001good evening I'm going to call to order this regular meeting of the Boston Spa Central School District Board of Education for April 10th 2024 if you would rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all i' like to welcome all of those who are watching here in person I'd like to welcome those who are watching at home on the live stream uh for those of you who are here in the room if we had to evacuate the two doors behind me on either Corner that lead outside and the door that leads into the hallway would be the way to do that and I want to welcome everyone back
002from the vacation week uh I had the pleasure of attending the robotics fundraiser last night here at the high school there was a baseball game going on there was a track meet going on Malta Avenue uh PTA was having a meeting and I'm sure there was lots of other things going on as well so we're back in uh full swing with lots of activities and that is wonderful and it's also great to see our new District website which looks and functions great on both a mobile device and a PC or laptop laptop and so for uh more on the staff and the vendor who made the new site happen here's Dr dooka thank you very much um tonight's recognition um is is is geared towards um Stuart Williams and Kenny Kelly Delany Elliott and wiissa
003gler um when we started to take a look at where we were with the website um uh about 15 months ago we decided to go with the new vendor final site um and and steuart and his team have taken the lead um to get us to where we are today um we certainly had a few hiccups along the way and a little bit of a delay with the launch um but you know they work tirelessly to get us to where we are I'm very proud of the website I know Brian's a big fan of it as well um super impressive on the phone going from what it was to now just searching our bcsd.org right on your phone and and everything comes up and everything's functional um you know certainly there'll be some some tweaks
004here in the next few months um but we're in a great place and that has everything to do with steuart and his team and also the building web Masters so I wanted to recognize all them tonight and say thank you um and much appreciated for getting us over the line with the new website and thank you very much steuart any other recognition not tonight okay this is our first period for public comment do we have anyone signed up not our Student Government report good evening I hope everyone had a wonderful break prior to break troop performed Beauty and the Beast and the crowds were absolutely amazing thank you to everyone who attended over break our sports teams kicked off many games the softball team won their game 10-1 against Troy the boys baseball team won
005their game against Troy and also picked up a big win big 10-4 win yesterday against Shen the boys and girls lacrosse teams are also having great starts to their Seasons last night the high school robotics team hosted their annual mac and cheese Pizza auction night to raise money for their upcoming competitions thank you to everyone who attended and donated on Tuesday April 23rd Student Government will be hosting a speakout in the high school library during all three lunches to get feedback from students on how we can improve the high school finally on Sunday the class of 2025 is hosting an Applebee's pancake breakfast tickets are $6 and can be purchased during lunches tomorrow and Friday thank you thank you so much any questions was the okay what was the date on the speakout uh April
00623rd thanks and then the Apple be's function is this Sunday yes okay well if there are no questions then we very much appreciate the report thank you very much may excuse yourself may have a motion to approve the minutes for the March 20th 2024 regular meeting so moved second any amendments or additions not hearing any all those in favor I I opposed minutes are approved we have our superintendent report we do uh tonight Brian and I will be presenting the next phase of the budget so um get over to Brian first and then I will follow him so good evening everyone it is uh April 10th and uh the state budget was due April 1st so we're 10 10 days back at this point uh it's happened before it's happened many times before for I
007experienced it probably four times back in the in the the '90s and 80s uh in the early 2000s so we have a plan on how to deal with that because we do not believe that uh it will be completed uh before this board adopts the budget on the 17th but this board is like many uh boards across the state that adopt the budget uh next week and they have to do that so it is what it is um so let's go into uh a summary of where we are now uh with our budget these are the things we're going to cover tonight and I'm just going to keep going here so here is the draft budget as you know uh over the last few uh months and meetings uh We've presented the general support budget
008the transportation budget and The Debt Service portion of undistributed we still have not presented instruction and the benefits portion of this and that's going to happen tonight uh but we do have a revision up here and I want to talk about that uh about a week ago it's it's well let me just back up and say it's it's interesting because we're putting together the budget starting really in December really full on in in February and March and last week we got the bid results for our uh utilities electric and gas and that was a shocker so we had very large increases in the Consortium numbers that we had the last time the Consortium had uh issued a bid was right after the the covid in the summer and fall of of 2020 and if you
009remember natural gas gasoline everything went really low at that point because all the economies of the world started to shut down so they issued a bid and we we've been living on that wonderful uh low rates for natural gas and electricity since then well uh that's over so starting July 1 we have a new number and the new number is significant and and what I want to show you is that within the facility so so this is General support here the central offices has not changed uh District uh Services is about the same but the it's actually gone down a little bit but facilities has gone up dramatically and under facilities in operations is the part of the budget that is the utilities and if you go down to the bottom electric and gas up
