001Good evening. Welcome to the North Coast Wolf Central School District Board of Education meeting. I will call the meeting to order. Uh please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. First order of business is to approve the agenda. Motion, please, to approve the agenda. John and Shelly. Um, discussion. I would like to add to the agenda the dream sheets that are in front of you. Um sheet each one singular. Um this information came later uh than when the agendas were printed. Um so a motion please to put the green sheet on the agenda. Linda and Tina discussion. All in favor? Motion is carried. We'll put that
002on after the consent agenda on page five. Any other discussion on the agenda? All in favor of approving tonight's agenda? Motion is carried. Uh tonight we have some presentations. So Mr. Poland, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you, Mrs. Collier. So I'm going to ask Mr. Delasi to come on up and he's going to go over the um budget presentation. You're going to go through uh the cumulative process that we've started back in the fall. and now he's going to give you an update as to what we're recommending our proposed budget be for this spring. Um, I'm gonna have him start and there will be times where, you know, we're going to have a a joint discussion where I'll piggy back in on him and please, if there are any questions, don't hesitate to
003ask as we go through the presentation just so that we can clarify your questions as they come up throughout the presentation. I know we've been working on this the last few weeks and dialing it in. Um even this week we dialed it in a little bit more. I know at the last meeting uh you were clear that you wanted to keep as much of our program intact as possible, keep as many of our people intact as possible. And I think we've got a plan to come close to what your expectations were. Um but I don't want to say to you with certainty that yeah absolutely there are no cuts. Um because unfortunat I think with the financial situation we're in uh we are going to be making some recommendations to um thin out some things
004so that we're in a a better situation financially than what we currently are uh proposed with the maintenancebased budget. So turn it over to you. Sounds good. Thank you. Um, as everybody knows, it's been a tale to a year. There we go. Oh, I have to listen to myself. Now the voices in my head are real when I have to speak through microphone. Um, it's been a long budget process. It's been a challenge. Um, and I've spoke about it before historically. We're doing this every year, right? Because we're so dependent on state aid that they they drive the ship for us. Unfortunately, so this constant battle with balancing your budget is something continuous for small high need rural schools. I've started every presentation with the budget guidelines and it's important to keep them up there
005and keep them in our in front of everybody. Uh we want to be educationally and fiscally sound and prudent financial planning. Uh with all those goals in mind, uh the big one here is balance current needs with future needs. We've talked about that. We we going to need to use reserves and we need to have a strategy to replenish those reserves at the same time. It's kind of odd, but if things come up, we can handle them and it just may impact that plan in future years. Minimize budgetto budget increase. Stay within the tax cap. maintain our programming and maintain our bus replacement schedule and continue our capital outlay projects. Where we started, this was probably the first meeting. Uh we showed you a maintenance-based budget which was just keeping everything as is uh all
006programs intact, all personnel. in revenue projection one did not include any tax levy increase but it was just a flat uh increase in state aid and some other areas where we thought we could maybe increase our projection for the coming year and that created a shortfall and that's what's been the challenge and that's a pretty big shortfall um for any district and something that we need to address. So the options to address the shortfall, you've seen this multitude of times now. Decrease appropriations, increase revenue. What are your options there? We got state aid, other sources, which is local and grants, that kind of thing, and taxes. And we've discussed all those. So the proposed budget, maintenancebased budget less our budget reductions gives us a proposed budget of million150. That's kind of the strategy we're going
007in with. Um, and I'll keep repeating it. You can only spend what you get. So if we don't get it, we don't get to spend it. That's that's the mentality of when you create a budget because it's all estimates, right? It's all quoteunquote educated guesses. So you got to keep monitoring throughout every school year. The potential reduction off hours curriculum work uh both of 100,000 Bosey's technology and 8 to 10 uh FTEES or positions and potentially through attrition. We know we got quite a few through attrition and the way staff turn over. It might be all of it through attrition and those be things we're going to keep monitoring as the year goes on. But these decisions need to be made and people need to be notified. So there's proposed budget. Again, I'm going to
008run through this quickly because we've seen all this and just with those adjustments made in the budget, it's all the different categories. General support, instruction, transportation, all the way through to our new total of 371 150,000. Um pie charts, I told you, you've heard that I like the pie charts. tells a tells a big picture, right? Tells a big story in one picture. Um, and that's basically the big piece is instructions the biggest and then employee benefits uh is second in line. And that's what we've talked about. We're a people business and I've I've said it before, you're not saving a school budget on pencils and paper. It's in the people. And unfortunately, that's where when you have to talk budget reductions, a lot of it does come from personnel, the general support categories. So,
