November 13th 2025 VCS BOE Meeting

001Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey, [music] hey, [music] hey. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey, hey, hey. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. about [music] you. Love you. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> our November meeting. We were previously in executive session and are now in our regular session. Um, I'd like to call the public portion of our meeting to order. Please stand for a moment of silence. >> Mr. Snider, would you like to lead us in the pledge of allegiance? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Welcome to all of our visitors. Our first portion

002of our meeting. Um, I would just like to read the public participation reminder if anybody wishes to sign up. Persons wishing to address the board must sign up prior to the start of the public participation, which comes a little bit later in our agenda. Speakers must register on the form provided by the district at the entrance of the boardroom to maintain a first come, first serve process. For purposes of following up with speakers, the speakers must provide their name, address, telephone number, and or email address. To limit comments to matters which may be properly discussed during public participation, the speakers will provide the topic. Any group or organization wishing to address the board must identify a single spokesperson. In the event of an emergency, everyone please follow the exit signs to the outside of the

003building. Please stay completely clear of the building to provide space for any emergency vehicles. Thank you. Item two, approval of our agenda. I need a motion to approve this evening's agenda. So moved. >> Dr. Parks. Brian, >> Mr. Adams, thank you. All um are there any questions or comments about our agenda this evening? Seeing as there are none, um all in favor? >> I I >> opposed. Any abstensions? The motion is carried. Item three, superintendent updates. Dr. Teranova. >> Thank you, Mrs. Mitchell. Uh and uh happy Veterans Day to all our veterans. Uh specifically Adam Snyder on our board of education and certainly congratulate the incredible accomplishment of Lieutenant General retired Kirk Pierce who will be honored in just a few minutes for being inducted into the graduate of distinction uh group and it's a

004fantastic honor and we're looking forward to that. Also, thank you to Mark Panis for the nomination of Kirk. Uh I just want to talk briefly about partnerships. It's been a theme all year and especially groups helping one another and districts helping the district helping the community in terms of support. Uh it's really important that we are supportive of our community uh for two reasons mainly to teach our kids authentic ways to promote traits such as empathy and caring for others. These traits along with some of the other critical skills of self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, resiliency and decision-m are not separate from academics that we teach. They are combined to support academics and it's really important that we keep teaching especially empathy and caring. Also, when we have partnerships that support our families and our community,

005uh it it's important because we have our own families who need that support. Uh this community uh has approximately 1,200 students right now out of the 4,200 who qualify for free and reduced lunch. Uh that's more students that could fill our entire auditorium. Uh so we do have families in need especially for food and support during this time and we estimate that the need might be even greater than that. Why am I talking about that? because I want to highlight a couple of the partnerships that the community has with our district and the district has with the community that support all of our families. First of all, I just want to thank the breakfast and lunch food service crew. They do that critically important job every morning and every noon time basically uh during the

006week and they support the feeding of our kids. Like I said, over 4,200 of them every day and we couldn't be successful without them. Uh some of the leadership groups I want to celebrate fourth, fifth, and sixth grade student council. They've collected things for birthday bags for the spot, which is the organization that is directly aligned with our district to support families who need not only materials but food. Uh they've also supported the food cupboard. Uh they also work with the victim Farmington food cupboard for the Thanksgiving food drive as well as and they support the Salvation Army. The junior high school has the go green garden club that's grown and provides that grows and provides food for local groups and also the student council at the junior high shifted their focus this year to

007support local food cupboards and the spot at the senior high. We have so many groups that are supporting our community. The carers club, DECA Key Club, National Honors Society and Student Council are consistently helping others with a strong focus on supporting local food cupboards and the spot this year. And it doesn't factor in the countless volunteer hours that these groups do as well as our athletes and our musicians and our robotics team [snorts] uh as they participate in community support and community involvement throughout the year. Also want to shout out our amazing staff. We have the yearly holiday giving tree project to support families and holiday gifts. And that's an amazing project that happens again every year. It's going on right now. Uh they have stuff the bus where our transportation department does this to

008donate paper products and other items to the local food cupboard and the spot. That's occurring actually in the next couple weeks called stuff the bus. Again, our transportation department volunteers on a Saturday to do that and everything goes to the spot and the local food cupboard. Want to give a shout out to Chelsea Shaw who is the VTA community connections chairperson who organizes much of the community outreach for the Victor Teachers Association. They do three major events a year. A big fundraiser for the food cupboard in the fall, a raffle to benefit the serenity house in the winter, and they set up a table to allow kids to plant seeds that they can grow and watch that they can grow into plants in the spring and do some heavy support for our cares Carnival. So,

009I missed a variety of groups. I apologize, but I just wanted to make sure people understand how much work our our school community is doing to support our own community, especially those families in need right now. And the point is that our school is a community and we're trying to make this community the strongest it can be. So, thank you to everyone who is uh doing the extra effort to help others and show empathy. That's my superintendent's update. >> Thank you, Dr. Teranova. We are moving on to item four, presentations and recognitions. As most of you know, earlier this week, we celebrated Veterans Day, a time for us to pay our respects to those who have served our country. For one day, we stand united in respect for our veterans. The Veterans Day holiday started

010as a day to reflect upon the heroism of those who died in our country's service and was originally called Armistice Day. It fell on November 11th because that is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. However, bless you. In 1954, the holiday was changed to Veterans Day to account for all veterans in all wars. VCS has many veterans. This year, as in years past, our communication department reached out to all staff asking for them to submit their years of service and photos for recognition on social media and here tonight on this presentation. While not all our VCS veterans chose to participate in this recognition, I believe that those who did represent all our veterans in their commitment to our country. In the words of former President Harry S. Truman,

011our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. Please take the next few moments to silently reflect on not only our VCS veterans, but all veterans. Thank you. And very fittingly tonight, we are very pleased to have our graduate of distinction presentation. And I would like to turn it over to Mr. Adams to introduce our recipient for this year. Mr. Adams. >> [snorts] >> Um so good evening everyone. uh as the board representative for the on the 2025 graduates of distinction committee. It is truly my honor and frankly uh one of the easiest yes assignments I've received all year. Uh I'm here to help kick off uh the recognition of this year's graduate

012of distinction uh retired Lieutenant General Kirk Pierce, proud member of the VCS class of 1984. Kirk was nominated by his classmate and friend Mr. Mark Panis, who decided that after 40 years of knowing Kirk, it was finally time to make it official. Yes, he really is that impressive. Uh once you hear Kirk's story, from his extraordinary military leadership to his impactful business career, uh to his remarkable philanthropic efforts, you'll see why Kirk embodies the word distinction. Uh the graduates of distinction program was created to recognize Victor alumni who have achieved excellence in their careers, service, families, communities, and personal lives and to share their journeys as a source of inspiration for current and future students. Uh it's our way of showing every student who walks these halls that greatness can start right here. And clearly

013in Kirk's case, it did. Tonight, we're thrilled to celebrate a graduate whose life's work reflects honor, service, generosity, and a level of achievement that would make any school district proud. At this time, it is my pleasure to introduce Kirk's classmate, friend, and nominator, class of 1984 alumnist, Mr. Mark Panis. >> Thank you. 10%, right? >> Yeah. Well, [clears throat] I'm happy to be here tonight to uh introduce Kirk, uh friend and classmate who uh as we all know has recently retired from the United States Air Force as a lieutenant general. So, what's a lieutenant general anyway? Um well that means of the approximately half a million men and airmen and women in the Air Force and Air National Guard in any given year, Kirk was one of only about 33 people to hold that rank

014of of three star general. So at the time he left active duty. So that's uh quite a journey from the halls of Victor High School and Victor Central Schools. So his journey began uh when he left to go to Notre Dame. He was on an ROC scholarship there. Um, graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering. Kind of fits with his career path. Um, received his Air Force commission, became an instructor pilot. Um, next up was, uh, flying F-16s, uh, becoming a fighter pilot and being posted here, there, and everywhere. um moving up the ranks in fighter squadrons and and various commands in the Air Force and the Air National Guard. Um throughout his career, uh I think it's in the the summary of the program, he's he's flown nearly 5,000 hours uh completed over 70

015combat missions and uh you know, his service includes Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. So, um, our senior military commanders are, uh, not only well trained, they're well educated. And, uh, Kirk's no different. He, uh, earned a master's degree from the National War College, completed exe ed courses at Syracuse, MIT, and Harvard. Um, so let's fast forward in his career and shorten this here. Um, so 2020, eight promotions later after starting out, his final posting was as commander of, uh, and it's a mouthful, uh, the Continental US North American Aerospace Defense Command, aka NORAD, uh, and then simultaneously commander of the first air force. And in that role, he was responsible for the health and welfare of several hundred,000 airmen and women and a budget measure measured in billions of dollars with a B.

