001to the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence Ralia Edith Brown she was a teacher at wenes for many many years before our retirement and I'd also like to take a moment for all the victims and the families in the California [Music] fires pledge Alle thank you item 3.02 superintendent Spotlight DC bosei students of Distinction thank you very much president McFarland members of the Board of Education and members of the wainger Central School District Learning Community we are very proud this evening to recognize The Duchess County bosies student of Distinction who happens to be a Whopper student I would like to commend Duchess bosis for being a phenomenal partner in education you do tremendous work with our students and provide them with services that we are currently unable to provide them with but that
002they need so darely so with that I call up Mrs safer the assistant director of special and alternative education who is going to speak about the individual who we are honoring this evening thank you and welcome to Wappingers thank you I'm happy to be here my name is Karena farwick I'm the assistant director of alternative and special ed at Duchess bosis and um we are here for Aaliyah Kaiser who is our February student of Distinction so her teacher Anna makovich could not be here tonight but I wanted to read what Anna wrote about you she thinks that you're wonderful we all do Aaliyah Kaiser is known for her quiet and reserved demeanor yet she has demonstrated remarkable resilience in adapting to her new school environment including new classmates and teachers Aaliyah consistently showcases her dedication
003through the timely completion of her assignments and active involvement in her integrated classes her character is marked by kindness care and gentleness and she positively influences all those around her she openly expresses a affection for her classmates her teachers and her family with her positive attitude and gratitude for Life Aaliyah represents the qualities of an outstanding student and individual so we're very proud of you I also wanted to thank superintendent Dr Bon and whoer school district for the opportunity for our continued partnership it's always wonderful to work with so many wonderful Whopper students like Aaliyah and I also wanted to acknowledge the vice president of our Board of Trustees at Duchess bosies Gully Stanford is here tonight thank you to the board for all that you do and enabling us to continue to run incredible
004programs designed to meet the needs of all of our students so Aaliyah do you want to come on up or you want me to just hand it to you it's hard to stand in front of a lot of people I understand that you don't have to come up if you want I can just hand it to you you want to do that there you go thank you my friend apprciate thank you so aah once again congratulations I'd like to thank the staff at Duchess County bosies as well as vice president Stanford for all of his work and again round of applause for Aaliyah and Duchess County bosis thank you and congratulations Aaliyah okay moving right along 4.01 public comments or agenda items anybody signed in for public comments ladies and gentlemen we're about to listen
005to public comments although the state law does not require us to hold a public comments session period we have chosen to do so because we believe it is crucial 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 do not expect the board to respond to your concerns and questions tonight we take your concerns and questions seriously and want to have significant time to process and research ISS issues if need be any questions from the public should be submitted through the use of 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 soon as
006possible I also want to point out that under state and federal privacy laws we are unable to address any comments questions about specific students or School Personnel we ask that you go through the appropriate Administration channels a total of 30 minutes at the uh beginning of the board 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 who wish to participate in public comment portion of the meetings are asked to provide their name and specific agenda items about which they will speak a sign-in sheet is located at the desk with the district clerk individual comments on agenda items is limited to three minutes and are welcome if you wish to address items related to
007our 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 signin sheet is available for non agenda items in this in the interest of Civility and respect for the different points of views clapping booing or any disturbance during either public comment period is not permitted at this time comments related to agenda items are welcome Gully from DC bosies good good evening president McFarland superintendent Bon trustees uh Madam uh board clerk thank you so much my name is gly Stanford I'm here to speak to item 701 on your agenda although um I'm not a resident uh of the wers district I I'm down from Hyde Park I have the honor of serving On The Board of Trustees uh of Duchess bosis along
008with your admirable president thank you for sharing him with us uh he is a vital member of uh the Board of Trustees of Duchess bosis this is an election year for um our president Ralph chimento and myself in fact there will be three vacancies and we'll leave it to Clark Pedro to explain how that all works out you get a chance to vote uh in April uh on uh the uh on your on your preferences at this point in the next couple of weeks you get an opportunity to make nominations and I'm here to say that having had the honor of um having served now for five years I would very much appreciate Cate your nomination and ultimately your support in returning me uh for another threeyear term greatly appreciate your support in 1922 couple
009of highlights just in passing first of all a huge dat of thanks to the wer schools you are phenomenal Partners back at you Dr Bon um you are phenomenal Partners to the bosis witness uh if only just witness the success of the PCH program which really wouldn't have taken off without your support here in wers we greatly greatly appreciate that and I always like coming down for the skills trades Fair which you so brilliantly uh host for so many students and then a couple of your trustees I have the honor of serving with on the advocacy committee uh for the uh Duchess County School boards Association so um really appreciate the relationship and would uh be greatly honored if you would be kind enough to consider me for nomination and for your vote in April
010thank you thank you gly 5.02 uh 5.01 superintendent report 2025 2026 preliminary budget presentation by Dr bunk Dr bunk please thank you president McFarland watch stage I I think I could even read that screen very nice you glasses no nice right so the 2526 preliminary budget presentation building our future together that has been our Mantra this year I'm going to give you some preliminary numbers as to where we are we're still unsure of exactly what our state aid will be although we are pleased with the current Aid that we see from governor hokel and based B upon that number we are working on Crafting priorities for the upcoming school year and when I say priorities they're not my priorities they're not the board's priorities they're not the senior staff priorities they're not the building principal's
011priorities they're not the teachers priorities they're not the staff's priorities they're everybody's priorities including our community we all work together so for those of you who have gone to budget at wcsdny put in your suggestions as to the types of programs that you believe that our students need and deserve thank you and please continue and if you haven't you got any thoughts and suggestions we still have time please send them in members of our Board of Education President Michael mcfar Marie Johnson trusty John S Morgan trusty Peggy Kellen trusty Keith odms trusty John C Lumia members of the senior staff Administration Darren L Kima assistant superintendent for administration and information systems Dr Michelle car assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction Kristen dainy the assistant superintendent of finance and business development Richard zip assistant superintendent of
012student Support Services Renee Harris Executive Director of Human Resources and Ronald brois director of facilities and of course our district clerk and the senior assistant to the superintendent Miss Alberta Pedro so what does our timeline look like for budget presentations well on 114 we put out the video to the community explaining the budget process today February 10th here we are preliminary budget presentation one a video will be coming out in a couple of weeks that will explain the budget process that will be in English and we'll also have a presentation in Spanish the 10th of March March recommended budget presentation one as well as our transportation proposition presentation April 7th superintendent's recommended budget presentation to and hopefully by then we will have a state aid update presentation the 22nd of April recommended budget presentation ballot
013presentation budget adoption May the 5th ballot presentation to the community John J high school May the 12th Community Forum State mandated public hearing on the budget that will be at royy Ketchum high school so let's talk about the priorities all of our priorities we want to continue to maximize the resources that we have to benefit our schools and our community that is why we're here how do we do it we maintain our current education program we provide academic supports academic enrichment opportunities and extracurricular activities as well as professional development for our staff we continue to focus on safety as well as the emotional and mental health of our students and our staff as uh vice president Stanford said from bosies continued support of Career and Technical education programs we've only started we've got much more
014to do and of course it's all contingent on the New York state aid finalization and the budget deadline is April 1st budget vote May 20th 2025 how was it developed Mission and core values Board of Education values and goals as I said before senior staff discussion and goals Community input what let's share with you some preliminary numbers it is my goal and objective as I've said for the last four years to come in with a budget that is below the tax cap that will be the case this year I am pleased to say so the approved tax levy was $190 Million last year this year it's going to be $93 million so you will notice that that is an increase of under $3 million and the levy to Levy increase for taxes will be 1.5%
015more information to follow as we continue to work and I want to thank Miss Crandle and all Miss dainy excuse me and all of the members of the senior staff Administration for working together along with the Board of Education to comb through the the copious amounts of information that we have and the statistics that we have to be able to deploy the resources where they best serve our students and staff the next virtual event as I mentioned superintendants video explaining the budget process February 24th 25th excuse me 2025 English and Spanish all community members are invited to learn how we gather the information to develop the annual budget use estimates in the budget and arrive at the final budget numbers proposed to the voters prior years I should say budget information is available on our
016website how many years do we go back at least five so if you want to compare and contrast feel free to do that next I need to move on to the next slide deck yes hold on one minute please thank you so is that 5.02 that's correct facilities needs assessment summary by Dr BN and Mr lemia so it has come to my attention over the last month or so that there seems to be a lot of propaganda in our community about this potential Capital project and I think it's time that we set the record straight and we provide facts as opposed to opinions or research various studies that have been done the bottom line is whether we're going to grow or we're not going to grow and we're going to grow slightly at the elementary
017level we cannot provide the programs and services that we need for our students in the elementary schools today so whatever happens over the next few years which we see a growth and enrollment it's going to be a challenge we had a senior staff meeting this morning and I was looking to add two language-based positions for special education students I may not have room that's for next year where are we going to be in three years where are we going to be in five years we'll talk about it I'd like to thank Mr loima for all of his work on this document which is the facilities needs assessment and the districtwide need for a capital project to maintain the necessary programs and services for all students so as I mentioned and this will be going on
018the district website tomorrow I have asked director shout to make sure that this is filmed so this will go on the district website in addition to the wcsd video page so our community can just click and they can see this presentation as well as any discussion that occurs after because I want to make sure that everybody's question is answered and answered with facts so let's take a look at the factual information the need Student needs have outgrown the current physical space at our elementary schools integrated co- talk classrooms are at capacity at all elementary schools students who live in a school's boundary and in need of an ICT program now must enroll in a different school which means they're not going to their neighborhood school which I don't think any of us want to expand