009I'm going to run through the categories. What's in each section? Board of Education, um, district clerks included in there, conferences, central admin, superintendent's office, central services, that's a big chunk. That's on and m of our facilities. Utilities can be quite expensive. That's even a guess right now, but there's been a lot of discussion that our utility prices are going to go way up. We account for a little bit of the increase, but we don't know where it's going to land. And again, this is a budget. It's a guide. It's not anything definitive. Staff is legal service personnel, public information, finance, of course, business office, auditing, um, CBO, treasur, payroll services, and special items, unaccalated insurance, and Bosey's admin costs. So, there's our general support proposed budget. And again, when we created that MBB, it was
010maintenance, right? Keeping what we have. It wasn't adding. So, the things that you're seeing is what's the cost to keep what we have minus the reductions in the budget. Um, so minor increases as be expected contractually. Instructional budget, what's included in instructional budget? Again, these types of things, admin, building administrators, office staff, material supplies, uh, posties training, general education instruction, all the all the categories that are involved in that. Special education, similar to general education with the special education category. OAD, Boseis, vocational, great programs we visited, we know they're great. Um, includes new vision of PTAC, approximately 75 students. uh attend these programs, special schools placements out of the Boseies and instructional media technology staff hardware and our BoseI services which we buy we get a lot of service in our technology through Boseies and
011we do that because that generates Bosey's 8 for us and pupil p uh pupil services u counselor psychologist athletics and the associated cost. So there's the uh instructional budget. Uh as you see that first category admin and curriculum development that went down. That was part of the reductions 100,000 in in curriculum uh writing. That's where that that's why that C category went down because you have contractual increases and then we got that reduction. And instructional media again that reduction stands out. That was that Boseies $100,000 coming out of that Boseies code. Again, the the idea for all our reductions, we want to stay as far away from students as we can and that was the intention and deliberate and I think this budget will reflect reflects that and will do that for us. I like
012my chart again. Um, regular ed biggest piece of the pie, special ed close second. Regular ed is 39%, special ed is 31%. Again, this is just of the instructional budget, not of the entire budget. Transportation, pretty simple. Salary increases for a fully staffed department. Other contractual items, fuel, fuel is going to be going up, replacement parts, equipment, um minor increase relative to the school budget in transportation, community services, uh various programs, swim instructors, lifeguards, community center staff, uh Red Cross training, driving range, etc. Um minor decrease just based on historical spend. Thought we could gain a little bit there and reduce that a little bit. Employee benefits, another big part, right? Part of the employee costs. Um here's our categories. The uh New York State retirement, teacher retirement, unemployment, medical, dental. See? Oh, I got
013my numbers switched up there. Again, the big p picture, big piece, health and dental insurance. Everybody knows it. Everybody's experienced it. It just continues to climb. Um the last three years have probably been about the worst I've seen in the medical costs going up. Kind of that co kicked it off and from there we've been um the high costs keep coming. I'm not sure if they're just riding the wave at this point, right? Who knows? Debt service, we've talked a lot about that. It's for our projects. uh we have some new serial bonds going in effect. That's why the interest went up and that big increase is offset by an increase in uh building aid. So that's really u a negative no negative impact on our budget and our fund transfer is very simple. Our
014share of special ed summer school and our $100,000 capital outlay minor tiny reduction just give me a round number. I didn't want I don't like to show this 8768 because that kind of gives a perception that it's going to be exactly 87.68 and it's not that was just kind of over the years the increases were percentage based and I just gave us a flat dollar amount. It's an estimate and again that's our share of special ed summer school costs. We're required to show the three-part budget um by law because they it was very important that this be shown. They had to put a law in place. So, here's our three-part budget. Uh, majority of it programming, which is what you'd expect. And again, a pie chart really shows this. The great thing, the one good
015thing about the three-part budget is it does take those employee benefits and distributes them to the different categories so that you get a better picture of where are your costs. And you want to see that you're having an in educational program, right? That's why we're all here. say revenue projection, state sources. This has stayed the same except for one thing. We're anticipating or hoping for some additional state aid. So, we have a category for it. I call it miscellaneous. I did not want to put it in foundation aid. That's where it would probably come through, but I don't want to confuse anybody. Right now, it's 2% foundation. Our hope is that it increases. And again, you only get to spend what you get. So if this falls short, we have to adjust our spending plan.
