001All right. Uh you order please everybody. people indivisible. This time we will have a building condition survey and planning for the next capital project from Young and Wright. All right. Hello everybody. Thank you for having us. Um, today we wanted to come in and just give you an update on your building condition survey which Young and Wright just completed uh for the district and then as well just a project update on what's been going on with your capital project. Uh, it's the 2024 project. will give you an idea of what the scope is, what's happening in each building, and the timeline for those items. Uh, my name is Mike McCarthy. I'm with Young and Right Architectural. I'm a project manager. >> I'm Ashley Juet, an associate architectural. >> David, campus, senior project manager. >> Sarah
002Wilder with campus. I'm a project manager. I'm >> the campus project engineer. >> So, our agenda for today, we're going to go through the building condition survey. We'll explain what a building condition survey is, the findings, uh who are the findings from it. We'll go through the capital improvement project, uh the phases, the scope, and the schedule, and then comment some questions. At any time, feel free to raise your hand, let us know if you have a comment or a question about anything, and we'll be happy to answer it. >> Okay. So, the building condition survey here at the school was just completed um this past year. They are required by the state education department every five years. So we did bring um around a team of 12 15 people out into the field. They
003look at everything from site work, parking lots, um trees, plantings, things like that into the building, roofs, masonry, all your mechanical, HVAC, electrical systems. And we have that team people go through. They each have specific categories that they review as part of the building condition survey and it is a state requirement. Um like I said that this is done every 5 years. >> So I know you guys are a little more of an experienced board. You've been through this uh I think most of you with us before. Um but the key factor to the building condition survey is when you're done with it having some sort of data that allows the district to use it in a meaningful way. So, what is required by the state is kind of just a form that's filled out.
004Um, you know, is this safe? Do do they have it? Um, what's the condition? What's the cost to replace it? At Young and Wright, we have a little more extensive of a building condition survey like Ashley was explaining with all the folks that come in and it's really like people that specialize in that area. So, I myself I look at roofs, windows, exterior portions of the building, as well as some interior structure. Not too deep into it, um, but some things where Ashley actually looks at some similar things, but she's a little more inside the building. We have different folks that do each thing. So, this slide here is what our goal is is to have meaningful data that we give back to you guys to take a look at. And what that means is
005really um expanding on just the original findings. So part of the building condition survey, you need to look at windows. Are they good? Are they functional? So on so forth. That's the criteria at Young and Right. What we like to do is go a bit deeper. So you can see it on this plan. I don't know if we can make this any bigger or not, but um the example shows a floor plan of a uh of a school building. And then we categorize it by year. So you can see on there each year the original building, the addition, so on so forth off of it. So we categorize it by building year as well as window type. So what that means is basically when you want to replace something, we can look at it holistically
006and go into that. So if it just says at the end of the building condition survey, uh there's some windows that are bad about 20,000 bucks. Uh you know, we recommend you replace them. When you go back to do a project, you don't really know what that means. With ours, we show you on a floor plan. We tell you the year of the building it's in, the type of the windows, and where they are specifically. We'll show you some slides for that. So, it's really easy to start to look at that and dive deeper into it, and with the actual building year and type, it allows you to see commonalities between that as well. So, you might say, "Hey, we want to replace the 1980 windows that are aluminum." You can quickly flip to a
007slide, see where all of those are, and then go into that from there. As well as this also applies um on the buildings and ground side of things. So for Mr. Joe Farwin, he has a window that's maybe damaged or something. He can pull it up, look at a year and determine how to fix it, who to call or so on so forth with that. And that's with every system in the building. That's plumbing, that's electrical, um that's floor systems, that's everything. One thing that we've we've seen in a lot of buildings, I've been in schools that um you know, maybe even we don't necessarily work for all the time, they'll call us and say, "Hey, we have a plumbing uh we have a leak in the building. We can't find uh where to snake
008the drain out." So they'll we'll hey we'll flip back to plans find it and do all of those things as well. What we give you at the end is plans where they're located by year as well as all this other information. So it's really important in that direction as well. >> Okay. And some of the findings from this year's building condition survey are actually already part of the 2024 capital improvement project that we're currently um designing. Uh one of the major items that was in this is the parking lots here at the high school. specifically back by the loading dock out by the front of the auditorium here. Uh you can see they're all shown in red on the plan and there is two pictures. You can see how damaged the roadways and the parking
009lots are. Um we noted it as unsatisfactory with three years remaining use to life. Uh so that'll take into consideration new design time, the SCD review time and hopefully within three years, you know, the the parking lot will be replaced. So, we do this um like Mike and I said for every different system throughout the school. So, one of the other items that we found as well was the roof replacement here at the high school as well. Same thing, unsatisfactory. Um less than three years remaining, not under warranty anymore. Um so, the whole entire roof system here will be replaced as part of the capital improvement project as well. >> And one thing to note like like we were saying is we do it by year. So you'll notice kind of the science edition at
010the lower right hand side of that portion that is not in red. That's because that roof wasn't installed that year. We have another slide that would correspond with that roof that it's also in red. We don't have all these slides to show you. There's quite a few of them. Um but but that's important for that too. So we really make sure each one of those years pays attention to that. Okay. So a another item we looked at here. So this is over at the elementary school. We did each one of the district buildings and it has to include every building that students are in. So that's important uh important for that as well. So with masonry um we located uh definitely some areas that were unsatisfactory and when we are doing this it is at
011the time of review. So like Ashley's too that she noted those were in this current project. When we were doing that we knew that we were replacing as part of the project but we're still reviewing it in an ASIS situation. What that also means too is that we're including cost to replace it as is as well. So if you were looking at a floor, it's uh a rug, we add a cost that's to replace with a rug. If we decide then in a project that hey, we want it to be a wood floor or something. Um those prices could change, but it's at least a starting point for the district and for us to get planning on a new project. So we know that there's some exterior masonry at that project. We know this building's
012from 1939. I'm sure all of you at home have some things you'd love to do to the outside of your house. So, it's just like a housekeeping item that you have to keep up with. It's an old building, has masonry work, and it's a consistent thing. >> And then this is in addition to all the masonry work that was done past capital project. Um, you know, it's a ever progressing amount of masonry that just has to be kept up. Um, if that's full, >> right? And there's actually some shown on here that in the current phase that's happening in the emergency project that Luke's in charge of, he there's some work that the roofer found that said, "Hey, while I'm here, I really think we should address some of those items." So, some of it's
013being taken care of now. So, the price that's on there, I can't see because there's a bar in front of it on my screen, but I think it's uh so it's roughly around $148,000 that we noted on that. Some of it's already taking place now. Okay. Another big item that we noted in this is the classrooms that are within the elementary school themselves. Um they're old, they're outdated. We've started that in the previous project replacing those classrooms. Um as some of you are aware, I'm sure you've seen some of the new ones. So again, we've noted those as unsatisfactory. 5 years. Some of what we put in there too um to note is just what the condition is. It's also based on the useful life of rooms. We know those rooms were uh very old.
