001Good evening. I'd like to call to order the Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 Board of Education regular meeting to order. Um, please join us. Uh, our vice president, Roger Vitacharia, is going to lead us in 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. >> Welcome and thank you for being here on this snowy week. Um, I'm going to turn things over for item 1.3, our superintendent's update. >> Hi. All right. Uh, good evening everybody and um, welcome to our guest this evening. We have a full agenda for a wonderful celebration. Um, as part of my superintendence update this evening, I just want to go over snow days and give
002a recap. I want to thank the Austining school community um, for their help and support as we try to manage these. I I had to explain to someone today, each call or decision probably involves 20 different calls to different people, to different groups, to um Jim Minan, our head of transportation, Jared Mance. They are a constant part of the conversation as are our regional superintendent. We actually have two weather calls at 4:15 in the morning and then again at 4:30. We have a meteorologist that just does weather data for this region alone. And then I have a micro group of um superintendent um Hen Hut, Croin, Peak Skill, and Austining is one group and then there's another group. So we all try to coordinate and touch base. I was excited to be able to reach
003out to to um to Karen in the village of Austining to check on things. Um so there's a lot that goes into those decisions. Uh this morning's event when we were making the call, there wasn't a single snowflake on the ground and it was predicted to be a clipper. What they call a clipper. Fastm moving done by nine but only one inch of snow. It was a clipper. All right. It was out by eight, but it dumped like two three and 1/2 ines of snow. And of course, I had to call Jared and ask him how fast can his staff remove how much square footage of snow per inch off our campus. And that pretty much dictated how we had to extend it from a 2hour to a three-hour delay and touching base with the
004village. So, I thank our village partners. I thank our town partners. Liz Felman is here. Um, I've reached out regularly to our chief of police, too, because it takes a community to do that. If uh I often say if anyone wants to join the party between 4 and 5:00 in the morning where these multip um but then another round of events goes out and then you sit there to make sure all the technology works that all the roocalls go out, everything goes out on time. As of this moment, we are at 176 and a half student days. State law um requires a minimum of 180 days, but the very important part of that formula are the student days. You have to have a minimum of 176 days and you're entitled to have four superintendence conference
005days as part of that 180. We had 180.5 student days. We used four snow days. So now I'm out of snow days. What I'm going to propose to the board of education at the uh next meeting is a change to the calendar. We're going to take the last day of June called the rating day. It's a day for rating regent exams for high school and secondary students. Uh, but it was a superintendence conference day for elementary. I'm going to switch that now to a student day where kids will come in to school that day and we get back a an instructional day. So that's really helpful here. Uh, obviously the next day if we need more than that, please God know, but if we do, um, the next day will be the Friday before Memorial
006Day weekend. So, uh, here's hoping for good weather, and that won't happen, but we have two days. There might actually be a third day. I don't know if anyone saw the news, but the commissioner of education said there was a waiver for Monday. I haven't seen what that means, if you still have days. So, we have a superintendence meeting tomorrow morning where that will be a topic of discussion. But right now, even with those two changes, the February uh the spring break will still be intact and we could create two more days for ourselves just in case we need them. So, um that's my overview of snow days. Um happy to engage in more detail with anyone after the meeting if they appear to. Uh we did have a trip going out. I think people
007have noticed that um Owen isn't here. They our science research kids headed up to Albany today and that was another conversation this morning making sure that um the bus didn't leave that we had kids to make sure they were safe and then when uh we saw a black top on 87. I also look at um cameras for all the highways because you can do that right now at 511 New York I knew that that road was safe and um they were able to go. So now in addition to Snow, I just want to extend congratulations to Michaela Dale and Aiden Menddees who delivered their stand and deliver speeches and to Aiden for leading a debate team about the dangers of artificial intelligence at the New York State My Brother's Keeper event in Albany right before
008the break. Um, we have a an Austining uh school district alumni, Jack Bergman, who's a sophomore at Quinnipic University, who spent two weeks abroad as an intern at the 2026 Winter Olympics. How cool is that? What a great intern opportunity. Our girls basketball team had a huge 95-30 playoff victory over Pikipsy. They move on to game two tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. at the high school. I want to thank our Sunni ASL students who visited Park School to work with 13 different preK classes. Absolutely adorable. Introducing basic ASL signs, finger spelling, and fun ASL. Stands for American Sign Language games and activities. Our Black History Assembly evening at the Bethany Arts Center was a meaningful celebration of student voice. Our Claremont School community proudly shared their declaration of me projects highlighting reflection, creativity, and the importance
009of history, honoring history, and honoring self. Our park kinder leaders had a wonderful visit to Austining High School as part of the recent recognition of World Readaloud Day and was a special time spent sharing stories, smiles, and a love of reading across all grade levels. Claremont hosted a well-attended math night filled with games and coding and hands-on learning. And our prek and kindergarten students had a blast at the sweetheart dances. A big shout out, a huge shout out to our awesomeing early um early childhood PTA for their support and making these events such a success. Our Westchester County volunteer income tax assistant program called VA at OS continues with students preparing tax returns at with walk-ins scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. at the high school. And I want to thank Austining Matters for their
010support and helping them make that happen. The awesomeing high school National Honor Society hosted a wonderful senior citizens Valentine's Day breakfast. I had a ball at that breakfast. It was great. Wonderful singing by our high school students and by our students from Park School. Um everyone, if you know anyone with a prek student, um please note that registration is open at this time and it closes on March 2nd. Kids must be four by December 1st, 2026 and Austining residents to enroll. And last but not least, get ready to join Austining Matters for their fundraiser on February, March 6th. Details can be found on their website. That's my superintendent update for this evening. >> Thank you. A lot going on even in all the snow and with winter break in the mix, too. >> All right.
