001Good evening everyone and welcome. Sorry that we ran a little late. Can I have everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance? All right, welcome everyone. I'm gonna um have Mrs. Diva read the ground rules. In the event of an emergency, please exit the auditorium using the nearest available doors located at both the front and rear of the auditorium. Smoking and the use of vape products are strict strictly prohibited on school grounds. There will be one designated public comment period during the board of education meeting. If you wish to make a comment or ask a question during this time, please approach the podium, state your name and address, and direct all remarks to the board of education president. The board of education will take note of your question or concern and refer it to the
002appropriate administrator. If follow-up is needed, the district clerk will obtain your contact information and the board president or their designate will respond to you within the next week to discuss the matter further. Please be mindful that each speaker will have up to three minutes with no sharing of minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we're going to move on to presentations. The first one is that the New York School Board Associations, we have three board members that got achievement awards. We have Trusty Kuban who got level one board achievement for um having 75 points for her ongoing association professional development and are accepting additional leadership roles. So, congratulations Sorry. Next, we have Trusty Salazar, who's earning level two board excellence award and recognition on the on board newspaper for 150 points of ongoing professional development and
003accepted additional leadership roles. Thank you. And last but not least, we have Trusty Kger, who got the lifetime achievement award for 500 points on ongoing professional development and accepting additional leadership roles. Plus, you get a convention scholarship and a fancy little pen at beside your plaque. Yeah, the box is there. >> So, congratulations you guys for doing such hard work. Next, we're going to move on to the recognition of um Mr. Mr. Hogland and Miss Shine. And I'm going to turn it over to Miss Kennedy. >> All right, Mr. Hogland and Miss Shine, can you please come up to see us and Mrs. Scill, you welcome. And Mrs. Padalio, if you want to come up and join at the podium. So, uh, I'd like to really a heartfelt thank you to Mr. Hoglin and Miss
004Shine for their swift and divisive uh decisive actions and assisting a student who was choking. Certainly as a mom, moments like these can be very frightening um for our students and and knowing that we had loving, caring, and capable staff members present to make those decisions is is heartwarming to me. So, thank you so much for your quick actions. Um, and not only our student who really congratulates you, I'm not sure if our student is here this evening, but I I'm sure I speak on behalf of him as well as his family that, you know, without our heroes in that situation, this could have been a very uh different situation that we were dealing with. So, thank you very much. I don't know uh Mrs. Scill if you'd like to say anything on behalf of
005Eagle Elementary. I know you have usually a lot to say, Mrs. Gill. And while you're not up here, I'm not sure why. >> Thank Thank you, Mrs. Kennedy. This isn't about me. This is about Seth and Danielle. And it was through their very quick thinking and actions, they put themselves right in the forefront. hesitation. I had the opportunity to review it on the video and it was very scary to watch the child with the telltale signs of bringing their hands to their throat and both Mr. Hoglin quickly just came right up behind the kid started the back blows and there's Danielle fishing out the mozzarella stick. So, um really, you know, it's it's something that unless you see it, you don't understand the magnitude of it. and really it could have been a completely different
006outcome. So for your selflessness and your quick actions and quick thinking and you know really just putting our kids um in the forefront um my heart is so full and so appreciative and grateful that you are members of our Eagle family. So thank you both so much for everything you do not just in that day but day in and day out. That's the thing with Seth and Danielle. You know, whenever I walk into the cafeteria or Chrissy walks in, they're always engaged with the students, interacting with the students, talking with the students, assisting the students. So, it's just part of their nature. It's a day-to-day thing for them. So, thank you for this opportunity to recognize them in their efforts. I appreciate it. So, we have some certificates on behalf of the board of education.
007Once again, thank you for your quick service. Next, we're going to move on to the recognition of our students. So, I'm going to bring up Dr. R. >> Good evening. So, I want to It is with immense pride and joy that I and my heartfelt congratulations to our validictorian saludiatoran and class essaist of the class of 2026. First, can I have Miss Khloe Lynn come on up? So, Miss Chloe Lynn, our class essayist number three in the class whose strong academic performance, diligence, and commitment to excellence has earned her a 103.5 GPA and has distinguished her throughout her high school career. Khloe has consistently demonstrated focus, responsibility, and a thoughtful approach to her studies. Khloe will attend the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall, and her major will be engineering. class essing, number two
008in the class, outstanding academic accomplishments and determination has earned him a 103.8 uh GPA, which demonstrates both grit and grace. Michael's pursuit of excellence and a thoughtful approach to learning uh has enriched our school community. Michael will attend the University of South Carolina, the Columbia campus, which is the honors campus, and a major in and major in biochemistry in a pre-med track, number two in the class of 2026. And certainly last and not least uh is Miss Taylor to our valictorian of the class of 2026. Taylor, our Valdictorian, whose exceptional academic achievement has earned her a 104.6 uh GPA that reflects years of dedication, perseverance, and intellectual curiosity. Taylor's commitment to excellence, and consistent leadership in the classroom has set a powerful example for peers and future students alike. Taylor will attend the University of
009Connecticut, Yukon, uh, and major in physiology and neurobiology in a premed track in the fall. So, let's congratulate our top three for the class of 2026. I also think it's important to note that these honors represent far more than grades or rankings. These kids, you can look at them strictly on academics. They're part of probably most of the clubs we have, most of the honor societies, volunteer hours. So these are without question complete packages. They reflect character, resilience, and a genuine genuine passion for learning. Uh each of these students will leave a lasting mark on our school and we're confident they will continue to achieve great things in the years ahead and we are looking uh forward to that. So certainly on behalf of the Patrick Meford High School community and our entire community as
010we look forward to the prom, senior day, and graduation of course, uh we once again want to congratulate Taylor, Michael, and Chloe on a welldeserved recognition. We're incredibly proud of you. I'll be taking a >> and again students uh again on behalf of myself and the entire cabinet the board of education congratulations on this uh remarkable achievement. I will say to our families joining us this evening, congratulations to you cuz certainly I know they would not be here if it wasn't for your ongoing support and a lot of the um standards that you hold in your your household. So, thank you for being their cheerleaders for the last four years. and we will certainly be celebrating you again on graduation day, but we wanted to make sure that you were honored here at one of