016Local sources. Now it includes the real property tax increase of 299. That's 2.66% that's within our tax levy cap. And also we scrubed we really scrub the data, right? Because we're we're in a challenging position. One thing we thought we could increase is our Bosey's refund. it's been consistently higher than 230. Um, and I think I might have told you this in the beginning, the old days, we were really conservative on revenues and really generous on our appropriations so that we knew, hey, we got plenty of room to to wiggle. When the budgets get tighter and tighter, you try to get more accurate on both. And that's really tough to do. So, we're trying to get more accurate. And some of that historically would have been my fund balance, but we need to balance budget.
017we need to do it with without disrupting the education. So we scrubbed our numbers and I said, "Hey, I think we can get a little more on our Boseies refund. So let's get a little more aggressive with that." And we had already previously done that with interest in earnings. So the impact of a 2.66 tax levy increase, um, I gave you two examples, a $50,000 home and $100,000 home. So a $50,000 home at 2.66% 66% would it increase someone's tax bill by $6.40 and for $100,000 home it would be $22.40. So there's the total revenue projection two 37,150,000 and we achieved our goal of balancing our revenues and expenses because we're required to go out with a budget that's balanced on the ballot this year. Approve that the budget 37150 the proposition to do the
018buses. We've talked extensively about that. We're still at 925, not to exceed. And the number three proposition will be the library appropriations that are on there every year. Important dates. I do a check box for our dates that we have to meet and I did a red circle X through the New York State budget because they did not meet their goal. So, they do not get a checkbox. And that's it. Any questions? I know you've seen a lot of this and that's part of the process. We keep you keep seeing it because you as I understand you get to look at it once a year. You're not going to know it like we know it. And I I occur same thing occurs with us when we go to like the health insurance meetings. They use
019a lot of acronyms and terms and we said, "Listen, we're looking at this once a year. You got to bring it back so I can understand it." So we keep putting these this information in front of you so you can understand it and see it more than one time in a budget season. For those of you out there um please know that um this is a review for the board. Um at the workshop we went through this very carefully. So board members uh do understand the uh ins and outs of the budget and the impact on on everything uh with with what's coming hopefully uh hopefully not coming uh to us in the in the uh in the form of revenues. We hope that the revenues will be there for us. We need them. Um
020and yes, it's right. The board was was very uh adamant that uh programs for students not be cut and um keep the impact from affecting their education as as absolutely much as possible. So, um, and I I think the only thing I wanted to make sure our new members on the board understand that, um, with Boseies, we do get reimbursement when we use their services, but it's in the following year that it comes back as revenue. So where with where they've increased it as a maybe a usage come in the coming year, you won't see that revenue until next year's budget, which hopefully then helps uh the revenue source for for next year's budget for the following year's budget. Want to make sure you understand that. Anyone have any questions or comments for Yes, John.
021Are we solid for um medical insurance and dental? They've given us a number that's Yes, they gave us uh increases. Um they did a composite increase because we have people in all different plans and we think we have a number that would that should be adequate. And secondly, I haven't kept up with you kind of alluded to the red check mark you gave. What is the status of the state budget? Is it I still delayed there? There's four things holding up right now. Uh the one that's most relevant to school oops, sorry. There's four things holding it up right now. Uh there's the one that's most relevant to schools is tied to the cell phone policy, believe it or not. Um and then there are a couple of other things that, you know, they're going
022back and forth between the executive and the legislative branches, you know, within the ongoing negotiation. So typically um we have an update about two to three times a week and you know and the next one will be tomorrow from our people that are in Albany. Let us know what we can anticipate or whether the budget extender goes into effect yet again. Hey, can I also ask about federal funds? been a lot said about cuts here and there and have we heard anything definitive about any cuts or not no cuts hopefully definitive I'm not going to say definitive but as of right now that what we're getting it we're conf we're not we're comfortable with the fact that we think we're going to get them next same amounts next year that's good but who knows the