016and uh he also helped oversee the formation of what is today known as the uh United States Space Force. He served all over the country and the world from South Korea to Iraq uh to Arizona to the Pentagon in Washington DC. He's got more uh military medals and ribbons on his chest um in his uniform than you can count, but you know, among them includes the Purple Heart. He's uh testified in front of congressional committees. He's tracked and shot down Chinese weather balloons. He's even overseen NORAD's annual Santa tracker. So, he's he's literally done it all in his career. Um, as was mentioned earlier, Tuesday was Veterans Day, and it's a perfect fit that Kirk's being recognized by his alma mater this week. Um, he could have done anything, but he chose to serve our

017country and uh do so with distinction in the Air Force for 35 or so years. Since retiring, he hasn't really slowed down much. He's uh flying internationally as a commercial airline pilot, uh consulting, uh serving on the board of the Civil Air Patrol, and uh still managing to cheer on Old Notre Dame. Um on a personal level, he's someone I know to be a great son, husband, and father. His mother, Pat, is here with us tonight, and I know his late father, Doug, is looking down with pride. Together, they raised a good man. Christy, his wife, is also here with us um tonight. She's the uh the one who held things down on the home front with their three kids, while Kirk was deployed on increasingly increasingly larger assignments throughout his career. Um she also

018carried the everinccreasing responsibility for the spouses and families under his command along the way. So without a doubt, um she's the brains of the operation. Um, and then I guess last, I guess I'd like to say that I was not the only one who thought of nominating Kirk for this award. Another independently, another classmate and, uh, Air Force veteran, Kevin Santon, also submitted his name. So, um, either way, Kirk was going to get this award. Um, that's that's really his career in a nutshell. So, without further ado, I'd like to call on Superintendent Dr. Tim Pteranova to present Kirk with the award. Thanks. >> Thank you so much. So, uh, Kirk, you want to Where are you? [snorts] I was being entertained with some amazing stories by uh, Lieutenant General uh, Pierce earlier. That's why

019the meeting was a little late. So, uh, I hope you tell some when you talk. But I I want to say before I give this to you, thank you for obviously your service, your incredible service to the nation. Uh secondly, thank you for being such an amazing role model for thousands and thousands of kids that have graduated from Victor since you did in I believe 1984. >> Uh you're you're an incredible role model, a incredible person to be able to put out there and say this is what you can be. And lastly, thank you for your uh service today and talking to our kids at the high school. I was lucky to I wish I could have spent more time with you, but I was lucky to spend a little bit of time and listen

020to the message you send to the kids. And I I love the fact that you told kids to pursue your dreams and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Things are going to work out. And uh it was just a great message from somebody who's achieved so much. So without further ado, uh I want to present the Victor Central School District graduate of distinction to Lieutenant General, retired Kirk Tick Pierce, inducted November 13th, 2025. Congratulations. Thank you for [applause] >> [applause] >> I need way betterile. It just is what it is. Like I got [clears throat] you can hear me. I'm go no microphone. My wife It's easier for me if I stand away from the microphone. So, uh I know you guys get your business, so I want to take your time to say

021thank you. >> Thank you so much, Superintendent. Thank you for the recognition. Really appreciate it. Uh I'm sympathy for you. So getting people to say a second picture the baseline that you all set kind of the board looking at what's the strategy what are we doing how we school is very important as a taxpayer I'm in Colorado but for my new taxpayers that are here they hopefully understand what you all do members department really important keep them honest and don't let the old people fool like pay attention, ask your questions. Thank you so much for the recognition. Uh my mom was able to be here. I wish my dad was. Thank you for just being wonderful parents putting up with my act. And uh my friends are here from 1984. So there's quite a few

022of them around here. Some family friends. So thank you again for making it out. And you're right, Mark, the brains of the the family over there. My wife's Christy. Uh if you don't know, if you get to talk to her, she's uh born and bred and lived her whole life in Denver, Colorado. She has seven brothers. That's why she can really put up with my act and all my friends, whether they're fighter pilots or not, it somehow figures out that my high school friends, my Notre Dame friends, my flying friends, and even now when I'm back working in industry and working at United, they all tend to be the same kind of people. slightly obnoxious, um, slightly opinionated and who like to talk and she can put up with all of them. So, it's very

023nice that she stuck with me. I think it's the whole set of brother things and she had no fear of punching me or she just reminded me in the brains uh, you know, I am the four star when I put on my third star. They go spouse into a one rank provoker above your husband or your wife and I'm like so still is she just reminded me of that. And uh, Mr. Thanks for being here. Uh I will say one thank you more and that's to the school uh Victor. So I went kindergarten through the beginning of sixth grade here. Then we moved to Florida back in the later 70s. Moved back here. Used to live out in Farmington then lived in Victor right over in Ridge. And so I was back for my sophomore

024through senior year here. So the baseline that the school gave me here, I'm still proud of and I'm very proud of Dick Central School. The system going through it and what it helped me to get to and where it helped me to go. So for people who don't understand that every school is not the same, there's significant differences and challenges, but Victor's done it really well. I really knew Victor was on the map, not just my own bias and sympathy for a school there, so it's got to be good. We live down in Annapolis and our kids played lacrosse and football and soccer. Victor school started showing up down in Naples. I'm like, "Well, my son plays for the Hawks. They're pretty good, you know, and the Victor lacrosse at the time was really coming

025up." And then after that, this is like in 2012. They were down. They're at the Notre Dame National Championship. They lost in 14. Then they lost again two years later. Not that I hold a grudge or anything, but do Uh, but I will say Victor not only good in sports but not academically well respected. So I believe that's part of the reason why I got under just because of the education that was here and the teachers and stuff that were just really good teachers and care. So if you can say anything to the board to the rest of the school when you get an opportunity, please give them my thank you. It's really you guys do great work and the school me has a soft spot in my heart. Uh for my family, we got

026three kids, so they've kind of put up with this and moved around a lot. We have a a daughter who's working at Disney World, a son who's a captain in the Air Force. He's in Air Force Special Operations Command over in England, and then our other son just graduated from grad school at Auburn, so he's in Columbia, South Carolina working. So, none of them uh followed my footsteps in the fighter world, but they're all serving, doing their thing, and doing great stuff for the for America. that a lot of people don't if you have a a detachment in a squadron here in Rochester. So everybody, if you do know civil patrol, you think about it as blind, but it's a volunteer organization, 5013C. All of you pay for it, taxpayers. So it's a government funded.

027We have our own philanthropic side for the foundation, which actually is the only thing that got us through the government shut down. We had no money, but we had to do our own foundation stuff. But there's 71,000 people across the United States, including outside the United States. There's a squad I didn't know until I got on the board. There's a squad in Japan. There's one in Germany, obviously in the Marianos, Guam, Virgin Islands, so Puerto Rico, some non-states and some of the territories in the United States. And uh of those 71,000 people who volunteer, there's only we're pretty lean, only about 182 full-time people that are either part-time or full-time paid staff. And they do great things with kids. And again, everybody kind of gets stuck on the civil patrol as a flying piece. it

028is has the largest test known fleet 56 aircraft in the world but they have the largest small unmanned aerial system drones uh in the United States and they are phenomenal in cyber so if you have any kids that are thinking about hey I need something else in my life and I'm just trying to have my resume civil patrol does great stuff in the state emergency management response here in New York ice storms rain you know water flooding that kind of stuff and then they also if we ever need to be on the air force auxiliary we do a lot of missions for the air force and augment them and it's all volunteer. They do things that I couldn't do in the military. It would be called collecting and against title 10 US code 13i title

02910 and you go to jail if you say words like that they can do it cuz they're voluntary civilians [clears throat] so they can triangulate and find you if you're out in the appalations and you have a cell phone they have contacts with other companies and they can do that stuff. So they go out fly they send people in. They teach you how to repel. they got taxes who can work on cyber and work through everything not just like type stuff and then really get at it. So if you see an opportunity for that um please push people that way. Why I kind of gate and talk about that is when I go and meet with these kids and I talk a little bit about the floor with a few of you like I was

030just in Minnesota for our board meeting. We meet three times a year in person and there was a girl there uh in Minnesota. She's 16 homes. She's in her second year of the University of Minnesota. is just going to give a three-year degree in bio something engineering. I can't even say it. And she's trying to figure out when she graduates, do I want to go into that and go into the biosciences or do I want to be a none? I'm like, well, those are all these options are kind of separate way. And she got up in front of that group like this and we're all sitting in her board and there's all the hangarounds that are there and all people staff and supporters and articulate to the point. No ums, no uh no uh and