011our board meetings. Congratulations. I just want to apologize. I have a family thing that I have to run out for. So, I'm just going to be leaving at this point. Okay. Next, we will have Dr. Gats to come up to announce and introduce our next student presenter. >> Hello. Uh AP research is the second year of our capstone program at the high school and it's called capital R research by the college board because the students conduct a completely independent investigation that includes design of a research question, a full scholarly literature review. They design their own experiment, collect and analyze their data to come to a new understanding. Rehea Gonzalez did a phenomenal job this year and I think her uh talk which you will hear in just a moment will be of very much interest
012to the community and teachers and administrators as well. So I'm so proud of her and her hard work and I can't wait for you to see what she's done. >> Hello. Thank you so much for for having me tonight. So for the past year I have been researching how teacher recognition affects students academic motivation and achievement. Now before we begin research has shown that teacher recognition builds a positive relationship between both students and teachers and along with that there are two different types of motivation which will be spoken about. The first motivation found is exttrinsic motivation. Now, exttrinsic motivation is wanting to do something because of an external reward or consequence. An example of this is studying for a test because you want to get a good grade or showing good work ethic in order
013to get a promotion or raise. Now, intrinsic motivation, however, is wanting to do something because you genuinely want to. And an example of this is taking a class because the subject interests you or playing a sport because you've enjoyed it all these years. So what does teacher recognition and student achievement mean? In this study specifically, teacher recognition represents the teachers who use stickers, verbal praise, or public recognition within their classrooms. And student achievement represents the students who are willing to go above and beyond in order to get good grades. So according to researcher Hina, they show that students who go to larger schools are more likely to drop out. Now this is because ers who have larger classes aren't able to provide that one-on-one attention with students, making students feel as if their learning isn't
014being prioritized. However, they also found that students who go to smaller schools are lessly um likely to drop out. And this is because teachers are able to prioritize the individual student and their learning, making them feel important. And according to researcher and professor at Cornell University, John H. Bishop he found that the US economy fails to give academic awards. Now academic awards is an important part of students because it shows competition within grade levels. Now if we take away academic awards within grades, it leads to less competition in the future, making students in the future feel as if going after certain positions in their jobs isn't as important. And my best evidence comes from researchers who and Shan who found that Teachers expectations play a psychological role in students academic achievement. This is important because
015it highlights the importance of teachers recognizing students grades and ultimately leads to their academic goals. And the gap in my research is how teacher recognition affects students intrinsic and exttrinsic motivation based on their academic position. Academic position in this case represents the students who are either in AP classes, honors classes or who have an 85 or above in those classes. Now, I chose this as my gap specifically because the research I found only really apply to gen ed classes rather than students who have to take AP exams or who have weighted averages. And my research question for today is to what extent does teachers attention and recognition towards high school students with different academic positions affect their academic achievement? So for my methodology, I chose a mixed method non-experimental correlation survey design. Now there were
016two surveys presented, a student survey and a teacher survey. The student survey studied students personal experience with teachers recognizing test scores and if it motivated them in a positive or negative way. It also studied if their motivation for the class came for personal interest or academic validation and studied if their interest for the class was intrinsic based on intrinsic motivation or exttrinsic motivation. And the teacher survey um studied teachers personal experiences with their own motivation to grade work. So first I asked teachers if it was okay if they were able to take the survey and if they were willing to publish it to their students. Now once it was completed I was able to put it into a system called JASP which which stands for Jeffrey's amazing statistical program and once it was put in
017there I was able to see if there was a study um or a correlation within the study being done. Now as you can see both teachers and students had an overall of 12 questions. However, the students had nine multiplechoice style questions and three free response questions, while the teachers had 10 multiplechoice styled questions and two free response questions. And all surveys had some type of liker prompt put into them. Now, an example of the student liker prompts is, "Do you rely on academic validation to satisfy your needs?" And an example from the teachers is, "I emphasize student growth more than I recognize um more than raw test scores when recognizing students, which was measured on a five-point leard scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Now, all participants resided within Long Island, New York, and
018students aged from 14 to 18 or grades 9 through 12. And teachers being examined taught either AP or honors courses, and they were recruited through their school email, Schooly, or social media platforms such as Instagram or Snapchat. And the data was collected through teachers and students in different AP or honors classes and subjects. As you can see on the chart, there were 75 students who decided to take the survey and 42 teachers who decided to take their teacher survey, which was measured through student age and teachers genders. Now, the first two tables that will be seen are from the student surveys. And the table that's about to be shown is a correlation between the number of AP or honors classes students are taking, their overall average, and how motivated students are in those classes. Now,
019the prompts given are how many AP or honors classes are you enrolled in and how motivated do you feel in those AP or honors classes? And as you can see from both prompts, there's a significant positive correlation of 323 and 351. And from the second table, it's a correlation between students overall average and academic validation. And the prompt given is do you rely on academic validation to satisfy your needs with a positive correlation of to of 292? And as stated before, significant correlations between AP or honors classes overall average and how motivated students feel was shown. and a significant correlation between academic validation and their overall average was also shown. Now, this third table that's about to be shown is from the teacher survey, which is a correlation between the grade levels teachers taught, how
020long it takes teachers to grade work, along with what motivates teachers to teach, and the forms of recognition used in their classrooms. And the prompts given was, "How quickly are you able to grade assignments once they are handed in? What motivates you to teach well and what types of student recognition do you use in your classes? Now, as you can see, the first prompt only showed a negative correlation of negative.391. Now, although there was a negative correlation presented, we see a positive trend between teachers motivation and the type of recognition used in classrooms. And a few notable results from my research was that a positive mean was found when students when asked if students feel anxious or stressed when teachers publicly recognize their tests with a mean of 1.400 and a standard deviation of 717.
