001Thanks. All right. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 board of education regular meeting. Uh I will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Please stand 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. Good evening and welcome. Um, next on our agenda are comments from our student representative, but I see that she is not here right now. So, we will move along and I will turn things over to Miss Mary Fox Alder for her update. Great. Um, I am um excited to be back after school. I hope everyone had a terrific um spring vacation and uh it's interesting that we got the spring weather this week, not last week.
002But um uh we wish everyone um a restful time and here's hoping that everyone's excited to be back in schools. I know I am. I love this time of year. It's filled with capstone activities, all kinds of concerts, plays, and celebrations. I'm excited to share my um superintendent's update this evening with two organizations. uh the Austining public library and to our early elementary PTA. So um before I invite our guests up to the podium, let me just give a couple of shoutouts here. Um I'm proud to announce that this year's validictorian is Sophia Males and our saludiatorum is Gabriela Hennessy. These outstanding students have shown exceptional academic dedication, leadership, and commitment throughout their high school journey. I want to thank the board of education for approving a policy and change of date because these two
003individuals now can apply for certain scholarship opportunities that they couldn't have before uh without the date change. Uh congrats to Austining alumni. I know I saw this all over Channel 12 News. Aubrey Griffin on her WNBA draft to the Minnesota links. That is so so very exciting. Um, alumni day at Austining High School brought together alumni from a range of graduating classes and career paths to share their post-graduation journeys with current students, offering realworld insight and powerful inspiration. I think this is a wonderful idea, a great tradition here at Austining High School and there were an awful lot of alumni who came back to help with that. Congrats to our Claremont fourth graders who are regional contest winners in the 2025 New York State Education Department statewide mathematics tournament. Isn't that phenomenal? That is phenomenal.
004Congratulations to our young scholars. We had a podcasting camp held last week for Roosevelt and AMD students. Students worked on developing episode ideas, right, Angela? Um, referring to storytelling skills, which aligns perfectly with our ELA curriculum and learn the ins and outs of audio broadcasting. So, thank you, Angela, and thank you to our kids and families who participated in that. Let's give a big shout out by the way to Austining High School junior quarterback Charlotte Sodto for making the low HUD list for flag football. A huge sport if you've been catching it this on low HUD. I watch it. I I get the paper version because I like the journal news so I pay for that and we get the electronic version and um I'm just was so excited to see that basketball, football and
005lacrosse sports camps were held at Austining High School last week. I want to thank you to our coaches, to Corsera for helping out with um the building this program and for helping our kids set strong foundations one player at a time. Claremont students, staff, and families came together for a special connection, conversation, and storytelling during the community read of the Wild Robot by Peter Brown. I heard this was a great event. I heard it from three or four different people over the past 24 hours. Um, Brookside held their Earth Day celebration today that will continue throughout this week. And at Austining High School, the junior book awards ceremony was held today. So, those are just a couple of my shoutouts and proud and prouds. So, as a perfect segue about these great scholastic achievements, I
006want to ask our aening early childhood PTA and have um we have our our board here if they would come up to the podium and speak a little bit about this absolutely amazing readathon. I think he might have made a state record. No, I if you anyone was counting or checking Hey. Hi. Well, thank you so much for having us. We're so happy to to share about this event. Um, so you might remember that last year we also had a readathon and this year we really surpassed in terms of engagement and amount raised. We uh raised $46,000 this year. Uh, which is really exciting. $46,000. Yeah. And um this year we did a couple things a little bit differently. We really wanted to put a focus on inclusivity. One of the ways that we did
007that was by creating accounts in advance for every single student across both schools and teaching teachers how to log minutes so that all the students could participate even if their parents weren't logging minutes for them. And because of that we were able to get the kids to read 310,000 minutes in two weeks. That is phenomenal. Yeah. Um, and also in the spirit of inclusivity, we um were able to visit every single self-contained class and we did theatrical book readings for all of the students in those classes as well. Um, which was great. Um, yeah. Karen, do you want to pop in and Sure. Yeah. Um, first of all, by we let let me just be clear that it was Jessica that uploaded all of those things and all of the accounts ahead of time. She
008was the one that went into every single special ed class and visited them and did like a beautiful read aloud. And so I just need to make that clear. Team effort. Yes. But um the other big thank you we want to give to Joe, our president. He reached out to Toys for Tots. Yeah, you can clap for Daddy. Um we we were able to gift over a hundred toys because we got a lot donated from Joe. So thank you Joe so much. That was incredible. Um, and then of course because of that it was a lot of work too to get all of those prizes figured out. Where do they go? And so we had a a much bigger team to support this year which was so wonderful. We had teachers, parents, board members, we
009did flyers, sorting toys, sorting. Yeah. Well, yes. And then yeah, what we did this year differently was in collaboration fabulous segue with the library. Uh we did an event on the weekend um where we just it was open to the community but also just in celebration of reading and we had lots of literacy games that the they could make and take home. We had books to give away um raffles and just story time. Story time. It was cute. Um yeah. And then we also wanted to get people out into the community a little more. So we invited them to go visit Hudson Valley Books for Humanity. And we had little punch cards that if you visited either the library or Hudson Valley Books, you could get a whole punch to be entered in for a
010prize, another prize because we had all these prizes. So, um, yeah, and then of course at the end we did the same sort of thing we did last year with parties for all the grades that or the winners of each grade in terms of how many minutes the classes read, the highest minutes we gave to the top two classes for each grade and um, the most amount of money raised by class we gave to each grade as well. And rewarded the top eight top 10 top 10 then we rewarded the top 10 students which last year we only did the top four but because we had So many things to give away. Yes. Yeah. And it just Yeah. And thank you, Lauren, for being our model of our awesome t-shirts this year. Yeah. And and
011I also want to add that we this year we also had a really wonderful uh committee that encompassed board members, uh teachers and parents in the community. And we really couldn't have done it without their help and support. Everything from setting up these parties uh to doing a lot of flyer edits. Yeah. A lot of behind the scenes. And also a shout out to our principles who were willing to climb on the top of the buildings of their schools to dance. Um we had Joe was able to secure a really great DJ who volunteered his time and the kids were all on the black top at both schools having a blast. I think it's one of those special memories that everyone's going to remember. So yeah, thank you. You want to add anything? I think
012one thing I I wanted to add anecdotally is the amount of time that they put in in what it actually gave our our students. So they, you know, they went above and beyond creating the bingo cards. The first night that bingo card came home, my daughter was like, I'm going to start reading. You know, reading can sometimes be a chore. They do the 20 minutes. Uh and it's like, okay, sit up at the counter. Let's read. Um she was excited to get that bingo card and start filling it out. The first night she filled out the one whole row and she was determined for those two weeks to fill out everything. And one of the things that she did the next morning when she came down, she said, "Can I wake my brother up?" I
