001uh committee reports and board representatives of capital improvement chaired by mr slash hour thank you mr lumia uh committee met this past wednesday august 4th if you notice there are two agenda items uh for discussion later for new business 8.01 and 8.02 which pertained to small projects which was leftover funds from our phase one there's not any additional monies this is just money that we were able to save uh due to bids coming in lower and obviously contingency money that was not needed for those particular projects so we reallocated and that we can have some further discussion when that agenda item uh comes up also the myers ground committee finally put all that together sent it over to the principal that also was taken care of and that also is an agenda item for discussion
002and approval for later a couple other things hvac work continues throughout the summer also updated unit ventilators pretty much everything is uh is on schedule we also have some rooftop units that are being installed with exhaust fans thankfully they've been delivered we have some issues with some some copper availability but i believe the vendors and the crew are going to be able to take care of that with some good news if everyone remembers uh from a prior meeting uh we had an issue with the john jay roof which was damaged during a very bad storm uh we had sent that out for bid and then the particular vendor had informed us that due to circumstances beyond our control we won't be able to get the material in time thankfully he was able to change suppliers
003um same quality material so that work will commence on august 12th should be done by the end of the month so should not have any impact when school reopens so that shouldn't be a problem a couple other just quick things on uh moving forward i'm sorry one other thing before that we spent a lot of time in our prior um phases discussing about upgrading our electric uh and solar so i'm happy to say from our continued work on our energy performance project uh both vassar road and evans um pretty close to being done for our solar panels to be installed rc ketchum if you notice all the flags are up on the roof right now those panels are also being installed van wyk as well a little bit behind schedule you know with brinklehoff and
004possibly gay head due to again material issue but amaresco should have the project pretty much completed and where we needed to be by the time school starts also to keep in mind if the community is not aware every five years we have to do a buildings a building condition survey which is acquired required by the state education department so the committee moving forward since we're pretty much at the end of working on our final projects we're going to be reviewing the next building condition survey to then to address moving forward capital projects both internal and aesthetic outside what we need to address and then go to the community uh for approval um that's pretty much it for the capital and if you want to just shower your legislative action i'll roll i'll roll right into
005that we had our first meeting and again we do have an agenda item tonight to approve the charter and adding three additional topics to our one topic that was approved over the summer for board approval to begin research uh gathering information you know to put our report together on a potential uh draft a letter for the for the board uh to approve and obviously send out to our local politicians as well as albany thank you uh next is uh miss kellen the new york state school board association son of a little conference yes okay i attended the new york state school boards association 2021 summer law conference it was a live virtual two-half day event in july 22nd and 23rd by doing it virtually the district saved money and it was since it was basically
006lectures by lawyers it was done and we could submit questions it was really as good as going in person some conferences are better in person this one seemed to be just as good virtually the topics they discussed were first helping students to transition back into an in-person school environment one of the speakers was the project director of the mental health association of new york state and she shared with us that although medical insurance claims for 13 to 18 year olds were only half as many in 2020 as they were in 2019 the 2020 ones the percentage for mental health self-harm and overdoses nearly doubled eating disorders also increased and in a survey done on mental health youth 11 to 17 reported more moderate to severe anxiety and depression symptoms than any other age group so
007this is something that we all hope to be addressing in the school district this come here and i know uh we the uh dr bank and his staff are working at uh to try to alleviate that situation then they discussed appr and tenure decisions because of the panic and the shutdown uh and the test state tests not being given as as many as they usually do and hybrid and remote learning they made a number of modifications to the law in rating teachers and building administrators for 2021. the third session the first day was on new laws and regulations and among those uh there were many many laws i'm not going to bore you with telling you all of them is available on the web there was paid leave for vaccination there were restrictions there are
008restrict new restrictions on locations of cannabis businesses near schools and there's a revamped child abuse training that must be taken by all mandated reporters which are school personnel within three years the second day the special education update discussed the uh they now allow virtual due process hearings if all parties involved are agreeable and there's an extension of attendance for over age that's 21 years or older students whose learning was adversely affected by the shutdown of remote learning on a case-by-case basis so this is you know would really affect maybe one student or school district or fewer but you know in some cases they felt that that was only the fair thing to do the next session was on collective bargaining and uh i must say there was no real problem there from what we saw
009all the all the unions in waffenters were most cooperative during the pandemic and the shutdown and there were lots of modifications made to uh you know the usual things uh with the mutual agreement of the of all our employees so uh that was not uh an issue really in weapons uh the law says that they can you clarified that we can ask an employee's vaccination status but that information should not be shared because it's health information and the final session was on court cases there was quite a bit on the issue of student free speech off campus and the last week we also had a law conference by the mid hudson school study council and our and jay verona who is the new york state school board's association attorney and he clarified and explained all
010that very very well so um i thought it was very valuable and i'd like all the board members to know that because i went the recordings of all the sessions and the printouts of materials are available to the entire school board and to the senior administrative staff so anyone who would like more details on the board or the administration can look it up thank you peggy now i think thank all the board members who attended jay williams uh which my father attended laurie johnson attended and myself and of course a lot of administrators for attendance very very informative so thank you 3.04 that's okay done now 4.01 superintendent report it's all yours thank you president good evening members of the public members of the poor is education uh in my report tonight i'd like to