011Um, I'd like to take a motion from the board to move up 7.1. >> So moved. Second. >> Uh, any discussion? All in favor? >> I abstensions. All right. Now I'll take a motion on 7.1. >> Second. >> Uh 7.1 resolution regarding professional staff tenure appointments. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I opposed. abstensions. All right. So, now I'm going to turn it over to Miss Ordus, who gets to uh introduce Miss Allison Branotti and celebrate her. So, come on up. >> Okay. Great. >> Um for those of you in the audience, what that move and motion was for, it was for the receiving of tenure. Um we have a Brookside teacher, Allison, who's here this evening. The earning of tenure is a milestone in anyone's professional career. Uh you undergo multiple multiple uh observations,
012meetings, dropins by a whole different team of school administrators and then the board of education every year spends two full evenings reviewing every candidate who's up for tenure. So this is a well-earned step in your professional career. Allison. >> Good evening, Superintendent Fox Alter, members of the board of education, and members of our Austining community. We are very excited to present tenure this evening to Allison Bronati, Brookside's academic intervention service math provider. Allison loves math. She breathes math. She thinks in terms of logic and patterns. She's comfortable with abstract things like symbols and variables. She can visualize shapes and number relationships. I think Allison is very lucky, not only because she has this type of math brain, but because she also gets to teach a subject she really enjoys all day long. And that's not
013really common in elementary school. But the luckiest of all is actually us, our school community, because we get to have in Allison an educator who is passionate about the content she teaches, has a strong grasp of it, and has the willingness to support all of our children in this area. I have personally seen Allison's growth in the past four years that we have worked together. She is a math AIS pioneer who came into what was a new position at the time and was not intimidated by the unknowns, but rather used that math brain of hers to problem solve, work through challenges, and grow into the position, really tailoring it to what our students and school community needs. I often joke that Allison was the teacher whom I visited most in my first two years at
014Brookside because her room was connected to our main office and I would pop in unintentionally rather often throughout the day. And time and time again you would see children most of whom need needed a lot of support in math taking risks and demonstrating flexibility in their problem solving approaches. Her room was this very, very narrow teaching space, but she maximized every corner of it so that children were working with partners, tackling a math problem, and so they were supported with the resources they needed to do so. Now in a larger room, more suitable, uh students are still taking risks with her in a subject area that may not be as fun for them, that is hard for them and in an area where they already feel challenged. But they're able to do this because she
015establishes a feeling of safety amongst them. She validates them as math learners and celebrates every ounce of progress they demonstrate every session. So they leave feeling successful after a day with her. Our assistant principal, Dr. Veles, who works closely with Allison, also describes her as truly living and breathing math. She says, quote, "Nine out of 10 times, if you catch us deep in conversation, it's about instructional strategies, problem solving approaches, or finding just the right entry point to unlock understanding for a student who needs support. Her commitment to meeting students where they are and moving them forward with patience and precision reflects both her expertise and her heart. Outside of her daily case load, Allison has also made significant contributions to our school community through her participation in our math team meetings, offering insight to
016colleagues or her facilitation of math parent workshops offering games that could support parents across both grades specific to our standards on grades one and two. And one of her most recognized contributions in Austining so far has been number ninjas, an enrichment group that Allison meets with because she has magically carved out time in the work week to meet with our highest achieving students in math and provide that enriching experience. Beyond Brookside, she is a devoted daughter and a marvelous dog mom, bringing that same loyalty, care, and joy into everything she does. Her dedication, warmth, and unwavering belief that every child can grow in mathematics makes our school community stronger. On behalf of us and our entire Brookside community, congratulations, Allison, on this well-deserved achievement. Thank you so much. Um it's so nice to celebrate wins
017and we're so glad to have you in our community and um you know I think Mary has said before that um when you're untenured you have an untenured teacher it's like dating >> and then when you give a teacher tenure it's like getting married and so we're we're so glad to have you as a more permanent member of our family. So, thank you. And what I always say to everybody is you're welcome to stay, but you're also welcome to go um and uh celebrate. So, thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. All right. The next item on our agenda is our work session item, item 2.1. I'm going to read it out. equity item a celebration of Black History Month, presentation of the Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement
018Award, and honoring uh Mr. Lonnie Dinks, Mr. Thomas Knight, Dr. Angela White, and current board trustees. So, at this time, I'm going to turn it over to our board committee. Yes. Um so that they can uh can begin the festivities of this work session. Good evening everybody. Hello. Uh thank you for joining us tonight. Um especially um in this weather that we've been having. So this is our annual celebration um in honor of Hester Bait and Spencer Hines. Um, and this is in honor of Black History Month and ensuring history isn't forgotten. I feel it is important to always take a moment me to take a moment to remember the origin of this award. Hester Baitman Spencer Hines was the first black teacher hired in the district back in 1949, serving for 29 years after
019contributing to teaching all grade levels, eventually the role of assistant superintendent and was instrumental in the implementation of our title one prek program. She also contributed extensively to her broader community in several volunteer roles. It is not only the generational impact she brought to the Osm School District that led to this award being erected in her honor, but my astonishment as to how such a phenomenal trailblazer and relentless advocate of students in public education was an unknown person in the very district she dedicated so much of herself to, thus becoming what I called one of Austin's hidden figures. In 2020, I spoke her name for the first time in probably what was decades at a board meeting, eventually collaborating with the board at that time to bring forth an award for which she would be
020which would proceed to be given to others in her name. There's something about this particular picture that always intrigues me about her. Recognizing the passion in her expression as only as one can only imagine the context of the dialogue she may have been engaged in at that moment in time. Whether it might have been advocating for students, herself, or possibly both. I want to share as we go in tonight one of the definitions in the Marryiam Webster dictionary of the word legacy. stated as the following. Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past. It is an honor in her honor that we gather every year to celebrate legacy specifically as it relates to pillars in our community. I can think of no greater legacy than that of unwavering de
021devotion and passion to students and overall publica public education. There is also a proverb I am particularly fond of, especially when discussing one of the true hallmarks of legacy. One iteration of this is as follows. Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit. It takes heart and genuine character to give of oneself in ways that seek to shape the world in ways they themselves may never personally benefit from or even be credited for. This year's honores range from teacher to executive and policy maker just to touch the surface of what they have meant to the community. But in a nutshell, they are all leaders who knowingly and possibly unknowingly planted seeds. So I'm looking forward to us honoring you all three tonight and thank you for you and your families
