Board of Education Business Meeting August 26, 2024

001good evening everyone I want to First apologize for us getting here a little late we had a lot of stuff going on exec but we'll move things along and hopefully we'll catch up um first thing let's all rise uh for the Pledge of Allegiance Mr Logan would you please go um through the public safety message in our ground wolves good evening and welcome to the August 26 2024 business meeting of the patro Medford Board of Education in the event the fire alarm system should activate please leave the room via any one of the marked exits proceed out of the building and away from the building please do not attempt to enter your vehicles and leave the property as you may the arrival of fire apparatus and we will let you know when it's safe to

002come back in the building additionally smoking and the use of all Vape products is prohibited on school property in New York state at all times and when it's time for the public to be speaking you will be limited to three minutes per person with no sharing of minutes please refrain from naming specific staff members or specific students I will warn you at two and a half minutes that you need to wrap it up and we ask that you adhere strictly to that three-minute warning thank you thank you Mr Logan all we're going to move on to item number four on the agenda a public hearing regarding changes to the district code of conduct and uh Dr Jones will lead the way notice of public hearing States notice of public hearing Patrick Medford Union Free School

003District please take notice that the Board of Education of the Patrick Medford Union preschool district will hold a hold a public hearing at Saxon Middle School 121 Saxon street pat on the 26th day of August 2024 at 7:30 p.m. prevailing time to hear Community input regarding changes to the district code of conduct at which time members of the public will be given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments regarding the recommended changes to the district code of conduct dated August 15 2024 by Dennis M Logan district clerk thank you Dennis good evening to all every year this time of year uh we are required by law to review and update our district code of conduct it does require a public hearing and so we are here tonight and I've asked uh the district why

004safety some of the committee members are here and ATT attendance and I've asked that a presentation be developed that is going to apprise the community of changes that have occurred by law that the state has mandated to the code of conduct so that um our code of conduct is updated in addition so that will be explained during this public hearing along with uh some other updates that are relative to security for the District including the threat assessment protocols um that the districtwide committee has been working on for the past year all of this comes together to make sure that our students are safe physically mentally and emotionally as we prepare for the start of the school year so with that being said I'm going to turn it over to Nicole simonella uh John Ahern to

005begin the presentation John is our director of security just waiting for the presentation we actually need the uh districtwide safety plan doing that public hearing two separate public hearings so let me just say this before you get started there are two uh separate hear hearings are that are taking place one is re relative to the district code of conduct there are no changes and updates to the district code of conduct but there are changes to the districtwide safety plan uh trustees I'm not sure if you require me to just kind of summarize the purpose of the code of conduct for the community okay the purpose of the code of conduct is to have its a 30 page document and it governs the way that we manage the discipline for the students and the staff for

006the district it provides a range of consequences depending on the the response is it a firsttime offense was there confusion Associated uh was it intentional it provides a range of responses to how we provide consequence is so students staff learn from whatever transpired and hopefully don't repeat the actions again it are there are actions um that occur on a daily basis and if they violate the code of conduct it is incumbent upon an administrator that is responsible for that employee and our student to respond to that some of it can result in a suspension a superintendent hearing or some other response by the district so we don't have any updates to the district code of conduct for tonight and it was our recommendation that we suspend the second reading so that that will be in

007place for the start of the school year um going forward okay so now the public has to be given an opportunity to speak before before or against the code of conduct and then you'll vote on the code of conduct I make yeah okay anybody that would like to come up and make any comments in and reference in regard to the code of conduct this would be your time to step up to the mic hi Sher Costello uh Evergreen Avenue Medford so my question is with regard to suspending the 30 days and I think when I was first reading it there's so much in here tonight that I was a little bit confused but item T in the agenda says we're suspending the 30 days for policy 6147 did I misread are we doing that twice

008or because there there were no track changes to the to the code of conduct no and so I saw that now looking at the policies that are changing in here like for example there was something with regard and it's so big but I I feel like one of them had to do with um the code of conduct talked about uh search of students and the use of um detectors weapon detectors instead of metal detectors there's some track changes in that are those that's different they don't all go together so some one has more than one reading associated with that that we don't need for the start of the school year but the code of conduct you want to have in place and um because we're going to have situations that arise and we want to

009be prepared to say the board is acted on this and that's typically why annually we suspend the second reading because it is it is so those policies that are currently under review which would fall under a code of conduct type of behavior that could deal have a consequence or something like that that separate they're separate okay thank you thank you asking for a motion to rev accept the revised code of conduct accept the code of conduct do a roll call vote no we'll do a straight vote on this okay motion I'll second it all in favor all opposed code of conduct has been approved thank you so much and now we'll proceed to uh the second um portion public hearing on that okay so there's one more notice that has to be read Mr here

010notice of public hearing Patrick Metford Union Free School District please take notice that the Board of Education of the Patrick Medford Union Free School District will hold a public hearing during a business meeting on the 26th day of August 2024 at 7:30 p.m. prevailing time in the Saxon Middle School auditorium at 121 Saxon street in patul New York the community input regarding proposed revisions of the districtwide school safety plan at which time members of the public will be given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments regarding a Visions to the districtwide school safety plan which has been posted on the district website pmschools.org beginning on July 22nd for a 30-day public comment period the Board of Education may vote to approve or reject the changes August 15 2024 Dennis L Logan district clerk it's

011all yours thank you good evening everyone happy end of summer so we're just going to go over really quick uh some of the new legislation and some of the requirements uh in the districtwide safety plan so we are required by education law 807 and 2801a of Commissioners regulation to have a districtwide school safety plan and a building level emergency response plan for each building in the district and what these plans do is they prevent Andor minimize the effects of violent in incidents and emergencies they also help to facilitate the coordination of schools with local and County resources in the event of such incidents or emergencies education law and Commissioners regulations also require schools and districts to create several different safety teams including the districtwide safety team and the building level emergency response teams so this

012is our districtwide Safety Committee it's made up of numerous uh different entities we have the superintendent who's the chief emergency officer for the district we have members of we have a member of the board uh Mr Negrin the president of the Board of Education myself Nicole selo is a part of this team uh we just added Dr Chris Kelly uh he took um Mr Epstein's position he's the assistant principal at Saxton Dr Kim hawber is also a new member uh Carol sik s Sano she represents Transportation on the team uh she was added about a year ago we have representation from the teachers with Timothy Ritter and our parent Representatives with Dan Harris Suzanne baren jod Moran and we also just added as per new legislation we're required to add a bus driver uh to

013this team and also a bus driver is required this year to be added to the building safety teams so we added Felicia cordella she is a new member of the team so responsibilities of this Chief emergency officer coordinate communication between Schools staff law enforcement officers and First Responders lead the efforts of the districtwide safety team in the completion and yearly update of the districtwide plan and the building level plans assist in the selection of security technology and the de development of procedures for use of coordinate the appropriate safety security and emergency training for district and School staff in including required training in the emergency response plans this is kind of a new uh this is some new legislation this last part ensure drills are conducted in a trauma informed developmentally and age appropriate manner that

014does not include props actors simulations or other tactics intended to mimic a school shooting or other acts of violence this is new legislation and I will get into I will explain a little bit further in detail as we move along so the plan requirements distri wide safety plan must be reviewed and updated annually by the districtwide safety team which we did last week the plan includes policies and procedures for responding to emergencies policies for cont contacting and coordinating with law enforcement and the community prevention and intervention strategies to improve communication between students and staff policies and procedures for annual school safety training for students and staff policies and procedures related to school building security the district must hold one annual public hearing on the districtwide safety plan that provides for school Personnel student and public

015participation which is what we're doing tonight and the districtwide safety plan must be adopted by September 1st and submitted to the State education department no later than October 1st so this is just a quick summary of some of the new legislation that came down from the S they've added some new uh terms and definitions trauma trauma informed and Trauma informed drills I'll I'll explain those definitions in One Moment full scale exercises they talk about uh conducting full scale exercises uh simulating a violent incident and the fact is that we are prohibited from doing those exercises unless certain procedures are followed and I'll and I will explain those and we will not never use students in those uh act in those simulations or active type drills without permission of uh parents and I I'll get into

016that a little bit if a threat assessment team exists which we have just developed a description of the establishment in a school multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment team and its purpose so this this is the stuff that has to go into the uh into the district plan and the building plans floor plans and area maps I'll talk about that in a little bit early dismissal drill we do this on an annual basis we test our Communications our transportation and our notification system to parents and we we train students on what to do if they have to leave school early and where they they pract they have to practice where to go so there's some new notification procedures I'll talk about that and that that falls under the notification of drills to parents students and staff and

017the bus drivers and monitors like I mentioned those had to be added to the teams so these are the new definitions trauma trauma means an emotional response to a deeply distressing disturbing experience such as but not limited to an act of violence natural disaster abuse neglect or loss trauma informed means an understanding of what trauma is and how it affects the physical emotional and mental health of students and adults trauma informed drills means avoiding tactics in training or drills that may introduce or activate prior trauma such as use of props actors simulations or other tactics intended to mimic a school shooting incident of violence or other emergency or inclusion of developmentally or age inappropriate contact and to recognize that drills May inadvertently prompt a negative emotional or psychological response in staff or students because of

018previous exposure to trauma so again requirements that we're putting into the district plan bus drivers and monitors we're including them on the teams we're also including bus drivers and bus monitors in policies and pre and and procedures that affect School person personnel and where applicable require that districtwide school safety plans include information regarding school or District level threat assessment teams we're also requiring we're also required to establish procedures regarding notification to parents or persons in Parental relation regarding drills so drills and training must be conducted in conducted in a trauma informed developmentally and age appropriate manner so there's no surprises we're not surprise we're not doing surprise drills we're talking about drills beforehand and we're talking about drills after especially lockdown drills where notifying parents new some of the new requirements that we are now