011highlight the tremendous work that has been done this summer first of all i would like to thank all of our staff for stepping up and participating in our summer school we typically have summer school for approximately 250 students grades 9 through 12. this year our grade 9 through 12 summer school was 200 students and due to the pandemic the learning loss that had uh had been incurred by our students due to the remote instruction uh and other interruptions in in-person learning i am pleased to announce that we had 620 students in grades k-8 participate in enrichment activities uh over the course of the summer that is something that we've never done here in wappingers but we indicated to the community that we wanted to place an emphasis on trying to determine where our students are
012and assess them which will also provide them with the necessary instruction that they didn't get during the school year and will help us in planning for the fall summer school continues until next thursday at this point we continue to follow the summer guidance from the cdc i did send out a communication to the public last week when we were informed that the new york state department of health would not be issuing any guidance in regards to covet protocols we were also informed that the governor's office would also not be issuing any protocols so the way things currently stand we have been working in collaboration with the dutchess county department of health as well as waiting for additional information from the new york state education department and i would anticipate that within the next week to
01310 days we will share with the community exactly where we are and how we see things proceeding uh as school starts within the next 30 days thank you thank you dr punk 5.01 thanks for presentation where's the cranberry so good evening everyone board of education thank you for allowing us the opportunity to present you with the 2021-2022 tax rate presentation this is an annual event um and this is the gear up to the start of our tax collection which will start in september as always we refer to our mission we refer to the board of education and our senior staff we're very glad and thankful for their support as we move through this process and also to the community for the result of the vote in may for our tax levy that was approved as
014part of the general fund budget so how do the tax rates work school tax rates are broken down into three pieces assessments which are the value of the real property and that comes from the town's assessor the equalization rates are percentages of full values and are set by the new york state office of real property taxes they are finalized annually and also tax levy which is the amount that we can raise in taxes and what was approved as part of the general fund budget in may okay the 2122 tax school tax rates apply to the tax cap which we have spoken about on multiple occasions and it cannot exceed two percent or the cpi limit and for 2122 we were nowhere near the two percent limit with regard to the cpi level we did have
015an exclusion in 2122 for the capital tax levy which is allowable that's an actual add back to the calculation wcsd also met all the requirements for staff refunds for our commute for our through our participation with government efficiency plans so that's available to all taxpayers who meet those qualifications we have participated in quarterly superintendent and municipality meetings where we met with local town officials and members of the board of education as well as the senior staff administration to discuss what community what the communities are looking like and what activities could impact the taxpayers we also have all of our school budget and our tax documentation available for review on the website at any time this is a slide that looks very familiar it's what we use during our tax i mean our general fund roadshow
016it basically shows what our tax levy was in comparison from 2020 2021 to the 21-22 school year and also the approved budget we are below the tax cap within the tax cap and maximizing our tax cap at this point in time this is what our revenue breakdown looks like again this is part of our presentation from the roadshow with regard to the budget and our proposed budget which was approved is 256 million four hundred three thousand five hundred forty seven dollars and is supported by these revenue sources as shown on the screen so school taxes are calculated as we've indicated using three different factors so the first assessments that is the real value of property including any exempt properties we also include clergy and firefighter exemptions in 2122 there is a tax grievance day in
017may that where taxpayers can take their bill take their assessed values for their properties and have discussions with the local municipalities about that and we receive our final assessments from the assessors the end of july beginning of august school taxes are calculated by by taking those assessed values and the equalization rates which are set by new york state the equalization rates are used to create uniform assessments so what the goal is is to have market value equal selling price now we're in a really crazy time right now with regard to house values and selling points in the duchess county area for example and it was really interested to see how the fluctuation went with those equalization rates in the 21-22 school year there were minimal changes in both dutchess and platinum counties lagrange's rate did
018drop even more which was a little bit surprising with regard to their equalization rate but the main um the larger towns east fish gale fish scale poughkeepsie and lapenders all went back up to 100 whereas last year they were at 98.99 again this is all set through new york state office of real property taxes this is not something that the district has any say in the tax levy the third piece is the amount that's raised by the district after all the other sources are identified so the tax levy was part of that pie chart this is the part this is funded by property taxes and it is subject to the tax cap annually the district calculates the approved um tax levy and comes up with warrants now these warrants all need to be signed by
019all of the board members this evening so as you're filing out please make sure you see clark pedro so that she can have you sign these these are mandated and must be signed so of interesting to note it is an inverse relationship in the calculation of the tax rate and the assessed value this year because the assessed values increased higher than the much higher than the tax rate the tax rates actually are lower on average in dutchess county for residents approximately 23 cents per thousand lower so depending on what you're assessed about your assessed value on your property looks like you could be seeing a smaller tax bill than in previous years and again it's an inverse relationship in the calculation between the assessed value and then the tax levy so when we look at
020the assessed values just to get an idea remember we've taken into account the clergy and the firefighter exemption in all exempt properties you will see that there is growth in the exception of lagrange in homestead values around the county pretty significant growth if you look so it's interesting to see nine between not eight and nine percent growth in assessed values for residential properties so how do we proceed we continue to provide fiscally responsible budgets that support our learning community in wappinger central school district we have solid property values right now as you can tell by our equalization rates we have to continue to watch those equalization rates as well because they impact the tax cap or the tax rate and also we want to keep our tax levy as low as possible this provides us