022for coming to join us. We'll get started. Before we get started, I don't know. Did you want to start us off or should I do you want to start us off with >> Okay. All right. So, just quickly, I want to just go through the slides and show you the people who have been honored to date. So, there's CDA Worthy, who is our first black board member here in the district. Marilyn Thornton, Trible, Thomas Knight, who was going to be honored here tonight, John Spellellar, Charles Books, Diana Lemon, and there's me as the current Um so quickly some of the past recipients of our award have been uh the inaugural um recipient Mrs. Francine Vernon followed by Lorraine Acriman Boswell, Pedosa Worthy, All Watson, Carolyn Black, Helen Williams, Emily Shur Rock, Kenneth Laor, and those
023our past recipients. All right. Oh, wait. Okay. This is last year. Sorry about that, folks. So, Dr. Kendall McFarland was last year's recipient along with Jerry Norris Norris and Brenda Hunter and also Gwendelyn Lyman. All right. So, we're going to get started with tonight's recipients and we're gonna have um Trustee Ian Gomez start us off. >> Hi everyone. It is my honor to introduce one of our recipients tonight, Lonnie Drinks. Mr. Drinks was hired in September of 1987 by the district as a business teacher at the high school. Six years later, he began working as a special education teacher, which is a big deal because you need a special certification for that, right? Yeah. He served as the former basketball coach for the district and he led the varsity football team, formerly known as the
024Riverhawks, to the playoffs in 2003. He was also the dean of students from September 2006 through June 2017. Then for the next two years he was the task coordinator and he has really left an lasting impact on his students, his players and his community. >> Okay. Um it's an honor to have coach Drinks here tonight. Just you know in my time on the board I was able to see him interact with our students and really do tremendous things and the the respect that they had for him. And I and I just have to add it's so great to see your family here tonight as well. I feel like my children have been raised by your children and for their work and just really appreciate all that you've done for the community. I know I speak
025for a lot who really had a great experience with you. And I'd just like to add um briefly so that just for context, the Austining school district is fortunate to be one of the community partners of our Austining village historian Joyce Rock Cole um in which she's been able to bring enlightenment, invoke inter uh intentionality, inspire robust exploration of the intersections of our collective past, present, and future and every space she enters. Unfortunately, she could not be here this evening due to a scheduling conflict. However, I would like to share some words on her behalf for Mr. Lonnie Drinks of whom she was a former student. So, I will pull that up now. Okay. So, Joyce would like to share. It is truly an honor to share these words about Mr. Lonnie Drinks. He was
026my business teacher at Austining High School. through the school store, leadership opportunities, and business presentations. He taught us lessons that extended far beyond the classroom. He taught us integrity. He taught us how to carry ourselves with confidence and professionalism. He sharpened our interviewing skills and prepared us to walk into any room ready, not just hopeful, but prepared. Mr. Drinks made sure we left high school equipped to compete, prepared to contribute, and positioned to succeed. He understood that knowledge alone was not enough. How we presented ourselves, how we communicated, and how we conducted ourselves mattered just as much. He did not simply teach business. He cultivated character and capacity. The foundation he gave me in that classroom directly inspired me to attend Temple University's Fox School of Business. I carried his lessons with me into college,
027into my career, and into my life. His impact was lasting. His influence was transformative and I am deeply grateful to have been one of his students. Congratulations, Mr. Drinks. Your work has made a difference that continues to ripple forward. So, I'd like to ask uh Mr. Drinks to come up and accept his award. So we have several awards. Some are from the district, some are from the town. Okay. Read this whole thing. So it's from the Austining unifree school district board of education proclamation in honor of Lonnie drinks. Um Lonnie Drinks was uh hired or well we kind of read through that so I'll get to the point where now for now therefore be resolved that the board of education of the Austin and Union Free School District pauses to honor Mr. Trani drinks and
028to express its appreciation for his outstanding service to the community and contributions and dedication to the children of Aening dated February 25th, 2026. It's an honor to present you with this award. Thank you. Have a clock for you. How are you? >> Been a little while. Been a minute. Um, first of course I'd like to thank you for the leadership and that you gave my own children and stopping me from. But anyway, um, it was always inspirational to watch how you got through to the kids that people had the hardest time getting through to. You had a way of really reaching people, reaching those kids, getting them to care about theirelves, getting them to care about their futures. It was truly an honor to watch that. It's something I've never forgotten. Um and it's an
029honor for me to be able to be here to present you with way too many words to read. But um definitely I will read the last part which is El I, Elizabeth Felman, supervisor of the town of Oening with the enthusiastic support of the entire town board extend heartfelt congratulations to Lonnie Drinks on receiving the Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Award. You got some real good people there in front of that name. and extends our sincere gratitude for your exemplary service and lasting contributions to the town of Austining. You've made a real difference. Um, and we got that all applied out here. But thank you. And for fun, because the village of Austining has a meeting tonight and the state assembly woman has a conflict, I also have proclamations from the village of Austin
030>> um who recognize your exemplary commitment and dedication to the community. I wish to acknowledge your outstanding service. Um from Rick Leven and mayor of the village of village of Austining and on behalf of the board of trustees who de do hereby congratulate Lonnie drinks as he is recognized by the Austin Union Free School District with their 2026 Esther annual Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. And we urge all of our residents and merchants to join us with honoring you. We did have many. And then New York State Assembly um woman Dana Levenberg who I will read down to thinks you're an exceptional individual who is worthy of esteem both of this community and the great state of New York. And you have a whole proclamation here from the state of New York
031as well. So and and it is welld deserved heavy. >> Wow. I didn't expect all of that. >> That's awesome. you know, you you you teach, you do your job. Um, and you don't do it for rewards, you just do it. Uh, it's funny. I just saw Jocelyn here and then she brought back so many memories. She ran track with my son Jesse. Thanks for my family for coming in. But I just want to say thank you to the board for recognizing me. And uh my wife and I selected the Austin community because representation matters. The school district and the teachers that I work with were really involved with their staff and I appreciate what they've done for me as a colleague and I appreciate what they've done for my children. Three three of my
032children went through the Austin school system as was pointed out. Um it's not easy having your kids in the district, but um it was a lot of uh respect and uh and gratitude uh in in dealing with them. So again, I just want to uh thank the community uh because of its diversity and for the opportunity for me to work and raise my children in the community was uh was excellent and then to be recognized. So thanks again and continue to do great job. Appreciate you. Frank will introduce our next recipient in just a moment. All right. With no further ado, Thomas Knight, recipient of the Hester Baitman SP uh Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, February 25th, 2026. Mr. Knight served as a board trustee and president of the board of Austin Union Free
033School District Board of Education and he served for three terms from July 1st, 1996 through June 30th, 2005. Mr. Knight also served as a member of the Putnham Northern Westchester Boseis um school board since 2000 and was a member of the Bosey's wellness policy committee. Mr. Knight served on the Putnham Northern Westchester Boseies board for more than five years is and is an exeicio member. Thomas Knight also served as the area 10 director for the New York State School Boards Association for three for three two-year terms. So for those that aren't aware, the area 10 covers about four counties and that is not an easy position to get. Um Mr. Knight chaired the NISBA cultural diversity committee as an appointee of the state of the school boards association state legislative network for 5 years and
