001Good evening. I'll call the board of education meeting to order. Uh welcome to the uh the uh school board of the North Rose Walcott Central School District. We will begin today's meeting with the pledge of allegiance. Please stand alsisible with liberty and justice for all. First order of business is um to approve tonight's agenda. A motion, please. John and Linda. Um, any discussion? All in favor of approving tonight's agenda. Motion is carried. Tonight we have some presentation of a presentation. Mr. Poland, I'll let you do the introduction. Sure. Thank you, Mrs. Collier. So, Mr. Blankenberg is gonna come on up and he's got members of the North Rose Athletic Boosters and the Booster Club as a whole um that are going to present their annual report to you. And I think that, you know, he's
002going to kick it off and highlight a few things they're going to focus on this evening for us. And I believe Mr. Petraino might leave the keys to that chabel handy for me. No chance. No chance. Good. Good evening everyone and thank you for giving us the opportunity tonight uh to talk about the booster club and all the great things that they've done. So, uh, without any further ado, I'd like to introduce, uh, Aaron Petraino, who is actually the treasurer of the organization, going to take you through a little report from this year. All right. Thank you for having us. I brought a few of my colleagues for support over there, including the president, vice president, and a couple of the other uh, committee members. So, I'm ready. It is not. All right, we'll get
003it from here. All right, I'll stand close to you. You guys are terrible here. You got to talk to the mic. So, the first thing I want to talk to you about is to thank you. Uh, we had our first full year of operation in the new concession stand out there, which is such a blessing. It allows us to really serve more events and to do a better job in serving those events. and it was it's a great facility. I think the only thing we're still waiting on is maybe some drop courts for that central thing and I'm hoping that's will happen this year. Some updates on that we're really proud of is in the last year we have obtained our 501c3 charitable organization. Uh the booster club has been in effect since it was
004incorporated in 79. So this is a big step for us to make this leap. It gives us uh a lot of ability to accept taxdeductible donations. It also allowed us to apply for New York State sales tax exemption which helps us in the purchase of some of the things that we do for jackets or uh awards or uniforms or whatever. So, um and it it gives us the opportunity to share that with some of our partners, which we're going to talk about in a couple of minutes. The current membership for the booster club is 33. If you check your the Facebook, the Bushing Club does have a Facebook page. There is 156 followers of the Facebook page now as of a couple days ago. Might be more now. I'm not sure. But um and we're
005continuing to explore better ways to communicate. Um in this day and age, communication is such a challenge for us. You've got Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and Parent Square and email and Twitter, text messaging. Everybody does it some some ways different. We're trying to figure out how to do a better job with that. Um I can tell you the liaison, Samantha, Megan, and Yavon do an incredible job of getting all the groups together, making sure we know what's going on between us. And um I know their hours got cut a couple years ago. I just would say it again, their time is invaluable. It's amazing what they do to coordinate with the people in the district, keep us all aware. So, and I can also tell you they all are working more hours than they're
006getting paid for. So, because they are dedicated, um the volunteers provided refreshments at a wide variety of stuff this year. We did track, we did wrestling, volleyball, cross country, basketball, soccer of course. Um and all of that allowed us to increase some of our donations. We even went to the community eclipse celebration and uh provided the food and stuff for the eclipse celebration at Marshall Park this year. So, here's a look at some of the things that uh we do. We increase the dollars for scholar scholarships. We do two of them, $2,000 a piece, so there's $4,000. Project graduation gets 500. The student council gets 300, which is for engraving the academic plaques at the end of the year. Uh, both high school musicals got $500 this year. The high school and middle school musicals,
