001Okay. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Would you all please join me in pledge of allegiance? Okay. First off, we have appointments of our district clerk and deputy district clerk. Could I get a motion? All in a second. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? Uh, no. Abstain. Okay. Motion passes. Number four, oath of office. I will administer the oath of office. If you repeat, repeat after me. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of District. And I will faithfully discharge the duties
002of the office of district clerk according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So, I will now do the oath of give the oath of office to our member elect Paige Potter Salt. You can raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of schoolboard member. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board members. According to the best of my ability. According to the best
003of my great And now I will administer the oath of office to raise your right hand. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York in the Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board member and that I will faithfully discharge the duties the office of schoolboard member according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. And the oath of office to our student board member, Satie Burgess. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of
004the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York. and the Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board members. That I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board members. According to the best of my ability. And now I will administer the oath of office to Superintendent Dr. Meyer. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York in the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the
005office of superintendent. I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of superintendent according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my abilities and administer the oath of office to deputy district clerk Janet Atlaw. I I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Deputy District Clerk. And that I will faithfully discharge discharge the duties of the office of the deputy district clerk. According to the best of my ability to the best of my ability, And now I'll do a roll call. Tom
006Broadick here. Paige Potter Sult here. Paul Fenton here. Darlene Hooper here. Sarah Coleman here. Deb Spalding here. Jason Welch here. And I now like to open the floor for nomin nominations for the president of the board of board of education for the 25 26 school year. Deb, I nominate Dorene. Can I get a second? Are you second? Yeah. Any further nominations or discussions? I'd like to nominate Jason Welch. I'll second. Okay. So, we'll do a roll call. Oh. Is there any other discussion? I'd like to say something. Sure. I don't know if any of my fellow schoolboard members had a chance to read the email that the New York State School Board Association sent out to us last week. It listed the top five qualities that a board president should have. Number one, a good
007listener. Someone who listens to understands rather than listens to respond. Number two, a good organizer. Number three, an effective communicator with the board, the superintendent, the stakeholders, and the media. Number four, awareness of the position, what it entails and what it does not entail. There is no additional power held by being president. Number five, unbiased. They allow for a free flow of ideas at the board table, not allow their personal beliefs and personal preferences to impact the decision making. I'd like all my board members to take that into consideration when making their vote. Any other discussion or nominations? All right, we'll do a roll call vote for The first motion of Darlene Hooper. Tom, no. Paige, yes. Paul, yes. Sarah, no. Darling, oh, that's me. Yes. Yes. Deb Spalding. Yes. Jason. Yes. Majority. Okay. So,
008it's resolved that Darlene Hooper be appointed to the position of board of education president for the 2520 school 2526 school year. Can I get a motion? A motion and a second. I'll second. Paul, I saw your hands. All in favor? I nos abstensions motion passes. So I will give you raise your right hand. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York. and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of school board president and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the school board president according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability.
009up here. Okay. Thank you to my fellow board members for your support and confidence in me to fulfill this role. I assure you all that I will put forth my very best effort to help lead our district in the right direction and to ensure that our students receive a quality education. I'm new to this so please bear with me if I make a few mistakes, can you all hear me? Okay. Okay. If at any time you cannot hear, please raise your hand and I will try to resurrect my former teacher voice. Okay. Next on our agenda, 7 C, nominations for the position of vice president. Do I have a motion for a nomination? I have a motion. Okay, thank you, Paul. Second. I'll second that. Paige, you have a second. Thank you, Paige. Okay, Deb
010Spalding has been nominated and seconded for the position of vice president. Are there any other nominations? Yes, Jason Welch. Okay, Jason Welch. Thank you, Tom. Second. I'll second. Okay, Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. Okay, Jason. Oh, Jason Welts has been nominated and seconded for the position of vice president. Are there any other nominations? Since there are no other nominations, the nomination for vice president are now closed. We will now vote on the nomination for Deb Spaldic for vice president. All in favor say I. All oppose say no. No. No. Okay. Motion passes by 5 to two. Abstension. Excuse me. Extensions. I abain. Jason abstains. Okay. So two opposed. Yes. We will now have a vote on the nomination for vice president um for Jason Welch for vice president. Pardon? Oh, I hear you saying I already
011did. I already did. Sorry. All right. All in favor for Jason Welch. Yes. Yes. Confused by this. All in favor for Jason. But vice president, if we only voted the first time once, do we do we need to vote again on him? Yes. Okay. Yes. Then you have the majority. The majority. Okay. Then it's let it be resolved that Deb Sing has been appointed the position of board of education vice president for the 2526 school year. Congratulations Deb for being elected as our vice president. She will now be sworn in by our clerk and then the code of ethics will be administered to all board members. I do solemnly swear I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and
012the Constitution of the State of New York and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board president, school board vice president. I will faithfully discharge the duties of school board vice president according to the best of my ability. according to the best of my ability. And I ask that you all review the code of ethics and assign it and Thanks. Okay. All right. Number eight, the approval of the agenda and the minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the adoption of the agenda and approve the minutes of the June 17th, 2025 regular meeting as presented? Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion. Okay. Thank you. I'll make a second. Um, thank you. Any discussion? I if I could. Um so
013just want to point out a significant change that uh we made here uh to add the approve the adoption of the agenda at this stage. Uh if um those of you that were at the last meeting uh we had um when we were removing things as part of uh the particular item. Um going back through we had several um several uh unnecessary motions and several uh duplicative motions. Um so in looking what happens in other boards of education uh the recommendation here is that we move it to the top of the agenda here. So if there's anything that you'd like removed this would be the time to do it. So, for example, you know, if you wanted like um 9A removed, for example, you would now would be the time that you would request 9A
014to come out. No motions needed for any event, you would just say, "I'd like to have 9A removed." We set that aside and then we move on, look at the rest of the agenda, and then address those items as they come in. It's uh meant to um make the process a little more seamless and not have the duplic duplicative uh motions that we had last night. Okay. So, at this point, that's when I would say I'd like to have the motion of 10A removed. So, hold you don't need so no motion is just 10. Like can I just clear? Were you asking that 10 removed? Yes. Okay. To be voted on separately. To be voted on separately. So no motion is needed for that. You just asked. So ju just as uh De just did
015just ask for the number and letter to be removed. through it. Okay. Is there any other discussion by any of the board members? Yes. I'm sorry. So like 23 Dr. Meyer versus personnel. So like I have a couple questions to ask about that. Would I do that have it removed so we can discuss it an executive or how do I do that? So uh so 23 if if it's an executive session discussion then you know you can wait for executive session um to to do that. Um if you know uh if you know it's something you're going to remove regardless of that conversation you could remove it now. So yeah because I do I some questions before I approve it and that would be 23 B and C. I just have some questions on that.
