001welcome everybody the Board of Education met in executive session for the purpose of discussing the superintendent's evaluation so we've already done our pledge and had roll call um but I believe before we go into the approval of agenda Dr badonte I don't know if you would like to call for the moment of silence or if you would like me to I'm happy as well if you could I'll have just a few things to to share we'd like to take a moment of silence for Frank Milkovich uh the Howden graduate teacher coach principal assistant superintendent two-time Hall of Fame Famer who passed away on November 15 2022. he's joined me thank you so much moving on to the approval of the agenda Miss Shields resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board
002of Education hereby approves the agenda as written may have motion please all those in favor aye Penny post the next meeting of the holiday and board of education is scheduled for Tuesday December 20th at 7 pm back in the auditorium for that evening which is a workshop meeting we will be talking again about the campus master plan um first thing I wanted to say is express my gratitude to the haldane foundation for hosting their biggest fundraiser of the year over last weekend I did not attend I was not able to but I certainly did Via social media see everybody looking very snazzy that did go and that was that was very nice and I just want to express my gratitude for everything that the foundation does for the school they're amazing people I also wanted
003to uh once again bring up the Midsummer Night's Dream the haldane drama is producing this weekend on Friday Saturday and Sunday keep your fingers crossed that everyone stays healthy but I think it's going to be a wonderful wonderful performance and um I think that's it Dr benante thanks Sean good evening everyone just a few updates for me we had a planning meeting with cs Arch this morning uh Network continues to go well as Sean noted CSR will be at our next Workshop meeting in a couple of weeks and we'll be meeting with the campus master plan the full committee uh next week thanks again to Sean and Maggie who've been involved in the facilitation of the work behind the scenes as Sean noted I had the opportunity to attend the school foundation's event this past
004weekend I saw John I know you were there and several members of our leadership team were there as well thanks to Michelle cupper and the hsf leadership for hosting such a fun evening I don't have the total but I know that that event and their spring fundraiser goes towards raising tens of thousands of dollars for our school program so it was a it was a fun time great night and then lastly I wanted to express my condolences to the Milkovich family as Sean had noted I first I remember when I first met Frank and it was at Lions Club dinner my first year here so it's been four years ago and I had the Good Fortune of sitting between Frank and Jenny padala and at a table both of whom had a lot of love
005for haldane and had exuded a real sense of service to our community and when we talk about the value of service among here at haldane Educators like Jenny and Frank certainly set the foundation for that here and those are the folks whose shoulders we now stand upon in carrying that forward in our work so again my condolences to them I'll have some other comments Sean later on moving on to communication from the public the holiday and 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 board please sign in state your name for the record please keep your remarks to three minutes or less disparaging marks and discussion of
006District Personnel are strongly discouraged although we do not engage in dialogue we're listening please leave your contact information with our district clerk Megan shields for prompt follow-up from the board president or superintendent doesn't look like anybody's here all right moving on to information reports uh these are copies of the financial reports for our next meeting I think there might be a couple of things on here more reports we're good there unless there's any conversation moving on to consent agenda minutes let me have a motion please second all right any discussion uh I will be I'm glad to say that Miss Shields didn't note all of the confusion that happened in our last meeting over what was on what agenda item so thank you so much for cleaning up the record so it's very nice um
007uh Right Moving on the uh all those in favor of any opposed no great moving on to committee minutes I think we have a policy committee minutes here we'll probably discuss those a little bit more later once we get around to him but I don't know if there's any discussion anything you want to bring in at this time no I mean I look I mean I looked at them again I think they're pretty self-explanatory it definitely lays out sort of what there are quite a few actions related to policy later on um if anything isn't clear in the minutes or if people have questions as we get to those items Maggie or I or Dr bonate could certainly answer any questions but there's a lot going on I mean yes there is a lot thank
