0013.01 pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence for Virginia Marcus passed away on 78. She was a teacher with us for 34 years. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 3.02 public comment on agenda items. Seeing none, we're going to wave the reading for now. 3.03 03 communications and announcements received by the board of education. Does anybody have anything they want to talk about? Okay. Well, we do have school starting up next week and I would just like to wish all of our teachers and administrators that are working tirelessly to get our rooms ready and also our facilities and operations who are working overtime to make sure all of our
002spaces are cleaned and put back together. I know some of the buildings still have a few things going on, but I have faith in our in our facilities. Miss Migs. Yes, I would like to congratulate both the spring athletes who were recently named two all state teams in baseball and lacrosse and the John J. FAA FFA students who earned ribbons at the Duchess County Fair. Miss Cowan. >> Oh, sorry. Anyone else? Okay. Um, school board members, do anybody have Does Winter, do you have anything? Um, thank you so much. Um, I don't really have all that much to report, but I thought I'd say some quick words and school starting back up. I know Van Wick's orientation was today, and I know that most, if not all, Vanwick's uh, students go to John J. Um,
003and as such, I thought I'd address that for a minute and how unbelievably smooth that went today. I was not present. My parents were for my brother. And it went absolutely excellently. I just wanted to to say a very big thank you to everyone who makes that possible and did a great deal in easing his anxieties and I'm sure the anxieties of what are going to be future John J students. Um, freshman orientation for John J is on the 28th, which is Thursday. Clubs will be there displaying all their activities and displaying the hard work of the students of the past. and more importantly um encouraging those freshmen, encouraging those students that arrive um to participate which I think is one of the more important things when it comes to John J. High School is
004their very very wide very very broad selection of activities. And with that out of the way, um I have nothing else to say besides summer was excellent and I wish every school a very very happy start school year. >> Thank you. Ash, did you have anything? Um, like Winter said, you know, not much to report, but I uh I just want to say I'm excited for the next school year and I'm so excited to uh graduate finally. Thank God. And we we look forward to getting to know all three of you guys this year very very well so that this way we get those extra shakes of hands at the end of the year because we that is our big paycheck. Emma. >> So, at Ketchum, we had our orientation on Monday. I was present.
005It went very smoothly. It was actually really fun. Uh, with Link Crew, we were able to hype up all the freshmen and get them kind of excited for the year as most of them were, but we were able to play some games, have them tour around the school, and just get comfortable here. >> Great. Thank you guys. And we really do appreciate you guys giving your time for us. So, next would be superintendent report 4.01. Dr. Bon. >> Thank you, President Johnson, members of the Winger Central School District community. It is the time that we begin the kickoff of the 2526 school year. I wanted to share with our community that we had our administrative leadership conference last week. We had 50 of our administrators there. Uh it was very very productive. Uh very very
006good, positive, frank discussions about our preparation for the 10,613 students up through 12 that will be uh within the Winger Central School District this year. And one of the themes that we continue to work on is ensuring that we meet the needs of all of our students, that we personalize the educational experience for each and every one of them. We will continue to work to that end throughout our 15 schools. This morning I had an opportunity to attend a workforce uh development seminar uh up in Albany along with the state education department, the state department of labor, school boards, NIScus, um a number of individuals from throughout the state in regards to apprenticeships and you talked about opportunities and that's one of the most important things that we do is provide our students with opportunities
007to be successful and I'm looking forward to this year um continuing to expand those opportunities. We've done some of it in career and technical education. We're looking at potentially moving into the area of aviation, potentially nursing and educators. Wouldn't it be great if we can get our high school students involved in programs uh that would be able to share with them what teaching is like and what they can expect. and then continue with our partnerships not only uh our businesses but also uh as I heard this morning uh with Sunni with Cooney State Education Department of Labor um and those groups within our county to to put that into action. So that's something that we're working on and something that we look forward to uh accomplishing this year. Uh in addition to that, we will
008continue uh our ongoing planning uh for our uh capital improvement project. We will be working on a new strategic plan for the district. Very very exciting times. Uh I also want to thank uh our facilities and operations staff for all of their work in getting our buildings ready. Uh for those of you who don't know, we had about 1,300 students participate in summer learning activities during the course of the summer. So needless to say, there was quite a bit going on. I know that athletics is now uh underway. And one thing that I would like to mention is uh I don't know how many of you are familiar with the nish reporting and US news and world report but I am very very pleased to say uh that out of the 600 plus school districts
009in New York State the Wajer Central School District ranked 15th overall in athletics and athletic opportunities for our students. You've seen that our programs have grown within our athletic department, within our fine and and music and performing arts. And again, that's something that is extremely important. It's not only what you do in the classroom, but it's also what you do outside of the classroom being exposed to areas that you can be successful in because as I've said before many times, success is infectious. So, if we could have a round of applause, please for our athletic departments, our coaches, our students, and for our families as well because they are a very, very important part of the team. And that concludes my remarks. President Johnson, >> thank you, sir. So, we move on to 5.01 consent