014they still are currently working. Students can sit in there. So, when it says unsatisfactory, it doesn't mean unsafe or anything in those matters. It just means it's past useful life. Everything's outdated. Uh kind of in a need to replace type. >> You're doing build thing. Do you know unsafe things or just >> We do. Yeah. So, if there was something specific that we found on site, like if I if I'm on a roof and I find uh something, you know, you know, a big branch fell and is laying up there, we will note it. But something like that, I would also call uh you know, your buildings and grounds right away. Usually, I would take a picture and text it to them and say, "Hey, we found this type of thing." There's also items that
015you'll see on there that are nonfunctioning um too that those could be things that are unsafe or there's critical failure is one item, too. There are things that could be unsafe or it could mean it's just not working. So, like a non-functioning thing, too. If you guys had a heating system that was in a wall that at one point it was replaced and maybe the old one was abandoned there, like it was just chose to not come out, that might be a non-functioning thing as well. >> And critical failures, non-functioning item, anything like that. Um, we'll sit down the district and go through line item by line item. Um, specifically with with um Joe, we'll go through uh those items first. A lot of times the critical failure items will be tied into a structural
016review. Um, we can only give our expertise so much. We want to make sure we bring in, for example, there's a really bad column. We'll bring a structural engineer. He might take a look at it and say it's really not in bad shape. You know, you really could fix it up. Um, so we give a high price tag for those items. We bring those to the forefront, but we make sure that we get those evaluated by an expert right away. So, >> Gerald, so sorry. So, one thing that was kind of unsafe um that's being done with the the current roof roof replacement at the Eden Elementary is there's some chimney damage up there along with some gutter damage and I think it's either in today's thing or we approved it last meeting. We talked
017about it last meeting, but that's something that we've addressed as being unsafe and try to address that, you know, when we can in these projects and stuff like that. So, we were maybe two months ago, we were at a a capital project meeting and we went out and addressed it and got the bid since the guys were out here, the companies were out here to do it and you know, last thing we want is some of the chimney falling on the front sidewalk. So, okay. So, what do we do with all this data once we get it? So, first thing we do is we take a look at what it means, what we came up with, and it's usually a big number, which is not meant to scare you, and it doesn't necessarily mean this
018is, you know, hey, you got to write a check for this or something like that. Um, you know, so you can see a bit of a total there. So, again, we add years for what we think things are to be replaced. So, um, you know, we'll take a look at the bus garage in the top left corner. Roughly, we found, you know, within a year of replacement, we're looking at around $500,000 worth of stuff. three years out almost 7 million five years from that you know 2.2 two and seven years, five. A lot of those items, like we said, are things that are just approaching useful life. So, there could be a boiler in that building that is 20 years old that's working great or Joe's guys can do something to keep it working. So,
019it's it's essentially working or the roof is working, but we know the warranty is coming up. We know things only last so long. So, we want to plan for the future in order to replace those items. It's very important to keep those things going and making sure they're replaced before they're broken. Um, like Ashley was mentioning too, when there is something that we see needs a closer look at something from an expert, we put a big item in there. So, for the bus garage specifically, like we review this before, me and Ashley looked at, we're like, that seems like a little higher than what I expected. We looked in there, there were four items in there that there were some cl some cracks in the slab, couple other things that we noted that we wanted
020a structural review to to happen with that. We put a million bucks in for that right away. And like Ashley said, the reason we want that is when we review it with you guys, we want that to pop to the top so we remember to look at that because we wouldn't want to replace a floor over something that's damaged structurally. and then might not necessarily be a million dollar item. It just brings it to the top of the building survey list and then we make sure that we do budget enough money if we do have to replace columns or park floor slab or something like that. >> I don't want to split hairs. I just have a quick question. So when you look at the total for the bus garage, this is the existing bus
021garage, not the potential for the other bus garage that we may need going to electrification. So this is >> not taking any of that into account. Okay. >> Additional district needs or wants. >> Okay. And then um after we get all of this data um we do prioritize it um into a long-term plan that the district can look at um to determine what they want to do going forward for capital improvement projects. if they have any grant projects, if they have any capital outlay projects that they want to work on. So, it all goes together in a nice timeline. Um, you could have, like I said, you could have grant projects, you could do an EPC project. You could then, um, take off some smaller items, for example, carpet replacement. Um, you know, you could
022do that as a maintenance project within each building. And then from there on, you can kind of plan out maybe in another five years once this capital project is done, you then put the remainder of these items from the building condition survey to your next capital project. So it just turns out to be a nice timeline to see when you need to go out again for the public for another level. >> And that's we did this process with the last project. So currently we're in a $19 million project with you guys now um that we're going to show you what we've been working on uh with that. Now, any items that didn't make it into that are at the top of the list for the next one. So that way we keep track of everything.
