001You know what I mean? I left early after AP. I have no clue. Forget I think she wasn't She wasn't here. Yeah, please. Are you okay? He'll share. Open the door. Okay. Okay, we are back from executive executive session. Action was taken onto the public hearing for the district safety plan. Mr. Feldman, your turn. Yes, action was taken. There it is. Yeah, I said um so um thank you Mrs. Bagley and I know Mr. Feld will give the um safety plan um um presentation in a moment, but I just wanted to take the opportunity um knowing um where we were yesterday um with our lockdown situation um and the threats that came into the building and thank goodness those threats were uh deemed uh to be uh not credible and um uh but it is
002a um an unfortunate circumstance. It's a it's a difficult circumstance um for everybody that was involved in that situation. It's very stressful. Uh we understand the impact that it had on our students, faculty, staff, administrators um in the district. Uh but when a threat like that comes into the district um the safety and security of our students, faculty and staff take priority uh over um over everything. And um we got the calls, the lockdown was put on. Um we had an immediate response from the Amherst Police Department um in and their uh response and um also included a lot of other agencies in the building um including and I'm probably going to miss a couple but UB police, the NFTA um ATF, Erie County Sheriff's Department, Orchard Park uh uh Police Department uh was here
003as well um and um the New York State Troopers. And I want to personally thank them um for their immediate and um wildly appropriate overwhelming response um to what could have been a very very uh dangerous situation. Whoever did this, whoever made this call um created a very dangerous situation in our school. Um and it's, you know, I know um we all condemn that act um to the highest degree. Um, but I have to commend um the work of our first responders, the work of our administrators um to keep the situation inside from not turning into um chaos, but turning into an incident command center that um put a plan together quickly to um um clear the building and clear uh the building of a threat. Um so we appreciate the work of our parents,
004our faculty, our staff, our administrators um and what they did um to uh work through this situation. Um hopefully it never happens again. Um there's always things we can learn as we move forward and we've done debriefings today. We're going to work with the Amoris Police Department to do more debriefings. Um but we're we'll take this as a learning opportunity as well. Um, as with any situation like this, uh, we can always learn more. So, again, my thanks go out to, um, all the people that were involved in in this yesterday in this very unfortunate circumstance. Um, their response was professional. Um, and all all people that were involved uh, had the, um, central thought of keeping our students, faculty, and staff safe. So, um, kudos to um, those. And uh you know um we
005prepare for these but you're never really truly prepared and uh yesterday we will uh move forward and we will learn and um hopefully it never happens again. I want to say make that comment. Thank you. Thank you Dr. Johnson. Can I just ask you a question because I've had parents ask me and maybe for the sake of the audience and people listening you can answer this. Um parents were coming here. Yep. and we did not want them coming here because it just kind of compounded the situation. What are your thoughts on can you just give the public ideas why we don't want that happening? Yeah, we did send them this I think the second or third message that went home asked parents not to come and you know I know it's I know they're parents
006and I know their children are in the building and there's a lot of information being spread or mispread that that is out there. Um and uh but I would I would I would hope that they know that our first priority is to keep their children safe. And so um coming to the building um puts all of us at more of a risk. You know, that's probably falling on a lot of deaf ears, but um they put themselves at risk because we don't know, we didn't know um at times if there was an active shooter. Um, and that uh could have caused mass chaos in our parking lot. It also blocked first responders from entering our facility uh which was uh and blocked traffic on Sweet Home Road, which is not something that um we want
007to do. And so, you know, as we debrief and go through this, um, I understand it's a difficult decision to make. Um, but, you know, I can I can promise every parent that their safety of their children is our number one priority and we will do everything um in our power and and duty to keep them safe inside the building um, and get them back at home. If you'd like to hit the next slide, Dr. Janestri so we can start. Uh so as Dr. Janestri did say we are uh at that time of year where we where we are required to uh submit to uh our board of education for their consideration our district-wide school safety plan uh which is what we'll do tonight. Next slide please Mike. Uh the district-wide safety plan is vetted