016Good. Okay. Any other discussion? I have questions about 10B, but I don't necessarily want to take it out of the agenda and I don't think that it requires executive session. So, I can just ask will be a change session. Okay. So I guess it's resolved that 10 A is removed and 23B and C will be removed. Correct. The regular consent agenda. Yes. Okay. Um any other discussion? All in favor? All in favor? I opposed. Extensions. Okay. Uh motion to approve the adoption of the agenda and approve the minutes of June 17th passes by a vote of 7 to zero. Okay. With the exception of 10A removed and 20 and 23 B and C removed. Next we have the approval of the appointment of school officers and board representatives. A resolve that the superintendent recommends to
017the board of education the appointment of the followed school officers of the board of education for the 2526 school year. Chief school officer Joshua Meyer, district treasurer Melissa Lucia, des uh deputy district treasurer Hayden Rei, purch purchase agent Karen Mulligan, and claims auditor CEWW Boseies. Do I have a motion to approve the appointment of the school officers as stated in 9A1 through five? Motion. Okay. Thank you, Deb. Second. I'll second page. Thank you. Uh any discussion? All in favor? Opposed? Abstensions. Okay. Move. Motion to approve the appointment of the school officers is accepted. 9B resolve that the superintendent recommends to the board of education the appointment of the following board of education representatives for the 2526 school year. Now typically we ask the board members on which committee or committees they are interested in serving.
018So at this time um I will ask there are two positions open for joint study. So is there any interest in anyone being on joint study? I'll take it. Tom, I'm also interested. Tom and Paige. Okay. The next position is for the New York State School Boards Association floating delegate. One delegate position is available. Any interest? I'll do that again. Okay, Sarah. Thank you. And policy committee. There are three positions available. Any interest? Um I am interested if no one else is. Okay. So, we have Deb and Paul. Yes. Is anyone else? If not, I will take it. I love policy. You want me to have a policy? Sure. I would like that. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Next, we have Boat Valley Youth Commission. One position available. Is there an interest? I think I should
019keep that. All right. Paige, agree. Anyone else? I mean there's anyone else who like welcome to okay so we have Paige for that position uh facilities committee two positions are available I'd like okay De yourself Jason oh Jason I'm sorry no me Paul's interested too as well as Paul okay so Jason and Paul okay not done can we have on that Dr. Meer. I mean there's there's two spots there. Um but you know there you can do whatever you want and have set members if you'd like. Yes or no? The the recommendation is two. Okay. So Jason and Paul. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the appointment of Tom Broadick and Paige Carter Sult for joint study? Um Sarah Coleman for New York State Super Boards Association voting delegate. Deb Spalding, Paul Fenton,
020and Jason Welch for policy committee. Uh Paige Salt for Fet Valley Youth Commission. and Jason Welch and Paul Fton for facilities committee. I have a clarification on the facilities committee. Excuse me. I have a clarification on the facilities committee that that is a liaison position and not really a voting position as it was last you know over the last couple years. Okay. It has been stated that it is a liaison position and it is not a regular member session um position. So make sure that you know that Jason and call is that okay? Okay. So do I have a motion page? Thank you. And a second. Thank you. Thank you D. Any discussion? Oh, I would like to say um just add this that I know in the past we have not had a member
021report to the full board in the past and personally I think it would be helpful after these people meet with their committees that they come back and have a brief summary of what they have discussed in the committees. Is that something that is possible? So, uh, typically, um, when we when we set the agenda, that's something that, um, we we could easily add that, but, that would be something that that you and I would discuss as we're set up. Okay. All right. So, do I have a motion to approve the appointment of this schedule of this? Okay. All right. And all in favor? Yes. Opposed extensions. Okay. Motion to approve the appointment of representatives for the 2526 school year has been accepted. Okay. Additional appointments. Number 10. Resolve that the superintendent recommends to the board
022of education the appointment of the following individuals organizations to be specified positions designations for the 202526 school year. Okay. Now, this is the one. Yes. If it's not a consent agenda item, I don't know that we need to pull it out at the start when we Right. Yeah. That that that that's correct. And I my my apologies for not clearly explaining that, but in any case, we can talk about 10 separately. We are suited to do that right now. Okay. So [Music] all right. Are there any is there any discussion? All right. So I'm I'm sorry. I think motion second. Do I have a motion for to recommend to the board of education the reform of the organizations and designations? Motion. I'll make a motion. Okay, Jason. Thank you and second. Second. Okay, Tom. Second.