021And a positive mean found regarding teachers prioritizing students growth over their raw test score was found with a mean of 3.439 439 and a standard deviation of 709. Now to conclude, we found that teacher recognition is beneficial for both parties and that teachers who recognize students test scores increase students motivation and achievement. Finally, 56% of teachers who took the survey would rather pay attention to students growth rather than their raw test scores. and implications of the survey is that exttrinsic motivation was found and teachers show desire for their students to do better. Exttrinsic motivation being found within this survey is an implication because it shows that students are willing to work towards something if you offer it to them. And teachers who show a desire for their students to do better in classes is also
022an implication because it shows that teachers aren't willing to sit back and relax and let their students just do whatever they want and want their students to actually get better in their classes. Now, a few limitations. According to researchers Jones and Young, they state that race of parents can affect students willingness to try in schools. Now, this is a limitation because when you grow up in different homes, in different cultures, it definitely does affect how you decide to do in class. And since my student survey didn't specifically ask for ethnicity and race, this turned into a limitation. Along with that, a small sample size of a total of 117 participants and the location and environment of the school was another limitation because it made the study only generalizable to the high school rather than Long
023Island as a whole. And for future research, teachers can help students become more motivated in their AP or honors courses while ensuring students performance in their classrooms is top tier. Thank you so much for listening. So congratulations. That was incredible. And I think Miss Marone, we have our future superintendent conference day guest speaker. Are you available? >> Oh, well congratulations. that was really incredible work that you did and and Dr. Gats, thank you very much for sharing that with us. So, I really commend you. That was a lot of great information and we appreciate you sharing this because certainly something we'd love to share back to our teachers as a whole. So, thank you very very much. All right. I don't know if any of our board trustees would like to uh say anything before
024we give out our certificate. Well done. Nice job. So, we have a certificate here. Did we have a certificate? No, we didn't. I'm sorry. We didn't. We We will certainly get that to you, but we'd like to take a picture with you. Okay. Thank you. Once again, thank you, Ry. That was an awesome presentation. Next, we're going to move on to Mr. Maisie with the Elite Towers presentation. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um this evening we have a um special presentation. Uh earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet with Rich Couterio and Tanya Negron from Elite uh Long Island Towers and they have an opportunity for our district that they wanted to share with the community and the board that far exceeds the considerations uh from just the business office. There are um
025certainly some interesting things about cell phone towers that would affect various aspects of our community and they're here to give a brief presentation this evening to share that information with you. >> Good evening and thank you for having us. I'll try to be brief because I know you have a long night ahead of you. Again, my name is Tanya with Elite LII Towers and we're here to uh just open up a discussion with uh pertaining to wireless communications. And so we specialize in um the telecommunication carriers and even for uh emergency service providers. So many of the facilities that we've done throughout Long Island in the past 30 years is to facilitate that. And so when I first started in the industry, it was pagers. And today we can watch TV on our cell phones.
026So the connectivity has increased, which I'm sure I would say I would guess to say about 90% of the people in the room right now probably have a cell phone. And I would probably venture to say maybe even closer to a hundred. And so with the way the market has been, we have some numbers in front of you which AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, we're very well aware of these wireless carriers. These are the main carriers on Long Island. Um, and we show you in the millions how many subscribers they are as of those dates that are up on there. And so when we look at this, everyone has a different carrier because you have a choice. And so any of the facilities that we do uh propose, they will be able to have all of the
027carriers on them. So they're in direct competition with each other. You see their commercials. They they try to gain your your interest. Um but what we do is make sure that we have a facility that will house all of the antennas including for the emergency service providers like a fire district, police, ambulance. So on the next here, the project cost is something that is uh sensitive to many of the quasi municipal organizations that we deal with because the cost to build these things are they're they're great. Um they can go from $550,000 to 600. And it's a lot of it has to deal with the cost of steel, the cost of construction, just the permitting, the attorneys, the specialists that we have to um hire in order to do these um permitting processes with the
028municipality. And so when we do these things, we incur the cost and then we share the revenue with the district or the fire district, whomever we're actually going into a lease agreement with. So the projected annual cash flow is depicted on here. Um we have an annual escalator to any of the rents that would be uh received by AT&T uh Verizon and T-Mobile. And so this is just a generic way of looking at it from a graphing standpoint. And this is through a 49-year term. Um, right here it says seven tenants, but it really is seven locations within the actual structure. Uh, sometimes AT&T will take two uh locations on the tower, 4G, 5G. I'm sure you guys have heard that before. Same thing with T-Mobile. They would take two locations as well. So, we
029have to make sure that we can accommodate future growth of our generations. So, the the technology changes about every two years or so. And so, we make sure that the facil can accommodate that so that we can maximize the cash flow. This is just a generic compound um what we lease in order to house the equipment. So although you have a freestanding structure which is the circle that you have there with a square around it uh the rectangular areas are what we call the equipment cabinets. And so each of the carriers, even though they have an antenna, the signal has to go somewhere and then transmit it into our our landlines, which we still do have. Um, and so this is how we have to have a compound to secure it. Everything goes within. It's
030shielded. Um, we have a fence to secure it and utilities that go to it. The only utilities we have is power and telco. There's no water, no waste or anything like that. This is how the tower will look. And again, this is just a proposed um facility. And when you look at the way it is, it's it looks like a flagless flag pole. And I have examples of that at the end of um the presentation. And all the antennas, the lines, everything goes inside. The only thing that can be external is if we choose to do a flag for a flag pole or if we place um the fire district on the very top or the police. Their antennas do not go inside the tower. They would have to go on the very top in
031order to propagate their signals. So these are some examples of projects that we have done throughout Long Island. Um again, they're they're a stealth structure. Uh this one does not have a flag on it, but it is at a facility where it's a fire district which their antenna is on the very top as you can see. And then on the bottom it that's where the compound is. Here's the village of Beltter. This is an American veterans hall uh in East Icelip and you were able to see a little bit of that as well. Some of the areas in which we actually do these facilities are very tight in um space and so sometimes we would have to put the equipment on the roof. So if you look on the roof you see a cable tray
032kind of going across from the tower onto the rooftop and so that equipment will be placed on the top of a building in order to just tuck it away and then make sure that it's not exposed or taking up valuable space especially here at the fire district. Here's another tower. they decided to do it dark brown. Um, a lot of these facilities, this is one in Kings Park where they did brown on the bottom and a galvino, which is kind of a sky blending color. So, they decided to do it half and half. Here's another one at a boat marina out in the town of South Holt. Bridge Hampton. Again, it's just a white pole. The village of Lake Grove is another one here, but they have um the fire district up on top. And