023Um, and we know what wants to be next. It's also a great thing for you guys as a board to have a long-term plan. Um, because when someone says, you know, hey, there we found there's some looks like that chimney's damaged. We have some, you know, masonry work to do. Well, we're looking at that in the next project. It's roughly $500,000 and we would like to address it then. So it gives uh it gives a good idea of what needs to happen when and uh you know what can be accomplished. So with that um as well there are a ton of slides, a ton of information obviously uh each one has into that that goes into that. Um so it's all information that we turn over to the district that is searchable as well. It
024comes in all sorts of different formats. So the slides that you guys looked at were actually FileMaker is the the program that we use to create that. So we can send it over that way. You guys have it in PDF form as well as in an Excel form as well. So it's all sorts of searchable methods um in order to do that. Any questions on the building condition survey? It's a lot of information um to to look at and even digest. So >> good news about the bus garage, Jen, is there's been a freeze on the electric for houses starting in January. where there's hope yet. >> We'll talk about that later. >> Um, so again, like we were saying, you know, when we did the last building condition survey, we sat down with campus,
025your team came up with the project. Um, and now we're executing that work that the public voted on. You guys had a twop uh vote last time. Prop one passed. So that's what we're currently working on. Okay. Um, so originally when we first planned this project, we were going to have two phases. First phase was going to be the high school roof and parking lot. Second phase of work was going to be GLP and the elementary school roof. Um, as this board is well aware, the elementary school roof was in disrepair. It was getting out of warranty. You guys sat on the stage where there were times that there was water dripping around that area. So, we knew that we needed to replace that fast. you guys acted on those items and voted that as
026an emergency project, which means you could put it into the state a little quicker um and get that work completed. So, we're uh midway through that work now. Um and what that included was the roof uh replacement on top of the elementary school, the entire roof, as well as the repairs that were caused by damage from the roof, which that was the auditorium uh ceiling, which I know you guys have been dealing with for a while, as well as the stage floor. water had dripped on that and caused some damage and then some repairs in the gym and some other miscellaneous painting and such uh with that. So, we're going to have Luke talk about a few items with schedule and and such. >> Yes. So, the budget for this last phase of construction was
027about $1.8 million. Uh over this last summer, we were able to replace about half of the scheduled roof rehabilitation and the auditorium floor and plaster ceiling that left. Uh and then we will complete the remaining scope of the roof as soon as weather breaks into play. >> So another big part of this part of the project as well um was uh your district uh Mrs. May and Mr. Sorticio worked tired with your insurance company in order to secure some additional funds um because part of what you're experiencing with the leaking out of warranty was an insurance issue. So, we've been able to secure some funds with that that also helps to offset some other ones um in order to complete some of that work and we're still constantly working with them to uh to even
028update that further. >> So, that was supposed to be phase two, but it got moved up because of the insurance and the emergency projects. >> Moving back to phase one, which is currently um being reviewed by the fiscal associate at SED. We have approval on our drawings. We're just waiting for STED to do a final review on that phase. Um the phase one work on wells the middle high school roof rehabilitation. So similar to what you just saw with the picture from um Eden Elementary and then parking lot replacement as well. So that's the rear student parking lot back by the tennis courts. And then the um alternate for that parking lot replacement is the big lot um out by the outline. All right. And the budget for phase one is approximately $12 million. So,
029we'll see how bids come in in the early early next year when we bid. Um, but like Ashley said, they're done designing and this phase is at SED right now being reviewed um and hopefully approved soon. And then as soon as um they're complete with their review, we'll put it out to bid and then construction will start um as soon as weather allows. They can start on the parking lots and then we'll close out in the uh winter of seven. >> And a big one with that is what campus is working on too is determining how it is to do that construction. This roof is obviously huge. It's a lot bigger than the elementary school. So they have to phase it properly um to get it all done um over two summers is what we're
030planning. Okay, phase two. Starting a little confusing. This work is all at GLP. Um, so this is the parking lot as well as some sidewalk replacements, uh, with some lighting upgrades in the parking lot itself. This is the two rooms at the end that are prek rooms. It's a renovation of those two spaces fully, as well as some rest uh, restroom renovation work and door and relief air work with that, too. So, in the photos on this page, you can see the parking lot is a bit in disrepair. And uh that door that you're looking at there, what that door relief air work means is when this building was constructed, it was done so by the codes at that time. It now is out of code a little bit. And basically what that means is
031um the relief air in the classrooms is tied in with the hallway. We want to pull it off of that and we're adding relief air directly to the outside from those classrooms. Um so it just makes it a bit safer, brings it into code. um and completes that work in those areas there. All right. So, I'm going to talk about the schedule for phase two. So, originally when we created this project, structure was going was going to be over three years 26, 2.7, and 28. By having the emergency project for the roof at Union Elementary School, that roof moved up to 26 and 27. that roof was originally implemented in 2028 due to funding um criteria still in New York City. Because of that, it's now eliminated. We no longer need to wait until 128
032to do that work. So, we're going to shorten the project from three years to two years, which will save the district. So, in 2027, we will focus primarily on GOP. That'll be >> okay. So, with this projects, it's a lot of nuts and bolts, warranty issues, um not necessarily fun to look at items. Um and you know, it's a lot of things that when it's done, it's making your buildings warm, safe, and dry, which is very important. Um but there's the one that's a little bit more fun, which is the GLP classrooms themselves. So, we've been able to have some meetings um with the district as well as with Mrs. Carter from GLP building, uh some of her staff, and also some parents of kids that were in there. So, we've been able to get
033their wants, their needs, uh come up with a plan, which we created some renderings from, which we're going to share with you guys, and kind of uh change those around to make sure they fit all the kids' needs. So, existing, I'm sure some of you haven't been in there in a while. Um, these are the existing classrooms. They're goodiz rooms that when they were built, they had a dividing wall in the middle that you could open up. So, when you're in those rooms, which can get a little little loud with some kids, you can hear right through that wall. We're getting rid of that, putting a solid wall between it. They do have a lot of storage now. Um, but you can see the p easiest picture to see it on is in the one
034on the right. It's the like upper wood storage area there that is about um 14 ft high to the top. No one can use that. No one can get up there. We don't want people climbing on ladders to get up there to do it anyway. Um, so it's kind of an unused area. Um, so they have ample storage, but some of it isn't very good. So, we're replacing a lot of that and creating a new space for them with that. These rooms also are not equipped with bathrooms, um, which when you have to take the little kids out of there, you have to travel down the hallway a bit. So, that has to pull a teacher or an aid out with those kids. Um, we are going to be adding a laboratory into each one
035of those rooms. So, some conceptual renderings that we're working off of in order to create them. So, um, in this one, you can see there's some clouds in there. Those are actually going to be sound baffles as well to help with sound. There's going to be storage um as well as built-in TVs, uh media, and book stores for that. Those ones on the the left side of the photo, those are whiteboards um that are also magnetic. Those were used at the elementary school new classrooms, too, which I've seen those used quite a bit. Teachers seem to love those. Um so, we're adding some of those in. below the TV, it's some short kind of narrow book storage so kids can still walk up to the TV. Those are going to be nice low TVs because
