001and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Moving along to 2.01. Oh, I'm sorry, wrong page again. 3.02 accept district votes results. Resolved that the board of education does hereby accept the results of the May 20th, 2025 budget vote and board member election as audited by the district clerk, Alberta Pedro. Proposition one, budget, yes votes, 259. No votes, 833. Proposition number two, capital project, yes, 1,945. No. 974. Proposition three, bus purchase, yes. 1,965. No. 948. School board member election. Karen Maldesando 1,928 Marie Johnson 2,157 Cheryl Miggots 2,128 Brittney Coochi 918. I would like to congratulate the Karine Mandisando, Marie Johnson, and Cheryl Miggots for their term on this board for next year. I have a motion to accept. Motion made by Marie Johnson, second
002by Eddie. All in favor? I. Superintendent report 4.01. and uh our superintendent had some uh um personal affairs to attend to for his family. So, Mr. Loemer is stepping in tonight to give us the superintendent's report. Thank you, Mr. Luke. Good evening. Thank you. very brief uh remarks, but the superintendent also would like to express his extreme gratitude towards our community uh for uh the the budget vote this year. Um having uh what we believe is some really really amazing support uh with Proposition One receiving 71% of a yes vote. Proposition two being our capital project, something we're very excited about, something that's going to benefit our community and our students very greatly with 66 and a half% of the yes vote. and of course our Proposition Three with the buses uh getting 67.7%. Um
003just absolutely extraordinary and really really appreciate um the the community support on that. Um also just knowing that we're coming into Memorial Day, the superintendent would like to express uh to our families and community members who have lost loved ones in the service to our nation. Uh please know that we want uh that you have our thoughts, prayers, and of course our highest gratitude for their ultimate sacrifice. In addition, we thank all who have served or are currently serving in our armed forces as we understand without you, we would not be here today. Thank you. Thank you. Moving right along to uh 4.02, New York State School Board Association Board Achievement Awards. The New York State School Boards Association Recognition Program acknowledges schoolboard members who strive to continuously expand their governance, knowledge, and skills. The
004board executive award is being given to board member Cheryl Miggots in recognition for her participation in the New York State School Boards Association Leadership Development Opportunities totaling 150 points. The board mastery award is being given to board member Marie Johnson in recognition for her participation in the New York State School Boards Association leadership development opportunities totaling 250 points. And I I would like to also add um you know how how proud I am to be working with these two uh colleagues. They uh represent I think the best of those who serve in this position. Um both of them uh having uh received this uh based on their their own merit and determination to do more for our community. Uh and I think it's uh it's very important that they're recognized as such. And I just
005want to read one paragraph off of the award certification. I think just sort of captures um the spirit of of the extra work that they put in. And that is that this program is designed to acknowledge school members, school board members who strive to continually continually expand their governance knowledge and skills. It's comprised of four achievement levels are reached by accumulating points for participating in NISBA training which is the New York State School Boards Association training. Workshops, events, and activities as well as for taking on board related roles uh etc. And I think that our community has seen an awful lot of of of effort and and an amazing uh participation out of both of you and we're very lucky to have you. So congratulations And again, I'd just like to congratulate Marie Johnson, Cheryl
006Miggots for the extra effort they put forward uh in training themselves and also representing the board of educational operators. Thank you. 4.03 proposed project labor agreement capital projects 2025. Would you please step up to the podium? This is going to be aformational discussion based on proposed labor agreements. Thank you sir. Good evening everybody. I'm Sam Fra. I'm the business manager of the electricians union local 363. And Matt, you want to introduce yourself? Yes. Hi everybody. My name is Matt Stoddard. I am the business manager for the Iron Workers Local 417. We cover six counties in your area. Orange, Rockland, Duchess, Putnham, Sullivan, and Olter. You want You want me to Here's what we're going to do. Just We're going to trip over each other. That's what we're going to do. Um, we have some information.