01044% so it would have been easier I guess to say that uh over the last three or four years like at your house where every if you're on the market your prices are going up over time and it would have gone up over a three threeyear period so it wouldn't have been quite a shock as great a shock but we have quite a shock here because of what happened so we had uh we had budgeted only about a million two in this number in the initial budget back in February but now we're at a million4 for that change so big increase in there uh has to happen there's no question that we're going to see it in fact we did not budget the full amount we're hoping we're going to have a warm winter next
011next year so that's uh everybody keep your fingers crossed hope for that warm winter and we'll be fine uh if it gets really cold I you're going to see me being very nervous so um just looking at that total budget what you know we always talk about budget driv what's driving the budget this year every year it's a little something different um there's the electric and gas okay and if you look at the total budget changes 3.6 that we're going to provide tonight which is below inflation it's a very tight tight tight budget um out of that 3.6 point4 of that is the electric and gas 1.2 of that is uh medical insurance and so if you remove those increases from the budget uh the budget would only be going up 2.1% that's amazing but
012it had to be done because of the revenue picture for the state and there's been a lot of work going on particularly in the superintendent's office and the administration to get this thing so that we could deal with these other numbers within the budget and within the constraints that we have uh that's that what that means is is that 2,14 is uh 56% of the total change so it's more than half of everything for the entire rest of the budget including all the salaries and everything else really pulled this close it's going to be it's going to be a tight year okay so let's look at uh one of the functional areas that we haven't cover Nets benefits so uh Retirement Systems uh that's ERS TRS and of course Social Security Social Security should mirror
013yes sir s before natural gas is that something cons happens every years no in fact uh what they do is they look at the uh how long they want to bid it for they get multiple bids and last time I think it was a three or four year bid they only did a two-year bid this time because they were they thought this is high so we're not we're going to only do two lock in two years so that we can rebid it again so that varies so well it shouldn't CH it's not going to change so that's what we've built into the budget now uh you know basically represent 75% of the rate change what we can never know is the weather and so if you have a good year like we're having a great
014year this year all right we we actually are having a super year and that's because of the weather part picture so there's those two pieces that are constantly you know going there's the rate which now is fixed for the next two years and then there's the weather all right okay so retirement uh the the Employee Retirement Systems the teachers retirement uh pension system and then Social Security Social Security as I always say should mirror the increases in salaries so uh that's actually very low it's about 2% but the Retirement Systems uh the TRS system is only going up a small amount but the ERS system is going up going from approximately I think 11 to about 16% all right uh on the rate of all the salaries so you have that rate change in addition
015to the increase in the salaries so that goes into there and that's why that's pushed that number up uh 6.3% uh the medical insurance we've talked about this uh you know the health insurance is is climbing drastically uh there's many reasons mostly because of prescription drugs and you know we and every every organization in the entire country uh deals with this right now uh the United States pays more for the same drugs than any country in the world and it's reflected in right here in what we're seeing um but nevertheless we have to do something about that so the Consortium that we belong to in this which is about 28 other school districts uh they're looking at how they structure the plans what other networks can be brought online to lower costs and and a
016lot of that is being uh looked at and probably will be implemented by the first of the year I'm depending on it because the rate increase is really more than 7% uh but we hope that that stuff will be in place come July and we'll be in good shape there uh in addition what we doing is is we're going to be offering um additional plan for retirees that will be a cost savings to both the retirees and to the school district to try and bring down that cost also so that'll be a July one uh start and that will it'll be an option it won't be required but the savings is so dramatic that I think a lot of people will will jump on board on that so hopefully with those changes we can we
017can absorb the the the large increase in the rates uh as I mentioned there were some rates like the two person and for one of our companies went up 18% uh that was crazy so hopefully we'll be there um and then all other is simply all the other things that we deal with whether it's workers compensation unemployment life insurance disability insurance all the things that we're basically required to uh provide and we're good there uh we self we self-insure for workers comp and we self-insure for unemployment basically the unemployment number I you know we keep a small amount in the budget just for the the random PE folks to come and go but if we need if we have have a situation we have a large claim on unemployment we have an unemployment reserve and