013said, "Absolutely. When it's time, we can wake him up." We get up early and uh I go up there 10 minutes later, I'm like, "Where where is she?" And there it's quiet and that's that's terrifying. And uh but I go up and she's she's sitting there reading her brother a book. And for the next week, you know, I I watched her go and cross out read a book before breakfast, which you guys came up with all of those ideas. Uh I saw like 30 drafts of that. So, it was so much thought went into that. And now she comes down with a book every morning and it's not a chore anymore. And that's the little thing that I think you guys get need the credit for is you guys did that to my family and
014that's wonderful. So, thank you. We did hear also from a couple teachers that they saw that their kids had moved up in reading level. So I'm curious in the future on you know admin side like what is the effect that is has had because it's really just practicing more reading. It's not we're not telling them they have to read anything specific. What is the gains that they're making and it does how does it support? So that's that's our challenge next year. Thank you. I have to say just just for a moment. First of all, can we get a better look at that t-shirt for the camera only because it's absolutely the camera's right there in the middle, right, Angela? So everyone can see readathon. It's absolutely great. And I I will say one of the
015highlights of my day is um on a regular basis I get to meet with this dynamic team and I'm just so impressed with your outside of your organizational skills, your planning, your project management, but this commitment to curiosity, to children, to creativity, it's just phenomenal. It's just phenomenal. So um you know it takes a village to raise a child and um clearly the level of dedication you have towards helping kids to become better readers is outstanding. So just thank you for everything that you do. You're right. It it's like hours hours that you put into this. So it's absolutely and to your families who are here thank you for sharing them with us and to all the other kids here in the awesomeing school. So thank you. Like to say sure we can. Um is
016anyone from the board like to speak? Frank. No, I just the joy of reading is such a gift to give children. So just really grateful for all these efforts and grateful for the families for all the time they sacrificed. So thank you so much. I did get to see some of the behind the scenes of what they have to do and they spent an entire day off with their children at computers doing spreadsheet after spreadsheet. There's so much thought that we don't see that goes into this. It looks like you just enter something in online, they give out toys. It is so much work and I'm just really impressed that you guys have been able to pull it off two years in a row and this year was even better and congratulations. Phenomenal. So just
017thank you for all the work that you've done and the enthusiasm you are showing. It's clearly a labor of love which makes um such a heavy lift just so rewarding. Um so just thank you for all that work you did and I'm admiring that shirt and earrings camel. The nursing is everywhere. That's right. Anybody from this side just want to say thank you. I know you guys put in so much work and so much effort. It shows you're a gift to us. We really appreciate you. I'll echo that. I think you guys have really put a lot of commitment into making sure our kids are doing what they can in terms of reading and you guys are playing a really pivotal role in that. I think reading is such a critical uh thing for our
018kids at, you know, such early years and, you know, keep up the great work. Honestly, um it's it's hard to find folks like yourselves to be able to be this committed. So, great job. What they all said. Thank you so much. This was clearly extremely labor intensive, but what you're doing, I think, has impacts. First of all, last year I was amazed, but I thought, can we can they do it again? And um because you know, sometimes it feels like fundraising can feel like getting blood out of a stone. And um I'm so I'm even more impressed. And it's not just because there's even more money than there was last year, which is in and of itself impressive, but that it feels like a title shift, like a you you work that hard. You begin
019to impact the culture. And so hopefully this reinforces what we're already trying to do at school, right? And and creating kids who enjoy reading. And um you know, prizes and parties are the most direct way for those little ones to get really engaged. And I think I see that you've really tapped into that. and I can tell it was clearly a very heavy lift. So, um I appreciate your efforts and please pass it along because I I know it couldn't have possibly just been the four of you. I hear you acknowledging that there were a team of others. Please pass along our thanks to them as well. So, uh deeply appreciated. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Um so um that brief overview and report is a perfect segue into um a
020um next part of my superintendence update to be shared with the Austining public library. Austining is unique in New York State. The fact that the school district um has the care of the public library which is wonderful. So, there are a couple of agenda items on the board's agenda tonight about an important project. So, we're excited to have Karen here to join me. Um, and she's here to talk about um the upcoming project that's planned. Karen Laroka Fels is the Austining Public Library director. So, welcome Karen. And as the Austining Public Library director, I do feel I need to congratulate the PTA on an excellent readathon. Thank you so much. Um, we are happy to be a part of that. Um, so yes, on your agenda tonight, you will see a resolution having to do
021with a project that the library is undertaking. Uh, the school district owns the library building and bonded for the building of the library building and we are finding ourselves in um a place where we need to do some critical work on our building. We have a number of pretty big projects. Uh, if you've visited the library, you might know about some of them. We have a retaining wall in the back that is uh significantly um in distress that needs attention. We have an HVAC system that needs some help. Some roof issues, fire safety issues that we need to deal with. And also um as the building is now about 20 years old, libraries have changed and we are looking to um improve our service by doing some interior renovations. So we're looking towards a project
022that is is pretty significant. Um and one of the first steps of that project is the passage of a seeker or or the school district giving the library permission to act as lead agency for the seeker review which is the environmental review for the project. Um we are looking to potentially have a bond for this project and do a bond vote. We're aiming for September and we we are have been working with uh Mary and Alita closely on those plans. Um, but I also want to acknowledge that um, this is, you know, it's a big project. We are putting together lots of public information. I've provided the school board members tonight with some information. Uh, you'll find additional information on our website as we go along. And then I would like to mention and you'll
023all be getting an invitation um probably next week if not this week to anformational session that we're having for community leaders on May 28th in the morning. So there'll be more information to come um for to answer any of your questions. Well, thank you Karen and thank you to members of your board and others here that um Alita and I have enjoyed your meetings. You certainly have been doing your homework. Your um the your commitment to the facilities to move the library forward into the 21st century is readily apparent in the materials that are here. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Anybody on the board have any questions? Thanks. The materials, right? This is what you're referring to. So, can you talk a little bit? So, the building was built in 2007, correct? And so, we're
024looking to get a new roof installed. So, that's like 18 years or so. Is that in line with how long this roof should last? And then if if you're looking the new one, is there some sort of guarantee that we're getting on it that'll get at least another 20 plus years out of it? I'll answer both of those questions. The roof was a 15-year roof, so we're beyond the useful lifespan. Um it was also not installed in a way that um would get the most out of it and we've had to do lots of remediation work on the roof as part of this project. And because things like that had happened with our building, we've committed to working with um a construction manager from day one to make sure that we have oversight on the
