001And with that, I'll call to order the regular Board of Education meeting for Pittsford Central School District. If you'll please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> May I have a motion for approval of the agenda? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Renee. Thank you, Robin. Any questions or comments, changes? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. And first on our list tonight is the um principal's report, Mr. Walker from Calkins Road Middle School. >> Good evening, everybody. It's see everyone again. It's beautiful night. Uh I have no idea what the weather is, but I'm going to live for tonight, so. Um So, we have a mic
002myself. Again, thanks for having us here for annual report. We always seem to draw out March. Somewhere as the weather turns warm, right before March Madness. Uh so, it's good to see you guys. Um so, we're going to jump right in, and we are capturing really through the essence of three things in our agenda tonight. Uh starting off with our 20th anniversary. Just want to bring that up. We were able to see many of you at our tour last week. You saw the um the hallway where we have the building of uh Calkins Road over the la- over uh 20 years ago. So, little side-by-side shot there of uh just breaking well, little more than just breaking ground, but you know, open roofs which uh you know, the you could see the beginning of there
003in the neighborhood and then the you know, beautiful sunrise uh nowadays, but it's hard to believe it's been two decades. Literally last week, somebody said, "Well, you know, Calkins being the new building." And so, you it's newer newer um, but you know, we're very lucky where we are. And what have we been doing this year to celebrate our 20th anniversary? We we uh we love theme days at Calkins Road. Several of you Several of you are Calkins parents and you know that. Uh we love them. We have one next Friday. We we've been doing stuff on the 20th of every month. Um, so next March 20th is the start of March Madness and it's wear your jersey day uh basketball or otherwise. Uh kids get a big kick out of that one. They they have
004a lot of fun. We have one student who has his dad's Pittsford hockey jersey from like 20-something years ago. Um, he's in sixth grade. The jersey is it's it's great. It's it's it's wonderful. Um, the principal's cabinet is working on creating legacy posters around our four pillars and we'll talk a little bit about that. Um, so that's something that you're going to see in our hallway soon around creative, resilient, mindful, spirited. And our PTSA's been a great support. We've been uh talking with them in the last couple of weeks about some sort of commemorative piece. Uh we talked about a little bit on the tour whether it's our courtyard, whether it's an outdoor learning space, whether it's something in the gym um, and trying to just continue that community and culture around the Calkins Road
005Midnights. A big thing we did at the beginning of the year was we revamped our mission statement. It was a 2015 creation. Mike and the SEL team did a ton of work with establishing the real roots of that. Um and working a couple of faculty meetings, part of our principal part of our superintendent's conference day, summer workshop with ILT, working with my principal's cabinet. We really took a look at that mission and said, "Is this still who we are?" And all the voices talked about bringing those four pillars that you've heard about for years, creative, resilient, mindful, spirited into the mission statement. And so that is up on our website. We've been promoting it for the year. Um and you can see those four pieces in there. We feel this statement really is where Calkins
006Road is and where they want where we want to go. Uh so that was a nice big thing at the beginning of the year. Uh I'll start with off with the technology growth and social emotional learning. Those two things are together intentionally. Now, it seems like two very separate things, but you know, I'll I'll start off and then Mike will talk about how they weave together uh pretty seamlessly in the work that we're doing. In December, we did a staff survey. It was my first little foray into creating a Nearpod. That's fun if you haven't had a chance. Um around technology around our technology learning as a staff, really launching off of our superintendent's conference day work. Um and staff watched uh TEDx video about uh bringing it into the classrooms not only AI but
007different parts of technology. And it really the main purpose was gathering interests. What do you want to learn more about? What do you see as the most important issues for middle schoolers in technology in the classroom? What are your worries? What are your hopes? So we drew that information out working with ILT, looked at how to bring these things in action to our staff. Not just sit and get learning but create these mini experiences at our faculty meetings. And for the last 2 months, that's what we've been able to do is have four mini sessions at each faculty meeting. There was a real quick kind of whole group gathering, and then we send people to four different places, and it's run by teachers. Nicole Berry came over, did one. Glenn Sabinsky came over and did
