001under God, indivisible. Thank you. 4.01 Superintendent Spotlight on Programs Breaking the Record and Multiplication. Thank you very much, President McFarland, members of the board of education, members of the public in the Wajer Central School District learning community. Uh, Mr. Shoutton, I I don't know if we if we have this on the video, but we have Trusty Lumia here and Trustee Kelland and Dr. Miller, could you come up and indicate exactly what they're displaying and talk a little bit about the math enrichment program that we are fortunate to have had in the Winger Central School Districts for the past 10 years. So, we need to get him a microphone. Mr. Shoutton has the microphone. Go right ahead, Dr. Miller. Okay. So what this represents is what uh the students have done and are are planning to
002do. This is 384 digits multiplied by 384 digits. Um most kids in my experience can't do 5x5. Um and what um and some of the students within the schools now uh in several of the schools can do 18 by 18. So this represents 384 by 84 and up here is 192 by 192. The students when they set the record were only doing up this far. They were doing up this far. When they got after they did that, they've been working on getting up this far. And the one thing that is interesting is they are better than I am. Okay? And that is is that uh when I extended this to do it out to um 384 digits, I got a little bit of help from Gio um to to do some of it and to
003check my work. Um and speedwise, every one of them is faster than me. Okay. So, I've tried doing this. So, you know, it's a great satisfaction from a teacher's viewpoint to be able to have your students do better than you do. Um in fact this year um the three valid valictorians for the last three years in the high school district all went through this program at the math museum. So um but the accomplishment is much more than appears to be here and that is is if you look at the thought process and the effort to go through this these students were thinking like college students even college professors because there was a process that you had to go through a thought process in order to to to to uh figure out how to get to
004the next step because each one represents a challenge. After this uh number, I encourage them to do the next step, which is 786 by 786, which the answer will be over 1,400 digits. Okay? And then there is no way that I'm going to be able to catch up to you. Um so, so what I want to emphasize is is that they've gone through a different thought process and a process that you try to teach in college in terms of how to figure out a problem that you haven't solved before. And this is of course based upon the work that they learn in school. So it's a technique that I've tried to develop in order to get more out of the students. Um so and I'd like them to come up and say a few words
005because one of the things I found was that Gio in particular was giving advice to the other students on how to do this. And I think each of them have done that to a degree. So, um, why don't you come up and just share some of the experiences you had with this. [Applause] So, since the least shiest of you, I'll let him talk first. During all four of our challenges during the 96digit by 96 digit, we've all we all struggled and some of us did better than others, but we all did it together. First, we did it in math class where we all did pretty bad. We still practiced though and we kept trying because we knew we could do it. Eventually, we did it in front of all the fifth graders in our school
006and all of us broke the record. This encouraged some of us and others in far away spirits to do it in front of most many people on Pi Day. This resulted in us breaking world records and I think many other people could do this if they commit themselves to events like this. So Gio kind of summed it up, but we um yeah, we did that and we are currently working on doing stuff like Mr. Miller said we're doing um very very long multiplication like 384 by 384 and uh yeah we're working towards that. [Music] So Gio basically summed up what I was going to say about us be doing pretty bad the first few times. Like it took me about an hour to do the 96 by 96 at first, but then I practiced like
007multiple times and it and over time I was able to do it in about 48 minutes and then 24 minutes towards Pi Day. When we were going doing it in front of the fifth grade, I got it wrong completely. But for the 12 x 12, I got it in a minute and 2 seconds and I got it correct. Um um they kind of took it off but I think I'm more just so this I don't think was actually challenge of math. It was really challenge of teamwork. Um we worked together on this mostly. I mean 96 by 96 is really hard and without the three of them and me I I don't think any of us probably could have done that and also Dr. Miller of course and the rest of our class they all
008encouraged us and the rest of it was perseverance. So that means we probably could do it on our own but we couldn't cuz we need to persevere. We all got bad times in the game like Gio said Darius, but we had to have that mindset, that encouragement from that actually keep going and just set the records that we did. And I think we can just do this for everyone else out there. They'll all get opportunities and they'll all succeed. That's what matters. Dr. Rollers's uh office is here is about you give them out. Okay. So, Dr. um Mr. Rollers, Senator Rollers has made some certificates uh for the uh four of you. Um just look at the name and call him now. Um and uh when Dr. when M Senator Rolison was preparing a video
009for this, he had said that he had a little bit of trouble with math. So um um and I think he asked me when I was talking to you if you guys could give him a little bit of a lesson bring them up to speed. So you you want to give out call out the names and just um so I have here and then the next certificate is for Darius Giovani. And then Ken, am I pronouncing your name? Thank you guys. Congratulations. And there was one more set of certificates that they were supposed to get today. Um, and that is that Senator Schumer uh was also going to send some certificates, but because of the parade this weekend, the staff wasn't able to get them out in time. So, they'll be getting them afterwards. And
