001Good evening and welcome to Coast School District Board of Education meeting tonight, April 23rd. Meeting is going to be called to order at 6:04 p.m. Evacuation procedures. We have two doors here on the side and the one that we came in, we would meet out front. If you could please just stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible and justice. Thank you. Have a roll call, please. Mr. Jackson here. Mrs. Snder here. Mrs. Gend here. Mrs. Paradis excused. Mr. Dros here and Mrs. Geller, I am here. At this time, I will turn it over to Superintendent O'Shea for our district reports. So, thank you. As you know, on tonight's agenda, uh we have our budget proposed adoption. So, I'm
002going to turn this over to Stacy Mackey to share with you what you have heard a few times before, but uh we tried to make it a little shorter this time, but next time for the hearing, it'll be the full the full budget presentation. So, proposed budget hasn't changed since the last time we met. It's a 54,865497. It's a 2.67% increase, uh $1.4 4 million. Revenue hasn't changed either. Uh the New York State budget still has not uh been finalized. So we're going off of our best estimates. So I still have an asterisk next to our state aid. I'll bring to your attention our dependency on state and federal aid. So the first three line items uh it's about 63% of our budget uh is state and federal aid. So, we're heavily dependent on our
003state aid uh with 33 1.5% property taxes uh and about 2% uh 2 and 12% uh other revenue sources. So, again, majority of our aid um of our revenue is from state aid, the property tax levy. So, we are uh under the cap which was 3.67%. Um, the proposed budget includes a 2% increase on property taxes. Um, it's $362,000 in new revenue for the district. And what that would mean for a homeowner with $150,000 assessed value property, it's about $5 before STAR, the change in STAR a month. It's about $60 for the year. Uh, the STAR exemption is going down. Uh, so that's another $21, but that's not um anything that we have any control over. Uh, so I've talked about $7 historically. So with star it's about $7. Um, from a historical standpoint, the
004last two years we had a 1% increase. So um, we we've stayed and maintained underneath the the uh the cap which we actually every year expenses. So proposed expenses, you will see instruction uh is 54% of our budget as a a de decrease this year. Um I want to talk about the last three years as we've seen uh some significant increases in state aids uh particularly our foundation aid. We've invested over the last three years over $7 million in that in instruction um which obviously was needed. So, we're we're still on the on the plus side. If we look at a four-year uh look back, um so this year, unfortunately, it's an extremely tight budget. Uh you'll see employee benefits are up uh 542,000. That is 26% of our overall budget. Uh operations, which includes
005security in that line item. We have some enhancements in the proposed budget. So, uh that's 11% of our budget. Transportation. We've seen significant increases here. We're working on a bid. Um we hope to have new contracts in place next year. That's 5% of our budget. And debt service. You'll recall that last year we had a temporary decrease as the debt was retiring. Um that's going to normalize next year. So it'll go up again next year and it'll normalize. It's usually about three 3.4 million. Uh so we're still we're still down over what the norm is for us. Uh so to look at our expenses, the three-part budget. So we have our program costs which are uh 80% of the overall budget. So that includes all of our uh our teachers and our uh staff that
006deliver pupil services for us, which includes guidance, our textbooks and instructional materials and equipment as well as transportation costs. Capital costs are 10 and a half percent. Uh they include benefits for maintenance in our custodial staff as well as our debt for our buildings and uh our utilities and our tax certiary. So utilities are up this year. That's a a considerable increase for us uh across the board and our utilities. And then administrative. So administrative component is about 9% of the budget and that's includes our salaries and our benefits for administrators and uh professional development and then all the legal aspects including uh our fund audits and our planning and our evaluation. So budget highlights for this year uh we're maintaining all of our previous student supports. Uh the focus is primarily on health and
007safety. Uh so we are increasing a 0.5 campus safety monitor at our middle school. So uh that should be three uh three total in the building. Uh we are also going to have a stipen for a district-wide school safety coordinator uh to oversee security throughout the district. And for facilities, we have several uh local uh projects that we're going to uh focus on health and safety that we talked about through the facilities um um presentation last week and the HBC audit, which is really needed to focus on what our uh long-term plan is going to be for facilities and a potential new capital um capital reserve uh in the next year or two From an instructional programs aspect, we have the alternative program for grades 8 through 10. And for in techn in technology systems,