033this is Springs Fire District, which they have antennas up on the top as well. This is Cherry Grove where the antennas are actually in the Koopla. And so we are strategic in making sure that we have the least evasive, visually evasive, um application. So here they're actually hidden. And these are some of the ones you see probably in Nassau County and in city because they attach themselves to the actual structures and the buildings. And this is what a tower looks like without um the canister being covered. It's kind of far for you guys, but there are antennas if you see the panels up on the second um canister, but there are no uh covers on it so that you can kind of see what that antennas look like. You saw that already. Bluepoint Fire, their
034antenna's up on the very top. This is a school that we've recently done, uh, Eastport South Manor School. Um, they had decided to put ESM on it and, uh, they do fly a flag. So, if anyone does go to that campus, you'll be able to see that they do raise the flag, um, at this location, but this is what it does look like at that school. Here's a photo of it. And this is what it looks like with the flag. And that's an actual cell tower. And these are just some other current projects that I have going on now. Um I have many more, but these are the most recent that are to come up. And that's the end of my slideshow. And I hope I didn't go too quickly, but um I'm here for
035any questions. Again, it's just to open the conversation of a possibility of doing it at any of the locations that we um have reviewed. and it it takes a while for us to garner most of the information that we do need when it comes to um services in the area and how it would perform. But again, it's just for us to open the conversation and if you guys are willing to um take it a little bit further, we're here for any questions. I don't think I think we're missing there was a slide that said um what was it the how the cost that not the cost of it but how much we could bring in. We don't have that in here. >> I don't think that you have there. >> I don't know if I
036missed that page. >> No, this is just >> Do you know which one I'm talking about? >> Yeah. >> If I just if you could get it to us >> or Yeah, that's all I >> We can absolutely get that to you. And um And I even have something else where we can do like rental projections in detail by year. So that was just like a really easier way of showing you obviously the potential, but if we can get more granular with actual annual income, yeah, I can send that to you. >> That would be fantastic. And then also just another question just just looking at this um depending I guess I I don't know where exactly we're looking to to put them if we do this. Did the community get a get a say
037or did like how did that work with let's say if all of a sudden now I could look out my door and see this right so did how did you work like around that or >> so in the case with ESM we had to do the same forum here everything is in a public forum and every process that we do if it's just the leasing portion we came in if we uh looked at certain properties we came in and once we figured out where we were going we came in and so every portion of that process is obviously discussed here. Um there's no way I would even suggest not doing it this way. Um and then once we get to the point where we are ready to start filing for permitting, then that allows us
038to actually um let everyone know that there's a hearing happening within the area as per the zoning rags. And uh that will also give it an opportunity for people who don't come to these meetings to also see and have a say. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. >> Are we only discussing one uh location right now? >> It could be multiple, but again that's up to your discretion. It really we're not imposing uh multiple sites unless you don't want to. You know, if you do, then that's fine. What lo sorry what location were you looking at? >> So from what I see you have 12 uh different properties that um we looked at and again this is very preliminary. I have uh Kanan the high school and Tmont. >> Okay. Um, these things can only are only
039working with cell phone signals and whatever next generation 5G, whatever. They're not for surveillance purposes ever. >> For surveillance? >> Surveillance purposes? >> No. Not unless we place um a surveillance camera there. Is that what you want? or unless the district has a different system that they need to also um have antennas for which I I'm not aware if you guys do any dispatching radio or anything like that. I'm not aware of it. >> Okay. So, I mean like if the if the local law enforcement if we determined local law enforcement required a thing up on top >> that it would just be antennas. It would not video. Okay. That's correct. >> Communication only. Thank you. >> Yeah. Communication only. And it's everything is by licensed frequencies. >> Okay. And the the the the the
040cost is covered by >> by us, >> you guys. And then the when you get the numbers crunched a little bit better, you'll get us an idea of what expected income would be. That's correct. Y >> you'll absolutely see what that breakdown is. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Is there any maintenance on it over time? And then also um how long does it take to actually like construction-wise start to finish if this was something we went with? >> So maintenance on it is very minimal. It's not as if we our tenants are flushing toilets or anything like that. The only time that we have an issue would be sometimes it's years before they even do anything. Um the main part of maintenance would be upgrading to the next generation when you went from 4G to
0415G. And usually it's a couple of years as you can see in between those generations. So as technology changes then every two or three years or so they will come in and change the antennas not the lines or anything else. And then this other part of that um when you're talking about the maintenance um I'm sorry what was the other part of the question? Well, actually, so um who covers the cost of any maintenance or like you know if it the wear like wear and tear on it? Do they have to be >> That would be us if there's something on the actual structure because we are the ones responsible for the structure. But if it's for the upgrading of the antennas that's on the carrier specifically. >> Okay. And then yeah, the other question
042was just how long does it take to to put them up? >> So construction we can we can actually do a couple of things. the foundation has to cure. So whatever we do with that foundation, we have two different types. Quesan, which goes very deep into the ground. Um we can do a quickening and this the cement in order to get that to quick I would say quicken between two to three weeks, but we do nothing else until that actually uh we do break we do a break test and just to make sure that it's cured and then at that point that's when we'll say okay we're ready to actually construct the rest of it. So the actual tower itself to stack it is in one day. It's it's literally looks like Lego. There's just
043a couple of pieces that slide onto each other and bolt to the foundation. So when it comes to disturbance and construction, we can tighten up the schedule very well and um and do it when obviously school's not in session. Again, we went through this with ESM, so we can be very strategic as to how we do that. of the tower itself. The first is rigid and then each canister is not. So everyone's always down best analogies. >> It's solid steel. >> Yeah. We we make sure that especially if we have any emergency service providers on it, it has to be what we call category three, a type three. Um, a lot of other structures on Long Island are like type two, but if we know that emergency service provider is going on it, we make
044sure it's much more beefier in order to make sure that it's just it's never going anywhere. >> Uh, I understand that uh it depends or varies on how many carriers you have in it, but on average uh from your experience about how much does each one of these generate per year? >> Per year. If you have all three carriers, you're probably looking about 80,000. >> 80,000. And how's that split between us and you? >> It It's 50 and 50. >> 5050. So for about 40,000 per >> 80,000 to you. >> 80,000 to us. Okay. >> Okay. >> Per tower. >> Per per what? >> Per location. >> Per tower. Right. That's what I say. Thank you. Yeah. Perfect. So, by putting this, let's say we put up in the high school, this improves like the
045cell phone, like if you can't get, you know, signals or something, if you by putting this up, it improves the way that we can >> communicate on the property and correct with our Wi-Fi and all that. >> Correct. And so that and also with the and a lot of um people don't know that when the fire districts are dispatching and even though they have their antennas up on top when there's calls and ambulance and everyone else involved they are using iPads. So that's how they find their locations and even their own cell phones are now uh software where it's it's proprietary to the fire districts but that's what they use. Yes, they have the radios, but they are using their own cell phones with an app on it and also iPads for dispatching of orders.