008through the district safety committee. Uh the members there uh are listed on the board. Uh it is a gamut of all stakeholders across the district uh from administrators, building principles, supervisors, clerical staff, uh nurses, uh things along those lines. So we do uh get a good uh cross-section of the district uh from that standpoint. The district safety committee uh met over the course of the 2425 school year four different times uh and we have uh discussed the district safety plan uh two of our last four meetings. So, per New York State Education Law 2801A and the New York State Commissioner Regulation 155.17, public school districts must adopt both a district-wide school safety plan and a building level emergency response plan for each school building in the district. Uh so, what we're uh talking about specifically
009this evening uh is the district-wide safety plan. Uh following our discussion here tonight, uh what will happen is is we will open an annual the annual public comment period. Uh we will post our redacted district-wide safety plan uh to our website tomorrow uh and invite comments for 30 days uh and then conclude that with the the public hearing uh following that uh that 30-day period. Uh we are required uh as a school district to have our district-wide school safety plan uh approved by our board of education uh by September 1st each year. Um and we would hope that you would uh approve those plans uh next month. Um and then at the district at the at the building level, the building level emergency response plans uh are confidential. Uh those show detailed information about each
010of our buildings. Uh those are shared with um local responders uh to to to work through in times of emergencies. So those are shared with um law enforcement agencies on both the town of Amherst uh and Tano Tanowanda side. Uh and those again uh we've submitted those um to our those are updated by the building administrators and and each of the buildings in terms of kind of overall um staff involved um in the in the emergency teams. Um the the building safety protocols mirror that that might be in the district level safety plan. Um, so those plans are sub must be submitted once they're approved by the board uh to the New York State Education Department by October 1st annually. The district-wide school safety plan is um divvied up u based upon um state education
011uh department regs by five different sections. Section 100,000 is for for general considerations. Section 2,000 is general emergency response planning. Section 300, responding to threats and act of violence. Section 4,000, communication with others, and section 5000, prevention and intervention strategies. New York State Education Department, you can see that the section 2000 uh is red. Uh they are recommending some changes to the general emergency response planning that we'll talk with you here about in the next couple of slides. One of the other things too, separate from the district uh from the the recommendations that um the uh New York State Education Department is asking us uh to consider for um our district-wide safety plan. Uh we are recommending as a safety committee an addition to our appendices. We're asking for an addition uh appendix number seven
012which is a crisis response plan uh that was developed and vetted through developed by our uh trauma um never going to get this right trauma illness and grief team uh in the district uh as a response to incidents of crisises uh across the district. Um so uh Ann Noak and Katie Barileri uh Ann Noak from our family supports center and Katie Barileri uh the director of special programs presented um the plan uh to our safety committee uh couple meetings ago uh was able to answer any questions that the safety committee had. uh and we as a safety committee are making a recommendation uh to add this seventh appendix uh to our overall district-wide school safety plan. So these are the the changes that are outlined um by a memo from New York State uh specifically
013to our uh schoolwide safety plan uh section 2000 again general emergency response planning. They are uh recommending a revision in the shelter in place procedure, an addition of a hold in place procedure, and we'll talk a little bit about that uh in the next couple of slides and what that means. Uh and then a rename of what we used to call lockout uh to a secure lockout. And just for what it's worth, all of our buildings are always in a lockout scenario. All of our outside doors are locked. people cannot gain access to the building without a swipe card or going through um a vetting process in the main office. So the shelter in place uh the current language in the 2425 plan the shelter in place uh deals with um keeping uh faculty, staff,
014students uh in their current or designated location. uh in times where there is either an internal incident uh or administrative manner such as and they they outline fighting in a hallway or something that is happening outside a weather event or things along those lines. What they state ed is recommending to do is that we split the shelter in place to a shelter in place sit scenario where shelter in place is used when students and staff are required to remain in their current or designated location for their own safety due to an external threat. So it's just specific to external threats such as a weather emergency. On the next slide, Dr. suggestion if you would. The hold in place procedures uh is is new language uh that we would use this year uh in the 2526