007Excuse me. We have some information that we want you guys to hear from us. I'm sorry. And um the first thing I want to tell you is what the message we're trying to deliver to you has two sides to it. We're looking at like a coin. All right? There's two sides to this coin. So the first side of the coin we would like to explain to you is like what is a project labor agreement a little bit and what that uh encompasses. So I'm going to Matt. So okay. So listen and again thank you board for giving us this time. I threw some bullet points together this afternoon just to give you a rough a basic a quick of what the project labor is, what the project labor can do for your community, what the
008project labor can do for your your school, your future graduating students and the taxpayers of your community. Um, and then hopefully after Sammy and I speak, if you have any questions, we would love nothing more than field the questions from everybody here. So, first of all, a project labor agreement will ensure that a project of your magnitude will come in on time and on budget. PLA's help prevent delays by eliminate the risks of strikes, lockouts, or labor disputes. Clear labor rules are defined. conflicts resolutions processes help which help projects stay on schedule and within your budget and they have a potential cost savings usually they fall in between four and 8%. The second point, bullet point, it delivers high quality work. All the workers that will be on your project, if you guys decide to
009sign on to put local labor on your project with a project labor agreement, will um it guarantees the use of skilled labor. These are these everybody that will be working on your job will have gone through an apprentice program. Some of them are three years, some of them are four years, but it's a it's an earn while you learn program. And Sammy's going to get deeper into that. But it's an earn while you learn program. So your graduating students that come out and they join one of the trades, the 16 17 different trades that we have here in the Hudson Valley will come in. They'll come to school on our with us at night just like a regular school just like yours. They go, ours goes two nights a week from um and just like
010the regular school year and they're off during the summers and the holidays, but it's an earn They learn program. We all have state-of-the-art facilities. Sammies is one of the best in the whole Hudson Valley. I hate to say that because I like mine, but um but um we do everything that we do in our schools is what we do on your projects just on a smaller scale. Um and safety we are we prioritize ourselves in safety. The state tells us we have to hit certain levels like you you everybody that works on your project has to have OSHA 10. Well, the trades we believe in going further than that. Everybody that comes out of my union hall has got OSHA 30. So, they're much more um in tune with safety. It's very important because just
011like you guys, we want our guys to go to work, but we want them to come home. And we don't want any accidents. This the the better and smarter that a student is, if it's a student that you've taught or a student that we taught, the more productive, the safer, and uh the better he is. he or she is on on doing the construction work on your your facility supporting our local workforce. PLA's include local hiring pro provisions ensuring that jobs go to Hudson Valley residents including Winger family Winger families. They they promote pathways for apprentice programs which give our local youth an alternative to college by enter entering into the trades and offering them long-term economic benefits. We always promote college, but let's be honest, not every one of your students is is going
012to go to college, but if they don't go to college, they still should be able to do something and go and have a career where they can live where they work and work where they live, make a decent living, provide health care for their family, and at the end of a a great great career, that's something they can be proud of, they can retire with a little dignity because they do have a retirement. all the unions do if we have the work. That's the problem. The problem is that if every school district and every capital project and every municipality would sign on to use local labor, why do we think I I don't understand why sometimes we think that construction workers coming from Connecticut are better than the construction workers or look at these young
013students that Sammy brought with him that are in his apprentice program. We create the best workforce there is. And it's here. It's local. It's might be your cousins, your nephews, your neighbor, uh the guy the guy that's teaching the softball team or the the kids baseball little league. They're they're they're just part of your community and we keep the money here. And your taxpayers taxpayer dollars should stay in their own backyard. Why would we? Your job is fueled with taxpayer dollars, but yet without a a project labor agreement in place, you don't have the right to choose who's going to do your your work on your project. The only legal way to say you're going to have local people on a local project is with a project labor agreement. Uh the PLA simplifies the project
014in instead of and if I running long, please stop me and I and I'll step back. Instead of dealing with multiple contracts across various trades, the district works under one unified agreement and and and also gets an exemption from Wix. So the your the school and the construction manager or the the general contractor, that's who runs the whole job. you don't have multiple um multiple uh contractors that are primes running and and it just holds up a job. This is a huge cost savings to the to the school uh to the school. This um promotes fiscal responsibility. Fewer disruptions mean fewer unexpected costs. While prevailing wage rates may be standardized, the districts avoids overruns tied to labor disputes, work stoppage or rework done poorly. That strengthen it strength it strengthens the community and public trust.
