001for my make sure on camera. Good. All right. We need a motion to come out of executive session at 6:30. Angela Diane. All in favor? I 6. Thank you. That's Katie Mcnite. Fran Fox Ponia. Diana Revoir present. Jen Samuelson present. Angela Terara Labbora and Robert Oaks. Okay. At this time, I'd like to officially recognize our newest board member, Robert Oaks. Welcome. Um, and I'd ask everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I will now accept nominations for the office of president of the board of education. Are there any other nominations? Okay, I have a motion made by Katie Mcnite, seconded by Diana Ravoir
002to appoint Joseph Bond to president of the Valley Central Board of Education. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Congratulations. Thank you. It's honor to serve with you and for you. All right. We'll take a motion for the vice president of the board of education. I'd like to nominate Katie Mcnite. Second. I'll second. Any other nominations? All in favor? I opposed. myself, right? Yes, you do. Congratulations. All right. Pleasure to be serving with you and for you. Thank you. At this time, I' ask everyone to stand. [Music] I do solemnly swear. that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States of United States. And the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I
003will faithfully discharge the duties and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the office for member according to the best according to the best of my ability. Okay. And after the meeting, I'll ask everyone to stay and sign the oath book. Very good. All right. So, we're going to jump into the agenda and if there's no objection, I would like to take items D and E combined as a consent agenda and vote on all of those items at once. Oh, wait. Hold on. Yeah. D through I. Sorry. Hold on a second. Oh, my printer went wrong. Sorry. D through I. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. D through I. Sorry, my stuff printed incorrectly. Any objections to that? No. No. No. All right. Motion to approve. Jane second. Diana. Diana. All in favor?
004Opposed. All right. Pass 6. All right. Then at this time, we'll take a motion to adjourn our annual reorganization meeting. Katie. Second. Jane. Jane. All in favor? I oppos. 6. All right. Now, we'll call to order our regular board meeting of July 7th at 6:35 and we will begin with correspondence. I have none for this evening. Okay, we'll move on to commendations. Okay. The New York State Board Association has recognized the following board members. President Joseph Bond, Board Mastery Award. Vice President Katie Mcnite, Board Achievement Award and Board Excellence Awards. Board member James Samson, board excellence award. Board member Diana Ravar, board excellence award. Board member Angela Terrell Lavora, board excellence award. I'd like to congratulate you on these awards. [Applause] Bob's doing a great job so far. I do want to thank all of
005the board members for their leadership and their contributions to our district. Um, congratulate you all for your dedication and service to Valley Central Community. Honorable mentions. Um, we've had several moving up awards and se assemblies during the month of June. We had our 67th annual commencement ceremony and the weather was absolutely gorgeous for it on Saturday, June 28th. I'd like to congratulate all of our graduates um for their future endeavors. That's all I have. Thank you. All right. Next, we'll move on to the proposed consent agenda. I get a motion to approve. Katie, Angela, second. All in favor? I opposed 6. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to reports and we'll start with the superintendent of schools. Okay. So, um did spend the month of June going to many closing events for the year, especially
006the moving up ceremonies, concerts, as well as awards ceremonies, and had the pleasure of um having the commencement on June 28th. And I do want to tell you that I spoke to the graduates prior to going in along with Miss Mcnite and Mr. Bond and they were very excited but also a little nervous about you know moving forward. Um it was a pleasure to be there and it was um an opportunity for us to show off our scoreboard in a different way that we had the opportunity to see the graduate center video right on our screen um during the ceremony. And so I do want to thank everyone who participated to make that a special event um for our students and family members and everyone else. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to
007the assistant superintendent for business. Thank you, Mr. President, and congratulations as well for another year um serving Valley Central as uh board president. I don't know what you did for this community service uh punishment, but congratulations. So, an update from the business office. The external audit is uh progressing. Um the uh auditors are working with uh the business office every day pulling that together. Uh construction update. Our construction team will be here at the meeting on July 28th to give you uh a more detailed update of the ongoings. But um I'm just going to hit high level uh real quickly for you. At Berea, we do have the vestibule main office uh project that is underway and that involves moving the kindergarten classrooms into where the main office space was. We have classroom ventilation work
008that's ongoing as well as cooling in the cafeteria. Over at East Colton, we have the secure vestibule being constructed. Uh the boiler is being replaced and a ventilation pre-work is underway. the big part of the ventilation uh project as well as the uh bathroom renovations will happen next summer at Montgomery Elementary School. The vestibule is being constructed as well as ventilation pre-work. Um a lot of ventilation and boiler work will happen over at McGomery next summer at Maybrook. Secure vestibule is being constructed and at the high school. Uh that is really where a lot of work is happening. uh science classroom renovations, uh English wing ventilation uh replacement there. The boilers at the high school are being completely replaced. The vestibule is being constructed and at the pool we do have some uh pool mechanical
009equipment as well as the heater that are being uh replaced. So, we'll give you a more detailed update on the 28th as far as how's that go that is going. Uh so far so good. Um the contractors are making good progress and we are underway. Next is an update on the National Night Out. Again, this year, the town of Montgomery uh will be hosting National Night Out on the back fields behind the high school middle school this year on August 5th. Um I just wanted to take a moment to thank all district staff, especially the kitchen staff, custodians, and bus drivers, uh for dealing with the heat that we had at the end of the year. Um and then lastly, we are aware that 17K was was closed just past the middle school um today.