015school year is to mitigate movement within a building when students and staff uh are required to remain in their current or designated location due to some sort of a shortterm emergency that's happening in the building, a medical incident, a fight, uh etc. So they are recommending that we just change the the the the procedures from the the the events that would precipitate a shelter in place uh are not the same from 2425 to 2526 that shelter in place is external hold in place is internal to mitigate movement. So the district-wide. So that from that standpoint. Um and then the last piece of it is Dr. Jesse, if you wouldn't mind just going back. Um Oh, never mind. I I must have um missed just the the other piece of it is too. Sorry. Uh is
016the rename of the lockout to secure lockout position which is in section 200 as well. We talked a little bit about that before. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Uh go back one more slide. So, this is the the the recommendation from the um the district-wide safety team to add a crisis response plan uh to our district-wide school safety plan. uh our again our our TIG team, our trauma, illness and grief team that's led by um Katie Bar Larry in the office of special programs and Anne Noak uh in um our family support center along with the help of a number of other counselors and social workers across the district. They did draft this plan uh that really is kind of a a roadmap that provides strategies for addressing uh crisises uh within the district. It it'll
017it gives suggestions about how to respond to a cris crisis for a student that might be in crisis uh and things along those lines that might be dealing with uh pain or some sort of emotional trigger from something that maybe either happened at home or from a school and community related event. Um so these are the procedures that um the TIG team is recommending that we institute as part of our safetywide plan uh that in an instance where a crisis does happen that this would be the guideline to uh address the situation. So from that standpoint, um those are the recommended changes that we are making to uh our district-wide safety plan or to you for your consideration. Obviously, uh we will next open up uh and post our district-wide redacted safety plan uh onto
018our website with Miss Lagel's help tomorrow. Uh she doesn't know that, but we haven't talked about it, but it's going to happen tomorrow. uh and then we would welcome comments uh to me about that plan and we would come back to present those findings to you uh in June along with uh the public hearing at that point in time. Uh and then hopefully following that uh the board would support those changes. They would vote you would vote on it uh and then we would be um ready to go for the 2526 school year. This is the um one of the other things that have has come of this obviously with the change in procedures to shelter in place uh the new hold in place procedures uh and then the change from lockout to secure lockout.
019This is the this is the shell vernacular that we've used in terms of our overall safety plans um the last several years through the guidance of state ed. Uh these um placards are in every room in every district building. Uh so we will go through the processes uh of getting those reprinted uh and laminated uh and placed in uh buildings and classrooms over the summer uh so that we are ready to go uh for u the start of school uh in September. With that, uh I would open it up to any questions of the board. Uh otherwise, we will begin tomorrow our um 30-day comment period on the district-wide safety plan, redacted safety plan. You have the in in in your packets, you do have the district-wide redacted safety plan along with the uh crisis
020response plan uh and the placard that we showed here tonight. Okay, we will uh make the posting uh beginning tomorrow for 30 days and then we'll see you in June to wrap up the district-wide safety plan process. Thank you. Okay, so we move to the approval of the agenda. May I have a motion in a second to approve the agenda from last month's meeting or from this month's meeting? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I I minutes of the previous meeting. May I have a motion in a second to approve the minutes from last month's meetings? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I I communications. Does anyone have any communications to share? We do have one letter from Dave Lowry. No communication. I think fortunately or unfortunately my PTA meeting was cancelled last
021night. I'm sure they enjoyed the night. out in the sun. So I I have no report for the Heritage Heights PTA. Okay. Okay. Unfinished business. We have none. Dr. Janestri. Thank you, Mrs. Betaglia. Uh just a couple updates uh from last week. Um we are one week away from our budget vote day. So we encourage everybody uh to come out and join us. Uh May 20th um here in Virgil's uh center will is where the voting will take place. not only for the school budget and our board candidates, but also for our logo uh contest um and competition um and which we're really excited about as well. Uh but that's going to be a day where we celebrate u all things uh Sweet Home. We have our board vote uh budget election vote, obviously our