031ask a question. great response. It wasn't planned. It was well thought out. Could lead any kind of formation. I'm like, if you could transfer that to all of our politicians, generals, flag officers, we'd be fine cuz it just puts a lot of faith when people talk. You know, my kids make fun of me as a boomer. I'm not a boomer, but they whatever. It seemed like it's fun to say it to my face and watch me spin. Um, but I go out and see these kids and a lot of people in our generation or around us who knows the why are these kids doing that? Why do that? They don't know this, they don't know that. They're too much on the phone. They're too much. And if you go and see them, which you all

032have to do, you're like, you are so far from the truth. I mean, you guys are acting like the get off my lawns kid like, you know, just go meet them, talk to them. And I'm sure there's some that are just stuck in Tik Tok and reread and leave everything that comes out of their conspiracy theory, but most of the ones I interact with are just phenomenal. And that's why when I come back, sorry it took so long. I would have liked to have made it earlier, but this worked really well to come back and see my mom and had things going on before this didn't do it. But I really do appreciate it. I appreciate you giving back to our the next generation. Appreciate you guys being on the board and taking care of

033these people, keeping the spring. Um, and as we go forward, please keep doing that. It It means a lot. And I know people serve for different reasons. Uh, for all of you that can have an opportunity to serve as a volunteer. It gives back more than it takes. I know you all know that and I'm probably appreciative of the choir, but thank you for doing that. Again, thank you for the recognition. If there's anything else you'all want to know, then more than happy to talk. My wife says I like to talk. So, uh I don't know what happened this guy used to have hair, but uh she might have been skinnier and that's why she married me, but >> thank you really. [applause] Thank you so much for those words too and for the commitment

034of coming back and meeting with our students and sharing your experience. Thank you >> very much. Um prior to part uh public participation uh in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I just wanted to take this opportunity to recognize our board colleagues, our student reps, the district office leadership team, building leadership, and all of our faculty and staff at Victor Central Schools. It really is a truly remarkable place to serve and to have our children attend. So, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I just wanted to express that gratitude. On to item five, public participation. Although the board's work is open to the public, this is not a meeting with the public. At this time, privilege of the floor is offered to those who have signed up to speak. The chair will be happy to recognize those of

035you who wish to speak. When you approach the microphone, please identify yourself before presenting your thoughts. Individual comments will be limited to three minutes and the total time for this portion of the agenda will be limited to 30 minutes total. Please note, issues related to specific school district personnel or students must be brought to the attention of the superintendent of schools privately as they are not discussable at this venue. Thank you. And I would like to invite Chris to the podium. >> Duny. >> Dunvy. Thank you. >> Welcome. Good evening. >> Good evening. Uh Chris Duny, uh resident in Farmington for the past 23 years. Uh so thank you for allowing me to speak before the board. Uh this is not my first time here. Uh I was here about 18 months ago uh and

036spoke before the board to uh point out uh I mentioned special ed on the sign-in sheet. Um and I'll elaborate on that. Uh when I was here 18 months ago, um I had entered a Freedom of Information uh request to look into how many students had been suspended uh in the I believe at that point the 23 24 uh academic year or at least most of the way through it. Um and unfortunately came to find uh the facts state themselves that over 50% of in most grades uh those students that were suspended out of school suspensions were uh either had an IEP or a 504 which would designate them as special needs students. Um, I hoped uh when I entered a new Freedom of Information request uh a couple uh last month uh with the

037district to find that there had been progress made uh and unfortunately I got that information today uh and am here because frankly um I don't see much progress made. Uh I believe and I said at the time that I think the administrations and administrators uh have a difficult time perhaps lack of training of understanding the needs of special needs students and therefore assessing appropriate punishments for those students who may be illquipped to understand uh their actions. uh when I put in a new request. Now, we're not far into this school year, right? And that's what I asked for. I will be back. I did ask for last year's 24 25 information. Um I also take off my glasses when I read, just unfortunately that age. Um I hope to just take a few minutes to

038go by uh most of these grades where there have been suspensions and excuse me, out of school suspensions. Chris, just you have about 50 seconds left. I just want so make the most of your time. >> Sure. In grade two, three of three students, >> three students suspended, three students uh had IEPs and 504s. In the intermediate school, uh in the fifth grade, two student suspensions, one with an IEP, so we're at 50%. In the sixth grade, there have been four out of school suspensions year to date. All four of those students have an IEP. uh in the seventh grade, in the junior high, frankly, in the junior high, every outofschool suspension has had a IEP or 504. There have been three in grade seven, three in grade 8, three had a specialed IEP or

039504. Same in eighth grade. In the senior high, in ninth grade, 50%, two suspensions, one special needs student. In the 10th grade, seven out of school suspensions. Two of those had an IEP or a 504. Uh, and in the 11th grade, all four out of school suspensions have an IEP or a 504. And in the 12th grade, the only out of school suspension has an IEP or a 504. You are the board. They work for you. Your job is to have this information and make sure it's acting appropriately. I came 18 months later hoping to have much better to report to you on this and here we are 100% of most of these grades where there suspensions 100% of the students are special needs yet getting sent to out of school suspension. I respectfully request

040that you act. It's not just me just coming up here to pontificate. I did get a nice email from y'all after the last meeting. That's not action. We need to have better training for staff and administrators so that they can make appropriate actions and that's what I task you with. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comments, Chris. >> Okay, we're moving on to item six and acceptance of consent items. Are there any questions about items A through J? Before we proceed, >> I want to recognize as part of the personnel agenda the retirement of Deb Palisano, who's been a teacher aid for 17 amazing years at the junior high school. And uh in her retirement letter, we are thankful that she actually put a sentence in there saying she's willing to sub, [snorts] but

041she does an amazing job and I just want to congratulate her on influence so many influencing so many kids at the junior high. >> Thank you. Can I please have a motion to accept consent items A through J? >> One other thing too, just to note the gratitude to Suanne Kurs in honor of Leo Lobos with the donation to the music department and that that generosity >> and item E. Thank you, Dr. Parks. Any other comments before we look for a motion? Okay. May I please have um a motion to accept consent items A through J? >> So moved. >> Dr. Parks, can I please have a second? Doc. Uh, Mr. Snider. Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. Abstensions. Motion carried. Item 7A, campus news. Looks like we're starting with Mr.

042D. Rose for the early childhood school. >> Thank you. Good evening. I'm Rob D. Rose, the principal at the early childhood school. uh want to share some positive and engaging activities that have showcased our school and district's supportive community uh that make us who we are. One of those was um the PTSA popcorn and pajamas movie night that occurred actually on Monday, the day before Veterans Day. We had students and families come to the school in their jammies enjoying some popcorn and a night together in our auditorium watching a movie together. It was a really fun and warm and welcoming environment. We really enjoyed uh celebrating that with our families and appreciate our PTSA support and volunteers to make this event happen. We just finished up our first community action service project. It's called Scare

043Away the Chili Willies, organized by Kim Galina, one of our fabulous kindergarten teachers. students and classrooms and teachers brought in items that were given to the Center for Youth Services, which is an organization that supports women and children that are going through difficult times. The ECS donated over 20 boxes filled with items like hot chocolate, cookies, granola bars, hats, gloves, socks, and other items that'll go directly to those families and children in need as the winter months approach. Want to just give a reminder to our families that parent teacher conferences are coming up soon in early December. Uh these are important meetings that our families and teachers partner together to collaborate and ensure success academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally for all students. Families should sign up for a conference with their child's teacher. We have

044the Lions Club visiting in early December to provide the students at our ECS and our multi-age classrooms a free eye screening. Um if they sign up for it, families will receive a permission slip as well as additional information about this opportunity next week. and we're very appreciative to the volunteers from the Lions Club and their commitment to our students, school, and district. Um, our ne our first schoolwide community reads and assembly is happening next week. As a school, we'll be gathering together to identify, recognize, and celebrate what we're thankful for. This special event will bring our students and staff together to share what we're grateful for, to sing our school songs as we enter this season of thanks. Speaking of which, I want to wish the board and our community and and my fellow administrators

045a happy Thanksgiving. And like was mentioned earlier, just grateful for all that we have here in Victor. The teachers, the students, the families. We really make a unique and special district. So, thank you. All right. Good evening. I'm Amanda Burn. I'm the principal at the primary school. For us at the primary, November has been a month filled with connection and gratitude. We continue to enjoy our whole school readaloud. Um we also have our second whole school community meeting coming up on November 21st. As a faculty, we continue to prioritize our collaborative learning experiences, focused on implementing new curriculum, using our PLC structure to become increasingly datainformed and responsive to student needs, and um using our time together during faculty meetings to learn high impact instructional practices. This morning we had Carrie Goodell visiting our November