010then the next step for this is to go for the world record uh sometime in September. So parents keep helping them practice a little bit. Okay. So th this again uh just ordinary set of students are able to do something phenomenal that even I can have trouble and math teachers one of the math teachers at the high day event said he couldn't do this and Dr. and Mr. Rubia also said he's going to work on it too because he'd like to be able to beat him in the record. Right, John? [Applause] Thank you very much, Dr. Miller. Wow, how inspiring. The work that you have done is absolutely phenomenal. Worldbreaking Guinness World Book of Records. Mr. Lumian, have you ever seen anything like this in your entire mathematical teaching career of over 37 years? I
011wish I had. Never. Dr. Miller, you've worked in math for many, many years, even more than 37. I won't say how many, but more than 37. Have you ever seen an accomplishment like this? surprises that almost Mr. class. Yes. One of his students did a multiplication of a power series to prove a exponential theorem and he had mentioned that he didn't learn to do that until he was in power. He was a math. So the reason I mentioned this is we've had a theme here for the last few months and we've talked about community. It truly takes a community, students, families, teachers, faculty, staff, administrators, board of education, outside consultants to work to allow our students to achieve their highest potential. And without a doubt, you have exceeded the potential of many. So, I'd like
012to ask President McFarland if he could come down here along with members of the board of education. We also have some certificates for you. Could you please come down? Thank you. So in addition to what you have received from Senator Senator Roll and we would like to thank the senator for being here. We'd also like to thank Senator Schumer as well for sending his congratulations. We have a certificate of appreciation from the Wajer Central School District. So, in addition to what you have there, I'm going to ask Kean, if you could come forward, please. Give Keon a round of applause. [Applause] Congratulations. Very proud of you. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. I'm proud of you, man. Good speech, too. Good job. Congratulations. Darius, can you come forward, please? Owen, could you come forward, please? Good
013job. Congratulations. You're welcome. Giovanni, can you please come forward? [Applause] You got a great name. You say good job. Good job. Congratulations. You're welcome. Thank you. I also want to recognize Principal Rooney and Principal Run who are in the audience for all of their work. As I said, it it truly takes a community. We're all very proud of you. And I will leave the last word for Dr. Miller in regards to this presentation. Last word, Dr. Miller. Go get him. So, you're definitely right about community. So, in recognition for the school community as representatives of that community, there's a trophy up there for the board. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Miller. Let me go let me go grab that trophy, bring it down here, and share it with the board. We can get
014some photos. Mr. Lo, well, well played, my friend. It takes a community is right. Okay. So, why don't we get everybody why don't you get Angie Bill and Dr. Carwell of course. Nice. I will not answer that. I didn't hear your question. All right, it's all up to you now. Can you I know it's like come back. Awesome. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Okay, thank you. Well done. Well done. Well done. Very proud. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Stanley Cup. Okay. All right. We have Jason Trusty Lumin here like to say something that's Miller. I'd like to thank you for the program that you have and particular to all the all the students. It is an impossible for me. I I don't know how to do it. It's extremely extremely extremely difficult and I
015sincerely hope they continue under your leadership and do better and better things. So, thank you. Thank you, Trusty Lumia, superintendent. So, we continue on the theme of celebrations. We love to accentuate the many positives happenings within our school district. And uh now we're going to recognize a financial one, which is always a good thing. Wouldn't you agree, Board of Education? Yes. Yes. So, at this point in time, I would like to introduce Matthew Fina and Craig Rebecca from Amaresco. Come on up, please. You can come up and utilize the podium, gentlemen. That That looks like a check. Go get your Nice. You can add my name to it. So, gentlemen, the floor is yours. Push the button. There we go. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Matthew Fernina, the business development manager for MRSCO. To
016my left is Craig Rebecca, uh the senior project manager with Amaresco and also proud resident of uh Central School District. His kids have uh one through CK and then other one is both through both through. There we go. Um I'm also a Hudson Valley native. Um and W school district is hands down one of clients. Uh we started this process a number of years ago. We're in our second phase. So we combine the two. It's over a decade our last shoot together. Um, and the reason why you guys are one of my favorites is because every tier of this district has come together to make an excellent education performance project. You have rightfully administration, Ron Kubank, Antonetta, everyone, Kristen. Um, you guys have been great support, the board of education, all the facilities we've had
017together. Um, I know Craig's been great uh communicating with you guys and anything that we've needed, vice versa. Um I think it's been an excellent relationship and even the principles, the students, everyone kind of putting up with uh you know our project, our time here. Um it's really worthwhile. Um so as a part of our project um we strive to obtain the most amount of rebates for our clients. Uh in this case uh we guaranteed a certain number and we actually managed to exceed that number um just by a little bit. So Craig, go ahead and show them the check. We are proud to present the district Central School District the check of $460,711. There we go. That's awesome. Thank you very much. And again, team effort, every every single person in this district is
018uh one of the reasons why this this happened. Um access, communication, everything came together to make a wonderful job. Thank you so much. Uh we appreciate you. We appreciate uh our collaboration and our partnership. You've done tremendous work. So board, if you want to if you want to join the board president to uh to accept a check and no, it's not written out personally to you. It's written to the Winger Central School District. Hold on. Does the deposit thing work if I take it? I'm asking. I give it a whirl. Why not? on behalf of the central district and of course all the board members and superintendent we thank you very much. Thank you. It's going to be a little stand over here. Board stand up behind this is gravitation. Gentlemen, please just watch out