023information we have Now we're good. Well, that's that's good though. Thank you. Going back to what you had said, Cinder. Um, about the Boseies, I'm just wanting to make sure I understand this. The the percent the amount of change is what we're anticipating. We're using more BOSI services 2526 to anticipate more the following year. Correct. Correct. Okay. Let make sure I understood that. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Kier, may I just add for the budget? Uh, I thankful for the presentations that were given. I think they were solid, a lot of uh good dialogue back and forth about our questions and I appreciate that. I think we know quite a bit about the budget. Not as much obviously as the people who have to stamp proved in that kind of thing, but I
024appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. It's it's nice to have the clear direction from you as well. So, I think that that's something where, you know, we've worked really hard. And I think that's why you see, you know, as Andrew said, if we we see an increase in eight, great. We know what our marching orders are. If we don't see that number come in, we also know what our marching orders are. So, I think that that's that's also helpful terms of the clarity. It right now get to it. Stop share right now. Minimize that for a second. Sorry. No, you're okay. Do you do they have copies of mine? Yes, they do. So, gets it up time there. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you. So, my my portion is really just brief tonight, you know,
025because I know it's a a a full agenda, but I want to just go through a few things with you. Um, first and foremost, I want to thank Matt Moralia. You know, Dr. Moralia has been in our district several times throughout the last few years. Um, you know, he's someone who's committed to the health and safety of our students and our staff here at North Rose Wil. So tonight, I'm pleased to say that you will be accepting, I hope, a donation from Dr. Moralia to purchase the three gun safes that um we will be working with our sheriff's office and installing in each of the SRO offices here on campus. Um you know, Dr. Morelia is a big proponent of school safety. Obviously, he's a big supporter of Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Um and he
026knows that North Rose Wilka will be the first once they have long gun safes installed in the school district. Um so he's committed to paying for those for our school district because he wants to make sure that our sheriff's office and our students have the tools they need. So Sheriff Milby has given me a particular charge with what he expected with respect to the gun safe. Um, and we have a vendor that can accommodate that. You know, he wanted fire resistant for certain number of minutes. He wanted certain capacity. He wanted weight. He wanted to make sure they were biometric uh locks so that the deputies could get in. Um, so all those standards kind of have had us going back and forth and we finally found a vendor um that's actually able to produce
027that. And I actually had a a school administrator from Montgomery, New York, reach out to me this week and ask me which one we're proposing. Um, and I sent him the message to say, "This is the this is the model. Here are the specs." And it was very similar to what his uh his district was looking for. So, I just wanted to say thank you to Matt for that because it is a pretty sizable donation um and a pretty big commitment to our schools. Uh, next, my first attempt at a QR code. So, I'm proud to say I I was successful with that. And I'm not going to go through the video, but this is something that I presented statewide uh the uplifting all students conference um couple weeks ago in the middle of March.
028Uh it's on the website now and if you go to the state ed website um you can find it if later on you decide you want to pull your camera out and hit that uh QR code it'll bring you to the link that shows specifically our portion for North Rose Woolit um that centers on community and family engagement and that was something where you know it was a nice nice opportunity to present some of our happenings for um the state to and it was actually picked up by on board. So I believe each of you have your onboard magazine tonight from the New York State School Board Association and on page three they take a snippet of our work um and they took a portion of my presentation and they highlighted that. So it just
029nice to see that you know North Rose Wilkit's getting the recognition for the things that we're doing. Um really references three things. uh parent lea as our food service program um and then the cougar care room which each of the buildings have and you know I got a chance to reference some middle school data that you all saw and the improvement in the number of referrals that have been happening not only in the middle school but districtwide um based on the fact that they're implementing restorative practices is really just nice to be recognized for and very proud of our staff. And that's the one piece that I was able to say. It's nice to be supported by a board of education um who has the same belief systems that every member of our organization has.