022Panther logo vote. There will be a district art show here in the Virgil Center Library for all of us to see. Um the elementary track meet beginning at 9:45 on the high school track. Um the chef will do their chicken barbecue dessert sale from 4:00 to 7:00 here um in Virgil's and of course there's a high school orchestra's concert um at 7:30 in the odd. So uh big day of events. Um hopefully the weather holds out for everybody. Um and uh we hope to see our entire school community here on May 20th um one week from tonight. Dr. Janestri, if I might just um the chef dessert sale because everybody loves goodies. It'll be going on all day 7:00 a.m. to 700 p p.m. Um, so when you come and get your chickens, obviously you
023can get your desserts, but you can also get desserts when I like to get in first thing in the morning. I know everybody in district office will be happy that it is an all day event for the the dessert sale for sure. Uh, and good luck to our four candidates running for two seats. Um, Brian Lieel, Jonathan Mley, Alan Pla, and Dirk Ravenol. Um, just again want to say good luck to them. I know everybody got to meet them last week at meet the candidates night, but from all of us at district office, just want to say good luck as the week wraps up. Our voters will be um allowed to vote for our our Panther contest as well um which has been featured in Sweet Home uh source and I know there's a postcard
024going home with all the events of the day to remind people to vote um as well. Um these are our 10 finalists. Uh they this is um open to vote for anyone in our community. Um you do not have to be 18 years old. Just uh a student, faculty member, staff member, community member, voter um anyone that uh lives in Sweet Home is allowed to um attend and vote. And uh we look forward to announcing the winner um on the next day on that Wednesday. Uh yeah, and part of that yesterday our group our fi our 10 finalists went to 26 shirts for a tour of the building um as well as a talk by Del Reed and Josh and I'm going to I feel bad I forgot his last name um the the creative
025director over there um just gave an amazing talk to our students about the um career of being an artist and the careers that are available to artists out there and that art is everywhere we see it um and that you can um be very successful in in in the field of art. Um and so he started off as a illust illustrator and now he's a graphic designer. Um he's done f over 500 shirts for 26 shirts. Um and our kids got not only a tour, a great talk by Josh and Dell. Um but they also got goodie bags, they got pizza. Um and it was just a great day uh to spend um as kind of a recognition of what they've done for Sweet Home. Um but also um you know just a great learning
026experience for our students and to know that this contest was really student driven. Um they were excited to be a part of it. They've been amazing partners throughout the entire uh process and just can't thank 26 shirts enough um for their partnership with Sweet Home. Um, also remind the board that our challenge to change event is May 30th. Dr. Wilson, I don't know if you want to, um, just give a preview, but exciting. Coming up, um, everything's going to be centered around those, um, superpowers around building kindness and belonging where everybody can be connected. So, we'll have a number of students leading um, the day as well as a sweet home grad coming back. And um, it'll be a it'll be a great day. Plus, we can promise um the best chicken fingers you've had
027in the long. Hope to see everybody there. Uh just a quick reminder, I know I keep harping this home, but it is a change to the schedule that um we will be closed, the district will be closed on Friday, May 23rd, um as part of our new provision um in our um teachers contract allowing us to extend the Memorial Day holiday if three or more emergency days remain um by April 30th. So, I'll send another reminder out to families next week, but um we will be closed Friday, May 23rd, as well as Monday, May 26th, um to celebrate the Memorial Day, uh weekend. That's what I have this week. Questions? Just one question on the challenge for change. I'm I know we get invited um and uh other some other committee members. Do we ever
028um invite uh community members outside of the district like you know as a possibility you know two or three just because if we did that I'm thinking you know it would give the community a chance to see what some of these events are about and um you know who may be interested. I'm not saying that we'd invite you know open it up to everybody but maybe there'd be a process if you're at least interested. I know our DEI committee is with community members on there. Everyone on that is is invited. Yeah, that's that's a nearly 50 folks and it branches across a number of community organizations, but we can always look at how we rotate through and engage other organizations. So, if you have any ideas? Yeah, I just know sometimes people are maybe confused
