VCS Board of Education Meeting

001[Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay we are live thank you uh we are already in session we just came from executive so the first thing i would ask is that we please stand for a moment of silence now please join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance thank you and welcome everyone this is a great group thank you for being here i have a reminder that i'd like to read for a new policy about um privilege of the board privilege of the floor excuse me persons wishing to address the board must sign up prior to the start of the public participation speakers must register on the form provided by the district at the entrance of the board room to maintain a first come first serve process for purposes of

002following 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 topics any group or organization listening wishing to address the board must identify a single spokesperson thank you for that consideration the fire evacuation procedure in case of a fire 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 fire department vehicles thank you for that now i will ask for a motion to approve the season this evening's agenda motion please by elizabeth ii by karen any comments on this agenda i think what we were going to do was to uh table item 7g is that correct

003gordon yes so we will table item 7g so with that change so everyone's okay with that change right yes so all in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed extensions motion carry thank you item three superintendents update dr terranova please thank you mr delucia welcome everybody special welcome to our junior high and senior high uh uh musician uh music performers and uh artists i know many of you are here today which we're greatly appreciative and i know we're gonna recognize you very soon so i'll try to be quick uh i just want to mention a few items first and foremost what i told the staff in a message uh this week was that i really admire um their ability to balance that heavy day-to-day load that they deal with especially with the covid situation

004while staying engaged in a growth mindset approach towards our future whether it's continued focus on our strategic plan work the 2223 budget that we're going to hear about tonight a little bit and certainly all the professional development opportunities that they experience so i believe that's what sets vcs apart from many places is this balance between dealing with the day-to-day issues and challenges but also looking ahead with a strong focus towards our future and you're going to hear about some of that future around like i said the budget presentation tonight as well as the strategic planning presentation i do want to talk about some of the day-to-day challenges at least one of them as you know the governor came out with a statewide indoor mask mandate a while back part of it will be appealed this

005week but the mask mandate for schools and certain other venues will remain in effect the superintendents of wayne finger lakes including myself authored a letter to the governor this week i just want you to re i want to read just a small bit of it i promise i won't read the whole thing but i i'm going to try to read the most salient parts and this is to the governor we are ready now to enlist your support in helping schools across the state to regain a much needed sense of normalcy students staff and families have endured unbelievable challenges during the past two years now it is time to develop a plan to move forward as infection rates drop across the state we are asking you to develop a plan for strategically relaxing the many health

006and safety protocols that have impacted the social emotional health of our student staff and school communities we strongly believe it's time for the state to identify and exit strategy from the current health protocols placed on school districts many in our community are concerned that the mandated protocols will never go away our communities need to know there's a plan in place for safely lifting these mandates so we can move forward and renew our focus on learning we need strategies that are reflective of the current circumstances in schools where transmission rates remain low the good news is i believe as of this afternoon we have 12 positive cases in the district which is significantly less than it was a week and a half ago we continue to follow health department mandates and we understand why obviously but

007we are looking very specifically for the governor to come out and the state health department to come out with an exit strategy so that we can effectively and safely move back to normalcy so i did want to mention that i also want to mention something that was very important that happened last week and that was a the ptsa and i want to thank the ptsa around this they helped the victor central school district present the on the council on alcohol alcoholism and addiction of the finger lakes where we had present presenters come in and talk about substance abuse and the dangers of experimentation with alcohol and other drugs that is something that all parents need to be aware of there should be a zero stigma for any family dealing with these issues because they end

008up touching all of us if i just want to i put this out in a message to the community last week and i want to just reiterate it if you have any questions or concerns about your child's potential substance use please reach out to a school counselor or a trusted staff member at victor central school can also reach out to the council on alcoholism and addiction it can be found at council on alcoholismfingerlakes.org also in the community message i sent last week so i'm really thankful for our ptsa and their collaboration with our district and especially the council on alcoholism and addiction of finger lakes it's a significant issue and it should not be a stigma on any family when you have kids that may be challenged by this this need around alcohol and other

009drugs so i just want to make sure people understand that a few updates positive updates around some unsung heroes facilities department as you noticed we were able to stay open on thursday unfortunately for me but fortunately for many others we had a snow day on friday we were able to manage on thursday and continue to manage because of the fantastic facilities department especially our plow crew and certainly our mechanics and our cleaners do a tremendous job as well i want to thank our food service workers as we always do they are unsung heroes who feed our kids breakfast and lunch every day and should be recognized we could not operate without them and certainly our transportation department does an amazing job we are significantly short staffed in our transportation department as is most districts around

010us but they are going above and beyond the call of duty and just doing a tremendous job and we need more staff in that area as well as some others but i want to thank the transportation department our food service workers and our facilities department because without any of them we would not be open and we would not be successful so if you see a member of those departments please thank them a few other celebrations i want to thank mrs paw's class she's teachers at the high school miss paz she donates she had her class don't uh collect personal hygiene equipment for the center for youth which was a tremendous endeavor and has helped a ton of people our early childhood school did a huge donation raffle fundraiser for the ronald mcdonald house very happy

011about that our vcs faculty has done a great job with donations to the serenity house and of course beyond some of the giving that our staff and students have done i want to congratulate mr brian cavanaugh who is another member of her staff who was recently honored with a golden apple award winner which is a tremendous honor was given was recognized by uh i believe a student in seventh grade and and uh we're really proud to have brian as a member of our staff he's at least our third or fourth golden apple award winner this year a couple other quick updates one is just a reminder that february is black history month and black history month celebrates american history through the contributions of people from african and african-american descent and really showcases the rich cultural

012heritage triumphs as well as adversities that are indelible part of our country's history one of the main focus areas of this month is to move beyond the stereotypical accomplishments of african americans and really understand the significant uh accomplishments they've had across all walks of life this recognition is important for all of us to celebrate uh this numerous and incredible accounts accomplishments of black americans and the strides of our country has made around racial equity and certainly the progress we still need to make in this area so just recognition of black history month and last piece unfortunately is a sad piece i just want to recognize a member of our family who we lost about a week ago and that was chuck killary chuck worked for over 20 years in the district a long time member

013of the victor community passed away last week it's a huge loss for us his kids went through victor just a mainstay of the victor central school district in the victor community chuck passed away last week and he will be missed by many people so that is my superintendent's update thank you i have a question yep um dr terra nova will we have a specific date in which the governor is going to let us know what her decision is after february break it was very vague and i didn't know she reached out after she said i believe she said that after february break she was going to revisit it whether that's uh which would most likely be early march i heard some rumors that she gave a specific date of uh march like sixth or seventh

014but i haven't i don't have confirmation on that i'm hopeful that she will make a ruling on that uh right after the break so will the superintendents reach out again and try to yes they're in the new york state superintendents association and the leadership of that association is pushing hard to get that exit strategy in place so they are in constant communication with the governor's office thank you okay thank you now we have the best part of this evening's agenda our presentations and recognitions first one is junior high school fall musical hello um i'm leanne burkmeyer i was the director of the um fall musical spongebob and i didn't think i was going to get emotional because it's so many it seems like it was so long ago but then when i started seeing the

015kids shuffling tonight i remembered holy cow we we pulled that off in a cold year when things were just nuts and doing a show is always pretty stressful but we don't have understudies and every day i was like what if someone gets coveted what if what if someone gets quarantined it's just really crazy but made it so much more exciting when we got to the um the end of it and just saw them on stage so i just have a few words i could not be more proud of the hard work commitment and effort every student and adult involved in the spongebob musical put into making this such a fun and special show this was one of our smallest casts so every student in the performance had more roles to fill more songs and dances

016to learn more costumes to manage including changing their face masks to match all of their costume changes spongebob is a huge undertaking it's got a unique variety of different song and dance styles from rap to ballads tap to hip hop and more not to mention the myriad of sound effects awesome hair and makeup designs and creative set pieces our cast crew and orchestra rose to every challenge so if my cast crew orchestra members who were here if you guys would stand um during this crazy and constant constantly changing school year it's hard to put into words how awesome it was to have everyone work together so that we could finally perform um in front of a live audience again so i just want to say congratulations again to everyone thank you to um all of

017them for the hard work and effort and their parents for supporting us and of course our school district for supporting the arts we couldn't be more thrilled and what i'm going to ask you guys to do because there's no place for us to get a good group shot after the high school fall play gets recognized if you guys would meet me out in the hallway your parents can come to i'm going to give you out some certificates that i have for you and we'll take a picture with you guys holding the plaque if that's okay but thank you all for coming you guys congratulations [Applause] that's great congratulations to all of you kids that's wonderful next one is the senior high school fall play hi everybody i'm really excited to see this group up in

018the high school in the coming years it was a fantastic production of spongebob um really looking forward to seeing everybody at the high school level uh the fall play we did um uh the legend of sleepy hollow we brought the headless horseman to life we've always wanted to do this show it's a great show to do in the fall ichabod crane and brom bones um and uh student actors worked really really hard on this show it was a tough language it was 19th century uh language um lots of period costumes and wigs and belt buckles and dresses and knickers they did a great job beautiful costumes designed by uh mrs centev um so a very talented cast brought this to life a special thanks to enzo dejesus who filled in two or three weeks in

019for a cast member and and really did a great job special thanks to mr isaacs for being our tech director he always does a great job mr wolf and mr denner uh building the set mr coggin helping out with acting miss biscani with some costumes uh thank you to mrs burkmeyer and the spongebob cast for being flexible we had to share the stage this fall i really appreciate that um cherry and liz for getting the word out maureen thank you for all the invites and the awards uh dr terranova thanks for your continued support as well as the board uh we'll do the same thing if the cast can uh stand up for a quick round of applause please i just did a super job so we'll meet uh out in the lobby as well

