001Um hello everybody. Welcome to the Tuesday, September 2nd how Board of Education business meeting. I'm calling the meeting to order. Um please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> President Clemens here. >> Vice President Valentine here. Trusty Mcnal here. Trusty Copper here. >> Trusty Clemenson >> here. Okay. So, the agenda is set. I don't think we need to um add anything. So, may we have the recommended action to approve the agenda, please? >> Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education hereby approves the agenda as written. >> May we have a motion, please? >> So moved.
002>> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? So comments from me very brief. I want to thank um Dr. Duffy for inviting uh us and some of uh the folks from our supporting organizations to join the opening session of the first day of the teacher PD on um Wednesday, the opening school professional learning days. Um and it was great to get to be there. It was great to see everybody together. there was um a really great opening session with really good energy and I I I I appreciated being there. So, and I heard the rest of the day and the next day went well as sure did. >> Yes. So, over to you. >> Okay. What a great first day. Um I've been looking forward to this day since I started
003in Helane in terms of having students and staff and the energy back in the building. So, from the beginning until the end, it was just a fabulous day. Uh starting off with our high schoolers coming out. Um kind of still waking up as they were standing outside getting ready to go in. Little talk about cell phones and things, but everyone really followed the procedures beautifully. A couple questions were able to be answered. Uh Julia was able to go into all of the I believe it was the social studies classes to talk about goal setting for the year and really setting the tone. So I had the chance to see her in one of the classes. Maryanne was doing um grade level meetings on just culture and norms within the middle school. So it was great
004to get in and see that. And Christine, if you've all seen opening day, she had the big blue balloon arch that said start. I felt like it was like a race on your mark set go and kids were coming into the building. So lots of super excitement. And our prek started today. So we had our 18 students join which was wonderful. I had the chance to visit um in classrooms. I helped a little bit with lockers. I found the health room. So, I brought a student there and one other classroom I may or may not have gotten in the right hallway, but we figured it out together. So, it was a great um great way to start. I had a chance to get out to a black top at dismissal. So, it was great to
005see um all different uh parents and guardians there picking up their children. >> On a side note, we had our first varsity boy soccer and I believe the score was 000 from what I >> JV did win five to one against Henry Hudson which is exciting. Um, and then also it was just all hands- on deck. So, every administrator was out today lending support, which was great to see. What else? Curriculum nights are starting next week. So, I believe we have middle school next Thursday. Um, I will be at each of the start of the curriculum nights along with Peggy to kind of be available to talk with parents about the capital project. and we'll have an updated uh poster that will show maybe a little bit of change from the community first voted on
006the project, but just any updates that we can provide as the school year unfolds. And so I'll also be staying at each curriculum night to say hello to parents and I'll make myself available as uh as the year goes on. I think that was everything to start. So anyway, great opening and thrilled to be here. I'm really grateful for the community. >> Good exciting. Right next. >> Okay. So, we don't have a special presentation today. So, it's actually the opportunity for our first communication from the public. So, this would be focused on special presentations and agenda items. The housing board of education desires and values input from the entire school community. This first public comment session is reserved for comments on any special presentations or active agenda items. For those who wish to address the
007board, we'd ask you to sign in and state your name. Keep your remarks to three minutes or less and to avoid disparaging remarks or discussions of personnel. Next on our agenda are our information reports right for our next business meeting. And then after that we move into consent agenda um minutes for our last meeting, our meeting last week. Um, may I have a motion, please? >> So, moved. Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Um, next is consent agenda financial. May I have a motion, please? >> So moved. Second. >> And I don't think there's really anything here worth calling out. Just very, very standard stuff. Um, all those in favor? >> I. Any oppose? And next is consent agenda personnel. May we have a motion? >> Second. >> Um some standard
008things. I don't think unless there's anything you want to call out. >> I could speak briefly on facilities and transportation. So, as we know, Adam McNeel will be finishing up his time with us next Friday. And he's done a really nice job the past two years here serving in that capacity. And so, we're really looking at this as an opportunity to take a look at facilities and transportation. Um, we have to follow the the regular civil service for hiring. That takes a little bit of time. We have to canvas state list. There's about 200 applicants that could um express an interest. So, we do have to kind of go through the the motions there. In the meantime, we would like to appoint tonight an interim director and that's David Robertton and he's coming from he
