001[Music] Uh just uh some updates there as you know since our last board meeting um in late by several weeks there New York State uh passed its budget uh for the year and just a couple of the highlights and you have in your packet you actually update a much more detailed uh version of that but uh Just a couple um things to point out. Bosey's aid uh they are increasing the amount of of um salary that is aidable. So let's say we we have somebody come in from Boseies to do professional development or something like that. More of their salary now can be aidable than I think it's been changed in like 20 30 years. So it's going to incrementally go up. So that's good news for us who who uses a lot of Boseis
002uh services. Uh I think we're at like 49 50% OC's aid right now. So it just helps us in that regard. U it helps all schools out as well. Uh EV buses uh they did open the door a little bit to extend deadlines. Uh school district can petition uh the state to get a four-year or two-year extension. They can then they can do it once more, but they have to go through a lot of uh you know steps to be able to get those extensions and work with NAERTA to show that hardship etc etc. So, uh, there is a now a little bit of an ability for districts to, um, extend out when they have to convert over to EV buses. So, like a four years total at this at this point. Uh, retirement. Uh,
003just again, there's no penalty now for two more years for any retirees. Uh, currently, if you retire from state, you can only earn up to $35,000 a year. Uh, now, uh, you can there's no cap on that for anybody who might retire. that could help some districts out, maybe help us out depending uh for hard to find positions. If somebody's retired and have them come back and work even just part-time or something, you don't have to worry about the salary cap. And finally, uh as most of you aware, the the phones uh legislation did pass bell-to bell. Uh looking at, you know, the legislation, we're pretty there already here at CA for the most part. Um you know, bans all types of personal devices, not just phones, but earbuds or or watches. The uh smartwatches,
004etc. um during the school day. It does give the districts the local um decision of how to store or keep those phones out of sight, so to speak. So, we'll have to figure out how we're going to do that consistently across the board. Um and there's there are some um exceptions, but interestingly, you you I'll be coming to the board, you have to approve those part be, you know, it's a policy part of the code of conduct. So you don't have to give all the exceptions, but if you choose to, you can. Uh there's some different ones to to choose from there. So we'll be bringing that back to you probably next month for a first look at for that. So state updates. Uh just just wanted to highlight real quick our partnership with U
005Albany, which is now several years we've been doing this. Uh we have a full-time psychology intern here every day and a part-time and then also some graduate students here uh on a on a regular basis as well throughout this past school year. It's been a very productive uh partnership uh for for a variety of reasons um uh including uh we've actually hired two people from this, you know, who've came in and did their uh full-time psychology internship with us. We happen to have an opening either that year or the following year. And so two of our more recent psychology psychologist hires have been through this program here um for us. I just wanted to highlight that. It's just another way that we're trying to um get some extra services for our students. Uh a very
006coste effective about 19,000 a year for all this. Mr. Palmer. Yeah. 19,000. So if you think about a full-time psychologist over 100,000 plus part-time, you know, almost 175,000 minimally 200. we're getting for 19. So, uh, so just another way we're trying to support kids cost effectively, right? Uh, just a quick update on the energy performance uh, contract. There's some resolutions later on in the budget and and Ryan may talk to it as well and his thing. Uh, part of the project is to put a small solar array in uh, on our property on Adams Road. That's going to the zoning board of appeals on June 30th. that's the earliest they could get their people together uh for that. So, we've already submitted our responses to their questions which they were appreciative of. We had conversation
007with their secretary I guess is her title for that. So, they're very appreciative. They already have that material ahead of time. Uh the heat pump portion portion of the AC part is in the design phase right now. The engineers have been in here and they've been working with CSRCH uh to to keep work going through that. nicerta contract is pretty much set as well as the ecosystems contract is pretty well set finally too. So, uh, so things are moving along. Uh, you know, I said get through the zoning board of appeals and I think that goes back to the planning board, uh, again. So, uh, but we're confident in that, keep moving. And if anybody wants to come on June 30th to the zoning board of appeals, you're welcome to be there to show your
008support as well. See that? So uh finally I think yes uh just uh there's excerpt from the policy on choosing the student board members as you can see it could be one or more student members shall be appointed and so uh the question I have to the board is do you want you can have more than you want one or you want more student you say that I thought we I thought there was a pretty extensive discussion about just Yeah, I just I copied this off the policy in our if it isn't isn't mine. The policy which E which letter E when we wrote the policy we wrote it for one you might have taken that from this. No, I think that's in there also. I think the rationale was just that to have a
009consistent relationship with the student. Yeah, echo. The board will select a single student as a board member for the school year. Okay, good. Thanks. Good catch there because I was looking for that staring at an all right. So, we'll keep it at one. Okay. Yes. All right. Good one. They're going to hold the elections or they're kind of Yes. They'll be done in May. I think they might already be running actually. I don't ask this, but is there a better system in place this year to select a student? Meaning, did it go through the principles, the teachers? I believe she's uh the principal has started a student advisory council at the high school level and so they she kind of started with them for recommendations and such like that and then they came up with