020to take a photo and i'll give you your awards all right congratulations all wonderful okay the next item on our agenda 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 signed up to speak i'll be happy to recognize those of you 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 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 for that

021so on the sign up sheet uh first one up is adam snyder please test good evening dr terra nova and members of the board of education my name is adam snyder i'm a victor community member the proud father of four victor students someone that has navigated through 20 years in the military as a pilot daily executing operational risk management that's a fancy term that methodically breaks down all the risk involved in any endeavor highlights the rewards balances the options and offers the best decision available with the information at hand it's a life-saving measure and has spared my and others lives on multiple occasions i'm also here out of sense of duty to represent what appears to be the vast majority of our community this is my attempt to be able to look myself in the

022mirror with dignity as i stand for my children i am filled with guilt as i have sat idly by and allowed my children to participate in activities that i knew was a detriment to their development in defense of myself and the rest of us we were operating off of limited information in a communal sense of safety first and duty it allowed us to take this untested precautionary steps that three years ago would have been considered unimaginable we took those risks we were wrong hopefully we've learned and now we need to make sure that this never happens again but here we are two two years later and now we know a lot more by the grace of god we have learned that our youth are resilient strong and highly protected from this virus as a matter

023of fact they're the most protected and most unaffected class in a society we have learned that the elderly and those with multiple comorbidities are the primary targets of this virus using current data from the cdc and a study from john hopson hopkins university completed at the end of august 1.7 percent of the americans that have contracted coven 19 have deceased and only 1.7 of that 1.7 percent have been children what do those numbers actually mean from october to october of 2020 to 2021 the number of child deaths are identical to that of the influenza 66 in the united states and that is after influenza death rates took a hard no that nose dive from significantly higher numbers from all the earlier years here in victor our percentage unless i'm gravely mistaken is a 100 success

024rate did the mass do that for us well maybe but we don't know that for sure all we can do is look to the other 32 massive states and compare their numbers to ours all stats portray a model that suggests mass did not make a difference but that could be considered conjecture let's stick to what we do know the list of 32 states with masslex schools are about to be joined by connecticut oregon new jersey delaware and even california additionally new york is now essentially mask-free but not here because apparently something magical happens behind these walls that are the daily home to the most protected sect of society what is it about a building labeled a school that makes it the most dangerous environment in this state our kids are the victims of bureaucracy and

025politics suicides suicide attempts depression and anxiety have skyrocketed among our youth it's been explained to me through two guidance counselors and the school speech pathologist the school-aged children are operating socially and emotionally two years younger than their great age they said you should respond to a fifth grader with no more expectation than that of a third grader because of the cognitive delay what's the plan to make up for two years of loss time it's impossible and how do these mass affect that process if our community were to operate as a pure democracy our community would have voted out these mass a long time ago but our board of education symbolically serves in the same manner as our federal and state legislature as a republic you are our elected officials sitting in positions of authority to

026represent the people who elected you you have admirally served and carried out the orders from our state government and also fell in line with the wishes and beliefs of some portions of our community we the majority have sat idly by and now we ask that you stand and represent us when we apply operational risk management the risks of mass do not outweigh the rewards statistics actually show that there are zero awards therefore we are essentially not only not mitigating risks we are creating them by wearing them this mission should have been boarded a long time ago i understand that you can't wave a magic wand and eradicate these mass i realize that is outside the authority that you are willing or even able to exercise however i ask today that going forward you exercise every

027shred of power in your spear of influence to give us the freedom to do with our children as we see fit dr terranova i saw your request to the governor today thank you i believe and hope the mass may come off in the near future but unfortunately recent history tells us to expect the unexpected we need to be ready next time and we need to do whatever it takes with minimal effort in a short period of time we've assembled a petition of over 300 parents in our community including lawyers doctors teachers high school modified and youth coaches guidance counselors and parents from all across our community pleading to give authority back to those who care and love these kids the most the parents at the bottom of our petition we state that our intent is

028to empower you to stand behind you and move forward together let us not be remembered as a generation that sat idly by while our youth was sacrificed for the rest of society thank you for your time investment into our kids lives thank you for your comments uh next person hannah schneider okay uh is it shawna rihanna hi my name is shawna riam i am a mother of three young children in the school district i have lived in this district since 1983. i grew up in the school district so to say for me to speak here tonight speaks volumes see i pulled my children from the school district at the start of this season or at the start of the school district uh year due to my children being bullied being injured physically by the mass

029where my daughter suffered a concussion my son was also denied water when he needed it the most my son also has suffered trauma due to depression where my nine-year-old has now have to seek a therapist because of he wanted to kill himself this is not okay this has gone on too long two years of this has gone on it is not okay i've worked in this school district as these substitute teachers eight four k through six i also volunteered in the school district as a parent i've seen these children and how a smile means everything to them how can they smile a smile means everything in any language how can they do that with this over their face it can't happen students they rely on seeing someone's emotion they rely on seeing someone smile and

030they can't do that with a mask over their face there were so many kids that i had talked to that said i'm suffocating why are they doing this to me i'm suffocating i can't breathe in this and you keep saying that students are resilient but they're not they're just like everybody else and i've been in the school district where even adults aren't abiding by the rule and i have video proof of that i just want you guys to look and see what the trauma and the damage that you guys are doing to these students by keeping this going the lockdowns constant the mass mandates the constant bullying of adults to students because they won't wear a mask over their face and they're constantly messing with it it's not okay you guys pride yourself in this

031district i get that i've been here i know the pride i get it but when you set yourself up and say that we strive for diversity but yet you're segregating our students that's not okay we've done away with segregation long ago why is it coming back with vaccinated versus non-vaccinated mass versus non-mass why are you taking students from their peers and isolating them and calling their parents to have them come pick them up it's not okay we just want a choice to send our kids to school mass or not that is our choice we don't parent with the government we do not parent with the governor we do not parent with you we want to to be together with you but we don't parent with you that is our job we decide what is right

032for our children we decide if we want to give our child a vaccination or a flu shot that is our job that is why we have pediatricians that is not your job you guys were elected because we elected you you work for us and that is all i have to say for tonight [Applause] thank you for your comments i have bill martz next please good evening board my name is bill martz i'm the father of three ladies in this district and uh victor class of 1988 intellectual lazy and intellectually lazy and without integrity these these terms describe the government's imposition of these mandates lockdowns quarantines of healthy individuals and of course mass the burden should be on the governing body to demonstrate that interven interventions actually work evidence is usually produced to show that the

033intervention is effective not biased and of of high quality there's a hierarchy of this kind of evidence which looks like randomized controlled trials on the top controlled studies in the middle case reports and then editorials and expert opinions on the bottom how many of the board members have looked at the new york state department of health's determination of january 31st or some of the earlier ones and some of the evidence that they have in that document any anyone there's there's four studies in there three of them are phone surveys uh that they call people up they asked them if they got covid and they asked them how often they used a mass miraculously of all 18 of the things in the cdc's database we just happened to pick the highest ones that were in there

034none of the other ones are even close and the final one isn't even an evaluation of mass it's an evaluation of well we did a whole bunch of stuff and not a whole lot of people got sick in north carolina so we're just going to say that mass work and that's what and that's good enough for us that that kind of information is not evidence we should have seen this two years ago but nobody would listen so my interest is you know what are we going to do next time there's 10 randomized control trials published in the by the who met analysis that said that mass don't do anything and in in there they also quote re-usable cloth mass are not recommended there's two randomized controlled trials done with covid in the last couple years

035that show no statistically significant impact these mask mandates also cause all the issues as people before have mentioned social development speech development issues sinus infections dental damage acne skin irritation anxiety for a lot of kids but more importantly you're teaching our kids some dangerous lessons never question authority don't think for yourself do not bother yourself with understanding science because science doesn't matter science is somebody else's responsibility if it's called an emergency the government can do whatever they want just comply and it will stop the board of education is your job to help educate not indoctrinate our kids it's time to do your job please think what is the lesson our kids should take from this what are you doing to help them prepare for the next time that this comes about so that we don't

036have the same series of errors that we followed for the last two years thank you for your time thank you for your comments i have ann rein please maybe not um hello my name is ann rein i am the mother of two three boys that attend victor yes i am here again uh speaking about making masking a choice i know i'm not alone in this fight clearly there are other parents that feel the same way as i do there's also there are also teachers bus drivers that feel the same way i do about the mask i am speaking again for all the parents who have yet to find their courage to speak i don't know what's holding holding them back but i'm i am here to give the voice to to those people things have

037changed so much just this week alone yet there is still more change that needs to take place i feel like we are so close to the masks coming off in new york in in schools i want to remain positive that it will happen here just like it has in new jersey connecticut massachusetts although i have i've heard that even if the governor lifts the school mask mandate the individual school districts can still choose to impose a mask requirement words cannot express no shock to any of you words cannot express how strongly i encourage all of you to be ready to make the masks optional when the governor lifts the school mask mandate the superintendent of hilton school district has already sent a letter to parents indicating that hilton will support individual choice when it comes

038to masking victor needs to do the same be ready be prepared to act it has been two years of this way of life and there is no excuse for people not to be able to decide for themselves how they can protect themselves at this point many people have been either vaccinated or have actually had covet and have natural immunity to it our kids deserve this i sat here at the board meeting in january and listened to a presentation from ronnie puglisi the director of education and support services regarding the social emotional and mental health needs pre-k through 12th grades she explained how in the fall of 2019 the school counselors were implementing their comprehensive student support plan with a pyramid diagram tier 1 the base being the largest piece for the core curriculum interventions for