030And it's nice to represent our administrators and our directors for the work that they do daily and how proud I am to represent our school district, our staff, and our children across the state. And I think that that's starting to be reflected both by the state education department as well as the school board's association. So, thank you for your ongoing commitment to our children and our programs. It is really clearly your support that helps carry that work forward. Next, really, this is another thank you to the board of education. um our administrators and directors are attending um a women and leadership council initiative from Niscus. So the New York State Council of School Superintendent as a women's initiative going on right now and they're really trying to strengthen our our women leaders. Um so you'll
031see the picture there. That's our team that's down there. Um we have everything from food service to uh community schools, special ed, obviously the building representation there for each of our administrators. So that's a large contingent of people. I know there were some staff and some students that thought the building would start to fall apart without these strong female leaders there. Um and the gentleman had assured me that chicken nuggets for lunch, Kool-Aid in a movie just like at home, right? Um and they would keep the ship running. Um, so that was very, very nice to see and the feedback that I'm getting from the high school, the middle school, and and Megan, what a great conference this has been and how important it is to continue to strengthen our female leadership team. So, really
032good stuff, and I'm glad that we have a diverse makeup down there. And then last, uh, this is something that's new. Um, you know, Prime Time 585, it's a organization that represents sports across section five. Uh, Karen Aacia is a big champion for all sports, for all student athletes. Uh, heck of a advocate for athletes and student athletes in particular. Um, and then Channel 8 in Rochester, Thaad Brown, sports director up there. They do a wonderful job promoting our our student athletes across our area. And so, Miss Vivian is received this award, elite athlete for alpine skiing. And you know, if you get a chance tomorrow night, 7 o'clock, she'll be featured. And then they'll play that again tomorrow or on Saturday right around noon. Mr. Blankenberg had shared with me that her her segment
033of the news will come on early on. And then one thing that he failed to send me was a picture of his son who was also recognized as the elite student athlete for basketball. Um he's actually on a trip today. He and his son Cameron who is the elite athlete for um boys basketball. They're on their way down to a site visit this evening or else he would be here. But very proud of Cameron, very proud of Vivian, very proud of Mark. you know, the commitment that they make and the ongoing effort to continue to promote positive uh student experiences. And, you know, I've had the pleasure of knowing Mark for some time and watching camera grow up. So, it's it's been a nice thing and Mark's very humble leader, but he deserve recognition both
034as a father and as a supporter of our student athletes. And honestly, I think the guy trades his car in like every other year because of the miles he puts on him in such a short amount of time. So really happy just to promote those things and answer any questions that you may have. I know it's more of a overview for some highlight things versus some nuts and bolts details, but just wanted to kind of celebrate those things for our our district tonight. Any questions, comments, or thoughts? Okay. Thank you. I would just like to say that we are very proud of you, Mr. Poland. that you have made amazing uh positive changes here in our district and your leadership for our students and our faculties and our staff. Um, and it's it's really uh
035heartwarming to know that North Rose Wool is being recognized across the state at the state level and uh with other school districts and uh in in in the community. I'm not sure our own community realizes uh how great you are and how many wonderful things are going on here for our students. Um but when we when we see people coming to visit our district to see the cougar program and uh the um all of the different things that are are happening here and additionally the um to hear the positive comments from staff of how they're feeling positive about what's happening here and to see um see our graduation rate soaring. It's a great thing. So, thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. We'll move to correspondence and board and report. Uh Leslie, do
036you have anything from the elementary today? I do have a report. I actually got to go to the elementary school yesterday. I went to the parent community fair. um took my husband to go see the new auditorium. It's looking very nice. The new projector in there, his first thing was, "Oh, good. They can show movies. Oh, come on." But it looks very nice in there. He was impressed. He hadn't been in there much. Um there was also a great turnout of a lot of community organizations there at the elementary school. So, that was good. I'm counting two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 15 different organizations were there. Had foods and tables. That was good. We even bought a couple books at the book fair because Eric just couldn't walk out without getting out throwing
037them under the bus. But he was so excited to go to the book fair. Um they had some also parent teacher conferences last night. That's also a pretty important aspect of what they did and there was a good turnout for those. The students are going to be taking some tests at the end of April. And they're going to be on computers, so they'll be digital tests. And the math tests are then in the middle of May. Everybody has also started to start getting outside. That's a good thing in elementary school. So, I'm glad it's warming up. Cubby Club is going to be April 25th. And the Cougar Pride Trade is inquiry for this time. The spring is pretty busy. lots of events ramping up. Um, and they're going to have a special Memorial Day assembly
038and parade and a festival of the arts. So, I'm sure kids are busy doing things. There was lots of fun artwork on the walls and things in the elementary school. So, looks like kids are gearing up for spring at the elementary school. It's good. Thank you, Travis. Do you have anything from the middle school? I do. Uh the middle middle school musical The Wizard of Oz was a huge success with three nearly soldout shows. The students did an incredible job, gave breathtaking performances. Thank you to everyone that made the musical come to life. Studentled conferences last night were a huge hit at the middle school. Around 80 students and families participated. Quarter 3 ends tomorrow and the quarter 3 awards assembly will be held Friday, May 2nd. As the March Cougar Pride Assembly at the
039March Cougar Pride Assembly, the girls basketball team was celebrated for their undefeated season. That's great to hear. Uh congratulations to all those girls. Currently 66 students are signed up for modified baseball, softball, tennis, track, uh which began on March 24th. That's all I've got. Great. Thank you. John, do you have something for the high school? Yes, they have the first annual spring carnival and extran extravaganza. E GG. It was a success and uh thanks to the cooperation and support of many uh she cites the Cougar Pride parent group and the sophomore class. Also uh this week our uh high school choir will be performing for the senior citizen group that meets for lunch on the first Thursday of every month. They'll be performing songs from our March concert and parts of our May concert selections.
