001e e e good evening and welcome to the school board meeting for Tuesday April 9th let the meeting reflect starting at 7:04 would you please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance FL thank you and item number three this evening is the approval of the Schoolboard minutes dated March 27th 2024 is there a motion Madame mayor School Board member Truman I move we approve the Schoolboard meeting minutes dated March 27th 2024 motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second by Schoolboard member Johnston any discussion on the minutes okay we call vote School Board member Archie yes School Board member Preble yes School Board member roach yes School Board member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 5 Z okay item number four there are no adjustments to the
002agenda this evening item number five there are no correspondents item number six is public session if there are any members of the public wishing to speak please step up to the podium state your name and address for the record and you have 3 minutes okay we're not seeing any members wishing to speak takes us now to item number seven and that is the superintendent report good evening I am standing in for Jeremy as he is finishing up another meeting this evening I'd like to start by uh we did not make it with our no snow days we had two pretty dram atic April snow days which is unusual that puts our last day of school at June 12th we are incredibly grateful for food service maintenance and administrators who were able to come in on
003Friday and serve lunches to staff we also had quite a bit of um freezer and fridge shuffling moving from generators to buildings that did have power to make sure that all food was kept at safe temperatures and ready to serve to students for those Friday lunches as well as this week coming up after our spring break we have nwaa testing as well as science meas science meas will occur for Fifth and eighth grade students nwaas will occur for students in grades 1 through 8 tomorrow we have another exciting landmark in the school construction project superintendent Ry and I are headed to Augusta to present to the State Board of Education and immediately following that we will be um dropping him to begin spring break and then presenting to city council for the first reading of
004the referendum question the budget is moving forward as well with the city presenting what they accepted from the school board tomorrow evening we will continue to monitor class sizes and other Staffing throughout the summer and we have in the past made late recommendations to the board as needed but at this point don't have anything else to recommend other than what's in the present budget as we look to summer we were able to send out some professional development opportunities for staff today we have kind of two primary focal points as we look to provide those additional opportunities one is on literacy funded through that liter Grant um by the doe and another is on trauma informed practices to ensure that we're supporting students all around so those are kind of the two major areas of focus
005for our staff this summer we do have recruitment of staff for summer school underway and referral process for teachers to refer students that could benefit from an extra little boost over the summer we are partnering with learning works in a new way this summer where we are rather than in the past we've done an AM summer school program and then a PM option for learning works this year we're integrating them into that programming a little bit more so that our model for summer school with students will be more of an intensive tutoring model with learning works running the programming on the other end their programming is a lot more focused on um Hands-On opportunities literacy and numeracy Rich experiences lots of outdoor time and then we'll have our professional staff providing that high dose tutoring
006in really small targeted groups while that um other programming is running side by side we look forward to running that from July 8th to August 8th and we will stay with that 4 day a week halfday model running from 8:00 a.m to noon that's it I'm happy to answer any questions great thank you are there any questions or comments Madame mayor School Board member uh uh Preble there we go um I just wanted to bring to the board's attention I had a couple parents reach out in regards to class sizes at Young And I know Meg you addressed that with the superintendent report um I'm assuming as the summer goes on I think we had talked about class sizes like you said get it looked at towards closer to fall and um throughout the year
007so I'm guessing we will have any updates come that way um towards that yeah right now we're fairly comfortable with where the numbers are they do fluctuate year to year but we feel like they're within the parameters of what our staff can handle and consistent with what we've seen historically across both of our K2 schools but we will certainly continue to keep an eye on that and make uh different adjustments as needed sounds perfect thank you thank you anyone else okay not seeing anyone uh next up is the chair's report School Board member uh School Board chair Preble do we have a report um I don't have anything new to report this evening um everything's been going well thank you thank you item number nine this evening there are no staff reports item 10 is