019as of July 31st is to notify parents of upcoming drills not necessarily specific times or dates but within a week uh parents will be notifi of evacuation and lockdown drills students and staff are also informed when a when a school is conducting a drill so we don't have to notify students and staff for evacuation drills fire drills but we do have to notify them before we conduct a lockdown drill requirements for schools and districts that opt to participate in full scare exercises may not be be conducted on a regular school day and when school activities such as Athletics are occurring on school ground so in the event the district decided to to uh do a fullscale exercise which be honest with you I don't see us doing that anytime in the near future regulation says

020we can't do it on a school day and we can't do it when Athletics are taking place on school grounds and we're not going to do it with students we're not going to use students without parental uh consent so some of the Amendments new requirements for the building plans uh floor plans and area maps must be submitted as part of every annual building level plan submission to the state so each principal is is required to upload building plan for First Responders in the event of e an emergency they have access to certain critical areas in the building whether it be Gas shut off electrical panel F fire panel Etc things like that critical areas of each building so that's a new requirement uh I have to say reviewing the building uh plans uh recently we've

021we've we've been doing that already so that's that's uh we've been we've been ahead of the curve on that one drills and training like I explained we're not going no surprises um everything is notif as far as lockdown drills are concerned we're going to talk we're going to put a uh a drill team together beforehand we have school resource officers come in and participate I participate in every every lockdown drill um and we're going to make sure that everybody in the building is notified before we do them requiring that drills occur after annual training in emergency Pro procedures has been provided to students and staff so annually students and staff are required to be trained in emergency procedures we have an online system for staff and the principles train the students during the first couple

022of weeks of school and one of the new requirements that we've already been doing again is ensuring that drills are done on different days of the week and different times of the day so we may do drills during uh lunch periods gym periods recess periods things like that and again we've this is stuff we've been doing and parents must be notified of all drills within a week of conducting a drill so my recommendation to principles is parent Square you know you're having a drill you put out a parent Square within a week you have within a week up to the day before to let parents know that we'll be doing a a drill and that guess that's it that's the last page questions sure can you just explain unless I missed it what what there

023was something there about a full day drill or a full what is that so exercises using simulations and props we don't do that okay in this District what was the one where it said you won't do it on it when a day when there sports okay we are going to do it there POS there's a procedure to be followed and that proced and part of that procedure is we're not doing it on school grounds during a school day or even if there's athle Athletics going on okay so because they they would be coming outside like I'm sorry I'm not I don't know if I'm missing something I not following okay don't necessarily use but I am with do conduct these large scale with law enforcement okay so it's just new legislation that has come down

024to just make sure that we're not doing it with kids that um a lot of it's very distressing for parents that may not know if it's real or not for staff for students that may not know it could be very triggering and so they want it to be that everybody understands that this is a simulation and that there is parental permission should we decide to participate in a full scale uh we feel that what we've been doing has been working we've been trying to do things in cafeterias at recess at different times throughout the day so that we know at arrival at dismissal so that we really try to make sure that we have it down and not entertain these things that could be very terrifying for our staff students the community Etc so we

025are finding ways to work around that to make sure but in the event that that was something to be considered we would have to have permission slips from parents and we would have to have a notification really a week beforehand to let parents know of what we're intending ending and still get a permission slip okay so the second part of this presentation um we just want to update the community and the board of education on all the security upgrades we've done with the ARP monies that we received back from the covid eror um if you recall we had tried to put about $5.8 million aside to do the univent upgrade and when that failed by the community we then re circulated that money to do security upgrades so this is what we've been doing and

026what you'll be seeing coming to fruition for the start of the school year so at the end of last year you may have started seeing new metal detectors we brought these to a Board of Education meeting to show everybody some of these upgrades we would be doing and now they're being put into place so last spring um at moving up ceremonies graduation concerts a atic events basketball games we had the new metal detectors being put into use uh we will be doing the same sort of thing not being used daily um they will be used in that same form unless uh Mr Ahern feels that they need to be put into use on a daily basis or just a surprise stuff up at the high school we do purchase 20 of them districtwide with the

027majority of them being up at the high school and then others being deployed at the middle school about eight of them so 12 are up at the high school portable yes they're portable and can State ofthe art um we've also purchased Vape detectors for the secondary schools um we did a good pilot this past summer for summer school and they did work really well um at the start we did catch quite a few students um and by the end of summer school we were um basically almost free of Vapes so they are being used well um they're detecting which is what we want to do uh they will be put into place for the start of the school year and Mr aar's been working with all the principles on how to use them and program

028and all that stuff to get the alerts so again that's at the secondary schools high school and middle schools we were able to purchase uh 58 new AED units to be put around the district and to have on all floors of the high school the Middle School's district office has two new ones and even more portable ones um and they are been deployed and they're all up and out to all the buildings now we have we're about 85% installed with safety door locks for all classrooms uh Mr Nan did give a presentation about this and a sample and it's just a push of a button it's a red button on the back of the classroom so some some doors we needed to purchase doors and the locks and others we just needed to take out

029the lock and retrofit it for the actual lock too so I just want to be clear to the trustees 500 50 classroom doors were retrofitted utilizing the money to make sure that in the event that we go into a lockdown mode that they can securely press the button and lock the doors and we will be also doing this for your main offices your guidance offices principal's offices as well but we did the classrooms first and then we hope to have the remaining done by the beginning end of September early October it's for automatic uh the feat yeah for your for hard yes I'm sorry yes I should have I'm sorry I'm just so used to the term being out there my apologies yes um we also you'll be seeing at the high school right now

030it's completed at the South entrance and the main entrance transaction windows so if you're used to going to it's like a bank teller when you go a bank teller and your SL stuff we were able to retrofit that building right now with others to that are in progress so right now Barton Bay Kanan Eagle Medford Tremont Oregon the Saxon PPS entrance and South Ocean will all be retrofitted they're kind of in progress right now to have these transaction type windows so that if a parent forgets something but they don't need to get let into the building and go through the whole process of getting your license or passport you can just slide whatever you need under and go about your day so we're working with that and that should be done hopefully by end of

031September early October unfortunately there are two schools due to the nature of how the buildings are and the front entrances River and Saxton main entrance because of their structures we can't accommodate a transaction window there um but doesn't mean they still can't they might just have the table outside in the vestibule that may be um used to seeing how we've been doing so that's how we'll keep it there for those two buildings the goal is to minimize the unnecessary traffic into the buildings so that we can maximize the safety of students and the staff we've also purchased window screens for all windows districtwide uh they've been installed so far at Canan Eagle the High School Oregon and Tremont and the others Barton Bay Medford South Ocean River and Saxton will be complete by middle of

032September end of September as well so the add here is that we know that many individuals have a allergic reaction to beasting and wasp Etc and so this was a major undertaking to get all of the windows to uh have screens uh but that secures the building from a sefe perspective but also from any unwanted insects getting into the building can but what so we don't have everything done school's going to start it's going to be hot so then what's happening for the actually it it was just a lot to be done and our maintenance staff and custodians are busy cleaning the internal buildings to get the classrooms ready um we had to wait for the items to come in um this was grants and they had to be used by the end of August

033and SO waiting for the merchandise to come in some of it was backordered because of the enormity of the orders and the amount of orders of different things so uh we have our maintenance staff working on retrofitting all the doors the next step is getting the screens on we had to get the doors and the locks done first for the classroom so we're working on it we're doing everything humanly possible they working around the clock to get as many uh up and done by the start of school is just the Manpower yeah I'm just wondering if there's anything in place for you know the buildings that have second and third floors for the kids and the teachers if it's I don't know what if it's really hot and they can't open their Windows cuz the

034bees will come in or like so is there an alternate plan in well usually well you know usually it's the more the first floor that is the challenge with not being able to open the windows and the second and third floor they get hotter as you go but those you can open those windows it's the first floor that we're most concerned about in terms of from a safety perspective but the bugs were the ones for the second that that was not the same like the be unless we got rid of our be problem model yeah no I don't think we we try to get rid of it but every year they somehow find a way back I think what we're doing is it's been uh a longterm issue that we're finally addressing and we're doing

035the very best we can um to get it done as soon as possible now what about so we're talking about for River and Saxton that that you you can't do the transaction window based on the way that those areas are set up construct so what's the long-term plan so the long-term plan would be if you recall we had a similar situation right after Sandy Hook uh with Kanan Elementary and we actually did a capital plan uh to address the entry way because the foyer they didn't have the ability to kind of block in an area that was the one building that didn't have it and so we actually had a capital plan so great question one of the things that we can do um and we always have in the front here a security guard

036and a greeter every single day but if we're going to address the the the construct of the building entryway we would have to talk to The Architects and draw up some feasible way that we could address this and then we would we would just have to implement that and recommend that to the board so that is something that we could ask Mr Maisy to talk with the Architects about so that we address those I think we should I there has to be a you can't just do it to these schools and then leave two schools out agree agree yeah um trusty that's that's a wonderful point and it was not um done with any kind of intent certainly there were there were restrictions within the ARP monies as Dr Jon Jones mentioned within which we

