001[Music] good evening welcome to the may 25th special meeting of the board of education mr mccormack would you please call the role yes good evening everybody oh where'd it go trustee red president trustee turnquist trustee crump president trustee mitchell president trustee patterson president trustee mick owen president trustee white president trustee saunders president trustee miller present a quorum is present great thank you um i'd i'd like a motion to go into executive session to discuss the employment history of a particular person or persons and current impending litigation uh and negotiations with uh mbft right motion second all in favor aye opposed abstain all right um we should be back in about one hour evening we're back may i have a motion to return to public session motion second all in favor aye aye opposed abstain okay
002we're back into public session and uh first order of businesses we businesses we have uh an announcement from uh trustee brenda crumb okay um hello everyone um i i've submitted a letter to my fellow colleagues board trustees and um the superintendent and the letter reads as wise it's dated may 25th 2021 board of education of the mount vernon city school district 165 north columbus avenue mount vernon new york 10553 it's my letter of resignation dear board members please accept my deepest gratitude for your support of my leave of absence request i have made a decision to resign from the position as a school board trustee of the mount vernon city school district board of education effective tuesday june 1st 2021 the certain unfortunate personal and family circumstances that plagued me back in 2020 which led
003to my leave of absences from the board continue to preclude my attendance at board meetings these circumstances involve both my own personal health as well as my need to focus upon caring for a close family member residing in my household who is suffering from a serious illness in closing i will also take this opportunity to express my sincere heartfelt thanks to my friends family associates acquaintances board colleagues community and the taxpayers for your support of my reelection please know that this decision to resign was neither easy nor made hastily sincerely brenda l crumb trustee thank you brenda thank you trustee crump thank you for your incredible service we will mr brandon but we know you're going to come and keep us honest so absolutely yeah oh yeah all right applauding that shirt you're leaving right
004i'm applauded about you for your strength yes and we wish you all the best with all these with everything we'll we'll pray for you and pray for your family member and we have and we do it it's an honor to serve with you whether it's a as just as a fellow trustee or as a part of the mount vernon community we're still serving together yep i'm sure i'm sure we'll be in touch trustee crump yes great and on record i i have permission like to still call you all up and text you all right let y'all know when things aren't what we could stop with anything yeah like unless i change my phone number i know i'm going to hear from you so i don't plan to change my numbers so there you go even
005if we change our number we know brenda will find us and we're like totally people he knows where we live so that's right okay thank you so much everyone thank you thank you very much take care of yourselves thanks um okay yep thank you so um i uh so heavy okay i'm gonna move on to um our very brief uh agenda tonight i need a motion to approve uh human resources resolution 3.1 motion trust section just any questions about this i have um a couple of questions yes so do we have a um how do how do we come with this company and um is this the um baseline fee for most companies that do searches so we had um three companies that applied applied submitted one company we had three that we reached out
006to one company did not have the tools to do what we needed them to do the second company did not submit a final estimate so that's how we ended up with ray and associates they are the firm that did uh they've done a few searches but most recently they did the search for um um so that's and i actually have heard about them before uh but there's their the most recent work so i think their price is fair and reasonable um just based on what some of my colleagues have shared about having used them before but they use new rochelle did new rochelle superintendent is that the superintendent that's still there or that's there now or that left um well they've had a few some of them not really they put that they've done every
007school district in new york it looks like i know some of my colleagues have worked with them for sure okay now i know we are talking about diversity equity and inclusion is this company um i mean we talked about um making sure that everybody we deal with um have uh diversity equity inclusion and i mean are they gonna look for people that are um i mean i don't know how do they do their searches um so they have access to a national bank of canada they are a national company um and so they have and i don't know who's in their distribution list honestly i don't know that i do know they're national though because i have seen them at the national conference as well um but certainly even though we have not officially adopted
008our dei policy i do know that they have had experience with a diverse pool of candidates for other searches that i know they've done particularly with the new rochelle search and another search that they were involved in as oh um long island yes okay yeah and uh yeah ultimately it's our decision so whatever candidates they put forward we have to take all of that into consideration as well and they do all the background search and everything or do we still need to do they have to do all of that they do that uh we would double check it of course but um just so that it matches our process so whoever they identify they still have to go through our compact process okay do you want the one thing that i didn't read in the
009agreement i'm just curious was the um the do not poach in other words they there's usually uh i didn't see a clause where it says they publish they will poach they'll poach who we hire from them they will they will reach out to candidates that they may know for example they may know that ken hamilton was a candidate and made it to a finalist in wherever i mean i mean poach us after they placed someone with us oh okay okay no no i haven't i didn't i didn't see this specific language on that so let's just make sure that we do before we sign the agreement that that's in there i know that we have we have a guarantee for a year right i just want to make sure that they there's a certain amount
010of time they can't come and grab grab the person they place with us that we paid them for after after a year make a note of that um great okay okay i'll i'll speak with them about that thank you any other questions guys no okay dude i know their list of i mean they listed references nationwide have they done do we have any references in new york state at least um i have verbal references yes i have i did call some of my colleagues to ask them about their experience with them okay yeah yeah i'm iowa's just you know just so far you know yeah well they have consultants that work all over the place the lead consultant on this case is actually um he's not too far from mount vernon actually i don't remember
011exactly where but i remember him saying that he was near mount vernon yeah i did see something that they had some people close yes but the the important thing is that we're casting as wide a net as possible including mount vernon um okay so if there are any other questions any other questions about this okay all in favor aye aye aye aye wanda did we hear from one i my computer is getting ready to die but okay yo we only have one more after this um i okay uh did mrs crump obtain did i hear that correctly thank you and we have no no's okay great uh may i have a motion to approve human resources resolution 3.2 promotion as it now says 3.3 by the way jen has been updated yes i had to
012update it to include the announcement from trustee chrome yeah well we just we just approved 3.2 this is now 3.3 oh i see okay i thought i'd refreshed all right so motion to approve 3.3 second any questions about this which we just discussed okay all in favor opposed abstain abstain okay trust me trump abstains motion carries thank you all right um may i have a motion to adjourn the meeting motion second all in favor opposed abstain i'm just kidding i know i knew you were waiting to do it yeah people say i'm so serious all the time let me go out with it oh yeah i appreciate it you're right though okay thanks everybody and we'll see you on june 1st for our next meeting have a good day