010agenda. Does anybody wish to remove anything from the consent agenda? Seeing none, resolve that the board of education does hereby approve the following consent agenda items as stated. 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 and 5.12. Do I have a motion, Miss Kellen? Second, Mr. Lumia. Any discussion? All in favor? Unanimous. 6.01. Approval of the 2526 amended tax rates for Putnham County. Be it resolved that in accordance with section 1307 of the real property tax law, the board of education on August 25th, 2025 at 7:41 p.m. is hereby authorized the district clerk to certify to the chief fiscal officer of the towns of Kent and Phillipstown in Putnham County the amount of the 2025 2026 school taxes to be levied on the real property located in that portion of the school district
011and be it further resolved that the amended tax rates for the towns of Kent and Phillipstown per $1,000 of assessed value be as follows. Motion, Mr. McFarland. Second, Miss Kellen. Discussion. Does anybody have any questions on this? Seeing none, all those in favor? Unanimous. Just so we all remember, we have to stop and see Miss Pedro at the end of the night and resign two of the forms. 7.01, 01 approval of the district-wide school safety plan and building level school safety plans. Resolve that the board of education upon the recommendation of the district safety committee does hereby adopt the district-wide safety plan and the building level safety plans as amended to include procedures for response to sudden cardiac arrest in accordance with section 155.17 of the regulations of the commissioner of education. And be it
012further resolved that the board of education does hereby approve the 2025 2026 police service agreements with the village of Fishkill and the town of Pipsy and further or authorizes the superintendent of schools to sign the attached agreements as stated. Do I have a motion? Mr. McFarland second. Miss Kellen, any discussion? Mr. Lumia, >> I want to thank Mr. Lee. Such a great great job. So keep doing it. >> Mr. Dr. Bach, >> I would also like to thank Mr. Joe for doing a phenomenal work. And um as you know uh district safety is our top priority in this school district. And I think that we put our money where our mouth is and our community has shown that they expect a safe school environment where all students can learn, grow, and be successful. I want
013to thank the board of education for their support. Uh few years ago we had a school resource officer uh at each of our high schools. Uh over the past four years we've expanded that. So now we have a school resource officer at our high schools at our junior high schools and we also will have two school resource officers at our two largest elementary schools. We will have a school resource officer from the Duchess County Sheriff's Office at Meyers Corners Elementary School and we will have a school resource officer from the town of East Fishkill at Gayhead Elementary School. In addition to that, I would like to thank Mr. Okima for working with our municipalities to increase the amount of uniform presence that we have in all of our elementary schools where we do not have
014school resource officers. I should also add that last year we added two school safety officers at the elementary level. Uh that's the first time that's been done. they will be there along with uh the continued uniform police presence at our elementary schools. I need to thank a few individuals. First of all, our sheriff Kirk and Barati who's been absolutely fantastic. Uh town of Winger supervisor Joey Cavini and Town of East Fishill Supervisors Nicholas Dalisandro. They have been extremely supportive of our efforts and I want to thank them for having the personnel uh to be able to assign to us and of course all of our municipalities the six of which we participate in even though we won't have technically school resource officers uh in other jurisdictions we will continue to have an enhanced uniform police
015presence and again I want to thank the board for their continued support and I just want to remind the community that is and remains our top priority priority. So, thank you. >> Any Mr. Morgan >> and Dr. Bon, if you want to expand on it at this point in time, but I know that over the course of the past two years, you've worked very hard on lobbying to get both state and federal funding uh for the officers that are that are at schools. And I know that you will continue to um uh to do that in an effort to have the the federal government um and the and the state government support uh the the placement of of police officers at at our schools. >> Trusty Morgan, thank you for mentioning that. Um there have
016been conversations with both the federal and state level. Uh I believe that individuals are very receptive to it. It's just a question as to how it's going to look and and how it will be funded. But I think everyone realizes that the safety issues that we have in schools, as I've said before, it's not just a WAN juice problem. It's not just a Duchess County problem, not just a New York State problem. It's a federal issue and we need to work together and we need to indicate that we believe in safe schools. So, I will continue those efforts. I've been pleased with some of the conversations. I will tell you that we continue to look for grants. Assistant Superintendent Lo Kima and I and uh Assistant Superintendent Dainty just signed off on a school violence
017grant that uh is a federal grant that uh I'm hopeful uh that we would receive some resources from that. But again, we we will continue to indicate the importance of that within our schools. So, thank you for mentioning it. >> Anyone else? Okay. All those in favor? Unanimous. 8.01 members may request additional items. Anyone? No. 9.01. Comments from the public. Nothing. Seeing as none, move on to 10.01. Resolve that the board of education does hereby adjourn the August 25th, 2025 board of education meeting. The time is 7:47. Do I have a motion, Mr. McFarland? Second, Mr. Rumia. All in favor? Unanimous. Thank you, everyone.