008one. But it's topics asked for, or somebody just said, "Hey, I've been messing around with um Diffit and Magic School. Using one to look at student readings or um reading passages, and then using that and putting it in this one to create questioning. And it's been something I've been having fun with and trying, and there's no experts. People are just sharing what they're doing, and it's lit a fire under a lot of people to try new things, which is really cool. As I've been meeting with teachers, I'm sure Mike the same. Um hearing new things that they're trying or pushing their kids to try. It's been fun. It's been a lot of fun. And so with that, that that's what we've done, focus on the faculty. Well, Mike will take you through some of our
009SEL work. >> So just a reminder uh with our social emotional learning, really role we've taken on in the building is how do we keep creating resources and and look at ways we can build on uh being creative, resilient, mindful, and spirited. So um this year we we kind of made an anticipated guess at the end of last year that the kids are really going to hate this cell phone rule. And so like boy, we don't want to make just uh you know, compliance because we're telling you it it should be buy-in. Like, "Hey, we understand why maybe these aren't so good for us uh with the cell phones." And so we created a a survey to look at it. And with with some anticipation that we were going to be seeing a lot of
010um lack of cooperation. But, once again, our kids rise to the occasion and never fail to amaze. So, we haven't had a whole lot of problems. The cell phone jail remains empty and underused. So, that's a good thing. We're all happy about that. Um so, so what did we do? What did we learn from this survey? Well, we we learned a lot about the types the students are using, amount of time they're on it, and we're really also interested in AI. This is something that that doesn't seem to be a whole lot of uh research in terms of locally what our kids are doing. So, we kind of wanted to dabble in that a little bit. And um also wanted to figure out, "Hey, what do you want to learn about when it comes to
011AI, smartphones, technology that that are in your hands?" And the three themes we picked were AI's impact, both positive and negative, social media and and how it impacts mental health, and then things like fakes, algorithms, and and then how the news is reported, and trying to figure that out, what you know. So, we're real curious what the kids would would be interested in. And ultimately, the thing they were most interested in was job creation and loss. Like, that was actually the only thing there was any kind of majority. And I should mention, this is with our eighth grade students. Um we didn't want to survey the kids uh to the moon. So, uh we just did our eighth graders, and that's what they wanted to learn about. So, one of the things the committee came
012up with, and some of you may have gotten an email about this, was reaching out to our parents, reaching out to our teachers, and asking what resources exist internally in terms of people who are already working with that AI. What kind of things have you discovered in your work world, and how has AI changed that? We thought maybe the kids would get a kick out of seeing some of their friends parents and whatnot. So, we're going to put together a little video where parents, community members are going to send in a two, three minute video clip just saying who they are, how they work with AI, and and how they see their field changing. We'll put that together and and get that out to the kids. So, that's that's one way the committee looked at
013trying to address that need that our students indicated in the survey. >> Just to expand a little bit on what Mike was saying, it it was surprising to see the kids it wasn't about the cell phones. It wasn't about what you're not letting us do. It was about what can I do in the future? What's going to still be there? What's going to change? He said, um, some of the students that I've talked to over the past couple of months after the survey, you know, I share, you know, my own wife's, uh, job is is completely AI dependent. She works in communications and marketing. Um, and talking to them about that and just and just hearing their ideas on how things can change. So, it's been pretty exciting, uh, to reach out. >> And I
014should just point out, too, like it was pleasantly surprising how much the kids know about the potential problems that social media is out there. So, great job, everybody coming up through the ranks with with teaching these kids cuz they they are surprisingly knowledgeable. >> Yeah. Yeah, they got their health classes, our family consumer science they've been doing a great job. Um, so, well, toward the end of our quick presentation here about spirit week. I'm always here in March. We always have a spirit week a few weeks before, so you always get the highlights. Um, but it's more than just running around, screaming, and jumping in the gymnasium. Uh, we really feel that spirit week captures our culture and our community so well. Um, it's who we are, you know? Uh, it celebrates our students. It's