023Thank you. All in f Oh, you want to discuss discussion discussion? At this time, I would like to terminate the legal council agreement with Honeywell Law Firm that's in the June 17th meeting. Okay. Uh board member Spalding has recommended we terminate the law firm of Honeywell Law Firm under the consent under the agenda number 10. Okay. Um do I have a motion for that? Yeah, we don't need this is just discussion. It's just discussion. Okay. So essentially to do that I think we would have to we have to vote no on this whole thing. on this 10 a can we vote on 10A separately you are voting on 10A separately that so that that whole chart is the recommendation so you're voting yes or no on the chart no I would say we've had this
024law firm since uh merger and even before that I believe it was the Westport Elizabeth Town excuse me lawyer He has served us well. He knows our history. I I don't know why we would make this change. Uh I have full confidence he's represented us well. So yeah, I think we should stick with somebody who knows and represents us. Well, if I could also, um there is nothing prohibiting the board from appointing a dozen law firms. Uh you can appoint as many as you want. They're only build for the hours that they use. Uh if you choose uh as a board not to call Honeywell, then you would be build nothing. Um so uh I I know I've uh spoke to the board in the past. I am a uh supporter of Honeywell. I think
025they do great work as uh Sarah mentioned. Um I think that they uh have certainly helped in a variety of different situations and would request that they stay on here which is why they recommended. However, if you're interested in looking at new law firms, that is absolutely something we can do. Do an RFP uh interview handful of law firms. You interview as many as you like. Um but I I see no reason to terminate anyone, especially a firm that we've been working with for for a long time. But as it stands, this is the recommendation is the entire track. At this point, I agree with Sarah Coleman that, you know, in the year and a half, I' I've seen Honeywell. I've been impressed with them. Um, their knowledge discussion. I'm just looking looking through some
026of the other items here. I think we need to move forward on those and potentially what we could do is request on the agenda for next meeting, right, to to take that action to to a board vote. Okay. Any other discussion? All in favor? I I I opposed, abstensions. Okay. The motion to approve all the additional appointments listed in 10 um a have been approved. Do I have a motion to approve all the appointments of the employees and work of the council with that? Motion to approve the appointments. Number 10B. Okay. 10B. Resolved that the superintendent recommends to the board of education the reappointment of all the current substitutes and the approval of the substitute rates as listed for the school year. Do I have a motion to approve the appoint reappoint of all current
027substitute substitutes at the rates lifted? Do I have a motion? I'll move. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. Second. I'll second. Um, thank you. Any discussion? Um, I have a few things. Uh, the non-certified teachers assistant is potentially going to be paid more than a non-certified teacher. Is that something that we can change? And the teachers aid, non-certified or certified, is the same amount. Okay. Dr. no incentive to get the certification. Is that something that we could look into, Dr. Bar? Uh, sure. Yeah, we can I can give you We in the past we there have been different times in the year changed the rates. So, I can bring you something else next month if you'd like. All in favor? Wait, I have a discussion. Um, when you're looking at the food service helper, the clerico, the
028cleaner, and the bus driver, not bus driver, those three, food service, clerical cleaner, there isn't anything we can do, Dr. Meyer, to take them off the minimum wage. Uh again, I'm I'm happy to bring you a uh bring you some more numbers next time uh at the August meeting. Um and uh we can continue our discussion. Okay, we can revisit your questions. Um all in favor? I I opposed abstensions. Okay. A motion to approve the reappointment of the current substitutes at the listed rates is accepted. Number 11, designations resolve that the superintendent recommends to the board of education the following designations for the 2526 school year. Um number one, Champlne National Bank, New York Liquid Assets Fund, and New York Cooperative Liquid Asset Security System, New York Class as the official bank deposiitories. Number two,
029Crest Republican and Sun Community News as the official newspapers. And number three, the official bulletin boards are located outside the district office at the Mountain View campus and outside the principal's office at the Lake View campus. Do I have a motion to approve the designations listed in 11A 1 through 3? Motion. Okay, Paige. Thank you. Second. Okay, Paul. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? I I opposed abstensions. Okay. Motion to approve the designations of our bank depositories, official newspapers, and official bulletin boards has been accepted. 11B resolve. Office superintendent recommends to the board of education the regular monthly board of education meetings begin at 6 pm unless otherwise noted and to establish the following meeting dates for the 2526 school year. May I have a motion to accept the following dates and times listed
030in the chart under 11B? I'll move. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. Second. I'll second. And Deb, thank you. Any discussion? Uh, yes. On the 5th the 14th at 5:00 pm. How come we can't have that around 6 or so? 6:30 for August. Yeah. Okay. Um, what about just leaving them all at six? So, so again the the it it is the the whole chart. Um, we typically done our summer meetings at at five. Uh, however, I mean, um, I'm relatively indifferent to the start time of the board meetings. I think a lot of people want to come to the meetings, but they just, you know, just get home from work and need a couple minutes to relax. So, we go for six o'clock. Look at that. Also, okay. Do we need an amendment to change that?