034lobbyed state legislators on behalf of the Austin Union Free School District and the school boards he represented. Mr. Knight volunteered at numerous Austin community events and provided free holiday meals to his community. He was a corrections officer for the New York State Department of Correction Services over 25 years at the Sing Singh Correctional Facility in Austin. Thomas Knight's call to service community is really remarkable and unparalleled and his contributions have had a positive impact on all those he served. At this point, Is >> so an honor to um to um honor you tonight. I'm saying honor way too many times. Uh thank you for being here with your family. Um uh you know your contributions to the school district and also to the broader Austin community um are just remarkable and it's an honor um
035to be able to have you here tonight and celebrate you um and have your family here with you as well. So, you know, I'm famili our families are familiar with each other as well. And I know um a lot of collaboration has happened in the community on behalf of youth. And so, I appreciate you being here tonight. So, I've served on the the Putnham Northern Westchester School Board. I've served on the Austin school board. I've served on as as our media broadcast specialist Chain McGaffy knows. I've served on the Westchester Putinham School Boards Association. Those levels of service, each one of them on their own is a huge undertaking. To do four levels and take it to the next level to the state is really unparalleled and remarkable. And I have to say, I came
036to the school board and back into the community when my kids were young. And at that point, Thomas was pretty much off the school board. But but we were really ramping up in a foundation a fight at that point and made several trips to Albany. And I have to tell you, as soon as I'd walk in the door and say I was from Austining, the next thing I would hear from almost every legislator I spoke to was Tom Knight. And that opened so many doors for us and really was instrumental in making progress on an issue that was so core to this community about equity and and Tom's impact wasn't just the service that he did, but it was the lasting impact thereafter. And when you think of a servant leader, you think of Thomas
037Knight. And so really at this point, we're just so honored to have you here tonight, Thomas. And if you could come up, we'd love to present you with your awards. And let's give Tom. I really wish I had lots of personal stories to say about you, but unfortunately we didn't move here until 2020. So, um, but I do want to say that I feel very grateful and lucky to be part of a district where there is so much representation on the board. It's really important. Kids need to see people like them in positions of power and have a voice. So, thank you for your service. This is your clock. And I'll read the end. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Austining Union Free School District pauses to honor Mr.
038Thomas Knight and to express its appreciation for his outstanding service to the community and contributions and dedication to the children of Austin. We'll >> ask Supervisor Liz Feldman to come. Hey, I would like to shake your hand. Um, not everybody knows what kind of a commitment it is to be on, as you saying, the school board and all of these different levels and branches of boards and really sitting there fighting and trying to make a difference for your community and for your children and for the schools. And obviously you have made an amazing difference for my children, for every child that came after my children. Um, and I know the hours that you've put in and term after term, sitting down with your family and giving up time with them and being willing to do
039it again and again. I can only say thank you for helping to make our school system as great as it is. So, I'm going to read mine first. Um, okay. I'm I'm going to go to All right. They've already said how all the wonderful things that you've done. So, um, be it resolved that I, Elizabeth Feldman, town supervisor Austining, with the enthusiastic support of the entire town board, extend heartfelt congratulations to Thomas Knight on receiving the Hester Beman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and extend our sincere gratitude for his exemplary service and lasting contributions for the town of Austin. Um, you had a lot of work in here. So, thank you from the town of Aan and on behalf of the state of the great state of our New York from our assembly member
040Dan Levenberg who unfortunately couldn't be here. Um whereas Mr. Knight's lifelong call to serve his community has had a profound and lasting impact on Austining school community and all those he serve who served. Now therefore, let it be resolved that as a duly elected member of the New York State Assembly, I recognize that Thomas Knight is an exceptional individual who is worthy of esteem of both this community and the great state of New York. So, thank and from our fine village board members who are currently in the meeting trying to figure out what to do with all of this snow. um you know they they say that they like to recognize individuals who have shown exemplary commitment and dedication to the community. I wish to acknowledge your outstanding service that contributes to the quality of
041life in Austining um and your tireous efforts on behalf of our community. So now therefore, I Rick 11, mayor of the village of Austining, on behalf of the board of trustees, do hereby congratulate Thomas Knight as he is recognized by the Austining Union Free School District with their 2026 annual Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Award. You knew all of them, right? Okay. And we urge all of our residents and merchants to join us with us in honoring him. Thank you. >> I knew that. Yes. >> All right. Good evening everyone. I just like to say this. It gives me great pleasure to be a recipient of this award. Francine Vernon. She did receive this award, but she was also um the one that inspired me to run for the school board. And I'm happy
042that I did and I'm part of that. and I I did what I had to do when I got on the school board. But most importantly, I want to thank the people in the community because they're the ones that believed in me and voted me in. And I stayed as long as I did. And as I mentioned before, I was area director on the New York State School Board Association that comprised of 65 school boards that I had to uh deal with. They believed in me because you had to be elected. I served three two-year terms. I'm happy. I have no regrets. I enjoyed every bit of everything I did for this for Austin and for the state of uh New York. And again, I thank you for the award. Okay. So, proceeding on with
043our honores for tonight. Last but certainly not least, we are going to uh uh award Dr. Angela White tonight as as well. So, Dr. White earned her undergraduate degree from Long Island University and received a master's degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. Uh, she took special education courses and participated in internships focused on education. She earned her doctor of education degree from Foron University Graduate School of Education, worked for the New York City Board of Education for over 15 years as an elementary and middle school reading specialist and advanced to hold key leadership positions in the field of special education. Dr. White joined the Austin Union Free School District on August 5th, 1996 as the principal at Brookside School. Dr. White also served as principal of Roosevelt School. She was a recipient of the
044New York State Council of School Superintendent with the Pathways to Leadership Scholarship and recognition of her professional and academic credentials. On July 1st, 2007, Dr. White was appointed to assistant superintendent for elementary education and administrative services until her retirement on June 30th, 2015. And I know retirement is in quotation marks, right? Because the work is never done. and I I see you all around all the time. Um, in her position as assistant superintendent, she was responsible for curriculum instruction and assessment for general and special education programs. Dr. Dr. White joined the Beyond Center, a fully accredited nonp public school that provides year-round specialized education services and therapeutic support to students, a national association of special education teacher school of excellence to further advance the mission to help students to thrive while in school and beyond.