039all students eighty percent the tier two in the middle for small group interventions fifteen percent and tier three at the top for individual supports five percent this diagram no longer has a pyramid shape interventions for all students and small groups small group interventions are at 25 each and individuals supports are at 50 percent she went on to point out how they need to triage and support the needs of students on a daily basis responding to crisis calls or calls for assistance mental health needs non-compliance aggression destruction of property and i'm not even going to mention the bathrooms in the high school leaving instructional areas are all common occurrences she said they are seeing more students with higher needs and the level of intensity has increased significantly why is this happening and why what are you

040going to do about it hire more counselors sure that's that's but is that is that the solution is that really the solution it's time to drop the mask requirement maybe maybe that will help the kids maybe that will reduce the mental health issues that the counselors and administration are seeing why not give that a try how many children victor died from covid i think my my other parents have been to have mentioned this i'm pretty sure we would have heard about it so i'm going to guess that number zero how many children have had to be hospitalized how many children had coveted and recovered i mean does that even matter what kind of message do you think you are sending when you can basically go anywhere else in society without a mask except at school

041where they spend most of their time it's so obvious that this is about control and not about health and safety be ready to act to give these kids the joy of childhood and the school life back by making masking optional thank you for your time [Applause] thank you for your comments next is julie haberfield please hi my name is julie haberfield and i'm a mother of four children in the district and i am angry for two years our children have endured a complete disruption to their childhood they have sacrificed far more and for far longer than adults they continue to be subjected to compulsory masking ridiculous restrictions and arbitrary rules even now long after most of the rest of us have resumed normalcy this weekend i can go watch a band in a crowded bar

042unmasked but my kids cannot play an instrument in band without wearing a band mask on their face and a bell mask on their instrument my kids have to eat their snacks and shifts at school so that they can maintain proper unmask distancing but i can go to the movies sit right next to a stranger and literally breathe three freely my son must wear a mask while at wrestling practice and struggle to catch his breath behind the damp fabric but i can exercise at the ymca barefaced it is universally understood and accepted that children are not at risk from covid19 with any disease there are always marginal outliers but the extreme majority of children are not high risk from covid19 not any higher than they are influenza rsv or other common viral respiratory diseases in fact

043an unvaccinated child is lower risk than a triple vaccinated adult as a higher risk adult i have a choice to wear a mask or not why don't my children the objective data on mandatory masking is clear they just simply do not mitigate the spread of respiratory viruses comparisons between school districts with mass requirements and those without have failed to demonstrate any discernible difference in case numbers there have been no reports of wildfire spreading or carnage in mass optional districts yet we continue to insist that this is inevitable without a mask mandate why i am a medical professional i have had direct interactions with covet positive patients i am subjected to fewer regulations and masking requirements than my children are at school my children wear a mask the entire time they are in school with few

044exceptions i wear a mask for direct patient interaction as required and i am allowed many exceptions many people believe that medical staff have been wearing masks for years without complaint or issue yet i can honestly tell you that we have never ever masked like a kid i am not downplaying the severity of covid nor am i denying its existence it is a noble goal to reasonably attempt to reduce the spread particularly in vulnerable populations it is lunacy to insist that masking first graders is how to achieve this vulnerable adults have measures to protect themselves widely available vaccines and treatment options as well as lifestyle modifications known to reduce risk it should never have been our children's responsibility or burden to protect adults but it is beyond absurd and even cruel to continue this mentality at

045this point in the pandemic please stand up for our children and end mandatory school masking and other copic restrictions they deserve to be treated like children not viral vectors they deserve to see smiles and faces in classrooms they deserve to communicate and interact freely they deserve to run down a soccer field without a sweaty piece of fabric covering their mouth and they deserve to be kids thank you thank you for your comments next is bill glasner please bill glassner uh first i want to say i'm sorry for the suffering of the children in the school district and in other school districts because of the masking mandate but i apologize to the board for not bringing my comments in person before now so even though it hasn't been mentioned tonight i know it has been mentioned

046at other uh events first i humbly speak on behalf of the six million of my co-religionists including members of my extended family who were murdered by the nazis to in any way compare the situation in the united states today regarding mass mandates with the historical reality of totalitarianism in nazi germany spits on the memory of the six million such a comparison can only come from the intentional ignorance of the well-documented history willful embracing of falsehoods in the service of a radical political agenda or outright anti-semitism for whatever reason i urge the board to completely disregard the views of anyone who uses or has used a comparison of our country with totalitarianism in their opposition to mandates secondly all of the world's major religions have some equivalent to the injunction to love your neighbor as yourself

047in judaism this is found in leviticus deuteronomy proverbs and his and is the great teacher hillel's golden rule for christians we have mark 12 28 31 luke 10 25 26 and matthew 22 35 40 which specifically says jesus said to him thou shalt love the lord thy god with all thy heart with all thy soul and with all thy mind this is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like unto this thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself on these two commandments depend at the whole teaching and the prophets i would like to believe that we live in a community where the majority hold some sincere marble lease and actually try their best to live by this universal injunction this is done by showing that you try to love your neighbor as yourself

048by supporting the masked mandate as jesus said by their deeds you shall know them it is that simple i would like to thank the board for supporting those in our community who try to follow this primary teaching the sacred truth of the world's moral moral codes thirdly my daughter is a nurse her hospital has been overrun with covet patients most of whom have resisted masking and vaccinations and who have gotten covered to a high percentage from those who have resisted masking and vaccinations they have had to move other patients out of normal units cancel elective surgeries because of these patients who refuse to follow the vast consensus in the fields of public health epidemiology and pulmonology mass have been universally used in surgery for almost 100 years why because they work i wonder if those

049who reject mass mandates would be okay with their surgeons for going masks in the operating room doctors care about enough about vulnerable people to wear masks why shouldn't we all i would like to thank the board for supporting those who do please maintain the mass mandate as long as it's required and seen to be suitable by the new york state government under the advice of experts in the field i look forward to the time hopefully next week when the mandates are no longer suggested but for the good of our neighbors i hope considering that children can expose adults to covet even if they are asymptomatic so that's all i have to say thank you thank you for your comments okay next item item six is acceptance of consent items we have six a through h

050so i'll entertain a motion to accept these motion by chris ii by elizabeth any comments or on these uh items please anyone mr lucia i'd like to talk a little bit about the personal agenda if that's okay yes please uh first of all we're losing uh lack of a better word we're losing four fantastic employees at the end of the school year due to retirement i want to recognize mark fodor physical education teacher karen brayan science teacher mary sue hearts-holtz art teacher and jennifer weidman mathematics teacher they're all retired thankfully they're all here until the end of the school year but those are four what i'd call heavy hitters in terms of incredible impact on our students thousands of students at victor central school district so special thank you and recognition to mark karen mary

051sue and jennifer for their service in victor central school district they will be sorely missed and incredibly difficult to replace on a bit of happier news for i mean it's happy news for them but happy news for us i do want to announce that's on the personnel agenda the appointment of kelly klink as our new director of transportation which will take effect tomorrow kelly's been an employee in our district for 30 years almost 30 years she is currently the interim director of transportation since january of 2022 she has an unbelievable amount of respect within the transportation department because she's done every job imaginable over the last 29 to 30 years in that department she leads by example and i am definitely and i know our administrative staff is definitely looking forward to uh our partnership

052to together so congratulations to kelly klink uh my recommendation for the director of transportation thank you any other comments i just wanted to highlight board member kristin usually does this i'll follow her lead just highlight the donations from our community for texas instrument 84 plus ce calculators valued at 600 from logic soft to the senior high school math department 1844.50 from victor softball booster clubs to the victor central school district to be applied towards a purchase of 50 new batting helmets 112 dollars and 37 cents from victor partners in education to the victor central school district to support the half-day upk program three thousand nine hundred dollars and eleven cents from victor partners in education to the victor central school district art department and tennis balls valued at 125 from the tennis club of rochester

053to the victor junior high school's young teens leadership club to help support lollipop farms so i wanted to highlight those and thank this community for its continued support any other if there's no other comments all in favor please say aye aye and opposed abstentions motion carried thank you item 7a is campus news who will be first [Music] good everyone i'm brian cess i'm the principal at the high school dewey weimer couldn't be here tonight so i'm going to do an athletic update for him if that's all right um even if it's not all right i'm going to do it so dewey tonight is um he is supporting the girls basketball team and the girls volleyball banner ceremony for the state championship but he did ask if i would share a couple of highlights our senior

054high phys ed classes have been having a great time utilizing dick's world of sports for our ice skating unit they have a rink outside there now it's been a wonderful partnership this winter and we're looking forward to continuing and perhaps expanding offerings at dick's world of sport we want to thank the transportation department especially we know they're under a crunch for providing us this opportunity and the partnership with dix dewey had an opportunity to visit with our inaugural nordic skiing student athletes earlier this week at bristol mountain we've partnered with pittsford to begin this program and we're looking forward to the continued growth in the years to come we're already seeing interest in the sport from our community survey results so that's great so we're going to have some more members join that team and