031Um, do a strike through 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and add on to your um be as amended. Excuse me. Do a strike through for 5:00 p. p.m. change it to 6 pm and in your resolution add as amended. Okay. Uh like so. Motion to accept the designations listed in 11B. Um which the exception of the amendment to the date on August 14th being changed to 6 p.m. Do I have a motion to accept those designations? Okay. Thank you, Paul. Second. A second. Yep. Thank you. Already have that. We already got a You already You already put your motion in your second. All right. All in favor with the amendment. I All right. All of that opposed. Okay. Extensions. Motion passes with the amendment to the August 14th meeting. Number 12, school board memberships. resolved
032that the superintendent recommends to the board of education the district hold the quote following memberships for the 2526 school year. New York State School Board Association and the two Essex County School Boards Association and number three rural school association. Do I have a motion to accept the school board memberships listed in 12A 1 through three? Okay, thank you. Excuse me. 1 to four. Um, through three. Okay. So, I have Jason for the motion. Correct. And I'll second and second, Paige. Okay. Thank you, Paige. All in favor? Any discussion? First of all, okay, all in favor? Opposed? Extensions. Motion to accept school board memberships is approved. 7 to zero. Number 13. Authorizations. The superintendent recommends the authorization to the superintendent, principal, principles, secretary, and central treasurer as as listed in items 13A 1-5. Do I have
033a motion to approve the authorizations listed in 13A 1-5? Motion. A motion. Thank you. Second. Second. Second, Tom. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Motion to approve authorizations accepted. Number 14, bonding of personnel resolve that the superintendent recommends to the board of education the blanket bonding for all employees of the district. Do I have a motion? I'll move. Okay, Tom. Thank you. Second. I'll second. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. Motion to approve the bonding of all personnel is accepted. Number 15, cooperative purchasing. Resolve that the superintendent recommends to the board of education participation in the following cooperative purchasing agreements for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion to approve of the cooperative purchase purchasing agreements listed in 15A1 and two? Make the
034Okay, call. Thank you. Second. Second, Paige. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? I I opposed. Abstensions. Motion to approve the cooperative purchasing agreements accepted. Impartial hearing officers number 16. A resolve. The superintendent recommends to the board of education that the board president or vice president be designated as having the power to appoint an impartial hearing officer who has been selected in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner of education on behalf of the board of education for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion to approve approve the impartial hearing officers? Motion. Motion. Okay, Paige. Thank you. Second. Okay. Thank you, Paul. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. Motion to approve the impartial hearing officers is accepted. Number 17, resolve. The superintendent recommends to the board of education the following for
035the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion to approve the other recommendations to the board as listed in 17A 1-5? Motion. I'll move. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. And a second. Second. Second, Tom. Thank you. Any discussion? I have one question. Okay. The tuition rate instead of that, do we have new kids coming in or we did we cap it? No, we uh we have to test in my memory. I want to say two years ago. Two years ago, we we I didn't know if we reopened it, but we did cap it. Thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? Meaning the district is not open to accepting only the ones that were already here, right? Okay. I do have another discussion. Um, Dr. Meyer, the the policies. Yeah, I know it could be a little cumbersome,
036but I'm wondering if if we might consider uh Westport Board used to do like a number of them every board meeting. Do you Does Boat Valley do that? So, review them and update them like two or three. So, we get through them all over the course of year. Yep. So, um, yes, with with the I think the short answer is yes. Uh, there there's one on the agenda for tonight. You know, there the cell phone update, but typically what the policy committee has done is, you know, they're grouped into um it'll be by thousands, right? The 1000s, the 2,000, some those are in different chunks. And, uh, last year, I need to double check, but I think we did one through 3,000 because those were a little bit smaller chapters. 4,000 is a pretty big
037one. So this year um getting to the 4,000s would probably um you know take a good chunk of the year maybe maybe in the fives as well but uh so yes we go through them and we look to update um the policy service uh has definitely changed since then as well where they do a lot of that work for you um which is really nice but yeah you'll you'll uh you'll certainly be advised that as part of the call symphony okay any other Discussion. All in favor? I I opposed abstensions. Okay. Motion to approve the other recommendations listed in 17A 1-5. Accepted. Number 18, executive session. Specifically, the board anticipates entering into executive session to discuss number six, the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular person or persons. Do I have a
038motion to enter into executive session? Okay, Paul. Thank you. Second. Second. Okay, Tom. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Okay. Motion to enter into executive session is approved. We anticipate it lasting approximately. We have several new board members. I would not be foolish enough to put a number out. Okay. Well, we will return as soon as possible and if it gets too lengthy, perhaps we can put it into two sessions, two executive sessions. Okay. So, it is now I know. Thank you. Everybody else. Good luck. the meetings. Okay. Do I have a motion to return to regular session? Thank you. Second. Second. Okay. Page. Second. Okay. Thank you. All in favor. I opposed abstensions motion to enter back into regular session was approved. Okay, now moving on to number 19, public comment. Our
039agenda offers two public comment sections. Opinions, ideas, and concerns that are offered by the public will be considered and taken under advisement. We have set aside 15 minute period giving the audience time to share their thoughts. With us, please raise your hand to be acknowledged by board president. When called upon, please identify yourself and give your address, limiting your comments to three minutes. Thank you for expressing your concerns and you are opening it up now, please. Yes. My name is Megan Ostraki. I live on Lost Road in New York. My children have been in the district before and after the shift in my food administration. I appreciate the different strategies to address student needs, openness to integrated nature based learning and transparency and decision making. The routine surveys and prompt responses assures me that leadership
040is receptive to my input and generally wanted to foster an improved learning experience. administration arrives early, greets children and at the door regularly attend after school events and which is a testament to a rare work ethic. I admire all of the courage to participate in the conversation. Parents should feel comfortable advocating for their children of coming forward with very live streamed vertically for voicing their experiences. A fear of coming forward has now been cultivated where parents eager to speak are terrified their children will be announced on social media. Is this not the behavior we hope our children never have to fall victim to? I fear there is no forward momentum when focusing on the removal of administrators. I have skeptical pool candidates with the experience. Rash decisions to remove someone from their role without proper