018we simply charge it against that in a sense and and that takes care of that okay so 6.7% for uh benefits uh not great but hopefully next year it will be better okay functional area instruction largest portion of the budget if you remember at the beginning the the budget next year is proposed to be 108 million uh 55 million of that is instruction uh and you can see all the different categories that are included in that uh only up 1.9% so that's a that's a a small increase usually we'll see 3 to 4% there uh if you continue programs and and the current structure that you have um in that area of the budget but that structure is being changed this year to you know both deal with the budget increase and to you know
019optimize uh instruction so I'm going to turn it over to um our steam superintendent oh I just want to put this up there it's just a a a random listing of things I just want to point out that continuing education which is summer school we've actually moved summer school into uh a a grant that you know the federal stimulus grants are still available this summer until the end of the summer so we're going to pay for summer school this year out of that Grant now that that's good news because it lowers the general fund budget but what it means is is in 2026 we're going to have to add it back it's approximately $200,000 okay so and I again I turn it over to Dr J thank you Brian so just to to to get
020us into you know our mission and our goal is always a meaningful diploma for for all students um you know difficult to kind of predict with the uncertainty at the state level um for this but I think that we've captured um a lot of our budget goals and kind of where we're at and I'll be able to show you a comparison um which will which will depict the range of where we need to be depending on the final number from from the state um and so this this slide here I kind of revamped it from previous ones um to kind of go along with with our new rebranding um but really this is our grounding Focus um for for the work we do with our students these these represent all our commitments um but at
021the end of the day you know we're committed to maximizing the success of our students um in these four ways or the way we do it whether it be you know safety students feeling safe buildings and grounds um priori izing student family community engagement which is one of the district goals that we've worked tremendously this year um to reach out to families more um you know offer programming you know off hours um really at the building level focusing on chronically absent students and reaching out to those families and engaging them um but also building our students leadership capacity um you know Katie Katie Miller is a great example of that um you know principal Robinson came over and uh before the meeting and he said you know Katie Miller is my boss she tells me
022what to do um and that's you know he's a little bit of an exaggeration but not not really um so I'll be sure to be at the the student council speak out as well because I know that that she wants me there so that's why I asked for the date um but just a great example of our student leadership you know she's off off to great things um and then committing to delivering high quality curriculum instruction um and assessments to our students um and so I like to always uh put up our fiscal Frameworks and so this is um our objectives when we get into looking at the budget you know we're committed to thoughtful allocations that's going to maximize the return on our investment um you know our District's committed to providing uh best
023opportunities you know we talk about opportunities all the time um but really what that means is an opportunity could look different for a different student in our district but really the goal is to um have them reach their full potential whatever that may be and so this District I'm very proud and I'm always um you know talking about the different opportunities we have for all our students um really there there is truly something for everyone um in this district and so that plays into um you know the budget discussions and you know what's what's a priority for us how do we want to maximize that make sure it's Equitable um and then our district is committed to preserving and improving quality programs and services um and so the next few slides here just kind of
024represent uh budget goals and these will be included in in next week's final budget proposal but um the results so you know I always want to bridge learning gaps and continue to Pro provide those sustainable supports um and so three things here that that we're focusing on you know the continued ongoing implementation of the Elementary reading math um science social studies and social emotional learning all the resources that go with that the professional development um you know continued support for all curriculum initiatives um at the middle school and then um providing support for continued implementation of mtss program and so just a quick uh caveat on that um you know the the mtss multi-tiered systems of support um as you all know we we've done an internal audit um we've done um staff surveys um
025the buildings and we we've done staff surveys at all the buildings and we have those results Dr CIS is going to be going over those results with our full cabinet tomorrow afternoon um and we've put together our district um mtss committee which will'll meet for the first time on April 25th and so um you know this is very important because having those tier one and tier two interventions um ideally cuts down how many students get referred to csse which is a cost savings over time so um you know District goal three-year plan but definitely a priority for our budget um maintaining support for additional student learning opportunities and so I'll start with um including funding for 70 students to attend bosis um or CTE programming uh mostly at at wish we wish we bosies uh