009retired most recently from Dobs Ferry, but he has many years as a um experience in this role. So very familiar with the role and managing people. And then I'm also looking at transportation through a different lens. It's a little challenging to be able to find a director of facilities that has both expertise in facilities and transportation. And so in talking with our um vendor who's going to be doing the transportation study, he actually recommended our consultant tonight, Elizabeth, who will be joining us, and she is most recently from Henry Hudson and has many years under her belt as director of transportation. So the plan is not to hire two full-time people moving forward. It's really to have David come in as our full-time director facilities interimm basis and then have Elizabeth come in more as
010a consultant a couple days a week to really assess what is working really well with transportation, what are some areas that we can improve upon and also to provide mentoring to our interimm director. So again, I'm really mindful of anyone new that we bring in knowing that it's hard to have expertise in both areas. How can we really set the next person up for success? So that's our plan. >> Okay. and those will be two people and they'll start uh next week. >> And these are just to build on what Dr. Duffy said, these are really very important years for both facilities and transportation. So facilities because obviously we're in the throws of getting our big capital project up and running. So the idea of having a very skilled and experienced or I should say
011experienced, I don't know, I assume skilled but definitely very experienced. uh interim director of facilities is really critically important right for the few months and also the board had set before really I think any of this we knew what was there was going to be this transition of really wanting to get a better handle on transportation uh this is especially important given the need to transition the need and desire to transition to electric buses and to do so in a way so that we really know what are our transportation needs since this is a big um investment on the part of the dis district. So I think I think having both folks for this period of time um I appreciate you thinking of it. >> Sure. >> So that's that. Did anybody else have anything
012they wanted to ask or say? >> I was just say it's always I'm always looking to see who's uh joining our substitute teacher pool. interesting to see who's who's raising their hand. And I always appreciate it when it's someone who's like, "Oh, there's a recent retiree who's who's stepping up and stepping forward." And I just appreciate that there are people who are qualified to do it. >> That's great. Thanks for noting. >> All right. All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> All right. So, unfinished business. Last time we looked at the workshop topics we had on our meeting on our meeting agenda last week to look at the workshop topics for the year and so now um the plan is to approve them. >> All right. So um may we have the recommended
013action please? >> Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the board of education hereby approves the workshop topics as presented. >> May we have a motion please? >> So moved. Second. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Um I guess actually I should have said this before we vote. I mean there are some really exciting agenda >> uh uh workshops coming up. Uh an important one being next week an update on the on the capital project. But really a great slate of workshops and they're always really very important. Um so now moving into new business which is a discussion about the district goals. We'll have a couple slides on them. We'll span from another clicker. Thank you. So these are the draft goals that the board has
014already seen and we also had an opportunity during opening day with staff to just give them an overview. Um so the first one is advancing the capital improvement projects carried over obviously from last year and so what's exciting about this is we are continuing the planning process and my goal as your new superintendent is to make sure we are transparent about our communication and also providing frequent updates of whatever and so what I said to the staff last week is even though the community voted on this almost last November there's been a lot of behindthescenes work that place so you've been a member of um one of the committees planning or if you've been a member of um sitting on the owners meeting where we meet every other week with both the transaction manager as
015well as our architects you would see behind the scenes. And so we're continuing this work our plan this year. You might notice a little how hard hat on our um mascot there. We're going to be providing these frequent updates of where things are with the capital project. kind of envisioning that at some point we'll have staff included in the conversations as well as students sharing their excitement for what's to come. So we will be continuing with this goal and our next board meeting will have an update from um CS Arch and Palumbo on where we're at and then we'll also be including scheme on that as well. So this will be an ongoing we're excited about it and it's definitely one of our top goals for the year. So the sec ti second one ties
016in nicely. This is developing and we had the chance to um add prek. So it's now prek through fall steam program and what we're doing here is really continuing on. There's such a strong foundation and an excitement around steam. There's been a lot of discussions well before I got here in terms of project-based learning and different ways to engage students. And so we're continuing those conversations. I had the chance to meet with the administrative team last week to really review the presentation that was developed uh for last June that board meeting uh that that presentation was put on hold and so that'll be at the next um presentation our next board meeting and Julia really took a beautiful lead in putting together that presentation along with Josh for us. So we reviewed it as a