041documentation and proof of failure to follow improvement plans open to district after substantial lawsuit. None of us are privy to the experiences of others because students information is protected. We cannot discuss items that that identify a child in a public setting. But why are we not here discussing discussing specific themes to accommodate state standards? The new curriculum was voted on by the educators and approved by the BLE. Was it what is not working? If IEPs are not being met, let's brainstorm together and be solution focused. I heard tutoring. Is it a budget issue or a lack of qualified candidates? When we specifically identify what needs improvement, we can propose viable solution. Deadlines should be set for such goals and teams charging those efforts are held accountable. Most importantly, and I'm almost done, we have a
042capital project that a majority of voters seem to reject, risking the 91% coverage our district will never get back. Do we really believe that we can provide a quality education that would benefit our students and attract educators and young families by shoving the student body into Mountain View as is? The basic renovation does not include new electrical and bare essentials. The archaic plumbing means the toilets don't always function in student bathrooms and always occasionally smell like feces. At minimum, can there be a plan to remove all that piping, decaying carpets covering bathroom floors, ceilings that leak, windows in need of replacement, reducing costly draft, weather stripping peeling off? Can we prioritize safety features such as carbon monoxide detectors? This is minimal time. There's minimal time to discuss a plan that is that this community would
043likely approve, but conversations continue to be derived. Can we please institute an era of solution focused conversations and realistic improvements? Thank you. Thank you, Megan, for expressing your concerns. We'll take certainly take them under advisement. Is there anyone else who has a comment? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Pete Castine, Shazy, New York, history teacher. Tonight, the first thing I got to do is thank someone who's very special to me, uh, and very, very special, uh, to these two buildings. Um, he's been the heart and soul of the history department for the last 25 years. And in my opinion, he's been the epitome of excellence. Um, if we can do a round of applause for the retirement Bradley truck. Second point, uh I just want to thank the uh the district uh members of the board both
044past and present, Dr. Meyer, Mrs. Dixon Cross for your continued support of the model UN program. Uh that program has been going on in these buildings for over 30 years now. I've been very fortunate enough to be part of that for about 20. Um, and you guys, I look around the room here and I see I see parents, I see former students, current students, my delegates, and I speak on behalf of them. But thank you for for that program. Um, it does wonderful things. Um, you know, the ability to speak, write, research, and most importantly, uh, come together, I think, with with diplomacy even when when, uh, opinions differ. To see that, to see our kids do that is an amazing thing. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Castine. It's a wonderful program that
045your department proud to be able to represent it and support it. And congratulations, Mr. Mr. Shrock, on your well-deserved retirement. I hope you have many years of fun in the sun. make a comment. Mr. Jackson, Jackson 8640 through9 New York. Sound like a broken record in disregard, but talk on the street lately has worked my interest. Again, I uh was under the impression that we had gone out for bids on an abatement that the Mountain View School for the carpet removal that encapsulates tile on the first and second floor selected rooms. Um, I heard from several other people that the potential is there to have some carpet work being done on the second floor. Um, I do not know what rooms, but I'm assuming that there were probably rooms that had that encapsulated tile. Uh,
046tile may not be as fast as containing material, but the glue underneath certainly would be. We encapsulated that with carpet as a cost savings back 30 years ago when we did the first major renovation. I would caution the school district to be very mindful of the regulations regarding a specus removal and the carpet encapsulates it at this time. It generates fragmented tile and exposes mastic or dust from tile. If the tile is in fact as speculous containing that is airborne material, it's going to get everywhere uh and once again we'll be subject to fines like we were here in Westport by the state plus putting the likelihood of uh potential harm to the students and faculty and staff of the of the school. Um that's all I got to say on that matter. I hope
047it's being addressed properly. Thank you, Mr. Jackson, for your valuable information. We will certainly take it under adisement. Number 20, financial. Is anyone else have a comment? Okay, number 20. Oh, yes. Go ahead. Um, my name is Jason Fel. I live on J Street in Essics and I have been an educator for uh 26 years in in many different ways. Um, I want to thank the board for deciding to run and be on the board. That is a position that's very important. I really appreciate the administrators in this district and how you support kids and faculty. That's very, very important. I want to thank uh past teachers, past educators, um, people who are here for any reason to support our kids and our community because that's what it's about. I see on that board up
048there, this is a reorganizational meeting. I really, really want to reorganize to goodness. There's negativity out in the world. There's negativity out in our communities, and I understand that. But we can be very nice about it, and we can work together to do the best we can for the kids. No matter what your thing is, when there's negativity and when it's allowed to be on your personal website or your Facebook page or uh put out in the community, even if you're not the one saying it, if you're allowing it on your page to be mean to teachers, administrators, or anybody, that's what people notice about open value. They go online and do searches and they see these things. That's what they see. I want goodness to be there for the kids safety. That's why we
049do things. That's why I've been an educator for so long and I love it. And my colleagues are the best to keep the school running with the goodness in their hearts and what they do for kids. And when things are said negatively to administrative uh uh people, when it's said negatively to other teachers, it hurts me because I put a lot into my job and teachers can get burned out. And if somebody's looking for a district to come to, they want to see the goodness. They want to see the goodness that's out there. So I ask for that. Thanks. I appreciate that. Number 20, financials. Anyone else? Anyone else? Yes. Ryan Hathaway, Lewis, New York. Um, I'd like to speak about the the uh t the tiles that have been encapsulated for 30 years. That's
05030 years of kids throwing up on fireplace. 30 years of foot traffic. Uh how much longer do we expect this uh this uh carpet to encapsulate the problem and kick that can down the road? We have a perfect opportunity to get some extra money from the state to solve those problems that we have kicked down the road for 30 years. Thank you. comment from anyone else. Okay, since there are no more comments, we'll proceed with number 20, financials. Do I have a motion to approve the following financial reports as listed in 201, the budget status report dated 627205. Do I have a motion? Motion. Okay. Thank you, Deb. A second. I'll second. Tom, thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed, abstensions. Motion to approve the budget status report dated 62725 has been accepted.