021with stability in our tax rates no major increases no major decreases but but stability as we move through the process all of our past school tax presentations can be viewed on the website and if you happen to go into this presentation on the website you can click and look at each of those tax rate presentations individually thank you very much for your time thank you christian for that presentation just one quick question now where did the exemption are for the veterans is that because you only mentioned clergy i believe and uh firefighters of what you said that is not one that i we add back at the district level it's taken care of at the town so that's not affected but again i just want to remind the board please please please see clerk pedro
022on your way out to sign those warrants for me thank you any other question about the board marie actually it's not a question i just want to thank ms crandall um for this presentation this is something i know uh trustee odoms and i have talked about trying to have a bigger audience for you to be able to explain some of this to so i'm really happy that we were able to do that and you did a great job thank you thank you any other questions see none 6.01 consent attempt a resolution okay i'm sorry you're right i wanted to approve of 2001-2002 tax rates be it recently it resounds that in accordance with section 1307 of the real property tax law the board of education on august 9 2021 at what 816 thank you p.m
023does hereby authorize the district clerk to certify to the chief vice fiscal officer of each town listed below the amount of 2021 2022 school taxes to be levied on the real property located in that portion of the school district be it further resolve that the board of education does hereby authorize the district clerk on august 9 at 8 17 pm to certify to the chief fiscal officer of each town listed below the amount of town assessors omitted school taxes to be levied on the real property located in that portion of the school district to collect taxes in the total sum of 179 million six hundred ninety nine thousand two hundred thirteen dollars less the star reimbursement amount as provided by the appropriate governmental authority in the same manner that collectors are authorized to collect town
024and county taxes in accordance with the provisions of section 1318 of the real property tax law and be it further resolved that the tax rates for each town per one thousand dollars of assessed value as followed stipulated there and be it further resolved that the board of education approved the 2021 2022 true value tax rate for the district at one of 17.82 the 2021 2022 tax collection dates are september 13 2021 through october 12 2021 regular collection october 13 2021 through november 1st 2021 2 penalty motion marie second mike mcfarland closer favor unanimous 6.01 consent agenda resolutions resolve that the board of education does hereby approve the following consent agenda items as stated 2.02 as amended 06.02 very thank you 6.02 is amended [Music] six 6.03 zero four six point zero five six point zero
025six six point zero seven six point zero eight and six point zero nine motion marie second mike mcfarland all always a favor unanimous 7.01 i believe school calendar 21-22 whereas the board of education adopted the 2021-2022 school calendar at their meeting of march 8 and subsequent revisions on april 27 2021 whereas it has been determined that the 2021-2022 school calendar requires additional revisions now therefore be it resolved that the board of education does hereby amend the school calendar and adopts the 2021-2022 school calendar as revised the following changes were made to the 2021-2022 school calendar as follows one updated legend for september to indicate 9 9 the 9 3 is part of the labor day weekend 2. updated legend for may and june to include grade 4 science assessment it had grade 8 only but
026the grade 4 exam which was due to expire in lieu of the new framework exams is now being given another year three updated the emergency give back days legend april 18th is not a give back day may 26th is the proper give back day for this calendar motion marie second mega kill discussion all those in favor nams 8.01 resolution to authorize the use of remaining capital project funds before that the results are read uh please explain and read the resolution first absolutely read the wrestling that give a free prefix before i can vote whereas remaining funds are available from the district-wide renovations projects the district intends to undertake additional projects per the attached additional project cost estimate summary dated august 8th 2021 provided by reinvent architecture now therefore be it resolved that the board of
027education of the wappager central school district hereby declares that the total cost of two million one hundred sixty thousand dollars as indicated shall not be exceeded the second key discussion i would like to explain to the community until board actually where the two main changes came from okay thank you the beginning of the resolution clearly states remaining funds so this is monies that were originally approved by the community for our large capital project this is excess money that we were able to save due to just better negotiation by ron and the architects for for lower bids any large projects if anyone's not aware we always factor in at least a minimum of 10 for contingency for any unforeseen circumstances thankfully we did not have a enormous amount of unforeseen circumstances so when all was said
028and done this was leftover funds so the capital committee uh in in its meetings and going over with ron and superintendent to allocate the balance of this money for some smaller projects that are part of the building condition survey that i had mentioned earlier but these are projects that we could address right away hopefully get approved and have these projects done next summer so by the time school starts next september these projects would be completed some of these are some much needed work that wasn't addressed from the original capital project which would be the balance of the parking lot of fishkill planes with drainage as well as the parking lot at sheaf road also we have some concrete and sidewalk work that needs to be done at several of the schools this particular school john
029jay and myers these are safety issues and obviously you know we've had a couple of bad winters since this project excuse me since this capital bond was originally approved so the concrete has deteriorated even more so we want to address that before you know off a bit something serious happens so all we're doing so the community knows this isn't any extra money this is money that we saved and we're just reallocating it uh marie just a little more on this is a couple people might notice that there's some other smaller things in a couple of the schools uh lower amounts in order to do some of these projects we have to do both inside and outside and that's why we tried to even it out on these different projects to try and space it out
030and get some much needed stuff done well i'd like to thank ron also another thing just to point out that i apologize well stuffy with the mask um there are some smaller projects that are listed because it's very important in order to get aid we have to do some work in some of the buildings so if you notice there's some uh some kitchen work done and some floor tiling that has to be done that's a small amount but in order to receive state aid we have to do some work inside of the buildings as well thank you mr spencer thank you miss swimming i just wanted to thank director bros and the capital projects committee it's unusual to have those larger projects completed you know under budget and before they're due and you guys not