055lastly our winter regular season is beginning to wind down we've had tremendous success as our basketball boys bowling girls and ice hockey teams have already earned conference division championships and many of our teams and individual student athletes are still in the hunt for league and sectional titles so good luck to all of our winter sports and a couple of updates from the high school for this month we want to say thank you to our school counselors this is the school counselor appreciation week um and a particular shout out to mary banzak who's our um she's our lead guidance counselor uh in the high school mary is on the board of governors for the new york state school counselor association and on monday they hosted an event called champ camp it was an online event it

056stands for counselors helping achieve mastery program it was a presentation on the importance of a good tight relationship between administration and school counselors there were counselors and principals from across the state who were on the zoo meeting including myself so we just are very grateful to our counselors for the work that they do in supporting our students i just do want to echo something that dr taranova earlier said about the presentation that we had uh last week i want to say special thanks to ptsa for always willing to support the mental health of our students and the physical well-being the presentation that we did and the on the addictions last week by the council was fantastic because they actually set up a mock bedroom where parents and people who went to the presentation were able

057to walk through and try to look for what they call hidden in plain sight where students or youth might hide some things it was a really good immersive experience not only did we get an educational opportunity but a walk-through experience as well and we're going to try to bring it back on campus this spring we know it's a tough time of year to do something like that we had a pretty good turnout about 20 25 people but we're hoping to to do it again in the springtime as we get closer to the summer so that's the updates that we have thank you thanks thank you looks like tonight we're going to be all over the place not really in order i'm heidi rob from the primary school and tonight i want to just highlight not

058only how great victor primary school is but also our community so i'd like to start just by sharing one way that our community is helping our students at the primary school since 2017 our neighbors in canada have served about 1200 families that were in need through a local nonprofit called the spot the spot provides free school supplies clothing shoes personal care items and food to children in need in canandaigua we're thrilled to share that the spot will be expanding to victor primary school currently our staff members are purchasing many of these items for our students so we're excited to have that support with the spot although we have dreams to expand what we offer our students here at victor central schools we're excited that it is going to start small at the primary school so

059starting on february 14th staff will have access to clothing personal care items and snacks for all of our students right at a designated place within our school next i'd like to share how our students are helping the community this the last couple weeks we've been having what's called the super bowl and students are collecting items for the victor farmington food cupboard the students did the advertising and all of the announcements and now they're organizing the items sorting them and graphing all of these items that were collected and then they will also donate those tomorrow's our last day and we're going to celebrate by wearing our sports gear so the whole school we will be dressed uh to support the buffalo bills that's right thank you thanks good evening carrie pender from the early childhood school

060great to see you um i wanted to share with you a really exciting development that i've been mentioning for the past couple of months which is our expanded pre-k program we are very proud to say that on january 31st we opened our doors to two additional pre-k classes and the students are doing wonderfully and the teachers and the staff have been working incredibly hard over the last month there has been extensive planning preparation ordering moving um assembling and just every every small task you could think of i was hanging some hooks for our little precares coats recently so just you know just all of the amazing amount of details that go into starting this program magnified by starting it in the middle of a school year as really no small feat so i just want

061to give a lot of credit to all those who are part of developing that because we are able to proudly say that we have um just about 40 new students in our program that are able to benefit from pre-k and have that strong foundation so that when they attend kindergarten next year they've already had that wonderful foundational experience to get them started on their way i also want to share as dr terranova mentioned we are very proud of the community service that our students were involved in over the last month many thanks to teacher kim galena for her organization and support of our fundraiser for the ronald mcdonald house students collected over 20 boxes of paper goods utensils and other disposable items for the ronald mcdonald house so that they can support families in our

062area so great job to all of our students and many thanks to ms scalina speaking of ms galena i'm going to mention her again in just a minute when i talk about something that we're very excited about coming up this week is our first ever ecs kindness week our school community team has been working hard to develop ideas and strategies for bringing our community together both at the student level but also at the staff level so next week we are going to be echoing our school rules which are take care of ourselves take care of each other and take care of our school and we are creating activities that echo that which is the focus of being kind so being kind to yourself being kind to others and being kind to our school through a

063variety of activities such as practicing gratitude mindful breathing giving thanks to those around us as well as random acts of kindness as well as even things that take care of our school and are kind to our school such as making sure we're cleaning up our trash very carefully and posting positive messages around our school and again thinking about our staff and how we can get in on the fun although we'll be certainly getting it on that fun miss scalina again is spearheading a donation from the staff to the open door mission for socks and gloves so that we can support a good cause as adults and staff we know that gratitude is good for our health and we are really looking forward to this week thank you thank you good evening michelle maloney victor intermediate

064school i wanted to share that we're excited that although postponed last week tomorrow and saturday we have a number of our students participating in the all-county music festival for many of these very skilled students it's the first time they get to perform with students from other schools and it's very gratifying not only to the students but to the teacher so we're really looking forward to that and then as we return from break and enter that midway point in the school year tom stacey and i will be pushing into all the classrooms to provide a little refresher of our school-wide expectations and how these expectations align with our school motto and then the day after that march 2nd we're very excited to say that we get to have our our science fair again this year in

065person last year's virtual science fair though though the students did a great job it just wasn't the same as our usual science fair this year we have 248 participants so the format's going to be a little different but during the school day students are going to get to have the opportunity to share their projects conduct demonstrations and answer questions during the during the time they're presenting in front of their peers thank you hello everyone brian principal at the junior high school and as it's been mentioned a couple times earlier that this is a national school counselor week so uh this morning uh we had some smoothies with our three counselors and i decided to ask them a couple of questions that i wanted to share with the board about the work they do so we

066have a range of counselors in our building who have worked between two and 22 years so that's the scope when i asked them what was the most report rewarding part of the work that they do they responded with working with kids and seeing students be successful as people when i asked them what advice they would give to someone considering the same career that they have taken they said be prepared to wear a lot of hats be mentally strong know how to manage your emotions and take care of yourself every day is different so come to expect the unexpected and then i said what would you want the community to know about the work you do at vjh and they said kids are okay and they are resilient they really want people to know that and

067that they also wanted to know that obstacles are part of life and that they see their role as there to help equip kids to want to overcome those obstacles and continue to thrive so i want to highlight our counselors this month um because it is it is the school counselor's week thank you very much thank you okay so it looks like 7b would be student academic progress k-12 a finter k williamson and the principals looks like mrs finter is starting this presentation uh just to remind people so last month we gave the board an update on the social emotional supports as well as social emotional health of our students and how we're trying to as best we can meet those deeds and do whatever we can to make sure our kids are healthy and now

068we'd like to turn it over to an academic presentation i appreciate mrs finter mrs williamson and the five principals to give us an update on how our kids are doing this year academically well i'm kicking off the presentation good evening everyone i'm karen finter i am the director of mathematics and science k-12 pre-k-12 for the district and it's an absolute pleasure to share with you a brief mid-year academic update tonight you'll hear a brief snapshot of the academic trends at the k-6 and 7-12 levels each building principle will share particular insights about those academic trends as well as an update on the incredible focus work and dedication of our faculty to continue to professionally grow in order to strive to help students close those gaps and really meet those needs so that every child can

069reach their full potential [Music] so when you think about monitoring academic progress it really is a complex task there are lots of ways to measure progress and growth certainly thinking about some of the content areas some of those skills and so tonight you'll hear a bit about that multi-faceted approach that is used not only at the classroom level at a grade level at a building level and even at a broader district-wide department level so we use things like our locally developed assessments course or classroom performance we employ screening tools aims web nwea are some of those tools that we use to kind of give us a sense of where students are currently and how they've grown from september to january and then again in may or june we certainly use new york state assessments to

070give us information not only about a child's level of performance to those state standards but also around our programs and how our programs are meeting the demands of those standards diagnostic assessments are used in intervention settings to really hone in on what student needs are and certainly we employ a wide variety of metrics in looking at student progress from qualitative data as well as some of those quantitative measures that i mentioned you'll also hear tonight some ways that teachers are really striving to meet students where they are through professional development opportunities honing their practice and really continuing the work that was laid out at the beginning of the year at superintendent's conference days back in september really focusing on instructional clarity and how that's a high level leverage practice that really can close close gaps

071and close growth close growth growth gaps um so it is my absolute pleasure to turn it over to the amazing k-6 principals who will share a brief update on some of the ways that they're monitoring progress in their buildings and i thank you very much for the time tonight all right we're back up here again so we just wanted to take a little bit of time to share with you some of the trends that we're seeing in terms of some of that benchmark data that we talked about those screening assessments that we do several times a year um to give you a bit of an update there and then we're going to talk a little bit about intervention and some of the focus that that we have moving forward so in terms of the trends

072at the k-6 level in the area of link in english language arts excuse me um you're seeing that as students move through the levels there is a tendency to see those trends rise in proficiency at the early childhood and primary level we're looking at about 50 percent of our students being on benchmark with intermediate looking more at about the mark as you look at different grade levels and different different measures you will see that there are some gaps that we are closing and that there is significant growth even from the fall one example of a celebration is some of the data that we're seeing with our kindergarten students they've been able to start and be here a full year this year and have access to the high quality instruction that we're providing and access to

073some of the training and updated practices that we're seeing in the district so there is some promising data at our kindergarten level and again we continue to to celebrate all that growth and continue to look at how we can support that in mathematics we're seeing a very similar trend again early childhood and primary we're looking at about about 50 percent just over 50 percent meeting the benchmark whereas intermediate is looking at about over 70 percent and i think one of the differences particularly that we notice at the um the early elementary to the upper elementary is the difference in foundational skills versus um starting to to apply those skills in other ways so i'm going to turn it over to heidi rob now who's going to talk a little bit about what are some of