046>> So, this will help in the rave app, correct? >> Yes. >> Right. >> Yes. >> Like what's that called with the geoloccating? >> Yes, that's correct. >> Thank you. I don't think we have any other questions at this time from the board trustees. Thank you very much for the presentation. Greatly appreciate it. >> I appreciate the time. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for that presentation. Um, next we're going to move on to our ex official student member, Miss Charlotte Leak. >> Good evening everyone. Tonight I'll be sharing some recent events as well as some upcoming events going on within our district. At the last meeting, I discussed a vaping prevention program called Catch My Breath, where high school students have been getting trained to talk to middle and elementary school students about
047the negative effects of vaping. So this past Friday, May 15th, high school students went to Oregon Middle School to begin the first session of their training. They began sharing the information that they learned from their training in social studies classes and will be heading back to Oregon this Thursday, May 21st, to complete their secondformational session. And within the next year, they hope to have this integrated districtwide to stop this issue before it begins. Um this Sunday, May 17th, Patrick Medford held their second annual using our voices mental health run. This event had lots of participation from both the community and student volunteers from multiple clubs and sports teams. Um it was a very successful event and the funds raised from this event will support mental health resources and counseling opportunities for Long Island students. So,
048thank you to all those who participated with this. Um now to move on to some important senior events. Senior prom ticket sales have been extended throughout this week and can be purchased for $165 through your students My School Bucks account. Prom will be held June 1st on Main Street in Patchog with rain dates for June 8th and June 15th. And we're very much looking forward to this exciting evening. Um and lastly, June 4th is scholarship and awards night. Your student will have received an invitation to this event if being honored an award or scholarship and should arrive to the school by 6:30 p.m. that evening to prepare. Thank you all for listening. Thank you, Charlotte. Um, next we're going to move on to the consent agenda which we're pulling um we are pulling 8.22 which
049is the discussion of the charter schools. Yes. So we changed it to um the end of one >> comment section. >> Yeah. >> Last month too I asked and still didn't get an answer. But why would that be changed without letting anybody know? I mean I've been here for over 25 years and always been the two present on the presentations and then on public comments. >> Yeah. So we decided to just do it one like all together. >> So it's just a surprise. >> No, we announced it last time. >> No, it wasn't announced because I had asked at the end because it wasn't on. Why would you do that? Why would you then reduce people's comments to now you can't you can't comment on the presentation? >> You can still comment on the presentation
050at the comment. only have three minutes when there's a lot of other things to discuss. So this is this is this is very unfair to the community especially people who come all the time who are used to a certain you know procedure and policy that's always been and now you're saying no now you have to wait till the very end of the meeting where if other things pop up now you only have three minutes to discuss on this when you have something like this question and you just completely letting anybody know. It's not even like nobody knew and I'm here all the time. >> Thank you. So, we're pulling um 8.22 for discussion on a separate vote. So, can I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. Lauren can second.
051>> All in favor? I >> Okay, it passes. And then we'll move on for the discussion of 8.22 which is the discussion of the um regarding the charter schools for the um New York State School Board Association. >> Uh you had already pulled it or do you want me to start discussing it? >> You can discuss it. Yep. >> Okay. Hang on. Let me pull it up please. Uh this is I I I asked to pull this to just uh fill in the community a little bit more on what this is. We're uh making a recommendation making a recommending a motion um u uh regarding charter schools. Should I read the thing or anyway what I'd like to do is read the thing later and then um uh send it with a letter to the
052appropriate um uh elected officials um to uh maybe draft that letter this week um to advocate for also instead of an resolution like this, advocate also for rem uh uh the removal of Sunni as an approval body and just leave it with um is it stated or is it I can't remember the first one. We need having two bodies approving uh these uh charter schools is is just creating more and more problems. Um there was a recent report from Hofster University that we all just recently read. It came out some time ago. Uh the average tuition that is being paid to charter schools in Nassau County, that's where the study was done. Um, in Nassau County, average tuition paid to tutors charters per student is $25,540 per pupil. Each pupil expense for the charters is
053$18,686. There's a lot of money missing and I don't know if there is an if there is an audit procedure in place. Um so charters are destructive to the community overall and what we're asking is that um the charter schools um the whereas charter schools are funded with public funds through taxation and whereas the expenditures of charter schools are overseen by elected boards us which are accountable to the public. And whereas budgets of fiscally independent school districts are approved by the citizens of the communities they serve. And whereas charter schools divert public funds from the budgets of school districts. And whereas the diversion of public funds adversely impacts districts budgets of district school district schools. And whereas charter school expenditures are not overseen by an elected school board that is accountable to the public. And
054whereas charter school spending plans are not approved by citizens of the communities in which they serve. Uh and whereas charter schools are permitted to open without the approval of voters in the communities in which they serve. And whereas the board of education has received correspondence from the group Long Island Against Charter Schools, seeking to have the board send correspondence urging the New York State Board of Ed I'm sorry, New York State School Boards Association to advocate for lawmakers to codify local approval of charter schools and their expansion. Thou therefore be it resolved, the board of education hereby authorizes the board president to sign and commit correspondence urging for NISBA to advocate for legislation requiring all charter applications to be approved by local voters of impacted communities prior to submission of the relevant state chartering agencies.
055That's what we're voting on. Anybody have any more they want to add or things else we should do? >> I think my opinion is sending this to Nisba is one thing. I think we also need to individually send this to electeds so that they have that they can also start taking action on their end. >> Thank you. >> Oh, sorry. So, we're voting on the letter that we got tonight, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, we're not changing that the resolution. Okay. >> I just wanted to Thank you. You want to elaborate and and like clarify what this is, why we're doing it, and the importance of it. >> Perfect. >> So, then could I have a motion to accept that resolution? >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? I.