019for the courts. We don't need any lawsuits. Hold on, John. Still getting situated. All right, I got everybody. Everybody look this way. Who's behind uh who's behind Matt? Who's back there? Cheryl. All right. Wait, Craig, you got to look this way. All right. Now we got you. Thank you. [Music] Thanks, guys. I would just like to thank gentlemen um back in 2016 when I started on this committee. Uh Mr. Slowshour and I are the only two still on that committee from that time. And it's fitting that this check came in on his last night as a board trustee sitting at this table. And I want to thank Miss Dinky for the endorsement of the check this evening. So, thank you very much. The best thing that this nation ever did in 2011 is to hire
020Amaresco. They've done fantastic work for us and I want to thank both these the two individuals. They work extremely hard for the district and obviously accommodating 460. How much? 460,000? $711. I'd like to have some Thank you very much. Thank you guys. And of course, Dr. Gross. Thank you, Dr. Well, again, thank you very much. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] I I guess we'd be somewhat remiss just to also acknowledge the fact that um we started this project years ago and thankfully as I'm leaving we have everything it's done. So gentlemen, thank you very much for all your hard work. Pleasure. Um and also want to thank right under the wire and just so the community knows um you know we try to do what we can in terms of upgrading
021our facilities and understand why uh the capital committee spends an enormous amount of time you know working with the administration as well as outside vendors and companies uh with director Ross you know uh kind of leading the way but Again, as we talk about community and partnerships, this is probably an excellent example of uh how a school district can work collaboratively with a extremely large company. Uh you know, to make things better for the community, sustainable, but more importantly, uh you know, to save money and I guess I can say help the district make money to offset costs for doing a lot of different things. So gentlemen, a lot of hard work, a lot of meetings, a little banging uh banging heads over the years, but it was all worth it. And thank you very
022much. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] 4.03 school lunch fund presentation. M [Music] Grab my phone. Good evening. This evening we will be uh presenting you with the 2526 food service budget. Uh following the same theme as the superintendent has utilized for this entire budget year was building our future together. So I want to thank the board of education for allowing us this time in order to have this presentation for you this evening. There we go. Okay. So, first of all, as we include in all of our presentations, we'd like to thank the board of education and senior staff for all of their support as we've worked through this process. This has been a challenge this year. We have a lot of unknowns that um we are working with, but let's just go over some of
023our basic food services that we do provide. We do have 100% compliant meals for all of our menu items as well as allocart. We will be able to serve free reimbursible breakfast and lunch at all who winger schools starting in September. We have alle cart items available at 14 of our schools. There is participation at the district wellness district level wellness plan and also there's been a lot of work done for grants with regard to equipment and food products. What does it mean for free food in 2526 for Wender Central School District? We have applied for the community eligible eligibility participation that's called C with New York State. When this presentation was put together, we were still awaiting final approval which we have received. This work was done by the food service department led by
024um food service director Matthew Flosser. This program is not Governor Hokll's free meals as presented in her budget. This is what we call again the C and it will um change the way business is done in the food service department. There will be federal and state reimbursements available to c to cover the cost of these meals for both programs. we in attempting to figure out what does this mean and what will this look like because again the only years that we have for comparative purposes were during COVID. So Matthew and his team came up with reasonable estimates for increases in this area in order to be able to figure out expenses and then the offsetting participation. So it's going to be a work in progress. There are many challenges that are included here. We have
025uh concerns about staffing. Um we're actually meeting with food service workers tomorrow to have a conversation. We've been in contact with their union leadership. Human resources has been involved. Um we are looking at whether or not we need an additional courier, for example. We're not quite sure what this is going to look like and we understand and that has been built into the budget as prepared for this evening. We also have concerns about the infrastructure in our a lot of our kitchens. We don't know how that flow is going to work. We're going to look to building administration and have meetings with them as well over the summer to see how best to make this flow and offer as much opportunities for both breakfast and lunch as possible. Uh our plan is to work all
026summer trying to develop a plan and then evaluate as we go. one month in in September to see how it looks, what is participation, how do we need to adjust staffing and we'll go from there. So, it will definitely be a challenge, a work in process, but a fantastic opportunity for Wajer Central School District students. How do we want to continue to improve our participation? As we said, first of all, free breakfast and lunch. We also have speed of service. we've been able to um increase the number of students getting through the lines in a timely fashion. They've identif the department has identified best sellers and included those on the menu and this has been through taste tests and through student feedback. Um they they still love the students love that breakfast for lunch option