040And the first weekend of May, the NRW choir students will perform their solos for evaluation at Wayne High School and they can use those scores to apply for senior high all all state and conference all state assemblies for next fall. So we wish them good luck in the regard. uh cougar uh the caring cougars welcomed the board of education to their classroom which was transferred into the cougar cafe and the students were delighted to have the board of education friends have some homemade chili and cornbread. Congratulations to Celia for winning this week's um this month's Cougar Pride raffle for bringing their charged Chromebooks to every class every day. And as part of their initiative to encourage responsibility and readiness, students who come to prepared with their fully charged Chromebook are entered into a raffle for
041a chance to win. I think that just makes it fun, you know, to do. This month they celebrated the top 10 seniors from the class of 2025 with a breakfast celebration. And uh I can honestly say that on Facebook, every one of them was on Facebook and the in individually and you could u press the like button for each of the little bios for each of the top 10 seniors. And they are very proud to uh the school is very proud for the hard work and dedication of our students. have shown since the start of the school year and they've a lot of our students have excelled in academics and extracurricular and community service and they've been inspiring. So, thank you. Thank you, John. Shelley, do you have anything from Cougar Apps? I do. So,
042Krueger Ops, they are in the final push for the the third and fourth year students to complete their recovery assignments. There are many seniors who still have recovery work to finish at this point in time. Uh the tutoring center has welcomed students from Red Creek and Senica Falls so far this year and they are working closely with Marian and Soda schools to build a partnership to do the same. Uh they are looking forward to continuing the expansion with other school districts and adding credit recovery to the partnership. Um the hub is working hard to support students as they wind down the third quarter. They have many students working hard to get their um do assignments in and uh so that they can improve their their third quarter rate. Great. That's wonderful. Linda, do you have
043anything from county school boards? Yes, I do. Actually, everyone got your everyone has gotten an email from uh the secretary for for county and so now I do want to add new information there is a corporate sponsorship for that evening and so everyone that attends does not have to purchase or pay for their meal so that's an expense you don't have to the district doesn't have to pick up and there's it'll be a very special event because they're going to be reviewing the history of the 50 years that we're celebrating and there will be many uh executive directors. Everybody's invited whether you're on the school board or not. Uh secretaries are invited, staff that interacts with B County. So, it's wide open and club 86 can accommodate a lot of folks. So, if you're interested
044in going, you just need to respond to that email and you'll be registered. This is on April 15th. May 15th, I mean 15. Yep. At club 86 there as well. We'll find out when we get there. All right. Good. And I'll do jump to four county legislative. We have our zoom meeting on Saturday and at this point in the year um the focus is on federal budget. So, it'll be interesting to see what information is available. Um, a handbook. Um, we talked about that before. Um, and we we will talk about that in our workshop in two weeks again. John, anything from audit? No. Travis, anything from district safety? No, nothing at this time. Tina, anything from personnel negotiations? Yep. No new updates. Tina, any the communications ad hoc committees? We continue to submit information
045to Amanda who has been great about publishing for us. Great. And Shelley, anything from policy? Well, we have uh policies that we're going to be uh reviewing tonight, and we actually we just met prior to this meeting, and our goal is to look at all the policies that we have, determine ones that um are really necessary and applicable for the board of education to be putting forth. And um so we have a lot of work to do uh from now until September of next year. Actually, we pretty much have it mapped out. Um and then we're hoping that next year we can finish it up. So wonderful. Great. Um, I know that Tina and Mr. Poland attended uh the uh county school board and Linda conference. Um, thank you for representing the district there. Um,
046anything you want to say about that? It was great to see we had four students that were presenting. Each did a great job. Were able to explain their program, talk about things. Then in addition to that, there were I don't know how many presenters, but you went there were 10 rooms that were full and just you could see what's happening around different areas, different districts, and how they're doing things, what kinds of programs they're operating. We were able to talk to a lot of people. It was good. It was very well done. Good to hear it. Thank you for sending us. I just wanted to say that it's always a highlight for me and I know was for Tina when you get an opportunity to talk to the students that are in the programs and
