001[Music] Hello everyone. Welcome to our September uh 2025 board meeting. Um as we gather today, let's take a moment to reflect on the solemn anniversary of September 11th, 2001. We remember the immense loss and the countless acts of courage and kindness that emerge in the face of tragedy. May we honor those we lost and reaffirm our commitment to fostering a community built on resilience, unity, and hope. If you are able, please stand with us for a moment of silence. Aiden and Bella, would you lead us in the pledge? Thank you and welcome everyone. We're excited to have you all here. We are also excited, as you've probably noticed, there are two new people sitting up at the board table with us. Uh we have Aiden and we have Isabella who are our student representatives to
002the board of education. Um, as we talked about at meetings last year, uh, New York State required that we have two student board members, and we couldn't be more excited that that law is in effect. Uh, there were well over 20 students who applied. Um, and the board, uh, took an immense amount of time to sit down and review all of their applications and excitedly chose, um, Aiden and Isabella to join us in our inaugural year with student board representatives. So, we are incredibly happy to have them here with us tonight. Uh public participation. Persons wishing to address the board must sign up prior to the start of public participation. 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
003purposes 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 part public participation, the speakers will provide the topics. Any group or organization wishing to address the board must identify a single spokesperson. Item D, reading of emergency evacuation procedure. In case of emergency, would everyone please follow the exit signs to the outside of the building? Please stay completely clear of the building to provide space for any emergency vehicles. Now for the approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda tonight? >> So moved. >> A second. >> Brian. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any abstensions? Any opposed? Motion carried. Well, the greatest thing about being back in September is we
004get some presentations and recognitions of students. So, I would like to invite up our director of health, physical education, athletics, Dwey Wymer. How about now? Hot mic. Here we go. Okay. Uh, hello again everyone. Dewey Wemer. Uh, I served to champion courage, respect, and resilience to empower others. You're going to hear a couple stories about those three characteristics when it comes to our championships. Uh, tonight, um, last time I think I was here, I was mentioning um, that we had student athletes still competing, and that was like in mid to late June, believe it or not. Well, we got some of them back here. Uh, they did fantastic, and we'll talk about that in a little bit. Um, unfortunately, uh, with with many of our athletes, they play so many sports. Um, they're involved in
005so much. So, we have some some kids who are still competing tonight in soccer and golf and and all those other sports and then even some of our graduates are spread throughout our country um playing sports as well. Um just a couple recaps before I hand it over to Coach Hagerty and Coach Smith. Um last year was a banner year for us. 18 championships which was the second most in our school history. Uh we were a school of distinction which means 100% of our programs earned scholar athlete status, our varsity programs. Um, and we had the highest number of participants uh ever uh for our for our storied athletic program. And we're rocking already right now. If you if you noticed out there, you see the youth out uh practicing in the front lawn. However,
006it's just as busy up the hill um with over 700 kids participating this fall alone. So, uh with that being said, I'm going to hand this over to Coach Hagerty and Coach Smith. Before I do though, before I do hand it over to coach and her athletes, sorry coach, I this is why they were this is why they were not here last time. Just so everybody knows, this is the the fourth New York State Championship uh in a row for this squad. So, congratulations to them. >> Good evening. Um, before I start, I'm going to tell you we have Maddie, Summer, Cara, Ever, Gianna, and Senate, and Coach Smith. But, um, thank you for having us. First, I would like to thank Dr. Teranova and the board of education, Dewey Wymer, Mike Ferrari, Georgia, Mr.