036all those kids know how to use touchcreens. Um, now and then you can see kind of on the right there, there is a sink. There's going to be one that's low for kids to specifically use and one that's a little higher um for the teachers to use. Um, one thing that's kind of nice about those, it's going to have it's a single bowl sink, but it each has two faucets. So, while you have two sinks, you're going to have four faucets. So, when you're doing fingerpainting or something like that, you can roll through kids pretty quickly to wash their hands. Okay. On the other sides of the classrooms, both kind of mimic each other. Um, one thing that the teachers wanted to use, they have a lot of stations in those rooms and needs for
037what they're teaching kids. So, they wanted some kind of built-in cubby type areas um that they could use for different lessons to teach the kids. lessons like uh like a tool area, one with a you know it could be a supermarket, could be a uh um a doctor's office, but they could use them throughout the year for that. So those spaces, they're not real deep. You could fit a couple kids in there and you could uh do all sorts of cool things with them. We're going to have them look like the outside of a building. It's it's really kind of a fun space for the kids. Those areas do not have a roof on top of them. So if you're the teacher, you could come over there and peek inside. um which also helps create
038not a uh a confined area for the kids. It's also can be a fire um issue. So, we like to make sure we keep those open and it's easy for uh visible uh use for the teachers in there. We're going to do a lot of graphics in there, some vinyl graphics. Um one thing to note too in this image kind of on the left of those rooms that you can see, that is going to be the new unit ventilator. Um, in old classrooms, you're used to seeing below the window, that horizontal thing that you stick your pencil in and it makes a loud noise and blows air out. Those are a thing of the past now, and now we like to use uh vertical unit unit ventilators. And what those do, which is I I
039think the best part is they actually tie to ducts in the ceiling. So that kid that's sitting next to that all day long that has the wind blown in their ear, that doesn't happen anymore. It's spread universally throughout the classroom. So, it's it's a lot quieter as well, too. They're not as pretty, I don't think, to look at that thing. Um, but we're planning to do some wrap on those in these rooms specifically. >> Yeah. Think about it more like the furnace in your house with all, you know, the different dust in the different rooms. It kind of functions the same. >> More of a forced air type of idea, >> distributes the air. >> Yeah. And then we will have some complimentary heat too, some radiant heat um under the windows, which uh is
040needed as well. Uh, new blinds in those areas. You can see on the right side of this, there's a lot of under window storage, kind of like bench seating, book storage, um, corkboards. Um, here's a better view of that. Kind of looking at the window area, get a full use of that room. We're also going to have some interesting parts of the ceiling, too. Some drop down lights um, just to hopefully draw some more interest into those rooms. And they're kind of natural soft colors for the kids, a little more exciting. Um, you know, it just kind of makes it a bit fun for them. So, if you were a parent of a one-year-old, you'd be pretty excited about these classrooms. Anybody? There you go. >> So, that's kind of all the scope. Any questions
041we can answer for you? >> Mark, going back to the building condition survey, and you guys really did a an overview, and it's a it's a really um comprehensive report that would take many, many hours to to go through. How how much detail do you guys go um does your report get into in in different spaces? >> So, uh as far as like space specific >> Yeah. So, so say say you were in um our Fizzad locker rooms, you know, how deep a dive do you go in in terms of the quality of the lockers that that type of thing. >> Yep. So, we do a specific slide which actually is not an SED required slide for that specifically. So, there's one person which I think sometimes is Ashley. She would go in there and
042evaluate it based on how old it is, the looks, the conditions, all of those items, as well as all of the other folks coming in there, too. So, Ashley would give it a overview of what the condition is and satisfactory level. And then there would also be someone that would come in and evaluate it from like a deeper dive like the flooring. So, usually it's a tile floor. Someone would come in and say, "Hey, there's some missing tiles. You've switched benches around a few times. There's some spots that are just missing tile." We'd recommend that. So, we would have it actually in two places um for that to make sure we're covering that depending on what we're addressing. >> Obviously did a full renovation of the space. Um that was obviously a much higher cost
043than if we just looked at all the different items individually. Replacing the carpet floor, replacing the ceiling, replacing the lighting, things like that. Um so you can look at at systemwise. So if you want to replace, you know, all the carpeting throughout the school, you can look at the system. However, if you want to renovate all the locker rooms in your school, you can look at it by category of locker room. So, it really does break it down. There's probably an additional, I think, 60 categories at least that we look at um that are big ticket items like schools are doing capital projects, things that SED doesn't care about. They don't care about your locker rooms. They don't care about your libraries, your nurses office, your main office, secure entrances, things like that. Those are
044all additional categories that we have taken a look at in young and right doing the vote addition survey. Um there are more of the nuts and bolts. You know the windows, your doors, your roofs, your mech systems, things like that. >> So I'm just going to show you real quick here on this slide. I went back to the building conditions survey slide specifically. This is elementary school. This is general classrooms um specifically. So this was Sina in our office that did it. The year of construction in this area was 1949. So this is kind of over district office by the art room over that way. So, she makes a bunch of notes in there. VAT, um, floors are old, cracked, separated, further apart. Um, some corners are crumbling. Walls have a wooden base that's beat
045up. Uh, walls walls are in good condition, which are plaster walls. Those usually last quite a bit. Most spaces are missing transition strip thresholds. Act ceiling is old, outdated, uh, so on so forth. So, it gives a good more of an overview for the room itself and then ties in a number for that. So she allocated um she looked at right now we're looking at the second floor on the floor plan. There's one there's eight classrooms there. Um there's some on the first floor roughly 5,400 square ft of space. We we noted that as unsatisfactory which gives about five years of replacement. Now obviously kids could sit in there for probably a hundred years but it wouldn't uh you know it would just continue to get worse looking in there. Um, so we add a
046cost to that. Um, four or five years and that was $400 square foot. You times that by the $5,400, you know, two $2.1 million to replace those rooms. That's obviously a cost that we're just kind of putting a number to. You know, obviously when we dial things in with campus, um, we come up with like a little more of an estimate based on what you guys want and then go from there. And >> these are direct construction numbers. If you replace this classroom or renovate this classroom today, this doesn't account for escalation, for incidentals, for testing for things like that. So, if you wanted to renovate that classroom today, around $400 is renovations that space. >> Okay. >> So, I mean, just what you presented today on the building condition survey clearly demonstrates that there's
047a number of classrooms in elementary that that need attention and we know that that was a big part of Prop 2. Um, do you get to the granular level and let's use this building for an example. Um, where I I know and Joe and I have talked about this. We need we need shade replacements. I mean, we're all over the place where there's not a consistent product. Does that come out in your survey as well? >> It does. So, that would be a window. There's a window slide specifically like the one I was talking about. I don't have it here to share with you right now. >> Joe doesn't know how to turn on the on the iPad that you gave him yet, so we haven't had a chance to take a look at it.