074the things that we're doing for those students where we are trying to close that gap and we're trying to make sure that we're supporting them in every way possible thank you our intervention systems or our ais instruction is really proving to be effective just to share one example of this at the primary school in january we had a day where we really looked at the data and we were able to dismiss 13 students from ela ais and 17 students in math and what that means is that they were now meeting benchmarks so they no longer required that service so that was a really great celebration also at the intermediate school their data confirms that the right students are receiving ais support for intervention the intervention teachers are able to meet where those students are and

075they're providing decodable texts for them and meeting the students right where they are and the decodable techs are helping the students at their areas of need although we do know some trends as well as some strengths our winter data has also shown us some specific areas of growth at the elementary level and that's what michelle is going to talk a little bit to you about right now heidi i just have a question yeah do you guys um track the number of students by grade and as they move up and do the numbers sort of decline as it gets towards sixth grade or are you talking specifically for intervention yes so i i haven't looked at the data k6 but i know we are tracking the number of students that are receiving intervention at those grade

076levels i don't have that um right here but that is information we could get to you okay thank you just to take on what heidi just said karen we're actually have data teams that are looking at looking at this data looking at the students where are they how you know how far have they come are they ready to exit because that's what we want to do we want to we want to provide them the skills they need but then let them spread their wings and exit is there a correlation between like the social emotional needs that you know go with academic struggles i don't think i can tell you that at this time that um that's too hard to really tell at this point correct me but as far as looking ahead to those areas

077of growth we can tell you this the areas of growth that we really need to focus on are those early literacy and numeracy skills if we get that then we can move the students from learning to read and then reading to learn we're trying to do this at an earlier level so that is our main focus at this time in that you know that's when we're going to see the payoff when they can make that shift we're also continuing to work on a curriculum to make sure that the curriculum supports the instruction for all of our students and as you saw in the previous slide our data does show that students are eventually making growth they're getting there they're getting their overtime we all just need to work to get them there earlier thank you

078hello again uh mr csd and i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the 712 uh trends that we're seeing both uh in terms of where we see students kind of really making great progress and also what we've identified as some growth points so what we've looked at particularly the junior high school has been performance on some of our standardized assessment tools that we use for screening tools those are like our map assessment tools ireti and some other programs that we have available we also looked at student performance in classrooms both on activities and assessments and so what we found is that about 70 of students at the junior high are meeting or exceeding their grade level benchmarks on our screening tools in both ela and mathematics and so when we looked at

079that mid-year and we also took a look at student course performance and then worked with teachers who both provide some of our ais academic intervention supports and their general education classroom teachers we're actually able to identify a fair number of students that qualified to be dismissed from formal ais services into the spring semester so we began to make those changes this week communicated with families around the progress that their child has made and how we're going to now move those students to a monitoring program where we keep a close eye on them and we continue to provide the supports directly in the classroom for those students and we're always able to you know quickly and nimbly move them back to the second tier intervention if we need to but we're really proud to see that

080students have really kind of shown a tremendous amount of growth and i think that's attributed to their effort and activities and also the program we have to support them and i'll turn over to brian's gonna talk a little bit more about some specific data for the high school okay so last month um i was part of a group that came and did a presentation on social emotional health and we focused quite a bit on the tap program the transition academic program um so that's i'm picking up kind of where the intervention system bullet is there um where in the high school they should be really focused on those tier one two tier two and tier three intervention supports for students everything kind of drills down to data for us at the high school because what

081it results in then is our graduation rate and i think sometimes people think that in high school when you take a look at graduation rate and you work towards graduation rate you only start looking at the seniors when they enter senior year and that's not true we actually start this in eighth grade and junior high school when we're teaming with the junior high team there to try to identify students who already might be showing signs that they could be at risk so we track this progress over the course of five years and every single week at the high school we have some sort of a data uh team meeting whether it's in our large student support team and our many student support teams or with our guidance counselors in our weekly meetings so that we

082can help try to identify those students who might need that extra help last last month when i talked about that tap program as one example i had mentioned that we started the year with seven students in that tap program and as of january i think it was 13th it was up to 37. right now we've actually crested over 40 uh who are in that program and again that's that's an example of putting them in that tier three program because of the level of need but we are also transitioning students from tier one to two or two to three or three to back to two uh exiting them in meteor depending on how they're doing academically um we also of course are putting strong focus on our seniors as we do every year for some seniors

083it literally comes down to the week before graduation where we're trying to get them across that finish line and for the most part we're extremely successful our graduation rate usually hovers between 96 and 98 percent uh the last few years it's been towards that 98 of course 100 is always the goal um unfortunately it doesn't always happen uh but we do everything we can to get them there brian is the graduation rate gen ed students or does that include special edition that includes special ed which i'm going to talk a little bit about on the next slide okay thank you so uh some areas of growth right because we're identifying trends and so within trends you find areas that you can continue to get stronger so one of the additional focuses for us is continuing

084to look at the social emotional needs of our students we have some new tools available to help gather more information around kids that we're going to start using as soon as we get back from february break which we think will give us a little bit more data on the social emotional skills that we want to try to enhance and we'll utilize our school counselors our school social worker for that work in terms of social skill building work and some group activities and we're also mindful of instructional practices that allow students to interact more socially so we have a series of protocols that we share with teachers so they can embed social skill development into the delivery of their content and curriculum so that they're seeing that everything is really instructions when you talk about social

085emotional learning it's really an instructional approach as well so that's going to be a real focus for us not only into the spring but really as we kind of move forward and we get better at identifying the needs of our students in that area we'll continue to see how we can embed and marry both good practice in the classroom with the development of good interpersonal skills and behaviors in the part of young people so for us at the high school we did picking up with the data the data piece we of course this time of year we're running some data reports in terms of student success and we we did a report where we found that approximately 12 and a half percent of our students in the high school sounds like a large number had

086a failing grade in either either quarter one and or quarter two um but what we found is that as students got older what we call the singleton failure so in other words students who failed just one course as opposed to two three or more courses improved as students got older so what that told us is that our underclassmen our ninth and tenth graders uh they definitely need some more academic support how are we providing that we're doing that through the daily check-in we're doing that through that tiered intervention support um you know one of the things that a common theme and one of the gentlemen who spoke earlier was that two year gap because of the the differences that we've had in our educational system due to do the covet shutdown how do we make

087up for that and what we're really trying to do is change our mindset in high school of let's forget about what that education was up to two or three years ago we have to focus on anticipating that we could see this gap for you know a prolonged period of time it's not just going to go away so how are we working to to achieve that and and that's through um taking a different look at our grading in our work policy systems at the high school um and you know of a great deadline uh at the end of a quarter is say for example january 31st is that something that we can extend through into the second semester to allow the students to still show that they gain the skills uh that they may have needed

088still in that first semester and carry that over so that's the work that we're doing uh right now we also want to focus on improving opportunities uh in graduation rates for all students this kind of spoke to the special ed question that karen had where because of the the work that kerry goodell is doing with our special ed uh team in the high school with the pathway uh program that we're doing we're gonna have more students who are designated special ed who are gonna be earning a local or a regents diploma rather than a credential and that diploma rate is is going to be increasing because of the firm pathway that we put those students into by adding some different support courses for them by bringing in some staff members to make sure that they

089have every opportunity to succeed and to get a high school diploma just like every single student in our building hi it's nice to see everybody kristen williamson and i'm going to transition us into what we are really doing focusing on those areas of growth and how we are addressing those so we know that adult learning has a correlation with student learning so we're really focusing on the adults in our system through professional learning as karen mentioned we are focusing on research-based instructional strategies with our educators one of those she mentioned we kicked off in september with clarity of learning intentions also known as learning targets learning statements it has lots of lots of names but the research tells us that if we can be crystal clear with our students and what we expect them to

090learn that they are more likely to achieve that learning so we kicked that off in the start of our school year and we have been revisiting it via faculty meetings department meetings and certainly during the observation process in addition to that strategy we are looking as our elementary principles highlighted at those early literacy and numeracy skills and so we've had some wonderful professional learning in those areas our ais providers at the early childhood school in math provided some training for our classroom teachers so if they were seeing gaps they were giving the providers gave those classroom teachers explicit strategies that they could take back and use with any child who needed it in their classroom so kudos to those academic intervention specialists in addition we've done a lot of training around the science of reading

091and when i say the science of reading that's really just the body of research that tells us exactly how children learn to read and spell what i think is really special about victor is the enthusiasm of the adults for learning and so we've had over a hundred teachers over a third of our elementary staff have engaged in that learning and they're thinking about how that can impact their curriculum impact their instruction and thereby accelerate those early literacy skills we also have wonderful instructional coaches holly knox and math and julie johnson in ela they work with our teachers on an individual level improving their practice through feedback cycles through model lessons and we know when teachers learn students learn finally we have lots of avenues for teachers to collaborate and learn from one another whether it's

092department meetings grade level meetings time where they're just getting together examining action research i was with a group recently who was looking at vocabulary development and how their instruction was impacting their students level of vocabulary so kudos to all of our teachers and educators engaging in that work we touched on this a little bit but another area in which we are hoping to foster that academic growth is through our data reviews all of our buildings look at data periodically so this year as many of the principals touched upon they examine that data they determine which of our students really need additional services and we make sure we get them those services that they're the correct service they're the correct frequency and then as michelle mentioned when students meet benchmark we want to start scaffold pulling