019the self-contained classes at the elementary level which we need to because our students need those Services we again have an issue with being able to put them in their home school no longer can we say we have one or two programs one on the North End of thect district and one on the south end of the district that's not right that's doing students and Service uh students and families a disservice so if you have multiple students one of them is going to go to one school the other one will go to another but if the parents want both of them to go to the same school they have to go to the school where the the special needs program is being offered which means that you could have multiple people who are not in their
020neighborhood school it's got to stop upk it's been a great program we've done reports on it it shows that how our kindergarten students have been excelling more than they ever have we want to bring upk to our nine elementary schools which hold kindergarten currently we want to create bilingual programs to serve the increasing numbers of English language Learners in which our district has had one of the largest growth of English language Learners in Duchess County we want to add communication classrooms with sensory spaces we don't want 26 students in a kindergarten ICT class we don't want that and in some buildings 25% use music and or art on a cart due to to a lack of space that's us that's as of today more facts District contracted with Western suff bosies to conduct a comprehensive
021long range planning study below our some of the findings facts the demographics of the community are changing enrollment levels will remain relatively flat for the next 10 years but there will be a slight increase at the elementary level but again remember we don't have the capacity to run the types of programs that we want in our elementary schools today there are a large number of residential projects in the application Phase that could bring a large number of families into the district these projects were not included in the study the study only includes projects which have been fully approved by the local municipalities I'm going to ask a question Mr I don't know if you have the answer so I'm sorry for putting you on the spot but I'm going to put you on the spot
022go for it do you have any idea how many projects would fit that criteria that are possible that could impact Elementary enrollment and which schools particularly might that impact more so than others sure I could think of four big projects by by I say four projects doesn't sound like a lot but we're talking about hundreds of homes so uh they're mostly in the East Fishkill area uh and would undoubtedly affect boundaries such as gay Head Elementary and requiring us to possibly redistrict and then affect maybe even Brinker Hof for fish Plaines depending on how the borders have to move further north into different catchment areas uh uh but that's where the majority of the building is yes very good that's why we need to build our future together I'm going to hand it over to
023Mr loka who took a great deal of time and effort to come up with the facilities needs assessment and the elementary capacity constraints we've identified the need to expand academic programs for an increasing number of students with Rising needs and challenges we all can agree on that but we're not able to accommodate these programs due to a lack of space these are real world examples today Mr loka could you go through this chart please and you'll notice that classroom usage is at capacity at every Elementary School Mr loka yes thank you very much so I will uh not read every one of these but give you a general idea for for each school so as Dr Bon had said uh we are using classroom usage in all schools uh and we we have the need
024for additional expansion in a number of different locations but we don't really have any options to provide that so uh Brinkerhoff Elementary has an integrated co-taught uh class uh program service K to6 classroom every classroom is being used uh for instruction now we do have construction being completed on at the end of Meritt Boulevard uh as part of the uh as part of Van Wick Muse I believe the project is called they got another 113 Town Homes being built we're going to definitely see an increase in uh uh student enrollment based on that uh when that when that construction which is already under the way underway is completed fish Elementary uh there are two modular classrooms you know not attached to the building that are used for up upk classes now those modular classrooms have
025been in place uh for almost 20 years uh and so by the time this project comes to fruition you got to imagine uh that they will be well past their life usefulness uh in 2029 or so uh so that would mean that we would at at a minimum have to shutter the two upk classrooms that are housed in those detached classrooms as that program would no longer be able to be housed there due to lack of space the um Fishkill Plains Elementary has a couple interesting issues uh they have uh a K2 self-contained Continuum uh that's a 151 class special class for students and and they then once they get to third grade there isn't enough room to do grades three through six at Fishkill Plains Elementary once they get to uh third grade they
026have to leave Fishkill Plains Elementary uh and go to another school to finish their continuation of services there so would you say that these students will go to Fishkill planes have to make another transition to another elementary school then have to make a transition to the junior high for two years and then transfer to the high school School sure it actually might even be one additional transition they might have started kindergarten somewhere else and then were then assessed to need uh self-contained class and they'd have to then go to Fishkill planes as maybe a first grader or a second grader for the first time entering that school they're there for one year or two years and they can't even finish there they'd have to go to a a third elementary school just to finish their
027you know k6 academic career if you will and this is reality reality happening now um also with Fishkill Plains Elementary uh there is that is one of the uh the most challenging spaces we have for class size I think what has happened is uh the uh redistricting of Hopewell Glenn that large development uh over in East Fishkill do you know when that occurred what year uh 2018 let's say or so um and and that redistricting and rezoning it to Fishkill Plains Elementary and they finally finished construction there I think is finally caught up we're seeing class sizes that we did not expect uh certainly not did not expect it two years ago we're seeing increase to the point where in the fall we're going to have to close the two upk classrooms at fish guill
028Plains Elementary just to make uh space for a couple more sections to keep class sizes down where we can and that's something we know right now right now and sorry did you want to go back to that hold on I think you hit the stop button oh I don't want to stop I've just got started hold the phone here everybody please what did I do he you got it very good we're we're back in run go ahead Mr L Kea okay great so uh gayhead Elementary another school uh that has uh some inter 833 students yes sir pretty large for an elementary school large school one of the largest in the region very large the okay go ahead has a has a self-contained program it is language based it's a slightly different program than we
029talked about but it is only a three through six so some some students are entering gay head for this program that'd be their second Elementary School experience uh in their k6 career has the integrated code talks k6 class also has as a third component more recently added component is our English as a new language program the school is using every classroom space as is as it is as well um again this is the con this is a school we talked about that definitely has the most uh possibly impactful future development in in our area uh a couple things worth noting uh the enl teacher that's English is new language teachers provides support to students in one of the school lobbies uh AIS support they don't they don't have a classroom they they do their work
030in a Lobby they do not have a dedicated academic space uh currently no and this is one of our growing populations yes okay thanks okay um AIS support is provided in the hallway often the Adaptive PE CL Tech takes place either in a hallway or cafeteria uh the school psychologist uses a stage as an office testing area for students and and they must plan around lunches so that eval evaluations are not uh interrupted so what happens if a student has a crisis during lunch right thank you go ahead so and this this there is a growing need as Dr Bank said with regards to our demographic for students uh for English language students uh we obviously our second highest uh our highest language other than English being spoken in that program is Spanish uh and
031having conversations with Dr Cardwell uh she could also really better explain this that you know New York State requires when you hit a certain number of uh when you hit a certain number of students in in a in in your enl program that speak a certain language you are you're technically required to create a bilingual program so that would mean providing a dedicated space at a particular grade level for all students who speak that that same language so if you hit a certain threshold you're supposed to have an a classroom uh that is dedicated for that instruction with a teacher who is certified for bilingual instruction for that program and we don't have we were talking about we don't have the space for that we can't we easily have the population of students across our
032three schools that support enl who speak that common language for which who can benefit from a bilingual program but we do not have the space to put it because that would mean we're taking a classroom out of a school who we've already noted has been used for is that classroom capacity as it is so we can't add that special class or that bilingual program class and then if we were able to to put one in we definitely couldn't guarantee creating a Continuum for the next few years which would which would mean one which which would mean that you'd have a student then having to go back somewhere else or or you have to I don't even know if there'd be I even know how you could disband a bilingual program uh the the state would
033probably have a hard time with that to be quite honest with you and would you say there's a common theme in the areas that are being impacted in these elementary schools do they seem to be two specific areas I would say that the you know for program services are the things that are impacted the most and us having to make um you know we're have to we're going to have to make compromises in areas that we we feel would you say that they're primarily special educ a and elll which are two of our largest growing populations that is the area where we have to make the most compromise that seems to be the area that's in the comments at every school supports outside the traditional classroom is where the space is lacking yes and we've
034all discussed and heard of everything that's happening with mental health issues and special education and students needs and they're Ever Changing we need to be equipped to be able to work with those students and when I said all students I mean all students go ahead Mr loka okay uh James Evans very simple it's a small school it's it's a it's a it has self-contained full Continuum there k to6 no room for self-contained if you asked the building principal she would say mind you know or not sorry no room for integrated co-taught mainly because the school couldn't support uh the office spaces and classroom spaces required to provide the related services for students so I thought that was an interest interesting perspective we said to Mrs Andes hey can we bring ICT over to your school
035um she would she would say well sure but where would we put all those related service providers because I don't have the room for that uh kenry Road uh they have a upk class there this year in the fall we'll be closing that space down as well because they have uh an increased need to uh to lower class size across one or two grades in that school so he'll be using that last classroom space uh for maintaining reasonable class size which is which is obviously very important as well uh Myers Corners has a number of interesting constraints as well Myers corner is now our largest Elementary School yes it is was it always no it wasn't why do you think it has become the largest Elementary School have we had a lot of population growth