008the board subcommittee minutes item a is the policy and Personnel committee agenda the next meeting is May 8 2024 at 5:30 the finance and infrastructure committee meeting is April 24th 2024 at 4:30 and the curriculum committee the next meeting is April 22nd 2024 at 4:30 item 11 there is no old business this evening takes us to item 12 and that is new business uh there is a memo in your packet on the new hire is there a motion on the new hires School Board member Truman move we approve the nomination of shayen Dr pure district bcba and Caroline Granada CK Burns teacher and issue a contract for the 2024 2025 school year motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a second second second by Schoolboard member Johnston any discussion on the motion
009uh Miss Dr pure was added back on here because the uh contract that we passed last time was for the remainder of the school year and it was supposed to be for next year so we updated that to reflect that for next year okay great thank you okay roll call vote Schoolboard member Archie yes School Board member Preble yes Schoolboard member roach yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 5-0 takes us to Item B and that is resignation and there is another memo on your packet regarding the resignations is there a motion School Board member tman I move we accept the retirement of Dennis Driscoll Sak Middle School teacher effective at the end of the 2023 24 school year motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman is there a
010second second second by Schoolboard member Johnston any discussion on the motion I just want to say thanks to Mr Driscoll he was my oldest uh advisor teacher uh for their eighth grade year so um he was a pleasure to work with from my point of view and um so I just want to say thanks and wish him all the best in his retirement at the end of the year thank you anyone else okay roll call vote School Board member Archie yes School Board member Preble yes School Board member roach yes School Board member Truman yes and School Board member Johnston yes motion passes 5-0 okay that takes us to item C and that is a budget update and discussion uh there are two items one is health insurance update and the second is the final
011review of the expenditures so you'll see in backup there the health insurance update shows those monthly premium changes that superintendent Ry discussed before with I believe it was coming in a little bit higher than we had anticipated based on the pool analysis of those that were part of the insurance in the prior year and the risk factors that were a part of that so we are looking at a little bit of an increase in that area our final revenue and expenditures for the upcoming budget in terms of what's been recommended are there and we should be having a pretty good sense of where we will end FY 24 shortly with those projected expenses that we are running through July 1 and we'll be able to update the finance committee accordingly great thank you is there
012any questions or comments School Board member Truman the health insurance increase was six and a half six and a half percent it was something between six and 7% I believe I think it was six and a half if I remember but um and we had budgeted 10 if I'm correct if I remember correctly I know I'm probably asking the wrong person because um the numbers man is not here at the moment but this is superintendent race favorite part job so I let him what but that was my understanding as well is that he actually came in below but yeah I think um I knew asking you was probably I'm taking away all the fun for jery at this moment M superintendent Ray at this moment so I apologize in advance or after the fact um
013but I just want to see if I was correct or not I think it's I think it's translated to 150k I get that right on savings I think that sounds about right with what I recall being informed of so if we could just get some clarification on that Megan report I'll follow up on that thank you thank you okay any other comments or questions okay moving on to item D and that is the school construction update can I can I back up real quick I know that we moved on but I just found the email it said 6% so thank you it was lower than six and a half and it comes up to about 160,000 perfect thank you pretty close Okay item number D is the school construction update so as I shared we
014have an opportunity to present to the State Board tomorrow that will include the final numbers that we're going to be sh presenting on the referendum question and is an opportunity for us to get that approval through through the state board our our big push after that vote will really be to educate the public on the nuanced parts of the project probably another opportunity for a public meeting we're looking at miday as we approach that June referendum date and also looking to have a presence at several different events including meeting with our PTO possibly some visibility at other community events lacrosse games Little League Etc we we welcome any feedback about how to get the correct information out there so that folks are prepared to come out and vote in June and and we are actually