037had to operate by which we had to spend these monies so we've already said once the structure did not lend itself to this now we moved to plan B we knew Plan B wasn't going to fit within the confines of the ARP spending but we're going to come back to the board with potential solutions they may not be like I said the same but they may be some Al they may be some authorization or some you know similar configuration to it but it won't be as simple if I use that as a as a transaction window no understood I I I I get that but at the point when you're doing the transaction windows in the other schools these schools were done too and the plan should have been set forth I understand if the

038funds aren't there it becomes a different funding issue but the plan on how to do it we should already have well that shouldn't be something we said oh we're just going to leave it out for now I I that's a fair that's a fair point um we did mention that Saxon the other side side we can do that we just can't do the front so if if indeed a parent has to come around to the other entrance for sex and we're we're trying not to make it inconvenient for parents as well sure absolutely mean security is all about holes right you can have all these great Securities and then you got a hole and and that's that's your problem so when you look at that you have to make sure you're addressing all of them

039to leave two things out that you know okay great we put a guard there we could put a guard on all the schools and why don't we just do that because that's not the best solution this is a better solution we know that it's working it's working in the other schools you can't just walk in you've got to be checked you know for multiple reasons it's working so we just have to well taken and we will definitely address that thank you if I may I have one quick question about the um the safety door locks those are teacher um controlled no the the students have the ability just to press the button too yeah no it's as simple as you press the button like when they show the the video of how to do it

040they actually show like a prek student doing it because it's that easy it's a press of a button and you walk away and it's just a dead bolt lock right across the door and then can can it be overridden by someone else somewhere else in the building not from the outside no no it's not electric it's cylindrical it's manual physical thank you it's oh thank you yeah I have a question um in terms of the AED machines how many do we have and are our teachers and coaches all certified to have them so like is there one like outside on the field if anything happens so the athletic office has portable ones they had portable ones prior to us being able to purchase additional ones but they always bring them out to the fields of

041course yes and the coaches are all trained on how to use them all the administrators get trained yearly on CPR and how to do an AED um if teachers want to I'm not I don't know Lori can Miss Kennedy can you do you know if teachers get trained no it's not mandatory I think I think we I'm sub TR yes yeah that was Nicole just said that but I think the point is that there is sufficient coverage should we need to utilize one because of course also our nurses are trained and fed you know teachers so there's sufficient trained staff members in every building to potentially cover a crisis yeah I mean and I'm trained and certified and Mark is as well and it's it's not a hard training for an ed it's really it's

042pretty self-explanatory on how to do it so why everybody doesn't have it is just you know crazy but I I I understand your point there's definitely so many people do have it that there should be enough coverage at any point and as far as the locations of them does everybody knows where they are because half the problem is okay I need the AED okay where is it do we have well I think one of the things is that when we go over our emergency response plan at the building level they go over that with the staff so one of the things when we have conference day next week and all the principles meet with their respective staff these are the types of things they go over with their staff they remind them of they meet

043they go over things so that everybody knows how to handle emergency situations Nicole the aed's outside is there a central location between Fields I'd have to ask um the athletic director I think that's a great question but remember that we do have radios everywhere so if we need it and we have the gold cart golf carts everywhere so should we need to get from one location to another there are radios to report that there's an issue in John's um people are are you know they they're also trained all the guards and they just came in yeah they just came in at towards the end of the year so I know Anthony was working on a plan as to where he was Distributing them and working with all the building principles and the directors as to

044where they all were and then I'm sure he's been working with his coaches now that preseason has started and I I do know they're outside on the fields if not against the wall and the back wall of the high school and most like likely down by Raider Stadium as well um we also have stopped the bleed kits by in every nurse's office and main entrance and we've updated them since when we did the big deploy of training every staff member and I mean every staff member got trained several years ago and now Mr Ahern has bought new updated ones which is your trauma kits with your turn kits um all of his security staff is trained in how to use them so we have new updated ones with those as well so we do have

045a lot of wonderful things um that we've been working on and training and I know Mr um Irwin has trained his staff with the heick remover um because some of his staff members have actually performed it and saved some have saved lives here of children and now those are all placed in the cafeterias he just went over that with all the administrators this morning in a meeting they just got purchased a few weeks ago and now they're in every single cafeteria by the point of sales system so lot of um really great wonderful things that are happening and making sure that everyone's safe uh the last thing I just want to touch base on here is lockdown Shades which are going on every single classroom door um they have been purchased they've been delivered and

046they're just about finished I want to say probably by all the custodial staff by on all the doors so as someone may lock the door there's a little velcro strap and it just comes right down so that's another great thing and the second um update will be to the main offices as well um guidance offices so that's going to be happening but the classrooms will be completed by the start of school so trusty Andrade you had asked the question about the screens and so it's important to note that the priority was get the locks in get the screens in the pull down shades and then finish the screen so it's kind of like we're trying to to get it all done as quickly as possible but prioritize as best we can with the Manpower we

047have we're just very proud of our custodial and maintenance staff because so much money is saved because they have the expertise to do this inhouse so we're very fortunate that we have the staff that we have and our whole purpose in uh bringing this is because superintendent go number six is all about District safety and so trust uh Mr President was present last week when we had our district Wyatt Safety Committee I see Jody Moran in the back who was present at our meeting I'm just trying to see if there are any other community members that were present but but well he's he's not Community member he's a staff member but many staff members we were there but um the goal was to make sure that we're all on board before we present it for

048the hearing and that you as as trustees will know what we spent that $5.8 million of ARP money which had to be spent by this August or we would have lost it that it was spent it was spent in a way that maximizes safety and um and now our goal will be to implement all of these purchases into the emergency response planning okay so I'll finish up the last few we've been able to update our PA system uh we're in the final stages which is amazing James has done a phenomenal job of getting this all in and helping train the staff members so all equipment is received Medford Oregon Canan Bay River South Ocean and the high school are complete Eagle sax in Treemont it's just the final configurations that are taking place so that

049would be ready most likely for the start of school if not like a week into school and the last school that just needs to get completed is Barton so the hardest part of cabling is complete now it's just getting the equipment you know it's all the configuration pieces which takes a little bit of time but they're not without a PA system this is an upgrade and it's a replacement but they do have their current PA systems in place so if not everyone's up and running they do have a system in place I want to make that clear that we do have PA systems in place this is an updated much needed update and a replacement with new bells and whistles which is great uh all teachers have the ability now to call 911 right from

050their classroom uh they're able to you know call from classroom to classroom within the building so it has a lot of great features now um for safety features and eventually it'll be able to call lock down too and and enter you know know talk to the different system with our lockdown system so that'll be the next phase but they are able to call 911 which is really important so that's a big big thing uh next we have our camera and strobe light upgrades we've purchased an additional over 200 cameras to um our already robust camera system that we have in the district uh Mr Ahern met with every single principal and walked the building with them to see where they felt they needed extra coverage so it may be in it may be out uh

051again no classroom cameras cuz that's not allowed and uh right now Bay River Medford and South Ocean are completed with Oregon almost complete tront High School Eagle Barton Kanan and Saxon are all in progress so these are just additional cameras there's already cameras there it also gives the ability for strobe light upgrades and what was found as going through walkthroughs that when you're in a space like this and there's a musical going on you may not be able to hear a lockdown so we've added strobe lights which blink like as if you're walking up to the building into those loud spaces so your gymnasiums your auditoriums your music rooms your band Orchestra Coral rooms cafeteria and cafeterias all have the strobe lights now to make you aware if there's a lockdown being called so really

052great important things that are needed uh these are all in progress um some are completed and some are in progress and we've also added additional strobe lights to the outside so wherever there is um right yeah you'll see the lights flashing so it's not just those few doors we've added additional ones too as well we've also added as you can see as you go to every building now additional fencing where it may have been needed and also parking lot gates to every single building districtwide um this has been completed and we've also purchased an additional 60 handheld radios to be given out to staff members security guards wherever we feel that it's needed John has the autonomy to keep some and just keep moving them around District um wherever they feel it's needed or if

053someone needs an additional one or there's a radio alha repair we have now a robust amount to keep keep safe and just kind of pass out when needed or if we just need additional radios so we wanted you to know as part of this hearing how we've spent the money how we have physically strengthened the security protocols in each of the buildings so we know that we came to you about a year ago saying this is the game plan for what we're intending to do so we wanted to share before the start of school that all of this is ready to go and for the projects that are well underway but not quite finished they'll be finished very soon and we will uh be prepared to secure the safety of our students and staff as

054we prepare for exciting opening next week thank you thank you and I commend Mr ahar Nicole uh certainly James richro and all of the staff members and administrators that have contributed to this robust plan and Paul Nunan and all the maintenance staff all the custodial staff that have been working around the clock to get our buildings ready for the start okay now um we like to ask for Community comments on the uh presentation that was just made by the Safety Committee hello again excellent lot of good information I have a couple questions what if the district notifies the community about a drill and then you can't do one maybe there's snow day maybe there's something else and it doesn't happen is there any consequence or we we certainly would go through parent square and just

055notify the the the school of a change and then we'll notify them at at an updated time that we I guess I meant more from the state since they're mandating that you let us know is they care there are time frames within which we have to do fire drills evacuation drills and lockdown drills as long as we do each of them within a specified time frame by months that they're due they they're they're are fine if we make a change to a given day due to an emergency of some sort so the state made a bunch of different changes in there and mandated certain things was there a mandated period that they offered it to the school boards or to the district office or to the state residents to comment on the changes that they