010Uh we have uh thankfully DOT has been a good partner for us in this project. We had years of advanced notice that this was coming. Um most recently it was in November we did have conversations about the location of signage near the high school middle school. I had uh advised them that we are able to accommodate large vehicles that need to turn around but we do not want to serve as a turnaround. Um, so we did discuss putting some signage up near Bailey Road for it to be closed there. I understand today was day one. I think Mr. Bond would like some traffic coming by his house. What's your address again? So, um, so we'll we'll monitor it over the next couple days to see how it goes and and if it becomes a problem
011or if there is an abundant amount of turnaround traffic, we will reach out to DOT. There's no signage right now. Yeah. I did not pay close attention on my way home. I did see the sign up by Scott's Corners. Um, but as we got closer, I I did not notice anything. So, we will reach out to DOT then and ask them to sign it. Thanks. And I I guess too, right now it's blocked off where the buses are. If we're going to have, not that we want trucks going through there, but if we are, we don't want them trying to make that sharp turn and killing our curbs. So, just something to ponder. Yep. Good point. Um, it is wide enough because we do receive deliveries through there, but it we'll keep an eye on
012it. Yep. Okay. Thanks. All right. Next, we'll move on to the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Good evening. I guess still curriculum and instruction. Thank you very much. And congratulations to all of you on your awards and to you as well, Mr. Bon, on uh serving as our president again. Um, also just giving some updates. I was able to attend the graduation which was lovely this year as always. We had some good weather and some good speeches. So, uh it was congratulations to all of our high school students, our high school graduates, I should say. Um just some updates in regards for curriculum instruction. We are finalizing a mentoring handbook this summer uh that the mentoring committee has worked really diligently in putting together for our new teachers. Additionally, we are finalizing our MTSS
013where we had our last working session with Branching Minds that we've partnered with to put a MTSS handbook together and summer school has started today for the first day along with our traffic um uh detours. Um with that said, that's all I really have for this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Next, the assistant superintendent for human resources. Good evening. I do not have any HR updates tonight, but I would also like to congratulate all of our graduating seniors from the high school. Thank you. All right, technology committee. Yes, we had a meeting on uh June 11th. Um it was uh Craigmore's last um last meeting, so it was really sort of a a wrapup on his part. Um we talked about what the um planning committee's goals would be in the future. Um when we
014would meet um and um just went over um the new swipe cards that have been put into place at all the all the buildings. Great. Thank you. All right. Next is social emotional learning committee and Fran's not with us so Miss Vila is gonna do it. So, at our last social um emotional learning committee on June 12th, we discussed and identified a curriculum that we would recommend to pilot um this coming year. We have to work out all the details and further information. So, we're not starting in September or the fall. Um we might start possibly in November. And so more to come on that, but the committee spent several weeks looking at multiple committee uh multiple curriculums and have decided on one that they feel that fits us best. So more to come on
015that as well. Great. Thank you. Next is K5 curriculum. That's me. It is now. Um we met in it was our June meeting and at the K5 curriculum committee meeting um we were looking at ways in which to maximize instructional time and how to best utilize the time throughout the day. Um there's also discussion about the ongoing um construction and projects that were going on throughout the um the schools and how the teachers would prepare their classrooms for that time. Okay. Thank you. All right. Next, we'll move on to community participation. Jane, I was graduation. Okay. It was a wonderful day. Um I um I really enjoyed your speech this year. Thank you. Fantastic. Andrew, I also went to graduation. I also went to graduation and you definitely connected with the students with the rapping.