015The use of fair labor practices and local hiring aligns with the community values. Partnering with an organization of labor supports living wages and workplace protect protections. The conclusion is adopting a project labor agreement for a school construction project will help Winger school central school district deliver high quality results and an investment into our local economy. It's our um it's our proactive step towards smart, efficient, and community-minded development. And like I said, let's keep our taxpayer dollars here. We you we should not be fueling another state or another area's economy when you have everybody you need in your backyard, your neighbors or your your family, whoever it is in the Hudson Valley region. You have the workforce, the trained workforce. You have to pay prevailing wage anyway. But with a project labor agreement, it is the
016only way that this school board can say get discounts on prevailing wage. The only legal way to get the discounts. It might be on and Sammy will go into this. It might be on shiftiff. It might be makeup days on Saturday. It could be straight time on benefits. The only legal way that you guys can get them discounts is by signing up to a project labor agreement. This is the building trades. We care about the community because we are the community. We're your people. We do this and we give these job fairs. We just did it at Arlington School. It was one of the best job fairs I ever seen. We had 14 or 15 booths of all the different trades and they all had mockups and things that to show the the students on
017what we do for a living. And so many I actually took one in already. He's in mine from that job fair. And again, it gives them an alternative to college because every school board comes to us and asks us to do these labor fairs at their schools. And every school board along with us say, "Listen, go to college." We all agree, go to college. But the ones that aren't going to college don't have a great choice. This gives them a choice and they can be a productive member of society because again they'll make a decent living. You're paying prevailing wage anyway. We're actually cheaper than prevailing wage once you sign up to the project labor agreements. I'm sorry if I ran a little long but uh I'm when you're ready to questions but Sammy's gonna
018hit the good things now. Well, I don't know about that but okay. So Matt went over a little bit about what the PLA would do for you, right? So he was talking about like the prevailing wage. If you just do the job and you don't do a project labor agreement, it's prevailing wage project. Okay? If you happen to do the project labor agreement, we could do a little bit less than the prevailing wage. That's where some of the savings comes in. Like for instance, electrician the uh third shift for electrician is 33% more in their w in their wages. Okay. In a project labor agreement it might only be 15% more which is less than the prevailing wage but it's legal because of this document. That's the prevailing or the uh uh project labor agreement.
019It coordinates the rules of the project. It coordinates procedures for the project. Applies to all workers and contractors. So, if you have a problem with a contractor, he's not happy because he feels like you're not paying him quick enough and he says, "I'm going to take my my workers off the project," they can't do that. If somebody gets mad about anything and they're saying, "I'm going to not going to come." They can't do that. Everybody has to be on that job every single day or you'll be removed off the job. Okay? So, there's a lot of structure to this. All the workers, like Matt said, every worker on that job, if you do a PLA, every single worker on that job is qualified, trained, and probably already certified uh like an electric or any trade,
020a certified journeyman recognized by the state. If they're not that, they're an apprentice that is in the program at some point going through that. So, the school district will have everybody on there will know like kind of be trained. Okay? If you don't have that and it's just goes by a low bid, I'll give you example. I know nothing about iron work, but I could bid that job and put the low bid in and I'll just go find guys and go, we're going to be iron workers and they would be on the job and we see that all the time. We go to different projects and that's the way things are done a lot and uh you can see the difference. So, you guys deserve better than that. But, and you have dispute resolution, you're
021utilizing local workers, you know, union and non-union people can work on this project. So, it's open to everybody. PLA has been used since the 1930s. But the real reason why we're here, the real reason is for these kids. It that's what it is. There's a real good chance we'll probably build this building whether you do a PLA or not. I still want a PLA. And my members should look at me and say, "Why are you up there trying to give away my 33% and give them 15% that I'm going to work on a a third shift for?" The reason is because the world's a big circle. And when you guys have a $150 million job or whatever it is, we need you to use local people like Matt said, and on the other end, we
022use that as an opportunity for people that are in high school that really don't know what they're going to do. And some of them could be exposed to the trades. There's almost 20. It's we say 16. There's probably really if you got in there 19 or 20 different trades, elevator, iron worker, mason, electrician, carpenter, plumber, labor to go on and on and on. Okay? And there's all these opportunities. Look at that as 20 businesses are coming to you saying, "Hey, we plant flowers, too. Why don't you use us?" And we have 20 different businesses that your graduates could come get exposed to. What I want to tell you this for is because I was that kid. I didn't go to this school. I went to Newberg school. I had no idea. My parents didn't go