010some in that regard. So but then it's not just a popularity contest that'll be the that I've asked it to be part of the vetting pro I mean it's the vetting process again. So, so or at least people who understand what what it means, you know, to show up once a month and stuff like that. So, yep. All right, that's all I have. So, I have four topics for you today. Uh, the first one is the Questar FSR. Um, the Questar FSR is the only FSR. FSR stands for final service request. Um it's a document that we complete annually with each of the BOSEIS that we have coasters or agreements with to provide services, software, so on and so forth. Um Questar is the one we put before you just because that we are a
011component district of Questar. Uh this year that total amount is $2.26 million of what we anticipate to spend in the 2526 budget. Um, please know that FSRS, we signed them this year. I guarantee you there will be changes as early as this summer just of of other programs or whatnot that that we subscribe to. The reason is is a lot some of the um quotes really Questar doesn't have yet. So, this is just more of a formality. Just wanted to bring it to your attention. Um comparatively speaking I did put what we had spent in the past two years in 2425 23 24 as well. Uh so you will see that we took a step back for obvious reasons uh in the 2526 budget and this is for again quest star uh expenditures only. This
012is not like cap region posties or any otheries. Any questions on that? Okay. Um the next thing I have for you is the taxi reserve funds. So, uh, the finance committee and Randy and myself met just before this meeting to discuss the tax certiary reserve funds. Um, just on a quick what is a tax certiary? What is a tax certiary reserve? A certiary is essentially a grievance against the district for prior years. Okay, so the most recent one was the Sleepy Hollow Lake. We knew that that would drag on for a number of years. It was a big one. The district established a reserve. By law, by rule, uh we cannot have money in a tax certiary reserve unless there's a pending certary against the district. We currently don't have any. So, the finance committee
013met tonight. We're going to meet again before the the next meeting or the next board meeting to discuss what we need to do with those funds. Okay. So, I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Any questions on that? Can we know how much is in there? Yeah, it's it's right now it's about $250,000. Any other questions? It's actually in the if you look at the trial balance, Jamie, the exact amount is in there. I think it's the 253,000 is like the exact amount here. Um, and just by design, uh, and usually I do my reserves presentation for you all in June. Um, by design that that reserve money is outside of the general fund budget. Okay? So that's not inclusive of our $37.7 million budget proposal. Okay. Um, next item I have is
014just upcoming drills. So, we will have our upcoming spring lockdown drills coming up here in the next days, weeks. Uh, we will also be having our big active asalent drill coming uh this Friday. Uh, just a reminder to you all and the public that campus will be closed on Friday to anybody not participating in the drill. Okay. Um, the drill will begin. We I'll probably be here between 6:00 and 6:30. Um, doors will open at 7:00. Briefing starts at 8:15 and then the day will likely go until about 2:30 or so is is what we're looking at. Um, staff were asked to be part of this. They were not told they had to be part of it. Uh, for those staff members not participating in the drill, they will be down at EJ um for
015some professional development. So we are looking forward to hopefully at the June meet as early as the June meeting uh bringing both the facilities committee together hopefully before then and then at that meeting to kind of debrief and just go over what we saw some improvements that we we think that we can do to strengthen our systems uh and go from there. Any questions on that? It's more verbal. Yeah. I mean, I I will write something up because I need notes to survive, but um I I'll I'll share those notes with with the facilities committee for sure and likely with you all if you want to see them. And then we want our neighbors across the street. That's I'm one of the I was talking to this with Randy today. I'm I want to do
016that tomorrow because we've been bombarding the public with budget stuff. Yes. Oh, yeah. And we've got a letter we're going to put in an envelope and leave in their door if they don't answer it. We've also got the DOT signs, one here and one down there that are notifying the public. We're also doing a reverse 911 call uh to just put out that there is police training on site. The campus is closed. Please don't walk your dog. Please don't show up and try to use the track. Uh this campus is entirely closed. They're actually going to have law enforcement folks on that side of the building, this side, the back, and over there just to make sure nobody's coming through the woods or anything else just because it's it's an active crime scene kind of
017deal uh for the day. So, it's been about a year year in the planning. So, I'm hoping for a successful event again where we can identify some areas that we need to strengthen. So, any other questions there? Okay, last thing I have for you. Uh down below in your business matters uh RFQRFP awards uh which is item 14J. Um there is a bid for seal coating. Uh what we'd like to do is we'd like to we're going to seal coat the uh elementary school parking lot over here as well as the uh the driveway that goes all the way back to and the middle school uh gym parking lot area back there. um those two areas were targeted. This one more specifically, what we'd like to do is we want to add striping for drop
018off and pickup so that we can be more, you know, systematic in how we're doing that as opposed to just the free-for-all. Um we our facilities director and our transportation director went up to Greenville to actually see how their system works to try to bring that back and emulate it there. We're trying to we will be rolling that out um in the fall. So that's all I have. Uh just vote on that. Sorry, you're sending out an RFP. The RFP has already been sent out. The the the bid analysis and what we got in back uh got back is inevit 14J for approval for tonight. So u just shout outs to our athletics teams that are in sectionals right now. The girls just had a softball game. I didn't see the final. Jim's shaking his
019head. 65. Okay. Um, and then we've also got the baseball team and the track team and I'm missing one, tennis, uh, going on this spring. So, good luck to all of them. And then, uh, we've got one more board meeting. So, I'll save my tears for the retirees. It's been on. [Music]