025project to make sure that we are making the best decisions when we're choosing uh things like roofs and HVAC systems and things like that. So, we are currently working with uh Calg Construction um to make sure that we're making the best choices. So on then on the roof and then I guess the HVAC because you're looking to replace that as well, right? Yes. So I guess when you do this and make those decisions, will you be looking at something that has a serviceable life longer than that 15 years or like is there guarantees that because just you know 18 years not short but it's also not a long period of time and to your point you said well kind of wasn't installed maybe I'm paraphrasing the right way. Are we I guess the point is
026what are we doing this time that we make sure that we get the most out of it for we are very aware that we want to make sure that we're choosing the best systems to get the longest life possible um you know we have struggled with this system the HVAC system in particular um for a very long time and we do not want to put um the future library trustees library directors and library patrons in the same situation. So we're making sure that those decisions that we make are very careful and very thoughtful. Yeah. And you do that in consulting with the you said a construction manager. Do we marry because we own the building? Do we jump in and just validate that from a Jared standpoint and anyone else and say hey we kind
027of concur with that? Are we able to do that since it's if we own the building? We do not um they have their own construction manager, they have their own architects. uh we are responsible for uh issuing a bond on the project but we do not um directly get directly involved in their um architects work and their construction manager work. They're separate. We don't but can we I can look and check. Okay. Thank you. I will say to to that question, I think it's important this time round because it's something Austining the school district does. Having a construction manager there um is is critical to the process. I mean, we were Alita and I this week attended two meetings of our own and having your on-site person, your construction manager, and your architects together at
028a meeting. They flush out many of the details. That might look like a great design, but what's the durability and wearability of, let's say, a roof? It's a Yeah, it's a it's a really good model to have, right? Our board of trustees has been very adamant that we have good quality construction management and oversight this time around. So just a quick question around the um the management you know if this is a a building that's governed by the school district. I'm just curious is you know where where and maybe this a question for you Lita where where we wouldn't need to have like maybe additional resources for this to kind of help us centralize some of the the oversight and management of this particular building to make sure that the upgrades and any kind of
029repairs are are also kind of maintained. I'm not sure when I look at this whether this was just an an oversight the first time when it was built and whether or not the you know I I it's a not a small building and for what they're looking at here I just want to be sure that we're not going to be doing another HVAC repair in in in a short period of time these and I get HVAC units they do they do tend to need maintenance and potentially even replaced when it needs to be but you know again I just want to be sure that what we're doing going forward that we have the right shared resources. I I do have good faith um trust in in the folks that are doing work for us. Um
030and it's not to say that I don't have it for the the library, but again, I want to just make sure that we're matching that level of um sustained use and we have greater wear out of some of the things that we're going to spend money on. So, I guess the question is um on this one is can we look at just making sure that what we've got here just a little due diligence of um that the system itself is right for that we're not going to end up having to replace it in five years and or and have the same condition. I I will check with our attorneys about our level invol our level of involvement beyond bonding. Okay. And one last question here. Um, and maybe this is something that that I just
031need a little bit of a understanding on. The roof itself, if I'm not mistaken, the roof it's covered by like a metal sheathing. Is that correct? It's a membrane. It's a me. Okay. And so, would that technically give it longer life than what a a traditional asphalt type of roof would would have? Oh, you're asking the wrong person that question. I would defer to the engineers who are working with. Um, and I I really want to stress we you're you'll be invited to the meeting on the 28th at which the architects and the engineers will be and the project manager. So, you can ask technical questions to them. Um, but we'll be having additional meetings for the public with those folks. Okay. Um, you can also email me. I think my card is in. I
032have that. And I can get you if you send me any question, I will get you the answer to that question. Yeah, that would be great. Just because I was a little surprised. I mean only just because there is that metal sheathing that's on top and which you're referring to as a membrane. I thought those usually will get provide a longevity to a roof compared to asphalt um roofing. Yeah, I can get you the answer to that question if you send it to me. Thank you. Yep. See what's under the table. No, I I just I give you and the board credit, the library board credit for bringing this to the community. there's some these are some long there's some long-standing issues with this facility that are really in time to be addressed and I
033appreciate the efforts you've done to kind of maintain and move things along. Um, and clearly when you reach the end of a bond life, there's things that have to get done and work that has to be replaced. But, um, I would encourage you, you know, as you've done this work and independently, you have your engineers, you have all those things. We've had a few issues in the village in the town with slopes and not just the library. And so, I think, you know, and there was an engineering review done on what's there now and we're back at this. But I really think that, you know, the involvement of the engineers and I don't know if it's the county or some or someone else that that needs to look at this, but this is if we're
034going to adjust yet another slope at the end of the day. We want to make sure it's done right and done well. And I know you're looking at that and I'm telling you nothing that you don't know because of the lack of parking that you've had. But um this goes beyond the library. This goes beyond a much broader piece. And we need to make sure if we're going to build on slopes and have slopes that they're safe for everybody involved, people living below and above and across the board. And so this is a project that is needed to be done. I'm glad you're bringing it forward. I look forward to learning more about it. You know, at the opportunities that you give and um and appreciate you bringing in resources to help what I think
035is a little bit of a go and be and beyond. I mean this was a generation one green building project when it was first done and you inherited a tough heating system that was a generation one at the end of the day. So I think you know all good intentions well-designed system you inherited others brought in but um it's it's a good time for us to move the work forward in a way that makes sense in the future with the benefit of 20 years of knowhow of you know how to do this. And some of this the school district may able to help with. Some of this the school district probably couldn't do anything with like you know from a slope standpoint and those kinds of of projects. So um but appreciate that you're bringing
036it forward. I think it's really important and look forward to learning more. Sure. And and I encourage you um our engineers are very very um good about coming to any meeting to explain what they're doing. The engineers who we chose for uh help with the retaining wall. with SGH and they specialize in this kind of wall and in particular they specialize in this kind of problem that people have with this kind of wall. Um we've been working with them for a number of years as we've tried to grapple with how best to handle it. So um I would very much encourage you to either come to the meeting on the 28th or one of the public meetings where the engineers will be or I can set up another meeting with them as well. Thank you.