056made about things that they may not oh the the period about all these changes happening on the district safety plan I got to get on their website the new cameras can you tell me a little bit about their capabilities how they move do they Zoom do they have audio that type of stuff joh so we've updated the majority of the old cameras and we've added new cameras and we're in the process of adding cameras we we did this entire project every building so we looked at each building we assessed each building we looked at cameras that needed to be replaced and we looked at cameras that needed to be added interior and exterior so as far as the technicalities of them I'm not a camera I'm not a expert but I will tell you they

057are excellent cameras um we just installed a camera uh at the high school an exterior camera and you're able to zoom uh a good 500 yards so they can capture any person or incident or suspicious vehicle or suspicious person we don't listen we cannot we don't have the capability to listen yes yeah with regards to the B detectors it was stated not only here today but other days that they're really great at catching our kids are we going to put out there in their schooly or parents squ or whatnot that these are out there we don't want to catch kids we want to prevent them and so give them heads up as school is starting that hey if you do this they're in the bathrooms they're in the hall they're in the gym they're in

058the locker room whatever it is don't do it these are the consequences of getting caught once twice three times year is coming they're now up and running well every every school year at the start of the Year particularly you know at the secondary schools we go over the codes the expectations all of those things I might have college things coming up and things and and put them in a situation where they're now suspended and in trouble we want to say to them up front don't do this in school yes okay um oh and one last thing you put up some track changes on some items up there and I saw them when I was reading and this only because you showed it up there I'm bringing it up now I have trouble seeing the green

059it used to be red I know red and green color blind issues I'm not sure why you changed the color but the green is very difficult the changes on the new policies are coming up green oh okay maybe the additions were always green and the things crusted out were red but there's no more red it's all so just as a point of reference because it was hard to see up on your screen I couldn't figure out what that was okay oh last question about the button I don't want to put out there any you know but is there a plan if the kid is in the classroom pushes the button like how do you get in um so there are there are plans and we go over uh classroom management from day one to talk

060to a parent hi two quick questions um the VAP detect what identify yourself sorry Vicky Ivans 120 Pennsylvania Avenue Med hi um with the Vape detectors are they only alerting the administration or are they alerting the PD or FD fire department of police department only staff okay there are cool because I know some places that go to it goes to the fire department no good uh the other question is um with the aeds anybody can use them without consequence from the district and the question comes from the Narcan training we did because it with the Narcan training they it was specifically said that only the nurses are allowed to administer it not security not anybody who went to training so the with the I believe it's a little different for AED but we'll double check

061okay and get back to you on that one thank you no other questions okay Dennis we call for we have a motion to approve the districtwide safety let me read the the resolution because it's rather comprehensive where as a District's District byde safety plan has been reviewed and revised by The District's Administration and School Safety Committee and the Board of Education held a public hearing on the proposed plan on August 26 2024 and completed the required 30-day public comment period therefore be resolved the Board of Education hereby approves the Rev districtwide safety school safety plan for the 2024 2025 school year and authorizes The District administration to submit it to the New York State education department we need a motion please make a motion second I'll second all in favor I I all oppos trust

062there is one other piece to this and I'm not sure as time is getting late whether I should put that piece on hold for a subsequent meeting or not but there is a part three to that and that is relative to the threat assessment protocol that is a Carolyn candela's committee that was co-led by Mr ahon now that is the third part of the safety plan that has been done is that do you want to see that right now or do you did we approve it just now but you did the you approved no you approved the safety plan okay this is a piece as it relates to a a new part of this that has nothing to do with the plan that is required by the state that we have done to go above

063and beyond to make sure that mental and emotional students that are risk that we are monitoring for the safety of the district okay so thanks Nico Nicole good evening trustees Dr Jones members of the cabinet community members and other faculty and staff that are here tonight so I'm going to talk to about behavioral threat assessment and provide a brief overview so as Dr Jones had mentioned this is in alignment with her goal number six and she also did mention that we began this work over a year ago in August of 23 when several members of the administration team um attended a webinar training held by the Secret Service on having um threat assessment protocols for schools and it was a recommendation many schol schools don't have this in place and some do so I want

064to share with you these are the members of our team um of course John Ahern with me director of security um we have Miss Joanne Louisa our Saxton principal Mr Derrik Robinson our secondary AP at the high school uh Bobby Robert Christie one of our districtwide psychologists Miss Ronnie Taris districtwide social worker who is here behind me in the audience this evening and Mr Damen Walsh with on one of the high school Deans so when we began this work um the US secret service has a guide enhancing school safety for threat assessment in schools and they really outline I believe it's seven or eight steps that we went through and one of the first things that we determined we needed to do was to Define terms to give us a Common Language so what constitutes

065a concerning behavior that would rise to this level and then beginning to establish these threat assessment procedures and creating a central reporting mechanism so we'll have a St status on echool similar to our students at risk status and we'll have um working with James Rich Roth we're going to have a teams folders so that the buildings will be able to upload their documents and our cabinet and administration team members will be able to access that information and we're working on updating we submitted them uh policy number 5153 for updating as well so just to give you some background on what is meant by behavioral threat assessment because it is different from risk assessment which is a term that we would use more for student who may be exhibiting some self-injurious Behavior or suicidal ideation so

066behavioral threat assessment is a form of a violence risk assessment to assess individuals who may be threatening harm to themselves to others or to the property so it involves a multip scenary team that we will talk a little bit more about um in the upcoming slides so it's a proactive approach to identify and to assess and then to provide those appropriate interventions um for behaviors that are deemed to be of a certain level of risk it is not a disciplinary process uh we'll talk a little bit more about that in the upcoming slides as well so again this is from the US Secret Service so it just kind of summarizes that it's about identifying assessing and providing appropriate interventions it's focusing on behaviors not traits or profiling it involves a multi-disciplinary team and identifying those

067behaviors and looking at each behavior in context and again providing students with supports so how can we utilize our existing School resources and what other resources do we maybe need to look into to put in place to keep everyone safe so it's not a criminal investigation it's not a disciplinary process everything is in alignment with our code of conduct it does not involve zero tolerance and it does not replace other student support programs so just to kind of give you a little bit of context um you know some statistics here so in 2019 the Center for Disease Control CDC they have a nationwide Ruth youth risk behavior survey and this was administer administered to over 13,000 students in the United States and what they found was about one in five school students reported being bullied

068on school grounds in the prior year 8% had been in a physical flight on school property in the prior year and more than 7% of students had been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property during that prior year and 9% of students high school students had not gone to school at least one day during the pr 30 days because they reported that they did not feel safe either at school or on their way to or from school um a little bit about school environments so 67% of public schools recorded at least one violent incident this is going back to the 2122 school year coming from the national Center for Education statistics and according to an April April 19th 2024 report by ABC News you can see 415 people have been killed in US

069school shootings since Colum which we just had the 25th anniversary in April of Coline so again a few things to kind of point out there is no profile of a student attacker the targeted attacks at school are rarely sudden or impulsive which is why our work was so important so that we could put preventive measures in place so these are again from the US Secret Service um just some statistics on completed attacks versus averted attacks and the goal is that we can prevent um usually again it's not happen doesn't happen by impulse there's usually you can see signs you see a progression um they may share information on social media they may plan and purchase items so there's usually some signs and indicators so we can do something to avert these attacks in this slide

070here attackers versus plotters it's really just to highlight that there's no profile that there have been elementary students um up to high school students that have been involved in attacks and plots so this was recent um this was just updated last week because there was an incident in Louisiana on a high school football field that there was a school shooting at a um Spirit event it was an adult so this was kind of just just came out actually um so these are kind of 2024 statistics so in the 2024 school year there have been 22 school shootings this year that resulted in injuries you can see 22 people or 22 school shootings seven people were killed 29 injured so this is a quick it's a two-minute video that kind of guided our work it threatened

071this school will Ex students have been arrested since yesterday kids make threats every day in school most of these threats are not serious they're not going to result in violence and so we don't want schools to overreact and at the same time schools are very worried that they don't want to underreact to the one in a million case that would have led to a shooting certainly if a child brings a loaded firearm to school uh we want law enforcement involvement but if a child has a has a poptart that they that they chewed into the shape of a gun we're not going to treat them like they're a criminal and need to be arrested or expelled from school has that happened absolutely in schools using our model the students report less bully they report greater

072willingness to report serious of threats of violence like a gun in school the teachers report rep that they feel safer what we're trying to do with safety assessment and intervention our threat assessment model is make sure that every school is equipped to respond to problems before they escalate into violence and to give students a place to go to knowing that the response won't be punitive it won't be harsh it'll be fair it'll be supportive and it'll work toward resolving the problem schools are really a special place where we can intervene and do a lot to uh to keep everyone safe so that threat assessment model by uh Dr Dy Cornell University of Virginia that they have a comprehensive guide in that one too along with the Secret Service guide book was one of our guiding

073documents as we went through the steps to make sure that we are covering all bases in our procedures and plans so again behavioral threat assessment it is a comprehensive approach part of our school safety plan it's fact-based but it is case specific the goal is really early intervention and violence prevention so we said okay building principles or a director anyone who is in the school covering for the day as a principal what if a administrator a teacher or a student comes to you and said this is what I see in the bathroom or in the cafeteria in the wall what what are we going to do what are the steps that we're going to take so again the goals are to identify those concerning behaviors of any individual and to notice any changes in behaviors

074to assess the individual's behavior and determine the level of concern and then again to manage to intervene and to put strategies in supports into place and case manage so how will they respond so these are the forms that again come from the Dewey Cornell model along with the Secret Service model and they have we have six forms that we've developed we have shared um the first two so far with our admin team to get feedback and go through uh get their feedback and see what changes we need to be made but this is kind of a screenshot a little snapshot of our decision tree this will kind of be their first go-to guiding document if a student or staff member you know reports that there's a concerning Behavior Potential Threat they look at their decision