007the rest of the high school admin, my coaching staff, and especially my assistant confidant and friend, Coach Smith, and of course the girls on our team. Um, and the whole community. So, none of this is possible without every single one of you. Um, I'll try to keep it short, okay? State championships. Again, it seems impossible to be saying this. Um, I know I don't have a ton of time, but I will try to put it um this amazing season into just a few minutes. So, at the culmination of our 2024 season, our girls were still hungry. They wanted it all again. Nothing. Um, they actually contacted me and they said, "Hagerty, can we do can we do OTAAS?" And I said, "Yeah, well, the turf's not really open. We got soccer, football, and so they
008asked me 6 a.m.'s can we do 6 a.m. OTAAS?" And so nothing says dedication like Friday morning 6 ams for the entire fall into November. Um we did have some frosty mornings but um we hit the ground running with the OTAAS as well as the fall tournaments and then a winter league. We quickly quickly realized though we lost a bunch of key players from 2024 that everyone was stepping up. And when the season started we could feel that the vibe of this team was something different. It was extremely special. The girls chose hard work for their motto and their cheer. They pushed each other every day in a positive way through preeason and conditioning. They set their goals high, almost all of them saying they wanted another state championship. This was a tall order for
009Coach Smith and I. Um, we knew if we were going to get this done, we'd have to keep our foot on the gas and we would have to learn from all of our undoubted mistakes that we would make throughout the season. Um, we took our losses to some very good teams. We kept adjusting things that needed to be fixed. We collaborated with the girls and we became closer as a team. The daily message was if you play as a team, you can beat any team out there. It didn't matter who they were. Um, the culmination of the regular season ended with a loss and we needed to get back to the drawing board. Our practices became more intense and more elaborate scouts, but also focusing on what we did well as a team. Coach Smith
010and I did learn over the season that sometimes we focus too much on the opponent and not enough on ourselves. We dedicated our practice to making everything perfect. And out of this came # one more. Um that became another one of our mottos. This is because I wanted every drill to end on a good note. So I I would always say one more. Coach Smith with her witty humor would say to the kids, "We actually don't know what Hagerty means when she says one more." And so out of that became one more. And that became another motto of ours. And every game we celebrated being able to play one more. Okay. Okay. I get emotional sometimes. Sorry. Okay. Moving to sectionals and states. One team, one dream. Maddie, turn around. Okay. This was not only
011added to the back of our shirts, but it was true. Coach and I have never seen a group of young athletes support each other the way that they did. Along with tons of hard work, adjustments, leadership, amazing team chemistry, these girls achieved their girls goals of winning sectionals in states, we worked tirelessly every single part of our game on every single part of our game headed to states and it all paid off. This team displayed amazing composure when things were tight and we are so proud of them for that. To the girls, we thank you so much for always doing your best and working as hard as you can every single day to achieve your goals and dreams. Always remember, you can do anything you set your mind to. And if you are successful, there
012will always be one more. Congratulations on such an amazing season. Thank you again for having us. >> Okay. I got it. I got it. I got it. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, you got me again. Uh, unfortunately, Coach Goodell, uh, I was just leaving the North Wing and he was getting in a car with a driver's ed class. He's a very very busy person. I think he's putting in more hours than I am right now. But um so he unfortunately isn't able to be here tonight. Um but we do have some of our um some of our sectional championship uh girls track and field team. So I'm going to call them up. Let's have Laurel Johnson please come up. Veronica Martinez Rodriguez as you come up just stand here
013with me. Maline O'Shea and Ellis McKinley. Did I miss anybody come in late? Okay, great. So, they were members of the spring 2025 uh class A1 track and field championship team. And this is the third championship in five years. So, you heard four four consecutive state championships for the for the girls lacrosse. This is their third in five years for track and field and if you know track and field it is extremely grueling. Um you're dealing with weather conditions and um it's it's really one of the most athletic sports that you can have in terms of competition and they've been a mainstay and I can't thank enough coach Gdell and his staff. Um coach did leave me a speech so I'm going to read that read this for you now. Coach would like to express