029or misunderstand what some of these events are about and saying why don't you attend? Yep. Um, and it give you an opportunity to see, you know, that um, maybe some of the the their thoughts or ideas aren't always aligned with what what's actually happening at these events that they're they're sometimes um, you know, a misunderstanding within the community and I think it's an opportunity to kind of showcase the a lot of the value they bring to our kids. Absolutely. Any other questions? Okay. Uh upcoming events. We are in the midst of our music season season for all of our concerts, all the different organization, all the different bands, orchestras, choruses, and such. Um wrapping up the end of the year with our leadership days coming up and uh senior walkthrough, all of the end of
030the year activities as well. This brings us to our open session per border policy 1510. This open session is for topics related to tonight's agenda. Is anyone interested in speaking? Sure. Right. Mhm. My name is Peter Hoyek. I live on Milwood Drive in town. Um, probably going to talk to that camera because you people won't answer any of my questions. So, um, any PD that's actually on the board now other than Dirk Rabbel that's only been here less than a year that won't answer my questions, vote them out. Um, let's talk more specifics. Uh, anyone that's on the board currently running for reelection, when you vote for them, if you vote for them, and I'm recommending you don't, that talking to you people, they have implemented and approved the full range of woke DEI policies
031on the students and residents of this district. And all they've followed all the green mandates that New York State's governor is imposing wrongly on school districts. Nobody says anything when the superintendent lies to you about how much it costs for the charging infrastructure for these electronic buses. I attended the last meeting. Nobody said anything about buying more electric buses. I thought we were talking about the budget, but nothing. This new copy of the Sweet Home Store says they're buying six more. If anybody has anything to say about that, uh, now's the time because you seem to be keeping this a big secret from the residents. This is the second year in a row that I've come here before a budget vote to find out that you're buying electric buses and there's no plan to get
032infrastructure charging for them and it's going to cost millions of dollars and nobody's told any residents about any of this. Here's your opportunity to do it. If you don't, don't vote for them. I don't know. Can we talk to the residents? I'm assuming somebody's going to see this. Maybe not. Um, I got this in the mail from Brian. Is that label? I don't want to mispronounce it. This is useless. And I got this. It's a letter. Also basically says nothing. Uh, this letter doesn't justify you being reelected. I'm sorry. You've basically done everything that I've said here tonight. Uh, as far as the other candidates go, I actually met Dirk last year during budge vote. He was the only person that was running for the board that had the guts to admit that he wasn't
033woke. Give the guy some credit. He's only He hasn't even been in here for a year. Jonathan, I'm sorry. I like you, but you were the only one who had the guts to admit that you were woke. I actually came before this board and asked everyone on this board to raise their hands if they were woke. No one did it. And then I asked you if you could raise your hands if you weren't woke and no one did it. These people won't respond to you. You got to start voting these people out. Get rid of them. Uh Alan Pla, I don't know him. I don't know if you ran last year. Does anybody know? All right. I guess that's uh that's it for now. Thank you for your comments. Anybody else? Please state your name
034and address for the record, please. Uh, my name is Amanda Jones and my address is 60K Amherst. Um, I just would like to express my thanks to the students, teachers, staff, and administration on how they handled yesterday's lockdown. Um, no doubt it was a trying experience for everyone. I would also like to express my concerns on the communication provided to parents during the situation. Um, just in summary, at 12:49, Mr. Baker sent an email announcing a lockdown in coordination with Ammeris police. 25 minutes later, at 1:14, Mr. Baker sent an update announcing APD was conducting a search, but students were safe and accounted for. Almost 2 hours later, the next communication came at 2:54 as a four paragraph email from Dr. Janestri explaining the events of the afternoon. I realize that the events of the
035day were extraordinarily difficult and not one that has been encountered in the past, but waiting almost until 3 p.m. to provide an update, in my opinion, was completely unacceptable. A 1 to two sentence email would have sufficed to let us know that the situation had been downgraded to a shelter in place. At no point was that communicated before the 254 email. Um, no one communicated that children had been dismissed and that no students were on property. Um, when in my opinion when you hold that update that long, it gives the impression that um, a public statement is prioritized over prompt communication. Um, this was further reinforced when my son and I got updates from the music department and athletics department prior to anything from the principal or the district. Um, so I would respectfully ask,