017team and then we identified my one of my always wonderings with something new is the connection to current curriculum like current classes that we're teaching but then as exciting and as important where are those new opportunities for students and so this ties beautifully into our work with the portrait of a graduate and the heling essentials but this will be a full year of planning for what these spaces will look like. Part of the planning will be now talking with a group of teachers who are interested in being part of that process and students. I can't wait to sit down with students of all ages and get a sense from them what does steam mean? Where are there already connections to the content and curriculum that they're learning and again as exciting where are these new
018opportunities? Also looking our local community and resources. So, as we know, we live in such a beautiful area where we can tap into the outdoor environment, but then also local community members and things like that. So, really looking forward to be able to provide board some updates throughout the year with this. All right, that's number two. Number three, I know this is a long time coming for lots of people. Um, really looking at how we have our grades structured in each of our buildings. And so again, this was started well before me, but the goal is to have this in place by the end of this school year. So going into 2627, we're ready to go. So again, we met as an administrative team. Maryanne has set up some opportunities with her current staff to
019look at structure, to look at schedule, to look at programming. We'll be talking about who will be teaching fifth grade. We will be continuing to have conversations with our parents. So I made sure as we were meeting as an administrative team that this should not be brand new to any parent this year if you are let's say going into in a year's time you're going to have a fifth grader we should not be announcing this at the end of the year it should be ongoing and um I have been told by the team that parents have been kept in the loop all along but we will continue to share this message we'll also probably do a Q&A to kind of explain the rationale why this is a good thing for kids to change now that
020way the community is aware of that. So that's our third goal. Uh fourth goal we are going to be partnering with. I want to make sure I don't mess up his name. Uh Paul Obenbog from Franklin Essex Hamilton Boseis. And he actually has kind of a neat job. He goes around to districts across the state to do transportation studies. And so I met with him and Adam two weeks ago to take a look at what is going to be the scope of our work. and he's going to be um in district on Monday and Tuesday to start to look at our morning um and afternoon drop off. But we're really going to have him look at our current routes, look at our schedules, uh look at our staffing, look at how we use our resources,
021and I really want to hear from his perspective what's working well, but then where could we be a little more efficient? So, he will be doing uh the study starting next week and then we will have a board presentation. I believe it's on December 2nd on this. That'll give us plenty of time if we decide as um if the board decides to then go out if we're going to make any changes to how far we transport, how many miles, that type of thing. We'll have to do a little bit of work with the community on that, but we're we have plenty of time to do that if the study is completed by December. And the last goal, I'm excited about all of them, but I'm really really excited about this because this is such a
022wonderful connection to our students. So the housing essentials as you know was created really building upon the work of the strategic coherence plan and many of you were involved in that. That's some really good thinking around what does our district stand for. The housing essentials was a piece of that. This New York state has created something called a portrait of a graduate and that's basically identifying what are the skills and attributes that we want all of our students regardless of where they graduate from high school. what do we want all students in New York State to have so they can go on and be successful in career, college, trade or something in between? And so what I'm really challenging um in a creative way this year of the district is to look at how can
023we empower our students through the health essentials making connections to the portrait of a graduate looking at curriculum looking at where we're really nicely aligned and again where are those future opportunities for rigor for maybe more focus on a certain area. And so last week we had all of the faculty kind of do a quick crosswalk comparing how essentials to the portrait of a graduate. They identified where we are actually doing that already. We also asked them how can we celebrate this book. So I really want to make sure on a monthly basis we are highlighting one of the Halloween essentials for the school community as well. So this will be an ongoing goal but to me it's really our umbrella by which everything else should kind of fall under. I talked a little bit
024with the teachers about fatigue when it comes to initiatives. So any educators in the room, you probably have heard of this initiative fatigue. I don't want anything to feel completely brand new. It really should all be nicely aligned. And this goal is where I'm going to land us always when we're talking about students, when we're talking about their needs, and we're talking about any type of future plan. So these are our five goals. We have a lot to do. Looking forward to it. Um and there is a lot of excitement around this goal in particular, which is nice to see. And that might be it for now. Any questions at all on the goals? >> No, I think the only thing I would want to point out is that um one of the things with
025you joining us this year that the board and the superintendent discussed as part of our retreat, not uh you know the was sort of how we want to do our district goals, right? So there's a lot of different ways you can do it with being shared goals between the district and the board with people having separate goals being a shared set and separate goals. And where we landed as a collectively as a group was um really I think building off to me what I I want to hear from others as well. But what felt really like a good approach which is these are district goals. These are shared goals and so we don't need to the board didn't need to have a separate set of goals that says we're going to support the district in