036in that feeder pattern well the biggest thing was actually feeder pattern changes so the last big feeder pattern change we had was we which should have been done as part of the original K5 configuration but it it it wasn't for various reasons uh so we had to do a course correction on it uh about probably five years ago maybe six where five we had took all of baxtertown Road including round hill and and and the the upper portions of Osborne Hill Road that were formally going to fish Elementary and we put them over at Myers corners Elementary which was very disruptive for families uh and we ended up the board you know rightfully so at the time grandfathered a lot of those Fishkill Elementary families to stay but they've all aged out and and the
037primary the the the the primary uh all those neighborhoods are now primarily going to Myers corners Elementary and and it's done exactly what we expected it to do it's become the largest Elementary School in the district by enrollment they have um they have part of their Library uh this year had to be converted into a space shared by two AIS teachers and a social worker so had the closed part uh P they had a cut off portion of the library to make room for those spaces um one of the one of the enl classrooms is also used as a copier room that's um you know 's there's no you know for the for the building for the building so during the classroom people go in there and make copies well I hope not but you
038know yes that is um there's not enough there's not there right now there's a K2 uh They just added this year I think it's temporary a three four classroom for self-contained those students when they're done with that self-contained program up until uh fourth grade will then have to go to another school for grades five and six self-contained so that's very disruptive uh the custodial office had to be converted to faculty room which is a smaller space custodian now the custodian's Occupy what was literally six months ago a book room like a like a closet in the main office area so that's where their office have been so I mean kudos to them for trying to find the space but uh they had to get really creative and unfortunately uh you know they they have uh
039they have I less than ideal situations for some of the staff in program let me just say in my opinion as superintendent it's absolutely unacceptable continue Please Mr L sure Oak Grove Elementary has has uh has self-contained grades one through six so if you notice what's missing there it's grade K students who uh enter grade one self-contained will be uh who started in a self-contained program in kindergarten would have started at Vasser Road Elementary so when they go to Oak Grove uh there will be uh that that will be their first uh change in elementary schools and similar they don't have an ICT program as well so if I can just ask you for the sake of transparency did I have any involvement in developing this the way the schools and programs are now no
040no this document this document yes this is a collaborative document but was I directly involved in it or did you work with the principles I worked with the principles thank you you can move on to the next slide she Road uh sheif road is now our third largest Elementary School in the district it does not have enough capacity for all students to take uh music and art classes in the classroom uh there it's if you figure every it's a a four section school so there's four sections of every grade in the building uh you know for for just ease of explanation basically the principle the way they had to set it up was one class in every grade uh had to draw the Short Straw and have art and music on a cart and that's
041and that's been their experience for art music in for this year um wasn't wasn't that identified as one of the reasons why we made made some changes before to eliminate art on a cart yes some yes okay thank you uh there is um there is there is a it you know the our long-term planning study that was done by Western seph bosis uh will uh uh you know shows that there's actually going to be a a covid baby bubble if you will uh we have uh kindergarteners will be entering uh school for the first time in September of 26 will be about a 100 students higher than what we've seen in the last five or six years or even even prior we're going to see 730 some OD kids as opposed to 650 some odd
042kids or whatever the number is uh and and and in Chief Road in particular it's projecting uh that odds are they're going to need another classroom for which they already they already are at Max and they're going to have to get really creative if we allow all that enrollment to go into shro Elementary as opposed to perhaps redistricting or or we we what we call overflowing students to another school temporarily till the space becomes available based on some sort of enrollment attrition you see that in how many years a a year to September of 26 right so right around the corner right around the corner so you know a year and a half right uh and that'll be problematic because right now we we basically just squeeze the last bit of classroom space to get
043them where they are for this year to reduce a classroom size and if we don't don't do that again they have sixth grade coming in next year is three sections but based on what we're hearing from this report and what we're seeing historically we're going to bring in kindergarten at four sections and we we need that school needs to have one grade level of three sections to fit exactly the way it is right now but they're not going to have that they're going to have all seven grades K through six be a four section school they're be like one classroom short so we're going have to really look hard about where we squeeze that and that might mean another another I don't want to you know want to this is just a thought it might
044mean another special area goes on a cart or one goes on a c i we need to be I think we need to be transparent with the community in regards to what's going on today right now yeah that's what's going on today right now okay um and again this this would be a great school to have a bilingual program for perfect you know it would keep most the students who need that service in their home school uh but there I believe is our goal isn't that what we want to do we want students to go to school in their own neighborhood and go to school with the people that they live near and develop a community within a community certainly and uh in this case we would not be we we know we can't put
045a bilingual program a classroom dedicated for that and then multiple years with the classrooms dedicated for that as she Ro Elementry that just isn't going to work um and then and then vassel Road uh as well is is is by by comparison is in pretty good shape um but that you know it would be nice if they had what I've been told to is a full fulltime sensory space to complement the communications class uh both that would be the same thing for here and I don't think I mentioned it at kenry Road Elementary um but those would be uh programs that would at least if you were to send a student out of District to receive the same services that they've received now in District they would probably have a space like that in that
046out of District location so haven't we talked about for years the desire to bring those programs that we send out in we have okay so thank you sure so with that being said every school has has interesting constraints challenging constraints and and constraints that we wish we you know didn't have to deal with due to just lack of space alone and this is based on fact fact today okay if we were to uh uh remove sixth grade from elementary schools we just wanted to show how many classrooms might be able to be freed up in each school to give you a sense as to you know what kind of additional uh programs or you know number of how much how much classroom space we we would be able to alleviate to provide for um you
047know uh the expansion of programs or to keep class sizes low so we're talking about 33 classrooms but another possible three I say possible three because technically um you know right now if we want we're running a a full self-contained Continuum requires four classrooms so you have a grade k a one two a three four and a five six technically speaking you could probably do a full Continuum with three classrooms without without trying to debate the merits of what a K1 SC class might look like but you could have a K1 a 23 and a 45 so then a school like Oak Grove would be fixed immediately because their three classrooms that I use for SC right now would be automatically a full Continuum you could do it that way plus they still get the
048three classrooms back uh there's just a lot more room to maneuver uh in in in removing sixth grade out of the elementary schools and then this slide just represents some of the thoughts this doesn't mean this is what would happen but like we could bring upk to to several of our schools uh quite easily we have room to eliminate the modular classrooms at Fishkill and still support the same upk classes there or uh some sort of combination of that and something else we can expand a full Continuum for self-contained at Fishkill Plains for example uh we can return you know we can make sure that there's room to maintain an appropriate class sizes at gay head room to support a bilingual program Etc so forth at gayhead same thing with Meyers and chief Road Elementary
049uh and it just it's just going to help provide allow us the space to provide the programs and services uh that we know that our students need and uh and and you know the space that we just can't provide currently and I think I'm giving you the clicker back thank you Mr L keima thank you for all of your work and and finding that information to to provide the facts as they are today so let's talk a little bit about the projected cost of the project it was presented to the board in the community on both January 13th and January 27th total projected cost of the 2025 Capital project is 153 million plus approximately 67 million will be the New York state aid to be received over the life of the bond once the project
050has been completed and permanent financing has been put in place and I I believe that if this is approved by the board and then approved by the voters it would probably be five years correct Miss Crandle until this project is done and we just shared with you where we are now think of where we're going to be in five years but I think it's important to get out accurate information that on an average home assess value of $400,000 this is approximately going to cost a taxpayer $25.50 per month or less than a dollar a day so let's say your house is worth $600,000 well it would cost $37 a month and would cost a little more than a dollar a day there's been some discussion about what should the middle level look like and people
051have referred to studies and anecdotal information again we're sharing facts we have 13 school districts in Duchess County let's look at the let's look at the middle level Arlington has middle level 68 Beacon has middle level 68 Dover has middle level 68 he High Park has middle level 68 milbrook has middle level 68 Pine Plains has middle level 68 pipy has middle level 68 Red Hook has middle level 68 Reinbeck has middle level 68 Spackenkill has middle level 68 Pauline has middle level 5'8 weeck has middle level 48 and Whoppers has middle level 78 please notice that we are the only District that has the middle level two grades meaning that you make a transition as a seventh grader and then the next year you're thinking about high school so you're there for two years
052as opposed to three and in some instances four and in some even more than that so I'm not going to discuss with you the merits of putting sixth grade in one place or another because we could find studies that would support whatever it is that we feel is best I'm sharing with you factual information now comes my opinion as your superintendent my opinion in order for the district to continue to provide and potentially expand the programs and services necessary to adequately meet the everchanging needs of all of our students K12 this Capital project is essential it will allow for the necessary supports throughout Elementary education which I think we can all agree is the foundation of Education it starts in the elementary school this project will allow for the following reduce class sizes at the
053elementary level as we gain over 30 classrooms the expansion of upk in our school buildings is opposed to sending them out to other agencies or other locations as our special education enrollment has increased by 4% we have 10,500 students we have about 18 and a half% that are special needs that's over 1,800 students and when I say all students I mean all students we will have the ability to meet the need for those students and the continued development of special education programs and initiatives at the elementary level that we have worked diligently on building over the past four years in response to the covid pandemic and other needs that we've all seen that are dramatically Rising English language learner enrollment has also increased and we'll have the ability to expand our elll programs and services
054the addition of grade six at the middle level will also provide students with opportunities to take higher level courses in areas of interest and provide critical academic enrichment opportunities based on the offerings available at the middle level that are not offered at the elementary level based on the 21 building condition survey as well as recent legisl from New York State requiring schools to make temperatur related decisions in regards to heat potentially impacting classroom temperature which I'm not going to say could will result in closings early dismissals or delays which all Impact in-person learning much of the work included in the capital project will retrofit our building buildings with the proper air Handling Systems to keep schools open in New York state when the temperature warms up May June July August September and for those of
