BOE Meeting Monday 3/4/24

001hold me two seconds all right can I get a motion to come out of executive session at 6:44 I'll make a motion second Sarah Katie all in favor all right 70 than we're going to call the order of the Board of Ed regular meeting for Monday March 4th at 645 and we are going to begin with the pledge and uh after the pledge if we could have a moment of silence for Kelly Napoleon who passed away on February 26 Kelly was a Valley Central High School graduate and taught World languages in the district for the past 24 years please keep Kelly and her family in your thoughts and prayers thank you uned States andice thank you all right just some housekeeping uh please take note of the emergency exits on the side behind you there's

002no smoking anywhere on school property and if you're planning to address the board please sign in on the sheet provided on the table and the meeting is being streamed on the uh District YouTube page as well so uh before we jump in I do want to make note there was an addendum posted to the agenda um this afternoon so just make note of that okay uh we are oh our superintendent is not here tonight she is at a conference uh doing superintendent things so I think our correspondence is going to be done by Brad thank you thank you Mr President so invitations received our Valley Central PTA council's founder night ceremony March 11th 2024 at 7 o' pm in the Middle School cafeteria Valley Central High School performing art department presentation of Greece March 15th

003and 16th at 7:00 p.m. and March 17th at 2:00 p.m. Montgomery Elementary schools D graduation on March 21st at 1:30 p.m. accomodations so accommodations tonight uh high school students kayen Jones and Brandon bethon Robinson were recognized by the town of walkill at their Black History Month celebration on February 22nd they were selected for their academic achievements demonstration of leadership diversity and social values that is all very good all right just um I just want to call attention to one thing before we do consent agenda I did want to mention that um Wednesday March 6 in the high school cafeteria is a parent meeting to follow up on um the incidents from the 9th so um it is out on the district site under the high school and I think it's going to be shared on

004our Facebook page as well I think an announcement went out also but I did want to mention uh that as as well so next we'll move on to proposed consent agenda can I get a motion to approve I'll make a motion Angela second I'll second Fran all in favor oppos zero thank you next we'll move on to our student reports okay hi everyone so I'm doing pass this week so um some of these are from a week ago so I'm just going to first start off with some things that happened in the past couple days today we had the volleyball Powderpuff it had a really good turnout um the senior boys won um the girls gymnastics team competed at the State Gymnastics champion this I'm just going to take this off sorry okay the girl

005gymnastics team competed at the state gymnastics championship um I asked one of the girls how the experience was and she says it's a lot of fun I asked Kaye Benson um she said it's not just about the winning of it but um they go to the biggest small she said in the country and or one of them and they go out to dinner with other section nine girls and it's a lot of fun so then also Kaye Benson was busy her and Caitlyn nle play second at the 39th Annual Upstate Symposium in Albany as well and then um the girls track team went to the state championship and Katherine Prima placed 13th okay so um last week or the week before break um a Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley visited the school and they

006went over how to apply for scholarships it was really helpful she taught us how to like how we need to get recommendations how to submit them everything like that what scholarships would apply to us and I thought it was a nice resource so three students were chosen for the voice of democracy audio essay contest this is actually a very hard um contest to win they I think they get like thousands and thousands of applicants from all over the um country so these people are advancing to the next level and then sadly the March Madness three on three double elimination basketball tournament was actually cancelled due to the boys basketball team advancing and they sadly lost as well but and then the varsity swim team formed at the section n championships they did well and then

007this is amazing but Luke satriano is the second um VC wrestler to win a New York state championship and EJ Voss who was only an eighth grader took second for his first time at the state championship and then the track team picture so then the track team which is Katherine Prima um Dana Scott Rebecca sibl and Mackenzie lennin broke their record I'm pretty sure let me go back um yeah they've broken their School record their season and Catherine P Vera qualified individually which is where she placed 13th so that's all for me I'm reporting on upcoming this meeting and the next show as said is being performed at the high school is Greece and there's so many students that extra excited for this this show the second it got announced I remember hearing all over

008the place and even adults all over the place were saying it's Greece it's Greece it was was really fun to see uh it's supposed to have a much larger audience forecast than most other shows as it's so popular the dates that Greece is being performed are March in March are Friday the 15th Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th can't wait to see everyone there tickets can be purchased online and donations are always a warm welcome construction career day is on Friday April 12th at Rockman count County Community College this day giv students the opportunity to meet members in construction fields and might give students a hand to make connections early as well as helping them learn about different trades associated with construction staff from the Bal School District are taking on the Harlem Wizards

009at on Tuesday April second I'm seeing posters being put around and it's really fun to see I remember getting the email I think it was around second period I'm in my study hall working on work I see it I'm like this is real it's really cool it was cool to see I can't wait to I can't wait to watch that can't wait to watch that I'm sure many many others can as well um it was great go Vikings right last absolutely not least spring break is just around the corner it's just one last Mad Dash till we're out again for another week stay strong myone so that's all from me so some celebrations from this past little week um the VC voxes vapores just completed the North uh East quarterfinals they play second and third

010they are really really good singers if you guys have ever heard um heard them they're amazing um February 26 was actually uh the week of February 26 was a lot for us seniors it was senior Spirit Week um we dressed up as characters senior citizens we dressed up as our careers we had a country versus Country Club which I personally never heard of but it was actually pretty interesting and Senior apparel day which also kind of ended up turning into a um anything but a backpack so someone um Kevin Harrington actually bought a kayak so that was walking around the school for a little bit and then sadly obviously you can't bring a kayak around the entire school so um and then we also had the black and white dance and Senior game night both

011of which were very fun to attend um the yearbook voting Series has been uh continued during senior Spirit Week the relatives have been going out everyone is posting to vote for them of course and the boys and girls basketball teams have been doing amazing and they went to their s playoff games although sometimes it's not the best that we want it still is very and just some pictures these are um out of if they're the boxs or the Valkyries but um at their performance and that's it thank you you're welcome to stay or you like to go do homework homework today all right Brad do we have anything else for super I do I have three okay uh first one is parent teacher conferences so these are scheduled for this Wednesday and Thursday um superintendent

012ailia would like to remind everybody that meeting with your child's teacher continues to develop and strengthen the school home connection to support your child and Excellence uh the second is regarding a strategic plan uh we are beginning to work on our strategic plan we will have focus groups and surveys to gather stakeholder feedback it is important to hear all voices in collaborative process please be on the lookout for further information I would like to thank you in advance for your participation and finally District events um the superintendent attended girls and boys basketball games all right next we'll move on to the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction um so just update that we finished our first round of literacy presentations since right before break we had our last presentation that Friday before break and held

013a meeting last week to for some deep discussions about the materials that each curriculum offers we will be identifying our top picks and moving forward in the process for choosing a pilot literacy program for next year we had we also had our first mentoring program meeting today as well as a professional development committee meeting our first mtss committee meeting will be this week and we're looking forward to the outcomes of each of these committees um just to Echo what Mr Conlin said for superintendent aula we are looking forward to our parent teacher conferences that are this Wednesday and Thursday as well as vc2 next week that is Wednesday the 13th at Montgomery Elementary School starting at 6:30 p.m. additionally our before and after school literacy programs will be starting in grades 3 through eight this