031only did that but identified some other projects that we could use excess money for so just want to say thank you again i'd like to come save my experience the same thing that mr bros as well as the architects for the due diligence and make sure that the projects were dumped properly and were appropriate less money being spent so thank you mr bros uh 78.01 anybody else uh all those in favor unanimous 8.01 8.02 resolution to authorize the purchase of playground equipment and surfacing to the u.s community contract 2017-001-134 whereas remaining funds are available from the 2018 district-wide renovations projects and construction work at the myers corners elementary school has been performed a new playground including equipment installation and servicing is proposed to be installed at the school site now therefore be it result that
032the board of education of the wappinger central school district hereby declares that the attacks proposal option number four revised from game time equipment po box 106 spring lake new jersey is acceptable see attached exhibit a be it further resolved that the purchasing agent on behalf of the board of education will execute a purchase order for the amount contained in the proposal second thank you question i i'd just like to say that this is a project that we've been the board has been hoping would be done for several years and we're delighted that we can finally help myers corners which has less playground equipment for children than any of the other schools so that they will also the children will won't have to wait to play thank you uh yes yeah i think just to make
033the community aware aside from what uh ms collins had said that particular playground uh most of the equipment is for k through three and we have a large enrollment of uh four uh four five uh and six especially when uh there was the redistricting and the reconfiguration of sixth grade going out of van wyk and back into the elementary schools uh that equipment you know it just wasn't wasn't right then again what ms allen had said this has been a project for about three or four years maybe close to five years that we've been trying to uh to resolve so thankfully again this is with leftover money uh we just had to pull this out and separate it because this was a project that needed immediate attention and we are anticipating that the playground should
034be installed no later than mid-october thank you i'd like to thank ms goldstein for advocating for students for these playgrounds should be doing that for many many years and finally it came to the capital improvement i'm very happy that it was approved all those in favor unanimous 8.03 new york state school board association annual convention result that the board of education does hereby approve board member peggy kelland and superintendent dr dwight bonk to attend the nisba annual business meeting at the annual convention and education expo on october 24-26 2021 in new york city new york hilton midtown 1335 6th avenue at a cost of 515 registration fee member rate prior to 9 13 21 and any reimbursement for hotel mileage travel tolls parking and meals per board policy and be it further resolved that the
035board of education does hereby appoint peggy kelland to serve as its voting delegate at the annual nisba annual convention and gives full discretion to peggy kelland on voting the intention of the board after hearing discussion and amendments on the convention floor the final outcome on the resolutions will be posted in board docs for for more information on the convention uh look on the website because there's more information there motion marie second uh tim spencer discussion i think miss petty kelly gave a very quick explanation on that so uh all those in favor unanimous 8.04 approval to join the lower hudson education coalition result that the board of education does hereby elect to join the lower hudson education coalition for the 2021-2022 school year for an annual membership fee of 925 the lower hudson education coalition's
036role is to provide legislative information to the member districts and to advocate and communicate with public officials on issues related to legislation and regulations see attachment motion marie second peggy discussion all those in favor unanimous i'm sorry thank you thank you approval of the legislative action committee charter result that the board of education does hereby approve the 2021-2022 legislative action committee charter and goals as stated motion second social discussion i just said one just one one recommendation i noticed that the uh the members have to be approved by the chairman of the uh the committee as well as superintendent i i think there's very good one that you're gonna make was changed that that's the other committee there's just uh for some clarity under the composition just want to change some of the language it
037should be the committee shall be composed of no more than seven members and then in parentheses just to add including student volunteers there was some uh wasn't as clear in our prior charter just so the community knows this particular committee uh welcomes uh high school students to participate but they do not have any uh uh excuse me they don't have any uh voting uh rights on certain items so we wanted to just clarify and make this a little bit more clearer so i'd like to make a motion just to amend or include in the charter in parentheses excluding student volunteers second all those in favor of a second larry johnson all those in favor unanimous i'm sorry i just wanted to say that we not only welcome student participants we encourage our students to participate
038resolve that the board of education does hereby approve the 2021-2022 legislative action committee charter and goals as amended motion carry second all those in favor unanimous uh 9.01 or members may request additional gender items discussion items or requests for information are they needed see none tempo i want comments from the public now here's the time where the public can come up there'll be no interaction with the board members of course but so you can make any comments you so wish but please do not expect both members to comment again you only have three minutes please try to be concise thank you hi how are you i have a really quick question because i didn't get that dimples i just want to get a quick uh question before everything with the agenda sorry before the agenda
039started on 8.4 i wanted to ask a quick question about that is this can i do that now or should i wait till the next time eight point four was you could be about okay i just wanted to get some clarification on the approval for the lower hudson um education coalition i understand that they're you're joining for 9 25 and they would advocate right like for i just want to get some more clarification on what that was and i also wanted to know why you voted against it just wanted to have some kind of information about that as much as she's i'm sorry she can answer that so there's no problem i don't appreciate you that's fine i just wanted to know in general so that was it um after um after that you guys
040are doing next month i believe and the agenda and everything will be posted online yes yeah the agenda is online about friday before the actual meeting is listed online okay and that's really quickly because i don't i have a suggestion everybody knows rck is a dead zone for internet is there a way that you guys could be um to have some kind of like a wi-fi or availability portable wi-fi for having access to the internet um that was just that uh i know just that was just a suggestion just so you can bring it around you know my kids where you guys have this on lockdown you know but i guess that was all my suggestion so i appreciate it thank you good evening members of the board my name is chris i'm here tonight