055you who don't know we have a thousand students that participate in summer school in July and August it's rather warm in July in August since our newest building was built in 1969 we have seen tremendous growth in the areas of extracurricular involvement among our students over the past few years these opportunities for our students outside of their regular classroom activities are critical to the growth in development of our students as human beings and as people in addition we value our relationship with our community to provide our facilities which include athletic fields for community usage I know there are people in the community that want to utilize these fields but because we don't have enough of them they're not available for the c community very often we want to work together as a team we want
056our student athletes to be able to participate and play on these fields but we also want our community organizations which serve as the foundation or the feeder for our athletic programs to also utilize I them therefore the additions in the project at the middle and high school level are of Paramount importance and if it remains our goal which I believe it is to provide opportunities for all of our students and this may sound familiar to some of you to challenge themselves pursue their passions and realize their potential while growing as responsible members of their Community which is obviously our mission that was agreed upon by the public over 10 years ago this project has my full support as superintendent in its entirety and with that I welcome any questions from the board and I want
057to thank you Mr loka for all of the work that you did thank you very much thank you Dr Bon thank you Mr leima I need to ask for an extension of time we're out she asked me to ask when I was down there we're looking for an extension for time for 15 minutes is that good yeah 15 all in favor any opposed so moved once again this full presentation as well as the slides included will be on the district website tomorrow as well as the portion of the presentation as well as the conversation that's going to take place right now I want our community to be informed of the discussions and the rationale behind this project Marie Johnson you have a question uh yes um Dr Bon uh Darren loka um do we know
058approximately the number of students that are in our out of District plements placements that we might be able to develop programs for such as your uh Salt Point bosies Platinum Northern wests those might be ones that we could bring back in do we have any idea I I have a few questions but that's one of them sure I'm sure people do that's the purpose of this Mr zip could you answer those please sure so um as far as students of District I'd say we have approximately 250 to 300 across the district so this year as far as uh school age special education classified students we have 2, I think 60 so about that 300 students um and going back to those programs like we do now but you know should the building uh project be
059passed and we can increase our capacity for self- classes as we do now we look to bring students back to District when you have seats available and clearly in increasing the number of seats and programs available will allow us to keep more students in District as well as bring more students back to district and um and just so the board has an idea of course per student when they go out a district you're talking anywhere probably from a 100,000 to $125,000 a student and how many students did you indicate we have we have about 250300 students our costs as a district with all the day placements and residential placements probably hits about $25 million $25 million okay so but the the ones on considering you're saying approximately about 100,000 and when we do them in
060District it runs us usually about 30 something thousand well think about a teacher in a self-contain program right now that's a 151 that would serve two grades you're talking 15 students and you'd have a teacher and say two two teacher assistants three teacher salary brand new $125,000 two teacher assistants compared to 15 students I should say that $125,000 includes benefits as well that's not the starting salary just so you're aware thank you all the benefits um also one of the other questions Mr Z probably be able to handle currently right now we have the pre students that were sub basically subcontract out to like a couple of the uh local daycares and St Mary's I believe um I was just wondering if we were able to bring them back what's the current cost that we
061have for the prek that were subcontracting out and what we're actually getting now mind you prek was passed by Governor Cuomo that we have to offer it student people do not have to register it but we have to have it available by the district and that was under Governor Cuomo I want to say four years ago I believe as my time frame on that so it's mandatory that we provide it but not mandatory that they are enrolled just the same as kindergarten right Dr Cardwell oversees our upk program Dr Cardwell could you answer those questions yesk so we currently have over 200 students that are attending our off-site upk locations uh we have we receive $5,400 per upk student from the state education department so that's what the state gives us and that is what
062we give our Community Partners for per student for running a upk program so we're not paying any extra to any of these no not to our Community Partners for the students okay thank you truste Johnson trusty Lumia first all thank to pres excellent presentation if I understand it correctly there's no classroom available for the following programs namely if you want to expand self-contained classes at each school if you want to students in ic class to stay in their home school and not have to travel we want to expand our bilingual programs at every school to serve the increasing number of el students my goly my go my God we want we want to bring upk in all our nine schools and of course we don't want art on the part cart as well as music
063on stage if this is to happen represent we change the great configuration I assume UK upk 5 I guess 68 9 to 12 this according to the Community Committee required 28 classrooms if I'm not mistaken 28 classroom 14 and 14 about that not about I think it's 28 classrooms as much as I totally agree with your recommendation I mean it's it's admirable I think we need some the community as well as myself needs some an questions to be answered we presently have six teachers who teach upk how much money does the state provide we're told 5400 bucks how much money does the district have to pay to make up the for the present six teachers how many additional teachers must we h for us to have upk at the nine schools what will be the
064total cost District cost so I'm I'm gonna attempt to we're gonna attempt to answer them one by one so you get the answers to your questions okay does that work for you be great Dr Cardwell if if you could answer the first question on upk if you could repeat that question yeah trusty Lumia thank you so far we have six teachers who teach upk how many additional teachers will we have to hire so that we all the upk students can be serviced and how much will it cost the district how much I across the district to hire the all the additional teachers so if we have one upk classroom in each of the schools right we're working on madeup numbers right now it would be an additional four teachers that we would need in the
065classrooms at approximately aund $25,000 per new teacher so that would give us about 125 times four would give us the amount but this is rhetorical so all we have to hire is four teachers tell me right just if if we went with only having 10 upk classrooms we don't know how many students are going to register we don't know how many classrooms we're going to have but if I went with just having 10 classrooms in our buildings because we have nine elementary schools that do have kindergarten that would be the 10 plus we would have a teaching assistant that we need in each of those classes yeah and if I can add something Dr bon in Board of Education please do Mr once again so I mean the district we all working it together so
066so we think about a self-contained program and what we' save the district question a minute but it's all connected to money so it is yeah so it is so if you think about a a regular two grade 151 class of all those students we could keep 15 students in District that not have to go outside that save the district $1.5 million so the cost that you would incur to hire a special a teacher is nominal and then whatever course we needed to say to to fund other programs like upk would be offset with one self-contained class that supports 15 students by doing this in building two three four classes maybe more the savings could be you know 10 $10 million over the course of the school year and clearly what special ed would need to
067fund that would be nominal so once again so looking to bring programs like upk into our buildings all of this could be absorbed quite easily just by by being able to expand your self-contained offerings at the k6 level that alone is is K5 that alone is worth worth all of this what it what it brings to the district collectively thank you I I did not maybe I did not get the actual numbers for c for you need four new teachers to to cover all the students for upk corre addition to the six we in addition to we have six right now correct correct so that would be we have 300 last year we had 300 students that that apply for p univers PK we could service all of them correct no we can service all
068of the students we could not serice so to service School in in in school right but if we brought them back let's say we took all 300 students we're able to bring them back assuming we have classrooms available how many additional teachers must we hire it's got to be more than four teachers she's doing the math two seconds she's not that would be if we took all 300 students we put 18 students in a class that's required there will be 16 classes we already have six that would be 10 additional teachers if we were to bring all of those classes in our district schools okay okay all right thank you by the way if these question canot be answered tonight that's fine I mean I just throw it out so the community would know how
069many again how many more additional teachers must we hire if we have integrated co- teing and self-contain classes in all nine schools right now kids have to travel to different classes we don't want that supposedly right the superintendent doesn't want that I I I certainly don't I I I think we've been communicating that for years so my I agree I agree with you the question is the community has to know what it's going to cost so that each nine schools have these programs that's important to know so I can support I mean I support the fact that we I don't want people to travel but can people afford it that's a question that people have ultimately when they go to vote they have to vote for on these issues if I can just interject sure
070we have said that it is our goal to provide the necessary programs and services to our students and be fiscally responsible I'd like to know I will say to you that our students deserve the support I I agree with you 100% they when when if you're talking about the average home value is between $400 and $500,000 in this District the bank I hate to tell you I live in a district and you try to find a home for 400,000 you got I try to find a home for my son for 400,000 I couldn't even find one the clost is almost $700,000 believe me home prices in this District are pretty pretty high that's so I believe that the board has to make a decision as to what what what is the priority I agree I
071agree I think that's and and and it's it's going to come to a point in time and I've said this before understand I stand up here this year I'm talking about adding program as I say every year next year I could be up here saying we're gonna have to subtract program because we don't have the money but we have the money now and these are things that we need and I cannot justify not providing students programs and services that they need if we have the ability to spend the money the district has not been in this position very often in its history for a period of time the district carried a fund balance of around 1% and our current fund balance is at 10% it's pretty high 12 to 14% And I said to this
072community and I said to this board we're not going to spend All the covid Monies to spend the Monies so that we say that we spent it and then not have any money left we want to save that money and identify our priorities and deploy that money in areas that we believe best serve our students so we have that money that's a bunk so so if it comes a point in time when we don't have the money then that means we have to cut programs and services and if that's what we have to do we'll do it but right now is not that time and I am not going to jeopardize the education of the students currently in this school district when we have the ability to do something to remain status quo and not