056Okay. There were no actions arising out of exact session and the information for policy first reading. We have 1313 gifts for school and these will be included in the June 22nd board of education agenda. 3350 travel and conference expense reimbursement and 3350R travel and conference conference expense and reimbursement regulations. Next we'll move on to superintendent and super assistant superintendent reports. So, good evening everyone. Welcome to our May board of education meeting. I'd like to first congratulate all trustees that were recognized this evening on your certificates. So, congratulations to our two trustees. Welld deserved and thank you for your ongoing commitment for the community and our schools. Uh, Charlotte did a lot of my speaking points. We must be on the same page. So, thank you for highlighting some of those incredible events. But I'd also
057like to congratulate uh Daniel Steyberg and Katie Foreman who were instrumental in making sure our mental health run was a success. We had probably 400 participants register for the event. I know Trustee Jennings was out there running and um Trustee Salazar, your daughter, did an amazing job singing the national anthem. So, we had participation from all. I was there. I did not run this year, but I rooted everyone on who crossed the finish line. So, congratulations to all. I'd also like to again congratulate our three graduating seniors on the remarkable achievement. I also would like to let the community know that this year will mark the first year we're recognizing students at graduation for our new magna uh sumakumladi magna kumladi and kumladi honores. Um this really is in alignment with our new honorary distinction
058policy that we adopted in 2022. So, we will be celebrating many students at our graduation who worked really hard and had a uh outstanding excellence in academic achievement this school year at the end of their four years. So, I would like to just remind um our community about that. Would like to also share with the community that I've been working very closely with our newly appointed superintendent, Dr. Harrian. He's had the opportunity to visit the district multiple times. Um, and we've toured the district, visiting nine of our 11 schools. He'll be back to visit the last two schools. But also, Dr. Harrian did join us uh last week at our annual volunteer recognition night. And um I'd also like to congratulate Mrs. Pam Julian Peterson on her award this year as being selected the superintendence
059exemplary uh volunteer award winner. So congratulations, Mrs. um Peterson. Again, I know Charlotte uh recognized our students for the catch my breath presentations. I will say I had the opportunity to sit in on one of the presentations and I think they are just uh amazing. Our students, our middle school students were actively engaged and I think we have future um educators in the audience this evening because they were masters at working the room, getting students to participate. So you guys did an incredible job. So thank you for really taking on this leadership role. I had the opportunity to meet with many of our high school students uh several months ago with Dr. R and these students stepped forward when I asked them to to take back a leadership role and to start really you know
060understanding that their high school and the the vaping was becoming a uh real concern for myself and the health and safety of the entire school community. They took it upon themselves to say you're right, Mrs. Kennedy, we need to take back control of this. And so, thank you for all your support over the last few months and and making my vision come true. So, I look forward to your continued participation in the program and getting it up and going earlier in all of our schools next year. I know I spoke to uh Mrs. Pulis, our health teacher, and she also asked me to connect our students. uh she does a lot of work at our elementary and making sure we're also starting it even earlier in elementary schools. So, congratulations to all of our students
061on that. I'd also uh hats off to our wellness committee. I know I spoke uh at one of our last meetings to talk about Farmer's fridge. It has arrived. We have it at our high school. I did send out notification to our community that students will be able to begin purchasing healthy um food selections, salads, wraps, bowls at uh the high school on Wednesday, May 20th. Prices range anywhere from 8 to to $13. So again, students can use debit or credit card. I see some of our high school students here joining us hopefully. Gentlemen, did you see our farmer's fridge? I'm hoping you're going to buy our first uh wrap or bowl on Wednesday. So hopefully this will be another alternative for our students, especially those staying late um in the evening and also for
062our staff who work up at the high school as well. So excited and um glad that we were able to get that in place through our wellness committee. Also uh just would like to remind our uh community that we encourage all members to exercise their voting rights tomorrow. Again, as Cecilia, thank you uh to Mr. Maisie, his entire team as long um as well as the entire uh cabinet and all of our building directors and principles for developing a very thoughtful and thorough um budget. We do believe we've presented a budget that is fiscally responsible and addresses the needs of our students and staff and all of our residents. So again, please um get out there and vote tomorrow. I believe that is it. I will just um see if any of our assistant soups
063would like to um say I think Dr. Conn has an announcement. >> Thank you, Mrs. Kennedy. Just wanted to welcome Ryan Casease. He is going to be one of our newest administrators. He was on the agenda tonight. He will be the coordinator of student registration, data, and records. And he is coming to us from the Greenport School District where he was a seasoned administrator there. So, welcome aboard, Ryan. Ryan, you're welcome to have a wrap or a bowl at our farmer's fridge up at the high school. is just around the corner. Miss or Mr. Maisy, anything? No, I think Okay, that's it. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to committee reports, buildings and operations. Mr. Maisie, >> uh Trusty Kger had to leave as you know, so I'm giving the report this evening in her
064place. Uh we had a opportunity uh last month. I decided to do a walking tour meeting at the high school. I brought the committee members there so they could actually physically see uh and experience uh the grand opening of our uh Raider Stadium grandstands and the new multi-purpose field bleachers. They've been fully installed, open to the public for visitors and ready now obviously for graduation. uh we have a few remaining small steps to do but uh they were able to see firsthand the new press box scoreboards and the related facilities. So I will caution you that uh right now we are in the midst of still working on the connections between the press box to the jumbotron and hope to have that done in time for graduation but right now we are working through the
065process we need every day between now and then to make that happen but uh fully hope to see that come to fruition. Uh the other bond projects we are moving along um with not just the finishing touches on um uh Oregon, they're even talking about starting the theatrical upgrades at SAC uh South Ocean, which is even getting us a little bit ahead of schedule. So fully we'll have all the secondary schools done with the lighting and sound for the new start of the new school year. Uh with regard to the HVAC, the in fact we had a meeting again today. uh they are moving along doing all the preliminary work so that the new uh unit ventilators be placed at Eagle and Bay and then the upgrades to the air conditioning the cooling elements will
066be installed at South Ocean to take place uh this summer at all buildings I'm sorry those three buildings uh we did talk about the maximum temperature in schools law so that was something that we talked about um in this forum uh at the August and September meetings because The law went into effect last September and we had established a an action plan at the time and it was prudent to share that with the committee because now the times that really that affects us is the beginning of the school year and the end of the school year and we just reiterated and shared the board policy with them. The fact that we are prepared to um take the necessary actions uh in accordance with this law and with our board policy and we've already begun the
067discussions internally. So, Miss Maron is already looking ahead to Regent's testing schedules, and we are making preparations in advance to make sure that we comply with everything, but also have things at the ready to have extra fans in in place to utilize all of our air conditioning spaces for the students so that we can take all of those things out of the equation and um and lessen the impact on them should the heat become obsessive. Uh and the last piece was to talk about elite and their presentation this evening which you heard from Miss Negron uh earlier today and that is the report from the buildings and operations committee. >> Thank you. Next is finance trusty kaban. >> Uh we did not have a May meeting and I apologize I don't have it on my