014is a grant a grant funded program and although we would love to offer the program to everyone there are limited seeds due to the limited funding that we have have left and we've been working with our building principles to identify students using assessment data that's literacy focused if you need more information please follow up with your building Administration that's all we have for curriculum instruction all right thank you next is the assistant superintendent for human resources I have no updates tonight all right and we'll go back to the school business official nothing for me all right cooking all right we're going to move on to the director of P person down in special programs welcome thank you for having me good evening of you that don't know my name is I the personel special program

015um a little bit about my department um I am the program administrator for ALC that means dayto day there um just like the building administrators for other buildings um support the related services that means the OT the p this each our assistant um counselors our student assistant counselors I also supervise our attendance teachers our home lady on and our nurses um in addition to that I support the medical home instruction services for students so I work with our uh District uh coordinator for our nurses and our Dr rear who's our district um and to make sure that that are out on let not say that medic um to make sure they have their speech and things of that sort um also home uh homeschool students so right now the district has 122 um H school

016students so they are responsible the parents are responsible for their individual plan and handing in any paperwork um to follow the guidelines that will we over that as well um so I do support all obviously seven schools and our four private schools that's Harmony MPV mosor um Montgomery and foxville we have a student at foxville as well and I'm looking forward to the extended school year program so that's something also that um will be um ATA this year and be overseeing that as well so this is just a little chart of our numbers so our staff versus the amount of students that are being serviced in that area so our um OT we have nine staff members n District service and 14 outside um these don't include on the bottom I put the home instruction

017services so I didn't put those numbers in in those numbers so because those fluctuate right so anyone coming in or out um on medical or anything like that um you know pending placement it kind of changes so that's in addition to that our PT we have three of them and 56 students and one outside we have H 12 spee therapists there's 370 in District 23 outside um nursing we do house two nurses so we have one nurse at Harmony and one at so those we have that we Supply them with the nurse and there's 28 with in the district um and again we have 122 so with the three C so consistency community and coherence um for consistency we are trying to well we developed a process for the medical home instruction making sure that

018each student that goes out on medical home instruction they're getting the same info and the same point person and everything making sure that all the paperwork is in so we work on making sure that there was a streamline of guidelines um and processes that is being followed for parent um surveys for community so I have my attendance teachers working on sending out or putting together a parent survey to see what best services our parents in the community so they'll be sending out a parent survey to see what are some topics that um they would like more education on so they'll be doing that um this year um and this kind of provides us you know our parents and our commun opportunity to get training in an area that they're interested in learning in for coherence

019we are I'm working with a director of special ed to develop guidelines for Pushin model we would like to see like all related services including our Stacks I know our Stacks sometimes are now doing that within the classroom where they push in to do a lesson um but we would like to see that for all our related services or PT or OT PT might be a little tricky but we're thinking maybe uh you know gy class or P classes um to push into those um just to keep our our students within their classroom setting for um their time um sense of belonging uh I have worked um hard to try to build that trust and that communication within all of the Departments as you can see I have a lot of different hats that I

020wear so just trying to make sure that we're all on the same page to um continue in that um consistency throughout the the district excuse me I have a question do you provide the services to the homeschooled kids like PT OT any of those services are they provided to the children that are home school there's a June 1 de so get by June then the services are provided you go right to there a hard deadline so the deadline and that you go right to their home and provide services y so that's even with like home um home tutoring as well so they're getting tutored their services would be like our our people go to their home okay thank you keeping it going so again we're um use related services to to do pre- referral strategies

021for primary classes um continue collaboration between our service provider and our teachers making sure that they're collaborating to give us our students what they need and our IND District um extended school year um to maxiz our reimbursement lastly think we're looking forward to really solidifying that pushing model and continuing the consistency and communication across all services thank you any questions all right thank you very much all right next we'll move on to the director of safety and emergency preparedness all right good evening everybody see um quick presentation here so the over overview for uh security employment so with the support of the board Administration we have been able to strengthen our physical security uh and have added a lot of protection to it uh one of the things we've added is a safety film to

022all our windows or doors our exterior windows bottom floor doors uh then if our windows and doors are compromised they don't chatter out so uh that's a big big deal really important uh concentrate heavily as well on making sure our exterior doors all in working order and they're locked and secured at all all times uh we added a visitor aware system um that lets us know who's in our building at all times and they're escorted to and from nobody anybody wearing a visitor lanyard uh if they're unescorted that's a problem and uh we'll address it uh I haven't encounted that yet they've been they've been pretty good at that uh our in-house radio system our our our portable radios we had some spotting service going on um like comco came down he installed a new

023repeater for us uh we have a significant amount of new radios they're getting programmed during the Spring Break and our in-house radio system should give us great coverage uh campus wide uh as you all know we've added outside uh security uh kind of helps us with a layered uh tiered uh security so we have H monitors they all have their own roles to play have H monitors have their role our security officers have a role and our sro's have a role um so that that gives us a pretty good tiered system uh as you all know we have SRO in every single building uh big asset uh big safety feature to have them all there uh threat assessment teams so we we were able to get our threat assessment teams each school has a threat

024assessment team they're all on the same page they all have the same forms they've all had the same training uh there's a triage team there's a team leader uh we're in the process uh digitizing everything so school to school those threat assessments can follow uh students and don't get lost in the shuffle um uh twice a year I do semiannual we just had one I do a semiannual active shooter training with our sro's uh we just had one during the February break uh plan on doing one just before school opens again next year just to uh keep them a little bit fresh um our alert system every single phone in the district has a has an alert button on the phone um if there's an issue uh anyone can press that alert button you'll go

025do it goes to myself go Administration it goes to 911 um which is good is a human factor to it you know what may be catastrophic to one person may not be catastrophic to another so I like to think that they use some discretion and hitting that alert button because once you hit ghost of 911 things are rolling things are things are happening okay um okay some of the highlights here um consistency uh just security continually Patrol look for possible breaches uh soft areas that may be breach and uh just just be consistent in in the patrolling and and looking for those type of things um the added security is really been beneficial as as you see uh we've seen a decrease overall of incidents I mean all incidents by 43% now we did this

026uh from the first quarter last year as opposed to the first quarter this year um the think the thing that jumps off the page for me uh physical altercations decreased by 67% that came right from our own statistics um so and securities help provide a greater sense of of safety districtwide um my conversations and feedback I get is Teachers faculty staff they're focused on they're doing not so worried about security anymore I think they're feeling pretty safe right now um we also you know take the communities inut I've had conversations with parents and you know we're not that person where we know know all parents they have been they bring a benefit of ideas so um we use those uh those suggestions and you know evaluate them and some some of good suggestions um I