026doing these things. That you know de facto is our job is to make sure that the uh the the you know to support you in that work and then to make sure that the uh the the budget reflects that and policies reflect that and that the resources are available to achieve those goals. So you have >> well I I tend to agree and I was thinking as we started this meeting of where we stood last year at this time and how many very specific uh goals that we had um looking for new superintendent and the vote and I feel like it's in our best interest to you know keep it as simple as possible this year as we support you as you're learning about our district and and taking leadership over that district. because of
027this opportunity I think throughout to assess based on you know what you have laid out plainly for us how we are all doing the only the only thing that sometimes having those board goals in support of those is that it just gives us a lens through which we understand how we're going to go about assessing them but I think based on the five that we have that you have put together for us I don't feel like there's any clear obvious way in which you want to directly be thinking about assessment I think it's an ongoing process. So I I think that's a great great way to think about it this year particularly. >> Well, one of the things I think so in terms of doing our own board self evaluation is maybe when we meet
028midyear privately before we meet with Dr. Duffy for that informal midyear evaluation, right? Because uh would be to think about our own, you know, to sort of takes use that as an opportunity. Although that's actually something that's also supposed to take place in opening. So maybe I need to think about that a little bit more. That's not really a that's not really an executive session conversation, but why don't we we should think about that. And maybe maybe the time to do that is to take a look. We've cut down our the number of meetings we have in November and December. Yeah. So, we don't want those meetings to become too long, but it could be that it would be one of those meetings or early in January would be the opportunity for us to to
029think about. Is there anything else differently that >> Yeah, a question. >> Sure. >> Simple uh one that I think it'll be helpful uh if you kind of explain it to me. So, we have uh we just appointed a transportation consultant. We have a um another consultant running a transportation study. Can you just kind of explain those two separate buckets? >> Sure. >> Uh for me just so I get it. >> Sure. So Paul and his role through Boseies is service or provides services for districts to get a sense of if if you own your own transportation and you have your own routes, what's working, what's not working. So he will kind of lay that groundwork and go on the buses, kind of get a sense of where we're at with things. He will then
030make recommendations based upon his many years in the field on best practices, making sure we're following the state law, that type of thing. Liz coming in as the consultant will be kind of his go-to person on how transportation but in addition to her providing some support there she will be mentoring our director of facilities on the interimm basis because he does not have as much experience in transportation. She'll be helping with the day-to-day flow of the office that the transportation consultant will not uh be involved in. And she'll also kind of be helping with there's a lot of people to manage. So like even best practices and management of someone who's working for a transportation department. So I kind of see Liz and Paul working hand inand but Paul will do kind of the nitty-gritty
031of the actual recommendations to the board on what we might consider for changes. Liz is providing some support but then also helping with other things in >> Liz also needs to learn our system too, right? I should have mentioned before when Adam first started she also provided a little support to Helane not in a consulting capacity but she was a resource that Adam would call >> okay >> she's a little familiar but you're right she does have to learn the heling way first before she makes any recommendations >> okay thank you >> and so to Ezra raised a good question I mean part of her job really I mean so she's not making the recommend. She's not doing the transportation study. She's a liaison to the person who's doing the transportation study and that's part
032of her role. >> But I guess I might I feel like I might phrase it a little bit differently and tell me if you think I'm wrong is that her primary responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day operations of the transportation department here in this district >> in these first few months of the school year until we can hire someone new. and then possibly that person might even need some additional support as well. >> It's interesting. I don't think the public knows or maybe people do is that what a big deal transportation is. It's a lot of people. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of infrastructure and it's it's a really really important undertaking that the of the districts because people who rely on buses are relying on the district to get their children
033to and from school safely. Um on time >> time and and um and you know it's a it's a big area with complicated not like the world's most complicated but I'm like you know you know what a somewhat tricky landscape. So, I think that's how I've been thinking about it, right, is that Liz coming in and really her primary responsibility is to is to support the day-to-day operations of transportation here at the district and the secondary responsibility is to serve as the transportation study. >> You're saying the day-to-day, but she's not working every day, right? But like she'll have and she doesn't need to because we also have the facilities. Yeah. And the dispatcher who's doing that. And it's really again, I always look at an opportunity when we have a new hire. Let's take