015completely student driven, student run. They come up with the things. Um you know, there's been successes and and some interesting events along the years, but they've really got they've got it going. It's a lot of fun. Um ahead of next year's, I'll send an invitation to the board. If you feel like coming in, wear your earplugs and come to the the spirit rally. It is a blast. Um And then it's the end of the day on the Friday before break, and then we send them home to you. So, that's how we do it. Uh but just sharing some images from the week. The yellow team is obsessed with bananas. These are just kids in the hallway. They're dressed up. They're ready to go. That day we played a building-wide competition of rock, paper, scissors. It's
016the third year we've done that, where every team has a champion. More on that in a moment. Uh just seeing the teams and their team colors across the gym, chanting. It's very impressive to watch our student council officers manage to get 600 kids quiet. We had signs this year that said quiet, applause, quiet, applause. Except for one teacher that kept holding it backwards. It really worked well. Um and again, they just they have a blast. They lean into it. They have lots of different activities. This is one of my favorites. This is the mattress race. Uh side note, that might be the daughter of the other middle school's principal right there. Um so, we have that going on. We have free throw shooting contest while kids are drawing a randomly uh picked category. This year
017was 20th anniversary. Maybe not so random. Um while they're also hula hooping. And gosh, there was another one. There's four things going on at the other another time. Um and it was great because lots of kids are involved. You know, it's it's not just four kids from each team doing things. It's a a of students. There's some more There's the pictures of the drawing. We have Tegan here with your three-time champion hula champ. And I actually have another picture of her winning in sixth grade, and seventh grade, and eighth grade cuz it's always in my newsletters. Um it's kind of fun to watch her go do do do do through the years. Um but that that phase right there that's that tells you what it is. It's a it's a lot of fun. Um but
018to set up this video this is the perfect the quintessential middle school video cuz I think it captures everything that this week is, the things that we try to to push out to our school community, the things that the kids do for us. Student voice is so important. My survey with the eighth graders, hearing from them how they want their building set up, and even something as simple as the rock, paper, scissors. So let me set the stage for this. It's only like a 7-second video, but it's everything about middle school. This is the finals of the rock, paper, scissors competition. It took place all day. So you have a student from the maroon team with his back to us. That is a faculty member. She is a Mendon grad as well. She is on
019the yellow team, thus yellow everywhere. You see all the beads cuz the teachers wear white, and the the kids as you if you beat somebody you can go up and challenge somebody, you win. It's and then by the end of the day everybody looks like you know, Flavor Flav. They've got the big chains around them. They're ready to go. So you've got When I start this video, you'll hear the yellow team chanting behind her going nuts for their teacher. You'll hear all the students going crazy, and it's quick. It's two out of three cuz the finals was two out of three. Everything else was single elimination. Like we it's a thing. And it's just the perfect middle school video, and that's how I wanted to end this. We got volume, right? So okay, here we
020go. >> [cheering] [laughter] >> Everybody gets to have a moment. He got to have his moment in front of like 600 people and they chanted his name. And he it was it was great. So >> High schools have you know sectional games. >> We have rock paper scissors. And there's a strat like teachers develop a strategy. Several of them will hide um during the day. One took a half day in the morning and came in in the afternoon and like it's it's a thing. It's a thing. So so with that we wanted to highlight, you know, the 20th anniversary, the work that Mike is leading with his SEL team wrapped in technology, and also just to celebrate our kids once again. So that uh that is uh my learning on Microsoft Copilot. I asked them
021to turn Dwight into a cartoon uh with a thank you. So any questions or anything that I can share you'd like to know more about. >> Just want to say I heard a lot about the spirit week in my own house and great job. It sounded like it was a lot of fun. So maybe might have been some questions about the scoring. I don't know too much about that, but um you know >> [laughter] >> There was controversy. There was cheating. >> [laughter] >> Sounds like a lot of fun. So thank you. >> All right. Ash Mike, thank you very much. That was a great presentation. We really enjoyed coming over and visiting with the staff and having an opportunity to tour the building, see all the students' great work. So thank you very much.