027that continues to be a popular item and included in the food service menus. Um we have new alleart items again as they become available they must meet those requirements and those requirements are reviewed by the wellness committee quarterly. So we keep everybody on track as to what's allowable and what's not based on the various nutritional guidelines that we must follow. We also have a great food service team that works together in all of our kitchens in order to find the best means by which to feed a lot of students in a in a short period of time and with decreased staffing. During 2425, we've been able to purchase about $249,530 worth of equipment we have listed. It's it probably is a little small here, but the equipment has uh ranged from dishwashers to refrigerators and
028freezers, slicers, replacing a lot of antiquated equipment, and that is a big bonus and helps also to increase morale in those kitchens. This coming school year, there will be a new point of sales system and inventory platform. It was mentioned during last year's presentation and this year we were actually able to get the migration started. Implementation has begun and in the fall we will have Mosaic as our point of sales system and it is Bosey's Adable. So that's fantastic. We anticipate seeing faster um and easier reporting for staff. Um, it also aligns with New York State reporting and we've been working with technology to make sure that we have everything in alignment so we have an ease of transition. We purchased 18 additional stations to support these upgraded systems as well. Now, here's the funny
029part. New York State um I'm sorry, National School Lunch Program requires that we do a calculation annually and we bring this to your attention every single year. If we do not keep our prices in alignment with what the calculator shows, there's a potential for a reduction in aid. So even in a year where lunches will only be charged to students who want more than one meal, we have to propose a safer breakfast. We have to propose an increase in order for us to stay in alignment. This C allocation can last up to four years. We have to review it. We're still learning the nuances of it, but it can last up to four years. This specific allocation application, sorry. And if we don't pay attention to this national school lunch calculator, we could potentially be
030looking at a really large increase in four years, and we don't want to do that. So, we're trying to keep up with what we need to do so that we are as close to New York State as possible. So we are asking and have included in the 2526 budget for any meals that will be sold a 25 cent increase um as a result. So if you look at the financial summary for uh the revenue side of the house we have the actual 2324 compared to what we project for this year as well as what our budget would be for next year. And if you can look in the 2526 column, you'll see sale of meals is zero. And that is because of the federal and state reimbursement, the free breakfast and lunch. We won't be
031selling meals. We'll be getting reimbursed for those meals. On the expenditure side, again, we have areas where we're doing our best estimates use utilizing that data from COVID doing moderate increases. We still have supply chain issues. Everybody hears the same story over and over. So at this point in time, that is our best estimate with regard to food, equipment, labor. Uh we still will have the commodities um at and um it's a balanced budget for the 2526 school year. What are our future plans? Well, we need to manage and refine that free breakfast and lunch program. make it the best that we possibly can for our students and for our buildings. We're going to utilize commodities because that's where we can find a lot of savings. We'll be working on an outdoor walk-in freezer at
032Meyers Corners Elementary School. We'll also be looking at a a generator at RCK to ensure that if the power does go out that our our comm our inventory does not get lost as a result of of it being spoiled. Uh we hope to continue to still replace district equipment. We continue to look at other options for our children, our students who have uh special dietary needs, gluten-free, vegetarian, etc. And we're continuing to try to build our staffing to where it needs to be and also creating a sublist, which we do not have at this point in time. And we just want to thank you for your support. We truly appreciate it. It's going to be a challenge, but we think it's going to be worth it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Did have any
033questions? Trusty Lumusty Christian my own benefit summary revenue is subsidy projected into 24 25 million and your budget the reimburseable meals are coming that's where the reimbursement will be coming for the free breakfast and lunch. So if you look the top line has a zero there next to sale of meals and so it's pretty much offset and added to that subsidy line. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. I think it's important the community to understand that there is self-sufficient. Correct. Correct. Absolutely. They the food service department does not have any taxpayer dollars except for student participation and there's no funding from the general fund. So they 100% are self-sufficient. Takes a lot of creativity to make that program work. So thank you for Matt. Thank you very much. Matthew has a great team. Any other questions? Superintendent.
034I just like to make a comment. Thank you Miss Dainty for the presentation and director Fluster. Thank you for your leadership and the work that you do. Uh I know that there are a lot of uh federal guidelines that you need to adhere to um in terms of uh providing meals and uh you do an exceptional job and you and your staff u are to be commended for all of their efforts and all of the work and I'm glad to see now that some equipment is being purchased to replace some of the equipment that's been there for a while. Uh that's a tribute to the work that you've done. So again, thank you so much. Thank you, Trusty Morgan. Yes, based on the um mosaic uh cloud-based point of sales system um given that it's
035it's Bosey's attable um approximately what is the the net expense uh going to be either as a percentage of the total expense or or if you know the the the dollar number off the top of your head which would be impressive if you did I wouldn't be surprised. It's about $17,000 more than the current system. Correct, Matthew. And it's again be offset in the following year. So the first year implementation is always higher, but it's about $17,000 higher than what we were spending, but again, it's cloud-based um and not as limited and as challenging to our technology department as the current system that we have. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Miss Denny, for that report. Moving on to 4.04 4 approval of the 2025 lunch fund budget.