037You're welcome. Um, I don't have any questions, but I am looking forward to the meetings. Thank you for mentioning those and inviting us. Um, I'm very excited about these projects. I've tried to go to toddler time with no parking there. So, sorry about that. It's okay. They're older now. But yeah, it's um, these are really needed and I'm really excited that you guys are able to do something about it now. just want to thank you for the information packet and all the I guess work that you all are doing as a board to try to you know remedy some of the inherited um and unexpected issues that have come up. It's good to see that the library continues to want to be an accessible um place for the community and evolve at the same time.
038Um, so I'm I'm just glad to see that, especially it was noted, you know, the retaining wall and all the um complications that brings on top of other things you're dealing with with the building structure itself. So, it's good to see that there's a plan. Um, and I, you know, look forward to, you know, us being able to, you know, see what's going on and be part of that process. Um, and so, and, you know, whatever way is appropriate, but I'm glad to see that there's a comprehensive plan to address the issues. So, thank you. Thank you. A little wiggly. Um, thank you so much for this evening. Um, I just want to kind of acknowledge that although this is the first time we're discussing this at the board table tonight that this has been
039a work in progress for quite some time. Um, we do have on the board a liaison to the public library committee and I believe it's Katherine, Annie and I who are on that committee currently. Um, and I know we have uh board trustees here for the library. We're happy to meet if we would like to meet. Um, and if you know there are trustes who would like to sit on those meetings that are al you know we can have alternates. Um, but because I was on that committee last year, it came up at some point in in a meeting. Um, so I know that this has been worked on for a long time as a library patron. Um, I'm a frequent flyer at the library and um, I think you've identified the needs um, as
040a patron. Um, there have been times where I have tried to visit the library and driven away because there's been no parking in and then no parking on the street and then no parking at the municipal building down the road and at that point I'm halfway home and I'm just going to go home. Um, and or days where I had planned to go to the library but couldn't because it was closed because it was too hot in the building. Um, or there was no heat in the building. Um I have personally been impacted uh by that. So I think you've identified the needs well. I'm excited to learn more um and hear from Alita about kind of clear directives for us about our level of involvement. I'm sure there are clear lines and we'll want
041to know about that. Um and in the meantime uh in the spirit of collaboration, please uh you're welcome to invite us as a committee. We we'd be happy to collaborate. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, good. Thank you so much, Karen. So, that that concludes my superintendent update for this evening. Okay. So, the next item on our agenda this evening is our work session item and our equity item, our proposed budget for this year. So, I'm going to turn it over, it looks like, to Alita to lead us in this next topic. Good evening everyone. I am super excited to uh present the final proposed superintendent's proposed budget and um ask that the board consider which is on the agenda adopting the 2526 budget. Um our next meeting is actually
042the budget hearing which is May 7th. So this is the uh the last meeting before uh the budget hearing. So just as an overview, the total amount for the 2526 proposed budget is 178662726. Uh this this represents a $1.6 million decrease um from the 2425 budget which is this year. The proposed tax levy increase is 1.67% which is at the the the cap or the levy limit. We are using um unappropriated fund balance which is equates to what some would define as our savings uh for the 2526 budget of $6.6 million. Um we are um developing or and I'll talk more about that in a later slide, a contingency plan um in the event of mid-year cuts to federal grants and for 5.4 million. Um that has nothing to do with the tax levy. We
043are not using any of our reserves this school year. You recall this next this upcoming budget year, you'll recall we use a significant amount of our our um reserves for our TRS and our ERS. And um since those increases were uh flat or relatively low, we do not and cannot use reserves uh for this budget for that purpose. the budget of adoption um has not occurred within New York State. Um uh there's no legislative bud budget. It's three weeks late. It should have been adopted um on April 1st. So what that means is that the runs that we got from the executive budget from Hokll that was in January um is basically preliminary. Um usually school districts get their final uh bud state aid runs um when the budget is adopted um or approved by
044the entire legislature and again that has not happened. Um so there's a bit of a risk uh related to that. Um and all school districts are facing that. Um so we have to do our best to make assumptions um with the the aid. Um, you should know that mo a significant amount of our revenue, our second largest revenue is state aid, um, which represents about $59 million. So, it is a a big number. Um, but the biggest areas of concern would be foundation aid and building aid. Um, so we don't know what the final number is, but we still have to make decisions because we have to meet deadlines as school districts in New York State. Um, so that will have an impact on revenue projections. So, with regard to our um special aid fund,
045which is our fund for um state and federal grants, we know that there's a lot of uncertainty related to grants going forward. Um uh not due to the school district, but to situations occurring beyond our control. Um, so when we look and consider the projections for our expenses that are coming from grants and not from the the general fund or the the the the school district's budget, um, we know that 5.4 million, which is 4.8 in salaries, which is at 4,867 where it says district totals at the bottom. the 4 million867517 number plus the 49426253 number um which is benefits which we call fringe. Those are the amounts that are would have an impact directly on staff members if there were cuts midyear in the 2526 budget. As a result, it's our recommendation that the
046school district uh with any remaining funds and we projected that we will have a remaining funds that we definitely earmark 5.4 $4 million to plan um for the 2627 uh school budget. Um if those if any cuts are in midyear, we would not be in a position where we would be required to make those cuts. So, we're kind of coming up with we are coming up with a contingency plan in the event um that there are mid-year c cuts and that amount is 5.4 4 million um of unappropriated fund balance that we anticipate having available prior to June 30, 2025. You'll recall this time last year, we talked about uh infrastructure when we were talking about the um the bond before the bond was approved by the voters. Um, we talked about what are what
047are our what are our infrastructure needs and how uh utilizing our our current transfer to capital line um for our future bond premium payments uh would look like. Um, so are there any projects that uh would be negatively impacted or things that we could not do because going forward instead of having these funds available, the $6.9 million available um because we won't when the bond has to be paid. Um what projects will we possibly be missing out on? So we identified we looked at all the projects we did over the last 10 years and their period of uh probable usefulness which is basically how long these projects are supposed to last. Um so the the ones that we talked about last year this time um was the track at AMD and security cameras districtwide. So
048we thought and we explained last year that these are the projects that we should focus on before we have to start paying back our transfer to capital line utilizing our transfer to capital line for bond premium payments. So I'm pleased to um report that um that work is in the 2526 budget in addition to um the new 78 building. We talked about uh clearing and earthwork behind the building that being included in this year's budget and it is uh for Brookside. There's a cafeteria renovation and a kitchen edition. We talked about including that in this year in 2526 budget and it is and the AMD track is there um included. And at the bottom you'll also see security camera upgrades. Um so that's district-wide upgrades. We w we worked with Alterris and our um our
049camera company. I'm forgetting the name right now. So, it was me and um Jared and Jim, our director of facilities and our director of uh security uh for us districtwide and uh transportation and our consultants to make sure that we were upgrading our cameras, um our servers, um adding cameras where there weren't any or needed to be upgraded. So that work was done evaluating the entire campus of um Aening. So that is included. In addition to that in this budget is uh the water main replacement for uh Claremont uh gymnasium windows at the high school, gym floor work, gym bleachers at park, masonry work, uh replacing damaged concrete sidewalks around the building at Roosevelt masonry repointing and exterior painting. Sec second floor RT RTU replacement at Claremont. Masonry work, concrete stairs and sidewalks at Brookside.