027already talked about how uh we have a tiered late system of security with all H miners um that's really working out well good relationship with our our SRO or whole monitors and uh uh security they really work well in concert so they doing they're doing a good job with each other um they support each other uh sense of belonging so all of our security people home monitors security officers SRO they're encouraged to engage and get to know the students um I don't want a guy just sitting at his desk at a post and looking at his phone you know I want them engaging the students and that's worked out well uh because we have a lot of students now that are I I see firsthand oh hey Al so and so hey you know and

028the interaction's really working out well not only that it gives us an Avenue for information that we might necessarily have um so all right so yeah let's keep it going um I definitely maintain I hope to main my current level of security but I'm a little greedy Brad knows it I'll take more I'll take whatever I can get um as I mentioned the the relationship with our security and student staff super positive um I really haven't had any issues we've been lucky in that that aspect um I'd like to take those numbers those positive numbers we had and uh I'd like to get them even low uh Bel low of the B and uh I myself as well as a district but specifically uh I have a really amazing relationship with our local law enforcement

029Sheriff State Police our local law enforcement anything I ask uh they're they're right there they provide our active shooter training uh they've done overhead shots of old schools for State leased the sheriff does active shooter training and uh every event I haven't been turned down yet for any events that we've asked for so the relationship with them is just really good so uh just a couple of really uh big things going on um the smart schools were're really in our final stage we any day I'm hoping to get the the approval for complete the smart schools um that's going to uh we're going to probably double close to double our our amount of Camas that we have in the school for swipe cards uh instead of keys people will be swiping in and out and

030uh that that'll help off security a lot uh and uh one of the last things no cost to us is the county came up with money so the law enforcing radios get spotted uh downstairs in basements things like that but the county uh they came up with some money and they're going to be install a repeater system in the schools for a law enforcement radio so there's no dead spots now I'm familiar what they what they're doing because I've been through it in other places and once it's completed it's going to be Flawless uh as far as uh the law enforcement communication as well and that's it just brief synopis of what's going on I have a question yes speaking of Technology last time I was in the middle school we have those little things

031that you put your driver's license in and they scan them yes that wasn't working and there was a comment that they haven't been working or working well and so they they looked at the driver's license and checked everything you know manually but I'm wondering is that an ongoing issue is there a problem with those that was the to switch system it's a good system and it works very well a lot of school districts use it but there's a distance factor involved in communicating with it we're not really set up for that right now so we discontinued that and went to self-service kios that uh is working better was that like the iPad right yes yeah that was there okay but I do I just had a conversation with the IT director actually today uh when

032the vules are done uh for the school district that Capital project we'll probably go back to Raptor because we won't be distancing our security guy will be able to take it and do the uh The Exchange uh credential exchange right there and uh that should work well thank you any other question do you have a question you mentioned um upgrading the in-house radio system and that something was going to happen over the spring break is that the same as what you just mentioned in terms of the counties no completely different the county what they're doing that's strictly to law enforcement portable radios okay the in-house system is for the radios that we use in the district so not to tell us where there's some spotty areas but what you said it's going to be great

033can you qualify so we have we tested come down and they they came down we did test uh we went to the far end of the high school as far as you can go and uh we sent someone down to the stairwell in the science Wing that uh in the middle school that stairwell little shady communication Flawless but the problem right now is I have to do I have to push new radios out after spring it's all the same radios but the new radios are programmed for the new repeater the old ones are not so I'm collecting all the radios before the spring break and during the spring break I'm going to get with nikco and we're going to upgrade uh I'll reprogram all the current radios we have and then we can push out

034the entire radio system back to to everybody great other questions all right thank you thank you thank you all right next we're going to move on to social emotional support specialist good evening nice to see everyone my name is Nancy Simmons and I a social emotional support specialist for the district um so this is my second school year found essential and I TR truly enjoy the uniqueness of my role um when attending to matters on this list I'm able to address situations that otherwise might not get the attention or support needed because they're very they're usually very time consuming and require a lot of follow while addressing challenging situations I have the opportunity to enter as a non-biased participant um observe evaluate investigate and provide recommendations based on my vs my role also allows me

035to make real connections with families by visiting them in their homes and hearing about their personal challenges this practice makes it easier to relate to the students when they're experiencing the crisis actually back first so I'm just gonna I don't like to read from slides um so I'm just going to pick one thing on this fun list of things to do um and that's modeling teaching modeling and teaching the escalation and conflict resolution so the approach I take is from three different angles I first of all teach students how to navigate fear conflicts I conduct yearly um verbal and physical deescalation conflict resolution training with staff and with parents I provide outside support and different approaches to uh discipline because I think we can all agree that one of the most challenging aspects of being

036app parent is addressing challenging behaviors and we know it's takes a village but that's the approach that's the approach that we take with every situation so the focus of this presentation was to speak primarily on my role and its impact on the district as a social emotional support specialist but it would be impossible to do any of this without the ongoing support from teachers Administration counselors and support staff so when speaking on Department highlights two examples came came to my mind immediately the first was at the elementary level um I provided support for a team who this was a student who was experiencing a school avoidance behavior we conducted several home visits put supports in place by assisting um I'm Sorry by assigning roles to each member of the family they developed a new morning

037routine we followed up with Daily Progress monitoring created a chart for them to follow set realistic expectations and reviewed personal accountability and currently we're working on a positive reward system in January the student had 12 absences in February that went down to five so that's an increase in attendance of just over 40% the second example and probably one of the most humbling experiences from the school year so far was at the secondary level there was a student suffering academically behaviorally and socially he allegedly was participating in Risky behaviors and admitted to using recreational drugs I organized a restorative group in which 14 staff members volunteered I emphasized volunteered no one forced them to do it um consisting of Administrators teachers counselors and support staff and when I say teachers it wasn't just his academic teachers

038his study wall teacher and the teacher that supervises his lunch period was also there in addition to a whole H mom and the sudden both attended this um this meeting it was incredibly powerful and moving every participant in the room um was moved and there weren't many dry eyes everyone spoke from the heart the student's mother shared that she wished something like this had happened with her daughter it was very emotional she shared that something like this would have been helpful because her daughter had struggled with sub Abus in her it it was a room like this and everyone poured their hearts for the student it was very emotional so just reading about it that for me I apologize so she had um Sor okay so so she um mom had shared that her daughter

039struggled and continues as an adult in her 20s continues to struggle with subance abuse and was blown away by the support in the room for her son so um due to that overwhelming amount of support in the room the student admitted that had a problem needed help signed up for outside uh and and agreed to sign up for an outside treatment program which he's currently ening so these are the types of impacts I hope that we continue to have this year and years to come moving on um so some of the things we'd like to keep going um like I said I work very closely with the Student Assistance counselors um School psychologists teachers administrators and everyone's working really hard at the elementary level um to work in PBIS um for example they have bking