022>> Thank you everybody. Thank you for your support and your >> [clears throat] >> cooperation. >> Next may I please have a motion for approval of the minutes from our February 24th, 2026 meeting. Thank you, Kim. Yes, Sarah. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. And Board of Education reports, I'll open up the table uh for comments from board members for the Monroe County School Boards Association meetings they've attended if anyone has anything they'd like to share out. >> Yeah. A couple things, if I could. Um I'll go quick, but just three points I wanted to kind of highlight from the past month or so of advocacy work. Um the first one going back to our legislative breakfast, which was February 7th. We've talked about that a little bit, but I
023did just want to point out that Senator Helming, who is one of our senators here in Pittsburgh, followed up with um her testimony that she gave on the Senate floor the following week, and she actually used a quote from one of our student presenters that day. And just um it was actually related to unfunded or underfunded mandates, just saying his his words were that if the state requires something that they should also provide the funding for it. So, she used those exact words that he shared on the Senate floor, which was pretty powerful, pretty cool to see that advocacy in action there from one of our students. Um and then also I just wanted to talk about we had a meeting with RG&E. So, you know, Mike was talking about that in our budget workshop
024a little bit about the electrification process, and one of the surprising things that came out of that meeting is just seeing how we are really partners with them and how they are under a lot of the same mandates from the state that we are. So, being able to work with them as we go through this process, not just with our buses, but about um the heat mitigation law and what that might mean for our district and others related to air conditioning and and all the things that are really going to require more electricity down the road. Um it was also just great to hear that the CEO of RG&E is willing to write letters on behalf of our school districts to the governor just to kind of explain some of the challenges that we face,
025and um Um, we have that opportunity there in front of us. So, looking forward to continuing our partnership with RG&E. And then the last thing I wanted to talk about just quickly is our trip to Albany. So, we had four meetings. We went on February 26th. We met with Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, who is the chair of the Assembly Education Committee, Senator Mayer, who is the chair of the Senate Education Committee, and um, NYS ED, we met with a senior Deputy Commissioner Jeff Madison there, and then Blake Washington, who is the New York State Director of Budget. So, we had those four meetings. We had similar talking points for each one. Great meetings. Um, it was really heartwarming to see actually that when we sat down with Blake Washington, he had our position papers that our
026committee has worked so hard on throughout the year. He had those in front of him. He was taking notes. He was very attentive to what we were sharing with him, and open-minded about some of the things that we were proposing. So, a great day all in all. Um, and we've kind of decided as a committee, we talked about this at our legislative committee meeting last week that we are going to try to stick with this new format for the time being, at least a couple years out. Um, we thought it was really effective to take a smaller group to Albany and just focus on a few items with a few meetings. So, we are looking to carry that into next year, and then and we can tweak things as we go, but for now that
027is the plan moving forward. So, um, anything to add Emily from the meeting last week? >> I don't think so. >> Okay. Any questions from anyone? No. Okay. We'll go ahead. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you, Sarah. >> I can also just say I went to District Operations. It was the RASP update that we heard from Mike Vespi. It was kind of doom and gloom, but you know, that's what it is. So. >> [laughter] >> Thank you, Emily. Uh, other Monroe County School Boards Association meetings coming up. Board Leadership is March 25th. Executive Committee meets April 22nd, information exchange April 15th, District Operations Committee March 18th, Legislative Committee April 8th, and the Steering Committee meets on March 25th. And next we'll turn it over for our student Board of Education reports. >> Hi everyone. Um
028not too much to report at Sutherland, but senior bingo night I think was last week was a hit and it was attendance was really great. I know that student council is also planning an event called brain break, which is after the APs where we're hopefully going to have an ice cream truck, so that's really exciting. And spring sports have started. Um this past weekend was the United Nations Associations of Rochester conference where Sutherland won best large delegation, which is really really exciting because usually Mendon wins or Brighton. So this time was a real was really good that Sutherland won, especially cuz it was also my last conference chairing and my last Model UN in high school, so it was really nice. And these next 2 weeks leading up to break are going to be super
029hectic cuz there's lots of tests and quizzes and work to get in. And also I think the musical coming up is Little Women, which is really exciting, so Sutherland's putting that on. >> Yeah, over at Mendon it's uh kind of similar. Spring sports are starting. Actually they started Monday. Uh but I think there were some tryouts before then. And then we just finished our middle uh musical the 5th, 6th, and 7th, which was The Drowsy Chaperone. And um I was also going to talk about Model UN, but we got second. We They only beat us by one point. >> [laughter] >> But but I'm happy that they won, too. I'm happy that you guys won. Uh as long as it's not Brighton. >> [laughter] >> But uh you know, with the weather warming up as
030well, there's a lot more people like a lot more students going outside and uh it's honestly really nice. I think it brightens up everybody's moods. Uh I will say daylight savings was a little difficult. I know I know for me it was a little difficult. Uh, but a lot of my friends were also complaining about it. But, you know, we we get used to it. It's okay. Uh, and then coming up, which I'm really excited about, which again, I might be a little biased, but Heritage Day's coming up, and that's March 27th, and I think it's a really fun day, and we get to, you know, celebrate our differences and how unique everyone is at Mendon. It kind of shows our culture of like celebrating who we are. Uh, so I'm really excited for that.