036Resolved that the board of education of the Wingers Central School District does hereby approve participation in the National School Lunch Program to accept the policy statement and authorize the President of the Board of Education to sign the certificate of acceptance. And be it further resolved that the board of education of the Wabinger Central School District does hereby adopt the food service budget for the 2025 2026 school year as presented to the board of education and as a re and as recommended by the superintendent of schools. Do I have a motion? Motion by Trusty Kellen. Second, Mr. Morgan. Any discussion? All All in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. Thank you very much. 5.01. Public comment on agenda items. Is anyone signed in for public comments on the agenda items? We have no one. So, we will wave
037the reading. 5.02 uh application for services on the board of education, Eddie Slowshour. So, now we're going to have a little thank you from Mr. Eddie Slooh shot the trustee that uh got us our big check down there in the front. One of the guys that was helping us big asset with Amaruso. So as your time on the WG Central School District board draws to a close, I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for all your services. Board services is the toughest volunteer role and you took on the board duties with dedication and grace. For years, Eddie Sloshaw has served on the board with an unwavering commitment to the staff, community, students, families of Winger Central School Districts. your leadership as a board vice president for the 2024 2025 school year and your services on
038various committees such as capital improvement committee, policy committee, personnel committees, curriculum committees, legislation action committees and the audit committee demonstrate your commitment for willingness to share knowledge and expertise has been invaluable. The board and the W Central School District will certainly miss working with you as a board member, but we look forward to staying connected to your community and your district. Please accept the plaque in dedication of your services to the board of education of Winger Central School District. [Applause] spelled right. John wasn't involved. And again, we could not have done half of this without you. So, thank you again. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Swawer. So, I would I'd like to just take this opportunity to thank the community for their support over the last nine years as a board member and three years prior
039to that as a mouthpiece at the microphone. Uh, I also want to extend my my thanks to senior staff uh for uh working together with me. Not always agreeing, but that's not a bad thing. I think we've made um some great progress as a district over the last decade. Um I'd like to also thank prior board members uh who I've worked with. I'd also like to thank my current board members. Um, our goal always was the best interests of our students, although we didn't always agree on everything, but ultimately it was what was best for our students, our faculty, our staff, our parents, and our community. So, I want to thank each and every one of you for working with me on various committees and sitting up here at this table. I'd also like to
040take this opportunity to thank the superintendent. Um, working with you has been uh a very moving experience. And I say that because I'd say other than my father, I I don't think I've ever seen a more dedicated, driven individual who gets things done and who sets out with a goal and achieves it. And it doesn't matter what that obstacle is. um you get it done because you believe in in this community, in these kids, in this faculty and staff and all stakeholders. So, it's been an honor to work with you and uh I look forward to working with you in the future uh on some various committees that I now okay on various committees that I still would like to be a part of. So again, I want to thank everybody and uh I appreciate
041the accolades. Thank you very much. Thank you. [Applause] So, trusty slow shower, uh, I know that you're finalizing your term on the board, but that doesn't mean we can't tap into your expertise from time to time to assist us. Correct. Um, yeah, just give me a little just give me a little time. That's all. But I I would like just to make a quick announcement just so you know, I I been offered to go out on tour with uh with board teachers. uh they've been interested in having a 10 or 15 minute section of their show dedicated to board situations. So I'm going to see if I can uh if I can do that. So thank you again. But I'll be around. Superintendent. Thank you, President McFarland. Vice President Slow shower. Thank you. Thank you
042for your kind words. The the feeling is mutual. Um, the one thing I would ask you is don't go too far. This community needs your input. They need your drive. They need your determination and dedication. And on behalf of the entire senior team and the entire district administration, I want to thank you for all of your support, all of your efforts, your unwavering um work to make sure that our students and our families get the best. And that's something that we've always all of us have worked together on. And as was indicated, we may not always agree, but our heart is in the same place. We're here to serve our community. Um, it's a tremendous responsibility and you did that exceptionally well and I appreciate you and your support and certainly wish you well, but
043please don't go too far. I heard you the first time of 10 times. Please don't go too far. Please don't go too far. Trusty Lumian Eddie's been uh part of this community, part of the board for the last 13 years. I think 2013, he started coming to board meetings and we have to listen constantly to his complaint constantly. So he finally got elected to the board and he's been a very asset for the last nine years. He's been a board member, believe it or not. He's been an asset. I like to thank him for all the work he's done in the capital planning committee and as a city hope even though he's retiring this evening I'm envious I hope he continue working in our committee particularly the capital he's been an asset so I'd like
044to thank him for his service and I wish him well thank you anyone else Johnson so Mr. Slow shower. I want to just thank you for everything we've done over the years. We sat out there for years together. Boy, don't I know it. You got up here first, but you were an amazing mentor to me. And I just want to thank you. And I can't wait to tap into some of your memories as time goes on. And let me know when you uh have one of those concerts close by. I promise I'll come watch you anyway. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Johnson. Uh, Trusty Sher Megots, I'm sorry. Trusty Miggots, I also want to thank you for all those years we sat together out there in the audience and for all of the things that