040bucks where students can win prizes um there's character Ed pushing lessons lunch groups focus groups where we talked about relationship skills appropriate social interactions accountability um our responsibility as a student as a community member owning our mistakes and learning from them um for support groups we have things like at the secondary level check and connect and student advisory and that's um those are different forms and ways to connect and Foster a sense of belonging so looking forward um while teachers focus on academics our department is focused on developing good humans um our goals in mind we want to increase attendance promote engagement improve graduation rates and produce young adults that are ready to join the competitive Workforce personally I'd like to focus more on promoting and building positive peer relationships and connections that's where I

041put Big Brother little sister I'm I'm working with our two new Behavior Specialists there's one in the high school one in the middle school and we really want to help with the train ition from middle school to high school we see a lot of immaturity um and we just feel like they don't listen to us they don't who wants to listen to their parents or adults um they take but they take what their peers say to heart so um something that we the three of us have discussed um along with the building administrators M baxer and Dr Burns um is just I I believe there was something similar to this years ago I I'm not sure why that um didn't continue but that is something that we're going to look into again Foster relationships and

042um you know engagement and stuff like that sense of belonging I think would increase with that um and then also with the re-entry me and practices districtwide I'm going to be having some focus groups I I really want to um strengthen the re-entry process and there's there's just a handful of students that have a lot of repeated School suspensions um I'm going to get to the root cause of that why why are we not learning from these behaviors normally you do something once you like that was uncomfortable let me not do it again they're repeating the behavior so I want to find out what's causing that um and then lastly explore what type of social emotional learning um curriculum can we can we look into that will help the students that don't do well in

043the traditional classroom set so thank you for allowing me this to speak about the work that's going on in you know the counseling mental health and support services world all right thank you any questions I have a question so in Steve's presentation he was talking about the number of incidents has gone way down like pretty significant number and although I'm sure he would love to take all the credit do you think that the work you and your support staff are doing has had an impact on that number like a significant impact I I would say yes um can you would too absolutely yeah kind of work like the mom giving the hugs the dad sending them to their room so and I ask only because like this is kind of new and you this whole

044piece of this that's why I'm asking how it's working and if if those numbers are reflecting of what you're doing I would I would like to think so um and that's data that we're trying to figure out how to we're working with some um it people to figure out how how can we track that because it's a very hard thing to navigate on paper um all I can think of right now is just so look like I said these kids that are repeating the same behaviors um just try to like I said find out what the root cause is and and then go from there um but like threat assessments for example um Steve had mentioned that there's Now teams established in every building which is really helpful um and then what I'm doing is

045because they're all unique every time there is a threat assessment none of them are the same they're all very um different in their own way and that can be really challenging and confusing for people so for consistency sake I'm kind of helping the team is gathering all the information and doing the threat assessment and then I'm just there to make sure that everything is being done done the correct way consistently and um for Fidel Fidelity sake just making sure that we're going like we're not missing anything thank you so that way you know when when things progress we have we have everything there that wek you I have a comment yeah um I think it's great what you're doing and I love the idea of the Big Brother little sister and professionally I do this

046for a living as well and it seems like the students who don't have the connection to the high school you see as repeat offenders so maybe if they do find a connection having a peer mentorship is super important knowing that they have someone they can look up to especially nth and 10th grade who seem to struggle with their emotions and everything everything yeah any other questions all right thank you thank you thank you all right next we're g to move on to the director of data testing upk and a P evening to see everybody thank you for having me um so as Mr V just said um I wear all that like does um myice so for APR in case you're not familiar I know there are a lot of acrms in the education world

047but that stands for annual professional performance review and um under education law 32d teachers and principles are required to be evaluated annually and their scores recorded to C Department um so we currently have actually after I S 367 teachers that we do evaluations for and then the six principles um I set up all the teacher evaluations in the system called front line that we use for that and um that's so that the administrators when they go in to enter the data from their observations they can locate the teachers they to assign to evaluate in that particular year um I also monitor their completion progress as they're going through that during the year and then um at the end of the year I have to finalize everything and um determine final scores and those then eventually

048get sent up to so each of our noner teachers has um one announced observation and two walk through observations we kind of refer to them as walkr number one and walkr number two our 10year teachers have one announc and one walk through so we have a total um of 367 announced observations 367 walk through number one observations and 61 walk through number two observations ation for a total of 795 teacher observations that have to be done by our small group of Administrators every year um Ed 32d also mandates that principles are evaluated um the superintendent is responsible for completing those evaluations and um each principal has to have two announced observations and one unannounced observation um we also have what we call non-teaching professionals there happen to be 84 of them currently and they get

049what is called a summi of evaluation um 30 law 32d does not apply to them so we do not have to report their scores um and um those consist of Staff members such as the literacy and mouth Consultants guidance counselors occupational therapists physical therapists nurses speech staff and student assistments counselors um and then finally under that section um the assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction and I are developing a um a new sum of evaluation form that will be used for all those non teing professionals um in the past we kind of just had more of a narrative that the administrators completed and it wasn't a uniform um document that we used early so they was kind of looked a little bit different we're trying to make that more consistent moving on to um stay dead

050data reporting um so along with recording the teacher on princip evaluation scores in ratings which if you have heard of Heidi ratings um that's what those are H in Heidi stands for highly effective e is for Effective D is for developing and I is for ineffective um that's just one of our data reporting responsibilities other data that we have to report and then we have to verify that data after it gets reported to the state and we also have to correct errors which is a large team effort with amongst many staff throughout the District um encompasses student demographics student enrollment programs such as um English as new language or um special education um course course instructor assignment student class entry exit day calendar student daily attendance student digital resources special education snapshot special education event

051data and all New York St testing scores staff data that we have to report includes step snapshot sta assignment sta tenure and staff attendance so sted began collecting data over a decade ago and when they first started there were only four data templates that they required today all districts in the state 's and charter schools are required to submit data using 25 different templates with varied reporting timelines and business rules so we have a document called the stirs manual um and that is the data recording as I like to call B um that state publishes that details all of those recoring rules for the current school year we're already on the fifth version of that document it's 299 pages long and some years there have been as many as 15 versions so data in New

052York state for education is a constantly changing and evolving process um moving on to data Protection Officer and Ed law 2D um so data Protection Officer is also often referred to as DP um I um and when we get an ed law Tod um is the unauthorized release of personally identifiable information which we also refer to as Pi another one of those acronyms um so edlaw 2D requires that every educational agency designates a staff person in their District to be the DPO and that person is responsible for implementing the policies and procedures required under Ed law Tov while I am the designated on paper DPO um Chris Moore the director of technology and I jointly share of the DP responsibilities and some of those responsibilities include protecting student and staff Pi annually securing data privacy

053and security agreements with all of our third party vendors uh publishing a parents Bill of Rights for data privacy and security on the website providing and monitoring completion of annual data privacy and security training for all staff investigating potential breaches or unauthorized releases of v um Chris I also co-chair the district C security governance team and we also participate as members of the orange oses data privacy and security service coaster moving on to New York Cate testing so um my office collaborates with building administrators as well as the Mid Hudson Reginal information center for the preparation Administration scoring and reporing of all New York city so the first couple up there um everybody I'm sure familiar with but the last three that are again some acronyms I'll just let you know what those are so