007excuse me. Eighth grade celebration, which used to be the eighth grade honors trip. I think it was during Lake one year and one year they were in house. But whatever they decide to do for that celebration, there's $500 for them. We donated $500 to get the Jet Soccer Club up and running as they became under our umbrella this year. We'll talk on that in a minute. Uh, we always buy my favorite thing, jackets for sectional winners. Uh, I love doing that. 550 Josh went for that. Some books for the elementary students. Cougar Cupboard, we did 1,500. They're now one of our partners to get them uh off and running some more. And the youth soccer program equipment, $300 to get some new uh sized soccer balls for the younger kids. We also support both book
008fairs at the middle school and both book fairs at Northrose Elementary School. And it generated this year $3,242 in scholastic dollars for the school library to purchase books, supplies, things to help the kids in the library. We also donated 182 books to students in need. Uh, and I I probably have told you this before, but I'm going to tell you again. Several years ago, two young ladies, the Dennis girls, saw mid need for kids that couldn't afford a book and they started a GoFundMe. They raised $500 and they shamed us into making sure we don't let that ever happen again. So, this year we got $400 from the Northwest Lions Club, which helped offset some of that. But 182 kids got books that wouldn't normally have gotten books to go home with over the course
009of the year. This year we had a constitution committee. It's been some time since we updated the constitution and um it needed some modernization I'll say. So there's a committee that's worked very hard several meetings to try to get that reviewed a little bit. They have a draft ready and if we ratify it with twothirds of our membership it will be approved and then it'll be presented to the school board for approval. Also, in May, the booster club will help support the North Rose Lions Club at the North Rose Elementary with a vision screening program. The program has a camera, this is the layman's term, has a camera that the student looks into and it detects irregularities in the eye that uh just a an eye chart doesn't do. So, it goes above and beyond
010what normal vision is. If there is something detected, it will go home on the we have to have a permission slip from the parents to do the screening. If it'll get sent out if the parents approve it, their child will be screened and if there's something detected, a recommendation will go home to the student to say you really should seek an eye care professional to take a look at the eye. I can tell you in I think it was Bloomfield several years ago actually detected something in an eye of a student and it turned out to be a cancerous tumor behind the eye. Probably saved the kids eyesight for sure, perhaps even a life. So it's a great program and the booster's going to coordinate with them. So something else that's happened this year, we
011have had two groups that have joined us in the past. the Cougar Pride parent group and the Northwest World Records. This year we also took on the Cougar Cover um to come under our umbrella as a committee and most recently Jet Soccer program is now part of the booster club. It's it's a little complicated to explain but each one has their own board of directors. Each one has their own treasury. each one reports to us so that we can report under the 501c3 because we're going to be liable for a tax report in June. So, so, but every club runs independently, but you'd be surprised there's board members on each one that kind of, you know, they're on two or three of the organizations. So, it's it's a great way to network. It allows us
012to take advantage of that 501c3 across a broader scope and the same with the tax exemptions. So we are really proud to have um all four of them as part of our group. So really it's five clubs all working together now. Um yeah, this is stuff that came from the Cougar Pride parent group. This is just some of the things they do to uh make the community better and more aware of what's going on in the school. I think it's uh parent meetings. They invite somebody from administration, I understand, to each each meeting, somebody different. I think um you've been there and I think uh who's the woman in the cafeteria? Rita. Yeah, I think she's done a presentation there. And then they have parents and it's just a way to coordinate and get information
013out to the the community. They do things like the snowman soup, hot cocoa for the staff. They invite the they do things for the bus drivers. They they really touch on all of it. And then they have events like the Easter egg hunt which just took place in the gym with a whole bunch of little kids. Uh the h the trick trunk or treat is part of the Google pride parent group. So um they do a tremendous job of getting the volunteers out and and into these organizations. All of our organizations are supported through them. So you doing that one? Yes. Yeah. So big thanks to Aaron and Bruce McIntyre. A great group of people. I you know that 33 I think when I started it wasn't 33. So probably they've done a great job.