014his gratitude to Dr. Teranova, the board board of education and the athletic department for tonight's honoring of the girls track and field sectional championship team as well as our individual champions. The girls team had an exceptional spring clinching both the Monroe County Championship and the Class A1 sectionals. He would like to thank the athletes in the program for their dedication and hard work throughout the year. He would also like to give a huge shout out to his assistant coaches, Ryan Horse, Jerry Odell, Ryan Ellis, and Jen Parks for their unwavering commitment to the to the athletes. Congratulations. Um, our individual sectional champions and and we have one here. It was Dre Yas for shot put, Jack Kinsky for pentathlon. Those were our two boy individual champions. Uh, Maggie Christensen for steeple chase, Emma Goodell for
015100 meter hurdle, 400 meter hurdle, and Ellis McCloney for the 400 meter. And she's here tonight. Um, we're super excited about the upcoming 2526 indoor and outdoor season and coach would like to thank everyone again. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you again everyone. >> Item number four tonight. I will turn it over to Dr. Terteranova for his superintendence update. >> All right. Thank you. Thanks to all the athletes for your incredible achievements. And here's the good news. You can leave now if you want. Uh feel free to stay if you want, but you certainly can leave. Thank you. Uh this is the superintendent's update. I want to also recognize Aiden and Isabella for being here. I think it's fantastic that they're members of the board of education and are going to be able to give us
016the authentic viewpoint of students, which is what it's all about. So, welcome both of you. Glad to have you. Uh I don't know uh Miss W, do we have that slide with the the vision? I'll be brief, but I want to talk about this paragraph a little bit and give some examples around how we are meeting as a district this type of vision. First example is our PTSA. It's all about community as you can read there. our PTSA appreciate their leadership, not only supporting our students and our families through many activities and experiences, but also the way they support our amazing staff. So, I just want to give a shout out to them at the beginning of September because of all the incredible work that our PTSA does, and I would encourage people to really
017strongly consider joining the PTSA because it is that important. A second group that meets this vision around a one campus community and the in integrity of the community within the school district is our VCS foundation. Uh that was an educational foundation. It was established in 2014. The foundation is a separate entity from the district. It's dedicated to supporting and enhancing and promoting educational opportunities for students beyond the typical general fund budget. They do a great job getting teacher grants and other necessities that aren't necessarily covered within our budget, but that can be used to support our kids. Uh they're another community group that is essential to our well-being. The annual fundraiser, which is the 5K Devil Dash, is actually this Saturday at 8:00 a.m. It's a walk run or family event, and uh I believe
018people can still register if you go on our website. It's a great event. Um, I banged up my Achilles a little bit, so I'm probably not going to run this year, but I'm definitely going to be there. I don't know if you'd call it running what I did last year, but I'm definitely not going to do the same thing. Uh, it's an amazing event, though, and the funding is great for our district. And then the third piece tied to our community I want to talk about is the business school district and community college partnerships that our staff is doing a fantastic job creating. So recently we had a terrific meeting with representatives from the LSI solutions company which is located just down the street in Victor and uh in addition to the district being their
019FLCC Fingerlakes Community College was also represented LSI Solutions designs manufactures and markets surgical equipment and tools that help with modernizing medical treatments. And the great thing was these three entities, the Victor School District, LSI Business Corporation, and FLCC sat in a room and tried to figure out a win-win for everybody, which is LSI needs more skilled workers. They need they need professionals not just in the manufacturing piece or machine as machinists, but they also need people who would work on the design phase as well as the marketing phase. FLCC has the campus at Victor and has staff members that can collaborate with our staff members to help teach the skills that are necessary for the kids to be successful. And then our district also picks it up with internship opportunities through our workbased learning program
020that was developed about two years ago. So what's happening now is we're starting to set up these relationships with our community businesses where they end up with a greater pool of skilled workers and skilled people who can support their business and organization and we can teach authentic skills in collaboration with other entities and then give those kids uh opportunities to try out those skills through different experiences in businesses and companies. Uh we've it it's already been done multiple times through our work study program. We also have a welding program that's being utilized this year in its first year of existence uh at FLCC's Victor campus and then those kids could either go right into an apprenticeship or go into an internship. Uh that's again a connection with FLCC and our own staff. So sharing resources
