001session. Can everyone please stand for the pledge? >> 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. All right, we're going to skip around in the agenda tonight while people still file in for their awards. Does anybody have anything to add to the agenda? >> Can I please have a motion to approve the agenda? >> Motion. >> Vivian and Tiffany. >> Peter. >> Yes. >> Board member code of conduct review. Vivian >> I will abide by majority decision decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. >> All right. Thank you. >> Does anybody have any questions on the consent agenda? >>
002Can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Doug and Vivian. >> Yes. >> Peter. Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. Let's uh we can go to the uh item 10A, the February employment recommendations. >> Yeah. I actually I can do nine if you want. Uh superintendent report. >> Oh, you want to do yours? >> Yeah, I can do it. >> All right. >> Yeah, it's fine. >> Um item A is just the staffing plan for this year. Uh it's exhibit six for uh next year. Sorry. Um I'm going to just review real quick. You'll see that we are recommending a reduction of uh the number of core teachers in second and third grade down to eight instead of nine. Uh keeps our class sizes though right around
00320. Uh with our current enrollment, we've seen a drop in enrollment in recent years. So that's uh that's a recommendation for next year for the core classroom teachers. And then on the next page of exhibit six, you'll see uh we've made we've trimmed the staff in a few areas uh that are outlined. You'll see the list of 202526 employees and the list of 2627 employees. It results in an overall drop of four staff members for certified staff uh for the staffing plan for next year. >> All right. Anybody have any questions on the final staffing plan for 2627? >> No. >> Can I please have a motion to approve the final staffing plan for 2026 2027? >> Motion. Second. >> Vivian and Tiffany. >> Yes. >> All right. Item B is just the uh information
004about the our 2026 summer school program and you have a flyer on your desk or right in front of you that outlines the program. Uh the the one change as I've mentioned to you before um we don't we no longer have a grant that can fund this program for us. So we are going to have to charge our families for the summer enrichment classes this year. Um we're trying to make it a uh you know a a break even as close to break even as we can on this. Um but uh so you'll see the fees in there. We're going to send this out to parents this week. I think tomorrow. So this is nothing you have to approve. I just wanted to get in front of you. They've done a team's done a good
005very good job of putting this all together and getting the courses. Uh we got some exciting offerings for kids if they want to take advantage of it. So we'll be pushing that information out soon. Any questions on that? And then my last item is just the end of the year calendar reminders. uh eighth grade graduation Tuesday, May 26th. Would would love to have all the board members there if we can get them there, get you there. And uh we also do an early release day for eighth graders that day. And then the final day of school is May 29th on a Friday. Um this will also be an early release date. So that's all I have. Kevin. >> All right. >> I think we go back to the You >> Yep. >> All right. Now
006we're going to go back to our accomplishment recognitions. Mr. Gold. >> All right, Mrs. Mullen, can you come on up and get us started here? Our principal at Primary is going to announce our students of the month. >> All right, good evening. For preK, we have Noah Asencio. Noah, come on up. There you go. Perfect. >> And for kindergarten we have Ellia Trantham. >> Okay. And then for first grade we have Keandre Wilson. >> Should we wait and go back? There's people in the parking lot or is >> Ke we can do that. >> Yeah. >> Is it your Kandre's not here? >> Do we know? >> Oh, they didn't respond. >> Yeah. We hopefully if they get here before we're done we will we'll definitely uh have them if they come in we'll do
007it informed. Okay. Dr. Bianca, you want to come on up? >> All right. Thank you and congratulations to all of these students. Um second grade and we can have uh Dominic Jackson come on up. All right. That's for second grade. And then for third grade, we have Bradley Martin. And then finally for for fourth grade is Ryland Morris. All right, for fifth grade, >> you could stay there. She's coming up. >> For fifth grade, we have Naomi Asencio. No, it's okay. >> Way to go, Josh. >> I talked to him. That was the problem. >> Way to go, Josh. >> I should have known better. >> Oh my god. >> For sixth grade, uh, we have Bela Abilera. For seventh grade, we have Isabella Rubin. >> And for eighth grade, we have Kennedy Joseph. Parents,
008you're more than welcome to come up, take pictures, stand in the middle, whatever you guys want to do. >> Oh, we got someone coming to >> Oh, they're coming to the main door. >> Wrong door. Yeah. >> All right. Perfect timing. And I see our first grade student of the month coming up and it is or our kindergarten student of the month and it's Ellia. Ellia, come on up. As system Do you want someone to take a picture for you? >> Well, you sure you got Okay. >> You sure? >> Okay. Thank you all very much. Congratulations parents. I don't I think this goes without saying, but you should be extremely proud. There's 180 kids in each grade and they selected one this month in each grade and your child's represented. So she's very proud
009of that. Thank you. >> All right. Again, congratulations. You guys are more than welcome to stay for the rest of the board meeting, but um it's super exciting. But if you want to leave, feel free to do so. >> Thanks again for coming and congratulations to all the students. >> See you guys. Thank you. >> First time we've had kids scared. >> Oh, okay. All right. Does anybody have any questions on the February employment recommendations? >> Sorry. >> Because there is none. That would have been funny if someone said, "Yeah, >> I know, right?" >> He was testing you out. >> The administrative assignments for 2627 are Dr. Biancalana, elementary school principal, Miss Jess KTO Scott, EL coordinator, Mr. Josh Cornwell, middle school principal. Miss Kira Denovo, student services coordinator. Miss Sarah Kala, elementary school