031And this year we have more than 20 booths. I don't know the exact number cuz there's a few booths that like were added on later and a few booths that dropped out, but we definitely have more than 20, so I'm really excited about that. Yeah. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you both for keeping us in the loop and things going on at Southern Worcester Mendon. I'll see if there are any questions from the board members. Okay. Thank you very much. Dates to remember coming up, we have a board visit and tour of the transportation facility, and just reminder that that starts at 9:00 as opposed to our usual earlier time at the school buildings. Uh, schools will be closed for spring break March 30th to April 3rd. We have another uh, board visit, this time
032at Mendon Center, at on April 9th at 7:30. >> [clears throat] >> And on April 14th is our next regularly scheduled board meeting. Next we'll turn over to Mr. Vespe for financial report. >> All right. Thank you very much. Uh, first Yeah, first for your consideration is the acceptance of the treasurer's report. Uh, we did take in state revenue 3.2 uh, million, lottery of 160,000. Um, really nothing to report, um, uh, overall on the financial report, but as promised, I owed you an update on the food service program. So, I do want to spend a few extra minutes just kind of, you know, uh doing a a brief overview. Um you know, as many of you know, we transitioned to the uh the National School Lunch Program at the elementary level. Um that's uh increased
033participation by 37%. Um the estimated total revenue uh is 3.2 million, non-payroll expenses a little over 2 million. Um and then payroll expenses are 1.1 million. So, the projected net surplus is uh 22,000 right now. So, that's a much tighter number, but remember upon re-entry into the National uh Lunch Program means that we really have to break even. So, we've also invested funds into an equipment replacement plan, you know, and we're also preparing obviously for uh the middle school and high school level uh entry of the federal program as well. Uh there was a committee of parents that were meeting and and providing feedback. So, they have accomplished their mission in terms of the recommendation to go on the program. I still have kept uh it open for them to provide me with feedback in
034terms of providing information to uh middle school and high school parents and guidance. So, just a huge thank you to the to that committee. Um the other thing that happened is our free and reduced eligibility went from 3 1/2% to 10% because once you join back into the national program, there's a direct cert. And then as part of that direct cert, uh if there's a child in the elementary school that qualifies, then older siblings automatically qualify. So, that's also brought potential revenue down at the high school level. So, all those years that we struggled to get people to fill out applications, it's automated now. That could result um in an impact on grant funding. You know, sometimes that's looked at. Unfortunately, foundation aid has kind of shifted to a different factor, but you know, that's
035not necessarily a bad thing, but that did impact the middle and high school level from a financial standpoint, but I think in a good way in terms of feeding children. Um staffing uh the field supervisor position um has been um you know, will be filled uh through Shawn's efforts in in Orlando. Um we've done a good job with training. Um again, new ovens, refrigerators, and freezers in terms of investments. Um district-wide temperature monitoring um and then some additional data lines. Uh we did do an RFP for a consultant to help with the modernization of some of our kitchens, which is good. So, we had an outside expert come in and make recommendations uh via an RFP. Um I did find out today we have a extra commodity freezer uh actually here at uh at Barker
036and and Barker Road East. And we're actually still going to need that because even though we're building a new commodity freezer now that we're back into the program, there's no place to put all the commodities and you can't control the shipment of commodity. So, I've got to go back and revisit that uh in terms of the space. Again, I think that's a good problem to have in terms of the program. I think just some key takeaways, participation is amazing, which to me means that the quality of food has not been impacted and and I think you yeah, you agree in terms of the feedback. Um there's really no revenue pressure right now in terms of the conversion because as long as we break even, that's that's our job. That's what we're supposed to do. So,
037as long as it doesn't go the other way, that's where we don't want general fund to have to supplement. You know, we've modernized our equipment. We're investing in labor. Uh that field trainer is really going to help with some labor issues. And I think there's going to be some bumps just like there were with elementary, but I think by going through the process, you know, we're we're very prepared. So, you know, I think we're going to do a presentation for you in April, you know, more structured presentation cuz I think it's good information if if that if we put it you know, get it on the agenda for April but you know, overall the program is doing very very well and it's been really well managed and run and Elaine and Christina are doing an