046faculty meeting to teach our entire faculty about building thinking classroom practices and how those um strategies can be impactful for all teachers not just teachers of mathematics. It was helpful for us to consider how we can support students with productive struggle, increase engagement and improving their um attentiveness of time on task. Our PPS and related service teams are learning how to utilize Panorama to document student supports and also to progress monitor which is new to us. So doing this in an increasingly consistent and um thoughtful way. Our students are also involved in these engaging shared learning experience experiences. Today we welcomed local meteorologist James Gilbert. Students loved hearing firsthand how weather is predicted. They asked insightful questions and explored real world science in action. It was a memorable experience that energized both students and adults

047alike. And I hear that our picture will be on the morning news tomorrow bright and early. As we move deeper into fall, our teachers are hard at work preparing progress reports and getting ready for upcoming parent teacher conferences. These conversations with families are an important opportunity to reflect on every child's progress, celebrate their growth, and partner on next steps to continue um to support their continued learning. As always, we remain grateful for our strong partnership with families and the ongoing support they provide at home. November's been a meaningful month at Victor Primary, and we look forward to continuing this work together as we move into the winter season. And I think we got a little snapshot of that excitement this week with our first snow and a reminder of how special that is to students

048at this age. [clears throat] Good evening everybody. My name is Jimar. the principal at the Victor Intermediate School. It's been another exciting and meaningful month at the intermediate school. On October 29th, our students had the opportunity to participate in a virtual author visit with Chris and JJ Grabbenstein, who are the authors of our community read book this year, Shine. Several students were able to ask the author's questions directly, and the Grabinstein shared valuable insights about the perseverance, creativity, and curiosity it takes to be a successful writer. Traits that actually align perfectly with the character traits we emphasize at VIS with our students. A special thank you goes out to our librarian, Olivia Sha, for her organization and leadership in bringing this wonderful experience to our students. Earlier this week, we were proud to host veterans

049in our classrooms as part of our annual Veterans Day recognition. Students were invited to bring in family members who had served in the armed forces. And these guests shared stories about their service and the meaning of sacrifice, duty, and community. It was a powerful and personal learning experience for our students, and we're grateful to our PTSA and to one of our fourth grade teachers, Alex Kushell, for their efforts in coordinating this special event. Finally, our teachers and staff continue to deliver highquality engaging instruction across all content areas. In a recent science lesson, for example, students explored how buildings are engineered in earthquakerprone regions to withstand seismic activity. Using the engineering and design process, students then collaborated to build and test their own model structures um made out of uh marshmallows and toothpicks. Um, and actually

050the ground, the simulation for the ground was kind of unique. It was made out of jell-o and so they shook the tray and the jell- moved all around and the structure had to stay up. So there was a lot of uh a lot of competition happening as well. Um, the combination of hands-on learning, teamwork, and problem solving on display was very impressive. Thank you for your continued support of our student, staff, and programs at VIS. I'm actually going to stay up here as well because I'm going to deliver the campus news for the junior high for uh principal Brian Gee as well. So, uh as the junior high wraps up their first 10 weeks of the school year, we're excited to celebrate the positive momentum and community spirit that continue to define Victor Junior High.

051Thank you to our students, staff, and families for helping us launch the year on such a strong note. Also, we wanted to recognize the opening night of the uh Victor Junior High musical next week. Our talented performers, musicians, and crew members are putting the final touches on this year's musical. We can't wait to welcome families and community members for opening night next week. The student council is leading a schoolwide food drive to support local families as we head into the holiday season. And then next month, our uh concert season begins as well. So the junior high winter concert series kicks off next month. We look forward to showcasing the hard work of our band, orchestra, and chorus students. Um last week we probably recognized school psychologist week and celebrated the incredible work of our Victor

052Junior High School psych team. Their support, expertise, and commitment to student well-being make a tremendous difference in our school every day. And uh on November 19th, we are looking forward to welcoming members of the Victor Board of Education to the junior high. This visit provides a great opportunity to highlight programs, showcase student learning, and share the work happening in classrooms across the buildings. And finally, um, our new teachers have ha have been participating in a unique professional professional learning experience, spending a a day fully immersed in a Victor Junior High student schedule. By shadowing students, they gain valuable insight into the rhythms, challenges, and successes of life in uh, our building. They will share their reflections and takeaways at an upcoming faculty meeting. So, thank you for um all all that you've done for the

053Victor Junior High as well. Hi everybody. Good evening. I'm not Matt Howerin or Keith Pedzik, one of our assistant principles at our senior high school. Um, unfortunately they're unable to be here tonight, but I am thankful for the opportunity to share some of the wonderful things happening at Victor Senior High School. As we move deeper into fall, our career counselor, Mrs. Jacobs, and our counseling team have been working tirelessly to support our students in their post-secary planning. Mrs. Jacobs hosted 41 college application workshops this fall, which were attended by 149 seniors. November 1st marked the early action deadline for many colleges, and I'm proud to share that approximately 56% of our seniors submitted early action applications. Just three years ago, that number was closer to 30%. This steady and significant growth speaks to our students

054ambition and the exceptional guidance they received from our counseling team. That momentum continued on November 6th when Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Marinus hosted our annual college night featuring nine workshops facilitated by representatives from six nearby colleges and universities alongside our PPS team. The 125 families in attendance attended two sessions uh offering with offerings tailored to every grade level. It was an outstanding evening of learning, engagement, and preparation for life beyond high school. And we're not done yet. On November 18th, we will host a financial aid workshop led by staff from Fingerlakes Community College. This session will support families in understanding the FASA and navigating the often complex world of college financial decision-making. We also have much to celebrate in terms of staff recognition. Uh Mr. Chris Wuest was selected for the University of Chicago's Outstanding

055Educator Award, an honor given to a small number of educators nationwide who have been nominated by newly admitted students for their profound impact on learning and personal growth. In addition, last week, Mike Guido received a Golden Apple Award after being nominated by two students. His caring nature, calm demeanor, and ability to create a safe, welcoming learning environment have had have made a lasting impact on these students and on so many others throughout the school. Our students have also been shining outside the classroom. Last week, senior musicians from band, choir, and orchestra performed at the veterans lunchon at Victor Town Hall. Not only did they provide beautiful music, but they also served cake and spent time speaking with local veterans, thanking them, listening to their stories, and demonstrating the kind of respect and empathy we strive

056to cultivate in all of our students. Our music teachers deserve special recognition for teaching both musicianship and meaningful interpersonal skills. Finally, our performing arts programs continue to bring energy and creativity to our campus. The cast and crew of the fall play, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, 30 plays in 60 Minutes, recently delivered a fast-paced, one-of-a-kind production full of humor and audience engagement. And we're ready we're already looking forward to next weekend when the junior high production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premieres. With more than 80 students involved across cast, crew, and orchestra ranging from grades 7 through 12, it promises to be a vibrant and truly collaborative production. Performances take place on November 21st at 7 p.m. and on November 22nd at both 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. We hope to

057see the community there. In every corner of the building, academics, arts, counseling, and student life, our staff and students continue to demonstrate hard work, creativity, and connection. Thank you for your continued support of our programs, our educators, and most importantly, the students. Thank you. Thank you to our administrators for those campus news updates. Item 7B, community partner group recommendations. We'll be hearing from Dr. Teranova, Christine Griffin, and some of our community partners. >> Thank you, Mrs. Mitchell. And I also want to welcome certainly Christine Griffin who will be helping me present and also Dave Tantillo and James Sawyer who are in the front who will also be presenting with me. I do want to give just a little bit of context before we talk about the community partners. Uh and very briefly uh little context

058includes a bit of history about Victor. For years and years we've had stable enrollment actually years before that increase in enrollment. Unfortunately, when we've had that this stable enrollment, the state aid, which is a huge piece to our revenue, has not kept up with it. We've been the district was short changed uh financial aid for years and years, which led to some significant understaffing in all areas and having one of the lowest per pupil expenditures of any school district in New York State for a period of time. Despite those challenges, the district leadership uh and uh and and staff and and faculty certainly uh uh General Pierce can talk about that or talked about that a little bit did an amazing job to have an outstanding academic achievement and uh comprehensive school district during that

059time. Recently between 21 and 24 the state aid did increase thankfully to more appropriate levels. Because of that we were able to hire close to 65 positions uh over half of which were in the special ed realm or supporting students mental health. And thanks to that staffing increase as well as the existing faculty of staff that did an amazing job in the past few years we've seen significant gains. whether it's uh a significant increase in the special ed graduation rate from 55% to 91% to the highest participation as well as performance and AP revenue and expenses. The bottom line revenue and expenses the bottom line is our revenue currently is right around 2 and a half to 3% increases increase and our expenses are increasing somewhere between five and 6% which leads to a gap.