021to support even better educational opportunities for our kids is a huge piece to this Victor community. And uh I just want to thank LSI and other companies that are starting to really help us uh collaborate with our kids. That's my superintendence update. >> Thank you, Dr. Terteranova. Item number 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 you who wish to speak. When you approach the microphone, please identify yourself before presenting your thoughts. 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
022not discussable at this venue. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to invite Mike Moduski. >> Hurt my Achilles. >> That's all. That's No, just kidding. Um, I feel like I've said this for the past three years in a row, and I've meant it all three years, but I feel like this is one of the best starts, if not the best start that I've had in my career. Um, and that's a huge shout out to all the administrative staff and um to to Dr. Tteranova and to the school board. Um, I think a huge part of it also has to do with the cell phones. Um, I I think the kids maybe are coming around and I know the staff are all in. Um, it's just been just a noticeable improvement in school. So, thank
023you for all your work there. Um, and lastly, u, and I hope you can pass this along to Adam and Christopher also. Um, I think the most remarkable thing about our school board is that in a world outside of here that seems to get crazier and crazier, um, that this board continues to work and and showcase what democracy should look like. Um, I think the average person would watch this meeting and have no idea what political affiliation any of you have. um and that your number one focus is making this place better for kids. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. Uh item number six, acceptance of consent items A through H. Before I take a motion, any comments or questions on those consent items? If not, then may I have a motion to
024approve consent items A through H? >> Elizabeth. >> A second. >> All in favor? >> Any abstensions? Any opposed? Motion carried. And we would like to say thank you for the donations from the Victor Cheerleaders Boosters Association and the Victor Swin Club. We appreciate both of those. Item number seven, campus news. It's nice to have you all back. Good evening. My name is Rob D. Rose, the principal here at the Early Childhood School. want to talk to you about some news going on here at the ECS as we start this new school year. I agree with what Mike was saying. It's been a wonderful start to the school year. Um especially here at the early childhood school. Filling our classrooms, hallways, and playgrounds with our youngest learners is one of the reasons why I love
025fall so much. It's such a special season. This year as a school, our theme is shine bright. We'll be emphasizing this theme as we encourage students to bring their best selves to school and to the Victor Farmington Rochester communities each day by trying their hardest, being kind friend to others, and celebrating each person's unique skills, talents, and interests. In addition to that awesome theme, we have several exciting events to kick off the year. School picture days are right around the corner on September 23rd and 4th. Classroom teachers are sending home that schedule now to our families. Fall benchmark testing has already started for our first graders. Our AIS providers, both math and ELA, along with some of the coaches are going around and checking in with each of our first graders and understanding what their
026uh baseline measure is for ELA and math. And that'll be a valuable data point as we watch and celebrate the amazing progress all our kiddos make in both ELA and math. that'll also help guide our PLC and database instructional decisions that we make throughout the year as we work toward our building department and grade level goals. Thank you to the many of our wonderful Victor CSD faculty and staff members who helped with the arrival and dismissal last week. We had so many happy helpers, including including Dr. Terteranova helping our kindergarten students find their way to their classrooms. It's just an impressive and amazing uh process to watch unfold as these three and four-year-olds start their school year here at the ECS, which from the outside can seem a bit large and daunting, but on the
027inside is such a joyful and wonderful and magical place. These three and four-year-olds learn these routines independently, confidently, and beautifully thanks to the amazing faculty and staff that we have here. They take their job so seriously because we have the most precious and vulnerable kiddos in our district. and I can't thank them enough for what they do here each and every day. Thank you. >> As she's walking up, we would just like to say welcome to Amanda to her first campus news as principal of the primary school. Thank you for that. Um, so good evening. I'm Amanda Burn. I'm the new principal at Victor Primary. I'm excited to be here for my first in-person board meeting in my new role. Um, I want to start just by thanking our staff and our teachers for the