026but also New Visions and so um we have a lot of students who go and and really the three or four main attractions um for CTE are welding uh heavy machinery cosmetology and culinary um but we also have a very robust in-house um CT offering program and so um you know Matt and I um and Mr fno were at a women uh women in trades event uh before the vacation and so we're in discussions um on how we can get spread the word um for our our female students in seventh and eth and Ninth Grade to um allow them to know that CT is a wonderful option for them um whether it be inous with our programs or at bosis so definitely big priority to make sure that we're including funding um in next year's
027budget for 70 students that's the the same amount of students that we funded for this year um as Brian mentioned you know summer school for students in grades 9 through 12 summer success um grades K8 um we're able to um amend a grant and have that paid for um but this is a great opportunity for our students that need a little something extra maybe they weren't successful for one reason or another and they have an opportunity to accumulate up to three credits uh over the summer which can really be a game Cher as far as graduation rate and graduating on time for our students so definitely uh a priority that we wanted to make sure that we had in there um continuing to maintain and create new opportunities for our special education students so uh
028we're creating an additional uh 121 alt assess class room that'll be housed at Wood Road Elementary for next school year um but we're also maintaining the levels of support if you remember from last year we added a 612 um classroom at the elementary dedicated to students diagnosed with autism that staying but also our full gamut of special specialized classrooms whether they be 151 uh 812 so the full gamut across K12 um you know this kind of couples with our mtss goal um we want to make sure that we're being consistent that we're being thoughtful um but there's a lot of needs and where there's a lot of needs that drives a lot of the services so um as you'll see when we talk about uh next steps for next year we did have some retirements
029and special education um but we are hiring for those positions um because we we have some needs um providing Dynamic and Innovative uh learning environments and opportunities for engagement um so this one here you know continue support to expand our professional development opportunities for staff we've had to PE DC come two years in a row we had our our very successful superintendent conference day on the 20th we have another one scheduled for the 26th of April but more so than those two days our our robust catalog of PD offerings um you know I I've talked to to other superintendents and principles and and we just we have a very very robust catalog of professional development offerings um and so we wanted to dedicate some funding to continue that into next year um and and our
030focuses for next year and these kind of go along with our district goals and and what we've been doing this year but uh we're really focused on curriculum and instruction um the student chronic absentee absenteeism staff and student wellness and diversity equity and inclusion so those you know there's more but those are four of the main focal points um for our staff development next year as part of this budget goal um this one here um this is all about Safety and Security so continuing to improve our district facilities to ensure safe and secure campus for all staff and students um maintaining funding for two school resource officers um you know officer Garcia is right over there I mean he is part of our school Community uh so is Officer Hein um they they are everywhere
031um wherever we need them um you know the the students know them the staff know them and so we want to maintain that relationship with the sheriff's department um also maintain funding to enhance and improve our current infrastructure um and as you know we don't really go into safety details and infrastructure um but whether it be cyber security or the physical security of our buildings definitely a top priority for us when we talk about um resource allocation for for next year's budget we want to make sure that everybody feels safe and secure and that we're avoiding and doing everything we can to prevent um attacks whether they be cyber attacks or otherwise um and then also including this as as part of safety is the bus garage um lift project which Brian outlined at the
032last meeting again you know to to be able to provide maintenance on our bus fleet to keep everyone Safe Keep Those buses rolling um and that's part of of this budget goal here and so you know we do have the budget drivers you know Brian talked about them and and I'll kind of reiterate here we have the uncertainty with New York State Foundation Aid um you know our our predictions are one thing but until we get that number officially from the state then we can move on it we can act on it um obviously I think we're well versed in the global pilot uh reduction um and how much money we've been losing and projected to to continue to lose as Brian said a couple weeks ago the future is bright for us uh just
033not right now um so you know we'll we'll we'll do what we need to do um and also the the um the arpa the American Rescue plan for elementary and secondary schools um we did have um some uh Staffing that was out of this grant so we have that to deal with as well and so this grant was geared towards um learning loss and interventionists uh due to covid and as we mentioned it's set to expire on August 31st the good news is we were able to use some of this grant to pay for summer school this year which allowed us to save in other areas as we start to project into what we needed to do to balance the budget for next year um and so this is the slide that um I I