048>> He did call. We talked him through it. So, it's um he he should be up and running. But it is once you're used to it, it's very searchable. And like I said, it comes in different formats. So, that way when Frankie's looking at it, I'm sure she doesn't care about a lot of this information. She goes into Excel, which is a little more uh numbers based, she can hop in there and find it just as easily with that. An important thing, too, is when we were reviewing this, let's say you guys are doing your next project and you're like, "Hey, we want to dive into $10 million to look at see what this is." We set what's the highest $10 million worth of work you want to look at. All of that filters to
049the top. Then when you're looking at it in Excel format, that record number, it's kind of in the top middle right below where it says Egan school district. There's a number right there. Um that is 03196. That ties to the Excel. That ties to every format that you can look at. So, if we're sitting in a meeting going through the Excel kind of in a more broad topic and it's replace classrooms, you know, $2 million 3196, what does that mean? Uh, Don says, I don't understand where this is. We type in 3196. This pops up. We can point to it on the floor plan and show you specifically the classrooms we're talking about with photo examples. You're only seeing two photo examples here in the PDF form. There's another there's another four that are tied
050to another sheet so you could get a better view of it with that. Okay, two more questions for you. Um, you said when we were looking at those prek classrooms, Henry's future classrooms, um, about s sound sound b um, baffling or whatever the phrase was, and that drew me back to a conversation you and I had in our auditorium didn't make it into the building condition survey that that were at the end of the life for the the sound the sound components in. >> I believe that's in there, too. Sound attenuation and that would be in the overall one as well. that would be um looked at specifically that >> when we met with that expert in the field, it was they were degrading. It was a sooner rather than later component. >> Yeah, they're
051actually an old form. It's a fiberglass panel that's in there now that is degrading over time. It just, you know, crumbles like everything else at some at some point. Um so they're in a bit of a state there. So that would be included in a replacement cost for the auditor. I I think what he said is that it's actually offputting some some uh something something that's not good. >> Um and then the the last thing the last question I have this is an examination of where we are today. Right? This doesn't include air conditioning that that currently doesn't exist. >> Correct. >> So it's not like those numbers are baked in here anyway because it doesn't exist in in most of our classrooms. >> Correct. There is an air conditioning slide that if you pull
052it up, it shows the areas that are air conditioned on the floor plan, but it would it doesn't take into account adding additional air air conditioning. >> Okay? >> And that's where we sit down with the district to come up with your long-term plan for the next capital project. Those items uh you want to look at adding air conditioning to warm and all of your buildings. That would get listed as a district requested item. We work with campus construction. Get some good cost estimate numbers in there. Um, and that can be anything. Air conditioning, like you said, adding more sound panels or doing something, you know, drastically different to a space than what we have, uh, just for a general renovation cost. Those items be we added trade to the long-term plan as well. >>
053I got one question in regards to our last presentation we had last meeting on the electric buses. Are we taking into consideration the weight of the new buses in possibly with the alternative of the new pad out here being put in being able to handle the new buses? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Currently drive now. That's usually always heavy duty asphalt that's put in. Um we work with our our civil engineer and our landscape architect to make sure that any path of bus or truck travel the loading dock area things like that that heavy duty asphalt or concrete is put in those areas. But do we have to take it to another level with the electric buses? >> The electric? >> No, they weigh more as well. They're not the electric buses. >> Um when
054we just did the the project up at Lakeshore for their transportation center lot, we uh just used the standard heavy duty for the lot, being off the sidewalk. >> Okay. And one thing too, actually, um Joe has reviewed the spec too. He had some specific requests in there too for the asphalt and the mixes um that come in with a lot of those items to make sure that they are exactly what he's worked with in the past that work. Um our structural engineer or our civil engineer does use those too. Um so it's also like a double a double check policy there for that. Um which is good too. And just one last thing too, obviously this is um you know something it's a big lift for us. There's a lot of us that come
055in and do this. It's equally taxing on you guys. Um we come in months before we walk the entire district with Joe um principles. We ask for comments. We've I've worked with Lauren probably three of these now. Um we can't see everything that happens dayto-day when we're doing these building condition surveys. If this window leaks when it rains 1.2 two inches on a Wednesday and it's windy. If I'm here on a Friday, I don't know that that happened. So, we come in, we check with the teachers, the principles, they let us know of those items that we might not necessarily see every day and then we make sure those get into that as well because the one thing that the building condition survey and SED does is they do they will check it a little
056bit. I mean, if you guys came in and said, "Hey, we're building a dome over the football stadium." they might say, "Hey, we looked at your building condition survey and you need to address some handicap accessibility or something." They we make sure things fall into line appropriately for that. And that's kind of where that check comes in with that. Um so it's important to have all those >> that comes in vague even for like the emergency project. They want to see proof that, you know, um it was in bad condition. So we did send them actually the slide and email of our past building condition survey saying the roof did need to be replaced, that we have, you know, portions of the mason capital project. So it actually really does come in handy for sort
057of proving your pace if you do run into another. >> So la my last comment um which is now my second last comment. Um I think it's important for all all this to remember that again this is a point in time study and you're also forecasting ahead. So when we're looking at parking lots and we're say end of life is in about three years. We're required first off to do a building condition survey every five years. So obviously we have to do some projections and while a parking lot may look okay now we also know know when when the end of life is based on on its use and when it was installed. Uh and we are also married to when we can do projects, okay, based on when the maximum cost allowance uh uh
058resets and we could ignore parking lots, for instance, the one uh along the softball uh diamond into the back because how often does that get used? But it's been ignored for a number of years. And think about the level of degradation that's going to happen over time if we don't address it when we can. Right? That is the last comma. >> I just have a quick question. I'm talking about roofs. I know um LA was it last year the science wing there was a big leak that's Oh, okay. Is that like the integrity of the roof? Is that constitute an emergency? Because there's a couple leaks, I think. I don't know. >> There's a couple of different things with that roof. It's a It's a very flat roof and we've had some issues with the
059with the drains there for sure. So, when we start to Well, we've designed the next project, but when we start staging that next project, so hear me, Luke. We're starting with the science wing. Okay. Um that that's how we're going to make some of those decisions >> because Yeah. And then I Yeah, I think the foyer there's been leaks too. So that's >> Yeah, Jen, I would say is when it when you designate it as an emergency project, that truly is up to the school board that you guys could really designate anything as that. I think with elementary school, obviously classes were being held in there that then couldn't be and it was just a giant space that you guys couldn't use um unfortunately for longer than we would have liked. Um, but with speeding