028tremendous amount of hard work that they put into our opening days. Um, and just how collaborative and supportive they've been of each other and of us as our leadership has been transitioning. So, I'm hoping to highlight briefly just our leadership transition, our shared expectations, and some professional learning that we've been working on. Um, so I'm pleased to welcome Caitlyn Buck, who is our new assistant principal. Um, she brings with her strong instructional knowledge, systems thinking, and a growth mindset to learn in her new role. um that I know is really going to benefit our students and staff and make our already amazing school an even better place. Um also want to extend some gratitude to Mark Nelson who has been stepping in as our interim. Um he's been incredibly visible, willing to help in any
029way. Um and he's already developed some really great relationships. So we've been very fortunate to have him with us. Also want to highlight our shared expectations. This year we've done things a little bit differently and we've refined our schoolwide expectations and invited our students to consider what they look like and sound like in every setting across our school. Um, and we really feel like that helps to build our school norms and our shared sense of community. um for professional learning. On opening days, our teachers had the opportunity to analyze a variety of instructional data, make predictions, share observations, um have moments of celebration because there's been some amazing growth in second and third grade in particular, um and then begin to identify their goals moving forward. At the same time, they've been learning about and
030implementing new curriculum um that we know is both rigorous and responsive to our students and will lead to even better gains in the upcoming years. Importantly, we're also learning about psychological safety as a staff and creating those teams where colleagues feel safe to take risk, to share ideas, and to grow. I'm honored to be here tonight sharing about our first week and I'm excited for what's to come this school year. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm Jim Marorrow. I'm the principal of the intermediate school. It's been wonderful to have our full VIS family back together these past two weeks. Our staff has done an amazing job of welcoming our returning students and helping our new fourth graders feel at home as they begin their journey at the intermediate school. This year, we are especially excited
031about expanding our focus on building relationships and community while also finding new ways to strengthen student voice and foster a greater sense of belonging. Last week, we continued our annual tradition of launching our community read with an assembly on the football field. The event featured a skit performed by both students and staff to introduce this year's book, Shine, which was a fun and engaging way to kick off our shared reading experience. We currently we are currently holding grade level assemblies where we are discussing our theme of respect and how it connects to the expectations in our building and our greater school community. These assemblies set a positive tone for the year and help our students understand the important role they play in shaping our school culture. I also want to express my gratitude to our
032staff for their hard work in ensuring such a positive start to the school year. In particular, I want to recognize our fourth grade teachers who are making the shift to a traditional elementary model this year. Their efforts and flexibility have been truly commendable. Thank you for your continued support of our school community. >> Good evening everyone. Uh Brian G, the principal at the junior high school. Welcome back to the start of another school year. Um I'll echo all the same things that my colleagues have said so far. It's an absolutely fantastic start uh to the school year. Our kids are great. um really finding their way, settling in very quickly. And I have to say that I've been through a few hiring cycles and we've onboarded some really quality people in the past and this
033cohort of new hires is as as solid a group as I've ever seen. Um and our teams are all stronger for that. So, we're really excited about the new folks that are joining us. Um like Jim mentioned, we also had grade level team meetings on the opening days with our eighth graders and seventh graders to re review expectations. and we talk about with them quite a bit is what defines greatness in a person is the ability to do things when they get difficult and that concept of persevering. And so that's kind of a theme that we're carrying in throughout the year is that to achieve great things you have to be able to push through and you need to rely on the people around you to help you do that. Um so we talked quite
034a bit with our kids about that. Uh we had a new openhouse format last night. First time in 11 years that I've been there. We tried something different. uh afforded Laura and I an opportunity to talk about our model of instruction, to talk about what we have in terms of expectations for what it looks like to be in a high performing classroom as a student, both what the student role is and what the teacher role is. And then we had an opportunity for parents to have a self-guided tour for about an hour to visit with the classes and have connections with the teachers. Throughout a quick poll to the staff today, um I have roughly 60 teachers who are on it. I got 43 responses, which is a very high response rate for one day.