054Nisa is the New York State alternate assessment that is for our special education ungraded students um the nicest left is the New York State English as a second language achievement test and the Niel is the New York state identification test for English language letterers so when students first come to our district if they have not been administered the Nel um and they are you know their primary language is something other than English we administer that to determine if they indeed qualified for enl services and what level they're at school tools our student management system and um in the district myself and my assistant Maran are the main points of contact for all things related to school schol we troubl shoot issues we review and share updat that occur from the midon regional information center quite

055frequently we create and run reports and we pull extracts to do nice and data reporting all Student Records are maintained in school tool including attendance emergency contacts students class schedules programs grades transcripts discipline and medical information School tool is also used for scheduling classes so admin administrators in each building have to create a master schedule every year they have to assign teachers to each class and master schedule then they have to enroll students in each of those classes um it's also encompasses our that's where our teacher grade books reside and um additionally that's where we set our marketing periods to open close and publish to the student and parent portals Universal cre so um we do have three separate grants that we receive um they are half day full day and expanded day um annually

056um we have to apply for those Grant so there's three separate applications each application includes its own budget as well and it has to be developed um we advertise for the upcoming release of the new application every year that takes place generally between November and December there is a parent information night which is also the same day that we release the new application that occurs in January um January to March we process the applications that parents are handing in we conduct a lottery in April um and then once the lottery is complete we place each student at one of the community based organizations that we contract with for our prev services in the order and place those students in the order that they were selected in the lottery um additionally um we oversee those Community

057Based organizations all throughout the year uh we hold quarter of the upk committee meetings and um we collaborate with um State Office of early learning and plan they there's an annual quality assurance protocol visit that they come and do to evaluate our program um they're actually coming on March 20th and 21st for the current school year so um I actually um so we have 193 students um last year well I'll get let me move on so highlights of the the department for consistency um so talking about going back to that the evaluations so in conjunction with Dillinger rad um we created an evaluation dashboard and that is um the purpose of it is to assist administrators with tracking and completing their observations so we kind of set Milestones which is this is something we've never

058done in the past we also try to um have evaluations or how many how many um teachers were assigned to each principal or assistant principal to evaluate a little bit more equitably as much as we can some of that's defined by the building itself um so and and then um I run progress reports at least monthly to um give those updates to them and they can monitor um you know who they're assigned to complete that kind of thing anytime they want to take a the dashb everybody has access to that um for Community um so last year we were approved for our third upk grant that was specifically for what we call expanded day so um we did start that last year that included giving us the ability to add 40 additional um upk seats

059and um in addition to that which I didn't get on this slide um this year we received an additional [Music] $187,100 that want everybody is is receiving that coherence um I mentioned earlier about under as part of the D responsibility the training so all staff receive the exact same training um we subscribed to It's called The Rick one DPSS service and um that has three different modules to it and all staff have to log in and complete each of those three modules there's approximately 19 questions in each module but um from teachers administrators par professionals custodians Food Service workers everybody get the exact same train and then sense of belonging um I am going to be haven't started this yet but will be conducting some student voice focus groups and the purpose of those are

060um specifically to um gather information from students on how we can better um increase the utilization um for them with using School tool there was a student portal and the parent portal but we want to specifically get some information from students about how we could better meet their needs with that so keeping it going um the evaluation dashboard next steps um I mentioned already um we do monthly updates on that at least more frequently if anyone asks that kind of a thing and then the second two bullets the cyber security incident response plan and the business continuity plans um they all fall in heading of the DPO and Ed law 2D and um they kind of go together so looking ahead what we want to keep doing with that is to now the next step

061is really to run a test um that would be to kind of implement we have our incident response plan that's already written um and all of our buildings and departments are currently working on creating a business continuity plan and what that is is in the event that we had some type of an event here in the district where we lost internet um completely how would each building how would each department continue to run their building and their Department without computers essentially so um everybody's working on that and once that's written you know really for both of these things then we want to test it where are the gaps so that we can make tweaks to our plans so that in a real life situation where as best prepar as possible and looking forward to 2425

062um so one of the things that we've discussed doing in upk is to have more collaboration between our upk staff who are located at those Community Based organizations and our kindergarten staff and what we want to do is have kindergarten staff visit the upk teachers classrooms and vice versa so they can really get an idea of what's going on in each of the classrooms and um kind of collaborate and work together to make any improvements where we can do that um additionally we want to facilitate ongoing inservice training for upk providers one of the things that I specifically interested in being able to offer to them is an ins service on the science of reading um so e and I have spoken about that um you know so we're going to see if we can

063get that on for next year and then finally um providing teachers Administration with ongoing building and District wide dat to support targeted professional any questions no all right thank you all right next up is our office of curriculum and instruction does anyone need a bathroom break or a water break there some hard acts to follow thank you for this evening um with our presentations today gives us a lot of overview of the department that we have that work and come with each other in our district but also some that fall under curriculum of instruction as well just as a note on my slides that doesn't say one11 it does say one through four so I'm buing PowerPoint and Microsoft and not Google um if the superintendent was here she would definitely go against me and

064want to go with Microsoft but anyway with that said just as a reminder that our mission of the Valley Central School District is to develop responsible and productive members of society in a safe and Innovative environment where students are motivated to think critically communicate effectively and Achieve excellence in active partnership with the community and knowledge and and a knowledgeable and dedicated staff though that is supported by our goals right um in regards to our increasing student achievement attracting and retaining knowledgeable on dedicated staff serving as a Cornerstone of the community and course the last goal is it's support the first gr so with that said some of the continued iives that cni have um is working with the building Administration and today's today's students tomorrow's teachers and continue with that initiative through next year evaluating

065monitoring and Co and managing our co-curricular as well as our extracurricular activities so that really specifically gets into the evaluating and monitoring of that and we're beginning to have do some of those those steps and processes this year which will continue into next year participation with our B model schools so specifically we work we are a model School through bis and we get additional updates for instructional technology and how to update our curriculum so that also leads into initiatives that speak to the curriculum committee meetings that we currently have and we'll be expanding on next year so for example our p5a literacy committee our 612 department meetings as well as um I um but specifically our elementary with also the department meetings that I'm having with them as well um our common common form of

066Assessments our cfas our Consultants as well as our department shairs have been working diligently in creating some of those common assessments for our students um Family nights including our Ela Ela math and steam our dare program at the elementary level as well as our New York SCH of by literacy and Civic literacy at the for graduation requirement and last but not least having our active student governance so with that said some additional initiatives for next year that are being that we have proposed are the mcss procedures the implementation of the mcss procedures and plan right now as I said before we do have our mcss committee that has began um we are re we are reviewing and revamping our mcss and AIS plan that is currently in place and so we'll be putting some additional