051Number 21, CSE, CPSE, and 504 recommendations. A. accept and approve the committee on preschool special education, committee on special education, and committee on 504 plan recommendations. Do I have a motion? A motion. Thank you. And a second. I thank you. Um, any discussion on this? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. Motion to approve the cse, CPSSE, and 504 recommendations has been accepted. Number 22, action items, consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve items listed in 20 through A through H? I move. Okay. Thank you, Sarah. Second. I'll second. Okay. Thank you, Paige. Um, any discussion? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. Okay. Motion to approve the action item consent agenda 22 A through H has been accepted. Number 23, personnel consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve items listed in 23
05223A through J4? Do I have a motion? I'll move. Thank you, Sarah. Um, and second, Paige. Thank you. Any discussion? I do need to um recuse myself for 23C since that is a relative of mine. Any other discussion? Josh. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm sorry, but we we did you're you're totally fine, but we we already pulled out BNC. Okay. So So I think um so we we'll do we'll do the consent agenda. We'll come back to BNC and then you can refuse. All right. So we're we're voting now on 23 A through J 40 with the exception of B and C. Correct. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed abstensions. I abstain and motion to approve the personnel consent agenda for 22 A through J40 with the exception of B and C has been
053accepted. So now we vote for May I have a motion for consent agenda 22 B and C 23 I'm sorry 23 B and C motion second thank you and any discussion Josh could you explain the whole clerk thing so that the community understands uh sure um so we're um predating the merger, our clerical employees had uh job specific titles. So, uh secretary to the principal, secretary of the Mountain View campus, secretary to the principal linked to campus, secretary to the director of citiz services, secretary to guidance. I think that's it. I forgetting one all of the same suit. uh that did not allow us the ability as a district or the employee the ability to move from one position to the other if those were to open up. Uh so by allowing by switching to
054a clerk title um which is our intent to move some of the additional positions to a clerk title that will allow for that flexibility. So it's beneficial for the district as well as uh the employee uh to do that. Okay. So, we're back to voting on personnel consent agenda for 22 B and 23 23 B and C. All in favor I with the exception I do have to recuse myself from B I believe it is C. No C from C because it's a relative of mine. Anyone else? Uh any opposed abstensions? Okay. Um motion to approve the percent uh personnel consent agenda 23 B and C has been approved. Okay. 24 policy A. As recommended by hearing one policy services, approve the revision of policy 7316, the use of internet enabled devices during the school
055day. Do I have a motion to approve the revision of the policy number 7316? Motion. Okay. Thank you, Paul. Second. Second, Tom. Thank you. Any discussion? If I could just add this is the policy that reflects the governor's um language change on cell phone use throughout the school day. Um often we'll get policy revisions that change a sentence here and there. This is very much reads like a brand new policy. Um just for your awareness so you can uh you can check that out. It should be on the website very soon. Um, and this will then lead to some further handbook level discussions that will get more into the actual procedure of what that will look like on both campuses. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. Okay. Motion to approve the revision
056of policy 7316 has been accepted. Number 25, student board member. We would like to thank and welcome Satie Burch. I'd like to welcome you. She's our new uh student member. Would you stand, Satie, please? Very happy to have you and we're looking forward to working with you and listening carefully to the very valuable advice that you're able to provide us from a student's perspective. So we thank you very much and look forward to working with you. Thank you. Okay. Number 26, superintendent's update. Uh districtwide safety plan, superintendent report, and district grant updates. Okay. Now I'll give the floor over to our superintendent, Dr. Meer. Uh thank you. So, uh, tonight, uh, looking at the grants as I typically do, uh, if our administrators are here, I let them talk about the grants as they are
057a little more boots on the ground as far as grant schedule. So, go ahead, Mr. Yes, there's no real update for the federal grants. Uh, we are in the application process now. We submit them by the end of summer. Uh, for other grants, we've officially received a $7,500 grant from the Silamo Corporation. And I want to thank uh, Mr. Welch for his support and at least getting the contact information. Nothing else to increase the wheels. I acknowledge that, but at least the contact information. I appreciate that. Uh we are going to work with the University of Kansas next school year to uh do the CW fit program. Again, as a reminder, last school year we received $20,000 just for participating. So, we hope to do that again next year. and I have a meeting tomorrow
058morning with a local business who has tentatively agreed to uh support a science curriculum for the elementary school at a cost of $4,000. So once that's official, I will name that community partner and share more information about that program. That's great. Well, extended school day, we're starting year five um on today and then uh we have summer oasis programming starting on Monday, July 7th. And we have around 100 participants so far for this year's not put you on the spot, but can you remind us in year one? Do you remember how many participants we had that first summer? 16. So any improvements? That's just over the summer. Yep. Summer only. And to that point, Paige, we um have to have 195 non-duplicated unduplicated students with over 15 hours in summer, weekends, or holidays outside of
059school hours. So, we've met that. We've met that every year. um we've exceeded our goal. So, thank you. Thank you. Uh so, I do have a a UPK update and again I'm gonna turn over to Mr. Tyler uh to talk a little bit about this. Yeah. So, we've applied for something called SEIT and CEUS programs in our preK and this gets awfully confusing so I'll be as quick as possible. So, the CIS is an inter u itinerate service in the preK. So, this is occupational therapist, teacher, speech and language pathologist, physical therapy. This allows us to have our providers, our bokeet valley employees go into the prepaid program to provide those related services. As it stands right now, some special education students have lack of access uh lack of providers to provide those services. So,
060this allows um access to those students while they're in our prek setting. The more exciting service is special class in an integrated setting. We've again uh been given uh tentative approval from the state. This allows us to have one general education teacher and a special education teacher in our prepaid program to have an integrated prek setting. And the reason this is really beneficial is again lack of access and and a push for inclusiveness. Um and it allows us to accept outofd district students who have that recommendation on their IEP through the CPSC program. Uh and we are allowed to get reimbursement through the county for those costs. Um, and we can maximize our UPK grant. So, the maximum aotment for this year is $275,000. Last year, we uh roughly about $100,000 we got from the
061UPK grant. So, if we max out at 20 students, we can get the full amount of the prek grant and get reimbursed for programs and services through the county. So, this is a really great program. Uh, other districts are are competing to get this service in their school. So, this is definitely uh a positive for our school to be able to get both of these programs in our prepaid setting. So, that's that. Great. Thank you. Anyone else? Uh yes. So, um so I I do have a couple more slides here. So, uh, at at the June meeting, we talked a little bit about the 2526 goals and I believe, um, at that point, I just gave you what the goal was. This slide gets a little bit more into the objectives. Uh, and um, so