060everything up, it's able to get done and and get everything fixed in there. >> Well, thank you guys very much. >> Thank you. >> Next, we'll have a presentation on athletics and end of the season report from Mr. Jaw Wanco. >> Great. Good evening, members of the school board. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to present an overview of our fall athletic programs. I'd like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude on behalf of the entire athletic department for your unwavering support and dedication to our student athletes and our programs. This fall was both an exciting and very busy season for Eden Athletics. We currently offer more than 23 sports across various levels in the fall. Nearly half of our programs will be run throughout the year compete during the fall season. As an
061athletic director, one of my primary goals is to always increase student involvement in athletics. This fall, approximately 62% of our students participate in at least one sport. Uh winter sports actually started today for JV varsity and modified wrestling. Our participant numbers still continue to rise from about 167 students fall with this uh this coming up. I'm proud to share that every varsity team again earned scholar athlete recognition this season. Meaning at se at at least 75% of each roster held a 90 or above academic average. In total we recognized over 130 varsity scholar athletes which is up from last year. I think last year we had 84. So that's a huge number, huge jump this year for our programs. Some notable accomplishments this fall uh field hockey loss in the semis to the overall champs
062Akan uh in OT 3 to2 which is significant about that is Akan during the regular season only allowed two goals the whole season we were able to do it was a tough loss that's two in a row against her but the team played great a lot of seniors and the coach was excellent this year football team hosted and won their first home playoff game in 13 years um so great accomplish for them I just found out today actually that Brady wearing the quarterback for our team is the finalist for the Connelly Cup which means is the MVP goes to the MVP of the overall season. So that would be in mid December where hopefully you can get that for us as well. Swimming and diving in the class meet. Mia Scott finished 16th in the
063uh 53 and second in diving and seventh overall at sectionals for diving. Uh Grace Ritz finished fourth in the class for diving and 10th overall at sectionals. Our girls volleyball and boys volleyball teams both uh ECIC league champions this year and both teams finished as section six runner-ups in their respected classes. Cross country, the girls and the boys were also ECIC division division champions. Both teams finished as section six runner-ups as well where the girls finished second in the class C2. They ended up not getting a red patch because of one runner. Their second place held tiebreers go. Their second place runner was faster than our second place runner. So, it's kind of crazy like that. Uh, but the boys were class C2 champions for the section. Gia Fedor missed the trip to States by
064just two seconds. So, really proud of her. Sam Ziddle qualified with a 10th place finish at sectionals. He competed last Saturday at states, finishing 34th out of 200 plus runners for a time of 1658. So, congratulations to Sam as well. Uh, last but not least, our game day cheerleading team. Our team had a dominant fall season, winning every competition, including the ECIC championships and sectional championships, which earned them a trip to the state championships two weekends ago. >> Two weekends ago. Yeah. Um, also last Wednesday, we held a signing a signing day ceremony where six senior student athletes officially committed to continue their athletic careers at the next level. This event honored their dedication, hard work, and the support of their families, coaches, and school community. We incredibly proud of their achievements and excited to
065see what they represent Eden Beyond High School. All this success is possible because of the incredible people who make up our athletic department. I would like to take a moment to thank our athletes, coach coaches, game day supervisors, maintenance department, technology department, transportation department, our athletic trainer, and especially my athletic secretary. I'm proud to work with them each and every day. At this time, I would like to invite two of our senior student athletes to share their experience and speak to what Eden Athletics has meant to them. Please welcome Evan Eker and Kylie Wiggerowski, both talented three sport athletes for us. >> I don't want to use this microphone, but I have >> um Okay. Hi, my name is Kylie Bernowski. I come in front of you all today to share how sports have really
066shaped my life over the past six years. It's not just about the games themselves, but what I've learned and how I've grown as a person. Being part of a team has taught me the importance of working together. I learned how sports how to support others, communicate effectively, and understand different perspectives. These skills are are useful not only on the field, but also in school in my relationship with my friends and family. Sports have taught me about the resilience about resilience and perseverance. There have been tough losses and challenging practices, but each time I've learned to bounce back and keep pushing forward. This mindset has helped me face other challenges in life with more confidence and determination. I started playing sports when I was just a little kid, and I knew nothing other than what that
067life was. Waking up early for practices, staying late to perfect a skill, all the tough times, and I wouldn't change a thing. Sports have brought me my best friends, people I will never forget, and the ones I will remember forever. coaches have taught me important life lessons and I and help have helped me shape have helped shape me into the person I am today and I couldn't thank them enough. I started playing Eden I started my Eden sports career when I was in sixth grade as a munchkin playing field hockey with my sister. During my time at Eden I played field hockey for seven years, lacrosse for six, volleyball for one, basketball for one and ice hockey for six years. During my co year I was able to play four sports due to the timing
068of everything and I loved it. It showed me new opportunities and I was able to do things I would have never done before. Playing sports for six years has throughout high school has shaped me my life far beyond the field. It taught me discipline, showing up to early practices, balancing score, and staying committed even when it was difficult. I learned how to work with others, trust my teammates, and communicate under pressure. Sports also pushed me to handle setbacks with the resilience, whether it was losing game, recovering from mistake, or pushing through fatigue. Over time, I gained confidence, leadership skills, and a stronger understanding of who I am and capable of. These lessons I learned over the six years continue to influence how I approach challenges, set goals, and collaborate with others in every part of
069my life. Being a three sport athlete during school has taught me how hard I really need to work in school and how I can't just put behind me. I will continue my sports career at Lock Haven University to play D2 lacrosse and I couldn't be more excited. I will be studying physical therapy which I was inspired to do because I was injured and they helped me continue to return to the sports I love. These are just a few ways how Eden athletics and sports have impacted my life and I hope they can do the same for others. >> Hi, my name is Evan Ecker. Um, you may know me. I was in the musical a few years ago. I'm always screaming on the announcements. Anyways, I'm going to keep this short and sweet because I
070kind of want to go home. I'm really hungry after triyouts. But, um, if you would have asked me at the start of my freshman year that I would be fully involved in three sports, I probably would have laughed in your face. Sports were never my thing. I've always loved theater, acting, art. You can see it in the the showcase photo. Um um I just I always I never thought of sports. In my sophomore year, I decided that I was done with the musical and I wanted to try both cheerleading and track. Instantly, I fell in love with the sports. They became my passions. To me, athletics is more than just a school department. It means home. Going to my practice after a long day at school never fails to brighten my mood. coming to cheer.