045Fully engaged in their community and successfully pursue economic and educational opportunities. She served as a director of the teachers of color program. Also serving as an adject professor of special education at Pace University, Dr. White has dedicated her life to service as an educational leader, strong advocate for children, and a supporter of staff and teachers. Throughout her career in education, Dr. White has remained deeply committed to ensuring equitable access to highquality education for all students. It is an honor to be able to have you with us tonight. Um, like I said, we it says retirement in here, but you you keep on going and you it's a pleasure to always run into you at all these educational events. I think last we saw each other at the NISSBA conference. Um, it's always great to see
046you um in action and it's a pleasure to know that you're still out there dedicating yourself to education, public education, and education in general. So, thank you so much for all you've done, not just foring school district, but the community. Please come up and get your award. >> Frank's gonna add something. >> I just have to add it's so great to have your family here tonight, Angela. And you know, Angela, Angela and Coach Drinks are runners. Their children are runners and these track stars that were down at the armory. And I'll say this, I know now in retirement, as you said, Miss Bant, Dr. White is the president of the school board for the Greenberg Northcastle school district which is I believe the largest special act school district in the state and it has a
047really population that needs our best and our brightest and they have that with their board president. So thank you so much and just really grateful for all that you've done here in Austining to ra rise the tide for all ships. You've been an advocate for every child and it's just shown through everything you've done. So, thank you so much. >> All right. So, now therefore, it be resolved that the board of education of the Austin Union Free School District pauses to honor Dr. Angela White and to express its appreciation for it uh outstanding service to community and and contributions and dedication to the children of Austining. Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do. representing you with the subscribed clock as well. >> Hi again. >> Um once again my
048children were fortunate to be in school with you there. um cheering them on, help just shining bright and and being the wonderful person you are. Um and it's been amazing to watch you continue your career and inspire more and more children. Um from the town's proclamation in honor and recognition of Dr. Angela White, whereas Dr. Angela White has dedicated her life to educational leadership, equity, and the advancement of children and families. And I'm skipping all the way down through all this stuff we already read. And whereas throughout her distinguished career, Dr. White has remained deeply committed to ensuring equitable access to highquality education for all students and has been a tireless advocate for children, families, teacher, and staff. Witness here. Um, now therefore, be it resolved that I, Elizabeth Feldman, supervisor of the town of
049Austining, with the enthusiastic support of the entire school board down board, um, extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Dr. Angela White on receiving the Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and extend our sincere gratitude for her exemplary service and lasting contributions to our town of Austin. Thank you. >> Hang on. on behalf of our New York State Assembly woman. Um, it it basically says you're awesome and thanks you for all your commitment. Um, and I know Dana is on the school board so she really had a lot of interaction with you. You're going to enjoy reading that one. and from the village of Austining um that would like to thank you for your commitment to diversity and the future of the profession and that exemplified your roles through directive teachers of color program
050and an adjunct professor at Pace College and throughout your story career you have remained a fierce advocate for equitable access to highquality education for every student. Therefore, Rick Leven and the rest of the village board congratulate you on have your as you are recognized by Aene Uni Free School District with the 2026 annual Hester Bait and Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award and urge all the residents and merchants to join with us in honoring you. Of course, I would like to say something and in fact I had to write it down because um you know being here in Austining as principal Roosevelt, principal of Brookside School, uh assistant superintendent, um just brought up so much emotions when I got the the call from Illy and so I just had to write down. So just bear
051with me. Uh I am truly humbled and and honored to receive the Ha Baitman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. To be acknowledged by the community that has played such a meaningful role in my journey is a privilege and a blessing. The Austin and Union Free School District helped shape not only my professional path but also my commitment to service, leadership and the belief that education is a powerful instrument for transformation. As a young administrator, I was very green. Uh when I came to Austin um under the leadership of the late superintendent Dr. Robert J. Raleigh, I learned how to be a courageous leader and the importance of servant leadership. The lessons learned were also from inside the classrooms in meetings with teachers and administrators and colleagues and through relationships. And these lessons have stayed
052with me and continue to guide the work that I do today. I share this recognition with my many mentors here in Austining, my colleagues, the leaders who poured into me. Your investment, encouragement, and example of excellence challenged me to grow and to lead with integrity, compassion, and purpose. And I would not be here, I see Ann there, without you. I'm also grateful to my family who had to share me. I was a resident um in Austinine during my entire almost 20 years working in Austinine and so they had to share me with the Austinine school district. But they have supported me. They prayed for me. They rema reminded me to stay grounded in faith and in service. and you are the foundation that sustains me as president of Greenberg um North Castle Union Free School
053District. I want to thank my superintendent who's here tonight, Superintendent John Marino and Assistant Superintendent um Daniel Brink for just being here and supporting me. And now after my many years of retirement, here I am back collaborating with the Austin School District. First under the leadership of Dr. Ray Sanchez and now under the leadership of my friend Dr. Mary Fauller and this is through the work that I'm doing with the PACE talk program and the Austining NPK program. And so I'm still getting to work with Ann uh and with Mary and I'm loving it. My hope is that the work that we do will continue to open doors for the next generation, especially for those who need encouragement, opportunity, and someone to believe in them. And so, as I reflect on this honor, I'm reminded
054that recognition is simply not about past accomplishments. It's a call to continued responsibility. It's a reminder to keep showing up, to keep serving, to keep creating pathways for others to learn, others to lead, and others to thrive. Thank you again for this incredible honor. I am deeply humbled by it, especially knowing the ones who are the trailblazers for this award. And so that is so humbling. And so I receive it with gratitude, humility, and renewed commitment to serve the children here in Alen. Thank you. >> I just want to add as well, um, Dr. White was very um influential as far as just watching her work as a member of this community as a parent advocate who um especially under OPAC. She would always show up. She would always be there. She'd always want to