038you know, outstanding job. So that concludes the treasurer's report. >> Thank you. May have a motion to accept for approval of acceptance of the treasurer's report for January 31st, 2026. Thank you, Robin. Thank you, Dave. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Okay, next for your consideration is the resolution approving capital construction project change orders. I I do review each of these individually a half hour to 45 minutes prior to our monthly construction meetings. >> You may have a motion for approval of resolution approving capital construction project change orders. Thank you, Emily. Sarah. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Okay, next for your consideration is the authorization of the use of capital reserve funds, the bus purchase capital reserve and this would be for
039the two or for the nine diesel buses as outlined. The capital reserve has a balance of 9.2 million. This would take this would reduce it by 1.6 million and then we'd replenish it with the aid. So we'll take that one first. >> Thank you. May have a motion for approval of capital reserve bus bus purchase proposition. Thank you, Renee. Thank you, Kim. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Okay, next for your consideration would be the seeker notice, which still would not require you to approve the resolution for the two EV buses. But, just as an abundance of caution, we want to prove the State Environmental Quality Review Act uh as a type two action um saying that if we did have to install a charging station um that it
040would not have a significant environmental impact. >> Thank you. May have a motion to approve resolution for New York State Environmental Quality Review Act negative declaration electric vehicle charging stations. Thank you, Emily. Thank you, Kim. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Okay, next for your consideration is um the recommendation in the district's fleet electrification plan for 266 passenger electric buses with anticipated cost of 470,000 each um for a total amount of 941. Um I did look quickly to just follow up uh as far as the uh New York school bus incentive program. It was a $500 million cap program as part of that bond act that took place in 2022. So, there's a $500 million allocation, there are caps that are in place. So, as I said previously, and
041I'll affirm, there's a cap on the total amount of money. No one No one knows what happens after the big pot of money is expended. And it's kind of a non It's prioritized, you know, by non-priority and priority districts, but obviously a non-priority district. Um so, I wouldn't say that there's a financial concern, but then we don't know what happens when that money runs out. There was also EPA money that you could layer on top of that. But, I've not seen anything from our our manufacturer that would suggest that there's any federal money that's would, you know, would come in as part of uh this incentive program. So, it's a state right now it's a state program that has a cap. So, for your consideration, uh based on that updated information, is placing two electric
042uh buses on the ballot uh at this cost, again using the capital reserve to pay for it, no tax impact. >> You may have a motion to approve >> approve capital reserve electric vehicle bus proposition. >> Thank you, Sarah. >> Dave, any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> All right, very good. Next for your consideration is the use of the capital instructional technology reserve. Um the original was 500,000, we've increased that to 850 to offset the dollar amount to build capacity in the budget. >> You may have a motion to approve capital reserve instructional technology proposition. >> Thank you, Robin. >> Thank you, Emily. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Next for your consideration is a resolution for the uh New York State Environmental
043Quality Review Act again for a negative declaration of a wayfinding project that would enhance school district signs um for safety and security purposes uh and ease of use. I have to add a little bit uh more to this. Um it's an interesting conversation with the attorney in terms of both the seeker and the resolution for this. This is money that the taxpayers have already voted on and approved, that's part of an existing project. It's contingency funds. If we don't highlight the specific scope, and usually resolutions were vague enough that you could just you could use common sense and and do um projects that school districts needed with contingency money. That has changed. If you don't specifically identify the scope, even though that it's reasonable, um it might not qualify for aid. So, this is asking
044our community to vote a second time on money that they've already approved so that when we resubmit the project for aid, then we can point out that we are transparent in terms of how we intended to use the contingency money. The only reason why we're here talking about it is because we are doing very well in terms of this project. We're a little behind schedule, but we're on target in terms of finances. There's still a long way to go, but if if everything goes the way that it's going right now, we're going to need to spend that that money. Otherwise, we have to use it to just pay down debt, and that doesn't make sense when we know that we've got this work to do, right? Does that make sense? So, this seems like when
045you talk to an attorney and I communicate this and we're going to do a great job communicating with our with our public uh in our in our notice, but it's voting on the same money twice. It's for a good purpose, um and there's nothing wrong with it, but we have to do that in order to make sure that it qualifies for building aid, which remember is, you know, roughly 70 cents on the dollar. So, I know it seems like a lot of extra steps and work, but at the end of the day, this makes sense so that it's not rejected. >> Thank you, Mike. And these next two items will recall uh require a roll call vote. So, after we get a motion and second, I'll call each of your names. If you could please