016So kudos to that. We always want to connect with our students. True. Um I also um went volunteered at all night grad and I just want to say just what a tremendous job All Night Grad does. It is a huge undertaking and it's all volunteers and they could have definitely used more uh more parents. Um, so definitely as a rising senior parent, I it's a goal of mine personally to really try to get more parents involved. Um, all students got this great Valley Central towel to if they're going to go to their dorms and we were wrapped we wrapped about 400 of them. Nice. Uh, so each student got one, but it was a good time. Great. Thank you, Diana. Um, I also attended graduation and it's always special, especially this class. my last class
017that I taught graduated this year. So, it was really nice to see many of the students and already many of them are already reporting they're at their college orientations already. So, things are happening fast. So, good luck to and best wishes to all of them. Um I also attended uh the Berea flag day that was on June 13th. It's a very special morning um that they have there. They retire the flag that they have and then they put up the new one. They also explain all about Flag Day and give a lot of facts regarding the holiday. Um they and the best part of all is they sing their very own original Berea song. And if you've never heard it, it's it's just so well so well worth hearing. Um just brings a smile to
018your face. I wish I could, but I would need, you know, miss um I would need Astrid to do the guitar. Yeah. And the words. Um, also I attended the Walden Elementary moving up ceremony which was held at the high school. I think people were very pleased that they were able to escape the heat and enjoy the air conditioning there. And I also attended the middle school moving up ceremony. Great. Thank you, Katie. Um, I was at also at the middle school moving up ceremony and my own little child was moving up which was and now I have two high schoolers which um yeah, so there was that. Um, also at graduation, I have to say not the only reason I'm a board member, but one of my favorite reasons I'm a board member and
019particularly um, vice president is I get to hand out diplomas and it it's one of my favorite things just there. They're so excited and they come down and it's it's so fun to be the one to give them their diplomas. So, it was a great day and look forward to it always. Yep. I was at graduation as well and I I went to rehearsal, too. They wrote me into handing out all the tickets. at a work meeting. I expected to stop by. Next thing I know, I'm handing out 175 tickets practicing. But it was fun. It was good. So, okay. All right. Uh, any public comment? None. Okay. All right. We're going to move on to old business. And can I get approval for the capital project 2123 change orders? Jane. Second. Angela, any discussion?
020All in favor? Oppos? 6. Thank you. Move on to new business. Can I get a motion for the readoption of district code of conduct and plan language summary? Katie second. Diana. Discussion. All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Next. Can I get a motion for the readoption of district guidance plan? Angela Angela second. Any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Approval of the proposal with day automation systems. Can I get a motion to approve? Katie. Katie. Second. Jane. Jane. Discussion. All in favor? I opposed 6 and a motion for the approval of 2526 athletic supplies and services bid awards. I'll make a motion. Diana second Angela discussion. All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval bid award for the pole vo equipment. Katie second. Angela Angela discussion all in favor.
021Opposed 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval of agreement with com source. I'll make Jane second discussion all in favor. 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval of the intermunicipal agreement with Cornroll Central School District. Jane second. Angela. Angela. Discussion. All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval of the intermission agreement with Orange Holster School District's health plan. Katie. Katie. Second. Diana. Diana. Discussion. All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Motion motion for approval with Dr. Richard Han. Bob second. Katie. Katie. All in fa discussion. No. All in favor? 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval of agreements with SJ and Associates. Make a motion. Diana. Second. Second. Jan. Discussion. All in favor? Opposed? 6. Thank you. Motion for the appointment of committee member. Oh, wait a minute. We can't do that.
022We have to assign people. I was rolling. Okay, so I sent out the current list so everybody know who has what. Love to mix people up if we can. Um, Fran did not give me any preferences. So, um, well, I think she has a she has a tough schedule sometimes. So, we'll try to leave her alone as much as possible. So, um, let's begin with the audit committee. And I Katie and I have to be on it. So, we'll Yep. Yep. You're stuck there, kid. Um, so right now Jane is on it as well. Jane, you're welcome to stay or if anybody else has interest in it. Only did it for one year, so I feel like I would like to stay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Um, so speak up, right? Speak up policy.
023Um, it's myself automatic. Uh Fran, I think we'll leave her. And then Sarah's gone, so we need to backfill her. I can do that. Okay. Angela. So it's going to be Fran, Angela, and Joe. So when you're So you're on all of them, right? Well, there's some of them I'm always on, but I Yeah. So then So for that one, Fran would be the primary, and Angela would be the backup. Is that how we're doing this? No, they would be backup. You need you need a certain number on some of them. So if it says alternate, it's alternate. Okay. Health and safety. We have Katie and Diana at at this time as primary alternate. Is anybody else interested in health and safety? I want to come off that one because I put Bob as primary.