060It's one of the reasons why the board authorized over $3 million of our fund balance or contingency to be utilized towards this year's budget. Unfortunately, that's not a productive and stable way to support revenue. And so, that's not a longstanding way to keep a stable district. So, thankfully, the board of education put forth an idea to me as superintendent. Why not utilize the collaborative expertise of this amazing community to find alternative ways either to increase revenue or save on expenses? And not only did the board come up with that idea, they also came up with names of community members that they knew throughout the area that might help. So that is what happened. We formed a committee of community partners that have met three times and the goal of that community partners right on this

061slide is partners is to share with the board of education and myself ideas that lead to potentially out of the box ways to increase revenue as well as innovative ways to collaborate with the businesses and universities and other entities to save on expenses but keep or actually increase student opportunities. That's the goal of this group. Two themes again, increasing the revenue sources beyond state aid and property taxes and developing partnerships. Those are the two main subgoals to the to the focus of this group. This list of I think 29 names, somewhere between 28 and 29 names. This is everyone of the community partners that showed up for at least one of the three meetings. and even some people that aren't on here that didn't come to the three meetings that were picked by the board

062ultimately gave a lot of information to us uh through phone calls and through survey. So, this is a testament to the level of commitment the Victor Central School District community has towards its schools and these individuals have been amazing in their work to try to come up with ideas to support us uh outside the box of state aid and taxes. So now I'm going to call up James who's going to talk a little bit about the work that the partner group did. Hi everybody. Um so the um committee did meet three times um over August, September and October and um for 90 minutes um each time and um within a large group and then we broke into separate groups from that large group um and had conversations as well. Um we did review the financial

063situation at the August meeting. Um, Superintendent um, Terteranova went into detail along with um, assistant superintendent Griffin. Yeah, good memory. Um, also went into that um, meeting as well in detail on the situation. Kind of gave us a survey, I'm sorry, a lay of the land. And then we actually after that um, convene or um, dismissed and went into a um, kind of our own things um, with partner groups but also a survey. And that's where the really a lot of the ideas you're going to hear tonight came from was that survey and then meeting two in September is where we really got into the nuts and bolts. We rever reversed those as well. Do [snorts] I just hit this next one? Yep. Um community partners, we all kind of again we reviewed everything >>

064[snorts] >> um refined as well. So, I think it's important to know that as we start to present the five ideas to you tonight, um, we really did refine everything and really start to dig deeper into what can be actionable and what can work. We kind of took, um, an A-list and a B-list, if you will. Um, and that led down to um, obviously unanimously agreeing. So, these five things that you're going to hear tonight, I'm actually going to actually it's the next slide. I'm going to cover the first of the five um as well here, but these are the five u major ideas that were unanimously passed by the group. Um and I think the last committee meeting we had a very good turnout in person um for that. Um the five ideas here,

065legacy and major gift fundraising, other revenue streams, um that are very creative, educational program partnerships, um superintendent mentioned, um universities, that type of thing, community education programming and energy in facilities. And the legacy and major gift fundraising is actually really near and dear to my heart because it's what I do. Um so um the idea that we were thinking about um really was centered around using a university based model um and collegebased model. Um oftentimes um as you know um I my day job is at the University of Rochester for major gifts. Um our alumni always expect our call [laughter] and um they take the meetings because there is an affinity there. Um, but we kind of were thinking about the idea of Victor, right? And Victor has UNA or is unique in that it

066has the Victor Education Foundation as well. And you know, I kind of think about like an MCC and MCC Foundation model, right? There's something similar there where there's a nonforprofit raising funds for the public school entity. Um, so there that actually is an idea there just kind of as an analogy just to kind of make you think about that. We were also thinking about tapping into our alumni network. um beyond just the, you know, $50, $100, we're thinking large gifts. We're thinking um really starting to act and and target the alumni um that can actually help solve some of our problems um or challenges I should say with the financials, Venmo, obviously easy donations, but also the class specific liaison. This is where I think the important part is. One of the things that I

067was thinking, you can see here modeled after university fundraising. When our group was convening on that, we were actually thinking about annual giving days. We were also thinking about recurring annual funds. Um, you know, a lot of universities start even at $1,500 a year and it's a 5-year pledge. Um, so that's recurring revenue that's coming in that you can count on um coming in. Um, if they're donating it to a t or to a foundation, it's a tax um advantage for that donor as well, right? Um, so December is when you see that usually come in. Um, so those are kind of the things we were also thinking about donations from corporations and businesses for significant projects. One of the ones that was mentioned was the auditorium for elementary schools. Um and um I think

068somebody in our committee actually had uh or our little group had idea um they got that from their family in North Carolina. Their school has the football stadium is named by Pepsi um as the um is where their football stadium was built in South Park, Charlotte, North Carolina. Um so I think I'm going to hand it over to Dave next. Yeah. There you go. >> Thanks, James. Uh Dave Tantel, in case you don't know who I am, uh thanks, Chris, for uh nominating me on this uh wonderful committee. It is actually a wonderful committee. Uh a great group of uh folks led by Tim. Thank you so much. Uh but uh one of the ones uh we got other avenues, of course, they they delegated me the slide for taxes. who wants to pay taxes,

069right? Okay, I'll do the tax slide. So, um, so here's a couple suggestions that the group came up with out of the box thinking. We realize it has to be vetted by legal department because, you know, some of this stuff got to make sure it's legal or not, but what a great idea. So, in in the situation right here, here's a couple proposed ideas. There's a few more that will be provided to you in your um your paperwork um with regards to looking at um your property tax bill. How many people go to retailers and they say McDonald's, hey, do you want to round that up to give to the Ronald McDonald? So, here's another concept. They get your property tax bill. Let's say your property tax bill is $6,990. Can you can you round

070it up to $7,000? An extra 10 bucks. I know it sounds corny, but everyone kicking in a little 10 bucks here and there. Once again, we got to vet it out to make sure it's um um it's legal. Another one was the county sales tax. So, if you look at um all the counties that touch us, so you got um Monroe, Wayne, Livingston, Senica, Yates, and Stu Ben. Does everyone know what the sales tax in those counties are? 8%, right? What's Ontario County? 7 and a half%. So, here's an opportunity. We're not going to be able to take to share in the 7 and a half% that's for the county governments. But what if we went from 7 and a half to 8% and took that half that half a percentage as is incremental revenues.

071So, well, is that a big deal? If you spend a $100 at a store, you're paying 50 cents more. That's I mean think about it that's a half a percentage 50 cents more. So um why can't we do that? We'll have to vet that out. So the there are some other examples too but these are once again out of the box thinking. Let's see we got here. Okay. Here we go. Another one is educational program partnerships. Um, once again, this is another one. Uh, creating programs that will be cost less than the typical school program but result in the same better experiences for our kids. These experiences could lead to immediate employment. What are we talking about? We're talking about partnering with local businesses, local colleges to start focusing on um trades or uh businesses

072out there or careers out there to help our students put them in a position um and partner with these institutions. And for example, the trades. You can never have enough trades, what can we do to help uh get people in the trades more. So surveying local businesses for their needs, asking them what is the growing, what's the the most popular careers out there that we could partner with. Uh uh partnering with FLCC and two and four-year colleges for dual enrollment credits, leveraging work-based learning programs to support more students involved in the workforce, charging tuition for out of district students to attend special programs. I This is great. uh in the business world data analytics. So anyone who asks me hey I don't know why I want to go to college for there are businesses that

073want people to be data scientists or data analytics they want to go and data mine and they pay re all different types of businesses pay big dollars for this. So what could we do to partner with organizations to help put our students in a better position? So another great opportunity here with these educational program partnerships. Now I'm going to flip it over to um to Tim. What happened here? Oh, there we go. Uh the what is this? The fourth idea is community education programming. Uh there are many districts around our area that have a communic uh community education department. There's two real purposes to it. One is to align the use of our facilities, especially things like the aquatic center and our athletic fields through one entity for afterchool, weekend, summer activities so that everyone

074is under the same umbrella in terms of those activities and the money flows through one group which in this case would be the community education department. A second uh piece to this would be to increase our availability of adult education courses and opportunities for the community whether it's evening or on weekends or certainly in the summer. And you do those two things and you don't cut out the town recreation department. You collaborate. We collaborate with the Victor Town uh recreation department and other entities that are supporting some of these activities right now to make sure they're supported. But at the same time, we're able to raise revenue. It would be a self ultimately over time, it would be a self- sustaining entity uh that would have a director and a clerical person uh that would