036and it sounds like this is this has already been discussed, would ask the district and the high school to evaluate what happened on Monday um and problem solve the issues where the ball was dropped um and improve for the future. The other um piece that I wanted to bring up is that I've been in direct communication with a parent whose student left the school prior to the incident without early dismissal um without permission and was home when that event happened. And when the school states that all students are accounted for, that leads to questions on how are we accounting for the students? was attendance taken? If that student was supposed to be in class and was missing, how can we claim that all the students were accounted for? Um, so I just I wanted to
037raise that concern. Um, because it's not just about communication. It's down to how we're tracking where the students are and whether they've been accounted for. So, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Anybody else? Okay, moving on. Um, that brings us to new business. May I have a motion in a second to approve the consent agenda on items A through F? So moved. Second. Okay. Letter A is special ed. Read through everything. Again, kudos to all our support staff and special ed department for all they were do for work for our kids. Um, lots of end of year evaluations. Still kids moving into the district even at this late date in time. So, kudos to them. Okay. Monthly financial reports. Our bids on health and medical supplies are athletic and physical ed supplies. D is
038the disposal of obsolete property. E is the m municipal cooperation agreement. Uh the first one and F is the second one. Anybody have any comments or questions? Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. That brings us. Mr. Liel is excused from the vote. He will be back in a few minutes. Um, brings us toformational items. Maisha, would you like to start? Um, student government is currently wrapping up with our end of the year activities. There will be a continuation of our final farewells just as last year with our peer mentoring program where students can write out advice and thank you cards to other grade level levels. and our senior English classes will be participating in a leader and me activity where they can give advice to the middle schoolers that
039are transitioning into the high school. And looking ahead, student government plans to make a big collage with pictures and messages of the 20242 school year in the main foyer. Mercy flight will be coming to the high school tomorrow and the annual stars breakfast will be on the 20th. And lastly, um, in regards to what happened yesterday, I think the students did really well understanding the importance of staying collected, especially in the time that was super stressful and looking out for each other. But um on behalf of the students and probably the parents even though um I believe how the cell phone policy isn't fully established yet and how that would like take place in the high school and um I think that the students would really appreciate to be able to get access and like
040easy accessibility to their phones in the case of these unwanted situations even though I I understand like how mispread and more chaos could be brought up. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Maisha. I also have to commend the students um yes for their for their actions yesterday. I know part of it was that they had to leave um backpacks behind and we didn't have one in one issue with that. the way they um handled instructions and um was just absolutely awesome and um very proud moment for for me and the rest of the administration and the police department that commented about how calm um and how orderly and how they followed instruction. So, um kudos to all of our students in the high school. Yeah. And I know that faculty also asked students for their
041advice and rooms for improvement. So, thank you for that. Yep. Thank you, Marian. Um, busy with work, so the one thing I did attend that I really enjoyed was the meat raffle. Where else can we hear Mr. Feldman discuss the difference between a breakfast ham and why there isn't a lunch ham? I think that was the discussion. But lots of fun there. Made What was it? 5,500. Yep. $5,500 in support for scholarships. Excellent. Mr. Johnson won the 250 for the Wegman's. It was just a great evening for all and look forward to our December 5th. Correct. Fifth one. Thank you. Counting the days. Yes, Mr. Johnson. Couple things. Uh this month we had the district safety committee where we finished up on those items. That was good. Um we I had an alumni association meeting
042last week. We are working on our scholarships and and we also approve some or go through some of the other ones and review those too for some of the people that don't want to review the ones they just that they've just submitted. Um, so we're working on that process right now. Um, we also had a board meeting for the Sweet Home Education Foundation on that and we started talking about where we're at financially and some changes. Um, with some of the cuts from the federal government, um, the Western New York um, food bank has not been able to get in much stuff. So, they're putting more money into it right out of the funds that we have for from chef right now to be able to feed continue the uh, the every other week program.