047hear what a benefit is for them and how grateful they are and appreciative and they have a passion for what they're doing and the professionals too that support them. We had a chance to talk to uh someone that was working with younger children with pre-ereading skills and so on. It was really impressive. U the magnitude of the growth they had was really quite interesting. So well that's great especially in these days when there might be budget cuts. It's it's important for board members to uh know how much these special programs that some cost quite considerably uh how meaningful they are and helpful to our students. Yes, Jack. Can I ask a question about policies? Okay. Okay. Uh on 5671, disposal of consumer report information and records. If we delete it, how do we deal with
048the records then of individuals? Well, I I'd be happy to. So, there are certain things that are still time bound. you know, we still have to follow those things based on ED law and then recordkeeping for the Department of Labor. So on and but what this is basically saying is it's not a policy because we're already following it as a practice. So when we go through these protocols, we're making sure that PII is kept at the utmost uh level essentially saying we don't want any information getting out there that's disclosed. So records are, you know, when their time is up and we can get rid of them, we go through a process of actually shredding them. We go through a very specific um process of getting rid of those documents and making sure we're following
049the law and we're following what we have to do obligationwise. Okay. So it is written down someplace. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh 5722 uh child care transportation there was a addition that the superintendent makes a final decision. Uh don't we always put down the board as a final decision? Well with respect to the decision making and circumstances there's a five-step process that was already in place. you just adding the extra step which is a step F I believe which allowed me the opportunity that if there was a circumstance that came up that I can use my professional discretion to say you can go ahead and drop this student off here. It's it's essentially offering up more than the two stops that were under the old policy. Policy was reviewed last year. I asked for an amendment
050based on a particular situation. uh figuring that when those things come up, it's not necessary for the seven board members to get together and say, you know, you have permission to go ahead and make that call. Okay. All right. I just I'll stop that. I just wondered why usually on everything else I've seen the board has the final say in things. Why what's changed for this one? Well, your policy still in effect. you're just giving me the authority to use professional judgment as one of those six steps now that's all. So it's typically the five protocol things would be there but if the rare situation comes up where it's eminent then I need to make a decision on behalf of the student and the family you're just saying yes that those first five steps are
051what guide us and that six step is the rare time when it's necessary. Okay. Yeah. And I think rather than being a policy decision, John, that would be an operational decision uh based on a family's need in that case. Okay. Sh as I had said before, I think what you know when we have looked through the whole policy manual, there are only 58 required policies, right, that a school district needs to have in place. We have 224 and the majority of those are procedural or their job descriptions. And I'm making an assumption that maybe some of the job descriptions were prior to having an HR director. Um, but that's why we're really trying to clean up, if you will, the policy manual because quite honestly, I I believe this that it's an expense to have
052everyone boseies continue to go through these policies that are not required, not needed, and that it it's procedural. And also having the attorney, attorney time. I always want to make sure though that it is written down someplace whether it's state law or it's it's someplace where a new superintendent a new administration comes in there is something to go to and say all right we can get rid of these records in three years two years whatever as opposed to a vacuum that's why I asked the question of course very well done good John thank Uh Tina, has anyone in for public access tonight? Yes. All right. Then I must read this. Um, public participation is a time that the board is set aside to hear from residents of the district to express viewpoints related to the
053district. Bylaws 1510, regular board meetings and rules and public participation, establishes the rules for this public access, and if you have signed up to speak, it is expected that you have read the policy and are committed to adhere to the policy rules. I remind you that the board does not hear personal complaints against any persons connected to the school system in public session, nor are any forms of prejudice, obscene language, liable statements, or threats of violence tolerated. Um, public access is a time for the board to hear what residents have to say, but members do not respond in any way. Uh speakers are each allowed three minutes and when you hear the signal please come to a conclusion. Um Mr. Paul Stky would like to address sport and madam president Mr. And just a quick