055be a collaborative partner. She she was very inspiring as a leader um an example of leadership within the uh community. So, I was always very impressed by her and um always very motivated by her as well. So, it's an honor to be able to um present her with that award tonight. As we wrap up here, I just want to give some formal thank yous um not only to the honores who came out, right? Words, it's hard to put into words what you've meant to this district, but I hope we've at least touched the surface. Um, I hope you um you feel as honored as we are to have had you um here with us tonight. Um, I really like the fact that we give out a clock because it shows that your contributions, your impact
056on this district are timeless and hopefully that is your takeaway as well when you um decide where you want to hang that. Um, I want to also thank uh the village, the town, and Assemblywoman Levvenberg, who's a past board member for um also contributing their awards to this ceremony. Thank you for Liz Felman, always making sure to show up and be representation to present those awards on behalf of the municipalities. Um, but I'd be remiss if I didn't especially thank our district clerk, Ilia Ortiz, who uh puts great work into making sure this all comes together seemingly seamlessly and we get to stand here um and present these honories. Um, and she just makes it makes it look effortless and makes us look good. So, thank you so much, Illy. Um, so in closing, thank
057you. So, in closing, um, and hopefully I don't know if the two of you want to also, um, say some closing words, but just I want to thank you all, um, for for coming out tonight, and I want to thank you for joining, um, the alumni of the Hester Baitman Spencer um, Hester Baitman Spencer Hines Award. Um, I'm really glad that, um, this will continue on her legacy and that it will also now continue on your legacy as well. uh as it was stated, you don't do the work for the reward, but it's always great to be able to reward um people, especially one thing that inspired the award is to make sure that we had to honor her postumously, right? And I wanted uh my hope was that we get to the point where
058we don't have to honor people postumously and we can give them their flowers while they're still here as the saying goes. So, thank you very much. Um and um I'll let my colleagues want >> Oh yes, please we you and your families please come up take some pictures um mark this occasion and the board as well if you want to join us please. Um and then we'll close out. Thank you. >> So we're going to be continuing our meeting now. Um it looks like we don't have to be told that we're welcome to stay or welcome to go. It looks like we're off ready to go off and uh >> celebrate >> continue celebrating. So that's lovely. Um and before I move on, I just you know um Melissa did a great job at the
059end of that presentation um thanking everybody who contributed to the evening, but I I just also want to recognize as a board member this committee who did the leg work for this evening and facilitated it. So thank you so much to Melissa and great All right. On now to more business. Uh we are on right now 3.1 our our first audience recognition uh for agenda items only. Not intended to exceed more than I believe 10 minutes. Um there's nobody here. I can see who wishes to speak. Uh is there I don't see any hands raised online. All right. My vision is still good enough to be able to see across the room. See that there's no hands raised. All right, we'll move on. Uh, next is our consent agenda. Uh, business of the board. Does
060anyone have anything between 4.1 and 4.2 that they wish to break out? >> No. >> Okay. >> All right. Seeing none, I'll take a motion for 4.1 and 4.2. >> So moved. >> Second. >> 4.1. Resolution to appoint additional consultants for the 2025 2026 school year. 4.2 Two, resolution regarding a 913 medical examination for an employee. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Opposed? Abstensions? All right. Now, we're on item five, consent agenda, business office matters. Does anybody have anything from 5.1 or 5.2 that they wish to break out? All right. Seeing none, I'll take a motion for 5.1 and 5.2. >> Second. >> 5.1. Resolution regarding certiary refund payment north state development group 5.2 resolution regarding interfund transfers. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed abstensions. Uh the next item on
061our agenda uh is six consent agenda curriculum and instruction. We have one motion. So um I'll or we have one item rather. I'll take a motion for 6.1. So move >> second. 6.1 resolution to accept recommended placements for special education students. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Abstensions. Agenda item seven, consent agenda, personnel matters. Uh, I'll take I'll take Does anybody have anything they wish to break out from 7.2 through 7.13? All right. I'll take a motion for 7.2 through 7.13. So moved. Second. >> 7.2 Resolution regarding professional staff resignations. >> 7.3 Resolution regarding civil service staff resignations. 7.4 Resolution regarding bus attendant resignations. 7.5 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments. 7.6 Resolution regarding civil service staff appointments. 7.7 Resolution regarding bus attendant appointments. 7.8 8 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments before after
062school programs. 7.9 Resolution regarding support staff appointments before after school programs. 7.10 Resolution regarding APR annual professional performance review accountability. Uh 7.11 resolution regarding PDM substitute appointments. 7.12 Resolution regarding approval of school volunteers and 7.13 resolution regarding support staff request for a leave of absence. Any discussion? >> All in favor? I >> I >> opposed abstensions. All right. Next, we have our board policies. Now, um I'm looking here. These are all second reads. Um so, I'd like to ask the board if anybody has any obje objection to me taking these as a batch. >> You're not. >> Okay. Um I'll take a motion then for 8.1 through 8.7. >> So, move. >> Second. 8.1 Resolution to adopt policy number 1120 school district records as a second reading. 8.2 Resolution to adopt policy regulation number 1120-R
063school district records regulation as a second reading. 8.3 Resolution to adopt policy number 2210 board reorganizational meeting as a second reading. 8.4 Resolution to adopt policy 2120.2 voting procedures as a second reading. 8.5 Resolution to adopt policy information and data privacy as a second reading. 8.6 Resolution to adopt policy regulation number 8635-R Information and data privacy regulation as a second reading. 8.7 Resolution to adopt policy number 9550 confidential central office salary and fringe benefit plan as a second reading. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I opposed. abstension. All right, we're at our next public comment. Um, is there anybody with us who wishes to speak? Um, if you're online now and you wish to speak, you need to raise your hand. All right. And we're off to board reports and dialogue. Is any Well,
064we've only had like three days of school because we've had winter break. We had Wednesday, we had Friday, Thursday, and Friday school. Then we had winter break. And then we've had snow day. snow day delay. So, I don't know how much um has happened, but if anybody has anything they'd like >> Did we have any update from the communication committee the last time? I don't think we did. >> The communications committee. >> Yeah, I think there was some activity that happened last time that I don't think we had an update on. >> I wasn't able to make the meeting, so that was a last minute thing for me, but I don't know. >> Yeah, I think we said we were going to talk about something. >> I don't think we said communications committee. That was
065the one we didn't talk about last time. >> Okay. No, I was just agreeing. I think we said we something about communication. I'm sorry. We were going to mention talk about something about communication tonight, right? >> Yes, that's correct. >> Yes. Anybody have any update on it? >> We can get one from Nicole Ree if I mean Yeah. >> I don't think it seems like the board can give an update on that, but we can get it from Nicole. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Are there any other committee updates first? I don't think we met but Frank looks like you might have some other >> I just you know I was in the snow day I got the NISBA newsletter that came in the mail and I just say it's appropriate on a night