075coordinate and organize everything, but ultimately be self- sustaining and and increasing money to serve as a reserve to support the district partially each year that would add revenue to our budget. So it's something that other districts are doing. If the board decides to pursue this idea, we would certainly reach out to those districts, use the experts among us as well, partner with the town recreation department and make sure that everyone supported in this effort. So that's the fourth idea, community programming. Christine will do the next one. Good evening. Um, our community group partners group discussed the critical areas of strategic long-term energy self- sustainability and immediate electrical infrastructure challenges impacting the district. On the topic of energy self- sustainability, we reviewed concepts focused on reducing our long-term operational costs. Specifically, the discussion uh explored key

076energy um alternative energy, excuse me, um options, including geothermal and uh solar energy. Um to ensure that these ideas are thoroughly vetted and integrated into our long-term um long range strategy, we formalized the district's facilities committee, which met this afternoon um at 4:00. Um this committee is tasked with developing a five-year facilities plan. It is multidisciplinary uh and includes two board members um the superintendent uh the director of facilities um the myself the architect um our architect SWBR um our construction manager campus construction and representatives from various departments and buildings on campus ensuring that all stakeholders perspectives are included in this critical thinking. members raised strong concerns that the uh current grid capacity um provided by RG& is um dangerously insufficient uh and poses an impediment um potentially impacting our district's capital project um hindering

077housing expansion um across um Ontario County and also hindering the state's mandate um requiring school districts to transition to um EV buses. We have a clear uh phased approach to advancing these major ideas generated um by our community partners. The timeline is designed to ensure board oversight and structured work. The critical first step is securing the board's direction. After tonight's presentation of the major ideas, the board's um for the board's review and feedback, we aim to reach a final decision on which ideas to pursue at the December board meeting. Once the board makes that decision, we shift into the implementation phase. In January 2026, we will launch specialized subgroups drawn from relevant constitu constituency groups to tackle the specifics of the approved concepts. These subgroups will then spend the next five months from January through

078May intensively operationalizing and detailing the concepts. Their work will culminate in a final progress report which we will which they will then deliver back to the board in June or July of 2026 outlining achievements and recommending final steps. Are there any questions from the board of education? questions from board members or student reps or comments. >> I would just say thank you for the the yman's job and the work that the committee and the groups and I'm excited about the recommendations that they put forward for us to be able to review make a decision on >> anyone else. Yeah, echoing. Thank you again for doing that. And it is kind of one of those situations where you the that brainstorming it just comes up with more questions. So it's like a lot um of stuff

079where you need to kind of check out the legality and and all of that aspect. So it's like it gets your mind racing. So I I'm look forward to Yeah. you know your efforts, but it does raise a lot of questions too. I'm excited about the breadth of opportunity and pursuing um some of them and seeing where it takes us. So, thank you to the entire group and for the presentation this evening. >> Thank you. >> All right. Item 7 C, management plan update, student supports and opportunities, the high school goals and updates. Mrs. Finter makes her way to the podium once more. >> Hi everyone. Karen Finter. I'm the assistant superintendent for instruction. And on behalf of the high school team, um it's my honor and privilege to share um their update uh regarding

080uh their uh year four management plan goals centered around the student supports and opportunities pillar. So, as you remember, our management plan um really is that annual slice of our strategic plan centered around three goals. Throughout the year this year, um you will hear from the different buildings as they present um a slice or a snapshot into their work around culture, learning, and instruction. And tonight's focus on student supports and opportunities, making sure that uh our student supports and opportunities so every student can achieve their full potential. [snorts] As we unpack this year's management plan, there are really two areas that help frame the high school's work. Um, further identifying barriers to access, access to coursework, access to um instructional supports, access to um even attendance and then using resources to monitor academics and social

081emotional progress to inform problem solving. So tonight you'll hear a bit around how the high school is is really challenging um these two areas within our management plan. So, uh, in their comprehensive goals, um, the high school really would like, um, to to ensure that every student has access to quality supports, um, so that they can access the curriculum and the resources across the broader community. What we would expect to see once these goals are achieved is that kids feeling that sense of belonging and engaging fully within the connected school community. Over the summer, the team unpacked a tremendous amount of information. Data that informed their goals included uh information around chronic absenteeism and that rate um from last school year was 11%. Um they also looked at the gaps in per uh proficiency in

082particular looking across different subgroups uh minority students, students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students. Although we acknowledge that AP scores are at an all-time high, AP participation is low in many of our subgroups, including minority students, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students. And these elements um are what the team really hopes to address um throughout their goals, but you'll hear a little bit more about their work tonight. So, just to give you a sense um of where the team started really kind of thinking about the ways that they look at data review in a very structured way. Um so, there are some current processes in place to support how the building looks at data. It's a comprehensive high school with over,300 students. And so thinking about how could they look at data in a

083meaningful way um to really help target where needs are. And so currently they engage in uh cohort progress reviews with student support teams and the director of special special education. They use panorama which is a comprehensive tool that compiles data from multiple sources and graphically represents it so that it can be fully engaged with and people can understand really the information that they're looking at without having to manipulate a bunch of spreadsheets and numbers. Um and so those supports, those meetings and that use of the tool really helped to identify students targeted for support and working within the building and that comprehensive high school really ensuring that there are support teams that look specifically at areas of need and teachers can access requests for assistance for students in a pretty seamless manner. So, it's not

084a a matter of um you know trying to figure out who to ask for help but being able to go right to the source. Too far. Um so the focus of uh Panorama has really um helped to support the um uh uh documentation of student needs inputting student notes and supports so that the whole team can see um progress that's being made. They're using Panorama for data sweeps, including reviewing attendance, uh, credit acrruel, behavioral needs, region exam needs, and scheduled supports so that that information is at the fingertips so that the team can really help to break down uh where the problems might be um presenting themselves and get to a problem solving process instead of spending all the time sifting through data. uh with 10-week data just in, a team will be clo uh

085closely reviewing it specifically for attendance and some groups were created proactively to really monitor some of those highlevel needs. Students in our boost program, online learning, the targeted assistance program, TAP, and students with critical attendance needs. As the year goes on, you can see that the team has really developed uh a quarterly or or trimesterbased um phase to support using Panorama. And so that with a goal that all staff will be able to access and look at that student information as it pertains to the students in in front of them um at that time so they have a whole picture of where those student needs might be. And in particular, one of the areas that rose to the surface with this comprehensive data review is around um attendance. And so to the high school has

086been really working on a proactive and tiered system for identifying students that need support in uh improving their attendance. They identified um some students um over the summer to really use um as kind of that case study to triage. It's a main driver as we know um because if students are not in school, they're not able to achieve and they're not able to access some of the resources that can help them. And so it just becomes this spiral. Um and so this this system helps to set a proactive um call to action. And so in the summer um the PPS team met um and reviewed the list of students to determine intervention needs. Is it um just a monitor or is it something where we have to engage with families? We have to develop a

087really proactive plan. Um, and those plans were established, tracked, those family meetings were held, and there's some great work that's been happening. Um, as I mentioned, those family meetings were held, and they're monitoring attendance right now. And so, here are two examples. There was a 12th grade student last year who attended 72% of school days. Now, their current attendance rate is 90%. They did participate in a summer meeting um with their parent um an administrator and a school social worker um and they've been tracking their student attendance and the interventions the check-ins that the team has been providing to that student to really maintain that positive attend uh attendance level. In addition, a 10th grade student attended 57% of school days last year, current attendance rate of 86%. They also participated in that summer meeting

088and we're tracking the academic um and attendance intervention in Panorama and again seeing seeing the benefits of that close personal contact um right from the start of the school year. So right now um as the first quarter draws to a close our chronic absenteeism rate is about 5% and the goal is to maintain it at that level. While we would love to have 100% attendance rate we know that that we really it's something that we have to monitor. We want students um to be in school to be able to um engage fully and participate and and attendance is really an important factor in that. So in addition, the team is going to be doing some additional work this year. Um really communicating with parents around the benefits of attendance. Um sharing some data and some

089information the correlation of proficiency and mastery to attendance and using um on the internal side using some of those intervention plans within Panorama to track student attendance. The additional place where the the team is really trying to be proactive and think about um student supports and opportunities is around AP and advanced coursework. And it certainly is wonderful. As I mentioned um earlier this year, our AP participation, participation in dual enrollment coursework is fantastic, but really kind of thinking about how students can maintain that, how we're not um diminishing the importance of a senior year for students um to take those challenging courses. And so uh the team is working to develop a recommendation process where students um could be recommended um for that right level of challenge so that even students can identify what they're