067procedures for that okay also guidelines and Pathways for our Advanced courses so in communication with some of our community members as well as with the high school and second and Middle School um administrations we are really looking at what are the pathways and guidelines that we have for advanced courses and communicating that with the community as well as our students and parents along with the supports that are going to be in place or that we currently have in place as we're looking on student achiev at the community level you're looking specifically I am [Music] exploring this secondary pilot and it's a curriculum that will be more better suited for our secondary level working also with community members and again secondary Administration to expand our work based learning program and our student assemblies additionally um as

068I also mentioned we have our literacy presentations that we've been holding this year that will lead into the work of next year for a literacy pilot it is not identified but when I have identified A literacy pilot I will unveil that to you all um but we're very excited about the work that's happening and the amount of valuation and um discussions that are really they deep discussions about what our say what the needs are in our district and how we best support our students along with that we are are going to put together a grading policy committee that will to start this year but with the development of hopefully a grading policy for next year um to present to the board and the evaluation of course of curriculum for Equity engagement as well as riger

069some of the initiatives that support attaining anal staff dedicated staff we are working with the superintendent to identify some model classrooms that will begin with voluntary teachers to open their doors of model classroom and that would start this year but again really flourish for next year and be flushed out more for next year targeted professional development as always but specifically targeted professional development for science of reading AI sports program team Etc in regards to community under other knowledgeable and raining dedicated staff I'm specifically looking at implementing a cni newsletter think that that's one component that will help to communicate just what's happening with cni in addition to what I address at the board meeting professional learning of course again and that's focused specifically onl and culturally responsive sustaining educ sustaining education which is also the

070work for diversity equity and inclusion and then as I also mentioned we have started our Mentor committee where we are reviewing and updating guidelines for our Mentor program so next year that will lead into the work of implementing and monitoring that Mentor program um and collaborating with human resources on the biking production program that falls under mentorship and also but not last but not least is the implementation of our New York State digital fluency standards so in regards to serving as the Cornerstone of the community as well as supporting the first three goals um for consistency purposes um and initiative that I have proposed I am working with Mr confin for our capital projects and the superintendent for our science La C the lens that I take for curriculum and instruction is specifically looking at

071how do we support the implementation of nextg Standards while being aligned to State compliance um and what does that mean for again for our our new implementation of the Life Science Biology which we may formerly know that Liv environment um and Urban space science which we know science um in addition to that collaborating of course with the business official as well for extracurricular and field trips to support curricul construction we are also looking at parent engagement activities so yes many of our buildings have and our PTO and ptas have many parent engagement activities but really targeting them and in and looking for ways to increase participation that's meaningful for our parents and our students bc21 bc21 is a is an initiative that I came into in the sense that I I so happily adopted um

072and now I'm looking to reand and so with that um we are looking at rebranding bc21 and that's really just giving a little bit of a facelift um making sure that parents are the community are aware of what what's the intention of ec21 how can we promotee the communication as as well as building the bridge between our school district and of course our community and our parents again as we're looking at coherence we are expanding our work space work based learning program so if you're beginning to see a theme it's really like tightening up what's happening in in the school district and with curriculum instruction but also looking at avenues to connect to our community um and then again aligning curriculum to any and all fa sol upgrades any questions questions what are the top

073three needs for vc2 G to be I know you got ideas 22 but I I will put some together and then maybe we can go on it if you've been to any of my committee meetings I know most of them I have with with teachers in the morning um but they feel I'm I'm All About like informed and give me your feedback so that I can make aned decision great any other questions all right thank you thank all right um next we're going to do community participation so we'll go around I I don't know if you want to let these kids go if they're waiting for yeah they're all set oh they do yeah oh sorry I was overruled all right uh participation Andrew uh yes on January uh or February 28th I attended a

074BC Valley Central Education Foundation meeting um they're looking at different ways to fund raise in the community and also um efforts to get their name and their mission out in the community uh and I also attended the girls basketball Walk Hill vers Valley Central game last week Jen I don't have anything Sarah uh yes I went up to Albany uh to watch our Valley Central boys wrestle at the state meet uh Luke satriano won his second State title in a row and EJ boss Place second they did amazing and it was um so nice to see how many BC people made the trip up there to support them and while we were in Albany we went over to RPI and watched the two AC capella groups compete in regionals um the Valkyries play second and

075the Box tones were third and um um same thing with wrestling I think probably out of all the teams there three qus of the audience were people who traveled from VC so it was amazing to see the support for our students um I also attended the girls sections basketball game and today I um went down to Newberg and met with Congressman Pat Ryan at his um office today with one of his staffers um that was set up with with uh some other of the oxa delegates just to open the lines of communication as part of our advocacy efforts this year okay okay di okay for me all right I went to the boys basketball game at kipy we robbed a little bit there was some officiating there I know it could have played better but

076there was there are some questions I'm I'm not going to get fined by anybody all right public comment nothing all right we are going to move on to our budget presentation I'm so sorry all 48 pages who's counting correctores did you bring Refreshments go very quickly there's lots of pictures I heard there are some pictures here so is large of the 2425 budget so we're going to talk really high level numbers at this point and when we come back at the next meeting with the superintendent Rec budget that's when the board will get the line by line breakdown but this is just high level pretty much all of the codes of these areas summed up into I think three or four category so special education B's overall for the district Athletics Transportation uh Safety and

077Security and then fund balance and revenue which is a little bit of a repeat from what we did in January and also talk about a proposed T project that voters would have to approve so our calendar um coming up next as I said on March 18th would be the superintendent proposed budget and then uh we'll have a month to have conversations if if uh that's words desire and we will also have time to wait to see how the state's budget comes together if there would be any additional State a for us or um possibly State reduction I don't expect it but it is entirely possible on April 22nd nominating petitions are due to the district clerk there's two board seats that are open um for this year uh petitions will be available beginning today I'll

078review them after this presentation brings us to May 13th which is the budget hearing and May 21st budget vote at the high school so again um this slide just kind of quantifies down here at the bottom they are they are preliminary at this point we will bring forward the superv recommended budget these may change slightly but let's start with special education and BOS so I know that you did get some information presented to you at the last meeting um just would like to point out this this current year 2324 and our classification by category up down at the bottom you can see our classified students 868 for the 23 24 year compared to 2223 827 and one of the factors that do Drive budget to budget increase especially this year is in part due to

079CSC placements again this year um we have 29 students uh believe osies six residentials and then in District 798 out of District 57 so special identification budget overall we we do spend a lot of money uh however it is very important um right now our biggest increase is in this contractual code so one of the big factors that's driving that for us is our special education private Tu so this would be um for students that go to places like Center for Discovery out of District placements that are very very costly um we're expecting almost $500,000 increase in that area of budget for next year um we are still having conversations the superintendent and the director special ed to just confirm that those amounts um are accurate but that is a big factor that's driving our

080budget overall especially here in special education the reason why it's on that contractual line is we do have contracts in place that would be a contractional item to pay the schools that we go to both overall so as you know m is a very big partner for for not only Valley cenal but for districts AC across Orange County they do budget Bo Services Personnel Services onm uh you name it Administration costs that we pay them um to run that program great from Development Special Education and ctec Library Services uh guided Services print shop um the Viking calendars that come out in August budg newsletters they are all printed um from bosis Athletics as far as our referees um and then we partner with them and we're part of the Consortium for workers compensation and health