073grow to meet the everchanging needs that they have you have a question yes I did Dr Bon and the Board of Education if I can just elaborate on trusty lumia's uh statement about if you were to bring all the programs to each building right so you think about it since Co and I've mentioned this to the board over the last four years we h a fair amount of special education teachers K to6 to expand the ICT offerings across all the buildings that have ICT programs mostly gayhead Meyers um Chief Fishkill planes when I first came here 10 years ago having a double section of ICT to grade was rare this year we're actually going to have three sections at at a building so you can see the needs have increased going forward if you had
074the opportunity to really bring students back to their home schools you have a fair good cohort of teachers who could be repurposed as students and exit your elementary schools and have them Circle back and go back to their home schools so if you think about Evans and Oak and Fishkill which don't have ICT programs those students are in other buildings where we had to hire teachers to teach them those teachers could go back and offset any future costs so you're not hiring completely new teachers to support your whole k6 program you've got plenty of capacity in there how much I couldn't tell you but those students had to go someplace so some of them could be repurposed as students moved up from fifth to sixth grade and then you could slowly build out a complete
075ICT Continuum across your Elementary School some of that capacity already exists because those students so students needed Services somewhere and once you reached more than 12 students you had to hire a new teacher anyway we're at a time limit I apologize um i' like I'd like to make a motion for an additional 15 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes I stand correct 20 minutes 20 minutes as per Mr so moved Morgan all in favor just can I just say one before you continue just can you clarify one thing for me based on trusty lumia's questions can you please uh just reiterate how many outof district placements do we currently have I would say approximately 250 what is the cost involved for those added District placements uh in terms of tuition as well as Transportation costs within
076the special education budget I I would say that the per student cost for a Day program uh is probably about $100,000 $125,000 for residential students it's more per student and that doesn't include the uh cost which I I'm assuming Miss uh Mrs Dy can indicate as far as Transportation because these students now have to travel far for Day program just throw a couple throw throw a percentage on top of it 25 28 million cost is probably 25 to30 million if we were able with the expansion and bringing in some of these programs back within the district let's just say how many students do you think we could bring back into the district half I don't know 30% but I mean you know even 10% is $2.5 million right so say more than 10% 25 say
07725% so let's say okay it's about $10 million $10 million there's your savings and there's your money right there to help offset because we're not spending $10 million for added District placements those students are back here and the cost for those special ed students is not 100 to 125,000 Miss Johnson that could be 30 35 40 45,000 or 50,000 or 50% of what the added District tuition is so right there we're not adding money we're repurposing money that we're already spending within our budget to cover the cost does that sound correct yes thank you thank you for the explanation but let me continue with my question if you don't mind please the comprehensive long range plan which were given to us I think two weeks ago the B the the projection for elementary enrollment 2034
078is lower than the present in fact if you look at page 3 four the overall enrollment is going to be lower and of course the elementary enrollment is definitely going to be lower if that's the case it doesn't include supposedly new building that's taking place I'm only basing what I read on this year I can only go by this I can't go about what may or may not happen well and hold on a minute you don't we do not know how many of those students actually will be going directly to gead which is going to be obviously affected one of the bu school is going to be affected the most some of those kids might be going directly to some of those kids might go directly to V white or directly to what do you
079call to JN J high school so really don't know I can only go by the projection I can't go by anything else based on these projections after bun the enrollment at both the high school level and the elementary school level is going to be below what it is today okay so just just to make that a fact well let me respond if I may I just shared presentation that I think was about a half hour yep whatever that talked about where we are today and the fact that we can't add programs based on the number that we have right now and I can't predict what's going to happen in 2030 or 2034 but if you take a look at those numbers it remains relatively flat which means that the enrollment as they Project without those
080potential projects is going to be slightly lower than it is now and right now we can't fit the programs in the schools that we need need unless it's travel to go to other schools to meet the needs of the students which you don't want which we don't want I understand that now I'm sorry I have a question that relates to Mr lumia's Question TR migot has a question that relates to yours from now I understand your focus on the finances here I think we should be focused on the finances I believe too that's why Dr Bon will tell you how many times I've said to him keep any tax levy increase under the cap if you want my support but from what I heard Dr Bonk and Mr loka say was that while I it
081looks as though in the Pro projections that our enrollment will be level there is an increase in the amount of needs for our students particularly the increasing numbers of special education and elll students which means we are going to need more classroom space to be able to meet those needs because we'll be having pullouts bilingual classes that will be mandated I would agree with that and and when you look at projections what did the projection say in 2008 did they say we'd be facing what we face right now in our elementary schools I don't know what 2008 I can only speak what what we have in the plan from whatever it is to to 25 to 23 4 a couple last things and then I best to somebody else our present B last last our
082present Bud approximately $35 million L year the budget to budget increase was close to $18 million thanks to uh your your idea of using cap what do you call the fund balance we came below the test cap which is great now we have 20 how much 20 almost 20 minut how much we have right now in a fund balance approximately $20 million pretty close to $20 million this year budget will be pretty close to $325 million veryy close to that if we approve the totality of the capital project which is another $153 million we're going to be in a h for almost half a billion dollars unduly we must use fund balance again this year how long can we continue using the fund balance years from now it it bothers me you were you were
083board president when we talked about using the fund balance and holding it agree and that's what we're doing and I and I will say again what I just said that if there comes a time where we don't have the money then we obviously can't offer the programs the bunk I agree using a fund balance to to come in with the the cap I agree 100% my question is how long can we continue this I can see programs being cut right down the line I don't want to put predict I can't predict what's going toen happen in the future but I can convey what the situation is now that's what I can convey I can't predict what's going to happen next year then maybe you can I can't I I can tell you I'm concerned about
084a future of this district and I I'm sure you are too you are you're also you're concerned about the future of this District where we've gotten a report from the controller's office for the past four years where we have not been successible to fiscal stress prior to that we were so I think that that that talks a little bit about the way we've been managing our money and the planning that we've utilized and that report is a public report that anyone can can look at look I think it's great to use fund balance like 100% my concerns for the future exactly what's going to happen three four you're G to be here three four years from now and you have to face those issues and I'm ready to face them as I've said every year
085right now we have the opportunity to build programs that our students need if there comes a time where we can't build program and we have to potentially cut program then we'll do it but until that time I'm not going to jeopardize the current students needs their programs and services because I'm afraid of what's going to happen in two three or four years that's not right that's how you stay stagnant and Status Quo and you don't grow well Al I am concerned about what's happening so far as charter schools which is going to affect might affect our enrollment I'm concerned about all these things I'm sure you are too I understand that but but with all due respect that's a might we don't know that right now a number there's a number of hypothetical issues that
086are being banned about that we don't have the answers to okay and again I'm referring to the current situation right now and and my personal idea is we shouldn't be basing this on U somebody's projected hypothetical situation uh it's all about the students and we have to do what's best interest for these students and bringing in these programs adding classroom lowering the classroom sizes is what's best for the students that's what we need to focus on uh I'm sorry trusty uh slawa just a quick clarification um Miss dainy quick question for you I'm assuming if this project is approved by the board to move forward and then approved by the public uh with all the work that has to be done I'm assuming that we'd be going out to bond in 2030 we would be
087going to bond five to six years out and at no point in time would the entire cost of the project have to be included in the general fund budget it would be included through Debt Service and interest payments at that point in time thank you you're welcome trusty Kellen thank you I'm sure we would all like to do the best for all of our students that is not in dispute everyone on this board is ran for the board because they cared about students however the current situation in Washington leaves our finances extremely perilous both the administration and the Congress has vowed to cut almost a trillion dollars from the federal budget since the budget is uh over Six Trillion mostly made up of interest on the national debt and defense and Social Security and Medicare
088that leaves only a little over one trillion for everything else the president has said repeatedly he wants to abolish the uh Department of Education now some uh aspects of it may be saved who knows the uh he wants very much to go after Medicare and transportation and other programs and his secretary of Transportation has said especially he'd like to take them away from Blue states that have low marriage and birth rates now New York state will try to I'm sure will try to fill the gaps when they lose money in these areas they'll try to backfill that will probably affect school aid because we can only spend so much in such an uncertain time I think it would be wise to do this year as a project only the things that need to be done
089and and have a separate project for the additions on the two Junior highs and leave it to the voters to decide whether they want to go for both projects now or want to defer it till next year when their Finance when the government finances are more stable and that is a would be a sensible decision thank you trusty K trusty mots yes I noticed in Mr loka's presentation that we have several buildings where we can't accommodate the special education related services and AIS services in a classroom where we have students in lobbies and hallways I have a number of concerns about that especially since I believe we now have a new administ minator who came in this year whose office space is all converted copier rooms we have closets that are being used to accommodate
090offices well when we look at these services that are being conducted in hallways and lobbies these are areas where there's a lot of distraction and makes it difficult for students to focus so I think that that is going to decrease the amount of benefit students are getting from these services and then I have a further concern because the majority of students receiving the related Services have an IEP we are violating their Federal right to privacy because anyone who walks through the hallway and sees that the physical therapist or the speech therapist is with a student they now that know that that student is now identified as a special education student and I have real concerns about that thank you trusty mots Mr Morgan we're down to five minutes by the way should should I start