014I mean they've doubled the size of the booster club. And as long as I'm up here for just a minute I want to thank Mark and Mike Lockwood. They do a tremendous job and when we need something they're they're go-to people. So and thank you to the board and he is the one of the newest members of the 2025 Northwest Wila Athletic Hall of Fame. The booster club has done a great job supporting what I'm going to talk about next is the wreck. Um we we really haven't had a wreck program. We've got two volunteers that have done a ton of work um the last two years getting a wreck program going. So I'm going to share with you a couple numbers that they that they provided. So in the fall they had 157 um
015of our students playing playing uh soccer outside at Marshall Park and thank Marshall Park for allowing us to be there. like our varsity soccer teams went down to help. Our varsity soccer coaches went down to help. It's been a it's great. I mean, I think last year it was around a hundred. So, they're they're up in that amount of uh about up about 50 more students this year. Basketball program this winter 110 um first through sixth graders. We had some organizations come out with do some programming for us. uh they got some money from Elks to help offset some costs, but you know, they they they scrimmaged, they played, they played at halftime of a bunch of basketball games, so it was really really great for the uh our younger students to play at the
016halftime of the varsity games and for those fans to cheer those those students on. They did indoor soccer again. Another 111 students playing soccer and uh uh in the late winter, early spring and they've really done a lot of great things, but they're starting to work more with Jets. Jets is part of we already kind of talked about that Jets is kind of under the umbrella of the booster club and taken over a lot of those wreck responsibilities. So, it's a branch of it and future soccer programs. run through the jets under the wreck. And I guess don't worry about that. But uh and I wanted to say um Vivian Bishop, you heard about her last last couple meetings. So she was the Democrat and Chronicle All Greater Rochester top skier in for for the
017Rochester area. So she's she was in the newspaper a couple weeks ago. It hasn't come out in print yet. The digital version is, but she'll uh soon as that's out, we'll make sure you see that. So, congratulations to Vivian on behalf of the booster club. Any questions that we can answer for you? I've got to say throughout my period of time being here both in the school system and and the board, I got to appreciate well what they've done. You know, times weren't always rosy and wonderful. There were some bad times where the booster club stepped up and kept our kids active in the athletic area. So, as a as a parent, I appreciate it. I guess the thing I would say just to wrap up, you think of them as the sports booster club,
018but it's they support everything. So, we need to get Vivian's jacket. Have some more stuff on her. Yes, we appreciate the so much everything that the Booster Club does in in all areas. It's it's wonderful that you've expanded beyond just just doing sports and that in itself was big. So that's that's great. Thank you. Thank you. Gina, has anyone requested public access tonight? No. No. All right, we'll move on. We come to number four on your agenda. Tonight uh we need to um elect um members to the Boseis uh board and we also have to approve their budget. This is something that is done on this particular night all through both season which is why our meeting was moved from a Thursday to a Wednesday um in in order for us to be compliant. Um
019there are three seats open on the Boseis board. Um and um there are six uh people who are interested. Um would uh someone like to make a motion for one of the uh for the first seat? John, I'd like to nominate Philip Rose. Phillip Rose. [Music] All right. Tina second. Um, is there any discussion? All in favor of Philip Rose. Motion is carried. Is there another nomination? Um, Travis, I make a motion that we cast the vote for one seat for Heather Bachmann. Heather Bachmann. Second. Uh, is there a second? Tina. Um, any discussion? All in favor of nominating Heather Bachmann? Motion is carried. Um, is there a nomination for the third seat? Linda, I put forward David Landon. Would you say that again? Use your speaker. David Landon from uh Massen. David Landon. Is
020there a second? John, any discussion? All in favor of David Landon for the third seat. Motion is carried. Now I need we've moved to on to the Boseis um uh board administrative board budget. Um not board just administrative budget. Uh is there a motion please to approve the um administrative budget for the 2526 year? Tina, is there a second? John, is there any discussion? Then all in favor of approving um the administrative budget for the Boseis 2526 year motion is carried. We come now to the consent agenda and before we move on to on that budget, we are going to take a short break um to go into executive session for the purpose of uh discussing the employment history of specific employees and a legal matter. Is there a motion please to go into executive
021session? Linda and the second. Uh Travis, any discussion? All in favor? Motion is carried. We will leave you for a little bit. We won't be long. Then we'll be right back and we'll continue. Cheers. Right. We're back in session. Um, a motion, please, to approve the consent agenda. Don and Linda. Consent goes through page four. Any discussion? All in favor of approving the consent agenda? Motion is carried. Um on the moving to board member request, comments and discussion. Number six, policies. Pardon me. Oh. Oh, I drew my line in the wrong place. Policies. Yes. Thank you. Uh motion please to approve the the uh the policies that are have been deleted and revised. Tina and Travis, any discussion? This is our second read with these hearing none. All in favor of approving the policy motion.
022Motion is carried. Now we come to the board member request, comments and discussion. I did mention at the last meeting uh that we talked about anything with a handbook. We had talked about uh the student on the board. Um but I don't think anything has come out of the state yet. So we'll postpone that until such time as as uh the state gives direction on that. Anyone else have anything? Anyone have any good news they want to report other than the booster club? Just a reminder, we're all aware of the Are you on? A reminder that we're all aware of the 50th anniversary for Florida County May 15th. We'll meet before then, but we need to get our reservations in. Okay. Thank you, Linda. Anything else? Hearing none. Um, then I think we're ready for
023adjournment. A motion claims to adjurnn. Linda and D. Any discussion? All in favor of adjourning? Motion is carried. We are adjourned. Thank you and good night.