023to college. I had no, you know, thoughts of it. I saw everybody else doing it. I'm the type of person that if I don't know what I'm going to do at the end, I'm not going to get involved in it. I need to know what's down there. That kind of goes within apprenticeship, right? You know what's what's down there. But uh I was that kid and I went to the guidance counselor scared to death because I thought I was in trouble, right? I wasn't thinking of college. And then when I get there and he said, "What do you want to do?" I said, "I don't know. You're gonna go to college?" You know, I really don't know. My grades showed it that I probably wouldn't have anyway. Okay? But it was kind of like tuteloo,
024nice to see you, Sam, you know, good luck to you, but there was no guidance. Okay? So now I'm the business manager of the electricians union, and I want to save kids. I want them to get in the trade. If that didn't happen to me, I don't know what I'd be doing. You know what I'd be doing like everybody else? Whatever. Okay. But here I am. I'm lucky and I'm running the whole union and I'm not going to let that happen. And that's why I'm here to talk to you guys. You need to consider this just for the kids. You're going to build the job anyway. When you're done, you're going to have a $150 million project. This could be great. You could say, "We did that. We had Everybody was qualified on it. Everybody
025was local. We had apprentices that came from our school that are getting opportunities. We got kids going to the iron workers, the mason, the plumber, all because of this. And then here's the best thing. This never ends. We've been doing PLA's with Newber schools. I've been doing this job almost 40 years. We've been doing PLA's at Newber school for probably 30 or 35 of them. The new job that they have right now that the the big project they have going now, PLA, everybody's local. There's Newber kids in our school. Well, these people here and I I count it in my local. I got almost 200 people that graduated from your school anyway by accident. But I don't want it by accident. I want it real. We're here because we want to we want to make
026a good solid relationship with you guys where it's an open door. Every year we'll be here for the career day. Whether you guys ever build another building again or not, you know, that's not the important part. The important part is every year we get um a chance to put in a new apprenticeship class. All of us I get about 40 people, maybe 50 with maybe two classes, 25 or 30 in a class. Every trade does the same thing. The more work that is done like we're trying to explain, the more apprentices that are needed, the more careers that are made. Okay? If if uh if you go through the apprenticeship of any construction trade, you'll be making $100,000 when you're done and you will have zero student debt. Our school and it's free. And if
027you came down and saw our school, it'll knock your socks off. It's a $6 million building. It's beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. 15 foot by 20 foot LED screens. It's beautiful. There's a hands-on building and it's all open to residents of the Hudson Valley just like every other trade and there's a lot of them. So, I'm just asking you to really I just I just need to ask for an extension of time. Can I get 10 minutes? So, move. You can do five. I'm almost done. Okay, fine. Does any does anyone have a few questions? Yeah, you at this point I'm sure you got my gist for 10 minutes. 10 10 minutes. No, this was a discussion. So, this it's a conversation. It's in case board members have some questions. Any questions by any members of the
028board? We have to do a time first. Second it. Yes. All those in favor of 10 minutes. So moved. That's okay. No, I I I totally get it. So, why don't we do this? I I I I believe you guys kind of got my point, right? It's I want to see this work. I I think really it makes sense. It's going to make a lot of sense for these kids. Believe me, it makes you feel good. I'm going to say this and it's not really the word, but makes you feel good when you save somebody and you see that person get married and buy a house and pull in with his nice car that he likes and come in with his kids or her kids. So, uh, and there are hers, aren't there? Okay. So,
029anyway, uh, there's a lot more than them, but you know, we're open. We're open. It's a great the the the building trades, especially in the Hudson Valley, building trades are awesome. They're awesome people. There's good people running them. They all came out of all the local high schools. We're going to every high school trying to get them to see this. Okay. And then here's the thing, too. Just realize this. We're not desperate for applicants. When electricians put out applicants, I get 200 people apply for however many slots that we can fill, right? So, it's not that we're desperate, but and not every kid in your school district's going to come to the trades, but there's going to be that handful. I don't care if it's six. That's great. We did it. You built the building.
030We built the building. We did a good job and here comes these kids. That's what I want. Sorry to talk loud. I not yelling at anybody. That's what Sam does, right? Tell them they know me, but I'm true blue. Okay. I'm I'm I'm What we're saying is real. There's no trick to this at all. There's no trick to the PLA. What the PLA does is this. Every contractor, every worker, everybody on this job is going to go by the same rules. You're all going to start at seven. You're all going to go to lunch this time. You're all going to quit this time. You got the same holidays. And by the way, there are less holidays than it shows in the in the prevailing wage. Prevailing wage might say the iron workers have nine holidays.