091now no um continue in in all sincerity um I I want to pass along several several thank yous thank you for the presentation and I want to thank um trusty Lumia for for putting the questions together because our role goal is to ask these questions and to understand these issues so that we can we can reach uh um reach reasoned um decisions um trusty Lumia was was one of your points earlier that you would rather see us not expand and then later cut programs that are based on um I'll say grants or or state state aid and and money that um we may not be able to afford in the future so you're not talking about cutting programs currently but you don't want to be overly ambitious now if if if is that a fair
092that's way you got a better way than I saying it yes and he says it in English you you translate me rather well okay thank you um so and and I think there's a logic in a sense to that right especially coming from from a standpoint where you don't want to go from from from the rich you know from from riches to the to the poor house so I understand that um that point there are some people that think that we should should be more ambitious now and and hope that hope that the rainy day doesn't come so so that's a difference of opinion but it's it's a a reason one that that I think everybody can can understand um based on the information that was that was um shared with the with the board
093and with the public before the meeting but really presented um I just want to say that that I sat here over the course of of the past month or so uh thinking to myself well when I went to elementary school it was was K through six um and middle school was S8 and that's that's the way that it was um but I'll also say that when I went to John J there were more students and John J than there are right now and there hadn't been additions put on it just to age myself and my wife is younger than me in case people are watching and thinking that she's old um so so the point is that that the different the different programs that people have talked about and the need for has has expanded
094right the need for the need for space and I've come to the conclusion you know just speaking for myself that that we need more space um we can argue about how much or or how little but but we need more space for for the status quo and I also think warning I also think that the um you know the the the data which you pointed out that says that basically we've got like a little uh bubble um for for lack of a better term in elementary population that's going to kind of work work its way through the the project that is proposed for directly across from 376 which I don't think is going to be built the way that it's currently proposed um but is for homes right across the street from from Gaye head
095if that gets cut in half which by the way approximately half of 468 is what the property owner has been paying for as a member of the Sewer District for close to not quite 20 years they're going to get 200 plus units there because if they don't they're going to sue the town and the town doesn't want to get sued so let's count on 200 homes right across the street from from gayhead um we could go through other projects I just happen to know a little bit more um about that one so I used that anecdotally I I I think that looking at this from a sort of a bang for the buck perspective despite the fact that that they're people on this board that don't feel like sixth graders belong in the in the
096middle school and let's let's take them at their at their word that they that they feel that way based on their experience as a teacher which I don't have that I'll that I'll I'll take them for that but if we're talking about spending money and we're talking about accommodating students there's no question in my mind that as opposed to building new elementary schools we're going to get a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars by putting additions onto this building in Van White and reconfiguring the grade levels then we will by pursuing some some other means I'll also mention to you that time that I would like to make a motion 15 minutes make another motion for 15 minutes of time all in favor I I'll wrap up but thank you when when um when I
097entered this school district as a as a student um space was rented in the basement of a church for kindergarten and then when that kindergarten class which was the largest class by the way that went through this District close to a lot of years ago um no no numbers don't ask for the math on that and my wife is younger um but but the first grade the first grade for people in Fishkill and East Fishkill attended which school anybody so there was there was a brand new high school that was only in its second year of being opened in the 7071 school year there was first grade in John J so we we've done things in the past maybe the distant past but in the past that I think everybody would hear here would agree
098that we don't want to do anything that that drastic and if if we do need to expand the school district physical plant I think that the proposed plan is is the most efficient way from an expense standpoint to do it and that's that's my opinion I wanted to share it thank you for sharing trusty Morgan do we and your wife is younger yes Happy Valentine's Day there you're going to do well Friday Mr calero do you have any caler do you have anything uh no coms thank you anyone else well Dr bunk thank you very much for that presentation it was excellent very informative my my pleasure and again we will have this posted we appreciate uh your comments your question questions if you do have any comments or questions please direct them to the
099office of the superintendent and our team will get right on it and provide you with the answers necessary thank you again and I want to thank the board for this discussion thank you first of all I'd like to thank the board for having the discussions tonight this is a first meaningful discussion we've had and I appreciate that and I think the community appreciates it all right I hate to go backwards but I did skip over 4.02 so we must go back to 4.02 communication announcements received by the Board of Education anyone have any see none let's move on Marie Johnson I'm sorry yes um I would just like to say that over the last couple of weeks trusty mckinson myself have had the pleasure of going to some multiple different games between the two high
100schools and Junior highs I know it's crazy we went to some basketball games and and other games that we we enjoy we love our students in this district and it is probably some of the best times I have and the best conversations are with the amazing families in our district um during one triple header over at royy Ketchum we were able to also sneak down to the auditorium because Ketchum racing team which we were able to get our our gear um had movie night and it was one of the best movies I've ever seen um it was a beginning of the Winter Circle project from before it started in our district um very moving and it was definitely worth the watch um we were see I was able to go to the Science Olympiad and
101be able to see a bunch of those students and the amazing PTA PTSA over at um John J who does a phenomenal job every time the other night I was able to attend the Italian Cafe night at John J and Mr Lumia missed the food and we missed you we called you it was totally missing and but I didn't win anything in the in the things this year but trusty migot did and well as you know my niece from CIS was more important for food I got my own food I went out with my niece and then also due to the the uh the snowstorm I was able to attend Willie Wonka over at gayhead elementary on Friday morning and can I say I've been singing Willy Wonka songs all weekend that was by far
102so amazing if you didn't get to see it you missed one of the best performances ever was Willie Wonka over a gay head and I just want to give Miss Banta a huge shout out she does amazing work every year and I'm already excited for next year's thank you trustee Johnson trustee col thank than you uh last Wednesday I with Gully Stanford he he organized it and other members of The Duchess County School boards Association met with assembly woman Dee Barrett uh to uh express our hopes for uh was plenty of state aid and uh for an improvement in the State education Department's uh schedule for approving capital projects and for more money for preschool special education we had previously met with uh assemblyman beepen and with uh Senator state senator rollison so that uh
103completed our uh visits with the legislators on Thursday The Duchess County School boards Association had um had a presentation by the uh consultant for the lower and educational Coalition on the uh the state aid and the prospects for what we would get then on Friday uh I attended a webinar with the state uh with nisba where we uh got lots of information from the state education department uh the governor's office the chairs of the assembly and Senate education per uh uh Comm IES and uh nisba itself uh leading up to this Wednesday I will be going up to Albany for Lobby day and we hope to again uh express our desires for uh good outcomes for wers thank you thank you trusty K uh trusty mots yes and I'm going to go quickly because I
104know that we're running late on time um I want to thank uh Ketchum Racing for inviting us to their showing of the film 0 to 100 about the Winter Circle project and I just have to tell you what amazing marketing students these people are not only did they talk us out of some money but they um had full Refreshments ice cream popcorn uh water from some of their sponsors that was fully donated that John um that I yes that same and um Pas from the Winter Circle was there uh telling us how much he loves the two programs in Whoppers uh that night was also senior night for boys basketball and girls basketball at rck it was wonderful to be there to see those seniors be honored if anyone is looking for something to do
105Wednesday night John Jay's boys basketball team is having their senior night at John J High School um I also want to say that last Friday section one Wrestling Championships were held down at the Westchester County Center and there are 11 students from the wener Central School District who will be representing us tomorrow at the state qualifiers back down at the Westchester County Center from Ketchum at 116 pounds Angela Batista finished second at 138 pounds Michael Ricky finished fourth what okay at 170 pounds Emil corpin finished third at 152 pounds Jaden Turner finished fourth at John from John J there were three first place section Champions at 170 pounds Brandon delpia at 215 pounds Michael Morrow and I believe this is his third state year qualifying for States because I've watched him wrestle at sectionals in
106the past at 131 pounds Chris Malone uh finishing in second place at 116 pounds Christian Martino at 160 pounds Vincent Canton at 190 pounds Danny Morrison and finishing in fourth place at 152 pounds Joey magliolo and I'm sorry trusty Johnson what is it you want me to mention oh yes for yes future can you give that announcement Mr M McFarland I can I I did reply on the website um Mary Jane mcfallen that heads up to Future Farmers of America from John J went up to Albany and her students got um I believe it was fourth place in the uh activity ities so I just want to send a good shout out to all involved all the people that supported her and of course the families of all the students thank you again I can
107add some additional information in regards to that there are a number of individuals from John J FFA that'll be moving on to the substates uh based on their performance at the leadership development event so congratulations to all of them well done very proud good John trusty Morgan before I get to to my gymnastics comments I just want to state that one of my New Year's resolutions is to get down to a weight so that I can wrestle as a high school heavyweight if I were of age but anyway um aren't you and your wife is younger she is she is um earlier this evening um two of our student athletes competed at the section one um gymnastics finals um Emily B fiori from royy Ketchum High School um as well as Emma DWI from John
108J Emma qualified uh for the state meet to be part of the section one team to represent us at the state meet uh she is a sophomore at John J this is her third consecutive year going to the to the state meet so congratulations to those student athletes um I also just wanted to uh to mention um very happy to uh to learn about the uh Community Foundation grant that uh Andrew Nia um one of our District's technology integration Specialists earned that's going to uh increase through 3D printing our students um opportunities um to uh to learn about engineering technology and the culinary arts and then I just wanted to close with a with a personal statement that I wanted to be on the on the record that um I I support our teachers here
109in the wer Central School District and appreciate um the work that the work that they that they do and the value that they deliver to our students um I make this mention because over the past couple days there was a prominent social media post um that while raising concerns um uh from that person's Viewpoint about the United States Department of Education made negative comments about teachers um and I want to uh report that as as an individual I support and thank our teachers in the wer Central School District thank you thank you trusty Morgan trusty Lumia I don't know if it was mentioned before but we had a robotic tournament at johnj last I think it's last Saturday before that or before that no that was the S Olympiad the Science Olympiad there were four