015pretty optimistic now that we are in school until the 12th we think that that gives us a really good opportunity for families still to be in town rather than being out for a full day already so we look forward to folks getting out and sharing their opinion on that referendum question so we can get the think we were at 879 votes needed or something in that ballpark y okay any questions or comments for M and and school of construction Is My Jam so you can ask me anything on this one perfect thank you Madame mayor yes Schoolboard member Pro um I just wanted to check in have we had any updates yet on um the school meeting with the city's is it media relations the proper term okay yeah I just didn't know if we've
016had any updates on that too because I know the city and the school were going to work together on advertising and getting the word out as well yep we had an opportunity to um meet earlier this week and or earlier last week before the snow days I'm all all backwards on what day of the week is what after our extended weekend but we had an opportunity to meet and do some brainstorming we've kind of divided and conquered on a couple of different elements and we will kind of take the lead on that but have a couple of side projects that are part of that that we're going to collaborate on and then of course cross PR for anything that we're putting out to make sure that that message is consistent and that we reach the
017largest audience possible and expand beyond that kind of school audience that we have access to and capitalize on the city access as well I have one more thought before we move on um has there been any thought about collaboration with like maybe age friendly Soo just because I know we have voters that are of all ages I didn't know if that might be a they have lunchin I think occasionally and other they do amazing things and soak Main Street all that I just didn't know if there was any collaboration with those ideas as well just a thought that is on our list as some stakeholders that we want to make sure that we have an opportunity to answer their questions and share information about the project because I think to date some of those folks
018that aren't tightly tied to our school community may not have had the opportunity to see some of the information so we will be working diligently to make sure that folks not in the school Community get that information awesome thank you great thank you for the update Schoolboard member roach well may you can go after this you can go next door to steping out you captive audience over there for parents but um also you got uh the little leagues opening May 1st uh the girls are on the Middle School site which would have been taken well we'd have to figure out something if the school went there but um but there'll be a lot of there'll be captive audience there too thank you appreciate it okay moving on to item e is the 2024 20125 school
019calendar draft second reading is there a motion Madame mayor School Board member Truman I move we approve the second reading of the 2024 2025 school calendar second motion has been made by Schoolboard member Truman second by Schoolboard member Archie any discussion on the calendar okay roll call vote Schoolboard member Archie yes Schoolboard member Preble yes School Board member roach yes Schoolboard member Truman yes and Schoolboard member Johnston yes motion passes 5-0 okay that now takes us to item F and that is the second reading of policies is there a motion to accept the policies Madam mayor Schoolboard member Johnston I move we approve the second reading of policies I amgb therapy dogs in schools iib class size imga service animals in schools and to strike JJ if- e concussion information sheet second motion has been
020made by Schoolboard member Johnston second by Schoolboard member Truman any discussion on the motion School Board member roach uh just again being new on on service animals is is that is there is that an issue right now do we have a couple schools that have uh students that or or staff that well these are therapy dogs yeah but this one's in therapy I'm sorry therapy dogs and I know Burns has one currently that's in with a staff member um so occasionally they have a a therapy dog that comes in um but it's not this doesn't have anything to do with service animals there I'm sorry I misspoke but just animals in general in the in the school this is specifically for the therapy dogs I didn't know if there was like any issue with like
021allergies or anyone else that's around it an animal or nothing like that there are some parameters in the policy if there are concerns about that but it generally just lays out our process for reviewing a request to have a therapy dog in school and specifically for use with students and their programming it's not it the policy is not intended to speak to the use of people having them for their own therapy it's like a therapeutic dog in a school setting that yeah okay thanks okay anyone else okay roll call vote School Board member Archie yes Schoolboard member Preble yes Schoolboard member roach yes School Board member Truman yes and School Board member Johnston yes motion passes 5 Z okay that takes us to item 13 um there is no other information this evening item 14
022there is no executive session and item 15 is adjournment is there a motion to journ so moved second motion made by Schoolboard member Truman second by Schoolboard member Preble roll call vote School Board member Archie yes School Board member Preble yes School Board member roach yes School Board member Truman yes and School Board member Johnston yes motion to adjourn passes 0 at 7:23 thank you everyone and have a great evening and we'll see you tomorrow night for