090interested in in challenging themselves as a part of the course registration. So, it's not just uh oh, you're going into 11th grade, these are the courses that you're taking, but rather really trying to figure out uh where student voice and choice could be and also reaffirming a level of challenge from their teachers. And then one of the barriers that um we thankfully have been able to remove this year is around the dual enrollment uh credit costs. will um able to offer those courses at no cost because of the uh closer that Boseies um has enacted. Um it does remove a barrier to many students um which is a which is a wonderful thing and we want to make sure that we're continuing to investigate those types of opportunities um that the district can provide to

091our students. And then we want to make sure that we're also communicating to our families and our parents what some of these opportunities are. So ensuring that we're we're including the advanced coursework and all of the different varieties of it in our parent newsletters. Um making sure that faculty understand what some of those opportunities are beyond their discipline so that they can have conversations with students. And then we're also trying to think about what are the ways that we can support students during the school day so that they can receive the support they need to maintain and stay within those advanced courses. So are there Gemini or AP support sessions during activity period? Can we think of peer tutoring or peer uh coaching partnerships um with students that may have challenged an AP or an

092advanced course uh prior to um that school year. So really kind of investigating some of those opportunities but looking to maintain um and enhance the enrollment in these courses for all kids. And so I thank you for your time and attention um and and the opportunity to share on behalf of the high school um tonight. Any questions on the work? >> Go ahead. Go ahead, girl. It's okay. >> Just a couple things. Um, when you talk attendance, is it just full day attendance or if they're late and they miss the first block, is that caught somewhere? >> Yeah, so the right now that attendance is full day. Um, we can slice and dice some of the attendance data to look at, you know, the number of tardies and that sort of thing, but the team

093is really focused on that full day attendance. >> Okay. Yeah. because like I do feel like just in my history of driving my son up when he was late um there were a lot of cars pulling in and it wasn't always just you know late um arrival. So like that is a niche of kids that are just maybe skipping one class or you know if we are you know our start times are too early or something. So eventually down the road, one more thing to look like. Um and I do like the idea of um that partnering with pair peers um because like just with my own kids, I know a lot of times, you know, knowing what courses to take, it was that discussion at the lunch table or the discussion with friend groups.

094So, if there's a way to kind of push into those friend groups and say, you know, hey, APs, you know, aren't that bad, or it's okay if you don't pass it, you, you know, it's better to learn in a comfortable environment. Um, or just the fact that like, oh, if you're really into you going to X, Y, and Z college, they're going to look at what Victor offers and if you didn't take what we have to offer, that kind of looks, you know, that they look at that in your application, too. Mhm. >> So, like some of those inside kind of things, you know, I like I you know, I wish you luck in trying to get that in. I like the idea of peer support, but thank you for all you're doing >> from

095the standpoint of we just heard about, you know, ways to generate alternate revenue streams for the district and we're coming into the budget season >> and putting the budget agenda together as the improvements and the strides that the district has made and kudos to that with the drop in absenteeism and thank you for the specificity of that question. Are we positioned right now from a budgetary standpoint to maintain and to achieve those? So from a resource standpoint, does the district should you be asking us for more in support? Are you good at the status quo to be able to feel confident enough that yes, we can keep moving in that direction or the real reach is are you feeling that you are so well equipped that the district and being mindful of financial concerns should

096be saying okay well the the resources being put into this he were put in heavily to make this impact. Do we need to maintain that high level of it or can that be redirected still maintain that and put additional res or shift those resources to another area of need if that's a long question but does that make sense? >> I kind of want to answer D all of the above. Okay. So, I I think I think a couple of things and I certainly can't um um speak fully for the high school team because they they live um some of the data practices and their um IST supports and the interventions that they're pulling putting in place. They they live them and can can speak I think a little more directly to some of your question.

097But I think no matter what our process is, we're always looking at um how do we refine, how do we make it better, how can we be efficient with our practices. Sometimes it's not just more, but it's also thinking about our efficiencies, right? That the data review process prior to really their focus on that this year, it was a little bit of whack-a-ole, right? there would be similar conversations happening and the kids might be the same kid coming up, but now it's we're talking about attendance and then a few weeks from now we're talking about their their grades and then a few weeks from now we're talking about behavior. And so instead of trying to look at those things in isolation, an efficient way to do it and using a tool that we have access

098to and and it it's it's um provides a great foundation. they're able to do that in a more efficient way that is yielding positive effects. So I I think it's a little bit of a little bit of both. I think one of the things that Christine and I are working on is around the idea of these coasters and how to leverage the coasters um to support the great work that's happening not just with our uh Gemini courses but other dual enrollment courses and even AP and thinking about some additional coasters that could tap into the cost of APs um because I know that that's a barrier and that might be a conversation Dr. parks where we we have to talk a little more about what's our initial outlay for that and what would that yield

099us um in in return and what opportunities it would provide for students. So it it is a it's a little bit of d all of the above. Um but know that that we're consistently trying to use what we have refine what we have to be efficient and look for new opportunity too. >> Thank you. And you and you feel that you are being fully supported. >> Yeah. Oh yeah. Are there any other questions or comments? >> Thank you so much. All right. Item 7D, capital project updates. Uh thank you. Um so tonight um we have Mark Medalina from uh S SWBR our our architects and George Spanaris from campus construction management um who will be here to present on an update for the capital project. Um things are moving forward and and um we're hitting

100different milestones and you're soon going to be seeing uh more activity on campus as as we get bids in and we award bids and construction starts this spring. So, um, I'm going to leave it to them to give you the detail of all of that. >> Thank you. >> See if I work this well. Okay. [clears throat] Well, this is our agenda for for this portion of tonight's uh uh discussion. We'll give you an update on phase one and phase two work. Uh George will talk a little bit more about the the budget and project schedule. um our our capital project themes. We have we've shared them before, but they're they're profound. Safety and security, building renovations and innovation, facility repairs and additions based on enrollment and space needs. The uh phase one work at

101the early childhood school will include PA and clock upgrades. That's a a campuswide upgrade to the PA and clock system. So, it's a common theme through these. Um, the phase two work at early childhood school um includes air conditioning added to the cafeteria and gymnasium. At the primary school, PA and clock upgrades for phase one and phase two. Air conditioning added to the cafeteria and gymnasium. the intermediate school. Phase one will include PA and clock upgrades, but also 31,000 square feet of roofing restoration. And then phase two will include air conditioning in the cafeteria and gymnasium as well as a visitor parking lot at Field 16, 116 spaces. That is scope that was moved from phase three. Um proposed construction will start in spring of 2026 concurrent with phase 1 and that is to ensure

102that we don't have parking loss in in the course of all this construction work. Phase one at the junior and senior high school will include PA and clock upgrades, a turf field at number seven, field number seven with ADA accessible sidewalk and fencing and facility repairs will include 94,000 square feet of roofing restoration. In phase two, the junior senior high school under the theme of safety and security is replacing the kitchen sanitary system, creating secure vestibules at both a junior and senior high school, relocating the main offices as as part of that. Unused junior high school locker room becomes an athletics office. In facility repairs, we're adding a clay trap in the art room. Building renovation and innovations includes air conditioning again in your cafeteria and gymnasium. And we're relocating health clinics. Additions based on

103enrollment and space needs. We are adding 17 instructional spaces between the junior and senior high school and uh 19,000 square feet of an addition to the junior cafeteria. You'll see that in the rendering here. The Victor Learning Center is a complete renovation of the old building. Um, you'll see an exterior image here and a before photo. Um, we're we're adding a little bit more green space in front as well. Um, but big improvements to the the tutoring classrooms inside and then the operation center. We're very excited about this piece. Um, we're adding a CTE automotive program in the old bus garage. So, when the the new bus garage was created, this space was left vacant. Um, it's being revitalized and and made into a CTE classroom to support tech technical education. >> Nice to see

104everybody again. So, uh, first phase, uh, or the, um, themes for the budget in phase one is safety and security, PA systems. That's going to be a little over, uh, $2.5 million. Building renovations and innovations, close to $8 billion. Facility repairs, campuswide roofing repairs, a little over $2.8 million. Uh, so the total amount for the phase one scope of work is 13,328,523. Uh so phase two building additions uh the cafe classroom additions is just a tad over $23 million. That's the bulk of the project. Building renovations at $15 million. Uh campuswide site work which includes sidewalks, uh sidewalks, roadways, bleachers, uh $3.8 million. HVAC scope um move from phase uh three is $2.6 million. Uh so the total for the phase two is a little over 44 bill 44 and a half million dollars. The