024I'm interested in being alternate. Yeah, you can take me off. Okay. And we'll do Angela as an alternate. Yeah. Okay. It's a good committee, Bob. Good choice. All right. Technology. We have Jane with Diana as a backup. I'm interested in doing that one because I've not done it before. You want to take that one? Sure. You okay with that, Jane? Yeah, that's fine. Katie is primary. Do you want me to stay as I'll stay as backup? Sure. You want to do backup and pump me? Yeah. Yep. Jane is backup. Well, that's we have a new technology, so that's be exciting, too. Okay. Guidance. We have Diana with Katie as a backup. I've done that one, too. So, you've done that one? Um, okay. You see the date? You see the time of it, though? You
025okay with that? I'm gonna see if I can get that. Okay. Maybe I can be alter. Yeah, let's do let's do an alternate just because it's during the day. So, am I on that one? I don't know. Does anybody want to be prime? Well, yeah. Okay, we'll put Diana's primary. Let's do this. We'll put Diana primary, Bob as alternate. If you can accommodate the meetings, we'll flip it. Okay. Good with that, Diana? I'm good. I'm writing it down so I know. Okay. Um All right. K5 curriculum and 612. So we have Diana with the Jane as a backup. Well, there are two. Oh, they're two separate. No, no, it is an alternate, I guess. I thought that we had a K5 and a 612 rep. Is that true? Yes. I would like to remain the
026K5 rep. So, who's the rep for 612? Guess we don't have one. It was Diana. I guess I did. I guess I did. All right, let's draw a line then. So, Oh, you did K but you don't want to you want to stay K through 12 as primary. That's fine. It's all the same discussion. Anybody else interested in those committees? Two different groups. That's fine. Two different groups. Okay. So, Diana, you're primary on both again. Okay. They're two different. Right. Right. And then the alternate Jane, you want to stay alternate? Well, I'm just looking at the times. Those are tough times for me. So, if there's anyone else, they're Anybody else want to be alternate on that? I'll stay alternate if No. All right. You'll stay alternate, but Diane, you're not allowed to miss. Okay.
027What you said? I'll be your alternate, but alternate. Okay. Um, Valley Central Education Foundation. We have Fran Primary, Sarah as alternate. So, I think we'll leave Fran. I can be the alternate. Jane's alternate. Okay. PTA Council Angela with Fran is alternate. We'll leave for it. I'd be interested in that one. I've not done that one. Okay. Unless No, that's fine. I can be alternate. Okay. So, we're going to do Katie as primary for Valley Central PTA with Angela as alternate. Oh, boy. I was going to volunteer for that. Oh. All right. Jane for Oxa. Oh, yeah. Jane. Nice. Jane. Who wants to be an alternate? Fran is Fran. She already is or you're just saying she already is schoolboard association. I'm fine staying with it. All right. Kind of have a You like those 14
028hour. You know what? I' I've gotten I've gotten into a groove and now I know what to do and All right. Cool. I'm okay with that. You're grooving. All right. Who's the alter? We don't have one. Anybody want to be an alternate for that? All right. Katie will have Katie's alter. Okay. All right. Uh, diversity, equity, inclusion. We have Andrea with Katie and Jane as alternates. Can you take me off that if I'm doing the school work that I'm trying to switch? Do you want to stay as primary? I see. Do I do night school on Wednesdays and it has become a problem. Okay. Who wants Last year it was. Okay. Anybody else want to be primary on that? Fran. Fran. Fran. Fran does. Fran. Well, it's a six to seven, so it's perfect. That's
029Joe. All right, Fran, you're on it. Alternate is Joe. Who? Isn't your name Joe? I can be alternate. I'll be alternate. That's fine. Yeah, I got to do something. Joe. Yeah. Wellness committee. Uh, we had Sarah and Jane. So, now we have Jane is prime. Wow. Who wants to be wellness committee? I'm interested in that. I've never done that. Three to four. Yeah, I could do that. Okay. Three to four. Wait, isn't it four to No, it's three to four. Three to four. I could quarterly. I could do three to four. Okay. I was I can I can take the prime if you want to do the alternate. Um I I can do it as long as I leave work at 2:30. Okay. Okay. So, Jan, are you going to say alternate? Sure. Okay. Just
030don't um do we still have that committee? No, Walden's we're not doing at this time. I don't think we're going to need it this year. Probably grading committee. Angela primary Diana alternate. Any anybody want to be in the greeting? We kind of did it together because it's they talk elementary, right? It was more like a K5 and 612 one. Okay. So, you both want to stay prime. Anybody else interested? Kind of interested. Okay. Um, so do you wanna I'm okay to be off. You're gonna be off. Okay. So, we're gonna do Bob. So, Diana, they split it by grade then or you guys one committee, but Okay. All right. So, we're going to do Bob and Diana as primary. Oh, do we want two of us there? Are you Are you talking about Yeah. or
031do we'll come if I can for the K5. Okay. Who was the other Bob? Okay. MTS, we have Diana right now. MTSS. Yeah. You good with that? I'm good on that. Okay. Professional learning committee with Sarah. We need somebody to fill out an app by monthly. 4 to 5. What time is that meeting? 4 to 5. Four to five. four to five. I can do it if nobody else can. Oh, wait a minute. It's not on the new list. It's still out there, right? It's right here. Oh, okay. Just within. Okay, I got it. There it is. Okay. Missing the line. Uh, who was doing that? Sarah was doing that. I know who's doing it now. Oh. Oh, I can do it. Diana. All right. Joe, is there an alternate for NCSS professional? No. Alternate.