081insurance this is Bose's overall for the district next year we're proposing a modified increase from 9.2 million of this year to 9.7 next year this also does include the additional cost for their BOS Capital project which voters of the county approved in October of 22 I believe Athletics um overall so as of right now the proposed budget for athletics would increase slightly from 92429 to 1 1, 152,00 $142 and when we come back uh at the next meeting get a little bit more detail um if we are able to uh include any sort of new teams or we can give you a little bit of breakdown on the equipment um I can just give you a sneak preview which what's driving a pretty large increase in that um the athletic equipment line is to replace

082wrestling M that are due operations of Maintenance uh historically we try to give you some pictures of work that's been done inhouse at at each building so I apologize um we didn't add more to this presentation just two pictures I think on the left is some sinks that were installed over the summer at Montgomery and then there was some painting done on the hallways at wal uh again just few pictures there's many many projects that were completed over the last year operations maintenance overall uh an increase here you remember in in uh a recent contract that was settled for csda um thank you to the board we took a large step in hoping to be able to retain our current uh custodians and maintenance um compared to other districts we're having a hard time with

083attention um but here we will see an increase in overall from 5.9 million 6.4 million next year Safety and Security um again um I think you kind of all know what this is but involves Steve and his City director of safety emergency preparedness we have SRO officers in each building as as discussed this was our first year with contracted security personnel and um as with last year our SRO did provide coverage for summer school and also event coverage and uh this this summer we expect the same our summer school program will look different this year it will not be as it has been um the last couple years at this point so it'll be a limited program the esy program um which will uh run here at Bia serve our special education needs over the

084summer and then I expect uh there will be a limited high school program that runs in the high school possibly middle school as well but at this point it is not likely that it be busing as there has been for the past few years um during the the years of the grant running as well well as the elementary program as it has been for the last few years under grant money uh it is just simply not likely that that will be able to continue based on our Revenue so Safety and Security overall this um last year as this developed it was in the on M category of the budget um really it's to provide security of of uh the operations and and plan of the building so this year it's kind of broken out um

085when you see the line by line budget these are what we call our 16 22s um contractor security this is the big one for um Atlas um which provides the the com high school and middle school next year about $615,000 to provide the same level of coverage that we're seeing this year uh sro's um we're approaching $400,000 a year on on SRO and then we also built in some monies for strual supplies um Steve is requested some additional dat detectors I think there's five that are included in there some radio repairs that's needed um so who would have thought five or 10 years ago that the school district would be uh spending $1.2 million of security every year um but here we are and it is important moving forward transportation again I say this every

086year first student is a tremendous is partner for the district as other districts struggle with retention for drivers um we do not have that problem here first student has done an awesome awesome job uh for us we currently run uh 33 large buses 22 small buses five whe buses four bands and in addition to our industry schools we serve uh boes Center for Discovery uh all these schools here um parochial schools private it is AB a huge operation that that runs daily um really here uh stat 12 not not much is changing a modest increase 6.6 million to 6.7 million fund balance and reserves uh this slide you did see it in January so we're just going to skip skip over unless the students here have any questions and they just want to go home

087um we will make a recommendation on appropriating fund balance at at the next work meeting I expect it'll be uh in line or slightly above where we were at last year with $1.4 million our reserves that we have available to us um revenues so one thing that's usually important for school districts is revenues have to equal your expenditures and um our tax levy cap for next year is 5.66% I do not expect the superintendent's recommended budget will include a recommended tax Lo increase of that High um I I expect it will be I had to say um less than four more than two so that's kind of where we're at um right now I but is not here today so I don't but um our last few years of tax levy increases you remember last

088year we were 0.92 year before that we were 1 um 1.7 1.8 two years before that 28 so um we'll obviously make a recommendation at the next L one thing that's interesting this year is there is a retirement system exclusion so $1,996 this is allowed to us from the uh the state based on an increase in ERS cost ERS is Employee Retirement cost for the non-certified employees that are not in the TRS system even though TRS rates are expected to tick up a little bit not enough to generate an exclusion in the tax cap um so rates are rates are on the rise Revenue overall this this shows uh the real property taxes at 5.66% as I said there's not likely that the recommendation this year it's the board's pleasure if you would like to

089um I don't know how Community would feel about that but um that is that is just calculated tax cap number so as we talk about in past as the state always says 2% tax Gap that's simply uh not the case there's many other factors that go into that that will allow a district to go over um that 2% one factor is we were so far under it last year we do have a certain amount of carryover available to us uh state aid so this is the projected state aid based on the the governor's estimate that we get January the next step is to wait for the um legislature to approve their budget which hopefully will be at the end of March and then we'll take another look at things um the Bose's Capital project a

090this is ticking up by 75,000 this is the the eight that we get on that expense um and the remainder of it and we'll have information on that true cost when uh we present the recommended budget next week or the next meeting uh the remainder of that does have to get picked up by the local taxpayers so Capital project 2024 um if the board approves this would be a recommended um Capital project to go out to the voters um really just basic barebone stuff that we can do based on the amount of money that we have in the capital reserve at a zero tax impact to the voters um at this time we would recommended the high school remove and replace the dividing door between the large and the small gymnasium these doors uh I

091don't know if this one particular is original to the building I know for certain the ones that the Middle School are they are being becoming very very difficult uh to maintain um and get them to open and close uh number one safely but two without them breaking so it is time um to recommend these dividing doors be replaced District wide at the Middle School uh same thing there's a dividing door in the gymnasium and a dividing door in the uh the cafeteria at the middle school as well well there would be a select number of the exterior doors that would be replaced at the pool so projects that are been identified at the pool for replacement is an exterior door there as well full replacement of the pool the pool filtration and pump system a

092replacer replacement of the boiler system replacement of skylights and to reground the pool deck uh this is a picture of the pool deck um this kind of condition around the area it's just time for that to be redone and you remember a few years ago I think it was during Co actually we had regrouted the interior of the pool now it's time to go ahead and do the the pool deck Appia again select exterior door Replacements replacement of the dividing door in the gymnasium and replacement of a water softener system which is located in the basement there and he Colden hands like door replacement and replacement of the dividing doors in the gymnasium at May replacement of Select exterior doors at Montgomery this is would be the most expensive project that would be recommended at

093this point it would be a full replacement of the Slate roofing system to our knowledge and understanding this is the original roof that was on the school when it was built in 1936 if somebody proved me wrong I would have these to uh to give you the win on that one but from from what we know that's the original roof 1936 this would also restore the central Tower located in the middle of the building um from this picture without zooming in uh you can see that a piece of the paneling has has come off so it's um time to get that addressed would also replace the dividing uh door of the gymnasium here you though this one's a little bit newer and um it would just be recommended to go ahead and replace it and