105bulk of the work is in phase two. So here's a a project schedule. Advertisement to biders for phase one was sent out October 3rd. Uh so that's already uh the documents have already hit the street. So the agenda for bids to be issued for phase one is November 24th. So, the contractors are going to be looking at the drawings and then uh if they have any pre-bid RFI questions, they have to be answered by the 24th. Bid opening is on December 4th. Um then we'll descope after that and then breaking ground for phase one uh sometime in January with the fields shortly to follow thereafter sometime in the spring. We just want to make sure it's not too wet otherwise we can create more damage uh to the areas. So, that's uh our schedule for

106phase one. uh phase two schematic design uh that's already been completed design development for phase two uh that was submitted on June 27th. So the construction documents for phase 2 is ongoing uh which we intend or the architects intend on uh submitting to SED on December 19th. Uh anticipated breaking ground for phase 2 is uh September of 26. And then as that is happening, phase three design work will will also commence and and start uh in early 26 right after uh they they complete the drawings and submit on December 19th. And then uh we're looking into solar and PV study for uh that was requested from from the board of education. So um we've commissioned the engineers to take a look at uh the potential for something like this. >> Perfect. segue in. Uh, any

107questions? >> Where's the chocolate river and the fountain going? >> Let's see. It's going in Dr.'s office. [laughter] Invitation. >> Thank you so much. I really appreciate these updates. They're they're wonderful. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks for having us. >> Any other questions? Um, just if on the I don't um the you checking for solar, the option of solar. Um the other one would be geothermal. Yes. >> If there's if you can add that to >> and we did uh when the solar question came up, we made sure we asked our engineers about geothermal too. Um there is a report on solar underway. It was not ready for prime time at all. Uh we we don't we haven't received it yet. U but when we do, I'm I'm optimistic uh next month

108we'll be able to report back. >> Okay. Right. Right. Yeah. I just figure while we're digging up the whole area, let's look at the other options, too. So, great. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Keep digging. Is that what you're saying? >> You're digging all up. Let's put some geothermal. Put some pipes. Yeah. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you so much. All right, moving along. Item 7E, we have some trip approvals. uh the Seas Club to Lake George, New York from March 6th to March 8th of this coming spring. Varsity boys lacrosse to Fort Lauderdale, Florida from March 30th to April 3rd. We received the itineraries for both of these trips. U may I please have a motion to approve these two field trips? >> So move. >> Mr.

109Snyder, can I have a second? Um second. Okay. Are there any questions or comments before we have a vote? >> All right, that being >> I got one real quick. I just wanted to say um thank you. I know the uh a lot of the boys, the senior boys um brought this up and and showed some leadership getting some of these trips proof specifically for lacrosse. Um thanks to the boosters and coach Stone for getting this thing into the end zone. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Snyder. Any other questions or comments? All right. Um, all in favor >> the trips. Any um Oh my gosh, I like lost my train of thought. Any opposed? Thank you, Dr. Parks. Any opposed? Extensions. Motion carried for both trips. Have a wonderful time. We'd love to

110see pictures. Thank you. And be safe. Yes. And bring that sunshine back to us, too, from Sunny Fort Lauderdale. We'll need it at that point in the early spring in Victor, New York. Um, item eight, meeting reports. A, Monroe County School Board Association committee reports. Does anybody have any info to share out? Um, I know Mrs. Kucky is away on business this month. Um, I have an upcoming district operations committee meeting next week on Wednesday. So, I'll be happy to share at the December meeting. Are there any meeting reports for standing committees? Uh, we did have our facilities committee meeting today. Um, you guys are pulling in a long afternoon and evening, Mr. Snder and Mrs. Prescott. Um, >> but it was uh very interesting. We um we are looking at um you know the

111conditions part of the capital project, what's um what's going to be addressed there. So, we had a quick uh sneak peek of the updates there, but then there are also other repairs around the district that are needed and that are not in this capital project. So, kind of you getting a little quick tidbit on those. Um we will next year we are due for that five-year um building condition survey. Um so that'll be happening next year and then we're also needing to as a committee look at our five-year planning. So, like you know what uh what we're looking at for the next five years and then that would be updated annually. >> Great. Thank you. Very excited. Thank you very much for getting it going. I know I'm [snorts] >> Thank you, Mrs. Prescott. Um

112any other standing committee updates? >> Athletics Hall of Fame and it's now it's Friday, December December 5th. Friday we will have it. It'll be at the performing arts center with meet and greet. >> All right. 17:30 and 1800 we'll be >> having the ceremony so stay tuned for any further announcements >> make sure it gets on our calendar. Thank you so much for that update. >> And we had our graduates of distinction tonight. Great job Mr. Adams for getting it going this evening as our MC. >> Absolutely. Any other standing committee updates? >> I do want to um shout out to Liz Welch for her leadership with the graduates of distinction as well. It was um I'm not sure I I I don't see her here, but I'm not sure that uh I could have

113done this without her. So, I I want to give kudos there and thank you so much for all her assistance and help there. >> Thank you for those comments. Um item 8 C, NISBA convention update. Uh in the spirit of being succinct, I saw Mrs. Prescott sent out her very thorough notes on her sessions that she attended. Mine are uh to come but um Mrs. Keki, Mrs. Prescotta and I attended the convention in end of October in New York. Um just very briefly so many different topics uh student mental health uh policy making policy engaging and accessible. Uh we had some dignity index information that I know Mrs. Kucky email to all of our uh board while we were in New York, but we're happy to discuss that further. Um lots and lots of different

114um sessions that all three of us attended. So my notes are forthcoming and Mrs. Prescott, if you wanted to add any comments. Um it I really find it very informative and I I'm very grateful that uh we were allowed to go. Um and it was kind of like a divide and conquer. There are definitely more sessions than the three of us could attend. Um, I highly suggest a little positive peer pressure here next year. It's in Buffalo. If anybody can make it to any part of it, um, it it's just a nice, you know, opportunity to see other districts and, you know, uh, talk with people and, you know, kind of take some of their best practices and, um, so I encourage everybody to try to pencil in some time next October to go to

115Buffalo. And I did want to um highlight our colleagues at Fairport had an outstanding session on AI policy and what they're doing to get things underway in their district. So that was a very um it was good to support colleagues locally and to just see you know what they're doing. And uh Mrs. Keki and Mrs. Prescott and I met with Dr. Terteranova late last week, early this week I can't late last week to share um a lot of information with him. So thank you for making that time for us too. We appreciate that. Um item nine, upcoming events. I've passed the nine o'clock mark, but we're going to be speedy on this. Um 9A, next week, um our junior high building visit, the first one of our academic year, Wednesday, November 19th, 7 a.m. If

116you're able to attend or not, let's make sure that we uh communicate that between now and maybe early weekend just so we can plan on how many people will be attending. I think that will help building leadership to plan our visit um for those who are able to attend. Our next regular board meeting will be held December 11th in the early childhood school auditorium and boardroom beginning at 7:15 p.m. And as Mrs. Salic um let everybody know to bring calendars. We need to discuss uh change in our scheduled board meeting for January uh 15th. There is a conflict I believe with the Wizards game which is a big PTSA sponsored event. So if everybody has their calendars, it would be great to figure out an alternate meeting dates tonight because we have to post it.

117We do and we were looking at maybe Tuesday that week because the Wednesday there is a chorus concert at the intermediate school >> when we would normally move a day prior. So, uh, if folks have availability to have the full regular board meeting on Tuesday, January 13th, that seemed like the based on the district calendar, what might be a good option? >> It does not conflict with district known events currently. If there's anyone who's not sure or just with um our two colleagues who are not present tonight, if we could give a hard yes or no just for availability, would you be okay with Saturday, Sunday? What would you like? What works for you? >> Yeah, if we can look at those calendars and let me know by Monday, that would be great. And we

118can publicize it for the community >> for January. >> If it needs to be moved >> the 13th, >> moving it up to >> Yes. I'm just going to let you know now. I'm good. I was going to shampoo my carpets that night, but I'll move it. >> Take it. >> I think it'll be all right. >> Ahead and fine. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, we have two. I'm fine also, but just um for Mr. Deluchia, Mrs. Kaki. >> Yeah. >> So, that we can as well. Okay. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. >> Check. >> All right. Uh item 10, our motion to adjourn. Can I just offer one more shout out to Kim Dole who does incredible work with everything that we see visually as well as the printed materials as well as

119a lot of the behind the scenes stuff. So I just want to give that shout out and the website launched this year. It's great. People find it very usable. So I just wanted to publicly give you that shout out. >> Thank you, Mr. Adams. >> Thank you. Anything else for the good of the order before we adjourn? All right. May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> Mrs. Prescott, can I have a second? I just want to stay here. >> Sure. Second. >> Okay. Thanks, Dr. Parks. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Abstensions. Thank you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family and friends.