075tree and it'll tell them what steps to take it'll give them information on determining if it's credible or non-credible and then the other forms will guide them through the steps and procedures of how to proceed from there based on the information of credible or non-credible threat we have a one note that we will be sharing with all of our building teams uh building principles and that'll guide them and that'll have all the forms and all the information that they need in that to go to this is exact a screenshot of that one note so we'll have our updated Board of Ed policy once it's approved in there the definition and key terms so they'll be able to go to that the protocol the steps are in there and then most importantly the forms that they're

076going to need to proceed and the student reporting is our say something do something Anonymous reporting so our next steps we're going to be working with the administrators this week during our retreats to continue to go through these forms um and to share with them the one note and explain all of the questions they might have um and we will do you know then we're going to be asking the building administ to turn key this information to their building teams and I'll talk about that in a moment um and then again to continue to educate our students about the cay do something an Hest for reporting system and we're also going to be piloting the start with hello program with two of our elementary buildings um which is a program offered by the suffet county

077sheriff's office so we're piloting that come this fall with two of our elementary buildings so as I stated we're going to be asking the building principles to develop their teams come this and this is who we you know it's determined as best to have on your multi-disciplinary team at the building level so they'll have their principal of course the assistant principal school resource officer um mental health support staff psychologist social workers school counselors Deans if they have a Dean in their building any special education directors or staff that may be very familiar with the particular student um or other teachers that may be you know familiar with that student and have knowledge on that student and that is all for this evening and I'm sure some questions may be coming thank you Carolyn you're welcome

078the um start with hello program do can you give us any information on that or send it to us sure sure yeah it was um it came across as it was offered I mean we know there's the national start with hello say something program and when we looked into it they no longer offer it outside of the Sandy Hook region so I came across I think Dr Jones had shared it with me that the suffa county sheriff's office is offering some of those programs so I've been in contact and trying to coordinate and work to Pilot that at Le to see what that program um can offer for our students so I think we have provided some qualitative and quantitative data to suggests that we are moving forward our district safety plan from the physical

079to the mental to the emotional to the proactive preparedness and we will continue to keep the board updated and apprised as I indicated we plan to Carolyn and John have done an amazing job in spearheading this committee work all throughout the year and we did share some preliminary information in May with our administrators but over the next two days along with a whole lot of other information we will be providing this to our our administrators uh to make sure we're ready for the start of school thank you okay if the uh do we have any public comments or questions on the threat assessment that was just presented sorry Hi really great job a lot of good information I have two questions first is um is there liability related to determining a threat is non-credible and

080then if perhaps something did happen if somebody determines a CR a threat non-credible and then there is an incident like how does that reflect upon the school or the teacher or the staff member who may have made that determination is that a concern I mean there is always a possibility that anybody can sue for any re reason on a given day so liability from the perspective I don't mean um like in a litigious way I mean just um I I can't hear what you're saying yeah like um almost like what you can't use the Naran you know or is there I'm not a lawyer I apologize that would be part of it MH so it's not like um if you're a passer by and you give CPR to somebody who's in trouble you can't that's

081what I was kind of looking for there's nothing in there that goes that way okay um and then the other question so let's take a student who maybe tags as side of the building and puts something with spray p and then a student who in a bathroom writes what we saw up on there on the screen it this this talked about being non-punitive and creating a relationship and having an assessment and following a student and I understand all of that but a student who does that on the side of the building is going to get supended and have a consequence in be in trouble and you know how do we balance that we that's our role so we did mention that there is an if then type of chart it is always discussed with me

082as well the principal as well if it was truly intentional and there was no mental emotional issue associated with it and it was clearly intentional we have our ways of knowing if it's that there may be one course of action because we want this to be deterred we don't want students to think you can get away with doing anything you want because we'll just say that's okay make it even more egregious you know hateful or or something and then you don't have you know that's my especially when a kid who does something silly and stupid and makes a dumb mistake is going to have you know well it typically goes to a superintendent hearing and I typically handles about 200 hearings a year uh throughout the school year and typically when I'm done with the

083hearings um many of our students do not repeat the action some do but many don't could you just remind me how many days of suspension are required to then go to a superintendent hearing five five okay thank you so much thank you okay we're going to move on to um item number 10 presentations Andor reports uh tonight we have uh James richro executive director of Technology we'll do a presentation regarding District branding very brief very very brief very it is late um so so thank you for allowing me to present to you tonight um so I I wanted to discuss Community engagement and that will bring us into we website R design as as well as branding so Dr Jones asked me to put this together um some quick statistics on I'll start with Facebook

084so as we can see um I put three definitions at the bottom I think they're important to understand the differences between the three so Facebook reach measures how many people see your content Facebook visits number of times your Facebook page was visited and then Facebook engagement any action a user takes on your page such as likes shares comments or clicks on a link if if you do share that so those are three important definitions to keep in mind as we're reviewing the Facebook um statistics so you can see over the last 12 months we've had a Facebook reach of over 154,000 so more than 154,000 users have seen the content that we've shared on Facebook which is pretty amazing considering you know we're a district of about 7,500 students 18 you know 16 18,000 parents

085or so um Facebook visits we've had about 95,000 Facebook visits over the last year and you'll see there's a 32% increase over the last year in the number of Facebook visits that we've had if I go to the next page I showed um the top five posts during the springtime Facebook only allows me to go back a few months for post doesn't allow me to do a full gauge for a full year so during the springtime from the end of June all the way back until about February um these are the top posts and we can see the the reach as well as the engagement any questions on those two slides before I move up um the next one is YouTube so this is James James where where are you pulling it from is this

086Google analytics where are you getting no this is face Facebook analytics it's Facebook's own okay yep Facebook's own yep um so YouTube is is still new to us we don't really have a huge YouTube presence we mostly post you know board meetings we do some of the concerts on there we do instructional videos and things like that and I think over the next year that's going to try and be a focus for us to increase engagement on YouTube and really show the things we're doing through video because that seems to be kind of the way people are watching um and it's a great way to get out get all the great things that we're doing out there so we see over the last um year 12 months we've had about just under 5,000 views on

087our YouTube videos and a watch time of over 372 hours which is great um and we've increased our our viewership by 45 viewers over the last 30 um last 12 months um I pulled again just the top 10 videos this is YouTube analytics um it's not Google analytics so these are the top 10 videos by views over the last 12 months I did want to draw to the board's attention that we added board meetings in here so even when it looks poorly attended you can see how many um members of the community are actually watching board meetings so I think it's important to know that Community engagement looks different postco sometimes uh folks are in person and sometimes they're watching ing afterwards when we post uh the information for the community to see thank you

088yeah so you can see actually that the number one is is a Board of Education meeting um from March we had 441 views on that senior slid show always a big draw right everybody loves to see that slideshow so there's 438 views for that all the way down to um Oregon sixth grade concert with with 131 views and those are unique views right correct y yeah and it's great and it's our goal again hopefully over the next 12 months or so is is to increase viewership and put out more videos um working with um Nate Brinkman the director of music I'm trying to put more of the musicals and concerts and things like that up so so that we can just increase that engagement and show all the great things that we're doing any other

089questions on YouTube analytics great um so next one is parents Square parents Square again our primary communication um method so this is what we use daily to communicate with parents and the community um some really great statistics there is is that second one down 461 th000 direct messages over the course of 12 months um that's how many times teachers and administrators are reaching out to parents and parents are reaching out to teachers and administrators so it's that's a really spectacular number to see so that's last August to now correct um and then remember parents square is still relatively new to us you know it's only about 3 years old and we did pilot it at the high school for a year before the other um 10 schools came on so to see this this kind

090of growth this quickly it's it's it's really great to see that everybody's utilizing it as much as they are and then the next one um to look at is the number of posts so it's going to be on that right column the third one up from the bottom 18822 posts um those are the informational items that you know directors and principles and things like that are putting on their individual um School Pages you know there's a PTA meeting there's an event happening whatever it may be or this great thing happened in fifth grade today so that's really great too to make sure that all that information is getting out to the community members questions on parents Square statistics no good um website a website is is the big draw right so this is website draw

091over the last 12 months this is Google analytics um that's how we track our website usage um we can see that our homepage um had 2.4 million um hits over the last 12 months with 182,000 of those being unique um the number two page I'm kind of parti to this one was the technology page with just over 1 million hits um and 55,000 unique views um that's kind of cheating I think for technology that's where all the parents go to get Parent Portal and the information about all their stuff but it's great that they're actually utilizing that page to get all of that information um you can kind of go down the list and see you know the lunch U menus are always going to be popular the student homepage the parent homepage the parent

092homepage has all that important information about academics safety Wellness Health all that stuff is going to be on that so those going to be really top pages that we're going to see the left is number of Impressions the one on the right is number of unique views right anything else on that one okay good um this is just something information I thought was pretty interesting to see locations and language so you can see the different locations that are actually targeting or visiting our our website you know we're majority obviously is going to be you know Medford and patch but then you'll also see different um cities and towns throughout suffk are viewing us pretty frequently so you can have corum's up there Holtsville is up there ridges up there Rocky Point Middle Island Miller Place