093those scaffolds back because we're here to create these independent thinkers and learners so those are some of the ways we are fostering that academic growth we would like to end with some quotes from our educators and from our students so a couple of our quotes right there on the side and in the middle are from people who have participated in our trainings or in their collegial groups but they say a lot our teachers want to know better and therefore they want to do better for our children the the center quote is from sor science of reading um is really just about teachers who come to that and they're excited about growing and learning and getting that information putting it into their instruction and they leave saying can i have more that's a great problem to

094have in the professional development department and then finally our students um you know what has been the most interesting thing you've learned i'm proud to say that this child chose everyone is welcome and respected here because we know that welcoming and affirming environments are the environment we need to accelerate academic growth so we thank you for your time and if you have any additional questions we are all here to answer you yes i have a quick question um how is the ais work that's happening during the school year informing what may be offered for students over the summer for support yeah we are actually in the planning phases of that and for summer academy in particular we'll be looking at the students who are receiving services as well as reviewing data again to make sure

095that we don't miss any children who may be eligible for that program but as as we look at those data points and establish that criteria for who is eligible for those in school services that will inform who was also eligible for summer services thank you other questions all right thank you for that report much appreciated next on our agenda is the strategic plan presentation dr taranova committee uh good evening everybody i heard the clicker works so that's good news so first of all i want to thank the well i want to thank the administrators who just presented on the academic progress of our students you can see that we have some really positive news despite the challenges we're facing this year but we also have some areas that we want to continue to focus on

096which leads to this presentation i'm extremely excited to talk about the strategic plan roll out for that starts actually next year in its first year of implementation 2022-23 uh joining me uh jamie jamie's here right next one so we have jamie condon uh teacher uh at vcs kerry goodell assistant principal at the high school karen finter who you know is director of math science andy fox who is a parent representative um joanne lowe could not be here but she's been helping us present the strategic plan rollout this week i want to thank all of those for all those members for helping me and doing actually most of the work in terms of presenting the rollout why are we doing this well one of the things i've said and we've already given two presentation uh two

097presentations to our staff regarding the strategic plan why are we doing it is one of the main reasons is in my entry plan meetings that i've had with hundreds of staff members since well started in december of 2019 and then went really through the summer of 2020 probably the number one major focus area was that we need as a district to create a central strategic plan a central vision and get away from the isolated silos of hard work that uh you know many many staff members are doing across our five buildings but we need significant more alignment and we need to really take a look at a strategic plan so basically what happened was uh in the summer of 2021 thanks to the board of education's leadership we started this process we hired two facilitators

098from the university of rochester dr lynn ertl and bob mckeavny both retired superintendents and then they came in and really talked to us about what it would take they had tremendous experience developing strategic plans across multiple districts and then they came in and talked to us a little bit about what that process would look like so actually i'm going to get to this slide first so our facilitators came in and they worked throughout that summer of 2021 and the fall to gather qualitative and quantitative data because we're the first thing was to really try to get a pulse of our school community what do people who are invested in our school community really want out of our school district what's working and what are areas that we need to focus on the qualitative the quantitative

099data included examination of curriculum curriculum and instruction examination of student achievement both local and state compared to local and state and examination of both comparison and benchmark districts comparison districts are simply districts that are typically similar in size and student makeup as victor central school district benchmark districts are the districts that we aspire to be as good as so to speak to to achieve with some of the same achievement levels that they do although we do have strong achievement at vector central school district to be as comprehensive as those districts are so there's benchmark districts that we looked at as well as comparison districts and then probably the most important data was the qualitative data about a thousand people participated in our survey to really get uh dig deep into what uh individuals value around

100the victor central school district and again areas that they want to focus on hundreds of people participated in interviews and focus group meetings all facilitated by lin and bob so that really occurred from the summer of 2021 to uh almost november of 2021. then we took all that information and it was a tremendous amount of information gathered about our district and we formed a committee and you can see on this page the large number of folks that participated in our strategic planning committee includes board members includes leadership staff members includes all varieties of staff members includes parents includes community members and included at least five potentially six to seven high school students again we tried to get across representation from our school community all those that are invested in what we do uh it was

101uh uh optional we gave the choice for people to join and it was a tremendous tremendous amount of responsibility uh so these individuals then met for four days and uh um sorry i meant for four days to take all that information that we gathered or that the facilitator gathered in the summer in the fall and really synthesize it down to what were the themes what were the major points what was the information that we were going to really utilize to create this strategic plan four full days were spent with this committee to the first two really to synthesize down the information create some common themes and then the second two days were to really refine and reflect on a rough draft of a general strategic plan that was really created from not only the qualitative

102information that was gathered but of course the quantitative data as well we were able to produce a rough draft of a street strategic plan in december of then that plan ended up going to a subgroup of the 36 member committee that sub group took a deep dive into it and really tried to look for patterns look for question marks it was a rough draft so there were edits and revisions that needed to be made we then brought the entire committee back together via zoom to take a look at the first rough draft of the strategic plan they offered many insights that were incredibly valuable we brought their insights and the information from the subcommittee back to our facilitators lin and bob who then took that input and revised the initial rough draft of the plan

103then that went back to the sub-committee of the strategic planning committee to take another look at the information call it down make a few edits and revisions which then ended up in the product that we have been talking about this week the board received the strategic plan a couple weeks ago i know they're taking a deep dive into it again we have two staff presentations this week regarding the strategic plan and then today we sent the entire plan along with the presentation to the staff so they could take their time and slowly look at it so that's the process we used it all started with the big question of why do we want to do it and we want to do it because we need a strategic focus to target us moving forward in the

104next three to five years so we don't we don't create more work for people or one more thing to do we actually become more efficient and targeted towards what we expect our students to know and be able to do as they move towards the future so now i'm going to turn it over to kerry i believe who's going to talk about the general concepts of the plan evening everybody i'm carrie godell one of the assistant principals from the senior high school so we just want to take a few minutes just to kind of um break down the structure of the plan and just provide some context for you for um how it was organized and some of the decisions around how we structure things within the plan so as we spent the first two out

105of four days together doing those deep dives into data coming up with a lot of conclusions identifying a lot of strengths identifying a lot of areas that might need attention we started to notice that our conclusions that we were coming to really fell within three kind of buckets so we call them our three pillars of our strategic plan so all of our tasks and to-do items fall within these pillars so the first one was around culture and it was focusing on creating a welcoming safe and inclusive community where all members of our staff are valued and the wellness of each individual is at the forefront it seems like an easy sentence i think we argued for about two hours over the verbiage in that sentence it was really important we wanted to make sure all

106perspectives were included in these statements the second one of our pillars was learning and instruction the core of kind of what we do it was around developing comprehensive processes and systems that impact our students academic success success so really focusing on that instructional piece and how we're going to um improve and better and make things consistent in that area our third pillar was around student supports and opportunities so maximizing student supports so that every student can achieve their full potential those students who might be struggling and needing levels of intervention and providing extensions for those students who want to um push their thinking in in further directions so what's going to happen now is we have members of the committee coming up and just going to kind of further identify and explain each of those

107pillars for you so my name is jamie condon i teach fifth grade in the intermediate um and i also am a parent of students in the district i was one of the members that worked on the culture section and it became apparent after looking at the quantitative and qualitative data that we could really use some focus on the culture and how we relate our values how we work with one another here in the district and within that goal that kerry mentioned to achieve you know improve our culture here we identified a series of initiative areas that we would each have a smaller goal that we felt like would really help improve the culture and achieve that welcoming safe and inclusive community that we're looking for and the first one is to identify you know a

108clear mission vision and series of values what do we want our kids here at victor to leave after their time here what do we want them to be able to do how do we want them you know to be prepared for the world beyond victor and so that was really that first initiative that we looked at i mean i think it's a really big statement to to see staff as the next area you know i've worked here for almost 13 years and i've seen the commitment that our my colleagues have that my children's teachers have to the kids here and to see that we want to focus on retaining our talented staff to focus on the wellness of our staff beyond just you know telling us to take care of ourselves but really focusing on

109what we can do to for us to feel that wellness support and collaboration knowing that we're best when we work together another area of focus we identified was resources making sure that our budget and facilities you know internal facilities and external facilities are really matching our mission vision values and our point of pride for us uh safety technology another major point and it came up quite a bit was consistency and continuity we're an incredible campus all in one you know we're all on one campus but making sure our building configuration and our transitions are what's best for kids and looking you know and taking a look at that and making sure that we're pulling all in the the same direction and as dr taranova mentioned that cons concept of silos um in the next initiative

110area diversity equity and inclusion um i think is a really incredible opportunity there to see that there and it became apparent from quantitative and qualitative data that we should really focus on creating an inclusive environment for our students through communicating with community culturally affirming practices inclusive opportunities and supporting our diverse populations and then the last focus area is communication internal how we communicate with each other external how we're communicating outward with the community and then our systems that we have in place and when you look at the document itself what they what you see on the screen really is just trying to orient you to the document so we have that overarching culture goal the underlying you know task that we're looking at which the mission vision values and then it's like a massive checklist

111so we have five tasks that we've essentially identified that we feel need to be accomplished in order to work towards that mission vision and values so with that i'll turn it over to karen finter to talk about learning and instruction my favorite topics so the learning and learning and instruction pillar as you can imagine is really comprehensive it's the day in and day out business of what happens in our classrooms um across the district and so it really centers on some of those processes and systems and looking at the data achievement data the anecdotal and quantitative qualitative information it's looking at curriculum and instruction really having a guaranteed and viable curriculum that spans the district that has continuity to it focusing on those subtopics of assessment and grading systems how are we really quantifying student