066that we had Thomas Knight here that we had two board trustees on the back of the inside in a full frame picture of a trip to Washington. So, I just want to give Roger and Ann Andy credit for the trips, but just really it was great to see you both featured so prominently and on watch. >> Great. >> I would do it again and again just because the fact is it it's it's so this district is so important. You don't realize just how much um how much it actually it you feel the gravity of it when you're down there. And and I think the thing is really forgetting about about whose party is who and you're there really to to advocate for the 5,000 kids and all of the stakeholders and constituents. So Annie, thanks
067for being a great partner down there. Appreciate you. >> It was fun and also stressful, but fun, >> I'm sure. Well, thank you. >> Thank you. Any other um updates from the board? I don't have anything >> um as for the email I sent and I don't know if we want to talk about it now, but um the Paul Prince the sub I'll call it the sub logo maybe for each school. Is this time to because I don't know if the board got sort of a readout on it. I missed a couple of meetings, but I don't know if that was discuss I didn't see it as a say discussed then or how did that >> So, thank you for bringing that up. I got your email and obviously I responded to it. Um, but
068I was remembering like I feel like we did discuss this at the board table. >> We did discuss it at the board table in a at a meeting in July. It was like during board dialogue like this where we gave kind of like a green light. Go ahead, pops are okay. Um, I if if part if that was I don't know if that was your concern there or if it was like specifically approving what the paw prints looked like was something you wanted more board input on. >> Well, I think traditionally what we done when we did with the whole mascot, right, there was a committee that worked on it. We brought it to the board. There was a discussion around it. There was feedback. It went back back and forth with this. I can't
069I might have to go to the notes whether this was sort of the same thing. Hey, we believe there should be does the board believe green light to do logos for each school. I personally wasn't necessarily in favor of that and I think I made that known but I said okay come back and see what you got and then we saw what you got and it doesn't like for example you know it seems if the context is going to be connected to the lion logo great if it's disconnected I thought we should have some discussion around that but I guess it's more around the process right mascot came back we discussed it we signed off on the paw print that was in the update. We didn't bring I don't think that formally back to the
070board before there's a decision to move forward with that similar. So that's that's really more my my point on that whether or not others feel that they like it don't like it but more that it had I don't think it was brought back to the board to to sign off on. >> Right. So I think the kind of like larger question there is to what level where does that fall as far as um the role of the board? um is that balcony level and you know how far do you drill down from the main mascot or instituting a mascot in the first place to you know more and more as the how do I say this as the decisions become more and more granular at what point does that become less balcony and more on
071the ground so I guess that's a discussion for the board if we would like to entertain that Mary. >> Yeah. I just um at that meeting, I forget what date it was because we did look into it. Was it early? What date was that? >> July 30th meeting, there was a a a lengthy conversation at the board table and we were given the green light to go ahead and develop a paw print. So that's where we took the um and it was incorporated of in the minutes of that meeting. So that's where that came from. >> Yeah. It was the end of July for sure. That was >> Yeah. And Nicole has been reaching out to communications committee and I think Mary as well to share the designs and asked our feedback on it and
072we gave our feedback and then um she came back and said we're moving forward with this design. So it's not like we specifically picked the design, we just gave our feedback and then she picked it from there. >> Right. And there was u conversations as to why because if we didn't give some level of guidance, same uh person who did the um the lion um we would see four digits, three digits, whether or not the outline was too too wide, not too wide, the different colorations, making sure we use the right colors on that. So that was why and we had our PTA groups already incorporating uh paw prints in different things. So, we wanted to and our elementary school were looking for more of a kid-friendly paw print. So, um that was my recall.
073I did watch the meeting again after the question and that was the conversation at the table. So, that's why we move forward with it. >> Yeah. And I I would say this >> and it's not a hill I'm going to die on, but if we're following process and procedure, I would absolutely say this does come back to the board because it is it is something you're going to need to spend we're going to need to spend money on, right? Printing and other things. So, it just I'm going to register a little bit of disappointment that it was not brought back because we did do the mascot. We were very intentionally brought it back, brought it back, brought it back. this is a secondary logo tied to that. We didn't bring it back to the the
074board to say, "Hey, are we all good with this? How are we going to use it otherwise?" So, I do feel falls in the purview. I won't lose sleep over it, but I do think it's a discussion. Maybe it's back in the retreat like it's a seems to be a very parallel process and we didn't bring that back to us and I would say a little bit disappointed that we didn't we didn't bring that back to the board to see the final, right? is the note the not the um the update from I don't know if it was your update Mary the superintendent's up said here it is we're using it versus like hey here it is let's say let's all sort of say hey it looks good and or frankly the context of it
075with the mascot logo because right we haven't even had the mascot logo out a year and now we're all introducing the sub logo. So again that's it's less the creative more than just following the process that we've established. That's my recollection too. I know we we kind of extensively had a discussion and we landed on okay green light for the paw print but I think the overall conversation was not do we get granular for every iteration built off of the mascot but are we setting standards so that we don't have to keep having a conversation now they're going to do a cub and now they're going to do like so I think what we were talking about or where we landed as far as I can remember was are we going to establish a standard
076as far is the the the the mask the I I don't even know what you call these like um progenies of the mascot, right? Like you know what when does it where's the cap on that? What is it? When does it what's the process, right? Or do people just cuz the possibilities are endless when you want to do that. So I don't think it was so much of us let's get down to the design and details. So, I think because we spent so much time on the actual mascot and it was still so fresh and there were already so many different versions um or you know things being birthed out of that that we were kind of just wondering like what is our standard as a district for what the progynies I guess I'm going
077to call it look like when or if if that's going to happen and in this case it was the print and we said okay and I agree it would have been nice to just at least see it you know But that's just that's what I recall is that that's where we kind of landed >> and and Nicole brought it to the communications committee multiple time. I think that's where it went in terms of the process with other PTA feedback, feedback from different staff members. So that's where it >> ended up and we did just say no little cubs, no other it's it's just a print for the elementary schools. I guess to that point is like do we have further conversations about I don't know what that looks like resolution policy I don't know what