045I learned from you from that experience. I'd also like to thank you for inviting me to apply to serve on the capital improvements committee, which was, I think, the first committee in the district that I served on. and then for talking me into making the decision to sign on and run. And just thank you very much for your guidance, your friendship, and your leadership. Thank you, Cheryl. Trusty Morgan, Trusty Edward A. Slow Shower. Thank you. [Music] My mom would hit you if you say that. All right. And hopefully we can move right along. 5.03 communication announcements received by the board of education. Trusty come. We've had the pleasure of attending a number of events honoring the students in the last couple of weeks. uh I haven't been able to attend all of them and other
046members of the board haven't been able to attend all of them because they're often events in more than one school at a time. But uh the ones I was able to attend were the junior awards here at RCK, uh the computer honor society at John J, the junior honor society at Ben White, and the moving up ceremonies at Wenters Junior High. It's a great pleasure and one of the great one of the main pleasures of being on the board to see that what our students are accomplishing. Congratulations to all of them. Thank you, Trusty K. Trustee Johnson. Yes. Um, Trusty Venus and I are going to be splitting up some of the sporting events that we've been able to attend, but as Trusty Kellen said, we've been able to attend quite a few things. um
047the RCK Jr. Awards, the John J computer science awards, the Roy Ketchum commitment ceremony which was for the seniors. Um multiple baseball games which brought us to the state championship. Um although we did not win, RCK was in the final. Um and I am so proud of the young men and all of our coaching staff. They pulled out a dream season. Um, and I didn't really know if that was going to be this after last year's team graduated, but they somehow said, "Nope, we take the challenge." And they they did it. They made it to states. Also, this past weekend, besides going to Bingmpington to see those amazing men play, um, Trusty Megates and myself made it to track and field down in Middletown in between games. And um we were able to see Nate
048Johnson compete in the pentathlon and win for the second straight year the state championship. Um he is also ranked number one in the country currently right now and set a bunch of uh personal goals there that he's going to be going forward and I have no doubt next year in his senior year he's going to crush everything that he has going forward. And along with all the other events, we went to the uh retirement barbecue and a bunch of other um awards ceremony. And I just want to thank everybody for including us in all the amazing stuff and look forward to the graduation coming up and one more capital meeting for Mr. Slow Shower to uh share for us just one last time. Thank you, Trusty Johnson. Trusty Mig. Yes. Building on what uh Trusty
049Johnson said, I would like to um extend congratulations to Austin Deler from uh Royce Cy Ketchum who qualified to compete in states in the long jump. And although he came short of his goal in jumping, we are extremely proud of him for having qualified for states and for the way he competed. I also want to um say about baseball. I'm going to adapt something that Scout Ray Teodora said the other day um about Royce Ketchum and I want to extend it to the Wingers District. The Wingers District is truly the home of baseball excellence and I want to congratulate both the Royce Catching team and the John J baseball team on their high level of athleticism and competition this year. And in fact, if you go on max preps right now and look, they are
050still ranked number one and number three in the state for division AAA. And the last event that I want to mention, Dr. Bong, bring coming back to your idea of community. Um, I certainly hope that um some of you will join me next year when I go back to Wingers Junior High School for their big braid event. The students at Waters Junior High spent months braiding yarn and um took it outside and encircled the school as a hub for the school and a symbol of coming together as a community. And I just want to say this was the second year that it was done and it's a really great event. I did I said Austin Del. Thank you Trusty Mitch. Trusty Cavalero. Yes. Uh, building on some of these other comments here, uh, I want
051to give a, uh, special congratulations to the RCK wrestling team, most notably Gwen Brown, who, for those of you who may not be familiar, she, uh, she made states. Uh, this program over the last year or two has really taken off. It's really a testament to coach Batista and company and uh their booster club which works endlessly to try to uh uh you know put them on the map and uh I do want to thank the volunteer coaches as well especially Matt Mosh, his father Tommy and uh like I said uh continue good things to come and uh uh we look forward to watching them and support them. Thank you, Trusty Capillary. Trusty Morgan. Thank you, President McFarland. Um, if I uh misstate this, anybody jump in, but a an overwhelming uh majority of the
052board of education members attended um either the Ketchum senior award night, awards night and or the John J senior awards night. Um both of those were um were great recognitions of uh our senior class. the work and effort that the uh that the guidance counselors um and administration put into um this year's senior class over over the past four years as well as the partnerships that our school district have with community organizations um and businesses and um alumni um and I'm probably missing a whole bunch of categories but the scholarships that are Our students uh won from um from college sororities uh from families that wanted to recognize a a a retired um or deceased teacher and or student and then teacher in the district. Um was very touching um and just a great recognition
053of uh of this entire uh this entire Wisher Central School District community. Congratulations to all our seniors who had their last day of classes today. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Morgan. Trustee Shaw. So, I just wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate my next door neighbor. I would be remissed if I didn't since this is my last uh last meeting of of the school year. Um Morgan Dowy uh is a javelin thrower at John J High School. She threw the javelin 128 ft 11 in. She is the number one javelin thrower in the state of New York. So, as we talk about the accolades of our student athletes, we do focus a lot on baseball and football and basketball, but as we can see lately from Miss Johnson and Miss Migot's trip to Middletown, we