046say yay or nay, and we'll move on from there. So, may please have a motion uh to approve a resolution for New York State SEQR negative declaration 2023 $69 million capital improvement project wayfinding signage system. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Sarah. Kim? Dave Burke? >> Yay. >> Kim Huls? >> Yay. >> Emily K? >> Yay. >> Sarah Plucenio? >> Yay. >> Renee Sanchez Kasakous? >> Yay. >> Robin Scott? >> Yay. >> And Jeff Casey, yay. Motion carried. Thank you. Okay, next for your consideration is the actual proposition to place before the voters the reauthorization of the contingency funds that are already part of the budget or the capital construction budget. Okay. May please have a motion to approve 2023 $69 million capital improvement project proposition for wayfinding signage system resolution for New York State
047SEQR negative declaration 100,000 facilities. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Dave. Emily? Dave Burke? >> Yay. >> Kim Huls? >> Yay. >> Emily K? >> Yay. >> Sarah Plucenio? >> Yay. >> Renee Sanchez Kasakous? >> Yay. >> Robin Scott? >> Yay. >> Jeff Casey, yay. Motion carried. Okay, next for your consideration is a negative declaration for another SEQR for the $100,000 um it's a capital it's a mini capital project within the budget that qualifies for aid of the aid ratio, so approximately $70,000 in the next fiscal year. Okay, may please have a motion to approve resolution for New York State SEQR negative declaration 100,000 facilities improvement project at Mendon Center. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Renee. Thank you, Kim. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. Next for your consideration
048is a budget transfer request uh for our technology plan. Transfers of 600,000 has been requested to address uh the concerns. Um and essentially it's VPN, firewall, wireless access point. So, technology infrastructure equipment. Um it'd be a transfer uh into um the codes that will then uh qualify for uh potentially qualify for BOCES aid. These are year-end projects that we typically do for technology. May I please have a motion to approve a budget transfer request for the technology plan? >> So moved. >> Thank you. Thank you, sir. Any questions or comments? Hearing none? All in favor? Motion carries. Next for your consideration on the consent agenda is a bid award for magazine subscription services. Thank you. Human Resources Report, Mr. Clark. >> Thank you and good evening. First for your consideration is the professional staff report.
049We have one certificated staff appointment, one SRP appointment, one SRP resignation for retirement, one administrator revised resignation date, one SRP resignation. We have spring coaching salaries and per diem substitute appointments. >> Thank you. May I have a motion to approve the professional staff report? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Renee. Thank you, Dave. Any questions or comments? Hearing none? All in favor? Motion carries. Next for your consideration is the support staff report. We have two clerical appointments, one clerical resignation, one clerical resignation for retirement, two transportation appointments, one transportation resignation, three custodial maintenance appointments, and two custodial maintenance resignations. >> May I have a motion to approve the support staff report? Thank you, Kim. >> Second. >> Thank you, Sarah. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Thank you. And
050next for your consideration, we have the bus drivers and attendants contract. Um I always enjoy contract negotiations to highlight our core values and our work with that. I I really would like to thank Mr. Vasquez and his team. Um they do so much behind the scenes work to make sure that we can have a contract that um really does well in terms of our best efforts in recruitment and retention, but also is financially sound. So, just a lot of great work and thank Mike for that and his his team. >> Thank you. >> [snorts] >> May I have a motion to approve the Pittsford bus drivers and attendants contract? >> Second. >> Thank you. Thank you, Kim. Or Emily, sorry. And Renee. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Motion carries. >> Thank
051you. And finally, we have one memorandum of agreement on the consent agenda. >> Thank you. >> Special education report. >> The recommendations for Committee on Special Education and Committee on Preschool Education are on the consent agenda. >> Okay. And superintendent's report. >> Back to me. Thank you so much. Um there is a need for an executive session tonight to discuss pending litigation. >> May I have a motion to approve a call for executive session? >> Someone. >> Thank you, Sarah. >> Second. >> Dave. All in favor? Motion carries. >> Thank you. And you also see uh we have a policy recommendation updating for a first reading for 3140, that's the flag display. Um just just to give you some context around that. Um that really highlights better what the uh chain of communication is for
052when um flags are flown and removes the discretion for the superintendent to make that determination. So, um you'll see that red line uh in there for you to read and um vote on it at our next uh meeting. Um as for my report, it's been a really exciting time of year as our students uh started to share and I just wanted to congratulate and thank Masudeh for her very successful iftar. Am I saying that correctly? Iftar dinner um to celebrate Ramadan and you must have had over 100 people, well over. >> We had like 105. >> Yeah. Um with uh really led by Masudeh and uh her friend and the support of their families, but aside from the incredible food, and you already know how I feel about the baba ghanoush, um the the sharing