050More masonry work and concrete walks to parking areas. And the one thing that is in here, but is not I added is not considered capital work, but it is in our equipment line is air conditioning. So, we are planning to uh add air conditioning units where there aren't any um throughout the district. So, I would say that this list is pretty comprehensive for um the 2526 budget um with a 1.67% increase and a $1.6 million decrease in the budget amount. So, as I said, today is the budget adoption. Uh budget documents will be available on the 29th, the entire budget book. Uh the budget hearing is um on the 13th. Um the next board meeting is the 14th and the budget vote is on May 20th. With that, I'll take any questions. Start anywhere. Go
051ahead, Rob. Thanks. Thanks, Alita. I want to make sure I understand maybe some other board members, too. So, the overview, the unappropriated fund balance of 6.678126, an unappropriated fund balance Tell me, please tell me if this is right or wrong. Is the difference between the amount we brought in and the expenditures, right? Is that correct? So if we if we brought more revenues in or spent less, that's how we get to fund balance. Is that okay? So the 6.678126, you're saying use that. And then the next bullet on the overview says 5.4 4 million. So are we saying that we're you're proposing the 6.678126 between the difference we brought in the revenues and the expenditures plus an additional 5.4 million of that same fund balance as a just in case if they're cut. So if
052you add those two together, you get um almost $12 million in the fund balance. Is that correct? Correct. Okay. Projected. projected. So we have a current projected is it fair to say a surplus for the 2526 budget based on what's proposed of about at least 12 million that will go to 5.4 if things are cut and 6.678 for things that we want to do. Correct. Okay. So then how much beyond the 12 million are we projecting for the total fund balance? Because right you can hold up to what? That's the one you can up up to 4%. Correct. Of the Okay. So how much beyond 12 then are we projecting in that fund balance? We're still projecting but we we we the goal is to have 4%. 4%. So the 12 million is not inclusive
053of the total 4%. Right. Correct. Okay. But you're comfortable if we need to spend 12 million of of the difference between the revenues and the expenditures, we'll be all right overall. Correct. Okay. Okay. And if we remember the auditor's report in January when he came, we had unexpected additional revenue from building aid, from interest, income, sales tax. Right. And sales tax. Right. Right? So, we're hoping that the final state aid is close to this, right? That's how you calculate all this plus the sales tax revenue. Is there any scenario where we could miss significantly based on the things that are still out there? Like what are the scenarios like something in the state aid drops dramatically? And has that happened historically or anything else that we would sort of not have that 12 million in
054surplus and fund balance which could impact us? So the 5 million um the 5.4 million is not part of the budget. So you will not see that in the budget documents. The amount that we're definitely dedicating is the 6,678 um126. So that is part of our revenue projections. Um the biggest this is I think the first time uh in a long time that the budget has been this late for New York State and again I believe our biggest exposure is building aid because it impacts a tax levy limit and also foundation aid um from as part of our normal um uh fund balance projections throughout the throughout the school year. we look at what we were supposed to get. So, we look at the state aid runs for um the budget, the the legislative budget,
055and what we're actually getting. Um so, we are monitoring that as we go along. There's nothing after the budget is adopted that we can do to change our revenue projections or the amount. So, as of today, it is what it is and everybody's aware of that. Um but we will monitor it. Um that's all I can say. I can't project that there's going to be I haven't seen major swings um in in foundation aid until it was phased in obviously in the past three years. Um but I I don't think based on my experience with this budget um that we will be in a situation where we don't have enough funds and if we don't then we have to re-evaluate during the school year and we do that throughout the entire school year. I think
056um in any circumstance at le the school business officials, superintendents, I'm pretty sure NISBA too because I've seen some of those are saying the delay in the budget is more political about other items. They point over foundation aid is not a sticking point here. So, and the governor has said publicly she is aware voters throughout the state have to vote on their school budgets and that might happen before then. anything can happen. But these are things that are organizations that monitor this. These are statements that have been made publicly. Some of the sticking points are not even in to do with schools actually. But good. Thank you. I have one about a specific budget item, but we can go around to others before I come back to that last quick one. Thank you. Does anybody
057have any other comments right now? I'll speak for a moment. Um, first I'm I just want to express that I'm impressed with the comprehensive capital schedule and um, please pass my thanks along on that because all of this work we're doing is right on time. We knew it was happening. We have a schedule. We have a plan. We know what's on the horizon. And that is a very heavy lift and it helps us plan. And so I appreciate that. Um, and I want to acknowledge that that 5.4 million that we're earmarking um was at the request of the board uh because we came to you and said, "What what can we do in the case that we lose title funding so that we can still meet the needs of our neediest children?" And this is