068calendar for the next one. Do you happen to know Mr. Maisie when our next meeting is? >> Uh that was our last meeting scheduled for the year. >> There we go. We're all done. Great job. >> Next, we move on to districtwide technology. Trusty Zer. >> Uh thank you. Um so we started off our uh committee meeting with discussing the district technology plan which was approved by the state. Uh we then moved on to student digital safety where we discussed the switching from light speeded to linewise. We are in the middle of transitioning uh to a a different um digital safety platform. Um it focuses on blocking malware hacking mature uh or explicit material. Um, we also discussed and reviewed Classwise, which is a new classroom monitoring uh solution, um, which offers more features uh,
069for teachers. Um, tabs, pause, internet, screen shares, focus rules, a whole bunch of things that were uh, not available before. Um we also discussed the move app uh I'm sorry the move uh which is working to wiring them to uh the phones in each classroom. This is where we can I guess um use uh our um IDs for tapping and accessing things. Um that was our last meeting. It was on May 14th and that was our last meeting for the year. So, we also uh I guess we just finished with a little wish list of what we're going to be look forward to next year. Um and you know, we're going to continue our discussion with uh improving safety. And uh I think that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh for extracurricular, our next
070meeting is June 16th. We'll move on to Trusty Salazar again for instructional student support programs. >> That was quick. All right. So uh for instructional program we uh began with discussing or continuing discussing our elementary report card. Got an update on that. Uh we are looking to making revisions um that make it more clear and useful for families. Uh we had a kindergarten update the use of overall to include overall uh effort and grades less grades just overall effort. um standards simplified to be more understandable and supportable at home. So just easier to read for parents and more in align with the standards of the state. Um we also to discuss developing a parent guide uh to make it more understandable so they understand the um it's going to accompany a new report card. And
071I think that's all I have for today. Continue discussing. Yep, that's all. Thank you very much. That was our last meeting for the year. That was on April 23rd when we're now looking forward to the future. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next up, we have uh Trusty Smith. What legislation? >> Um I was not at that meeting because I had some family stuff I needed to deal with. Uh Dr. Cohen, could you read? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> So, we talked about uh pay uh pilots payment in lie of taxes. This was uh we were just refreshing for the committee members that weren't able to attend our joint meeting with the finance committee. We talked about uh requisitioning and how we follow municipal law. We talked about um project labor agreements and how those
072are um assigned and how those bids are awarded. And we had uh some conversation about the zero emission buses. Remember there were two timelines. Uh the first was 2027 uh with the uh uh there was going to be uh the limitation on purchasing any new uh regular gas buses and then 2032 was the second timeline where all buses had to be zero emission. It does look favorable that uh perhaps in the governor's budget they might be pushing that timeline by five years. We're hopeful that will go through so that those timelines would then reflect uh 2032 and 2040 instead of the current timelines that they are. So, we're hopeful that that will be included in the final governor's budget whenever that is adopted. And that is all. We have no further meetings scheduled for this
073year. >> Thank you. Next, we're going to move on to board discussion updates, which we'll start with uh update on recess. >> Yeah. First. >> Okay. So, I just wanted to update the board on where we're at with NISBA with recess. Um for those in the community that might not know, we passed two resolutions in October through NISBA. Um, one of them was about mandating daily recess because recess is not a mandate in New York. And the other one was to have a count up to 30 minutes of recess count towards instructional time. So that were that was two different um resolutions that NISBA passed as an organization. The one resolution kind of went off of a bill in the assembly, Warner's bill in the Assembly, and the verbiage was a little different in her
074bill. Her bill said a minimum of 30 minutes would count, not count towards instructional time, but towards daily recess. So, on another note, I've been working I'm I co-founded um not co-founded, I'm a co- um adviser of a say yes to recess organization and we've been working with Warner's office, Senator May's office who created these bills and just kind of going back and forth with the verbiage of and these little words make such a difference up to or a minimum of So to make a long story short, NISBA did come out, I wanted to tell you guys a memorandum of support for Warner's bill, which I'll tell you was tweaked a little bit, which says requires requires each school district to ensure that every public school in which school days exceed five hours in duration
075provides up to 30 minutes of daily recess within the school day for all students in kindergarten through fifth grade and for students in sixth grade who attend an elementary school. Now, NISBA added in their support that they also added what we passed the resolutions, right? To advocate for mandatory implementation of daily recess and then also to advocate for up to 30 minutes per day to count toward required instructional hours for elementary students. So what on the separate hat on the other hat where say yes to recess is advocating for a little bit more than 30 minutes. The word that is really not sitting right to me what they changed from original was a minimum of 30 minutes. Now it's up to 30 minutes. So the way I'm interpreting it and many are interpreting it is
076up to 30 minutes could be you could give recess for five minutes and be in compliance. So, you know, it's it's a little different than what we were setting out to um advocate for. It is though aligned with how it was worded with NISBA. So, I you know, I understand where NISSBA has to stick to what their membership voted for. Um, I think the assembly and the legislators want the commissioner to make the decision to count the minutes towards instruction because she is the one that actually can make that decision. And I think the commissioner wants the legislators to make the decision. So, we're kind of going a back and forth, a little pingpong game with who wants to, you know, pull the trigger or not. It can be frustrating at times, but I'm keeping
077my composure and and doing, you know, doing the work and trying to figure out how we can make this work. Um, I have a meeting with Doug Smith to kind of see he's in the education committee. He's our local legislator to see where the resistance is and and you know, what is the assembly, the educational committee, why are they why did they change it at the last minute? Because they changed their verbiage. They had a minimum of 30 minutes and they changed it. I also have a meeting set up with the regent Felicia William uh Thomas Williams to talk to start talking to our regents about this. So, I just wanted to to kind of keep you in the loop of where that's at. Um there's a lot of work to be done. I mean,
078the the American Pediatric Academy of Pediatrics just came out with a report on how important recess is for students K through 12, not just elementary school. It's all over the place how important it is for all the things to help learning to help kids do better. And even the research that say yes to recess uses the link project uh l i n k that research is based on 60 minutes of recess and the research is there that it actually improves test scores. So this is all researchbased. This is all you know really coming out from all ends. So, I I just, you know, ask everyone to keep an open mind. I'm sure I'll be back here next year at the podium, maybe talking to you a little bit about it. Maybe it's something the legislative
079committee next year can have on their agenda to talk about a little bit more. And I I don't think, you know, I was hoping this would get done this session, but there's not even a budget yet. So, that's where their focus really is, and you can't fault them for that. So, that's the update. Diana, if you would like me to go with you to any of these, I will happily go with you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um just giving you a little um Bose update like Dr. go and said the new bill that's out there that we're supporting which um for zero emission busing to go from five years from 2027 to 2032 and that your whole entire fleet from 2035 to 2040. So trying to get those bills to pass.