054actually have an outstanding track and field program here in the district, as well as runners from RCK in the test. So, I just want to congratulate her because that is a phenomenal feat. I don't know how many people are into javelin and discus throwing. Um, but seeing someone who, you know, grow up next to me because lately these years I don't see her because she's a teenager doing so many things. but to find out that uh we have another superior athlete out of this district who dominates a sport not only in the district and in the county but in the state of New York. So, uh I want to congratulate her and uh I wish her the best of luck moving forward. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Smash. Trusty Cohen, with so many events, I
055uh I I miss mentioning a few of them, including the uh WCT retirement uh barbecue and the senior awards and uh those were mentioned by various members of the board. But there was another one that hasn't been mentioned at all. It was the biiteracy awards that were given and we had uh students a number of students twice as many as last year uh earned the award including the first one in New York State to be given awards for I don't remember how to pronounce these so I won't say but um indigenous languages. So it was very impressive. Thank you for that, Trusty. Trusty Lumian, I want to congratulate and I wish all the students at Was Junior High and they're moving up to RCK. I wish them luck. I hope they study hard. Also like
056to congratulate 147 students from Wa Junior High School who are industry National Junior Honor Society. Ex 147 students. I wish him well. last I don't want to correct you but it was 148 from that one 148 well my apologies I can't count too well no student left out thank you thank you for that correction but uh also today some of us attended the um ceremony under the direction of Mrs. hit this kind of hits mother they put up a board a track and field a record board at Rosie catcher right uh on the football field I sincerely hope that people go there and look at all the records the kids have established over the last my god a lot of years in fact one of my students at least couple of my students I listen
057there he pulled at 15' 8 in way way back in my time so uh please take a chance to go out there to that board and and actually see the accomplishment of some of these goods But thank you. Thank you, Trusty Luna. No one else. We move right along then. Committee reports 5.04 committee reports. Uh capital improvement is chaired by trustee. Thank you, President McFarland. myself, Trustee Johnson, Trustee Kapalari, Superintendent Bon, and Assistant Superintendent Loima, and our director, Ron Ross. So, just to give everybody a quick update, uh, at our last meeting, we're really just focusing, uh, as I mentioned before, uh, finalizing the two, well, not finalizing, but moving on to phase two of the 2023, uh, capital project that unfortunately, as I've mentioned, was postponed last summer due to, uh, you know, difficulties
058with state ed. Finally, that was all worked out. So, I would like to just mention to the community if you could stay away from Van White Junior High School as much as possible. Uh we have a tremendous amount of work going on in that particular building. Uh we also have our summer projects list, uh in-house work. Uh that's just some minor stuff. Um and we're just going to continue uh focusing on the uh upgrades from the 2023 phase 2 project throughout the district. Uh so we've been focusing on that. Uh we do have another meeting coming up um because obviously the proposition passed. I personally want to thank uh the community for passing the most recent proposition as mentioned uh at previous meetings from trustee uh Johnson. Uh the committee put in probably close to
05918 somewhere between 18 and 22 months of work putting that project together. So once again I want to thank the community um for that. We'll be moving forward with putting together a timeline over the next several years uh of those particular projects that were approved and u that's pretty much it for my uh for my last report uh for this school year. Thank you. Thank you Trusty Sloan. Policy committee chaired by Trusty Keller. Okay. The policy committee met for the its last many uh meeting of this year with uh um members uh Cheryl Migs and and uh I'm sorry. Okay. uh and the um we clarified some of the policies on uh student records and taking minutes and on public comment at board meetings. And I'd like to speak a little on the uh public
060comment area because it's uh a little change in the agenda from the first reading. Please note a change was requested by policy committee members to uh the exhibit 1230 public comments. We had in the first reading it said uh specific student issues and uh member Cheryl Miggett pointed out that that would ban comments or questions regarding any specific dosent issue rather than just pertaining to individual identifiable students. So we changed the wording to issues involving specific students to make it clearer. Um, the committee also dealt with uh clarifying with some clarifications on the new policies on student board members and on cell phones on the cell phone ban. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Con. Uh, audit committee, the chair is Trustee Morgan. Thank you, President McFarland. Uh our most recent meeting uh held last week
061was attended by committee members Virgil Kapalari um Keith ODMS and myself as well as exficial member President uh McFarland. Uh also in attendance were um assistant superintendent Dainty um and um our internal uh claims auditor uh Mr. Mansy. Uh during the meeting, we completed our intake interview for the 2024 2025 external audit uh with our new uh audit firm EFPR who were awarded the uh the competitive bid. Um the firm was unable to complete the review on uh the audit committees requested agreed upon procedure. Uh I will recommend uh to the 2025 2026 audit committee uh that a different agreed upon procedure be requested for EFPR to review. Thank you. Thank you. Trust me wellness committee distinct. Sorry. Sorry. The wellness committee had their final meeting. Um, in attendance was Trustee Morgan, Trustee ODMS, um,
062Trustee or President McFarland, and I'm trying I'm so sorry I'm drawing a complete blank. Um, and trustee Kelland. Sorry. Thank you so much. Um, at this meeting, we discussed the outcome of the the outcomes of the parent and the student surveys that were done this spring. and we had uh quite a lot of conversation um about the outcomes and potential new questions and different ways to look at the survey itself going forward. So, thank you to everybody on the wellness committee for this year and um it was quite productive. Thank you. Thank you. Duchess County School Boards Association uh board representative is picked trusty piggy. The Duchess County School of Boards Association held its annual meeting and uh reelected all the officers, president, vice president, treasurer for a second one-year term. And uh we had