041to talk to behalf of my son um my son is type one he's six years old diabetic and um a couple months ago we had the conversation with the school principal and the school nurse uh we talked about one to one eight we talked about how that would look like um and his uh when he goes to his first grade uh first grade year school uh most of his school's been homeschooled his education has been homeschooled because of the current climate with uh covert and everything else so that's kind of where we are this would be his first time going into school but today we get the phone call and a director um eventually special education told us that that request has been denied and he will not have one-on-one um assistance in class so
042now we're asking his teacher with 22 other kids to make sure they're all educated developed while watching my son's diabetic needs for me that's an issue my question is what can we do about that how can we overturn that you can do me a favor if you can leave your information with district clerk pedro assistant superintendent zip will be contacting you to discuss that tomorrow i appreciate that very much you're very welcome sir my name is sarah and i'm the chapter chair of moms for liberty dutchess county new york uh if you haven't looked us up already after receiving many emails from our members we are a parent-led non-partisan organization with over 30 000 members in 89 with 89 chapters across 26 states and growing our membership is to empower parents to defend their parental
043rights at all levels of government over the past few years and even more so in the last 18 months our school boards have blurred the line between parental authority and education moms for libby is here to clear that up our parental rights and our constitutional rights do not end at the classroom door our job as parents to be fully informed involved and engaged in what's going on in our kids schools it's our job to guide our children to be virtuous and kind the school's job is to provide a quality education so our children are future ready it is novel's job to promote a certain political ideology over another enforce a particular worldview boast political or activist groups or drive life-altering decisions parents used to be able to trust schools to educate our children in reading
044writing and arithmetic but that trust has been broken our schools are more focused on social emotional learning equity and other critical race theory style programs and we have to we have allowed our children to fall behind on the basics i will not allow that to happen anymore we are currently requesting reviewing and researching all curriculums and outside consulting firms used in our schools this is a good thing and you should welcome it we will be watching what is displayed presented promoted and enforced on our children we will voice any displeasure with inappropriate divisive politically motivated materials or policies that conflict with our parental authority while on the subject of parental authority i'd like to address masking with this upcoming school year it is imperative that masking be a choice this school year with a long
045summer of children being masked free at summer camps gathering with family and friends and in stores with no major outbreaks among children it is time to get back to normal and allow our children to breathe freely lastly we will always approach you this school board and superintendent with respect for your position and a willingness to work together to build our mutual trust i hope that you as board members and superintendent will work will approach mobs for liberty with the same respect and willingness to work together thank you all please please no i know you feel but i think it's important that we hear from people without any applause one way or the other thank you good evening kerry delawater wappinger is speaking in regards to lori's theory in the famous speech was mid-1800s during the
046civil war between the north and south and centered around slavery do you remember abraham lincoln gettysburg address november 19 i'm sorry november 19 1863 four and seven years ago seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal now you're engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave who here gave their lives that that nation might live it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot
047consecrate we cannot hollow this crowd the brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated far above our poor power to aid or detract the world will no nor long remember what we see here but it can never forget what they did here is for it is for us living rather to be dedicated uh dedicated here to the unfinished work which they fought here have thus far normally advanced it is rather for us to uh sorry is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored deaths we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under god shall have a
048new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people or the people shall not perish upon the earth good evening my name is pat the colonist's decision to succeed from the british empire is not about slavery but about taxation without representation and about timing tyranny is oppressive power the rule or authority of a tyrant with absolute power is vested in a single ruler the battle of gettysburg was fought between july 1st and july 3rd 1863 was one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war as president lincoln was preparing for his speech with the dedication of the cemetery to get us getting firm he was brought back to the declaration of independence in 1776 and the principal stated in that document we will conceive in liberty and the proposition that all men
049all men are created equal president lincoln's goal was to abolish slavery build a new birth of freedom and maintain a representative government of we the people by the people and for the people president lincoln fought for truth liberty and gave his life for those principles these principles are written in the u.s constitution and in deuteronomy 5 of the bible they're called the ten commandments critical race theory is just that it's a theory it became a movement in the 1980s and it is a doctrine that was set up to cause division between mankind to undermine family work education and what is truth and what is the law the so so-called anti-racism program actually does deserve discriminate on the basis of race color and national origin most of all it violates the equal protection clause of the
05014th amendment no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges of immunities of citizens of the united states nor shall any state deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws critical race theory also violates the civil acts of 1964 and maybe the voting rights of hi my name is valentina manueli critical race theory got its foundation from howard's inn a member of the u.s communist party who wrote about his historical view of u.s history one based on his own interpretation rather than the true facts of history black lives matter marxism and communism are all racists at their core godless and full of anger and hate the bottom line critical race theory is