053of your culture and your traditions and your religion and to see so many of our students and teachers, um supervisor Bill Smith was there. So, well done to you. We're very proud of you and all the hard work you put into that and I hope it's something that continues for many years. I know it's something that you were really excited to bring here to Pittsford. So, thank you and thanks for including so many of us. Um just a highlight that um a reminder, we have the middle school unified basketball game this Friday at Calkins Road at 6:30. That's always I'm sorry, at 6:00 p.m. That is always one of the most exciting events of the year. So, um to anyone who may be watching or who has not attended in the past, it is worth
054every minute of being there. So, um we're we're really excited for that. Uh we have just uh tip-off was 4 minutes ago for our boys basketball team at Mendon High School. Um so, they are in the quarterfinals now after winning sectionals last weekend and um our boys uh hockey are still going strong this weekend um Saturday in the semi-finals so good luck to both of our teams who are still in it and of course we've had and I've shared with you we've had state champions in our track and field and some really just exciting ends of the season that we're celebrating as as our new spring season is is starting. A couple things just also to highlight as Mr. Vespi was saying that incredible work of our food service department I just I cannot say
055enough after being in all of our schools throughout this year the attention to detail and the pride that is going into the food that's being presented to our kids is second to none. So we've kept saying to them especially at elementary with the increase in breakfasts you just give the one option right we can just keep it really simple and they they can't they're not able to they they want the kids to have the food that excites them even though they know that the pancakes with the little syrup already in it is going to bring them many more students down there beyond what they've ever done before it's it's really exciting to see and it goes all the way into the classroom so to see teachers making time for students to be eating their drinking
056their milk and having their pancakes or their cereal while they're working or coming back from their specials so they've really integrated it as part of the day and I was just at Parker Road the other day and all of the fruits and vegetables in the individual cups were all lined up in rainbow order and it just make the food so visually appealing to students and the amount of variety that they have and it's consistent between all the schools and that's really due to the work of Elena and Christina so taking the guesswork out of it in terms of all the pieces that go into the national lunch program there's different points that that foods get whether it's a green grape or a red grape or so they're taking all that guesswork out and doing the
057menus and the purchasing and the delivery for all of the schools so they can really just focus on putting everything together and giving it to our students in in the best way possible. So, I am always so impressed. I was taking pictures all over the the place. We had Chipotle bowls the other day at Mendon High School, and it's just fun to see the kids just loading up on vegetables and rice and protein, and they're really excited to be able to eat the food. So, we're seeing the consistency in the quality of the food just continue to to increase. So, really wanted to highlight that work. And of course, that's all happened under the leadership of Mike Vasby. And now that he's here, I know at our last meeting we uh we uh accepted your
058resignation or your resignation for retirement, and that won't be in place until the end of this year, but while you're here, just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work. I know we have lots of time to celebrate you throughout the end of this year, but uh I would be remiss not to just share the significant impact that Mike has had on our our district's ability to weather really challenging financial times, but also set us up for so much success into the future. And coming in as a new superintendent and to be able to learn from you and learn alongside you and know that you're here to support us and and wanting to put us in the best possible place while bringing in so many amazing new and innovative things to our schools,
059including all of the secure vestibules in all of our schools. I was here when Mike said, "Why don't we have this? We have to have this." And it was up to vote that year and was the first thing as a priority. So, just prioritizing safety, security, and instruction coming from the business side of the house has been something that we've all really learned from, and you've made our schools better. You've made it a better place for our students and for all of us who've had the pleasure to work alongside you. You've You've made us better and and taught us so much. So, just wanted to thank you, the first of many. Um congratulations on your retirement and um we hope you uh enjoy it with your family um in good health for a very long
060time. Yes. Yeah, of course. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you. Have a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you, Renee and Robin. Any questions or comments on the consent agenda? Hearing none. All in favor? Motion carries. Any old business? Any new business? And with that, we'll take a motion for adjournment, please. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Sarah. Dave? All in favor? We're adjourned. Thank you.