071I feel boundless support from all my teammates and coaches and um the department itself. Stepping into the mat for the first time made me realize that I was where I was supposed to be. Even to the point where I'm looking to cheer in college now without even athletics, I wouldn't have been able to discover my aidity for cheerleading and open a whole new world for myself. At the start of track, I was skeptical. Uh throwing shot and disc was entirely a new experience, needing precision and strength to push yourself to the fullest. My coach even saying it's a delicate balance between ballet and WWE. Uhhuh. Um without the support the support from Eden Athletics and all the coaches, I would never have been recruited to track for track and field for Fredomia. Was not expecting
072that. Um but Eden Athletics has changed the trajectory of my life and I'm internally eternally grateful for every opportunity that was presented to me in my high school career. I'd like to thank my coaches Mel and Kelly as well as my athletic director, Mr. Ryano, for everything they've ever done for me. Do you know that some colleges also recruit mascots that or gymnasts that you can get scholarships and stuff for that? Go for it. Uh thank you Evan and K uh Kylie for sharing your experience and for being outstanding ambassadors for athletics. Before we conclude today, um I do have a short slideshow. I always say short, it's never that short. as we look ahead to the winter season. Okay. As we look ahead to the winter season, I want to assure the board and
073our school community that I will continue to lead with determination and grit to develop responsible students who demonstrate strong character, sound morals, and a commitment to the eating community. Once again, thank you for your ongoing support. Your commitment is a driving force behind our success, and we are truly grateful to work with a such a dedicated and forwardinking board of education. Thank you. >> Thanks, Jay. At this point in time, are there any requests to withdraw specific items from the consent agenda? >> No. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, consensus items be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> I have to abstain from O. >> Oh, >> it's my brother-in-law. >> What happened? >> Stay from O. Approve all. >> I'm confused. Anyway,
074uh on to the public comment. This is the approximate position and time that the board has designated to receive statements from individuals and groups. The board will review all statements, then respond appropriately at a future meeting. All persons in attendance are required to sign the attendance sheet and designate their representation status. For example, parent, teacher, bus driver, chamber of commerce, etc. There is a two-minute limit. Hi, I'm Elbert Peasley, a resident of the district. At the last board meeting, the October 20th meeting, you voted to send a corrective action plan to New York State Controllers's Office. I am may have an issue with one of your statements. you responded, quote, "The district does not intend to establish a specific dollar threshold for professional services as this is not a requirement under general municipal law," unquote.
075I don't understand the context of the statement. You could list a specific dollar threshold for professional services in the policy manual like Frontier Central School District did. Their code, sorry, uh states, quote, "Except as otherwise provided by law for professional services contracts involving an expenditure of more than $50,000, the district will use the request for proposal process as set forth in the general municipal law," unquote. Uh your own policy under code 5411 says in order to procure professional services the district will use the request for proposals process except forth in general municipal law. I think a reasonable person would conclude that all professional services that Eden pays for went through a request for proposals process. Uh in fact that's what the New York State controller audit said in their uh audit of in the period
076October 14, 2020 to March 2024. They stated officials did not seek competition for professional service while the district's purchasing policy and procurement procedures required district official to use their request for proposals uh when contracting for professional services by not establishing a specific dollar threshold. What is the board's intention? I would ask if you um decide not to do an RFP for everyone like the code 541 states um then that code should be changed and if you change it why not use a dollar threshold like frontier and my suggestion is if you do change it you do a yearly threshold or look um what service you used in the past year and that would be the threshold. Thank you for your consideration. >> Thanks. >> Anyone else? Uh, >> new business and resignations that upon the
077recommendation of the superintendent, the resignation for the purpose of retirement of German teacher Kirsten Kryin be accepted effective July 1st, 2026. The board and administration wish to thank Mrs. Kryin for her 27 years of service to the district. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> Then upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the resignation of cafeteria monitor Steven McDonald be accepted effective November 21st, 2025. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation that superintendent the resignation of clerk typus Tracy Hines be accepted effective November 26, 2025. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> This is new business and appointments. that upon the recommendation
078of the superintendent after successfully completing her probationary period, Nicole Baldelli be permanently appointed as a teacher aid effective December 22nd, 2025. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, Kira Rup be appointed on probation as a teacher aid effective November 12th, 2025 and ending March 11th, 2026. Salary is based upon CSEA contract level 4, step one. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent Mindy Winship be appointed on probation as a teacher aid effective November 5th, 2025 and ending May 4th, 2026. Salary is based upon CSEA contract level four step one. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained?
079Motion carried. But upon the recommendation of the superintendent, Jean Zidell be appointed on probation as a clerk typus hps effective November 18th, 2025 and ending on January 14th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> So, just a a point of clarification that the helps program is new with civil service. It allows us to uh retain employees that um were provisionally hired uh who have been uh working with us for quite a period of time. It's it's actually modernizing the way that we're we're able to hire and retain uh folks in in these positions. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, Claire Baker be appointed on probation as a senior clerk typus helps effective November 18th, 2025 and ending on May
08019th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of superintendent Stevenson be appointed on probation as bus driver effective November 18th, 2025 and ending May 17, 2026. Salary is based upon CSCA contract level 9, step four. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of superintendent Sharon Gatowski be appointed on probation as a clerk typus helps effective November 18th, 2025 and ending May 31st, 2026. Salary is based upon CSEA contract level five step one. Note, Mrs. Gatowski's start date is approximated, but it will not be later than December 1st, 2025. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> I'm just trying to figure out who's happier back there, Mr. Con or or our
081new hire, Sharon. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carried. Welcome aboard. >> New business and other stuff. uh that that the Eden Central School District Board of Ed upon the recommendation of the superintendent hereby approves the capital project chain orders as pres change orders as presented. One, Eden Elementary chimney repair $16,752. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Yeah, just briefly um the the chimney repair uh came or the need for chimney repair came to our attention uh while the roof was being repaired and um uh campus and young and right were integral with helping us uh find a mason to handle that work. And as we heard earlier, if we have chimneys that are falling apart, it's pretty important to to get those fixed prior to their uh
082um landing up on the sidewalk. And also as a as a point of of interest, um I'll just remind you that we are publicly approving change orders or you're asking to publicly approve change orders as a response to that um um controllers audit report that was mentioned earlier. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the resolution and adoption of the New York State Helps Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent the overnight cheerleading competition trip to Universal Studios Florida March 12th, 2026 through March 16th, 2026 be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor?
083>> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the overnight high school student council trip to NYSCA November conference on November 23rd through November 25th, 2025 be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following buses be declared excessed and disposed of as a district deems appropriate. These vehicles have outlived their useful lives and the repair costs have become prohibitive. Uh 2016 Chevy number 220, that VIN number, uh a 2019 Thomas number 30 or number 230 with that VIN number. 2016 IC bus with that VIN number. and a 2016 Chevrolet number 222 with that VIN number. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried.