032The alternate for professional learning. All right, Angela. How about MTSS? Alternate. I can be the alternate. Jane's alternate. Very good. All right. Last one is social emotional, which is Fran. Who wants to be an alternate for Fran? All right. Bob alternate. And then greeting is Bob and Diana's alternate. Or there's two of them. No. There's going to be two. No alternate. No alternate for that one. No, there's two on there. So, okay. So, so there's no alternates for audit, policy, and grading, correct? No, because if we can't make them, you can't do it anyway. And they're they're they're so they're quarterly. Okay. So, do you want us to go through it or did you have Wait, did we have an alternate for professional learning? Angela. Diana. Oh, I missed. So, I I'll go through it.
033Oh, and I I should wrote neater. Okay, I'm just going to do names. We'll go right down the list, right? Bon Mcnite, Samuelson. Policy is Bond, Fran, Angela. Health is Bob with Angela as an alternate. Technology is Katie with Jane as an alternate. Guidance is Diana with Bob as an alternate. K5 is Diana Jane. 6 through 12 is Diana Jane. Um, Education Foundation is Fran Jane alternate. PTA is Katie with Angela alternate. School board is Jane with Fran alternate. New York State School Board is Angela with Katie. Alternate DEI is Fran with Joe alternate. Wellness committee is Angela with Jane alternate. Grading is Bob with Diana alternate. MTSS is Diane and Jane alternate. Professional is Diana Andrew alternate. Social emotional is Fran with Bob as alternate. Joe, I have a question. You said that I
034was the alternate for the grading committee. I thought I was the K5 rep. You are. I misunderstand that. No, I am. Okay. Are you the same? Yes, you are. Sorry. Both you both you guys on. There's no alternate. Right. Okay. So, yes. So, just a couple couple things to remember, right? Liaons to bring information back to the board. And if you can't make it, send an email out to the alternate to see if they can make it. If they can't make it, send it out to everybody to see if somebody else can make it. Yes. Okay. And I just have a question in regard for from my department um and the committees that I facilitate. Do you want me to send the invite to just the primary person or to both the primary and the
035alternate? I think both would be good. Both. Both. Okay. Because we do send it we send calendar invites out and then whoever is attending that can respond to the calendar invite. I think both. This way if they they can kind of even if they don't attend, they can read it and know what's going on in case the next time through they have to attend. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. That Can I just ask for clarification? So, two people will be coming if the alternate chooses to come because I thought the alternate was only if the person couldn't make it. Well, I think we left it where they can attend. Okay. Yeah. But we we want we want them there. We want the primary there, right? So, are you getting you don't want two
036board members necessarily? I'm just trying to be consistent with practices and last year we did not do that. So, that's why I'm bringing it up. It's not that I don't want board members there, but it was really the alternate only attended when the primary person couldn't attend. So, I'm just asking for clarification and being consistent in practices. rare to have it was rare but I think also technically any board member could attend any meeting if they wanted to pop in. So it is rare. I think it happened basically if I was the alternate or the normal person you know attended. Okay. They were the primary Y. Anything else? Okay. All right. Craig, thank you for being with us in streaming. I will take a motion to adjourn at 7:05. Angela. Angela. Second. Diana. Diana. All
037in favor? Opposed? 6. Wow. Great first meeting, Bob. That might have been Yeah, that might have been a record. That might have been a record.