112achievement what are our current curriculum needs how are we uh adjusting to changes in new standards how are we making sure that we're using the most research-based practices within our classrooms how are we gathering data and and really having systematic processes to analyze student performance um to really look for trends and to know when to intervene very quickly so all of those are under that curriculum and instruction subtopic professional learning is is really how we will get better right and how we will continue to learn and grow so developing that professional learning plan not just in service to the state mandate with it but also really making it a viable document that can lay out the future for professional learning here in the district over the next five years pulling together a variety of voices

113to inform that work as well and then as i stated in our previous presentation when we're monitoring student performance it's sort of a nebulous idea right there's lots of ways to measure that and so what is our vision for student achievement here in victor it's sort of falling under that mission and vision work but really looking at it from the student lens how can we define student achievement knowing that there are lots of ways that our students can be successful and we want to make sure that we're honoring and supporting all of those measures of success not just in terms of one test score over another so those are the sub-topics within learning and instruction and as you can see those sub-topics have a goal statement around it they have those tasks that jamie mentioned

114and those tasks are rich it's not just a checklist it really is going to take some time to unpack those tasks to roll up our sleeves gather more information get the right people at the table to provide their input to accomplish that that work and every key subtopic and um task associated with it we'll have identified people that are responsible for that work that that sort of the buck stops with if you will but certainly it's going to take lots of voices in order to accomplish this work so part of the ongoing work this spring that you'll hear about in a little while is to identify who those key people are and really put that management plan together i'm going to turn it over now to andy to talk you through that last pillar good

115evening my name is andy folks and i'm a parent here in the district i've had three kids go through the district two that are graduated and one that's a senior so it's a beautiful thing we're almost done as a result i had a vested interest in wanting to participate in this um in this process of coming up with a strategic plan um the district has given us a lot as a family um and we wanted to give back as well so this third section the student supports and opportunities you know obviously the goal is to maximize the student uh support and opportunities we want the best for our kids as they come as it comes down to whether it's extracurricular activity grades social etc so this is a really important part the first part of

116that is the special education and this was something that i was very interested in the second student services again things we've kind of already talked about the ais building configuration structures english language learners we want to maximize opportunities we don't want to focus on related services the rti and the mtss and obviously we want to focus on the social and emotional support for our kids as well as the staff here and then as it pertains to other supports and services you know when we think about that you know the first thing you think about is okay maybe kids that need an extra hand or special education you know we were very careful in looking at the quantitative and qualitative data that this also includes kids that need focus that are accelerated we want to make

117sure that we're also giving them the tools that they need to excel in what they're doing classroom support obviously that comes in many things many forms whether it's staffing whether it's materials things of that nature college and career support very important my older youngest excuse me is going through this right now and then lastly the parent support parents are always going to be looking for more support from the district and that's something that we can obviously focus on [Music] this next slide again lays out the different tasks that are going to be involved under the special education umbrella and you know with special education we want to create the vision and identify processes and supports et cetera et cetera to you know help with student growth and achievement but what was fascinating to me as

118a parent was to really look at this and see that on the first slide that we look at you see that every single item on this slide is targeted for year one and that i think just goes to show the commitment behind every single person that was involved with this process and that we know that we've got a lot of strengths and we know that we want to take them and we may want to make them even stronger here within the district so i think putting a focus on special ed in really getting down to business in year one with all these different tasks is an incredible feat and i think it speaks volumes to the staff as well as the administration here again as previously mentioned each task will have a facilitator or somebody

119that is the go-to person as well and with that i will turn it over to there you go so we wanted to make sure everybody knew what our next steps were in relation to the strategic plan we are not done we have some more work to do so we wanted to present to the board in the community tonight um there is a town hall meeting next week where we're going to present the components of the plan via zoom and then we're going to continue to have some meetings um for the next few months we want to connect with various stakeholder groups some of those shared decision making groups make sure they receive the same kind of context for the plan and how it was developed and get any questions or concerns that are still out

120there in terms of what's included and what might be missing so the tricky part you have a hundred plus tasks and to-do items and subtopics listed in that management plan it's a lot so what we have to do is we have to take that plan and we have to find a way to translate it into a document or a management plan that will help us figure out what our work is especially in that first year each year this plan might change or modify a little bit based on the work that was done so we need to create that management plan just to keep everybody on track and focusing on the tasks for year one for this first time so we're going to spend some time for the next few months working on that management plan

121the administrative leadership staff is going to review the strategic plan and we're going to start to fill in those boxes of those key people those point persons for each task and those those point people might have subcommittees or subgroups underneath them that they'll be working with in order to achieve those items once we've identified those key accountability staff members we're going to return the plan back to our u of r consultants they'll review things and they'll unpack them because there's some intense work there and so there's a lot of thought that goes into the sequencing of tasks how to organize them by person and try to make it thoughtful around how that work is divided and timelined out so they will create a rough draft of our year one management plan and that's what we'll

122use to really drive our work and focus on in that first year then we'll bring that management plan back to the administration and leadership team including now teacher leaders and will review the rough draft and make any revisions that we feel like the team feels are necessary before moving on to starting that work for the management plan um so i believe you have access to the strategic plan you know it's interesting those task piecing on there feel compact believe me there's a lot of thought and process that went into you know some sweat tears um it went into making those statements and i think everybody feels really strongly in the compromises that were made in terms of creating tasks and subtopics that feel representative of all the stakeholders that were involved we distributed a google

123form to our staff and i'm i'm not sure if we're doing that to the rest of the shared decision-making groups but just to bring out those questions and concerns that people might have in relation to the plan so we have that information going forward so again thank you to jamie carey karen and andy uh for presenting this um other questions from the board regarding the plan or our next steps questions not seeing any okay thank you i want to thank this committee that for all the hard work they did important work so thank you to all who contributed and thank you to all who will follow up and contribute thanks a lot exciting okay 7d budget update it's tim and derek show thank you so as we do with every budget presentation we're going to

124go back to the goals of the budget and just remind everybody what our goal is to accomplish and that is to maintain the comprehensive comprehensive education that the vcs district community has come to expect improve the alignment of resources towards district initiatives maintain the stabilization of reserves maximize the use of every dollar spent maximize the ability to generate aid for future years and transparency so uh for tonight we were originally going to do non-personnel expense update and we will still do that and the preliminary tax cap submission so uh late last night i actually got the boces number so the only tweak from what we talked two weeks ago would be that boces number and i'm going to submit as is that does not actually mean what we're going to submit the budge or the

125tax cap at it just lets the state know what is the maximum threshold that we can raise taxes at so uh at this time there is and the change with the boces number from what was on your presentation was hundreds of dollars different so it was pretty close there was very little change instead of the preliminary tax cap update we're going to go and talk about our reserves a little bit today because as part of a budget is a large part of budget is reserves the use of reserves planning for future projects and as we do budget development the use of reserves is important uh next thursday we will give a little bit of a personnel update on the 10th we'll start talking i'll give you another update as we keep progressing through the budget

126development process and start discussing possible propositions that should be that we would like to see on the ballot march 24th you'll get a detailed granular look at the budget development process i will go we will get the a budget workbook we'll go through and how to understand the detail that we are providing to you so we'll have a discussion about that and on april 7th we will look to adopt the budget and then start rolling out the next steps that go with the budget with the budget vote so today we're going to start with district instruction which it's kind of a vague topic so when i talk about district instruction we're talking about administration which is our k-12 directors director of athletics health and physical education director of education support services uh assistant superintendent for

127instruction this also includes curriculum writing professional development and in service because it's not really a building specific thing that's kind of a whole district-wide in addition teaching so those will be instructional costs that are not assigned to a building such as coaches teacher leaders things like that and then we have other instructions which is special education and occupational education which is the senior high boces program uh instructional media which is district-wide library software that we purchase and the technology department along with people services and athletics so in for our non-personnel expenses we're looking at about a roughly a 16.65 percent increase which sounds like a lot but the largest parts would be your other instruction at 568 990 increase and that is largely related to special education tuition both uh private and boces placements uh

128and then in instructional media you see an increase of 431 thousand dollars and that is largely related to the additional chromebooks that we're going to be purchasing along with additional software for uh for instruction uh other things up at the top at the administration for the 87 806 dollar increase the majority of this is curriculum supplies and in-service supplies along with a 54 000 increase to have boces come in and do additional professional development with our staff lastly athletics increases our supplies officials and event registration fees as we know inflation is going up it's going to cost us more so we're adjusting to be able to maintain those existing athletic programs for those so we looked at them previously by the different departments and now we're looking at it in the in the object so

129supplies again is one of the larger increases of the 30 percent increase and this is the in servicing curriculum supplies that i had mentioned earlier and along with the athletic supplies tuition again is uh the special education tuition and boces is the the new technology purchases bosu software and boces tuition increases so we're looking at overall for the district instruction an increase of about 15.41 percent which is 10 million district office is made up of board of education this includes our budget vote so there's some fees in there for that the superintendent's office the business office human resources general support such as boces capital and admin cost postage insurance fringe benefits but we're not going to talk about that today we'll start talking about that as we get into our personnel discussions and then our

130debt service uh so the biggest change on this uh well the business office we are looking at an increase of 4.7 percent this is uh strictly related to the increased cost of having our audits done and our financial software our supplies and materials are going to stay the same we're just adjusting for the increased cost for normal operating uh human resources in increase for uh for legal fees both boces and our other district attorneys and then our general support increases are related to insurance in other boces costs debt service as you can see is a is a large decrease of almost eight percent so a couple weeks ago we talked about when we were looking at the revenue there was a drop off in building aid and we're starting to see on the other side