034put together to try to depict and compare where we're at with the ranges and so current uncertainty with New York State Foundation Aid these are our reductions in force um and so retirements um across the the units I believe we had 13 retirements this year um we're going to be absorbing six of those positions um in hiring for For the Rest um the ones that we're hiring for a lot of them are the special education positions resignations um when we started to talk you know December January and things weren't looking great uh we instituted a hiring freeze on resignations um and so so normal process is someone resigns there's an RFP that gets sent to HR we we put out for it so all those Flow To HR and eventually um myself and and you
035know we made decisions on are we going to hold on this one are we going to hire for this one is it a an immediate need can we see if we can get through the budget and see where we're at so we put a hiring instituted a hiring freeze January 1st um and so we'll be absorbing seven positions um and so this side is is kind of budgeted for um a 3% increase to what we know right now um and if we if we do receive an additional 3% in Foundation Aid um there will still need to be three positions um as far as Staffing reductions go the the flip side of this um is budgeting for no additional so if things remain status quo all indications are there not but until we have a
036final number we can't assume things so budgeted for no additional increase the six uh absorbed retirements the seven absorbed resignations and then additional staff reductions up to 16 positions so quite a quite a contrast here depending on if things stay the same or we get up to the 3% um and so fingers crossed if we get word by next week's presentation this will be a lot cleaner and it'll be spelled out kind of where we need to be um but we just don't know and so you know our our we can assume that it's going to be funded up to 3% and that would leave us in this column um but until we get an official number um we're we're kind of operating in this land of limbo for a better for a better return
037but we certainly have a plan um as soon as we we get the number we know what we need to do um but this kind of lays out the full gamut of where what we're looking at as far as reductions in force um and really it kind of all ties together with our our budget priority um and so we're reallocating some of our current resources to help maintain Equitable opportunities for students um and so when you have a tight budget year you want to take a look at everything um and make decisions and if we have to reallocate resources um and and and kind of move them and shift them to make sure that we're doing right by all kids in the district um and that's really what has been a driver um for this
038budget cycle um really from you know November up until now so hopefully within the next week or so uh we get an official number um and we'll have that information for you next uh next Wednesday 17th so that's our next budget presentation the 17th and I'm happy to take questions who wants to start I'm sure we must have some questions um I just think for the Public's benefit um have the PE people who may be impacted by uh reduction in Workforce have they been given any indication yeah building principles have had uh conversations with them prior to break and our HR department uh sent them a letter prior to break so they've been they've been notified I guess so I think we say this every budget season but um you know thank you to the
039budget uh the business office for always uh looking ahead looking down the road he's smoothing things out I mean it's I think it was 3.2% 3.1% increase which is very modest it's been that way the same way we're not asking for what we could be asking for we're asking for what we need um and when you go back and I'm sure there's a slide that references it's very consistent versus there's no spikes there's no 8% years and stuff like that so just make sure that the uh you know the community realizes that we are um you know taking the resources into account and um smoothing out the curve so to speak so thank you for sure um I I have a couple of questions I know we had a slide that um showed the uh
040the the ski slope Brian ski slope about the reduction in the uh assessment for Global foundaries I can't remember if we did or didn't talk about what the actual number was because I know some years it's somewhere around 400,000 500,000 um from year to year now what was the number for this year so for this year it's a little bit higher it's a little over over 700,000 and it changes from year to year based on the tax rate and the amount of the depreciation thank you and and so we had our budget increase and then of course on the revenue side we have the various sources of revenue so do we have right now a range or some idea about what um potentially each of those sources of revenue are going to be yes of
041course um you know the budget was built you know hoping for a you know the 3% increase in the foundation Aid so everything else goes from there but because we're still a week away and don't know that number and and there's other things in play even for you know this next week um and so we're we we understand what they are we've got that all budgeted and and we would be able to to adopt next week without question even if we don't have the state uh number but what what I'll do with that presentation is explain the variables and what we've done to get there because you know we're placing some bets and that's what we have to do any other questions because I have some questions about just like kind of the next steps
042procedurally and some of the things that we're going to do after we adopt the budget next next week but yes yeah just um follow-up question um Brian the when you talked about placing bats you know understanding that we're estimating costs at this point right we don't know what Heating and electricity costs are going to be for next year we don't know what the healthare costs are going to be precisely slightly under budgeted for those expenses but what's the like have we budgeted for a worst case scenario like a really cold winter or you know a substantial increase in health insurance costs so yeah no we did not budget for you know worst case scenario um I like to say that you know if you budget for worst case scenario across most of your budget it's