062our first goal for the last few years has essentially been to uphold improve our previous initiatives. The idea there is that we're now going on about five years here where we've set goals. We don't want to lose sight of the goals we've accomplished in previous years. So we we make sure that we keep track of those. Our second goal, uh we're looking to improve student performance in ELA and math through effective data informed instruction. And here we're looking at to we're looking at strengthening our instructional practices using assessment data to drive measurable growth and student achievement in ELA and math across all grade levels. Um goal three, continuing planning for a facilities project. Uh, as you know, the facilities committee wrapped up uh their work in the spring of this past year. Uh, we now
063have a plan. We're working with the architects uh to get something sent to state ed at which point we will either reconvene the same facilities committee or a new iteration of the facilities committee to continue those discussions. Um, but as it stands right now, we're uh we're at a little bit of a a waiting game with with state. So, there'll be more more on that for sure. uh our goal for uh improve our hiring, onboarding, and support for new staff. Uh this is an area that um we do know that we've made some improvements year after year, but we really want to make um uh make a concerted effort to really take a look at that this year and make it a much more uh seamless process. Um, the example I always use is, you
064know, if we hire you over the summer, July or August, uh, pretty good, um, starting starting in September, but if we hire you in November, we hand you the keys and say, "All right, good luck." Uh, and we know we can do better than that. So, so we are we're really making a concerted effort to make that happen this year. So, those are the 25 26 goals. uh meet with the admin team um in a few weeks here at which point we'll take a look at our um our uh key results. So what specifically we're going to need to do to accomplish these objectives and then continue breaking it down and from there those go down to like a building level and um and everyone will have their different role in that process. And these
065get reported on you twice a year. Um, and we'll we'll continue to talk about those. Our areas to focus on this year, uh, the 25 26 school year, the facilities, as I mentioned, that's one of our goals, the new cell phone mandate policy that we just adopted. We we know that there's going to be some, um, some growing pains, so to speak, with uh, with that new cell phone mandate, but we're we're going to figure it out together. Uh, the ELA and math instruction, we're going to continue to focus there. hiring, onboarding, and support as I just mentioned. Um, and then the last two are a result of the um big uh district-wide feedback survey that that we did. Um, expanding student voice uh is going to be part of that as well as um
066increased admin team visibility across the district. So, that's what we're focusing on. And some areas of concern, which are next here. Uh so we're looking at um uh our discipline procedures and again these and special education as a result of that that um the uh actually all four of these are a result of the districtwide feedback survey the discipline and special education cross-campus collaboration and more community communication. So, uh, you'll see in the next, um, few weeks, likely at the August board meeting, uh, board members might see it beforehand in your folders, uh, some plans to address some of these items. Um, we do have to at our July meeting, we talk about our district safety plan. So, two years ago, we did really a full revamp of the district safety plan with the help
067of our SRO, Ron Heer, did a ton of work on that with our committee. this year. There's really only one minor change that we're looking to add. Um, and this uh this district safety plan will be on the website. Um, and there's a 30-day uh starting tomorrow, there's a 30-day comment period. If you have comments, you can either email myself or uh Bridget. Um, and if you have any comments on those, or you could, you know, certainly you could call or stop in. Um, but the only only real change uh is adding this one paragraph. And this really reflects um what we've been trying to do anyway, but wanted to get it in the district safety plan to make it again a more concerted effort here. Uh, so what it says is uh on both
068campuses uh the campus access control during instructional hours. While all entrances are currently kept locked and visitor signin procedures are in place, the district is committed to further enhancing security by exploring additional measures to limit public access to school buildings while students are in session. This may include infrastructure improvements to vestibules, more rigorous visitor screening protocols, and expanded use of electronic access controls. These considerations are being reviewed as part of our ongoing facilities planning and will be reflected in updates to the confidential building level safety plans. So as a reminder, the district plan is a public facing document. So you can see that the building plan those are confidential document documents that um certainly the building level administrators have access to but those are not public facing. So uh if you read this and say
069well that's pretty vague. That's the intent. it's supposed to be the building level plans will have many more specifics in there. So, that's the only change, but but I can tell you that if you go to um other school districts, uh they they do tend to have more secure vestibules. They do have the electronic um uh signin process and screening protocols and a lot of these things they already have. So, this just means that we're going to explore those. We're not committing to anything, just that we're um look looking to uh further enhance those and we'll do those through our building plans and some of the other projects that we're looking I would open up to see if the board had any questions just about the district safety plan before I move on. Okay. Okay.
070And uh sorry almost done. Um the uh board of education retreat uh still to be decided. still waiting on um two board members to fill out um their uh the the survey that I sent out and I will um let you know uh privately if you haven't done that and if you haven't done it by the August meeting then your name will be up on the slide Dr. Jason. Uh, so that's what I have. So, thank you very much. Uh, and if the board has any questions, I would entertain those. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kyler. Thank you, Mrs. Dixon Cross. And thank you, Dr. Meyer. Um, any other questions from the board about anything that was discussed? All right. Then we'll move on to number 27. We have another public comment. Our agenda
071offers two public comment sections. The opinions, ideas, and concerns that are offered by the public will be considered and taken under advisement. We have set aside a 15minute period giving the audience time to share their thoughts with us. Please raise your hand to be acknowledged by the board president. When called upon, please identify yourself, give your address, and limit your comments to three minutes. Do I have anyone in the audience who would like to have a comment? Mr. Jackson, as it may seem to believe, Jim Jackson again, uh Ryan Sparkton bottom up process here, the uh the 30-year-old carpet certainly needs to be replaced. And if we're planning on incorporating this abatement in the capital project that's a good four to five years away, uh there's funds available right now. Typically, the summer is the
072hottest time, the most difficult time to get abatement and monitoring companies to participate in this type of deal. You put your request for pricing out in the late spring. You get your contract signed, ready to go so that the school year is done. The rooms are evacuated, all furnishings. The testing agency and the abatement company work together to get all of the necessary enclosures set up. The testing facilities and equipment set up. Each floor is going to take approximately 10 to 14 days from start to finish. best to worst case scenario. It can both be done simultaneously or you can do one floor then go to the other floor and then the carpet has to do carpet put down new flooring whatever it's going to be but that bid has to be in so that
073you can approve it then it comes out of I would assume either your maintenance or your capital reserve that you've got fairly substantial buildup in right now. Um I know that I believe that this went out for bid uh several months ago. I don't know the status of that. In fact, it actually did go out for bid, but that's the protocol. Getting somebody in there to do anything this summer more than likely going to be a bit difficult, but it's certainly worth exploring. And I have one more thing to say about past practices of the board. We've not only had a comment section, we also took questions that if legally could be answered that night were answered. Oft times it required getting back to the questionnaire within within a response that had to be researched.