131so there's a with the aid there's always a debt payment and you're seeing the decrease of the debt payment for the debt that we had paid off with that and in the debt service because of the timing of our debt payments so we in july we went out and we borrowed uh what's called a bond anticipation note or a ban and that's for our capital project originally that we when we were planning the doing the budget last year we had anticipated for our principal payment to be coming due in june of this year but it's actually coming due in july so we took advantage of the budgeted debt expense and we applied that it that original banned debt payment to our bus purchase reserve so in prior years we were spending about nine hundred thousand

132dollars in debt payment for buses which will has decreased three thousand dollars and that's important for what i'm going to be going into on transportation so there was a six thousand dollar decrease on the debt that we pay for buses and then again so i looked at it from the different departments and now i'm looking at the object part of it um so there's that transportation so the biggest change after looking or working with the transportation department and this is actually more on me and it's a placeholder i put in an increase of 900 000 in the equipment and that is to try to get away from the practice of borrowing for buses to borrow money it costs money so it cost us about fifteen thousand dollars in legal fees financial advisor fees and then

133this year fortunately because when we every year we do another ban and we were fortunate enough to get a one percent interest rate because interest rates are low so in addition to the 15 000 like borrowing costs there was about 17 000 in interest so going back to the goals of the budget of trying to stabilize our reserves and and cost avoidance and maximizing the use of the other dollar it's it's a placeholder until we get through the personnel budget and if we it will come out and then ideally we might want to look at doing a bus purchase capital reserve and then it's still achieving the same outcome in a different means but it's on there right now preliminarily and once we get to personnel it may come off but ideally for the long-term

134financial success of the district to save the money from borrowing costs is is a short-term more achievable goal than paying off the capital project deck so that was my mindset uh so we were paying 9000 it was originally budgeted for buses it's down to three thousand so in the budget or from the current school year there's six hundred thousand dollar difference so for an extra three hundred thousand dollars we can basically avoid these costs going forward building in grounds um when working with mr marshall there was we reviewed all of his expenses we talked about uh utility increases and he felt that the budget was sufficient for that his largest areas of concern was his maintenance vehicles and equipment so these were previously in the budget a long long time ago and he said about

13511 years ago as finances of the district got a little bit tartar those were removed and they've never worked their way back into the budget so he has extremely old equipment lawn mowers plow trucks um he he estimates roughly about eight hundred thousand dollars to replace it that's a big chunk so we're working on a refresh schedule and uh so our goal is to try to add a hundred and fifty thousand dollars that will be used to purchase additional law mowers our plow trucks and all of our grounds and uh maintenance equipment the increase in maintenance contractual of 35 000. one of our vendors that we use a lot has offered us a zero percent uh lease to own on our floor scrubbing machines so in so as opposed to taking a one-time upfront hit

136to the budget i we thought it was very valuable to take this three-year lease to own agreement spread it out over three years there's zero interest so it seemed like the most logical sense so the 35 000 increase in maintenance contractual is to to start leasing i think it was nine new floor scrubbing machines they're very old they're not working well we're spending a lot of money on maintenance and upkeep same with the the mowers and the grounds equipment we're spending a lot of money trying to keep these up and running so long term i mean it won't have the whole full 185 000 impact because we will notice savings and repairs and maintenance of these of this equipment and then the the increase down the bottom of security is currently a preliminary estimate of

137the increase of our sro services so just a recap of our expenses uh overall between uh our building uh our building but non-building non-personnel budget we're looking at about a 1.7 million increase or 8.36 and again it's kind of fluid we're still early in development that 900 thousand dollars for the bus purchase could come and go or stay depending on where we go so as of today that's where we're looking at for our non-personnel expenses so before we go on the next one i want to there was a lot of information in a short period of time i have a couple questions yeah absolutely can you go back to the non-personal expenses on the contractual supplies boces debt page uh this one yep so there's a couple slides this one and the two prior where

138the change the total change yeah i see it i pulled it down from i'm wondering if it just pulled when i pulled it from slide or from from google slides if it did that i'm not sure i noticed that when i was going same for two slides back for equipment right i know i just want if you're gonna post these to the website or whatever we might wanna yeah i know you're trying to trick us so i honestly i just kept looking at i'm going i don't i noticed that it's right on that one so i'm not sure what happened on that one but so the two of them that need to be fixed yes so overall it's a decrease of 500 or 550 3000 okay is that all for that part derek this evening

139we're going to talk about the new york state school boards association you know potentially rejoining that organization where would that budget line go that would be included in the contractual of the board of education okay so the board of education line correct okay it's currently at what is that fifteen thousand it can go back for you fifteen six 15-6 yep so the largest part of that right now is um the capital or the budget vote and we we work with erie one for policy revisions so that's the largest piece of those the board of education numbers and monroe county school board should be there yes yep yep so those uh any fees contractual conferences that the board members attend that comes out of those lines okay thank you yep all right so reserve update so

140uh we spoke in june about what our reserve plan was and that's up on the screen to right now so this was presented back in june when we talked about what our reserve target was based off of a couple years ago we had developed a reserve plan to the finance and auto committee and i believe it was adopted by the board and these were the reserve plans and what we expected our current situation at the time what we expected the fund which is that six million dollars at the bottom and then the reserve target based on the current reserve plan so just giving an update again from where we were at the next slide we were able to make significant improvement to our reserves we were almost able to double them which is a great

141opportunity the largest uh increase was to the capital reserve which uh i believe everybody uh is a very important thing as we spoke two weeks ago there's new houses coming into the community so forward thinking and planning because it unfortunately when we want to build a building it's a it's a three to four year process to get there so i think we made the right decision by putting the largest amount of money into the capital reserve but when we came up with this reserve plan we were in a much different financial situation so um as part of the an upcoming audit and finance committee meeting uh mr d'amore who was our district treasurer mrs gruberle are working on trying to schedule this meeting so when we get into that meeting uh i think it's a

142great opportunity because where we were at when we originally adopted this reserve plan is much different than where we're at today and our focuses are most likely different than where they were a couple years ago a couple years ago we were trouble we had there was a more there was more focus on the reserve plan about safeguarding in case of budgetary failures fortunately the climate has changed the board and the community has supported a budget increase we have seen major changes in the state aid so i think it's a great opportunity for us as a finance committee to revise and look at the long-term goals of the financial success of the district so in this upcoming finance and audit committee meeting in january uh on short notice uh i had we presented to you approval

143of two audits and the finance and audit committee did not have an opportunity to ask questions so i even though you already approved them i think it's a great opportunity for you guys to be able to ask myself and mr d'amore about our financial condition for the last school year in addition mr buffum who is our internal control audit he he will be presenting his the internal control audit and then also we could we should take a little bit of time to review and update our reserve plan for the future goals of the districts so any questions about the reserve situation where we're at and our plan going forward it's not okay all right see this one actually changed as well i don't know how the numbers change that might have been my error so

144next thursday we'll talk about uh mrs d'angelo will give us a little bit of a personal expense update uh well she'll give you the personnel update i'll give you the expense side uh on the march 10th we'll go again back to the budget update and propositions uh we'll distribute and discuss the entire work budget workbook on the march 24th and then we'll see through to adopt the budget on april 7th thank you for your time tonight all right thank you okay item seven e is to approve the following field trip it's girls varsity lacrosse to north norak i can't say that connecticut from 4-8 to 4-11 of 22 to play what does this say to play in out of regional lacrosse games against nationally ranked teams so i'll entertain a motion to approve this trip

145a motion please by chris second by karen any comments or questions on this seeing none all in favor say aye aye any opposed extensions motion carried thank you item seven f is to revise the following field trip dates the outdoor outdoor activities club to lake placid from 33 22 to 36 22 changing to 310 to 313-22 the trip was previously approved on october 14th and you understand that they are just changing the dates so that students have an opportunity to do this trip and another trip as well so it's a simple change of dates that they were able to pull off a motion please to accept this by elizabeth second by karen any other comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed extensions motion carried thank you okay item 7h as the

146new york state school boards association membership discussion you received the documents that were sent to us by new york state school board association the reason i asked derek the question is because of the fee which i believe was in the 10 000 range that would increase that budget line should we want to rejoin this organization however we are members short on this board tonight for this discussion so what's your pleasure board members why not i think i think it should be tabled because three of our colleagues i'd love to hear their opinion and have a more full discussion i agree so the next uh regular board meeting would be i think it's march 10th it would be in march march 10th right so we'll reschedule for that discussion okay maureen got it thank you item

147eight meeting report monroe county school boards association committee reports i don't have anything anyone else uh standing committee updates anyone i guess not item nine just to remind everyone upcoming events the budget workshop on thursday february 17th at 7 p.m then the next regular board meeting thursday march 10th at 7 15 p.m and then a budget workshop again on thursday march 24th at 7 p.m do we know the location of the next board meeting will it be in the board room it will the only reason we moved it here tonight was because of the number of recognitions okay we didn't know how many kids there's over 150 kids if they would all come okay awesome thanks so it'll be in the boardroom okay it will disappoint chris he likes it here i do have one

148piece of information though um the march 10th board meeting just so everyone knows will not be live streamed that is opening night of the musical okay and um our aaron isaacs is actually has to run the musical that night and uh he won't be live streaming on march 10th okay okay aaron you'll have more fun that night then all right anything else for this evening seeing none a motion to adjourn please karen and elizabeth ii all in favor say hi hi thank you all we've had a meeting you