031Electricians have seven. The painter has 10. Whatever it be, no, you're all getting six. You're all getting six. And here they are. And believe me, in my union with everybody else that aren't on a PLA job, the day after Thanksgiving, they're home. They're on a PLA job. usually they're working and that's the way it goes. So question I don't have a question but I I do like to thank you for the presentation and if the same passion that you have presented here that you have in your classroom which the your your your class is shaking their head yes I'm sure that every job that you work on the the the work is excellent the workmanship is excellent so thank you for the presentation and thank you for wanting to assist uh students that would like
032to go the pathway of trade and to become highly professionals and uh architects like yourself. Thank you very much. You give me a little chill right now because I want this to work. It's going to be good. Do we have any other questions for Sam? Is your name? You have any other questions for Sam? Any other statements you want to make? Thank you, Sam. Whatever you guys need, we're here. Thank you. Very enlightening. By the way, so I just like to share with everybody. I shared some information with the board members to review. Uh this is an ongoing conversation uh through the capital committee moving forward. Uh we have uh information being reviewed still and gathered by our architect. Um so at some point down the road once we have some timelines with regards to
033how the projects are going to be rolled out um this will come back in front of the board for some more conversation and then a decision uh to move forward or not. But uh if anyone has any questions on the information that I emailed to you that uh was supplied by our attorneys um you know just shoot an email back and we'll get answers to those questions as well. So Sam, thank you for coming. Thank you for um bringing your bringing your students over. That's fantastic. We'll definitely uh be back in touch. Thank you very much. Thank you also, Matt. And thank you, Matt, too. And Mr. Sharky, thank you as well. Thank you. And all the students that showed up that participated, thank you. Thank you. Go union. All right, moving right along to
0345.01. Any public public comments on the agenda? Anyone signed in? No one signed in. So, we are going to wave the reading. 5.02 2 communication announcements received by the board of education. Hang on. I'm going first. I'm going first. Relax. Relax. I didn't forget you. I just have a quick couple of announcements to make. Right. Last night, Superintendent uh Dr. Bon, uh, principal David Cip, principal Dave Castalawa, and principal Laura Dust Stafano, and myself attended the lower Hudson Council school superintendent awards dinner. Some of our students received awards. I just want to give them a little kudos. John J. students Charlotte Wang, Emma Mazada, Mazada, Mazado. Okay, I believe you. Mazado, I apologize. Typo. Uh, they both received corporate scholarships. uh our Orchard View, Ethan Scavano and Raymond Zang both received awards and in RCK
035we had Emily Zang and Sophie Zang from RCK. So I just wanted to put a shout out to them thanking them. I also want to thank David Cyp and the RTA RCK staff and Susano if he's listening for the expert skill trade fair that we did. It was a great event. Uh I've attended that about two years in a row now and each year it gets larger and larger and larger and now that we had it during the evening the parents attended which was good support for all the children and all the students that they had the support of their parents now. Uh because we used to do it during the day and no none of the parents were there. So kids are just walking around grabbing the goodies and now they're actually walking around
036grabbing the goodies and the parents were grabbing them by the neck saying pay attention to this. So I think it was a very very good event and I'd like to see more of it. Thank you Dave. Marie Johnson, I'm sure you have something. I do. I do. Um first off I want to thank the community for the overwhelming support um for the propositions that were put forward. Uh I know a lot of you realize that I sit on the capital committee with Mr. Slow Shower, Mr. McFarland and Mr. Copali and Mr. Loa and we have put about two years of blood, sweat, tears and a lot of arguments at that table to come up with that list of items for the capital project and we are so grateful that we got that passed and I
037am excited about jumping in and starting work to dissect how we're going to break that apart and work on that. Um I was able to go to yeah more arguments. Um I was able to make it Monday to the um John J memorial celebration um for our fallen heroes and also on Wednesday uh Mr. Cip invited us to Royce Catchum with Miss Bosch doing that. Um always both of those schools do such a beautiful presentation to our fallen soldiers. Um, and I want to just remember to think of those this weekend that have paid the ultimate price. Um, Tuesday we were able, uh, Trusty Megots and myself were able to go to Limerock to watch, uh, Mr. Dyson actually race the cars, um, ahead of the final judging tomorrow. And it was probably, no, it
038was the best day ever that I have been on this board for six years. I can honestly say um my life was complete after that day. It was so much fun. And to be able to experience it with these students and these instructors and to see the smiles on their face was just that was why we do this job. We don't get paid for this. This we do for the smiles and the knowledge that we've helped some of these children. And it just it was very heartwarming. And I just want to thank everybody for those opportunities. Thank you, Trusty Johnson. Uh Trustee Cohen, please. Uh we had the opportunity also of going to the Ketchum uh memorial day service uh which was very moving and the uh history honors society at John J and the
039business honor society at both uh John J and at Ketchum were uh were they I think it's very nice nowadays days that they have so many different honor societies and at the different schools. years ago when I was in school there was just the national honor society but now they have so many and whoers has taken uh the initiative uh their advisors have started chapters of all these different honor societies which recognize students who excel in one subject or another and and give service to the community. So I'd like to congratulate them. Thank you, Trusty Kell. Anyone else? Trusty Migs. Yes. One of the things that we did on Tuesday is many of us were able to attend the uh fallen officers memorial at Fishkill Plains Elementary, which was a very mu moving ceremony with