008we have a 1.0 computer technician um which we had gone one to one a number of years ago. We hadn't seen an increase in the staff. We really almost need a dedicated resource for the the student devices. Um so that's just right sizing that department. And uh we have obviously the Chromebook needs uh the plan is for fifth and 9th grade um Chromebooks replacement for the upcoming year and a classroom displays. So for next steps we have uh some deadlines approaching. So, April 28th, we have the property tax report card, which is actually uh on the agenda for tonight for you to approve and then we can submit it to SED early. And then uh the board petition deadline is al also on April 28th. Uh we have the public hearing on May 7th. The
009newsletter should be able to be mailed out prior to that. Uh that'll go out to the residents. And then May 20th is the annual vote and the polling locations are each of our elementary schools and it takes place from noon to 900 p.m. And uh just so you know, there will be an article on the website with uh parent square sent out tomorrow about the budget. We're ready to go with that as well. um will be presenting uh to staff at meetings during the first full week of May. Um we have a rotary presentation coming up and then we're working on some other potential presentations of the budget and we'll keep you posted. Any questions? Feel like we've talked and talked about it so we're all very well aware. All right. Um so to continue
010uh w with with some updates and reports um just uh so tonight on the agenda for adoption is the policy for exeicio student board members. I just wanted to give you an update about some of the planning. So announcements regarding these openings will go out the second week of May. We thought that would give us time to get through the hustle and bustle of the prom and then put out those um announcements with a deadline for notification of desire to serve by May 23rd. Um with the SE selected candidates being chosen the second week of June prior to regions week. Um Mrs. Tarlo will be further discussing the process with student council adviserss and officers in the upcoming week and then we'll talk more specifically about the process but that's the time frame. Um I
011wanted to talk uh provide an update on ELLL. So in considering all of the factors I'm recommending that we begin this during the 2526 school year. Um I've asked Mr. referred to work with teachers now to determine who those teachers will be. Um, you know, we have the outline of a PD plan and, you know, we'll be putting that ti together a little further. That'll allow time for those teachers to visit Harmony Hill next year. It'll also allow time for the ENL teachers to um visit, you know, both Lancing and Van Skike um and for other professional development not only on the use of um instructional techniques but also on use of technology. Um so we understand that with the additional year um there will be some additional support um needed at Harmony Hill. Just
012wanted to first of all let you know that um we did provide additional iPads um this year to Harmony. Those are working very well. Um my plan is to meet with the ELLL teachers Jaclyn Derel and Mark Perry um over the next couple weeks um to talk about potential needs also with some classroom teachers and then I feel that those can be meet met through our title three ESL grant and our title three immigrant immigrant grant. I'm talking things like maybe potential and additional aid to help translate things like that. Um and then we'll also share a communication plan with you for the for the upcoming year. You you said they you were going to implement it for the 25 26. Yeah, that's September. I'm sorry. 26 27. Okay. I'm a year a year out.
013A year out. I'm so sorry. Thank you for for catching me. I'm still stuck in 24. Um, okay. So, 26 27. Good catch. Did anybody else catch that? Say, what the heck is she talking about? All right. Thank you. I had you until you said a whole year and I'm like, wait, no, that doesn't give us the whole year. Yeah. Okay. Um, and um, just a little bit of update on UPK registration. And I know I shared the numbers um but we still have openings for our fours. We've been um uh advertising. We're putting out posters. Again, we have put out posters and flyers. Looking at some maybe additional locations. As I mentioned, there will not need to be a lottery um for slots, but there will need to be a lottery for um home
014schools for um the threes, and that will take place on May 8th. So again, any student who applied will have um uh be able to attend the program. It's just a matter of where they'll be able to attend and parents will be able to attend that lottery. Is it in person or I'm not sure how Yeah, we moved um we moved to virtual and then the feedback was that the virtual was um positive because then they could um uh either join virtually or watch the you know video after. So it'll still be virtual. Okay. Yep. With the link sent out but they'll be notified of that ahead of time. Um and I think that's it. along with the upcoming event. We have normally we have many upcoming events, but the highlight uh over the next