008you all right moving on to consent agenda Financial I have a motion please someone second all right uh in addition to our typical reports here we do have this approval of the sports merger agreement with Putnam Valley for Varsity Softball as well as the approval of the contract uh for American Driving Academy which I I guess we're moving back into having drivers ed which is great that's wonderful as well as we're saying Bon Voyage to bus number 77 which is being decommissioned and we're accepting the bid from Auctions International I don't know if anybody has any discussion about anything here if not no all right all those in favor hi hi any opposed no all right moving on to consent agenda Personnel may have a motion please second all right well I'm sure there are
009some things here for Dr bernate to address to one Sean with the board's approval tonight Mr Mike twarty will serve as the interim director of facilities and Transportation uh Mike will provide a lot help us to provide a level of continuity uh in leadership and that in those departments due to Mr Walsh's resignation and Mike has served in this capacity for us before and he recently retired from the Garrison Union Free School District so we're fortunate that uh Mike uh has uh offered to come back and we're able to bring him on to help out for a few months while we continue our search for our next director of facilities great thank you it's really great news yeah absolutely great unless there's any questions or discussion no all those in favor aye aye any opposed
010no all right moving on to unfinished business Miss Shields okay policy review we have some second readings and adoptions be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education hereby adopts the following haldane Central School District policies as attached 8110 8330 and 83.40. we have a motion please second all right any discussion all those in favor aye any opposed no all right moving on to the approval of the holiday and school budget calendar Ms Shields be it resolved that upon the superintendent of schools the Board of Education hereby approves the housing Central School District 2023 2024 budget calendar as presented may have a motion please so moved second all right um we reviewed this and discussed it in our last meeting I guess just to note that next on
011the agenda for the 20th I think we're talking about we want to come to terms on parameters and budgeting parameters that's an exporter business which we'll discuss at that point any questions any discussion no all right all those in favor aye aye and you posed no all right moving on to the superintendent's evaluation there's no action here as I said we met an executive session right before the meeting to discuss this thank you Peggy for uh once again coming during this process and leading the conversations it was very fruitful and I think I don't know if anybody wants to bring anything up here or not just to note that we did it no great oh and just that the second part we'll be meeting with Dr benante in executive session right that this is a
012mid and informal mid-year evaluation and a check-in a conversation and we'll be meeting uh at uh before our next meeting right on December 20th and we have decided that we're going to do it before outside of personal circumstances yes I think great so 6 PM then all right then uh moving on to the approval of the agreement between the holiday and Central school district and the village of Cold Spring this is with reference to the the shared use of the playing field recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education hereby approves the revised inter-municipal agreement between the haldane Central school district and the village of Cold Spring for Mayors Park playing field shared use and authorizes the superintendent to sign the agreement on behalf of the district great motion please so moved again
013please okay so you acted on the initial agreements at our last meeting as mayor Foley Was preparing the agreements for Village trustee action last week The Village's attorney recommended changes that were not included in the initial agreement that you acted upon these changes included a mutual indemnification clause which is item four in both agreements so you're going to act on one now and the second follows and a severability clause which is item 13 in both I believe in both agreements I may have that numbering off these additions were reviewed by Me by Mr Lambert our school district attorney and were in agreement with both of them so we're coming back to it now for your action again given that the agreements were revised and we'll go from here great does anybody have any questions or
014yeah yeah so we're still in communication with the vendor and pay getting started now once uh finalizing a start date once the Agreements are finalized great all right all those in favor aye aye aye any opposed no all right moving up luckily the weather has continued to cooperate yeah but won't for too much longer Ezra said it ladies and gentlemen it's snowing on Monday moving on to the approval of the agreement between holiday and Central school district and the village of Cold Spring for the Improvement of mayor's Park playing field Miss Shields on the recommended ending of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education hereby approves the revised inter-municipal agreement between the haldane Central school district and the village of Cold Spring for improvement of the mayor's Park playing field and authorizes the superintendent