051hurtful and hateful but more importantly it is unconstitutional and needs to be removed from our colleges schools workplaces churches etc we the people are asking you the school board members to take a stand for the truth return the bribe given to you by the federal government replace critical race theory with true history of our nation and the complete knowledge of the united states constitution on september 17 1787 a federal law was signed into effect requiring everyone who was receiving federal dollars to take that day september 17th to read study and teach the u.s constitution at their workplace or school by knowing their rights the people will be able to proceed when they are violated and be better prepared to defend and assert them if this law was upheld we would not be in this place
052today know the united states constitution we the people of the united states of america are telling you now what we believe thank you public concerns from we the people to the dutchess county school boards who decide your health for the past 18 plus months we the people have listened to the leftist cdc center for disease control nih national institutes of health and executive orders and state governors and the bible regime then president trump and family got sick with coed the president had been on small amounts of hydrogen clots and chloroquine while in the hospital he continued to work for we the people and within days he was feeling better some doctors gave us advice on how to help our own immune system by taking vitamin c and d and sync many front line doctors were
053treating their patients with covert we're using hydroxychloroquine ever misterton and rondizavir having great success in patient recovery suddenly our governors gave executive orders saying you cannot purchase subscribe or use the above medications for coping 19 recovery why what good reason would there be to withhold treatment from we the people by not allowing the doctors to treat their patients nor pharmacies to disperse some simple well-proven treatments these are criminal acts of humanity the bottom line today if you are filled with fear you are believing a lot do your research homework look for the truth if you hear someone talking about the opposite narrative of the mainstream media paying close attention because if it's true it will be removed by big tech censorship there are many honest people who work hard to get the truth out so
054that we can correctly think think for what is happening and ask why we the people are asking you the school board matters to take a stand for truth i would like to believe that all of you can see through the continual lies and evil that has been forced upon us this year regardless of what the teachers unions in the us board of education demand will you be determined to do what is right and good for our schools our children our families our communities our freedoms and even for yourselves within we live in the best most productive nation in the world even with all our force communism is in the white house today thank you [Applause] my name is eve schnell i'm with moms for liberty dutchess county new york ask yourself why is mass wearing
055being mandated dr theresa deisher a chief scientist in molecular and cellular physiology from stanford university did an in-depth study of wearing a face mask the findings were that 87 of new cobia cases in the us were people who were always wearing a mask masks increase your risk of getting infected by about 12 volt masks will not protect anyone from viruses especially coping the physiological effects included hypox hypoxamia shortness of breath decline in ph levels acidosis toxicity inflammation self contamination an increase in the stress hormone levels increased muscle tension and immunosuppression some of the psychological effects included activation of the fight-or-flight stress response chronic stress condition mood disturbances insomnia fatigue and compromised cognitive performance some of the health consequences included increased predisposition for viral and infection illnesses headaches anxiety depression hypertension cardiovascular disease cancer lung disease
056diabetes alzheimer's disease accelerated aging process health deterioration and premature mortality wearing face masks also dehumanized social connections which is a human basic need the bottom line is there is nothing good about wearing a mask the above studies prove this ask yourself if there is nothing good about wearing a mask then why is our government demanding such we the people are asking you the school board members to take a stand for truth do not allow the dehumanization of our children and continue to fill them with fear do not require the teachers to wear a mask these children need to see the beautiful faces of their teachers thank you [Applause] good evening my name is mike whalen vaccine versus shots truth versus lie of all the items we have spoke about this evening this is the most
057dangerous we the people the nation and our constitution but god it has been over and over again healthy children young people teens young adults do not need to be concerned about the so-called over-19 for them it would be like getting a great black hole they would be able to fight it off with their own immune system created by god by the way they would they would then have the antibodies in their system just like god planned it some local parents have been doing research looking for kids who have been vaccinated versus under vaccinated their studies are showing that those who have no vaccines are much healthier than those who have 50 plus vaccines and they aren't even adults i checked the cdc guidelines for vaccine requirements in children for 2021 children from 6 months to
05818 months will receive 30 shots 4 to 6 years 6 shots 11 to 12 years 5 shots 16 to 18 years three shots starting at six months of age they want to give our child a flu shot in two doses every year to 18. if you enter south our kids have received at least 62 shots now they want to add a kobet 19 shot make it mandatory for all fox of coba 19. there were no specific pathogens versus virus for coping 19. this is the first in mr n a vaccine with nanotechnology some ingredients in the shot covenanting cricket recombinant dna genetic reconstruction of nuclear cloning to create sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome nrc5 medical research cancel strength 5 is a diploid human cell culture line developed from research using
059lung tissue of a 14 week old aborted caucasian male fetus baby graphene oxide which is a poison has been researched by many concerned doctors who agree with this finding it is called graphene lipoid panel technology this shot is experimental human drug trial to test the gene therapy the bottom line open 19 is a political disease and not an emergency we the people are asking you the school board members take a stand for truth based on the little information given here and there's so much more please do not require teaching students to get the shot thank you to dr bong oh this is imr i'm barbara helm from from poughkeepsie to dr bond with the school board members of wappington school district thank you for patiently listening to our concerns i encourage each one of you
060to take time to listen i have a dvd here on the u.s constitution i think you will be surprised by what is said you may want to listen to it a few times i certainly have also i am going to give you a sheet of paper with this dvd and there's going to be two short clips that you will find very informative in regard to what has been spoken previously if we continue on this path we surely will lose america the land of the free thank you two quotes thomas jefferson there is no justice for taking away individual freedom in the guise of public safety calvin coolidge 1924 to live under the american constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race the more i study the constitution the more