035100% of the people said, "Do it again next year." And all of the comments that that folks could put in uh reiterated the fact that the parents seem to really appreciate the change in format. So, I want to thank our PTSA for helping partner with us uh to rethink that. And the last thing I'll highlight for now, I'll be talking about our goals throughout the year, but one I'm particularly excited about is with our culture goal. This year we we looked at high high performing teams in any area and what's what's consistent within them is a commitment from teammates to one another about something that they're going to do to raise the level of their team. So we challenged ourselves for every one of us in the building to create an I will statement around
036culture. I will do something that I haven't done before in an effort to create a greater sense of welcoming and belonging. So my I will statement is I visit every classroom the first period every Monday and I say we're going to have a great week. I'm glad you're here. Awesome to see you. And if I've got any little updates for kids, I'll do the same. You know, I can kind of meet it at that point. And then every Friday, first period, I'm going to visit every single classroom and say, "Great week. We're looking forward to seeing you next week." Simple things, but just something a little different. Um, and we think that that and and all of our staff have committed to an I will statement and we're going to be sharing those with one
037another uh at the end of the first 10 weeks to see how we're doing in terms of making progress. So, really interesting things in our building. We're really excited about the start of a new school year. Uh, and thank you for your support and helping us find some really great teammates this year. Thanks, Good evening. My name is Kate Pile and I am one of the assistant principles at the high school. Eight days ago, we opened our doors to 1,284 students in grades 9 through 12 with 160 staff members who are all ready and excited to welcome our students back. Uh it's been a great first two weeks with our staff. We had a great beginning of the year and our students are already falling back into the routine of school. They're finding their classrooms.
038They're reconnecting with friends and staff members. Um, finding their little places to sit at lunch with their friends and they are already attending our extracurricular events and sports in very large numbers. Um we had hold on sorry uh with our staff when uh in our opening day um we talked a lot about our building goals and we are really focusing on culture building and academic performance. We are especially focusing on our professional learning community structure which is something that we started about 10 years ago and our staff is going to be utilizing data to help structure structure their department goals for the 2526 school year. We're also utilizing data from the Panorama surveys that happened last school year to help shape our building goals and provide equitable opportunities and experiences for our students. whether it
039be availability for academic courses or extracurricular clubs or activities for them to take part in. Couple updates for this month. Our class of 2026 seniors are already showing their excitement to celebrate their senior year and bond as a class. Tomorrow, seniors are going to participate in the senior sunrise starting bright and early at 6:20 in the morning where they're going to gather on the turf, hang out, and literally watch the sunrise. Senior Connection was an enorous success last month where the students were able to um paint parking spaces, do a lot of team building activities, and we are very excited to already be planning the senior Halloween party and of course the um traditional senior homecoming pep assembly dance routine. Um Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Tortoella who both have daughters as seniors this year are
040the class advisor adviserss and they're doing a fantastic job drumming up excitement for the class of 2026. We also had a fantastic orientation program for our freshman and our new students. Um that was last month and they had the opportunity we had the opportunity to speak with parents and the students welcomed them to the Victor High School family. We had class meetings for all students this week in grades 9 through 12. We have auditions for our fall play, Too Much Late Makes the Baby Go Blind. And the junior high musical, which includes some of our ninth grade students, is um and is run by one of our teachers, Mr. Matthew Maine, is Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. We also have homecoming coming up in three weeks. So, we are already off to a busy start
041of our school year. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um, and not that we don't appreciate that Dr. Terteranova does campus news all summer when you are not here. It is awesome having you all back. It really for me personally, and I'm sure the rest of the board agrees. It just it's such a sense of excitement hearing what you're sharing with us just in the first eight days of school. So, thank you. Um, item 7B, we're already approving some trips. varsity softball to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from March 29th through April 1st and our senior high allstate festival musicians to Rochester, New York from December 4th through December 7th. Um, if there are no questions on any of those trips, you had those um requests uh in your packet, then I will take a motion
042to approve. >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I No abstensions. No one opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. Item 8A, meeting reports. Uh Monunroe County Schoolboard Association committee report meetings. Um I attended yesterday the information exchange meeting, their first of the year. Uh really interesting um presentation from the Webster School District on what they've been doing with AI um and the approach they're taking with it. uh they presented some really um interesting data. Uh so far it's been mainly staff facing not student facing um and that's the next step on their journey that they're looking at. I should have those slides within the next couple of days that I'll share uh with the board um in the notes I took but it was it was definitely interesting to hear
043what what they've done um and the progress they are making. Um also next week Dr. Teranova, myself, Isabella, and Aiden will be attending the New York State School Board's training for our new student board representatives. So, very excited about that. And actually, back in August, we also attended a training together uh with Wayne Fingerlakes um on uh our student board representatives and what they will be bringing to the table for us. Any other Monroe County School Board updates? Any standing committee updates? It's still early in the year. >> Uh policy subcommittee has received some um policy drafts and updates from uh Moren Goodle and we're working through those and we'll have them out to the whole board um early next month. >> Uh the audit committee uh I believe is scheduled to meet on Monday.