058a temporary solution. Uh it's not sustainable. We know it's not sustainable. We're making that conscious choice and if we need it, we need it and if we don't, we'll it will the result will be a uh positive for our budget next year, right? We can take that money and um not not for salaries because salaries not for salaries, right? But like it can impact it will help we have to levy for the following year. I should say it'll help. Yeah, it gives us more flexibility for next year and it's not a long-term plan. This is an emergency just in case because things are of tumult at this time. Um, we and I also want to acknowledge what a difficult position we're in. Really, we have to put the uh the cart before the horse right
059now because New York State is so late with their budget. So, we have to have um a as much flexibility as we can give ourselves not knowing and when we're supposed to know, we were supposed to know weeks ago and give everybody time. So, this isn't the first time that's happened. It's unfortunate. Um, but we we still are mandated to do what we need to do so that our voters can have enough time uh to make their decision over our budget. Um, and I want to acknowledge the very thorough process that we have gone through. I think all of the board members have had ample opportunities and taken advantage of those opportunities to explore the budget line by line to have deep and thorough discussions about all of this until we come to a point
060at which we have all felt comfortable with it. So, I appreciate um your work, Alita, and everybody on the board's contribution to that. Um that's I think all I have to say, but I don't have any more questions because I feel like we've had kind of an exhaustive number of opportunities to ask questions. And of course, anybody in the community can ask questions or email them. Um, so that's all I have on the budget. Um, Rob, you had another or did Oh, sorry, Frank. Just a quick comment. I don't want you can't underscore the amount of capital work that's being done in this budget. sitting at this table for many years trying to do small things at the end of the day. Like this line is is impressive for one year and it's part of
061the way that we've been able to build confidence when this community because if the schools are falling apart and the sidewalks are cracked and all that stuff, it just it just portrays that with everything else. And so not many districts are being in the position to do this kind of work. I really appreciate the business office and the work that's been done to get us into this position knowing that we sat here many years unable to do things like this. So just I have to underscore what a great accomplishment that alone is in the budget. So and I will u thank the board for their years of work uh to do additional to park before I got here because you edit electrical service. Last year we had that whole conversation over AC. Um, you could
062go out and buy an AC unit. That probably is the cheapest part, but it's making sure it has a dedicated run, making sure there's room on a switch panel and making sure that the service coming into the building can handle the load and you got distribution panels throughout that work. So, the work that was done for construction, this board, Jared and team and our construction man were mindful of the importance of electrical service and preparing for the future. So there was a lot of questions last year from our community from um from our park parents um particular because of the percentage of rooms that weren't air conditioned there. What can you do about AC? So um and again this was this board of education that made those wise and prudent movements. So, and I thank
063Jared for the work and Alita did to include an option in this year's budget that we can across those rooms. Can I Sure. I I also wanted to um acknowledge the fact that there in this year's budget there was a lot of asks of things that came into the budget that were that had to be scraped back and pushed back because um the fact is that we wanted to keep this the the impact to be as little as possible. And I think it's important to recognize the fact that we did um we did put a challenge back on the administration um to make sure that the that the tax that we came in under the tax cap and that there that wasn't a small feat but rather it was a challenge to make sure that
064we're holding to fiscal responsibility on this one and not just letting you know not just spending just because I mean being responsible with taxpayer dollars. Um, so the things that were the nice to haves that those those had to go, right? And the things that are the musthaves are the things we've evaluated, ask questions 20 ways till Sunday, whether it's in the public session or or or offline. Um, making sure that we are vetting all these line items line by line to make sure that we're that we really need to spend them versus just is it really nice to have it. So, um, it's something I want to just acknowledge. And with that, just going back to the discussion we were having over the previous weeks about cafeteria and lunch. Um, I think Alita, you
065might have said you were going to just double check this or if not, just just validate if you don't mind. If we want to try next year another kiosk here or some app or thing, it has to be funded out of a specific cafeteria line. So I believe that's what you had mentioned a budget line and if there's leftover money so do we know whether there will be leftover monies for that and is that accurate that it has to be funded there. So for example if there's no monies left over in this cafeteria budget but we wanted to try a kiosk to move the line faster so the kids get out with enough time to eat. Will we be able to do that for next year as part of all this budget cycle? So the
066cafeteria budget is separate and apart from the general fund. There is a line in the um general fund budget which is a transfer to cafeteria fund. Um and typically that amount that budget line is used for delinquent lunches. Um you have to use general fund. You transfer the money to cafeteria fund which we call C fund to pay for those delinquent lunches. Um I don't believe we funded that line this year um because everyone's eating for free. So there are no delinquent lunches. We're still in C. With regard to um fund balance, it's still called fund balance in the cafeteria fund. We're still working on that. I have a meeting with our consultants this week um to see where we are with fund balance. It's the same type of projections. It's just a different fund.