063guest speakers on the civic uh readiness seal from uh several districts. Whoers was uh pre presented on that topic uh three years ago. So it was some other district's term this time, but I'm sure our students are doing equally fine work this time. Uh and uh Mrs. Miss Dandy uh made me aware that I didn't get the total attendance for the policy committee meeting. It included besides uh M Mrs. Migetts and myself uh President Mr. McFarland and uh assistant superintendent Lokima and District Clerk Alberta Pedro. Thank you. Thank you Trustee Peggy Kell. Moving right along to consent agenda 6.01. Does anybody want to remove anything from the consent agenda? I see none. Resolve that his mic don't work. Resolve that the board of education does hereby approve the following consent agenda items as stated. 6.02
0646.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 10 6.11 and 6.12. Do I have a motion? Motion by Trusty Kellen. Second. Trusty Lumiere. Any discussion? All in favor? So moved? Yes. Uh, superintendent would like to make another announcement. Thank you, President McFarland. As part of the consent agenda, uh, I am very, very pleased to congratulate Miss Amy Watson on being appointed as assistant principal at Chief Road Elementary School. Congratulations, Miss Watson. Thank you. All right. 7.01 second reading and adoptions of policies. Resolved that the board of education of the Winger Central School District does hereby approve the second reading of and adopts the following policies based upon the first reading by the board and the recommendation of the policy committee as stated. Trusty Kell motion sorry second by Mr. Lumia all in favor I unanimous
065thank you 7.02 2 adoption of the 2025 2026 code of conduct attendance policy. Be it resolved that the board hereby adopts policy number 5300 code of conduct and by reference policy number 5100 attendance for the 2025 2026 school year as stated. And be it further resolved that the code of conduct will be what is it called? Will be decimated disseminated? Decimated. I say decimated cuz you know where I'm going with the code of conduct. Disseminated to all staff, students and parents, legal guardians with instructions that the policies and rules therein must be reviewed and adhered to. Do I have a motion? Motion by trustee Kellen, second by trustee Capillary. Discussion. I think he wants to definitely disate the policy. It's the last stop. Last my last vote on it. Okay. Where I'm going. All in
066favor? Unanimous. Thank you. I'm sorry. There was one opposed. I'm sorry. every year. It's not every last 13 13 years. I posed it from the microphone. Well, take out PBIS and then I'll change my mind. 8.01 Board members may request additional agenda items, discussion items, or request for additional information. I see none. 9.01 comments from the public. I see no com uh comments from the public. So, we'll wave the reading and then we'll move on to 10.01 request a motion for a journal wants to speak. Did they sign up? No, she did not. No, I did not. Just to let you know that is part of our policy. Once your name means y will come down. So I'm going to do this really quick and sweet. I didn't plan on speaking which was why I
067didn't sign on. Um I got a little choked up in cheer. Sorry. We got to read. Oh my god. Hold on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Don't start the timer again. She didn't put the second one in there. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're about to listen to public comments. Although the state law does not require us to hold a public comment period, we have chosen to do so because we believe it is a crucial it's crucial for the critical for us to hear from our community members about their concerns and issues. The board is here to listen. The public comment period is not designed to be a debate or a dialogue. Please do not expect the board to respond to your concerns or questions tonight. We take your concerns and questions seriously and want
068to have significant time to process and research any issues if need be. Any questions from public from the public should be submitted through the use of a public comment form which may be obtained online or at the desk of the district clerk. We will have a proper staff member get back to you as appropriate. I also wanted to point out that under the state and federal privacy laws, we are unable to address any comments or questions about specific students or school personnel. We would also ask you go through the appropriate administration channels. A total of 30 minutes at the beginning of each board member meeting is set aside to allow for public comments and agenda items only. Public comments at the beginning of the meeting is limited only to the items on the agenda. Persons
069who wish to participate in a public comment portion of this meeting are asked to provide their name and a specific agenda item about which they wish to speak. A signin sheet is located on the desk by the district clerk. Individual comments on agenda items are limited to three minutes and are welcome. If you wish to address items related to our school district that are not on tonight's agenda, another comment period is provided at the end of the meeting for that purpose. A second signup sheet is available for non-aggenda items. In the interest of in the interest of civility and respect for different points of view, clapping, booing, or any disturbance during the either the public comment is not permitted at this time. Comments related to agenda items are welcome. Thank you. Sorry. Um, I just
070wanted to say one thing quickly. Um, congratulations to Mrs. Watson. I think it's amazing for Sheath, but as a special ed person, um hopefully we'll be able to fill her place with just as wonderful shoes as she had. Um but I didn't plan to speak tonight, but I do have to say this. I I've been around for a pretty long time and my first days sat in uh some office on Myers's Corner Road with this other parent that was really loud and really outspoken. And we definitely didn't always agree. Every one of you on that stage will be a part of this district's history and take an intricral part in in different pieces as my son stated a month ago in impacting kids lives not just their education. Um as your peer for a really
071long time and as just a community member that has got to respect us at Trristy. There are no words to thank you for your dedication um quite honestly your speaking your humor um and your indignance. I I think would force me to get off a shoe opposing the um code of conduct for the last bazillion years. So congratulations. That's what's triggered the memories. Um thank you for that comment. No, but and you've kept it real. You've kept it honest and you've always got the kids first. So thank you for your years. Thank you, Miss Scotty. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting. I second one one last time as one last time as the year ends. Resolve that the board of education does hereby adjourn the June 16th, 2025 board
072of education meeting. The time is now 8:52 p.m. Motion. So moved, Mr. Lumia, second by Peggy Kellen. All in favor? I. So moved. Thank you everyone. Where's the confetti?