044Um, I know Lisa, you're not going to be able to attend, but I know um, Tim and I will be there, so we'll report back on that meeting. >> Can I mention something? >> Uh, so we've sent out uh, invites to our legislators and we're already setting up meetings and uh, they're coming up fast. So, I'll update the board in my weekly update. But we actually have our first meeting next Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. for those board members that can make it and for Mike Modlesi as well with Assembly Member Andrea Bailey. And then we're going to have two the following week already set up. One with uh Senator Shelley Mayor's office and the other one with uh uh Jen Lunsford's office. So, the board made it a point to uh want to have these
045meetings much earlier than last year in the fall before a lot of the hard work started to develop with the budget. So, that's what we're doing. We're also looking for meetings with Senator Helming, Senator Brookke, and Jacob Gilbert Mahoney from the governor's office as well. So, we'll be I'll be in touch with the dates and appreciate the board members that are able to attend. Obviously, some are not. You're not you're not going to be able to make all of them or some of them because of time commitments, but and Mr. Mleski, you're always welcome along with uh Christine Griffin, our assistant superintendent. >> Dr. T, is Shelley Mayor the head of the education oversight? >> Yes. And uh we met and it's going to we met with her representative Karen Repy last year. Um and
046she's going to meet with us again. So, >> her rep will be >> Yeah. I don't think it'll be Senator Mayor. I think it'll be her rep, but everybody else looks like I think they're coming in person. >> Our localized ones are in person. >> The locals are in person. >> Yeah. So far, I'm looking at the I'm looking at it. Yeah, we're going to do a Zoom with Senator Mayor's uh rep, but we'll be in person with Andrea Bailey and Jen Lunsford. >> Thank you. >> That's great to hear. and thank you for getting this set up earlier this year. Um the earlier we get to this the better it'll be for all of us and we do hope that Mr. Maldes as join us >> as is typical Kate's done most of the
047work around this. >> Sure she has to make sure >> she keeps us all in line. >> Um crazy as it is uh we are coming towards the end. We didn't have any presentations tonight. Please don't all get excited that every board meeting will end this early. Uh but our upcoming events uh our next board workshop is on Thursday, September 25th in conference room A. Our next regular board meeting is on Thursday, October 16th. That's a week later than normal. Um as a reminder, we had to make that date change. And then for our board members, we have our board retreat on Thursday, October 30th. Um and that will be here in the boardroom. Um, just in the spirit of having a quorum for the Thursday meeting in October, our regular meeting, I will be
048late. I'll be coming from the VPS open house from my daughter, but I will be here as soon as that wraps up. Thank you. If there is nothing further from anyone else, I will take a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Elizabeth. All in favor? >> I don't think anyone's going to be opposed or abstained to adjourning by 8:00 PM on our first monthly meeting. Uh motion carried. Thank you everyone and we will see you in October.