094go to a curtain style system and get away from those dividing doors at Walden here just replacement of Select exterior doors around the perimeter of the building uh to summarize all them it would be $4.7 Million worth of total construction and incidentals um if the board is interested Jason would be happy to come down at the next four meeting and go over to the financials and detail um but we um we would add a little bit of financial contingencies so say the the capitalized interest also he builds in a little bit of Da protection for us if we end up going da R bonds um and this would be offset by reserves um and don't have the exact uh amount on me so I'm afraid to say it here publicly but it was north of

095a million south of two million of reserves and this entire work can be done and a zero tax impact to the vo if there's any question questions for the budget and your Capital project please reach out um to us with that I'll just say if you have any questions let us know um but we can bring this back at the next board meeting with the resolutions and SE and all that um are you ready for questions sure all right go ahead you can go first are you sure so sorry um is the intent to replace the slate roof at Montgomery with slate yes that is what is budgeted at at this at this time um we can also have Tom come in and if you have any questions for him I think in order to

096make any changes you have to go through I don't know if we using the right term but I think it's shipa it's a historic preservation aspect of n head so um is this considered a historic is that historic district I I don't know but I think anytime you do work on these older buildings that affects the facade or the roof I have not been through any of these projects is that you have to get their approval to do it now we could go a different route with an alternative Materia like a plastic slate or I don't know if I was going to say there's look Alik sl's more product out there I just don't know what the approval process is for that but this cost is based on replacing it slate for slate really I

097didn't even know people did that I mean listen it last in years that's pretty good so but it's gota be a cheaper that's got cheaper [Music] way yeah very we gotta go cheaper because yeah unless you're in a drone you can't see that roof anyway right so sorry so I was gonna piggy back on the roof question I believe I remember you saying at some point when we are going to replace Roots it might be a time to consider right some other issues in terms of agback systems also what about solar paneling systems so at this building um there would be no placement of any sort of equipment on theate angle grps there's plenty of space on solar sure we could we could look at it I know I have a person looked at it

098this position I looked at it years ago uh just want to go back to the special ed increase is that because of services or because of the number of students getting services like are the Ser is the cost of the services increasing or are we sending more kids or both so um I don't want us to to speak here publicly and something so why don't you Circle back to you get back to all right any other questions for br I have two go one is good job getting through those slides quick so the mtgy roof is just the pitched part in the front it's not the flat park in the back it's not okay and my other question is in the Sal salaries lines like instructional salaries do they include benefits or are they strictly

099salary no benefits benefits will be in line you get next okay thank you all right any other questions for [Music] Brad all right than you thank okay was pain next we're gonna move on to new business I get a motion to adopt the 2425 student calendar Diana Sarah second all in favor I oppos 70 thank you next is the review of the 2024 petitions for board candidate seats back to Brad that was me all right so information for Board of Education candidates uh what are the qualifications for membership on the board an individual must be able to read and right must be a qualified voter of the district that is a citizen of the United States at least 18 years of age or older and not a judge to be mentally incompetent by a court

100must be and have been a resident but need not to be a taxpayer of the district for a continuous and uninterrupted period of at least one year immediately prior to the election may not have been removed from any school district office within the preceding Year may not reside with another member of the same school board as a member of the same family may not be a current employee of the district may not simultaneously hold another incompatible public office School Board nominations all nominees run at large which means each nominee is eligible for every vacancy rather than only for a specific seat and nominating petition do not State a specific seat nominating petitions will be available beginning March 4th 2024 at the administration office 2024 nominating petitions must be signed by at least 26 qualified District

101voters a qualified voter is a citizen of the United States at least 18 years old and a resident of the school district for at least 30 days immediately prior to the election at which he or she seeks to vote nominating petitions must be filled out with the district clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. Monday April 22nd 2024 uh term of office to elect two members of the to the Board of Education as follows two members for three-year terms commencing July 1st 2024 and expiring June 30th 2027 candidates night will be held Thursday May 9th at 7 pm at the middle school and the annual district election and budget vote will be Tuesday May 21st 6: am to 9:00 p.m. in the Valley Central High School gymnasium all right next uh can I get a motion

102for the adoption of resolution for reduction of tax assessment and payment of refunds due to court order on subject shop R supermarkets motion to adopt Sarah second I'll second Katie on in favor opposed okay all right first first reading oh good and then you're out of here kids go I'm go here first reading homebound instruction 4327 homebound instruction is a service provided to students who are unable to participate in their usual educational settings at home or in a hospital other Institution for the treatment of children other than a school due to Temporary or chronic illness or injury from physical mental or emotional reasons home bound instruction is provided to students anticipate to be able to attend school in person for at least 10 days during a three-month period as documented by the students treating health

103care provider parents Guardians must make a request for home bound instruction to the district's medical director or designes such request must include written medical verification from the students's treating health care provider and consent from the medal director designed to contact the treating health care provider the parent May appeal denials to the Board of Education within 10 school days of receiving the denial notification if the request is approved or if the request is denied an appeal is pending before the board the district will provide instructional services within five school days after receiving notification of the student's medical condition or request for homebound instruction when approved for home bound instruction secondary students receive instruction for at least 15 hours per week for at least three hours per day if possible elementary students receive at least 10 hours

104per week for at least two hours per day if possible students receive credit for their work while on homebound instruction the higher minimum hours of instruction listed above may be reduced upon parent Guardian requests supported by documentation by the treating health care provider but may not be lower than the lower minimum hours listed above in such cases the district must ensure that the student is unable to receive the minimum hours of instruction must document the reason in the instruction delivery plan describe below and must review the plan at least once a month to determine when the hours can be increased once approved the district makes Provisions for home bound instruction for all students residing in the district attending public and non-public schools in grades kindergarten to age 21 home bound instruction may be provided by

105the district or by a tutor who must hold a New York state teaching certificate and who may be employed by a bosis hospital or institutional instruction may be provided via contract with the school connect with the school connected with the hospital or Institution or the district where it is located homebound instruction may include remote instruction as defined in state regulation amyc RR the district will establish a written instruction delivery plan with input obtained and considered from the parent guardian and if appropriate the student the plan will include at least a number hours per week and per day of instruction the method of instruction will be delivered the location of services and the explanation of how the services will en able the student to maintain academic progress the district will review the plan as needed based

106on the needs of the student or if conditions have changed the district will maintain a record of dates amount and type of instructional Services the student received including the instructor's name subjects taught and location where Services were provided homebound instruction will strive to keep students on paage to rejoin their class and maintain academic progress the board recognizes that students who are out of school for extended periods of time at risk of falling behind academically or losing connection to the school Community the board directs the administration to evaluate periodically whether homebound instruction is effective in keeping students on track to graduate and if not to take steps to improve instruction and Implement approaches indor services that support the transition back to school so all right there go okay so um I want to go back into

107executive session quick to discuss uh Personnel we will take no action when we come out so um I want to thank Paul for being with us in streaming and I would like to get a motion to go into executive session Fran second Oh Katie hi we're all me all in favor oppos all right 70 thank you very much thank Youk you