093Mount Si Shirley Bayo Center Reach Bayshore so so it is it's it's popular other areas are do you see New York city 86,000 views they're watching um and I think I share with you guys that I shared with you guys that um my niece who was pursuing her second Masters at Queens College was doing a business course and they were passing out our budget brochure to review as part of the class and I had no idea that was happening so it's just interesting to know the different ways that uh we're being watched out there thank you um and then of course the language one I always find interesting too we could see that obviously the primary language is is English with 291,000 views um and then Spanish being 8,422 and uh Chinese being third with

094uh 1132 questions good awesome um so what does this lead us to this leads us in into the website redesign right this is something I think we've spoken about for a number of years um and it's something that that we're utilizing all of this data that we're collecting to help redesign it um over the last two years or so we've utilized a district technology committee to survey gain in gain input from you know the stakeholders parents and teachers and things like that that have been on the committee with us um and these are some of the things that that we we've learned what was the most common feedback um information was stale or not updated frequently enough on the individual School Pages which was kind of expected once we move to parent Square so figuring

095out how are we going to change that how are we going to make that better or do we still need those individual news feeds for each school if everything is being posted to parent Square so those are some of the things that we have to consider when looking at a website redesign um but the most important thing is is those data driven decisions so utilizing those traffic reports that I just showed you from our current website to make decisions on what pages are necessary and what pages should be highlighted so we can see from the top 10 those are the top 10 places that that users are going that community members are going so that's the information that we want to put front and center when we're redesigning the website um so the goal is

096obviously an easier and and easier and faster access to the most commonly needed resources um so I teased you a little bit I didn't want to show you everything right away um as we're still designing but you can see in the top left an easier way to access schools so the top left will be you know the School logo so people can get right to the school get the contact information bell schedule supply lists whatever there's necessary for that individual school on the right quick links is is probably our most popular thing making sure that the links are the things that people access the most so class link right for our students and teachers um the calendar parent portal for our parents food menu right number seven on the top 10 list want to make

097sure that that's easy to get to because they're going to food menus often um and then the bottom left that'll kind of be like a press release section so all the press releases that are being put out with the information about the school making sure that's easily accessible and highlighted for for the community to see and then on the right it'll be the calendar and uh to up the news items that we do Post on there so it'll be it'll be an easier way to navigate the website highlighting the information that's most frequently used so the time frame of this is sometime hopefully towards the middle of October to the end of October um to release it we're working with final site their final site um they purchased Blackboard which was our previous um content

098management system um they're great they do a lot of schools um they're primarily in the K12 industry and we've been working with them probably for about a little over a year on what this looks like they finished migrating the data from our current website to this platform um over the summer just so you know we have just over 3,000 pages on our current website which is a lot so we're definitely going to look at to trim that down to make it easier to navigate questions talk about the interactive nature as supposed to still picture oh sure yeah I was I was G leave that as a surprise but okay so so no it's great no it's great um so so um in the springtime we contracted with a a videographer so if you remember from

099graduation there was a drone F flying around getting some Drone footage of graduation we had a videographer at prom when it was on Main Street to get um the kids walking in and the kids dancing in the street then we had them go to different Elementary field days to try and get that and what we're going to do is so when you go to the website it'll be a video there'll be two 30 second videos of all of that different content that we've shot over the last year or so um and then we'll have more content being shot like the first day of school there'll be a videographer at one of the elementary schools and one of the middle schools to kind of get that first day of school kids getting off the bus going

100to cafeteria the first day all that fun stuff just trying to again use video to highlight the great things that that that we do here questions say this 30 second video like they don't have to watch a 30 second video video before they get access no no so if you go if you go to the website if you go to even some a lot of other school districts do so when you go to the first page it's kind of the video is instead of having the banner of um pictures it it'll be a video it'll be a video for you yeah and it makes it a little bit easier because the pictures it's very difficult to get pictures quality pictures to fit in that Banner um one for the safety of the students right we

101have to make sure that the media release it's very hard um you know we're hoping that teachers are taking good pictures on their cell phon sending it to us so if we can get a professional video done and the video keeps people's attention longer than than the video so we could leave the video up for six months and we only have to do it maybe twice a year as opposed to trying to cycle the pictures you know every few weeks or so thank you questions no um so during this process we thought scen oh sorry you have a question okay no um so so during this question with with redesigning the website and and trying to use video and taking a cleaner approach we thought is it time to look at branding um so there's

102a lot of different logos throughout the district every school has their own every school has their own mascot but there's no real uniformity to it um so it's very hard to tell if you look at those four logos um what school they are do they belong to the Patrick Medford School District so we want to try and change that to standardize it but still providing unique design for each building you know every building has their own mascot aside from the secondary who share the Raiders um but how do we how do we change that how do we make that look better also um with branding it takes on a whole larger aspect of what you're putting to the community and you change how you are recognized so you want to make sure that it's easily

103recognizable so if someone gets something in the mail and they see the logo they see the seal they know it's from Patrick Metford School District you know it's very similar to everybody knows the Amazon logo everybody knows the the Google logo Verizon things like that so you want to make sure that your brand is as recognized I as that so that's the goal um so the first round of of changes that we were looking at is we engaged with with um a few different firms and got pricing um and this is one of the things that they came up with so changing the current PM logo to look at the proposed update um and I if you read the bottom um reasoning for it you know radiating lines represent guidance and inspiration and then the

104connected letters represent working together as a school community and kind of putting that patr Med together um so different designs looking at changing a little bit to make it a little bit more recognizable also um there are a lot of organizations that may use our Patrick Medford logo without our permission so being able to change it and update it might help us to either trademark or copyright it so that we own the rights to it and it's not being utilized in methods in which we don't nothing things been finalized trustees this is all up for conversation yeah but we it's when it's it's something to to think about to modernize to standardize um to see what different options are are out there for us could you give us some more options yeah of course yeah

105yeah no nothing is finalized but it's important just to to think about it and say okay what what changes are you willing to accept and what's going to um resonate well with with so did you what's wrong with the current logo or brand like what what people are keep using it we want like when we walk walk into the CVS store and there selling stuff with correct yeah and we want to modernize it a little bit change it make it more recognizable um and when you do a brand change it brings attention to you when something when somebody changed a logo or design it bring it brings that attention to you so now if we have it and everything's all inline um it'll also increase our engagement um through different platforms that we're utilizing so

106we've also been working with our PR firm on this as well to make sure that they're involved as well so this was just to begin the conversation recognizing this is a journey this is not something that you just say Okay effective this state you're going to do this one of the steps first was to modernize the website given that the the board level committee had been work working on this for so long and I know trusty denafo has been asking and the rest of the board for an update to the website for quite some time and so given that we have accumulated so much feedback from the community uh we are we're well positioned to begin the process um that would be the first step uh we wanted to we thought it was important for

107you to see the level of Engagement because it's it's not always visible when you come to a school board meeting like tonight even though you know after an hour to folks uh have other things to do but others are watching it online and you wouldn't know that unless you were looking at the analytics so I think it's important from time to time for us to share this with you so you know the level of uh engagement that is out there and this is this is actual data is the is this being discussed in in your committee this year are you guys talking about branding so this year is going to be branding website conversation and probably AI is going to be the three big things on our okay any other questions for us we've been

108having quite a busy summer yeah thank you thank you thank you James it's doing an excellent excellent job yes yeah so James the um functional changes like on the website look great I mean modernizing that and getting it to to work faster and More in sync you know more simplistic to get to where you want to go yeah exactly that's what we need goal too is with parent Square so much more information is being pushed out on parent square that those individual H um school websites are really not necessary anymore it's really probably two or three pages contact information how to contact nurse attendance office main office supply list bell schedule that's really what the men that's what the parents St we WE Post if you and we did this on on the committee um

109I asked the committee members to go and look at other school district websites and see how much information we post compared to what they and we post so much more information is why we're getting so much more views yes and I guess this is a CMS that the whole district will have because obviously there's a lot of people who are doing updates to the website different schools different departments so they'll have then you know again we centralize it so we don't allow everybody to do because of ADA compliance and things like that we kind of took that away a few years ago to make sure that everything we post is James I was going to mention that too again so from the style guide whenever you get to the final style guide It's All 8

110compant I mean that's people people don't even think about that when they think of a website why is that ada8 compliant but it has to has to Fally yes yeah Andy too with all the PDFs that we do post and stuff like that and um deer does a great job of of making sure that they're all ADA Compliant and things like that for us so you're getting a sneak peek into all the work that's going to be over the next several days with our administrators that are Retreat thank you thank you James okay moving on to number 11 no it's after that report um by our ex official student member Ella mccan thank you for your patience Ella I'll try to keep this brief okay hi my name is Elan and I'm so grateful to

111be the new exofficio student member of the board of education so the purpose of this presentation is just to get to know me a little bit oh perfect thank you um the purpose of this presentation is just to get to know me a little bit since I will be the representation of student voice so here we go so I'm a rising senior at the high school and I hold many leadership positions in multiple clubs and activities but I did only highlight my favorites throughout this presentation um I am one of two go co-presidents and I am the class of 202's Treasurer which are both heavily involved in community events I'm also a a proud competitive dancer at stage door School of Dance and I love that they Foster a community atmosphere which I hope to

112bring here with that I'm also an AP student and I pride myself on my work ethic and my determination so diving into my favorite week of the year homecoming I spend most of my time helping and planning everything to run smoothly as both co-president and Treasurer I pretty much live at the float site all week and I think that homecoming is a great Staple in our community as itead sprs so much patmed pride also I'm one of three raiderettes captains this upcoming season which is such an honor and I'm so excited to choreograph all home football games and basketball games including Homecoming this week is so special to me because it's when our schools all join together and it is something that I hope to replicate at these meetings continuing on I'm I am a