010assistant principal. Miss Liz Larkin, middle school assistant principal. Miss Amanda Mcdana, middle school assistant principal. Mr. Matthew McCully, assistant superintendent of business and operations. Miss Rachel Mullen, primary school principal. Dr. Aaron Pitman, assistant superintendent of student services and human resources. Miss Nicole Stroop, teaching and learning coordinator. Uh we have reduced the admin positions by one for the 20 for next school year. Uh school fees exhibit 8. >> I think you need a motion. >> Oh, we have to approve it. >> Yeah, we have a motion. >> All right. Uh can I please have a motion to approve the administrative assignment for 26 27? >> Motion. Second. >> Tiffany and Vivian. All in favor? I >> I >> voice vote. >> It's not roll call. >> Oh, voice. >> Any oppose? >> Eyes have it. >>
011I'm way more on top of stuff than I >> know. I know. >> It's so rare. >> All right. School fees 26 27. Anybody have any questions? >> I we did not have a finance committee meeting on this, but I I was just recommend we just couldn't get one scheduled, but I was just recommending keeping the fees the same for next year. Um, and so yeah, it's up for discussion though. >> For PE uniforms, yes. Are we making sure >> we're taking note of who's actually getting one and who's not or are we charging all students? >> We're not charging. >> I don't believe we're charging all students. Did you do you is it okay? I need to check that then because >> I didn't know if it's an automatic fee on there because you're
012probably paying before you register. So I don't know. Okay, I will check on that, Ash, because I I don't 100% know on that, but yeah, we shouldn't be because they're not all getting them. So, okay. >> Is that on the registration form? >> Yes. >> Would you like a >> I don't know how it looks? Uh Matt, do you know on the on the registration form when do they do they select PE uniforms? Is how do you know how that works? >> Okay. Just Okay. We have to find out is if she puts it on everybody's. I don't know for sure because not all kids get it. >> What do we do with >> It's optional. Now, >> so is there some kind of way to question? >> There is. >> Okay. Okay. We'll make
013sure we get that right. What what happens to the kids that don't pay it >> for the uh PE uniforms? >> Registration fee. >> Oh. Huh. So, we are well, if they don't pay the registration fee, they can't play athletics. That's the one thing we can hold over them is extracurriculars. Um, but I will tell you, we have we have a number still. And what we're doing right now is as soon as the eighth grade year is done because we try to give them time to pay, but as soon as eighth grade year is done, we send them to collections. >> So we're we send them a notice. This is your last chance to pay and after this is going to collections. So we we do that. >> Now how I guess how does it
014work with them getting a Chromebook? Because I think the last time we talked about this like Chromebooks weren't for everybody didn't have their own because now we have that technology insurance fee. >> They have to pay for that if they they have to pay for the technology insurance fee if something breaks. Uh they have to pay for that. So they all do have a Chromebook, but I can't we can't withhold it. I mean really our hands are tied with some of the legislations in place now. We can't >> Okay. >> We can't withhold it. But we can with the with the chrome brakes. Uh they have to have they have to pay the there's a fee that's part of that for free and reduced. Matt, do you know what the number is? 15 bucks. $15.
015They got to pay that if the Chromebook breaks and they otherwise we have to charge them the full amount for the break. And uh um be I'll be honest with you that even the state uh the laws that are in place make it difficult for us for that too. But we do charge that fee. All right. >> Yeah. >> Anybody else have questions? >> Can I please have a motion to approve the school fees for 2627? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Doug and Ash. >> Yes. >> All right. Uh, does anybody have a question on the resolution authorizing the dismissal of a fourth year probationary teacher for reasons other than reduction in force? >> Can I please have a motion to approve a resolution authoring the dismissal of a fourth year probationary teacher for reasons
016other than reduction enforced? Do I have to read this resolution? >> No motion. >> Second. >> Ash and Vivian. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Any questions on the honorable dismissal dismissal for a teacher? >> Uh, can I please have a motion to approve a resolution authorizing the honorable dis dismissal of a teacher for the reason of discre decreasing the number of teachers employed? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Doug and Tiffany. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Uh we accepted resignation of Haley Sidowski, sixth grade math teacher. Accepted a resignation of Clifford Nins, lunch recess monitor. We accept the resignation of Tim Cloloby, eighth grade social studies teacher. We accepted the resignation of Tracy H, special ed teacher. We accepted the resignation of Brian Summers, middle school assistant principal. effective at the end of the
017uh school year. Good luck to him in his next job as principal. We accepted the resignation of Sarah Kahar, elementary speech language pathologist. We accepted the resignation of Jasmina Rosemire, lunch recess monitor. We accepted the resignation of Anna Hudson, third grade teacher. We accepted the resignation of Rachel Phillips, middle school computer science teacher. Does anybody have any questions on the foyer requests? Monthly reports for the board. The next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place on Monday, April 13, 2026 with close session beginning at 6 pm. Do we have any uh public comment? Can I please have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second. Joe and Tiffany