015two weeks before our next meeting is the top. Great. Thank you, Stacy. Anything else? I have some old business. So, um the internal audit report, I was hopeful that we'd have it for tonight's agenda, but I have not received it. Um, Michael Wolf hopes to work on the report over the weekend. Um, so hopefully the next time we meet, I'll have that report. I'll obviously share it as soon as I have it. Um, and then just a reminder, we do have in June we'll have our um our final borrowing for the capital project. Um, so that'll be our long-term debt. It won't be a short-term ban. It'll be a long-term debt. So the board president will have some signing to do. Um, so I'll share the the timeline as soon as I know it, but
016it's at some point in June. It'll be probably mid June. Any questions? Any board discussion of agenda items? Um, I just have one thing to bring up. It is items 6 J through L. Um this is an agreement to um initiate a third-party review of uh some of our high-cost prescriptions. I know that we've talked about that in public session before and um we need to if we're going to go into this agreement get it on the books before the end of this school year. Um I'm just requesting that the board allow us to go to individual separate vote for that. Um it is focused primarily on GLP1 medications. However, within some of the language does allow for other medications to be added to it later on and uh being in a position where I
017have someone in my family on a trial medication very expensive. I think a third party review just adds an additional barrier um that just is against my personal philosophy. So, um I open that up for conversation if anybody has any. Um we will do that before consent if you guys agree to that. Okay. Any comments from the audience on agenda items? Heather got to get this together. I just want to say um how pleased I am that tonight on the agenda there's a recommendation for Heather Brat as principal of CoS Middle School. So, okay. So, we'll move on to our agenda. Um, I'd like to make a motion that the board of education remove items 6J through L from the consent agenda for a separate vote. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Thank you.
018Mr. Jackson, yes. Mrs. Snider, yes. Mrs. Shendren, yes. Mrs. Eeris, Mr. Gurus, yes. And Mrs. Geller, yes. Can I ask the clerk to read aloud items 6 J through L? Be it resolved that the board of education approves the memorandum of agreement between the CHO city school district and CSEA local 1000 AFS CME ALF CIO unit Albony County Local 801 dated April 23rd 2005 in accordance with the terms and conditions herein. K. Be it resolved that the board of education approves the memorandum of agreement between the CHO city school district and the CHO teachers association dated April 23rd, 2025 in accordance with the terms and conditions herein. And L is be it resolved that the board of education approves the memorandum of agreement by between the city school district and the co principles association dated
019April 23rd, 2025 in accordance with the terms and conditions herein. Thank you. Okay. So now I'm going to ask for a motion to adopt 6J through L. So this is approving the motions 6J through L. Can I get a motion? I'll make a motion. A second. I'll second. So your vote is to guess. Yes. And now go through. Now you have the world. Yes. Mr. Jackson. Yes. Mrs. Snider. Yes. Mrs. Gender. Yes. Mr. Gerros. Yes. And Mrs. Geller? No. Okay. So, oh actually you have to read in the above case in the above place motion passed. Okay. In the case above the motion passes and a four to one. Thank you. So we'll move to the rest of adopting the consent agenda. I'm sorry this is very confusing. Um, can I get a motion that
020the board of education adopt the following resolutions of the consent agenda 6 A through I and 6 M and 7 A through H. Make a motion. I'll second it. Mr. Jackson, yes. Mrs. Snder, yes. Mrs. Gendron, yes. Mrs. Paradis, Mr. Gerros, yes. And Mrs. Geller, yes. Thank you. Congratulations, Miss Sprat. Welcome. We are very happy to have you um as the new principal of the middle school. It's official. Are there any comments from board of education members on anything uh other than what's on the agenda? I would just ask to follow up um at a future meeting. I know that there had been something brought to our attention regarding potential um collaboration with CDTA. I saw Mrs. Tarlo today and I think maybe you know just want to make sure that we follow up on
021that to see if there are any opportunities for us to have, you know, some kind of a relationship with them to support our folks. That was a surprise. I know, but I just thought about it when she I remember I remember um any comments from the audience and anything not related to the agenda. Okay. So we just reviewed our second review and uh approved the policy 2245 which is the exhibition student board member and policy 7000 uh facilities de development. Uh deate dates for future meetings are May 7th and the 21st right here in the proposed middle school library at 6:00 p.m. Um can I get a motion to adjourn at 6:25 p.m.? Make a motion. Mr. Jackson, yes. Mrs. Snider, yes. Mrs. Gender, yes. Mrs. Paris is excused. Mr. Gerros, yes. And Mrs. Geller,
022yes. Thank you all for coming. Thank you.