110teams actually catch Jan J came in number number one place but there were three other teams J J two additional teams a B team and A C team did rather well and so did royy catm high school so we we did an anow the the the other team but we have actually five teams competing in the Science Olympiad so congratulations to all the students and the teachers that involved in that thank you trusty Lumia anyone else okay moving right along 6.01 consent agenda resolution resolve that the board of education does hereby approve the following consent agenda items as stated 6.02 and addendum 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 and 6.12 motion Marie Johnson second by piggy Kellen all in favor any oppos so moved 7.01 process for nominations to Bose's Board of
111Education you gonna read that there's nothing okay read that it's information this we yes it has to be read it got to be read into the minutes okay I'm sorry can I am I allowed all right here we go this year there are three opening seats on the Bose's Board of Education Ralph clro from spacking Kill has indicated that he will be a candidate for nomination and reelection for another three years Gully Stanford High Park has indicated that he will be a candidate for nomination and reelection for another three years there is a vacancy created by the resignation of antonet halis from pipy whose term expires on 6:30 2026 the candidate and the third most votes will serve the remainder of the vacant term commencing 4:23 2025 to 6:30 2026 the wer School wer Central
112School Board of Education is it so wishes can nominate one or more candidate the nomination must be held by office board resolution the nominees must reside in one of the nine component districts Arlington Dover High Park milber Pine Plains pipy Reinbeck spaen kill or weit the nominee must not be an employee of any of the component districts in the dutes county nominat nominations are due by March 21st 2025 that's it 7.02 that's it 7.02 to attend the DTC Foundation Community Bridge To The Future award ceremony whereas though whoer Central School District will be honored for providing critical support and enhancing the quality of life for students of Duchess Community College and others in the Mid Hudson Valley and whereas the Whopper Central School District is being recognized for such efforts as an Honore and award
113recipient at The Duchess Community College foundation's our communities Bridge To The Future Gala on Saturday March 29th 2025 in pipy New York now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education of the wener Central School District there's hereby approved board President Michael McFarland and board vice president Eddie a slower to attend the award ceremony at a cost of $450 motion uh discussion I'm sorry motion motion second Virgil cabaler second by Mr Lumia any discussion trusty meots yes I realized that $450 within the scope of the whoers Central School District budget is not a great deal of money but since this is an event where we will also be represented by Dr Cardwell who's on the committee and by another board member who will be purchasing their own ticket I think that saving nickels where
114we need to can save us money in the long run this is not a $25 dinner this is a $225 per person dinner it's not something like conventions and conferences where there's educational information that people benefit from I believe that we can accomplish the same um outcome and save a little money if we send one of our officers to represent us at the dinner thank you very much Miss mots so again 7.02 we had a motion from Marie second by Virgil calary all in favor opposed can I make a I'll make this simple as board president I would defer for you to attend the evening would that be acceptable for if if I make if I'll change the motion I'll amend the motion to remove to remove myself so board president correct the motion you
115mean so if we amend it second the motion and change the amount to $225 and only allow Michael mcfallen the president to attend is that acceptable for the amendment all in favor so approved very good ide thank you 7.03 approval of the 2025 2026 school calendar resolve the board of education does hereby adopt the 2025 2026 school calendar as submitted by the assistant superintendent for administration and information systems and recommended by the superintendent of schools motion Marie Johnson second by trustee Kellen all in favor any opposed so moved 7.04 approval of a sequel unlisted John J high school here we go whereas the Board of Education of the wener Central School District board or district is considering undertaking a proposed Capital Improvement project involving significant Renovations and upgrades to John J Senior High School including
116alterations and renovations to existing interior spaces and electrical mechanical systems building envelope improvements and exterior improvements including addition of athletic field lighting conversion of an existing natural turf field into Synthetic Turf renovations to the Press Box concessions building and new parking for approximately 85 cars the proposed action and whereas the State Environmental Quality review act secra and its implementing regulations 6 nycrr part 617 require that the district conduct an environmental review of the potential impacts of the proposed action prior to approval including classifications of the action and the Declaration of lead agency status and whereas part one of a full environmental assessment form feaf has been prepared by The District's Consultants to describe the project and its setting and whereas under the applicable standards of secra and 6 nycrr part 6117 the scope scope of
117the proposed action constitutes an unlisted action and involves one or more other involved agencies and whereas the board intends to act as lead Agency for the Seca environmental review of the proposed action to ensure coordinated review among involved agencies and whereas the district's consultant Weston and Samson transmitted the feaf to potential involved interested agencies the letter dated January 31st 2025 now therefore be it resolved the board hereby ratifies the letter dated January 31st 2025 and feaf transmitted by The District's consultants and further be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Whopper Central School District hereby ratifies the proposed action should be preliminary classified as an unlisted action as defined in six NYC RR 61 17.24 and it's intent to act as a lead Agency for the coordinated environmental review of the proposed action
118and further be it resolved that if no response or objection to the board's intention to act as lead agency is received from the identified potentially involved agencies within 30 calendar days of the date that District's consultant transmitted part one of the feaf and and requested coordinated review the Board of Education shall assume the lead excuse me the role of lead Agency for the secret review of the proposed action motion Marie Johnson second by piggy Kellen discussion discussion Marie Johnson yes as somebody that sits on the capital committee um I want to just point out to the public and the rest of the board this is something we do before the proposition is even voted on by us we have to go through a sequer letter in order to even go forward um this is not
119saying that it's guaranteed that we do it but in order for us to even go forward to go to the public we have to go through this process first we've done this on every project before that we do this around this time we do a a SQL letter before we even approve a a proposed capital project we've done this every other time before in case anybody was concerned that this is a guarantee that we're going to go for this part of the project it could still be taken out of the project there's a lot of different things that go into it but this is step one to even go in that direction so I just wanted to point that out thank you truste Johnson trusty Lumia I I asked that question she clarified because it
120seems to me that the Synthetic Turf at John J that's that's the actual soccer field I believe right that's part of the capital capital project do we have to do the same thing for the with the turf field supposedly at I'm sorry if everyone like Pedro won't like this but I just say same thing I just said rck same thing I just said but I can't do that now read it f it has to be excuse me trusty Kellen okay uh uh I was formerly on the Zoning Board of the town of pipy and it's pretty standard when you have any project uh to ask for seeker and to be unlisted because this is really mainly affecting our property if it were uh had an effect on a widespread uh situation then uh perhaps some
121other or agency would ask to uh be the yeah would yeah would ask to be the lead agency but it's pretty routine just just add just add thank you for that information so all in favor anyone opposed so moved 7.05 approval of sequa unlisted rck Ry Ketchum High School whereas the Board of Education of the Whopper Central School District board or district is considering undertaking a proposed Capital project involving significant Renovations and upgrades to Roy C Ketchum high school campus including alterations and renovations to existing interior spaces and electrical mechanical systems building envelope improvements and exterior improvements including addition of athletic field lighting conversion of existing natural turf fields into Synthetic Turf and eight new tennis courts the proposed action and whereas the State Environmental Quality review Act secra and its implementing regulations 6ny crrr
122part 617 require that the board conduct an environmental review of the potential impacts of the proposed action prior to approval including classification of the action and the Declaration of lead agency status and whereas part one of a full environmental assessment form fefs has been prepared by The District's Consultants to describe the project and its setting and whereas under the applicable standards of secra and 6ny crrr part 617 the scope of the proposed action constitutes an unlisted action and involves one or more other involved agencies and whereas the board intends to act as lead Agency for the secret environmental review of the proposed action to ensure coordinated review among involved agencies and whereas the district's consultant Weston and Samson train transmitted the feaf to potentially involved interested agencies via letter dated January 31st 2025 now therefore
123be it resolved the board hereby ratifies the letter dated January 31st 2025 and feaf transmitted by The District's consultants and further and be it further resolved that the Board of Education of the wer Central School District hereby ratifies that the proposed action should be preliminary classified as an unlisted action as defined in 6 nycrr 61 17.24 and it's intent to act as lead Agency for the coordinated environmental review of the proposed action and be it further resolved that if no response or objection to the board's intention to act as lead agency is received from the identified potentially involved agencies within 30 calendar days of the date the district's consultant transmitted part one of the feaf and requested coordinated review the Board of Education shall assume the role of lead Agency for the seet review of
124the proposed action motion Marie Johnson second by Peggy Kellen all in favor so moved say stated I can't because there's different uh there's different things within in the S projects 7.06 approval of squer unlisted wer Junior High School come on one more time here we go whereas the Board of Education of the Whopper Central School District board or district is considering undertaking a proposed Capital project Capital Improvement project involving significant Renovations and upgrades to Wappingers Junior High School campus including classrooms small gymnasium technology and cafeteria building editions of approximately 35,000 square ft alterations and Renovations of existing interior spaces and electrical mechanical systems building envelope improvements and exterior improvements including pavement Replacements athletic upgrades and installation of athletic field lighting a new Press Box concession stand and minor Associated site work the proposed action and
125whereas the State Environmental Quality review act secra and its implementing regulations 6ny crrr part 617 require that the board conduct an environmental review of the potential impacts of the proposed action prior to approval including classification of the action and the Declaration of lead agency status and whereas part one of a full environmental assessment form feaf has been prepared by The District's Consultants to describe the project and its setting and whereas under the applicable standards of secra and 6ny crrr part 617 the scope of the proposed action constitutes an unlisted action and involves one or more other involved agencies and whereas the board intends to act as lead Agency for the squer environmental review of the proposed action to ensure coordinated review among involved agencies and whereas the district's consultant Weston and Samson transmitted the feaf