113competitive dancer and I have the great opportunity to teach both we dance and younger competitive dancers so we dance at my studio is a program where I teach special education students how to dance and I am a shadow to them being a shadow is when I am able to direct them to dance based on their needs which ranges all different ages and abilities making it such a great and inclusive program both student teaching and we dance allow me to have an impact on the journeys of aspiring dancers both in and outside of the studio I'm also a part of the elite company which is my biggest commitment outside of school and it has been my passion for as long as I can remember next in June 2023 I attended a youth leaders ship seminar called

114Hobie at adelfa University where students from schools all over the states are selected to meet together to attend this seminar to talk about ways to demonstrate leadership and to Foster Community aspects so I will try to use all that I learned there to apply to our community lastly I am a part of a family of four which have been heavily involved in the pat menford Community my brother is a sophomore at Sunni jeso and he graduated from the high school in 2023 and my dad is a former patock Medford youth lacrosse coach and my mom is a current ta at Oregon middle school and that's me so thank you so much for your time and I can't wait to work together this year I just want to commend Ella I don't know how you're standing

115with all of that that you're trying to balance uh it it really is commendable and we look forward to uh working with you this year and learning more about you and you representing the student voice of all of the schools this year congratulations thank you Ella okay moving on to number 12 public comments on reports and agenda items Mr Logan would you please read the ground rules again this is limited to three minutes per person I'll warn you after two and a half please do not discuss specific students or specific staff members additionally on the agenda which you received it item n was deleted um for more consideration so that's not on the revision you guys got this afternoon so I'd like to first start with item T policy 6147 um you know at the

116beginning of the meeting I remembered what it was about but now I don't can you remind me oh I think it's technology use is that that's one um so what were the significant changes and I feel like I read it and then I thought it was okay I don't I didn't write any notes down we'll move on I only have three minutes um so I I liked your presentation about the website I've been on the technology committee for many years and I know we've been talking about it and I know that it's been a little bit of a pet peeve of mine as well as everybody here so that was great I do feel like the analytics though I I wish more people were watching and accessing you know board meetings and all that other

117stuff it really was an average of about a minute and a half that most people watched except for that one big board meeting in March which had news day here for a little while too so it was obviously a meeting people were talking about um but students don't have access to YouTube right that's blocked for them it depends so in the high school if a science teacher posts a YouTube video is that something that those students can access on their School Technology through the schoolly and or teams or whatever platform they're using so it's not a flat YouTube okay and uh it's really nice to meet you Ella congratulations on your position I wrot something else that I wanted to ask about oh with the overhead drones that videotape things how do you ensure with

118the media release and stuff sh supposed to oh sorry how I'm GNA direct it right to James anyway how do you ensure with the drones and things that people who are going to be posted up on the website have signed or have not declined the media release and that type of stuff we have Med relase forms that at the start of the school year with the back just did them yeah back to school packets so uh with this uh if it's a drone can't see an individual's face then there is no issue if there is uh one that we're concerned about we do our protocol check with that parent and if there is an issue they'll be excluded okay it it just seems like a very broad brush like taking kids coming off the bus

119on the first day and kids dancing at the prom and all that kind of stuff and I just again thinking about the district just making sure that everybody's satisfied I think I won't remember the other one but that's okay yeah oh we I think that's it start with hello sounds very interesting I'm gonna read up thank you good evening Jody Moran 511 Avenue Medford um so my question is about The Branding process and I would like to know if um the district would consider allowing the community to be involved in the process by way of a survey when final drafts have been completed yeah I'd like that yeah yeah we're all on board with that only 20 seconds Jody that's impressive no other questions comments okay we're going to move on to item number 13

120which is the approval of the consent agenda second okay roll call vote let me get down to that page it's a long percentage okay M andr yes Mr Nel yes Jennings yes m m kriger is absent Mr Salazar yes M Smith yes Mr Negan yes yes the consent agenda was approved thank you Mr Logan um I just like to take a moment before we go any further into tonight's um agenda I just wanted to make a statement um let's take a moment to honor a truly remarkable individual this evening we extend our heartfelt best wishes to Dennis Logan as he presides over his final Board of Education meeting marking the end of an illustrious career after more than 17 years of dedicated service at the district clerk for the Patrick mford School District Dennis is

121retiring leaving behind a legacy of excellence and unwavering commitment his meticulous attention to detail exceptional communication skills and deep knowledge have been vital to the district's achievements dentistes behind the scenes efforts have ensured the smooth and efficient operation of the Board of Education throughout his tenure Dennis has exemplified professionalism integrity and a steadfast dedication to supporting the board he has worked closely with numerous board members and superintendents providing valuable guidance and assistance in fulfilling their responsibilities Mr Logan has diligently maintained records of monthly board meetings legal matters school budget votes and countless other tasks Beyond his role as a district clerk Dennis is a proud alumnist of patrck Medford and is a lifelong resident devoted to the wellbeing of our community as he steps into the well-deserved retirement we wish him joyful healthy and prosperous

122future for himself and his family Dennis will be deeply missed and we express our profound gratitude and thanks for his countless contributions while congratulating him on his new chapter in his life I'd like to Echo everything that Mr Mr President indicated relative to your Stellar record of service to this District your commitment and dedication is unwavering um we you know just wish you the very best in retirement we know you're just really down the block but we really honor and appreciate you this evening for all that you have done for the school district to make it better often times the mark of greatness is that when you leave a place wherever it is that it's better than when it's when you started and we can unequivocally say that Dennis the district is better because of

123the service that you have given to this District so with that being said um we have a resolution Mr President you would like me to read it very well so this resolution in says whereas Dennis Logan has tendered his resignation as a member of the Patrick meford School District for the purpose of retiring as of August 31st 2024 and whereas he has Faithfully served the Patrick M School District as a school district clerk since July 6 2007 a total of 17.2 years and whereas he has met his responsibilities reliability and efficiently and as efficiently done his work and as a result earned the respect of his colleagues administrators parents and students and whereas because of his concern and interest the lives of hundreds of children from the patok and mford communities have become rich now

124therefore be resolve that by means of this testimonial the Board of Education and the superintendent of schools on the occasion of his retirement seek to express their sincere appreciation for his years of service to the school district and to the children of the community and take this opportunity to join with his colleagues and extending best wishes for a very happy retirement and it is signed by every member of the Board of Education and me as superintendent of schools thank you Dennis so those BL like only Silvers and blues and here and there can't do that so um so 17 years ago there was only one board member who didn't vote for the district clerk and that was me but I wasn't I wasn't voting against Dennis I was Voting against having a full-time district clerk

125because before that the district had a part-time District Clerk and I got to tell you um Dennis has truly proven the value of this District having a full-time district clerk thank you Tom so I guess I could say I was wrong I'll say I was wrong but yeah know Dennis has done a fantastic job and he's built this position over these 17 years to be being an invaluable position for this district and definitely going to be missed but I know we'll see you around and um very very difficult to replace so um you've left an incredible Legacy also Dennis is the person that you go to when it's like okay what happened in the district in 1962 and Dennis will come up with some piece of information showing the district way back when and who

126was in what position and even even documents and Dennis where did you find this you sent out those pictures of South Ocean just sent out South Ocean pictures for the con and who was the um the uh architect on that yeah it's like you know right exactly so um you know that'll that'll be something that the uh new district clerk is going to have to kind of understand how to do and take but never be able to know what you know about who was where and when and where the bodies are are Dennis knows uh so thank you Dennis for 17 years of outstanding service remember the first day Dennis out on the lawn of uh of South Ocean and we all came ring around what's going on the board's being blocked out of a

127meeting and Dennis became the um I guess the protemp district clerk for that meeting and then it started from that point on so congratulations on retirement okay moving along oh sure you have three minutes okay start the clock no sharing of minutes so driving here tonight I realized that I was coming to Saxton Middle School before I was born my mother was the secretary to the superintendent and before I was born she resigned as a secretary to the superintendent the superintendent's office was in Saxton so I have been coming to Saxton Middle School for 64 years which absolutely blew me away um I have loved this run you know that my love for this district is on question and I've served with many many wonderful people both on the board in the administration as teachers

128staff members bus drivers cafeteria ladies it's just been a wonderful ride and I thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to be able to do it for all these years so thank you okay moving on number 14 there were no items removed from the consent agenda for a separate vote number 15 informational items first we have uh first reading policy there's actually 32 of them up for this month don't I'm splitting them up again yes then uh section B second policy readings of Mr D um trusty denafo had a question about uh reading um 1338 so it's it's a simple question right so this this policy is on the school facilities being used for blood drives and in the policy it talks about retaining a insurance on that so my question was and

129again I could have asked this question to Dr Jones privately but bring this out to the public so the question really became usually when there's a blood drive there's some blood service that's running that it's not like somebody's just going to do a blood drive right um Trula but um is is that insurance like really sort of like the policy that like you know New York blood center would have retained the policy to yes New York blood center is the one that is actually running that and they would be the one that would actually be holding the policy right so it's not really like okay so the PTA is running it or or the teachers union is running it it's really they just extend it out to making sure that the service they're bringing in

130and and the amount on that Frank is normal amount I don't know the amount off hand but I know it's in in uh accordance with with what niso has recommended but we can get you those numbers it's not yeah I just want to make sure that we're not blocking anything by changing some number and we've been doing blood drives in the district for a long time and then find out that you know New York blood center comes back and says oh wait a minute now you're asking for this amount it is in line with what it is everything is in line and uh they would certainly have higher levels of insurance to cover what they do and where they go um the intent was to actually make it more of uh uh accessible to the