061i realize that no other document devised by the hand of man has brought so much progress and happiness to our community i encourage you as the board to replace the critical race theory and replace it with the constitution so the people will know when their rights are being violated and we will live and have an america that we have had hopefully we will continue to have it and may i come up and hand out this to you there's nothing wrong with it i might suggest that you leave it with any information for either myself or and the board if you leave it with the district clerk well i'd like to hand this out to you personally so i'll wait until the end is that okay that's fine sure [Applause] oh sorry i was so excited
062about handing this out to you [Applause] already marie johnson [Music] hey yes um okay [Applause] it's very hard to follow something like that but i'm going to try my name is christopher village of loffinger's resident the cdc is an organization who makes suggestions on our health by creating guidelines not laws but who is vetting them their own website is quietly peppery with truths like the excipient summary which lists the ingredients of every vaccine including coven we're talking formaldehyde fetal bovine serum and human diploid cells and formulas dating as far back as 2009 94 of covet deaths were proven to have comorbid conditions scientists and seven universities can't get an isolated sample of covet from the cdc pcr tests now reported as faulty by both the cdc and the fda dr michael osterhoen told cnn certain
063face masks aren't very effective and we've seen patches mask hokey pokey but where's the data where are the scientific theories that being said until there is proof of masks working and even the experimental inoculation we need to omit them completely 721 johns hopkins did a study of almost 50 000 children diagnosed with covet under the age of 18 they found no covet deaths among healthy kids zero in fact the c-span senate hearing just the day before garnered no response from dr lewinsky when asked how many children under the age of 18 without a pre-existing condition or significant health condition have died from coping 19 in this country children's health defense.org noted the cdc nih and the fda owned many vaccines and patents so whose interest do they really have in mind children thrive on being
064with their peers it's how they connect with the world around them build their character develop self-esteem and nurture their mental health there are countless peer-reviewed journals on this subject specifically masks remove unique qualities given to us by god almighty such as dignity and collective individuality it suffocates socialization the option of masking for summer school with strategically worded foreshadowing for the new school year is insulting let's not forget the masking of education where curriculum promotes the disfiguring of inequities and encourages the confusion of innate gender characteristics i will not allow my children to merely exist in a regime that's being forced on them under the guise of public health let's face the facts this has never been about a virus it has been about dirty politics money and control to this point our unity and strength
065within the community is clear that the kryptonite in the path of those in authoritative positions due to the constant tantrums in answer to our movement deep respect to all the parents refusing to stand for what the government is trying to peddle we are not few we are many and we are far from done god said be not afraid may he bless you all [Applause] hello a four-year-old and a 16 month old that resides within your school district my son will be attending the first grade head of gatehead and before i actually go into i originally came up here i just had a simple question one for mr movie lumiere i apologize and one for dr bond uh bruce lumiere um you asked about the comments on the agenda before right this meeting in itself you
066were asking about it in itself that was the agenda that you just presented before us about the taxes and all that um this is my first meeting so i'm just trying to clarify and try and understand it am i correct okay uh dr bond in any way shape or form because i reside on a bunch of professional society as a chair do you ask the the people that you're presenting to comment on the presentation before it's given because i don't and on most municipalities that i've served on it's usually the item is presented there's a public comment and then you vote on it how am i supposed even if i have the agenda in front of me how am i supposed to know what you're going to say well you're going to say who you're
067going to spend so i highly recommend they may be restructured even though somebody might actually read the agenda and the accessibility was post last friday really nobody could comment on it appropriately and we're all smart parents here we're all over here it's nine o'clock at night we've got kids i mean you might as well at least post it up you can post it up there you post tax stuff we sat here for 30 minutes it's just common things very simple things i'm not here with an agenda or reading out i'm just simple observation over the last two hours that's a word of advice sincere word advice so the first reason i'm up here is i got a one-year-old who you just made the comment actually during the meeting that you're getting stuffy because you're a
068mess i was a first grader supposed to feel about that in 98 degree weather because my wife who's home with the three children is scared is my son going to be wearing a mask this summer i mean this uh school year it's a very simple thing why silence is it going to be up for a night on the discussion i believe i indicated that within the next week to 10 days school starting in three four weeks we're starting in one month and we need to find out from the department of state education stop make your comment please this is not only it's an open discussion there's not a board to coordinating in public not a public meeting so please make your comments possible and please uh be courteous i've asked you people not to clap
069i respect everybody's opinion but it's important it's important excuse me it's important it's important to be some type of civility that's all so please continue a statement please so in two weeks i should be able to find out my son's gonna wear masks or not basically or within the next couple weeks in the next week to ten days we would have some notifications i really hope it's it's optional that there's a sign-off waiver for parents like what you did last year because that it should be a parental choice as it is right now for you number one thank you hi uh dr bond i just want to ask you you said you were gonna refer to the cdc in a couple of weeks and then we would know um in april at the end of
070april actually the cdc flip-flopped a little bit and said that mass were proven to not be effective at protecting against goldman and now they've totally changed that around what i indicated is that we would be looking for further guides from the dutchess county department behavioral and community health as well as in the new york state education department we hope to obtain that within the next week or so within the next week to 10 days you would notify the community as to how we were going to move forward that is what i stated in my opening remarks and that is our plan at this point okay i'm just stating what the cdc has on their website in april 27th i did not say this if you didn't i'm sorry i'm just letting you know that they