040the Dado family. Um, I also want to echo Trusty Johnson's comments and thank everyone for turning out to vote and passing the budget and the propositions. And I really want to echo her statements about Limerock because her statement that it was the best day ever doesn't even do it justice. the uh build teachers at the two schools took us out onto the track in the cars our students um made. And so we were able to have that bucket list item of riding in a race car on a proving grounds racetrack. And I want to thank the students for how gracious the students were and how they welcomed us into all of the activities that day. And I want to wish them both teams good luck tomorrow in the um finals of the winter circle project
041at Limerock. And we've also been following our teams into the postseason play. We want to wish the Ketchum girls softball team good luck in their playoff game on Sunday. We are very proud of both the Royce Ketchum and the John J baseball teams for qualifying for postseason. While unfortunately um the John J team ran into a very motivated Arlington team yesterday that ended their dreams. We will um be showing up at Ketchum High School on this Saturday morning to watch the Ketchum team take on to play to play. No, it's not. They just played Suffurn. That's not Mamarin Scarsdale. Thank you. Thank you, Cheryl Miggots. That was your best day, by the way, riding in that race car. My best day is the day I got married. So, Trusty Morgan, thank you, President McFarland. Uh
042just to echo uh the um comments that uh Trusty Migots made. Um thank you to um to the Fishkill Plains uh community um for the ceremony um earlier this week. Um I I don't want to miss anybody, but I know Trusty Johnson was there. Trusty Kellen, were you able to attend Fishkill Plains? No. Trusty Slow Shower. Um, trusting me, myself. Trusty Lumia was was uh was also there. Um, as was is Virgil there? No, I so sorry I didn't have remarks prepared, but it was an outstanding event. the um the Dado family um was uh paraded through the school uh lined by the Fishkill Plains um students uh holding up uh signs uh that they made uh thanking uh the Zado family for the service um of not only their sons but uh um the
043the cousin that was there. many people um in that family have served um this community as police officers. Um and uh it was just a very very nice ceremony. Thank you to principal uh Fazio um and the entire team uh over at Fishkill Plains that put that together. Thank you. Thank you, Trusty Morgan. Anyone else? Okay, moving right along. 6.01. Does anybody have anything to remove from the consent agenda? Trustee slow shower 6.03 item number 50. Nobody else. Okay. Resolved that the board of education does hereby approve the following consent agenda items as stated. 6.02 6.03 3 excluding item number 50 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 610 and 6.11 Trusty Kell motion second by Trusty Morgan. Any discussion? All in favor? I. So moved. Resolved that the board of education does hereby approve the
044following consent agenda item as stated 6.03 number 50. Um Peggy Kellen, second by Trusty Morgan. All in favor? So moved. One abstension. Yeah, she's got that one. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, I'd like to congratulate Dr. Dan Wilson as the assistant superintendent of special education. Dr. Dan is on board with us based on this resolution that we just passed. Thank you very much, Dan. looking forward to seeing you in the special education. If we could all give him a round of applause. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, moving right along. 7.01, approval of contract with DC Boseies installment purchase agreement. Resolve that the Winger Central School District approve a contract with the Duchess County Boseies for the acquisition of computer technology, hardware, software, and related equipment through a 4-year installment purchase agreement IPA commencing in
045the 2025 2026 year with a maximum total principal cost of $79,812.50 50 cents plus related borrowing costs finalized by the superintendent subject to the approval of the commissioner of education for a period of four years 2025 to 2026 2026 to 2027 2027 to 2028 20 and 2028 to 2029. Fe it be it further resolved that the Winger Central School District will pay the Duchess County Boseies through its regular monthly billing cycle over the 4-year period to commence during the 2025 2026 school year. This IPA will include the replacement of 393 student Chromebooks, 430 desktop computers, the replacement of 60 student iPads, and the purchase of networking equipment through eate. Do I have a motion? Peggy Kellen. Do I have a second? Trusty Slow shower. Any discussion? All in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. 7.02 Approval of
046Additional Construction Administrative Services request 2023 capital project phase two. Resolve that the board of education of the Winger Central School District does hereby approve an increase to the construction administration services request related to the 2023 capital project phase 2 requested by Reinbeck Architect at a cost not to exceed $76,000 as stated in the letter dated January 6th, 2025 to Ron Bors, director of facilities as attached. So moved. So moved. Motion by first the motion. I'm sorry. Motion from uh Trustee Slowshour, second by Peggy Kellen. Any discussion on this item? All in favor? I unanimous. 8.01. Board members may request additional agenda items. Discussion three. I'm sorry. Oh, I want one page too many. I'm sorry. 7.03 approval of right of way to town of East Fishkill for John J. Sidewalk. Whereas the town of East
047Fishkill has requested an easement across a portion of property owned by the board of education of the Winger Central School District. Board of Education consisting of 0.056 acres as more particularly bounded and described on a survey map and sketch in subst substantially the form as annexed here too as exhibit A for purposes of installing maintaining repairing and/or replacing a sidewalk front fronting on state state route 52. And whereas pursuant to education law 405, the board of education is authorized to convey easements to any municipality. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Wajer Central School District approves the conveyance of an easement to the town of East Fishkill as more particularly described in exhibit A. And be it further resolved that the president of the board of education of the Winger