043a no case scenario because it just doesn't happen and so what we have is situations where for example we'll hold off on some facility projects and on some technology purchases over the summer and into the fall and wait to see what kind of the year we have and then when we get to January will'll say okay here's where we stand now we can or cannot do these other projects that we want we would normally do in any other year um and particularly with um the technology now it's not like we're giving up on that because we do have other sources Grant sources for technology purchases but we want to hold on to that money as long as we can if we can't because you know of the situation then we'll we'll spend it um but
044those are all the things that we have to weigh when we build the budget of what are we going to what are we going to hold where we have money that you know we can hold on to where we are under budgeted and we know that and you just identified a couple of them another major major area of course is special education you know we don't ever know you know a student can walk into a school district at any time and cost 60 80,000 in an instant and this this regularly happens quite frankly at a district this size and so we always have uh what we know to be the students and what possible placements are and and then we budget for that now sometimes we go over you know this year we didn't last
045year we went way over and so we had to hold on to money in other parts of the budget it's a constant give and take across everything it it's it's a full-time job I can assure you and we're just making sure that at the end of the year we're in good shape I can say that this year we're in great shape because we had a great winter we've had uh no issues with special education everything has went along great and we'll finish this year in in super shape very helpful thank you and uh I believe I have this from a prior presentation our allowable Levy under New York State this year is 5.5% that's correct yes okay and um shouldn't be any we should not be near that there's will be well under that like
046we always have been which is good to hear it's a good Trend you want that um I know that uh that that under has varied um you know by a couple of percentage points here and there but um that's absolutely great and then another great positive thing for our district is that the uh the tax base consistently grows from year to year and um this year it looks like we have roughly 2% um increase in the tax space base so it's not quite so simple that whatever the tax levy is if the base Grows by 2% you can kind of Lop that 2% off it's a it's a little bit more nuanced than that yes but it's not too far off from that number and we use that as a guideline every year is that
047if we know that the new growth uh is up let's say and it is 2% for this year um this district is is either the first or second fastest growing you know uh property value District in the Saratoga county which is one of the fastest growing in the state and that's because of new construction that's not on the current uh loan land owners it's in Property Owners it's new construction and um yes so that number can be essentially roughly removed from let's say a if we said that they were going to have uh taxes that are going to go up three and a half% you can take that 2% off and it'll be approximately 1.5 okay on average I don't think I have anything more on the budget any other questions so I think thank
048you very much again as law said thank you very much to the business office for their hard work and everyone's work um because I imagine you have so many different variables that you can raise and lower and kind of look at look at that all thank you is there anything more with the superintendent's report that's tonight no okay committee reports uh policy committee met earlier this evening um Amendments have been made to policy 8330 objection to instructional materials since our last uh Board of Ed meeting the revised policy um will be available for board members to review this this Friday um and will be available on our website as well um new amendments were made to policy 8320 textbooks Library materials and other instructional materials to include additional information um including our mission vision and
049the library Bill of Rights uh this policy will be up for 28 day read on uh 417 and uh a proposed um policy to replace policy 7212 response to intervention process with um new policy multi-tiered system of support mtss this new policy is intended to align with the district's uh multi-tiered system of support policy 7212 will be up for 28 day read on any questions so I have one uh 8330 was the policy that we approve the first read of the 20th March 20th meeting yes okay that so this will then be the amended version which we're allowed to do under our policy on policies this will be the amended version um which will then come up so I urge all the board members to as soon it as it becomes available um and please
050the communication out that it is available um to please review because we've had a number of discussions about this and a number of very close reads um of it in the past so let's try and um make sure that everyone is very familiar with it uh for the next meeting on Wednesday okay and anything else for committies we do not correspondence correspondence to the district we have 10 total this period three calls two regarding Transportation One regarding the solar eclipse seven emails two regarding the solar eclipse one regarding scheduling of events and four regarding student matters thank you and since the last meeting correspondence to the board board received two emails one regarding the breakfast and lunch programs at the elementary school level and one regarding the arrival and dismissal at the high school middle