078that looks like of what our standard would be when you're representing at least the Oscar school district um based off of that mascot um or any other versions of that mascot. We kind of had those conversations too. where's the line you draw between you know um trademark or whatever that's a whole different process but just in that vein of we put so much effort into it now how do we make sure that the integrity of it is maintained >> right so you put that in your branding guidelines you make sure that people are using the right color they're using the right fonts all of that and um there was a little bit of a concern that a paw print could be different and they wanted something more kid-friendly, more elementary friendly, and um a lot
079of school districts use just a paw print. So, no no little cubs, no little just just a paw print. So, >> has everybody seen the final? >> It was in Mary's most recent update if you haven't. >> Yeah. >> And so, is to Melissa building off that like is so is there a brand guideline on this? And I do think again it is sort of does fall to board. it falls within scope of the board because again there's approval for funds on how to use it etc etc but so will this how I mean is there a brand guideline and say okay here's when you use the lion and here's when you use the ballprint and here's how you use the words awesome like will that be put into a brand guidelines document shared out
080>> it's it feels a little more prescriptive you know in terms of just my experience like in the past like the elementary schools a lot of times would just create their own logos and their themes and like over the years I'm not right or wrong. I'm just saying like the the the kind of the history of it. But I don't know that the board in talking about with others and other boards, I don't know that you want to get down to that level of the buildings like you want to have ultimate authority. I guess at the end of the day if something is an absolute no because it's a no like you know then that's it. But I don't know that as a board I want to be in that role. But you know that's
081I don't know what the consensus is around it. But I think the buildings need some autonomy to a sense within region >> and they had I think of our discussion talked about parky fig themont al the Brookside be none of those were but they're well established and we didn't also say to them you don't stop using them although we've seen a natural switch over if you've been in the schools you'll see you know and how the paw print can be something that they can they're roaring into reading with a paw print on And so that's what they wanted. They wanted to start campaigns around and that the the logo of the district the the lion itself is very corporate in one word. I don't know like very formal. So we put it on our business
082cards. You put it on your stationary. It's on your board agendas. And they wanted something a little bit more kidfriendly at the elementary school. So >> when I was on the PTA, we did have branding guidelines. So, you had to use this very specific color with all the letters and the numbers. >> Yeah, Nicole has a brand guideline handbook, which I think I don't know, I'm not on the communications committee this year, but in the past, I feel like she's distributed it at the beginning of the year um so that the people on the committee at least can um see it. That's kind of how she disseminates it. I'm sure she gives it to the PTA when they're looking to >> I mean one one thing we could do is just have Nicole disseminate the
083minutes of the communications committee to everybody right I mean in terms of that at the end >> I think we should >> they're not getting the minutes should go to everybody that's needed >> do they not I feel like >> I'm not sure they could be like you know because when I see them like there's times I was on the committee there times I'm on >> actually you do you do you do in every one of your Friday updates you So I think on that >> Yeah. So I think on the July 30th that one that or the week after that should be >> that link. >> So just to bring clarify if I'm not saying the board should be prescriptive on the brand guidelines. My comment building off Melissa was there should be brand
084guidelines and these paw prints like everything else should say we recommend using this and that which I think Mary saying also. I'm not saying the board should prescribe on when to use things, lock up not, but yeah, we I strongly believe we need brand guidelines for the district because that's when you don't that's when things sort of start to go and that's where we went with the whole mascot thing, right? People were doing Indians and they were doing other things and Riverhawks and whatever. You you absolutely need that. I'm not saying the board should dictate that, but I do think this new sub logo, subbrand should be codified so everyone knows about and uses it. Yeah, I'm I'm pretty certain that falls under the Nicole Reese's purview, right? >> And we make sure it's updated
085and you have to stay on top of that. I can remember clearly, you know, pieces that conversation. You have to be vigilant. You have to be aware. You have to remind people, particularly your our booster clubs that are independent agencies, but getting the PTAs involved is really a key step. And and meeting with them on a regular basis, making sure they follow, that's really helpful, too. And that's all personally that's all I was coming from. I don't want to be prescriptive or granular. I'm going to stay in the balcony, but I having a pro knowing there's a process in place is reassuring. And I think that's really what the um the whole element of the conversation was. Is there structure around it basically >> and it by way of the communications committee there is input
086from the board and process? >> Yes. Yeah. And your other stakeholders. Yeah. So Ellie, we'll include a link to the branding guidelines in my next update. Okay. Right. >> Any other board reports or dialogue? >> Let's go. Oh, I did um attend the um West Putt had a uh community conversations virtual thingy that we had an invite to that Ellie sent us. It was virtual. Um it, you know, nothing out of you, nothing, I guess, um profound. It was good to hear other districts share how they handle uh community communications and just um feedback and things that come in and you know as I don't want to toot our own horn but usually you know a lot of things we've kind of already addressed in our own way and what what works for our district.
087Um but it's nice to hear people working through that process to see how that goes for them and how they've landed where they got or where they're going to. So um you know it's some of the same topics that we kind of make sure that we're ready to have dialogue with the community with you know they are also um you know managing that as well. So just you know reassuring to hear your colleagues speak about things that you're also doing and kind of have some reassurance that you're on the right path as a board. So, I >> always feel that way when I go. We're already whenever I feel like, oh, we're already doing that. It feels so good. >> Um, >> can I just say for Mary, I I I hope the snow melts
088and we we've got a nice spring break to be able to do the next step. >> Yes. I'd like to hold on to spring break. >> No, I wasn't even talking about that. I was talking about facilities. >> Oh, yes. >> I spring break. That's like that wasn't even my realm of conscious. I was actually was looking forward to like the a spring break with that break into >> so we can take care of the um um former rectory and that um educational annex. >> Yeah. So all this snow has kind of been been holding us back a little bit. >> Yes. Yes. For sure. For a lot of things, Roger. >> Yeah. >> A lot of reasons. >> Uh anything else? Right. We do have to have executive sessions even. Yes. >> Yes. Yes,
089>> I'll be fast. >> Okay. Um All right. So, I'll take a motion to enter an executive session to discuss the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular person or corporation or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person or corporation. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? All in favor? I I >> I >> opposed.