048Central School District be authorized to execute all documents in related to such easement. Motion Peggy Kllan, second by Trustee Slowshour. Any discussion? Eddie? Uh just to refresh everyone's memory, I had made an announcement uh during a capital uh committee report several months ago that the town was undertaking uh the uh improvements uh to the stretch of Route 52 connecting all the sidewalks from the new construction um of the uh uh Stellantis Mopar facility. Also uh to uh extend the sidewalk uh on both sides of Route 52 by uh the parking area of the uh East Fishkill Soccer Fields uh for students as well as um hopefully additional sidewalk uh uh directly across from the light to the entrance of John J. Um, so obviously for safety purposes and I'm I'm happy that uh uh the
049the town was able uh to get this underway and from my understanding is they anticipate this work being done um by the end of of the uh 2025 year. Thanks. Any other discussion on this? So we have a first, we have a second. All in favor? So moved. 7.04. Approval of academic intervention services plan for 2025. Whereas the New York State Board of Regions requires approval of an academic intervention services plan that meets requirements of CR 100.2E and is updated and approved by the board of education every two years. And whereas the New York State Board of Regents modified regulations in July 2016 requiring districts to identify students in grades three through eight to receive academic intervention services through a two-step process. first considering all students performing below the medium scale score and then using
050a district developed procedure to be applied uniformly at each grade level for determining which students shall receive AIS. And whereas the district is committed to providing all students the services and supports needed to ensure they will meet New York State learning standards and develop the skills and knowledge necessary for college, career, and civic readiness. And whereas the district has reviewed and revised its academic intervention services plan to align regulatory requirements and the needs of students. And whereas the Winger Central School District academic intervention services plan specifies criteria for eligibility for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Criteria for discontinuation of academic intervention services when students have made adequate progress. the manner in which academic intervention services and supports can be provided and requirements for parent notification. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the board of
051education upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools approves the revised Central School District academic intervention services plan. Do I have a motion? Peggy Kellen, second by John Morgan. Is there any discussion on this item? Yes, Trusty Cohen. Just for clarification, uh in the academic intervention services plan, uh it states various um things that would make the student eligible. for instance, being in the lowest 25% of the class or not um not achieving uh the adequate progress, which would be three or four on the state on the state achievement tests. In uh the cases where a student meets one of the criteria but not another for example uh we have uh uh let more than 25% in of students in our district only achieve 01 or two on the state tests. Do is the district
052uh going to provide academic intervention services in that in that case even though they're uh um not in the bottom 25% but they still didn't get three or four. Yes. So the district uses multiple measures in order to identify students who are to receive academic intervention services. Each building has their own academic intervention services committee. your AIS committee. Um it is inclusive of the RTI committee also and students who are performing below grade level either by our universal screener, state benchmarks andor teacher recommendation. Uh their academic performance is discussed and academic intervention is provided if it is deemed necessary by the school which is inclusive of teacher recommendations. Thank you. Trusty Morgan. Just to clarify, Dr. Cardwell, in the motion that Vice President Slowshour read, we talked about um applying this uniformly across across grade
053levels regardless of of building. Um but then you just said it's a building level decision. Did am I am I misconstring what was said? Yes. So, we have all of our elementary schools utilizing the same process. Uh, inside the plan, it tells you by grade how students are identified and it does tell you that multiple measures are used. So, all of the buildings will look at a series set of data, but not all students will receive low scores on all assessments. So the buildings has to look at the student as a learner to then determine did the student just do poorly on this particular assessment which would qualify them for AIS but because their academic performance is high they don't need the AIS services just because of a poor performance on an assessment. So that's
054where there's some autonomy at the building level. You're welcome. Any other questions? I have a question, Mr. ODM. Thank you. I have a a question is in terms of performance throughout the entire district, do you have any success stories whereas there's been great increases in performance or marginal but you know satisfactory in terms of even though they were marginal compared to their baseline. So every couple of years a curriculum committee has representatives um principles from their buildings come and share their AIS and RTI programs. So we definitely have examples of exemplary performance that's presented to the curriculum committee but we do have data that we have through I ready which allows us to look at student performance and their growth on uh students who are performing above grade level on grade level and below grade
