid into social security my whole life. I think I'm invited. I'm entitled to my checks. Okay. I also served in the military for 40 years. I think I'm entitled to a military pension. What about your pay? Um and correct me if I'm wrong, Caroline. That pay comes from the federal government, from the state and local tax. So indirectly, you're getting paid by the federal government. As school shootings, we now have been as if I remember correctly, we still do lockdown drills. And finally, she states Russia launches missiles into Poland. Missiles Russia is launching missiles into Ukraine, not Poland. Russia is launching drones into Poland. This coming from
048a history teacher. These remarks are these remarks overgeneralize people and are inflammatory. Inflammatory is a statement that is pro provocative and tends to arouse hostility. Arousing hostility is not covered by the first amendment. Our students deserve better. Students look up to teachers. I had two encounters with this teachers with this teacher when I was a substantive teacher and again when I was VP for the board of education and I don't know if you have to vote on this or not but in my personal opinion board members please use your uh vote your conscience my personal opinion should be recommended and terminated. Thank you for your service to Anybody else would like to come forward? Hello. Most of you might know me and Nick Kitinger, 3363 Daniels Road, Ransville. Reason why I'm finally showing up is
049there's been an ongoing battle that I think needs to be recognized again. And that comes to school taxes. I always see increase increase increase, but I when these budgets show up, I do not see how they're fully going out down to the last cent. Also, when it comes to school taxes, gentlemen like Frank here, whether if he doesn't have kids in the school system or no longer has kids in the school system, people like us shouldn't even be paying them because we're not using the services. So, I would like one that's one thing I would like to see end and he was right on the money. Probably more uh more lenient than I probably could have been when it came to that uh when it came to the teacher uh regarding Charlie Kirk. Uh you
050can put it much better way than I could. But when it comes to the school taxes needs one needs to be lowered or those that don't have kids in the system, they need to be removed. there's no justification for it. Um, as far as the school the school buses, I mean, if we're getting our own, great. But uh, I when it comes to these electric buses, I don't like them. Never did, never will. I don't trust them. I mean, we've seen them many of these electric vehicles going up in flames just sitting in the lots. I can't trust them, nor will I ever trust them. That's all I got to say. Thank you, Mr. Eric. Anybody else? >> Hi, I'm short. Um, I didn't plan to come up, but felt convicted to. My name is
051Lorett Clark. I live with 3846 German. Um I've been involved in this in school many many years. Um five children in school. Now I have my grandkids coming. Um what has convicted me to talk is without saying names particular uh teacher that has been discussed back when my children were in school. The last one uh graduated in 2011. We had difficulty with this teacher um trying to convince them to vote certain ways and had actually got kicked out of their classroom because they had a differing opinion. We came in and talked to principles regarding things. my husband and I um she like I said in the my oldest graduated in 2001 my youngest in 2011 so I've been in school for a long time um was very involved in the school PTA lots of different
052uh cathartic attest to that um I'm very upset because this particular teacher is still throwing the vitrial that she did 20 years ago. And I was told as a parent back then that the school was going to do something about it and that they would talk to her and they would calm things down. I believe them because I do believe that in public school I was involved and after my youngest son left I I guess I could have been involved more to find out if things had followed through. But I I guess I felt that you would do right by your students because that is something that Wilson always has done. Now I'm hearing all this again. My grandkids are coming to school. This this ticks me off that this is still happening and our
053children are not being looked after for someone that feels that they have the right to use their pulpit in their classroom. I I can't even begin to tell you how this upsets me. Um, one of the last things I said to uh, Principal Johnson when I left, I don't know who's happier to have me leave, you or me. When my son graduated, because I've been in school for a long time. My grandkids are starting to come to school. I'll come back and I have a few more years of wisdom behind me and things that I don't mind saying, I will get involved again. So, I'm really praying that you all do right by these children that are coming up and terminate this person. I realize you have contracts. I realize all the things that you
054have to go through. I'm well aware of all that. There's a limit. And I'm also hearing there's other teachers that are having issues with children and I it makes me wonder how things are being handled in the classroom and how things how teachers are allowed to get away with certain things. I I want to be involved positively, but I'll do what I have to to protect my That's all I got to say about that. So, I hope you all do right by protecting the children that you're all just sworn to do. Thank you. Appreciate your time. Clark, anyone else? Last chance because we we really encourage people to come forward. Okay. Okay. Hearing none, no need for executive session. Um, I'll take a motion to move a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in
055favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Very savory.