043We've got more than 70 families right now that we're distributing food to. Um, sorry, I'm trying to find that one. We also had um this past Friday the wall of fame ceremony um the distinguished members wall of fame. It's out by the front office. If you don't get a chance if you're ever down that way, it was great. And I'm sorry I do not remember the names. I thought I had them written down and I don't. But we had three great uh Do you have them, Mr. F? Uh give me one second. I'll I'll find them for you. I'm thinking Dr. Fl Dr. Flash, Sandra Taylor, and I forgot the other gentleman's name. Uh, so we have Dr. Sandra Flash, 198 class of 1987. She's the associate vice provost of academic affairs at UB. Uh,
044Dr. Michael Sharf, class of 1989. He's a current psych psychiatrist in chief at Galisano's Children Hospital uh in Rochester. Uh, and then Lindseay Taylor, a graduate of the class of 2006. Lindsay currently serves as the director of development for the Police Athletic League of Buffalo, among other things. Yeah. Among many other things. Got a long list of things he's doing. And he's actually started working with the kids at Sweet Home. One of the groups that he did that he works with donated a bunch of equipment for the mass media classes for me to be able to do more stuff, too. That was so There was three great candidates. They all had nice things to say, too, as I was proved well worth the time. And that's it for now. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Rehood. Did
045you say my name? I'm sorry. Couldn't hear you. Yep. I had reported earlier about the Heritage Heights PT. I was kind of looking forward to that, but I understand the circumstances and why they didn't. So, we did enjoy a little bit of sunshine and uh some backyard activities instead. I didn't do uh had participated in a lot of activities. I traveled a little bit. Um, so I don't have a lot to report. It did receive this on board publication and this Title N article, if you didn't read it, you ought to read it. It it maybe goes back to where I was kind of questioning how to vote on it because there's several twists in it because of the reversion back to the 2020 amendments or whatever. So, it's an interesting article, but other than
046that, I have no Oh, yeah. I should say this. I I I I get a response, my response and my view of what happened yesterday and the public's response and our our first responders. I I I don't know where you'd see that anywhere else. That was quite spectacular. I think from what I heard, the teachers did a tremendous job with the students and getting them in place and our administration. I don't know if I would as an administrator be walking the halls, but I guess they felt necessary and God bless them for stepping forward and doing that to protect their kids. So again, thank you all. Oh, I have Thank you, Miss. Uh so this month we had a cell phone committee task force meeting um which should be very interesting to revisit that next
047month after yesterday. Um Glendale has their leadership day on Friday, PTA meeting on Thursday. That's pretty much all that I've got um for this month. Um but I just did want to say thank you for um to all of our law enforcement who was able to assist yesterday and keep everybody calm. Our teachers did a fantastic job. Administration did a great job. Um, you know, for anyone who's listening, if uh parents, if your kids are struggling with what happened and they need to talk to someone, I would encourage them to do so. The resources are available at the buildings um for them to talk to someone. Um, parents as well, I'm sure. I know everybody was pretty rattled. Um, as a teacher, former teacher myself, I've been in situations like that before and it is
048pretty terrifying and it leaves you shaking for a few days at least afterwards. So if you need to talk someone to someone, don't sit on it. Go have the conversation and get the help. There's people out there that are willing to listen. Anything else? Okay, Mr. Balante. Um amongst the numerous um sporting events, um I did have a Willow Ridge PTA meeting at the end of April. Um they had a multicultural night in March and a science night and book fair in April that were very very successful. Um they celebrated teacher appreciation week last week. Um for the teachers their leadership day is May 22nd. I know we have a lot of them coming up along with challenge for change and the stars breakfast and and some senior events. Um, so I'm going to be