131community um by lowering the limit from the 3 million to the 2 million which nyser has indicated is acceptable also I I actually wrote the policy many many years ago and one of the things we required based on Council telling us to was individual participants in the blood drives have to provide releases when they give the blood verifying they know what they're doing and withhold in and putting the responsibility onto the blood service and really taking the responsibility away from the district and that's what the blood service does they have you fill out the form but we have a that that that whole form actually comes back to us which isn't a normal practice in many places okay thank you okay um moving on to item number 16 there were no actions arising out of

132the executive session and number 17 would be Dr Jones's superintendent comments I will be extremely brief because uh I would say that a lot of the reports um were hopefully informative I just want to report a few things as we prepare for back to school we have spent the entire summer finding out trying to develop strategic manners to get messages to the community also commend James richro because there was a new technology a news kind of article a news um reel to get out to the community to the parents to be more informative with links Etc through parents Square uh we have broken up the back to school packets of information in a way that you know if you have many children or more than one building that it would be more understanding of your

133time um we have been hard at work all summer getting the buildings ready um and so at the September meeting we will have full full back to school opening day reports but for now we're super excited uh we had new teacher orientation today we oriented 61 new teachers to the district um every year we think Dr Cohen it's going to be a lighter arrive but it it it gets uh even more challenging so there will be a full report in September on all of the employees that were hired um but we're happy to say that there were a delightful bunch and many pictures were taken today the teachers union hosted lunch with the administrators and the teachers today so that was great uh we had a we have a two-day Retreat starting tomorrow at 8

134going all day tomorrow and all day Wednesday for a total of probably 16 hours straight of information that we will be sharing with them to make sure that they are all ready and that we are speaking with one voice conference day is scheduled for September 3rd and 4th next week we have keynote speakers we have all kinds of professional development that's scheduled for all of our teachers all of our staff members all of that is scheduled for next week so we're super excited about that and I believe it's South ocean that is uh going to be celebrating their 100th birthday in September uh which is humongous and so you will hear more about that festivities and a number of other festivities as we ribbon cup prepare paep a ribbon cut for a new Aces room

135at Bon that will be coming uh at probably toward the end of September lots of exciting things and we're looking forward to a bright school year where our children grow and continue to learn and Thrive here every day thank you thank you Dr Jones um number 18 there were no discussion topics sport forward for this month and next we have number 19 Community comments anybody that wanted to come up to make some comments they're more than welcome at this time was I really just want to wish congratulations to Mr Logan really I think it's fantastic I hope you have a wonderful wonderful retirement and uh give your stopwatch to somebody who will know how to use it thank you I'm going to go back to discussion topics there was a topic on a uh a

136previous alumni that wants to make a donation of a plaque to the school we're going to table it till next month when I can gather more information to make the conversation more applicable to um what that person's uh objectives were on that okay um board comments we'll start down at the other end start right um I think first yeah first and foremost I I'd like to thank all the presenters tonight I thought they did a wonderful job with providing us with relevant and impactful information um one thing in particular that I'm very happy to hear about is the installation of the locks on the doors the safety locks uh emergency locks um you know I think it's it's something as simple as that is very important because you know we it shows how much we

137value our safety here is something that you know I think it's still a uh a statistic where not one lock door I think has ever been breached by a school shooter so this something you know time becomes very important and stuff like that and that it's just a simple thing that we have done across the district that is going to you know provide a lot more safety for our children um I also want to thank the uh Administration custodial staff technology security all those involved in in all the hard work they did this summer um you know to prepare us for the school year uh we saw a lot of things going on this year that was great and they're going to make this school year uh another fantastic year and I think lastly um

138Dennis once again thank you so much I'm sure I'll see you around the block uh Dennis is almost a neighbor of mine and he used to tell me stories of how he used to jump off uh my garage and how he actually broke his ankle when he was a child jumping off my current garage so no jumping off the garage but you know you'll provide yourself more time you know to do fun things with your dogs and grandkids and all stuff like that so congratulations and I'm sure they'll see you around thank you uh also I'll be very brief um all these reports were fantastic today U I'm I'm I'm thrilled about the um the security upgrades um I'm very happy to learn about the uh uh um changes that are being made to the

139drills uh I think those are um uh well passed and they're they're they're welcome to changes um uh I'd like to learn more about the Naran thing but that's not for now um I also wanted to let you know that uh Dr Cohen and uh Mr Rich Roth and I met um several representatives from AT&T a few weeks ago to do a site visit at the high school uh to assess some signal strength issues and that's more information coming on there um and that's it Dennis thank you very much for teaching us all of the things that you have been you have we could not have learned but we learned and been as a strong aboard I think without a lot of your input and guidance thank you um I just want to also say

140um since I sent sit on Eastern suff bosies we actually appointed a directive superintendent um Dr Jasmine verela who will start on September 3rd so along with David Wix she'll also now have a director a superintendent um I thought all the presentations were great it was very informative to know what's going on um I have the lock down shades in my room um and we have the we don't have those locks down but we do have like where my door knob does on the outside so it's very nice to see that it's incorporating into this District um and Dennis out say I probably known you since I was probably really little since your mom was in my grammar school forever so it goes way back but we had a lot of fun memories and I'll

141definitely miss you on this board but I'll know I'll see you around thank you I I'll get to you um the board attended the annual scope dinner a few weeks back um I don't know if I'm stealing anybody else's Thunder because sometimes Mark looks at me like oh I was going to talk about that no it wasn't okay but um it it was interesting um and Dr Jones you'll help me with this right but um our Regent Roger Tillis said that there's a real shortage of teachers and we kind of laugh and I'm sure Dr Cohen and the team were like well I don't know we saw a lot of applicants come through so there's really not a shortage of teachers especially with our Long Island schools and we're you know certainly the um you

142know the schools that we have that are teaching or teacher schools so um that was kind of odd uh and then he also brought out about alternate Pathways and that the regions are finally looking to adopt new policies towards alternative Pathways to graduation right and it's taken them 10 years to get to this point so I'm I'm telling you we need a revamp of New York state regions because it's a little ridiculous how much time they take to make what we all see as obvious and we have members of our community uh including Manny felloes as you all know who's been pushing for this for so many years to have all these different opportunities for for students to be able to graduate um and Achieve success and you know when I heard him say that

143he was like proud that you know after 10 years they finally got to this I'm like 10 years the light went on I mean yeah right did all of a sudden the light go on with you guys you know so and I know our our professional educators are going to kind of hold back on this but I think we all realize that and of course you know Roger Tillis wants to stay on for another what is it five years term whatever it is it's like another five he wants to stay on for another fiveyear term we we need new people in there who are actually going to fight for our students and are going to look at education in in a new way um in an improved way you know I I'll laugh James and

144I'll say it's like we've got 286 computers that we're running in our district like come on you know we just have to adapt so that's kind of a call out um I know nobody actually will listen to this at the regions but I think we definitely need to be a push um you know um from our district towards improving what happens up there and they are approved by our legislators so maybe we start with our legislators and get out to them and say guys you got to do something about this um as far as Dennis is concerned like I said before we'll definitely miss you got a lot of great memories a lot of things we've been through um and like I said I know I'll see you around and we'll definitely go out and

145you know have dinner and a couple of things and your family what a great family I mean of course our kids of course went to school together and we remember all the stories of of things that they did we laugh about and um you know just you'll definitely be missed so um I just want to say the Pres uh the presentations were were great I would like to see if we could maybe all I know there's maybe some copies of what we saw tonight presentations either emailed to us um and yes I did know what Tom says about our regions and I I think in my basement 12 years ago would we started talking about this and listening to it's great that it's finally starting to happen but it shouldn't take that long so in

146legislative committee maybe this year that can definitely be a topic to start to have a conversation about um and then Dennis it's been great you were supposed to wait for me no um but you will be missed thank you for all your wisdom and all your advice and just that go-to person that you know was there for us and you will definitely be missed okay Danny okay so um first thing I wanted to say was being part of this uh District Safety Committee for my second year I am kind of Blown Away by all the things that I heard were going to be told talked about and presented and you know maybe do this or do that and so on and so forth and I shared this with the committee the other day when they

147unveiled all this stuff um it's amazing that everything that was asked for and said that was going to happen is actually either done or almost done so I think that's an amazing thing that our Administration our committees we listen to what the community has to say we put stuff into to motion actions are taken and um things get done so I would like to thank you know Jody's back there clapping her hands and she was part of that committee and um you know just bring it we listen and if we can make a change we will that's our role secondly the presentations tonight were outstanding um Everybody learned something it's a new school year we have new goals and of course with new goals we have new accomplishments so that's what we're all looking forward

148to and finally I've been part of almost every Committee in my tenure um going on eight years now and I'm really really excited James to be part of your committee this year between you know an updated website and Ai and all that kind of stuff it's really stuff that's happening and um when you talked about the other day about reaching out to all the service providers and having a cell tower designated to our schools I was like are you kidding me I mean so people are asking for better service in the schools and he's out there trying to get it so it's you know right there Dr Jones and and say again Dr Cohen too and Dr Cohen I mean all that work you know that the the thing is that all the stuff that

149gets done behind the scenes and just appears it doesn't just appear the amount of work and effort that has to go into it by everybody whether it be presented to the board for approval and then everybody at the other side of this table doing all the work it's uh just something to be really proud of and our district shows it so that's it thankk you motion what motion for what close oh I'm teasing second oh no let burn it that burn that got in there first we got to get buzzers I think hi