034a pause, especially if you have facilities and transportation in your title. It's really two different departments. So, this is a nice opportunity to take a pause and see what's working, what can we make changes to if if that's needed. >> Right. Because I'm trying to think historically and I think even with Tim, we have had we have a history I think since be the the director before Tim as well. So I want to say going back to six or seven years of hiring directors of facilities and transportation who really what their experience is is director of facilities. Correct. Um and then the transportation piece comes and I think for very good reasons can present a real learning curve. >> Absolutely. >> If I if I'm remembering correctly. So yeah. >> Well and I appreciate the
035detail and I think being a being a goal I think this this level of discussion is nice for you know for all these goals that we had. And I I had actually emailed you today just to you know with questions when I saw that the contracts were going to be put on the agenda sort of it felt last minute um with with these questions that that we have because we are it is a complicated thing the transportation but we are you know a relatively small district. So hearing the detail just helps you know helps helps realize why it's a goal and and kind of what goes into it um that it's being done as as thoroughly as possible. So it's exciting to me. >> I don't know transportation to get that study back if you
036know about the problem. >> Yeah. Yeah. really it would be nice to think about. It's so pretty. I don't know how I don't I can't imagine getting the public really excited to come in for an event about transportation, but I think we should think creatively about how to get like how to get people to weigh in on what's most important to them, you know, like a handful of people because we know a lot of people have access to the bus but choose to drive their children to school. And it's a again it's it's a a big investment of resources and all the districts in New York State have a significant important cha challenge ahead of us to transition to electric buses. >> Well, and it also can be just transfers in general can be really
037hairy, right? I think especially when you're >> adding routes, cutting routes. So, I think it's just as good as long as this is ongoing discussion. I think >> has a huge impact on [Music] It's fine. I won't touch any. >> I warmed it up. >> I feel like I'm in the way of the recording. our discussion of fun balance. So, it's a good good time. Uh, as those of you who have been around for the past few years know where I start the presentation is where we finished last year. So, we know where our starting point is. Um, our total fund equity at the end of June 2024 was $6.6 million. Of that, we had 3.6 million. that was in reserved fund equity. We had our traditional $645,000 of our assigned appropriated fund balance that
038is used in case of needs to close a budget gap. And we had $563,000 of um incumbrances and that is expenses that were in 2024 but had not yet been build. Um, and so they get carried forward leaving us with an unappropriated fund balance of $1.7 million. Um, and as you know, we were over the 4% last year. We're trying to not have that this year. So, what happens now is we look at where where is that how is that fund balance going to change this year? So, we look at what our total revenues for 2425 were and our total expenditures. And this year we happen to have expenditures over revenue of 700, we'll say $750,000. The reason we have that is because of the planned use of the million dollars of the capital reserve
039for the for the capital project. So that shows as an expense in the general fund um but does not show as a revenue anywhere because it's being taken from our reserves. So that Nate makes if we go back just we had um $6.6 million was our fund equity at 63024. It is now down to 5.8 just because we reduced it by the $750,000. Um we currently have $2.6 million in our reserves. We have our $645,000 of appropriated fund balance. As of right now, we're carrying forward $485,000 in incumbrances for, you know, will be used in the first couple months of the 2526 school year, leaving us with an available fund balance of $2.1 million. We're allowed to have an undesated fund balance of 4% of the current year's budget, and that is $1.2 million, leaving
040us right now with an excess fund balance of $95,000. This is again primarily due to increased interest income, a little bit of increase in tuition. It's it's the same things that are kind of unknowns. We were careful with our budgeting for interest income because the you the word was that rates were going to drop as the year went on and they had not yet. So, we have $95,000 that we're able to fund our reserves with. Um over history we usually we have these are our reserves that we have been funding over the past four years and my recommendations for what we do this year um we usually have to do a small use of reserves to cancel out the deficit in our cafeteria. I'm pleased to say this year we only need $50,000 to be
041able to do that. Nancy continues to do a wonderful job down there and our lunch sales continue to increase. Um, we don't know yet how the impact of free lunch for everyone will be for the year, but we don't anticipate that it will cause any more of a deficit in in the lunch program. Um, as you'll remember, last year we replaced the carpet on the turf. Um, and that was $750,000. I am proposing that we put $300,000 back into our repair reserve um in case it needs repairs. Again, this is something that we may have to move it to capital if it becomes a complete full replacement in the future, but it's a really great place to put some funds to start saving for the next time we have to replace the turf um or