049little uh widespread to attend some of these, which is unfortunate, but um I'm gonna do my best to get to as many as I can. Um, and then I believe Willow Ridge is up for lighthouse reeval is it re-evaluation or reertification or reertification? Reertification. Um, so the school's preparing for that. Um, there are a lot of things into that that I too many to get into for what they're doing for for for that. Um, but they are preparing for it and they're getting ready for it. So that's it. Okay. I attended the high school PTSA meeting last week. They talked about their brick sale that is coming or ongoing. Um the benches that they purchased for out by the flag pole and the brick, the laid brick that we already have. Um and they're working
050on their scholarships as well. Other than that, I don't have anything else. This brings us to our next open session. Would anyone like to address the board? You have three minutes. Please state your name, address, and relationship to Sweet Home. The mic is yours, sir. My name is Peter Hoyek. I live on Milwood Drive in town. It's not the first time I've come up here to speak to this board about asking them to fire Superintendent Janestri uh in the past. uh in 2024 uh May 14th, August 20th, December 17th, last voting meeting and tonight, I've asked and detailed why I think this should happen hasn't happened. Eventually, you people are going to be held responsible for this. Um if anybody wants to look at those meetings and see the reasons in the past why I've
051expressed this needs to be done, I gave you the dates. Look it up. They got these meetings, uh videos posted online. Now we got a new incident of a lockdown. Every time I come here, something else bad happens. You're going to have to take responsibility eventually for all this and they're going to have to get rid of you. I don't know how you lasted this long. Uh just to add more issues to explain why you shouldn't be the superintendent anymore, you sent me email about some subjects that led us to a discussion in email about non-citizen voting. And uh first I want to say that this pamphlet that went out to the voters says you're going to allow people to vote based on a utility bill to prove residence. Give me a break. Our conversation
052in email had to do with whether you could document they were non-citizens. You basically superintendent blamed it all on the board of elections and said their wonderful database was going to keep non-citizens from voting. So I responded to you and you won't respond to me back. Why are you not comparing the the list of non-citizens in the sweet home school district against the list from the board of elections and telling them who are non-citizens so they could compare the two databases. You won't respond to me again. Here's your opportunity. I'm assuming you're not going to say nothing. You're just going to sit there dumbfounded or whatever it is you call it. Um, again, and just another reason that you are not responsive to the residents, you need to be fired. I can't believe that none
053of you people want to get rid of this guy. If that's not bad enough, as I mentioned earlier when I was up here at the podium, six more electronic buses. last meeting when you voted to approve the budget that's going to be voted on by the residents. You said nothing about buying six new buses, let alone you didn't say anything about I think it was last time I talked about it was $20 million for charging infrastructure that doesn't exist in New York State. Have you ever told the residents that? No. $5 million. You raised the budget since last year. Have you Have you explained that to people? No. Yep. I don't know how you have a job anywhere, let alone as in a school district. It's just ridiculous to me. If I ran my work
054section like you run this school district, I would have been fired a long time ago. Uh let's see what else we got here. Your time been expired, sir. Sure. Thank you for your comments. Anybody else? Okay. May I have a motion and a second on personnel items one and two, teaching and administrative and service. So moved. Second. All in favor? I I I. That brings us to the end of the meeting. May I have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I have a great night. Thanks for coming.