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WCSD Board Meeting | 8.9.2021 (Part 1 of 2)

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Source
YouTube / WCSD Media
Date
2021-08-10
Location
Dutchess County, NY
Material
Transcript
Extent
590 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-24

Transcript

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001the pledge of allegiance in a moment of silence for joyce caplano richards former vice president principal walter meyer and gear park long-time volunteer here at russia kitchen high school [Music] one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you [Applause] 3.02 uh come on public comments on agenda items a total of 30 minutes the beginning of each more meeting set aside to allow for public comments on agenda items only public comments the beginning of the meeting are limited only to the agenda items persons who wish to participate in a public comment portion of the meeting must state the name and the specific agenda about which one speak your comments and agenda items are limited three minutes and are welcomed based in the open meeting law enforce policy 12 debate or dialogue with or response

002from board members or staff are not allowed during the meeting compliments and complaints about student discipline specific students issue or personnel might not be addressed in public comment comments or questions submitted to you so the public comment form will send to the appropriate staff member will provide a response of the strategic public comment response webpage if you wish to address items related to our school district that are not on tonight's agenda and other comment periods provided at the end of the meeting for that purpose in the interest civilian respect for different points of view clapping booing on disturbance or destruction during either public comment period is not permitted at this time comments related to agenda items are welcomed please that your name and agenda arms are speaking on so please limit your comments at the

003beginning to any agenda item you should wish to speak on and at the end you can speak at any other service to address thank you if is this on nope i'm sorry i don't understand the agenda item is it some place that we're supposed to look at like we're going to talk about critical race theory is that considered an agenda item we're not going to be talking about crucial risk that's not an item on the agenda so if you want to talk if we're going to talk about that and wait until the end we're more than happy to listen to you oh god at the end we can perfect [Applause] all right [Applause] [Music] it's on the website and i believe there might be copies i don't know if you're an instructor we have extra

004copies if you want click it's my phone or my computer so that's not going to do anything for me because i don't know the agenda [Music] i can tell you that the items that you want to speak on is not on the agenda so you can speak on that particular issue or any other issue not on the agenda at the end of the meeting i'm welcome to this okay okay you have to take my word for it thank you we do announce the actual agenda items right now it's the public can address the agenda items i can list all the items i still wish but you come up and ask but you want to speak on something i'll tell you that's not the agenda that i could do i think i would just say for

005everyone out here that it would be incredibly helpful to share the agenda with everyone so we know what you're going to speak about if we want to comment on it i think it's good now no one knows what the agenda is well so it's very hard to comment on the agenda i just wanted to i understand i think it's very important if you come to the board meetings if the agenda is set it's actually put on public you can actually at home you can actually look at the agenda like look at the center school district then i'm sorry it's posted it's posted last friday the agenda item is posted on friday so in the future please look at it so you can actually address the items yeah i'm sorry so i did see that you'll

006be approving with your uh nispa annual convention the new york state uh association with peggy is going to the annual convention in october um i'm just wondering um i did read the resolution kit for that convention i'm wondering how you will be voting for the topics on hand during that convention in october as much i understand that as much as i like to answer that but you

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