080Um mathematics standards, there's a release of the new standards from preK through 12 and the review guide on NICED's website. There's also performance-based learning and assessments for middle school and high school that aligns with New York inspires mental health state ed is going to release new guidelines for um how to bring those initiatives and what initiatives we can work on within the schools the schools May 26th and August 20th New York Inspires and Portrait of a Graduate will be sessions for the component districts. Bose serves um 51 component districts and how they can build together and plan for the next year. um school year and um incorporating both of those and then the workforce development NICED and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Marketing plans to visit Long Island to highlight and uplift
081the technical career paths in the food manufacturing and expand job embedded work force developments. So that's there. Next we'll move on to community comments. Okay. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Kennedy, for the recognition. I truly appreciate it and I've loved working with you. Um, so this is for presentations, which I do want to know why it was changed. So, we can get back to that because I want to know why it was removed from the agenda after decades of being on there. you're removing people from being able to speak. Um, so I have a lot of questions about this. I know we have talked for years in legislation, especially near the high school, that there are problems with the cells. Is this supposed to help the service there? What is the cost cost to the district,
082to the taxpayers? Where is it going to be placed? Um, what's the purpose and benefits? Um, do we need another bond? How many are there going to be? Does there need to be town approval? Do we have to work in conjunction with the fire department? So, I understand that you said that there is going to be a presentation for this, but there was one tonight and a lot of these questions, um, were not answered. So, I'm just curious myself. Um, and it was so nice, um, just to piggyback, the 5K run this weekend was the the best weather. Um, and it was so nice seeing everybody working together and helping. And Francis's child has the most beautiful voice. Most beautiful voice. She did a phenomenal job. Um, I had the chills. Um, Mr. Maisie, thank
083you so much for everything with all the upkeep, keeping on top of everything. The stadium looks amazing. Um, we were able to use it for senior night, although our our number cups were vandalized. But other than that, the stadium being there, the p the parents and the um guests, all the guests that are coming, you know, we're there every week and every team coming has such positive things to say. And you know, you and Mr. Crackco doing a phenomenal job out there. It looks amazing. I can't wait until it's finished. Um the as far as the buses, I understand that it's still like the governor might still have it, but it was my understanding when we were at the legislative uh breakfast, there was not one legislator who's supporting this. Um they can't they don't
084have a way for it to be. So, I'm not sure if it's something I understand that it's still something that they're discussing and that you do have to financially be smart and and plan for it, but it was my understanding that it's really not going to go through. They don't have the electric. They don't have like Long Island especially does not have the means to provide this um in addition to the unfunded bus mandate to purchase them. Um, so I I know we're talking about we have to talk about it, but I I kind of feel a little bit of less stress with it because I feel that not even Fitzpatrick was like, you know, like nobody was saying that um that it was going to be done. Um, thank you for a great um,
085instructional the that parent guide that was shown from Matuck was amazing and I'm so happy that we're going to use that as a model that we can use moving forward. Um Diana, I would love to talk more about the recess too because something that I think that in our district that we can focus on here is maybe it where I came where middle country where we had 20 minutes lunch 20 minutes recess and it didn't take away from a lot of classroom time but we also had fun Friday there were also other things that are done in the classroom. So maybe where we can clarify that it's indoor not just outdoor and it's it's you know maybe board games things like that where it's different you know what it is um and then um I
086guess I guess that's it but thank you very much thank you for everything I would like an answer to that Okay, next we'll move on to board comments. Trusty Smith. Um, thank you all for coming. Uh, congratulations to everybody. That was a lovely presentation. Um, I was not able to make it to the the the run over the weekend because I went to the um Hispanic Heritage Parade where our students um Hispanic Heritage Club were performing. They did a spectacular job. I got great pictures. Um, it was a three-hour parade, hence the sun. Um, it was a great parade. Um, and it was a great celebration. And, um, so I missed the run, but I glad I was at the parade. Our kids did great. Um, and, um, come vote tomorrow. There's a lot of
087good candidates running for the board of education, and there's a budget that you have the right to vote for. Thank you. All right. So, uh, first off, I'd like to thank, um, Mr. Glenn and Miss Shine for their quick thinking and heroic efforts, uh, and saving our children. Very, uh, it's amazing. So, thank you again. Uh, congratulations to our three students that were here earlier um, on their academic uh, success. Uh, and thank you to Miss Gonzalez for her presentation on student academic motivation and achievement. That was also very informative. I loved it. And please, please, please make sure you go out and vote tomorrow. Uh we do have a budget, a budget that we're uh looking at, so hopefully uh we get out there and get the numbers up. Thank you. >> All right.
088I'm used to being the first one that gets to talk, so now they're stealing all my all my comments. Um well, just to echo what has already been said, I also wanted to just take a minute. Um we are in such a busy season right now. So, if you're a parent or a grandparent or a teacher or even a student, I just wanted to say, you know, this is such a hard time. You're trying to figure out how to be at every event on every field. Um, and it's an exhausting time of year. I had the opportunity to go to the PMCT student citizen awards night. I wanted to thank all the teachers that came out to that. It was such a special event. I mean, really over the top to make our students feel
089um really just special. Um I was surprised because they said it has been around for like 30 years, and I don't think I got that award when I went here, so I was a little bit confused by it, but um all joking aside, thank you to all the teachers that came out to that, especially during such a busy time of the year. Um I know it meant a lot even for my own kids to see their teachers here. So, thank you and come out and vote tomorrow. Good luck to all the candidates running. Good luck. Am I allowed to say good luck to my friend Kellyanne Jennings? I don't know if I am, but I'm going to say it. Um, I'm not seeking reelection again. So, I just wanted to take a minute to just
090say that it's been a pleasure. It's been truly an honor, and I'm wishing the next crew that's coming in really all the best luck. It's a it's it's it's tough, but it's so rewarding. And I really appreciate this community, the support, and my team. And I'll say more in June, but I just wanted to say that good luck to everyone tomorrow, and please come out and vote. Still have one more meeting. >> Yes. I just want to say congratulations to everyone. Um the 5K race we I think we had a lot more people and the weather was much hotter than it was last year because it was raining cold last year. But just the spirit of seeing all the kids get together and working together and just coming out for a great cause was something
091that was um good great to see. Um the thing on Friday that we some of us attended was the high school musical showcase which was um very well um to see the talent and the songs that they picked was really awesome and it was great to just come out and listen to them sing once again for this the songs that they picked and I just want to say just remember to go out and vote and good luck to all the candidates running. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All right. All in favor? >> All right. meeting over at 8:40. Good night everyone. Thank you for coming.