015to sign the agreement on behalf of the district right we have a motion please so much I think Phil already covered this so all those in favor any opposed no great moving on to new business CSC cpsc recommendations Miss Shields be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the Board of Education hereby approves the recommendation of the committee on preschool special education and committee on special education as presented below motion please just so moved second any discussion all those in favor aye on the opposed no all right moving on to the policy review first readings now there's no action on the first readings here not really discussion um here we're looking at track changes it looks like 3430 which is diversity Equity inclusion in the district that's a policy that we've
016been hungry to put our eyes on in one way another and thank you so much for uh for doing that I really appreciate it taking the initiative on that and I look forward to having a discussion about it as well as 8320 on textbooks Library materials and other instructional materials I know there's anything to discuss so you'll see the the track changes I think that is that all we have is a track changes version because they're basically oh there is a clean version but basically both policies are all track changes because they're completely Rewritten this diversity equity and inclusion policy is a policy that actually the committee drafted it's actually quite different than the policy we've received from Erie BOCES and we felt like we wanted to write a policy that we were most comfortable
017with and um and so there's definitely you know again first reading and an opportunity to discuss it um and then the second policy is one that's you know completely brand new but brand new and and Erie BOCES wrote it yeah okay I mean the second one being uh the 8320 the textbook Library the materials and other instructional materials so that one's that one's stock you it's the policy as it came to us from Mary BOCES that's exactly right we had some conversations about it um uh but yes this is the the we we have the policy that they present we're we the committee is recommending adapting the policy that they provided us with yeah yeah all right then moving on then to policy review first readings and adoptions uh Ms Shields yeah attendant of schools
018the Board of Education hereby waves the second readings and adopts the following haldane Central School District policies as attached 12 12 10 14 10 32 30 and 3412. emotion please second is there any discussion all those in favor aye any opposed no all right I believe that is the end of new business moving on to communication from the public number two this is all district matters I won't read in the paragraph it doesn't appear that we have any takers moving on to uh board Reflections I don't know if anyone has anything they'd like to share um it's your birthday happy birthday I know thank you I had some uh second graders are superior to us I'm sure impromptu as well so yeah you did a great job yeah I should note though it's also uh
019Miss Wilde's birthday and also Mr sauer's birthday chorus teacher who I was visiting to say happy birthday to when the second graders Mr mcgroarty coordinated us do all of your horoscopes align I don't know there was not cake uh there hasn't been yet there was uh what did we have today there was a uh cinnamon rolls there was sweets that's nice circulating right that's nice thank you well that's a hard one to top I said yes I want to I express my gratitude to your mother and father all right okay all right so I actually I'll be honest I had never met Mr Malkovich I hadn't I'll be honest I had not really I'm I'm sure I'd come across his name but I didn't really remember him but seeing this on the agenda gave me
020the opportunity to go back and I found and read his obituary and I have to say I was really moved I mean I was really deeply grateful for a person that had devoted so much of their life uh to the school district um and you know me somebody who's you know been in the community for 20 years likes to think I'm relatively well you know aware of what's going on but it just um it yeah I mean that was really it I mean I was really very moved and deeply appreciative and reminded of the fact that they're you know where other folks who've been you know who've probably played some similar roles but has seemed really quite important and I appreciated that Sean you already mentioned this but uh I'll segue to it uh first
021I wanted to mention that uh this Friday two two great events going on in the community the first is uh Cold Spring aglow never mind folks we're members of The Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce uh it's uh coordinated by the chamber a festive Community Building event for families uh 5 to 8 P.M uh on Friday and includes performances by the Hudson Highlands pipe band The phillipstown Depot theater and the highlands Choral Society and also the luminaria kits that are available go the proceeds for that go to the Cold Spring Fire Company I just wanted to mention that so if you attend uh Cold Spring aglow walk down Main Street have some good fun do some shopping then walk back up Main Street up to campus because then you can walk up the hill to the
022housing Auditorium where you can enjoy A midsummer's night's Midsummer Night's Dream presented by housing drama Friday's show is at seven performances through the weekend details are on our website great uh I guess if there's nothing else that I can make a uh so to adjourn this meeting I have a second please second all right all those in favor I anyone opposed no great [Music]