074I would appreciate if the board would consider going more than just a comment section and actually allowing people to ask questions because I'm sure there's a number of people that would do that. In past practice, we used to do that at the very beginning of the meeting and in part 60 to 70% of the people would ask their questions and leave the meeting. They weren't concerned about anything else other than getting their question answered. I think you'd get a lot more community support and sponsorship with attendance if we got back to those practice. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Jackson. That was very informative and um we will certainly take it under consideration. Mr. Ver, thank you. Uh my name is Paul Vo. I live with Blood Hill Lewis. I've been teaching in the Mountain
075View building for I think it's 28 years. Um I I wanted to just mention something. Uh the important thing that Jay brought up is is the kindness and the decorum. Um not recently, but it's evolved to a different place. There's a disturbing evolution of which we have these meetings on Facebook live and then the comment section lights up and says absolutely deplorable borant things about people with in within our community. Um those people don't deserve it and I frankly and some of you know me. Uh if I disagree with you, I'm going to disagree hard. Uh but we're all kind good people trying to do good things. Um that is a disturbing thing that affects the morale of teachers. So you're on your team uh and things are being said about whether it be your
076leadership or parts of your school or anything else like that. Uh it really affects the morale of the team. Um we we see it, we have to try to unsee it and try not to be distracted by it and turn around and go to work and we're face to face with the kids of the district. Um I can only speak right now for Mountain View. Uh, I've been on many teams and it's evolved and people come and go. Uh, the team at Mountain View right now, I can attest, is amongst the best I've ever worked with in all areas of my life. Where the rubber meets the road, the relationship between the teacher and the student, it is absolutely outstanding in our building right now. And so when we see things light up and say
077things about people that we respect and people that have served our community without pay and taken a beating for it, it's not good enough. So I'm just going to say if you're ever around it or it's next to you in some comment section, I think I think it's time that we we go headtohead with that and they figure out a different way to express themselves because they're they're wrecking reputations and character of other people. It's it's not fair. Who's going to want to come here? Who's going to want to serve? Who's going to want to be a teacher here? I'm I'm heading out the door and I hope that there's some new young teacher coming out of hopefully Portland State. Go Red Dragons. Uh that want to be here. Um but they're going to see
078this stuff. I don't know if this is I I understand we have links later. Does this video make it to I know you can't answer the public comment, but I'm one to say that. And uh thank you. our executive session. I did not Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. I want to obviously I know what Paul and Jay stood up and said um I'm Sarah Right. I've been a teacher starting my 25th year. I'm an English teacher and our words matter and I I I have a few things I'd like to say. First of all, I think that the people in this room collectively should always be moving toward a solution that is into the best interest of the health of the entire district and that I ask you to avail yourselves to people who are
079happy to inform you. There are a lot of people collectively the number of years of experience in here is astonishing and we have good information and real information. We've been through terrible hardships. But I will say this, Dr. Meyer just took responsibility for improving our hiring and retention practices, but everyone at that table is equally responsible. I have seen so much turnover in our school. We live in a small community. People contact me because they're interested in a job. And the first question they ask is, "What is happening on social media? What is going on at those board of education meetings? What if they don't like me? Can I stand up and say people in this room are terrified of retribution. They're concerned about voice opinion. But I will tell you the number of people
080sitting in this room tonight is saying a lot more than the words that are being spoken when people stand up. We have expectations of our students and we have expectations of our community members. Boat Valley is way better than what it has been. Way better. And I will tell you through mergers and remote learning and COVID and unspeakable tragedies, I have never seen such a hit to morale as what has happened in the last two years on social media with campaigns. When I have students write a research paper, they get a zero if they don't cite their sources. People can stand up and say, "I've heard I've been told it's been brought to my attention." If you can't say that you have a concrete issue that's been brought forward because it's reasonable, it's not worth
081discussion. We should be honest, forthright, and working collaboratively to do the right thing by all of the constituents in this room, taxpayers, teachers, board members, and most importantly, our students. And I will tell you, I have witnessed in my classroom that what happens at these meetings trickles into our student body. They are way smarter than you think. They are way more capable than you think and they don't like it. Would you like to make a comment? Okay, since there are no more comments, um we did not have an opportunity to discuss everything in executive session. So, I am now going to ask for a motion to amend the agenda to include a second executive session. Can I have a motion? I'll make the motion. Okay. Thank you, Deb. Second. I'll second. Second. Thank you. Um
082any discussion? All in favor? I I opposed extensions. Okay, motion passes. We are now going into executive session and I'm not sure how long it will so we'll be back as soon as possible. There will be any voting on the I think it depends on the discussion. We couldn't have voted. This is awesome. It's your baby. That's right. Okay. We are now returning from executive session number 28. Our next meeting um regular meeting will be August 14th, at 6 o' 6 p.m. at the Mountain View campus. Is there any discussion regarding the upcoming meeting? Okay. Do I have a motion to amend the meeting time for August 14th to 6 pm? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Paul. And then second All right. Motion to abandon the meeting time is 6 pm. Um we vote again. No,
083don't have to vote again. Okay. Um adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn our meeting? Yes. Oh, yes. Tom second we'll second Sarah. Thank you. All in favor. Um opposed extensions. Motion to adjourn our meeting is accepted at 9:44 p.m.