054thank you and an acknowledgement to the building the grounds department and to our athlet athletic department. Our baseball field was beautiful last Friday for our first game at home. And then they they were able even though it rained over the weekend for a practice Monday they had groomed the field again. So really I just want to say thank you and well done to those departments. Thank you Paul. Um, at this time, uh, I'd like for us to go into executive session, a short executive session, uh, for the purpose of discussing a, um, specific employee specific employees history. So, a motion, please, to go into executive session. Chel and Leslie. Uh, any discussion? All in favor? Motion is carried. We will be leaving and we will be back very shortly. You might want to take your
055agendas with you. All right, we're back in session. Um and we are at the U consent agenda. A motion please to approve the consent agenda. Um Travis and John. Um any discussion? The um agenda goes through page five. Any discussion? All right. All in favor of approving the the consent agenda. Motion is carried. Now page five number well it's the uh before number six uh you have a green sheet in front of you and you also have the documentation uh that goes with it. Um, so this is uh a motion to approve the real property tax report card. A motion, please. Linda and Shelly. Discussion hearing none. All in favor of approving roll call. Oh, it's roll call. Excuse me. Cinda, yes. Tina, yes. John, yes. Shelley, yes. Linda, yes. Leslie, yes. Travis, yes. Thank
056you. Motion is carried. You see how quick she was? Tell me if she's used to that. The minute I take a breath, she's Oh, all right. Um then uh we're at board member request, comments, and dis discussion. No, no, we're not. We have one more, don't we? I'm sorry. Oh, I guess we do. A motion, please, uh to adopt the 25 the 2026 budget spending plan. Motion, please. Tina and Travis discussion. Tina, would you call the vote? Cinda, yes. Tina, yes. John, yes. Shelly, yes. Linda, yes. Leslie, yes. Travis, yes. Thank you. Motion is carry. All right. Uh now we come to board member requests, comments and discussion. Does anyone have anything they want to bring up? Okay. Well then is there any good news that you want to share? Had some of that already.
057I will. I went to the hall of fame induction over the weekend. It was very well done. some of our former teachers, coaches and students and the bowling 7172. They were very excited. It was it was well done. A nice presentation. It was nice to see people together. It went well. I I would hope that they could. I went because I felt Brent was being inducted, but I I wish they would let us know if there was a way to to get that committee to let the board know when that's happening. I was just going to say I How do you even find out that it's happening because because I didn't know it was happening either. No. Yeah. Nor did I. So, it's something that Mark and I will talk about. Okay. Yep. because it's
058one of those things where that's how I go about it. Got it. Got it. Yep. I think we need to do a better job and get to that committee to promote it so that we can show better representation. Well attended. Really was. Was it? Yes. There was a special award, wasn't there? Um actually there were two special awards. One was from Erin Petraina for all of that he's done as a community member and everything sports all of that and the other was Leo Takone who was the custodian when and I and Linda worked and he was just thrilled and it was because he took photos he could go to games and take photos. He was telling us he has like 30,000 photos and he actually donated them all to the booster club. Oh, okay. Yeah.
059So the booster club when he took those pictures he gave them to family members or students so they all was one of those uh community school employees. You know he he lived in the community. He he just did things at school and be way beyond what his responsibilities were. We could always count him on for Memorial Day to come in his uniform and be part of the color guard. And uh he was always there for us. So does he come anymore? I don't think so. I don't I don't think I've seen Yeah, I'm glad they recognized I'm glad they recognize Aaron Precino because indeed he does do a lot sports. Yes. You know that that booster club started the year sports were cut. I remember that year. Remember that year? Yeah. They were gone and
060booster club raised the funds to keep the sports going. High school principal picked up cans, bottles for return light. There was lots of people picking up cans. You know what's so interesting about that? It really brought the community together. Yes, it did. It was just a positive experience I think a lot of people had. What year was that? Let's see. Casey was in Yeah, she was in high school or Yeah, she was spot. Yeah, I think it was. And what was the purpose? Why did this cut? Because budget cuts at that time. Sports was a separate item, separate line item, right? Well, actually the the budget was voted down. The whole budget was Yes. And so it was contingency and there were no sports. That's what it was. Yeah, he still had sports. Sally Smith
061was big on that. I think the people who have played sports in their high school years, middle school years, you know, really came out because they and their parents, the old at that point, the grandmas and grandpas because they knew how important they were to the development of kids. That's great. Well, that's a lot of good news right there. I have one more. I just happened to see the Sunni Asiggo President's List. We had one of our graduates on that list. So, I was kind of Whitney Whitney Wilson. Oh, how nice. Great. Thank you. All right. Uh at this point, we have completed our agenda. A motion please to adjourn. Linda and Lesie. Any discussion? All in favor of adjourning? Motion is carried.