067So do we think we might have something? I I'll I have a my goal is my goal is to have a response to many of your questions um prior to the next board meeting. But there's nothing we can or can do as part of this budget to cover off. If the answer was no, there's nothing we can do here to make sure we have at least some funds to pilot the app, the kiosk, whatever it is. There's there's as of right now, no. However, if there is not enough fund balance, then we can determine if that is something that the school district wants to do um in the 2627 budget. Okay. So, it's possible it's possible to add money into into a fund for that purpose, but it has to be approved. And as of
068today, I don't have that information to put it or add it or and we don't just don't have enough time to vet it either. So, so best case it could happen next year. Worst case, we can look it for the following year. Correct. Still possibility for next year. The goal is always to not use the goal is always not to use general fund. It's to use the cafeteria fund. Thank you. Any other questions? It would just be great to get something moving on that front. I know we we feel the same way. Our opinion about this. We're on the same page. We want to say yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I understand you can't understand you can't tonight, but it would be great to do start. We're very excited about this meeting. Trust me, it's come
069up multiple times. But yeah. All right. Next on our agenda is um public comment. This first public comment period is not to exceed 10 minutes. So, we have room for three speakers and it's for agenda items only. Um, I'm going to read our public uh comment guidelines, assuming I see members in the audience, so I'm going to assume we have people who want to speak. Uh, we are about to begin the first public comment period of our meeting not to exceed 10 uh 10 minutes. Although state law does not require us to hold a public comment period, we have chosen to do so because we believe it is crucial for us to hear from our residents, district taxpayers, students, and school personnel about their concerns and issues. Having said that, please note that the board
070is here to listen. The public comment period is not designed to be a discussion. Accordingly, please do not expect the board to necessarily respond to your concerns and questions tonight. We take your concerns and questions seriously and want to have sufficient time to process and research issues if need be. We will, however, respond to your questions and concerns at a future meeting or have the proper staff member get back to you at the appropriate time. Under state and federal privacy laws, we are unable to entertain any comments or questions about school personnel or individual student matters. Please know, however, that we take personnel concerns very seriously on these matters. We would ask you to go through the appropriate administrative channels. We want our schoolboard meetings to serve as an example to our students that members
071of our school board and members of our community can deal with controversial issues in a civil manner and demonstrate mutual respect for one another. In that spirit, we will insist that all speakers and members of the audience maintain civility and respect for any divergent views that others possess. We ask that speakers please address their comments to the board directly rather than the audience. During the first comment period, speakers may only address items pertinent to tonight's meeting agenda and during the second comment period can address any school related topic. I want to remind everyone that you may submit written comments to the board via our BOE at austinufsd.org email in lie of or in addition to speaking during the public comment period. In the unlikely event the meeting becomes unruly, the board will recess and the
072meeting will return once order has been restored. Each individual speaker is allotted up to 3 minutes. The individual time limits will be enforced so that as many members of the public who wish to speak may be allowed to do so and to respect the other board business that is being conducted tonight. Before speaking, please share your name and address. Does anybody Is there anybody here who wishes to speak on an agenda related topic? All right, seeing none in person. Is there anybody I can't see Angela Illy online. Okay, so you'll get to hear this from me later again. Sorry about that. All right. Does anybody have anything they wish to break out from 4.1 through 4.8? Okay, seeing them. All right. Um, hold on. Let me just pull up my I would just like to
073before we um vote on all of this acknowledge that we are within this set of resolutions um voting for Frank for Putnham Northern Westchester Bosey's board member. So, thank you Frank for stepping up to do that complete volunteer role. Another evening out. So definitely appreciated. Yes. And uh representing and the broader community. All right. Uh I'll take a motion for 4.1 through 4.8. So move. Second. Thank you. Uh 4.1 resolution to adopt the superintendent's proposed budget for the 2025 2026 school year. 4.2 resolution regarding the election of Putnham Northern Westchester Bosey's board members. 4.3 Resolution regarding the Bosey's proposed 2025 2026 school year budget. 4.4 Resolution designating the officials to act at the special district meeting. 4.5 Resolution to approve the minutes of the special meeting of March 12th, 2025. 4.6 Resolution to approve the
074minutes of the annual Saturday budget workshop for March 15, 2025. 4.7 Resolution to approve the minutes of the special meeting of March 19th, 2025. 4.8 8 resolution to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of March 26, 2025. Any discussion? All in favor? I I opposed. Abstensions. Now we're um on to five. Does anybody have anything they wish to break out from 5.1 to 5.7? All right. Seeing none, I'll take a motion for 5.1 through 5.7. So moved. Second. 5.1 Resolution to approve the treasurer's report for January 2025. 5.2 Resolution to approve the budget report and revenue report for January 2025. 5.3 Resolution authorizing Austining Public Library to serve as secret lead agency for its proposed capital construction project. Resolution 5 uh 5.4 resolution regarding establishment of tax certiary reserve 2024 2025 tax year. 5.5
075Resolution to transfer funds from the student council club to the model unlaw club. 5.6 Resolution to transfer funds from the student council club to the cultural arts club. 5.7 resolution regarding interfund transfers. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. All right. I'll take a motion for 6.1. So move second. Uh 6.1 resolution to approve recommended placements. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. All right. Does anybody have anything they wish to break out from um item seven? All right. Seeing none, I'll take a motion for 7.1 through 7.8. So move. Second. Thank you. 7.1 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments. 7.2 Resolution regarding support staff appointments. 7.3 Resolution regarding professional staff appointments before after school programs. 7.4 Resolution regarding civil service staff appointments before after school programs. 7.5 Resolution regarding support staff appointments before
076after school programs. 7.6 Resolution regarding civil service staff appointments summer school programs. 7.7 Resolution regarding support staff appointments summer school programs. 7.8 8 resolution regarding support staff request for leave of absence. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. All right, we are on to our second public comment period. Um, this public comment period has uh can be as long as we need it to be. There's no specific time limit on it, but I do have to read this again just so that I don't end up in hot water here. So, I apologize because I know we just heard it. Uh, we are about to begin our second public comment period of our meeting. Although state law does not require us to hold a public comment period, we have chosen to do so because we
077believe it is crucial for us to hear from our residents, district taxpayers, students, and school personnel about their concerns and issues. Having said that, please note that the board is here to listen. The public comment period is not designed to be a discussion. Accordingly, please do not expect the board to necessarily respond to your concerns and questions tonight. We take your concerns and questions seriously and want to have sufficient time to process and research issues if need be. We will however respond to your questions and concerns at a future meeting or have the proper staff member get back to you at the appropriate time. Under state and federal privacy laws, we are unable to entertain any comments or questions about school personnel or individual student matters. Please know, however, that we take personnel concerns very
078seriously on these matters. We would ask you go through the appropriate administrative channels. We want our schoolboard meetings to serve as an example to our students that members of our school board and members of our community can deal with controversial issues in a civil manner and demonstrate mutual respect for one another. In that spirit, we will insist that all speakers and members of the audience maintain civility and respect for any divergent views that others possess. We ask that speakers please address their comments to the board directly rather than the audience. During the first comment period, speakers may only address items pertinent to tonight's meeting agenda and during the second comment period can address any school related topic. I want to remind everyone that you may submit written comments to the board via our BOE at
079aidufsd.org email in lie of or in addition to speaking during the public comment period. In the unlikely event that the meeting becomes unruly, the board will recess the meeting and return once order has been restored. Each individual speaker is allotted up to three minutes. The individual time limits will be enforced so that as many members of the public who wish to speak may be allowed to do so and to respect the other board business that is being conducted tonight. Before speaking, please share your name and address. And um I believe we were requested and we are happy to do this by request to have these read in Spanish as well. So um I'm going to turn it over so that we can hear them in Spanish. Thank you. commentary personal scholar. Unlacttoicity. investig Fore personal.
080Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Fore dur premier. The commentary ba aroma. Awesome. Maximuto. indices Romero [Music] Avenue, Miss Marty Director. Integration. scholariosto. integr Fore Cortesto. scholar. Marina, that's three minutes. So, I'm sorry we have to stop you. I do have your letter. Um, and so she was very kind. Excuse me. One minute, please. No, I'm sorry. We can't. Um, if we have to keep everybody to three minutes so that we can maintain our policy. I apologize. Um, I do have your letter. We're in receipt of your letter. We will read that letter entirely on our own as well. So, we do have your letter in English. She was Thank you very much for this. is very helpful. So, I will make sure I distribute this to everybody on the board so that we can all read. Um,
081Miss Mar, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Now, no, I'm sorry. Okay. Is there anybody else here who wishes to speak? You can sign up. There's a sheet over here and then you can be the next person to speak if anybody else wishes to speak. You can sign out over there and then you can take your turn at the microphone. We'd love to hear you speak. Do you have another point of order? Point of order, please. You can address us publicly at the mic when it's your turn to speak. Point of order. Sir, we do want to hear everybody. We do have protocols that we have to follow. If we can't have people coming up to the microphone and following the protocols, we will have to suspend public comment, which we don't want to
082do. But we're here. We'll be here as long as it takes to hear everybody. Everybody gets three minutes. Everybody gets three minutes. It's the protocol. We followed it all year long. We can't make exceptions now. make sense to point of order. Point of order. I'm going to take a motion to suspend public comment for the evening. A second. Ma'am, I'm sorry. I just want to know then. So, we don't have a second. That's fine. Point of order, please. I'm a teacher in this district. My next point, my next motion will be to take a brief recess. I second that motion and go into executive session for safety reasons. Uh I uh so moved. Is there a second? Second. Uh all in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. We're in recess. Um, we made a motion to reconvene
083the public meeting because we do want to hear public comments and thank the people who are here able to maintain um, civility during our public comment guidelines. We do want to hear from you. Um, is there anybody I who has signed up to speak next? Is there anybody here presently? Okay. Is there any more of these? Yeah. Oops. Okay. Um, I have Aaron Spring up next. Uh, welcome. Uh, please state your name and address and you'll be given three minutes to speak. Thank you. Aaron Spring Meadow Road. Uh, first and foremost, I'd like to thank you, Trusty Banter, for um answering our question just now uh regarding uh how long it might be and anything like that. So, thank you for being transparent with the public and just saying that they were going to executive
084session. I do appreciate that as a member of the public. Uh, without naming any names, I do want to uh come up here and talk in defense of an individual, and I think you all know who I'm talking about, and I want to talk about my positive experience with that individual. Um, when I first met this individual, um, he was big into having student athletes reading every day and his, uh, players on his team were reading books every single day. And I participated with him in a book reports or basketball program, uh, where we were giving out basketballs in exchange for book reports. I believe this man should be commended for his work in the district. Um, I believe he uh, had a very bright future in this district. Um, and I disagree with any
085decision that this board made regarding this man. I want to speak about what he's done at the high school level, too. You know, for a district that has a third to 8th grade proficiency in ELA of just 32% and 42% in math is imperative, very imperative for everybody, teachers, administrators, board members, community members to watch out for the kids and to ensure that they have proper education. And this individual is doing just that at a high school level. He implemented or they implemented a program where student athletes who were not at grade level um proficiency or passing their classes uh were getting tutors, were getting extra help. And this person was a true leader. Uh one day I used to volunteer uh every Thursday to help out with this tutoring program. And one day I
086was running late and when I walked in, this individual was there helping the kids. So despite the fact that this person was at a very high level in the district, they were very hands-on from the bottom up and I wholeheartedly respect this individual. I believe that this individual cares deeply about our children. And I think our district is at a loss without them. And I ask that you re-evaluate any decision with this individual and consider giving them opportunity in the future because this is somebody who is an asset to the district and somebody who can help with our reading and math proficiency levels. And again, it takes everybody, all stakeholders to come together. And I just disagree with the decision made with this individual. He truly cares and he's a good person. Thank you. Thank
087you. Um I also have um Alex Folz who the next paper I have. Am I reading it right? I'm apologize if I'm Alex Voluone 11 Birchbrook Road. Uh Austin. Um I came up here uh last time the emergency session and again I the community around the individual that I guess we're all passionate about. Um just more stuff has just come out of the the great things that he's done. Some quick stats from I guess a a meeting that you guys had on the 8th from 2022 to 2025. the number of athletes failing classes has dropped over 60%. Expanded programs in the modify the JV, new teams such as the flag football team that you had uh brought up before, community involvement around the sports, the crowds that are non-parents or non-grandparents or non-family members. This
088individual has kind of rallied the community around his programs, the gym classes, the athletics, and as I said last time I was on here, I've seen some really bad ads being in this district for 40 years. And I've seen for the first time since I think probably ever uh one that's actually cared about his position within the school and within the community. And to lose an asset like that right now, you're not you're not going to replace him and you're going to knock that you're going to knock back all the strives that he's made forward for us and for our kids. I believe and I would hope that you somehow we could convince him to not step down and to stay with us as a community and actually flourish under his guidance and under your
089leadership. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Illy. Have you received any more from anybody here in person? Is there anybody online who wishes to speak? Okay. Anybody else in the audience? I asked if there's any about the audience. I did. Yeah. Right. We're good. Ellie on the audience. Sign up. Even if you didn't sign up, you can still speak now if you'd like to. You Okay. All right. Thank you. And I again, I appreciate your patience um this evening. Um that's all we have for audience recognition. Now it's time for board reports and dialogue. Uh we met not that long ago with spring break in between. I'm not sure if any committees have met. Does anybody have any updates? No, I don't I don't get a chance to miss you guys [Laughter] enough.
090There was something I was going to bring up in dialogue. It was Oh, um I'm going to the um state of the county address tomorrow evening. Just letting you all know. Okay. Um I I wanted to ask everybody I was thinking about attending there's a summer NISBA leadership event in Albany on August, I think 1 and 2. I was thinking about going, but I haven't decided yet. But I was just curious if anybody else on the board was thinking about going. If I had a travel buddy, it might persuade me as all. Okay, I'll continue thinking on it. Um, any other board reports and dialogue? Okay. Um, let me pull up my sticky so I can read. So, I'm going to take a motion to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing proposed
091pending or current uh litigation, collective negotiations pursuant to article 14 of the civil service law and 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. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. obsession. All right.