084>> That upon the recommendation that superintendent the transportation route spreadsheet be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent the corrective action plan required to be sent to the New York State Controllers's office be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> Next, we have the business report. >> Okay. So, I'm just going to give a kind of quick overview of the budget process since we're already mid midway through November. Budget season's kind of right around the corner. Um so the next December board meeting you will be approving the budget calendar which kind of lays out all the important dates in the budget development process. Um you know the
085next big date is the November state aid runs which kind of takes the current law and runs um our actual expenditures from the ST3. So what we spent in the 2425 school year and estimates what our actual aid would be for um our expenditure driven aid so like transportation. Um and then you know we're going to be looking at our January state aid runs which is the um executive runs. So when the governor comes out with her proposals which kind of sets forth what our budget would look like for the 2627 school year. Um as well as our we are having our meetings with the um building level and department level administrators in mid January which kind of sets forth what their requests are for the budget development process. So we are kind of already
086there. Um and just keep a keep a lookout for that budget calendar that's coming out. um the next board meeting. >> Thank you. Next, we have the superintendent report. >> Just a few things. Um over the last couple of weeks, uh Mrs. May and I along with our labor management uh uh team have met with four different insurance consultants uh who responded to our uh request for proposals. our current uh consultant along with three others. And the goal there is to determine um basically where we can get the best service uh that to assist us with health insurance. Whether we we maintain what we're doing now, whether we look at uh a self-funded approach or we look at uh um entering into a consortium, there's a number of different options that that we can we
087can pursue. And the goal is to have high level um high quality health insurance but at a more affordable price. So, um, we've narrowed it down to who we really think is is probably in the best position to help us after a pretty significant amount of research and hearing back from from the LMO. You should expect to see um an action item in the December meeting um um regarding health insurance consultant. Okay. Any questions about that? Okay. Um Mrs. Horchel and I attended the uh Erie County Association of School Boards leg legislative dessert uh dessert reception this past Thursday. I'll I'll gloss over the part that you left with an entire pie. Um and I mean it was interesting for sure. We we actually met with a representative who doesn't represent Eden um but he
088represents Hamburg uh in and Frontier where you work. I live in Hamburg and Buffalo. So we re we were pretty relentless on him and that was enjoyable for me. Um, unfortunately, one of the things that we we learned is that the pause in the electric elect electric that word >> say it for me. Say it for me. >> Electrification. >> Thank you. >> We've had this issue for a week now that I can't get that word out. Um, on homes is not is separate from uh the zero emission buses. So, I was too. I I was too. and and actually Jen was so upset she left with an entire piece. >> Um so you we talked a little bit about uh about the changes in cell phones and and how we felt about that and
089um you know I I said my piece and we'll leave it at that. Um but it was it was overall it was a it was it was a good evening. I'm glad we went. Um, I do think we we talked a little bit about planning for the next capital project and and I do think as a as a group we really should dive a little bit deeper into that building condition survey um to find out um what our absolute needs are. When we talk about boilers, we know we have some boilers issues here and there. Having Joe on board and his vast experience I think is really important for to to guide us towards things that we really should do um in our next project. But I also think we need to determine I know
090we've talked about this um how we can get some more input from the from the community um beyond just expecting people to attend our meetings because that's that's few and far between. Um so Frankie and I will will be uh we'll be looking at how we can send something out most likely online to get some feedback about what the community wants to see in our in our next projects. Okay. Um next uh Thanksgiving wishes. So, I want to I want to um give a shout out to our social workers, Holly Trito, Helen Nab, and Andrew Garrison, uh for taking the lead in our our annual food drive here along with many others. And there's too many people to list, but um our district has always done a really great job of supporting families in need
091this year. A little bit uh added to it. Um they're working with the Thanksgiving blessing boxes and Laura Wicket, Janette Thur, and Barb Caerty um take the lead there. And I think we're going to be able to help even more families than we have in the past. And I'm greatly appreciative of everyone's efforts and really appreciate the school community, the school and community collaboration uh on the behalf of our our neediest families. And as this is our only meeting in um in November, I just want to take a moment to thank the board or thank the board and wish the board uh a happy Thanksgiving and and a happy Thanksgiving to our community as well. >> Next, we have the student report. Mr. for Sean Jacobs. >> Um so, uh the Thanksgiving food drive is
092happening right now this week and it goes until November 21st. Um we're delivering the food to the Eden North Con's food bank on the 24th. Miss Doctor and the student council has an upcoming Just Say hello event in the cafeteria. We're just making group bulletin boards and having snacks for students and adults. And as previously mentioned is the leadership coming the leadership conference NYCA coming up in Niagara Falls. Um providing students and advisers with an array of knowledge and leadership skills that they can now use to wall in the future. Um they have three guest speakers to motivate and foster leadership in students and they also have a variety of workshops and activities to attend. It's from the 23rd to the 25th. >> Thank you Sean. uh board report and roundt. I just have one
093thing. Um for some reason, I don't know why I was the chosen one. I've had four or five people come up to me and ask about the blinking light in front of the elementary. That must just look like a friendly face. So, I was coming home one day and uh Sean Bishop was turning around in the my driveway actually. So, I had to wait for him to come out. And I just kind of stopped him and asked him like why it stopped flashing at like 4:00 when it used to stop flashing at 6:00. And he said, and I quote, "Well, because I work for you, Cheryl." I'm like, "You don't work for me." He goes, "Well, you're on the board, right?" And I said, "Oh, well." So, anyway, he was trying to be funny. And
094he was funny. So about 2 weeks later, I get a ding at the doorbell and I'm being lazy watching TV and I look out and there's a police car in my driveway, which I'm sure sent the neighborhood into a frenzy, right, neighbor? And uh he came back with a with a response for me. Um that anybody out there is wondering why it doesn't flash after 4:00 anymore, it's now only registered to flash when there's school. >> So remember there used to be a sign that said like 700 p.m. to >> Yeah. Yeah, they got rid of that. And um so now so because people were asking me, well, am I going to get if it's not flashing and I'm going over 25, am I going to get a ticket? And I'm like, well, I don't
095I would give you a ticket if it's maybe it's broke. I don't know. So anyway, he said that they will only get a ticket during flashing time and not during cuz now it's earlier than six o'clock. So he did his job. last longer because boys and girls are leaving. >> He and I talked about that. We thought maybe that was the case, but yeah. So anyway, he made a house call and now nobody's come up and asked me anymore about it. So, all right. The next regular board of education meeting is December 15th, 2025 at 6 p.m. in the middle school high school library. I will not be in attendance for that one. So, Jen, you will be in charge. >> Yes. >> Get to get to bang the gavvel. >> Um that upon the
096recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education enter executive session to discuss the employment history of a particular person or persons. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> thanks for coming everybody.