051school complex announcements Mr Williams uh just a couple things tonight the uh Boston Spy Educational Foundation was here presenting their grants um at the last meeting and they're now organizing their annual appeal so you'll see that coming out in the coming weeks and hopefully you get something in the mail and and you'll think about supporting that so they wanted us to mention that um other events coming up for the district are the touch of truck event on May 11th is organized by the National Honor Society here at the high school but held over at the elementary schools um it's on a Saturday morning at 10: a.m. um they're still looking for folks to participate by bringing their truck in for the kids to touch so if you you are anyone you know have a unique
052truck or something different vehicle um that's the time to do it and you contact the folks here at the high school um school pride day will be organizing for May 21st so again we'll be putting together some exhibits and the music performances and things like that um the annual barbecue for the um teaching assistance um so we're starting to organize that and put that together if you're interested in being part of that on May 21st and our family Color Run is going to be on June 1st um it's just going to be one run this year the fam's running together um over at the elementary schools it's going to be 18 8:15 start on June 1st it's a Saturday um but they're asking people to register by May 17th so they know how many shirts
053to order so we'll be getting that information out as well so a few big events coming up in in the coming months and your next meeting is scheduled for next week on the 17th thank you resolution chers Chief inspectors and election inspectors so moved second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I I oppose extensions resolution number 466 passes I have a motion to approve resolution number 467 agreement Professional Services so move second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I opposed extensions resolution number 467 passes I have a motion to approve resolution number 468 Award of bid Roofing projects so moved second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I opposed extensions resolution number 468 passes I have a motion to approve resolution number 469 Award of bid
054tennis court resurfacing so move second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I I opposed extensions resolution number 469 passes do we have any idea what color we're going with can that information be provided to the board let's hope so I have a motion to approve what could be blue that's big nowadays not at a purple and yellow I have a motion to approve resolution number 470 placement of students with disabilities so move second all those in favor I oppos extensions resolution number 470 passes my a motion to approve resolution number 471 placement of preschool students with disabilities so second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I I opposed extensions resolution number 471 passes resolutions number 472 through 481 are recognized as a consent agenda for the purpose of Board
055of Education action I have a motion to approve Mo the consent agenda resolutions number 472 through 481 so mov second any discussion not hearing any all those in favor I opposed extensions the consent agenda resolutions number 472 through passes I didn't want to get a Sidetrack there but there's also like the brick color for to court with the green around the outside Brian you'll let us [Laughter] know for uh other new business I actually have something um talking about one of our Focus items uh absenteeism chronic absenteeism uh is it possible potentially to put together some uh statistics are we far enough into the year we can maybe get a year on-year comparison yeah we can certainly do uh we can certainly do a you know half year comparison and and we're almost through third
056quarter so we can put something together okay that would be great and I'm sorry if I may expand that ask can we also have something on um uh formally documented disciplinary procedures sure you know what I'm talking about yep whatever the proper word is for that um year to year thank you all right it's now the time for public comment do we have anyone signed up we do not do we have any representation from our associations uh liaison liaison yes uh so Gordon Creek will be having their Spring Book Fair from April 29th to to May 3rd uh the PTA is looking for volunteers for the event you can sign up online uh Middle School PTA will be joining in with the school's Community project showcase an international night event to put on their digital
057safety event uh they'll have interactive tables referencing different dilemas found in the digital world this will be taking place on April 25th from 6 p.m. to 7:30 they're also hosting their Spring Book Fair from May 2nd to May 10th they're looking for volunteers for that event you can sign up online as well well uh in addition to that they will be they will have openings this coming year on their board uh you can reach out if you're interested uh in becoming president vice president Treasurer or secretary for the Middle School PTA and finally High School um after after prom planning continues you can reach out to volunteer uh reach out to the after prom committee on that and they usually have like a series of me meetings scheduled they're hosting um pretty much a meeting
058every month this month they didn't have a meeting but they'll be having another meeting uh next month usually it's one during the first week of the month okay thank you we certainly encourage anyone to volunteer and assist our ptas um that would be great that meeting date is um May 1st at 5 thank you okay well um we have no reason to go into executive session our next meeting is on Wednesday April 17th I need a motion to adjourn so mov second all those in favor