055level. So, we are able to look to see how students are uh performing regardless of where what grade they're in or what how they're meeting those levels of standards. So, for example, we can look to see are we differentiating instruction to meet the needs of our advanced learners. And so we have data that says this percentage of students have not only met but exceeded uh their annual growth expectations and we could do that for our students that are performing one to two grades below level as well. And we use that data to help us plan professional development to make sure all of the needs of our students regardless of academic performance or level are not only being um met, but we are making sure that students that are below grade level are not only getting
056an annual yearly progress growth but more than that so we can close those achievement gaps. Thank you. And and the second question is I you had mentioned there's uh various resources or sources that you use for AIS. I know a lot of the students have um laptops. Other than that, do they actually read a book, actual book and do writing uh write essays, book reports in terms of growth and English and also maybe they could uh take the regents as they continue to improve? Yes, of course. So, not all students in AIS receive the same academic support. the support that's delivered to the student depends upon what they're deficient in. So, AIS will be focused on a skill deficit uh to make sure that whatever those students need, they're receiving that instruction in. So, at
057the elementary level, uh we have various different uh support programs. I know that the board knows that all of our AIS teachers um have received training in Orton Gillingham which is a multi-ensory reading program. This year we are also for the year coming up we are providing professional development on a multi-ensory math program. We're excited to be adding that and that professional development will be offered in November. At the junior high school level we do have AIS classes for the students and that's also skills-based. And at the high school we have our AIS courses as well as our afterchool programs which is based upon uh uh regions prep and region support for those students that may have previously failed or are getting ready to take a region's exam and they need additional support to make
058sure they're meeting those standards. So students uh will have additional practice whether it's on a scale in math or regions questions. If they are having difficulty reading um whether it's um in fluency or whether it's in phmic awareness they u may be reading in order to support those skills that they're defendant and the same thing with writing. Any other questions? Trusty K. Roughly what percentage of the students who get AIS need this support year after year after year throughout their school career and which ones about how many you know I I realize this is very rough but about what percentage uh only needed uh one search one or two years and after that they go they uh go on without needing that support. All right. So, I'm going to have to do a little research
059to get back to you on that number. I do have some data in front of me. It's not doesn't exactly answer that question. Let me just take a look. Let's play some waiting music. All right. So, I'm going to pick third grade since I have it in front of me. So, uh, what I'm looking at is a, um, looking at the I Ready data, uh, which is just one data set. Keep that in mind. So, if I'm looking at students in third grade last year that was one grade below grade level, uh we know that we have um 27% of those students that were one grade below level last year needed to be in AIS this year also. So, we do get data that way, but it's just on this. In order to find out
060those specific numbers, I need to contact the schools and find out how many students exited the AIS program and how many students remained. Thank you. Anyone else? Trusty Morgan. Um, we got one minute left. Uh, could we get uh five more minutes? So moved. So moved. All in favor? Thank you. I'm sorry. Continue. Um to to Trusty Odum's question regarding um reading physical books or or working on the on the computer. I believe um I'm aware and you can fill us in. It may not have anything to do with AIS or RTI. Um, but don't we have at even the secondary level in English classes like classroom libraries of of books and how are those utilized? Maybe that would speak specifically to Keith's question. Are you asking how classroom libraries are used in an AIS
061class or in their general reading class? So, I I wish I could give myself credit for for asking the question in that informed way, but I was just stating that I'm aware that we do have classroom libraries at the secondary level. Um, it's probably a foregone conclusion that we have that at the at the elementary level. Um, but I know we have that at the secondary level where students can access a physical book in the classroom without going to the library. and maybe you could just talk about how that factors into curriculum overall, whether it does or does not involve AIS or RTI. Thank you for clarifying your question for me. So, we are extremely fortunate that I'm going to go out on a limb and say all of our classrooms that teach reading in
062some capacity have has an extensive library of books. Um many of these books are uh purchased based upon student interest and grade level and that would be at the at the secondary schools and we also have uh many books at the elementary level that are um based upon students reading levels. So if you have a fourth grade student for instance that may be reading uh below the fourth grade level, they will have access to books on their particular reading level. Uh so they can read independently, but they're also exposed to books on uh their instructional level in which they will continue to be challenged to learn the skills and learn to develop higher level grade level reading skills. Thank you. Any other questions? So, thank you, Dr. Cartwell. Really appreciate the information. Thank you. Thank
063you. So, we have a first, a second. All in favor? Unanimous. So moved. 8.01. board members and request additional agenda items, discussion items, or request information. Do I see any? None. Thank you. 9.01 comments from the public. No one signed up. So, we will wave that reading. And then, of course, we go to 10.01. Requesting a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion to adjurnn. Resolve that the board of education does hereby adjourn the May 22nd, 2025 board of education meeting. The time is now 8:38 p.m. Trustee Johnson, second by Trustee Morgan. All in favor? You sure you don't want to stay longer, huh? All right. Thank you. Motion adjourned.