126to potentially involved interested agencies via letter dated January 15 2025 now therefore be it resolved the board hereby ratifies the letter dated January 15 2025 and feaf transmitted by The District's consultant and be it further resolved that the Board of Education of the Whopper Central School District hereby ratifies that the proposed action should be preliminary classified as an listed action as defined in 6 nycrr 61 17.24 and it's intent to act as lead Agency for the coordinated environmental review of the proposed action and be it further resolved that if no response or objection to the board's intention to act as lead agency is received from the identified potentially involved agencies within 30 calendar days of the date the district consultant transmitted part one of the feaf and request coordinated review the Board of Education shall
127assume the role of lead Agency for the seet review of the proposed action motion Marie Johnson second by uh Peggy Kellen all in favor anyone oppose no motion 7.07 I promise this this is the last one unlisted Van Wick J High School you think I'd have this memorized whereas the board of educ whereas the Board of Education of the wener Central School District board or district is considering undertaking a proposed Capital Improvement project involving significant Renovations and upgrades to Van white junior high school campus including classroom and cafeteria building editions of approximately 25,000 Square ft alterations and Renovations of existing interior spaces and the electrical mechanical systems building envelope improvements and exterior improvements including pavement Replacements Athletic Field upgrades and installation of athletic field lighting and minor Associated site work the proposed action and whereas
128this State Environmental Quality review act secra and its implementing regulations 6ny crr part 617 will require that the board conduct an environmental review of the potential impacts of the proposed action prior to approval including classification of the action and the Declaration of lead agency status and whereas part one of a full environmental assessment form feaf has been prepared by The District's Consultants to describe the project and its setting and whereas under the applicable standards of secra and 6 ncrr part 617 the scope of the proposed action constitutes an unlisted action and involves one or more other involved agencies and whereas the board intends to act as lead Agency for the Seca environmental review of the proposed action to ensure coordinated review among involved agencies and whereas the district's Consultants Weston and Samson transmitted the feaf
129to potentially involved interested agencies via letter dated January 15 2025 now therefore be it resolved the board hereby ratifies the letter dated January 15 2025 and feaf transmitted by The District's consultants and be it further resolved that the Board of Education of the Whopper Central School District hereby ratifies that the proposed action should be preliminarily classified as an unlisted action as defined in 6ny crrr 67.2 four and it's intent to act as lead Agency for the coordinated environmental review of the proposed action and be it further resolved that if no response or objection to the board's intention to act as lead agency is received from the identified potentially involved agencies within 30 calendar days of the date the district's consultant transmitted part one of the feaf and requested coordinated review the Board of Education shall
130assume the role of agency as lead Agency for the seet review of the proposed action motion Marie Johnson second by uh Peggy Kellen could you read that again please could you please did did you miss a word I can't hear very well so I I appreciate if you read it again motion as stated motion approved 7.08 first we voted yeah where you been let's go to the video tape CH because you're chirping the whole time 7.08 first reading of policies it's a silent reading any questions please contact the U chairman of our board which is Peggy Kellen request for additional agenda items 8.01 any board members requesting for additional I move that we amend the uh um agenda and add an item uh to add a resolution about a student related matter motion Marie Johnson
131second by Peggy Kellen all in favor so moved I'm sorry 803 right yeah resolution to reject confirm modification appeal to the superintendent be it be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby upholds the decision of the superintendent of schools dated 122 2025 which endorsed the suspension imposed by the principal dated 13 2025 regarding student number 021 025 and be it further resolved that the board president is hereby authorized to sign the board determination letter on behalf of the Board of Education and be it further resolved that the district clerk is hereby authorized to mail the board determination letter to the students parents motion Marie Johnson second Mr Lumia all in favor anyone opposed any abstentions trusty migot yes I wish to abstain to avoid any appearance of a potential conflict of interest in this
132matter thank you for the clarification so moved 9.01 comments from the public we going to read that again I guess no okay uh Lori Lee hello and thank you for allowing me to speak tonight my name is Laura Lee Abby I have two young children in the wender school district and I'm a volunteer and co-founder of the 501c3 nonprofit nonprofit organization defense of democracy we started this organization in response to the coordinated attack on public schools which became Amplified in 2022 with the rise of anti-government extremist organizations like moms for Liberty these days we hear our federal government openly promising to defund our public schools and libraries and they have made children in particular those who are members of the lgbtq plus communities targets multiple school districts and representatives across the country have already issued
133statements rejecting Trump's recent executive order that directs schools to discriminate against transgender students I am here tonight to ask you to do the same we are a large school district but more than that we are a diverse community of families who all want to see their children Thrive a statement issued by a school superintendent in another District reads in part on January 29th 2025 the White House issued an executive order entitled ending rad radical indoctrination of K through 12 schools this statement calls into question Equity work in schools and it undermines our ability to support all individuals including lgbtq plus Youth and educ Educators in the school Community the letter continues to our students staff parents and caregivers who are feeling frightened right now please know that we stand with you in our district diversity
134Equity inclusion and accessibility efforts have been the Cornerstone of our strategic plan and vision the letter goes on to give specific guidance to offer members of the district additional security by encouraging staff to to share the message with their students and parents and States specifically that the district will not change their inclusive practices I hope that you will consider issuing a similar statement to Ally the very real concerns of a majority of parents in this District during this difficult time I will send you an email with that letter tomorrow thank you so much thank you very much for your time Lisa Lisa P hi hello up here hi I'm Lisa Pap anonio I'm also a volunteer with defense of democracy I'm also a therapist and I work with a lot of folks in this community
135um I work with a lot of folks a lot of students in this community and School District um hold on sorry um I really appreciate superintendent you putting out a message to um to the community members and um talking about what the plans are um they thank you for clarifying that and I think a lot of parents and kids are going to be very grateful to hear that it sounds like you're really going to lean into the Dei um um programs that are already available um and work towards keeping it that way and maybe expanding as well so I really appreciate that that's it thank you thank you very much we're going to go out of order on the next one Carlos no Alison we're going to we switched if that's okay sorry okay aliceon
136sorry thank you I just wanted to say um something funny first um your wife is younger than you I do know that for a fact and you only know that because I told you no I knew that before tonight and trusty SAR for every any reason if you do not rerun could you just come back to be the sports commentator because that's the best whatever sea thing I've ever heard in my 12 years and as a district parent um I do I do have to say this and I I referenced this two weeks ago um that I've been around for quite a lit and know a lot of you all the time so if I I'm in no implication to insult anyone in my next statement but I have a really hard time with the
137arguments of doing something that looks like a finally a real final solution I sat here eight years ago in their Full House Bo you were on I think the committee Ed I mean who was on the microphone promising all of these things we promised smaller class sizes I know what building you're talking about there's an inclusion in Fishkill ples that started the year with 30 kids there is a kindergarten and a couple of your larger elementary schools with 26 we promised I'll give you the numbers of what you promised us 18 to 22 in K through second 26 was supposed to be the highest in elementary in inclusion or not it's inexcusable and as for that wonderful list that you put together Darren those principles didn't even complain about everything you have CSE chairs that
138have to have meetings in the building principal's office so if a kid is in trouble you got a principle in the Office booking out coming in we have meetings at Brinkerhoff you have to use the psychologist room so a kid in crisis their safe space is gone if annuals take place and those families deservingly want an inperson meeting and although I respect the way that we've done it postco where we give people the option you have to change your date because no one can find a room it you can wait two weeks for a meeting just on a space issue it's it's unexcusable I I have to thank you Mr zip um on your interjection the whole what it's going to budget it's going to look like I think it was not conveyed strongly enough
139the amount of children and and and not all of them can come back your residential kids are not going to return your Ed kidss are on a long-term plans return but you're cognitively impaired you're communicatively impaired um and you're and your autism children that are presently in our Communications that we don't have more room so some of them just go out because they're the most severe will come back all that money saved goes back I'm not projecting because I don't want to flip anybody out um but I was we thinking about the now and the what could be what could be is in five to eight years all those developments are built but we have the potential to put fifth grade because some have to do it this whole worrying about and again you can
140find data for both points that sixth grader um sixth graders are going to be impacted by eighth graders everybody's got cell phones they're all impacted by whatever they're exposed to everywhere it's not the 1980s anymore where the big kids are teaching the little kids oh God I'm out of time I had so much more to say I'll come back next week thank you very much Carlos good evening guys some of you guys may know me my name is Carlos shma I am a Community member I have five children in this district four of them go to one school out of my five kids four of them have an and IEP so as I sit here and I watch some of you guys argue about the need for um the the programs in certain schools my
141daughter is severely dyslexic she is in third grade if she would have to go to another school and she is comfortable with all the students that she currently is in the class with she's been with them since upk since first uh kindergarten first second and now third I will have to move her to another school outside of our home school building all the way to the other side and what about my other kids I think that they're all comfortable where they're at and one of you guys I've I don't know everybody's name I'm sorry said why wait for a rainy day the rainy day is already here it is the schools are packed why do we only have as a Whoppers has to and I'm sorry I'm rambling I'm trying to go on two minutes
142because I'm tired also we have to take care of the community of the kids um one in five kids or students have a learning disability 80% of them if they're not taken care of they're going to be a high school dropout or they can can go it's a pipeline straight straight to jail or drugs or anything and did we have an opportunity now to make a change not wait for these buildings that all you have to do is drive around to see that we're developing um on Merit on on um 376 on Route 82 or 52 I don't know the difference right now we just have to make a difference now not wait until something happens so I rather be proactive then reactive thank you thank you very much Callis I don't see anyone else
143like to make a motion 10.01 motion to adjourn resolved that the board of education does hereby adjourn the February 10th 2025 Board of Education meeting the time is now 1010 p.m. trusty Johnson second by Kellen all in favor any opposed I don't see any so moved thank you