042for any other repairs that might happen in the district. And you know, we never know what we might need to repair in a in an annual basis. And then, as you'll remember from our May vote, we did restart the capital reserve fund. we are um able to have up to $3 million in there right now. So, I'm proposing that we take 600,000 of the available excess fund balance and start really building up that capital fund. Again, this can be used for a future capital referendum or it could be used for something that if the capital referendum per chance goes over budget or there's something that we just have to fund with district funds, it would be a place that we'd be able to pull that from. So, that is my recommendation for this year of
043using the funds and that will keep us at the 4% of allowable um unrestricted fund balance. And then again, just a summary of it, $50,000 to the school lunch fund, 300,000 to our repair reserve, and 600,000 to our capital reserve. And then just if you have any questions. >> Yeah. >> Can you remind us again of the the procedure whereby you would make a decision about using the repair reserve versus the capital reserve in any given year? >> Sure. A repair is is exactly what it's called a repair. Um if it's something that we're actually replacing something or putting in something completely new, you're unable to use your repair reserve for that. It has to be something that we're actually repairing. But if something went wrong with the turf and they just needed to come
044in and replace a piece of it or something like that, or if something went wrong with the boiler and we didn't need a new boiler, but we could repair it, but it was more than of an expense than we were expecting in our maintenance code line, you'd be able to use that. Um, it using any reserve does require public hearings. Um, you can use your repair reserve in an emergency. So if we had a true emergency, we could use it without a public hearing. But it just there's some restrictions on how you have to pay it back immediate, you know, pretty much immediately at least half within the same year and funding it fully um the follow the subsequent year. >> Thank you. >> What's Eb? >> Okay, that is that is our reserve for
045employee benefits acrewed for after retirement. So it's we acrew every year a liability for um unused sick time, unused vacation time, things like that that employees are paid for um sometimes in cash, sometimes with um service credits or 403b payments or the donation. I don't want to call donations contributions word just wouldn't come >> and um so that is what that is our reserve for that >> and most of our other reserves if as you'll remember we were trying to use up a lot we had a lot of excess fund balance last year and we weren't able to put anything into capital because we needed to renew the capital um so we gave a lot of love to our reserves last year so we're very comfortably funded in the other reserves reserves. The places that
046we, you know, absolutely need is to cover this year's large deficit and then to really start rebuilding our repair in our capital fund is a good use of excess reserves this year in my opinion. >> And actually, Katherine, this is you can't like we could theoretically move money from repair to capital. I assume it would require a vote of some sort or something. Um it would go back the way that we did that with the with the um turf where we had to get permission to move it and then we had to get that use it. >> Okay. All right. I forgot that. >> But it's a really good spot to like start start rebuilding some funds for um any possible outcome repairs. >> Well, we know there's still a lot in the district that
047does need to be repaired. Like a lot a lot. So, this is great. >> Okay. And if something, like I said, becomes an emergency, we can use it and under we we're hoping for not to have to do that, but we are able to. And so it would be nice to have some money in there that would be available because your capital reserve >> requires a vote to be able to use that. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you very much. You I said it from my seat in the audience, but I'll say it again. Thanks very much to Katherine for thinking through this so carefully, for the really clear presentation. Um it's a you know every we only do this once a year and so it's really very helpful to have it all laid
048out be reminded as well as to remind the public you know what's um what's at hand and so we appreciate that. Um so now you'll know we've had our presentation of the recommendation for the fund balance. Now it's up to the board to authorize this recommended use. And so, um, may we please have the recommended action? >> Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby authorizes the use of excess fund balance for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 in the following manner. Transfer to school lunch fund, $50,000. Transfer to repair reserve, $300,000. transfer to capital reserve $600,000. May we have a motion, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I I. >> Any opposed? >> All right, we're at the
049end of our meeting. Any board reflections before we wrap up? >> Just want to say my kids came home absolutely stoked about the next day, which was really nice. Uh, and I heard that uh Dr. Duffy was seen everywhere around the building. This is great. Glad you're really jumping in. >> Congratulations. >> First day. >> Great first day. >> Very exciting. Feels like we've been building for this long. >> Um, all right. Anything else? Triangle. Well, I I guess just to kind of reiterate what I said before, we think about it year-over-year, I feel like moving into this year, it feels good to know that so many of the essential parts of the infrastructure for leadership are in place and that we're here to support you in in your success for the year. So, like
050we're poised to do that. You seem poised to receive it. So, there we go. >> Do you have anything that you want to add? >> Looking forward to tomorrow. Welcome everyone back for day two. >> All right. Um I move to adjourn the meeting. May we have a second, please? Second. >> All those in favor? Hi, Thomas.