071did a flip-flop and i'm sorry about that but i just want to let you all know there are two concerns on parents minds right now two okay needs to be optional vaccines need to be optional that's it you can make everybody happy you guys are in the position where you can do this that's it you need to need to make them optional for kids we don't want to hear any anything else it needs to be optional because in april maths were proven to not be effective and now all of a sudden nasts are wonderful all over again they're saving everybody guess what's going to happen in december yesterday they're going to be no longer proven effective it's enough flip-flopping and our kids paying the price it's wrong and parents are tired of it and you
072guys are in a position to help us tell us what you need from us we'll help you you help us we all want the same things we don't want vaccines being mandated and we don't want our kids wearing masks in school we don't and for those who do go right ahead wear a mask get a vaccine but please don't expect everybody else in this community to do that or in this state or in this country because if this was about health the borders would be shut down right now [Applause] [Music] thursday 800 kids alone came across the border on thursday alone unvaccinated untested so how is this about health how is this about safety our kids are going to pay the price our american citizen children pay the price i don't think so it's not
073going to happen [Applause] good evening thank you for continuing to allow public comment it's greatly appreciated my name is liz zitch my family owns and operates a business my name is liz zitch my family owns and operates a business on route 9 the 1500 block of route 9 in wappingers falls i am here with the moms for liberty of dutchess county um as we saw earlier this year the cdc guidance has been influenced by the aft we also saw when the new york state department of health dr zucker the commissioner of health issued a statement making mass optional what did we see we saw nyset immediately put out a statement that say they did not agree even though it's written in the emergency guidance that what the new york state department of health says supersedes
074what the new york state department of education may or may not say betty rosa also came out and said she did not agree with what the new york state department of health had issued now we have new york state saying no the emergency is done we are not going to issue guidance and here we have betty rosa of the new york state department of education saying oh wait new york state can't uh you know kind of slide away and not give us guidance well when they do give betty rosa guidance she disagrees with it and acts accordingly so it's ridiculous that um that this happens so i believe covet is real i believe in science now let's talk about the actual science just for a moment if we look at the actual numbers that the
075american academy pediatric put out the mortality rates pediatric mortality rates are between zero point zero zero percent and zero point zero three percent that's not my opinion that [Applause] those are the facts yes the delta variant is more transmissible however like a lot of viruses that mutate they're more transmissible yet not as deadly and thankfully this delta variant is proving to be not deadly for children it is not killing children now i spoke with the coordinator of communicable disease and community preparedness of the duchess county department of behavioral community health i know you meet with him on wednesdays i know he's in your superintendence meeting i speak with him uh often and he backed this up the delta variant we are not seeing huge numbers of dead children from this variant basically we need to
076stop being led by fear we the people have had enough with the fear mongering we need to start looking at the numbers looking at the science and using common sense stop being led by fear thank you [Applause] [Music] since it's three minutes each six minutes six minutes hi my name is firstini wylie i did not plan on coming up here i planned only to offer support by being here um but i had to come up because what i observed were a couple of things that i felt were unnecessarily obstructive particularly the agenda you made a point through the agenda you could have had copies of the agenda this is a dead zone nobody can go online to look at the agenda you could have had it projected up there you could have cooperated with us
077to provide that information very simply a list of the agendas so that we can be on the same page so that's the first thing that i noticed that would have been very um uh that would have created more goodwill here that we see that you are trying to help us understand what your rules are so that's the first thing the second thing is there is so much scientific information that there is um at the very least um enough justification to quest to question the vaccine that has been developed in one or two years arguably it's been worked on prior to the mystery covey that erupted um but that by versus own numbers and i wish i had them this vaccine is more deadly in six months than other disease other drugs for 31 years that
078verse has been in operation and we are relying on our board members who represent us to represent us we have concerns for our kids we need to move on we need to live we have children that we want to prepare for the future and hopefully that's what you want to if you don't then leave get out of that position and let someone else take the position who does care and can demonstrate that so please keep that in mind do your research i have read i'm sure others have too of of children who died from the vaccine that i read the other day there's a woman who has both her legs amputated okay hold on i gotta read this okay okay um all right 12 366 deaths 46 036 hospitalization 68 040 urgent care visits 4
079759 cases of anaphylaxis 4 404 cases of bell's palsy that's not the coming from the shot that's not including here i'm not pronouncing our guillermo thank you all right which has been a rare disease they keep saying but very predominant among the vaccine the vaccinated these information was being the door oh the woman had her legs amputated now she's waiting for arms to be amputated because blood clots prevented the blood from reaching her extremities we're not just arguing for no vaccines and no math we're arguing for the health and future of our children we don't want to risk them for the political du jour fighting will go someone else will come this will pass but in the meantime we have to take care of ourselves and that means you too you need to take care
080of us because we're part of the community we're part of your future and we need you to start looking at it that way and if you can't step aside good evening uh my name is anne with allen from fishco you you knew well enough that the community was going to be here and what their concerns were well enough to invite the sheriff's office to come here so you knew what the community was coming here for why don't you put what the community wants on the agenda and tell them what they're not allowed to speak about why aren't you speaking about what they want spoken to yes i read today on the nisba website that there are 5300 board of education school board members in new york state and that that represents approximately 50 percent of
081the elected officials in this state so why do the school boards wait for the other of the elected officials to determine what they're going to tell this 50 of elected officials to do with our students you have the power to make the decisions and push up to albany you should stop waiting for albany to push them down thank you [Applause] thank you