001Okay. Okay. Then I will call the meeting to order at 6 11. Um, can I take attendance? Mrs. Whitened here. Mr. White later here. Miss Sroa here. Miss Donnelly here. And Mr. Daniels here. Perfect. All present. Can we stand for the pledge? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Do we have any public comments? Did we receive any public comments? We did not. Not at this time. All right. Then our first order of order order of business is to appoint a president and a vice president as selected by the board of education. Do I have any nominees for presidents? I'll nominate our president, current president. Thank you, Brian. So, Mr. White is nominating
002Mrs. Whited and I'll excuse me, nominate Brian White. And Mrs. Whiteed is nominating Mr. White for vice president. Are there any other nominations from from the board? All right. Then I will ask for a motion to resolve that the board appoints Mrs. Whited as president and Mr. White as vice president as selected by the board of education. Make a motion. Heather and a second. Second. And Kyle. All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries. I will turn it over to you, Mrs. White. Thank you. Okay. The first thing on the agenda is you've already done that. Oh, okay. Oh. Oh, sorry. My eyes still aren't working right. Okay. Result that the board appoint Fiona Chang and Jordan Galvey as exeicio student board members effective July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 as recommended
003by the superintendent. Can I just add something? Yes, you can before you vote. So, just uh as you know, this is a new legislation that we now are requiring school districts to have board of education uh to include student representatives. We in Waterle have always had a student representative in the years that I've been here uh self- selected from our student council at the high school that has served in the capacity of representing the high school students. So, we'll be continuing in that tradition, but this year just makes it a little bit more official with a with an appointment by the board of education. Uh, and we have two co-exec um exeicio student board members that are willing to serve this year. Uh, the first is Fiona. Fiona couldn't join us this evening. She does
004hope to be here in August. Uh, but she is in drama club cheer national honor society student council. Uh she's currently doing an internship with the appellet court. Uh and in case you just wanted to know, she plans on applying to NYU with her 1540 on the SATs that she just started. So uh she is quite the quite the uh student. Um and that doesn't put any shade on Jordan. Jordan is also a National Society student. Uh student council works part-time. You may see him on occasion if you drive through the dump drive-thru. Uh, and his summer is filled with vacations. I think he's gone on a cruise. Very two cruises. Two cruises. And he plans to apply to Sunni Albany for finance. So, we welcome both of them upon your approval to uh keep
005us a breast of what's happening with students and join the board for our meetings this upcoming school year. Okay. Could I get a motion on the nomination? Could I get a second? I'll second. Anything on the motion? Anything on the motion? Thank you. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? hearing none. The motion has passed. Welcome aboard, Jordan. Thank you very much. Congratulations. My honor. Okay, Dr. Stevens, would you like to provide us with your Yeah. Take this official seat. Thank you very much. And hopefully he has something to say cuz he's the next one to speak. Oh boy. So, um, first off, thank you for joining us for graduation. Uh it was a terrific evening. Lots of celebration and congratulations to all of the students and families. Um we are uh quickly adjusting and getting
006ourselves ready for summer school. Uh in case you're curious, summer school starts on Monday. Uh we do have just about every grade level with with roughly 20 to 25 kids per grade level that'll be attending. Summer school for our high school students. Uh registration starts tomorrow. So they will be uh out in the lobby uh tomorrow and Thursday registering students for high school classes and regents all of that. They've been feverishly making phone calls over the last couple days as regent results from June have come in and end of the year grades have have come in. So, um we look forward to the next six weeks as we um continue to keep students ready for school that don't that we don't want to see a summer slide and also allow some some of our high
007school students to recover the credits that they may need and be successful um in their region's completion in August. Bless you. Thank you. Uh you might smell it in the hallways, but classrooms are already starting to get cleaned. Mr. Scopiak has already started breaking rooms apart on the third floor and a couple on the first floor so that he can get ahead of the the cleaning season. That's what really the summer is for for our maintenance staff. So, uh that has already gone gone off. Uh also in about two weeks we have summer professional development for staff. Uh it's two very busy weeks that we wait till right after summer school ends and we allow staff to sign up and take a plethora of things. I know that there is uh some mental health sessions
008set up. There are um data um curriculum writing uh science investigation trainings um reading horizons trainings and a whole bunch lots and lots. Uh so that's in the works. Um and we are getting ready to gear up in our spare time for September with a new school year. Uh we've you're going to now hopefully vote in a couple new hires in tonight's agenda. I'm sure there will be some again in August's a agenda. We have new teacher orientation set up for the end of August so that we can quickly without any fail continue with the the upcoming school year. Um some updates for you. First being if you could check out your calendars and let me know or let Mrs. invited to know about a summer board retreat where we could uh schedule anything uh
009and either have somebody from NISBA or our attorney visit. Uh that would be great. Uh just something to reconnect ourselves and and prepare ourselves for the upcoming school year. Uh and so you're aware July 22nd, 23rd and part of the 24th I will be at the superintendent's retreat in the aderondex. What I look forward to the most and the only other update that I have um is well I guess two. One being you'll see several new policies on tonight's agenda. Uh one of them including maximum temperature in classrooms or actually any of our facilities. uh the use of internet enabled devices um and um students with life-threatening or aniflic uh conditions. So those are three brand new policies. Uh one of them is revised. It's just the language has changed. So all three of those
010are required by legislation. Uh if you have questions, hopefully you had a chance to to scroll through some of them. My apologies of the 19 packets that you had to scroll through this weekend. We were looking at tonight's agenda. the largest agenda and I was like cramming this huge packet through the copier to get it through. So um hopefully it's all fixed now and and uh organized for you. But those are three required policies that we need with some policy changes. I worked with Miss Demento, Mrs. Webster and the policy committee to make sure that those were updated and ready. Uh they should be all set for September uh which is what we have to have them required for. Uh so they will go through their second reading in August to be ready to go.
011Last update that I have is just that um we do still are in the search for our next school principal for the junior senior high school. Uh we have another interview set up for next Wednesday. Uh and that should finish up our first round. Uh and then we will be in touch with the board and staff on the outcome of of where we go next. I think that's all. Thank you, Dr. Stevens. Jordan, do you have anything that you I know you're probably not prepared, but I would still love to say something. Oh, love to give you the full. No, I would just like to say that I appreciate the opportunity and that this is very intriguing. So, I look forward to attending as many meetings as I can throughout the summer and throughout the
012school year and ending my senior year on a high note. Definitely. Great. Like I said, welcome aboard. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Okay. Committee reports. The audit committee. We have nothing to report. Heather, policy committee. Yep. Uh we met on June 18th and the revisions are listed on tonight's agenda. Okay. Thank you. Board of Education discussion. The district district level safety plan has been uploaded to the district website and will be available for public review on the website or in person for 30 days. A public hearing will be held at the August Board of Education meeting. If the public has any comments, they can um also email them to the email listed below. Is there any other um board of education discussions? anything anybody would like to say? I'd just like to say congratulations
013to all the graduates. Um, prek, fifth grade, high school. I know they're not here, but it was great attending the graduations. Graduation Friday night was awesome. And um, I'd like to thank Dr. Stevens for allowing me to present the diploma to my nephew. unexpected, but it was nice. Thank you. Absolutely. Okay, moving along to the personal items. I'm going to ask for a consent agenda from items 1 through 57. Could I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Did I get a second? I'll make a second. Anything on the motion? All in favor? All opposed? Hearing none. The motion has passed. Okay. Could I get a motion to end the meeting at 6:23 p.m.? I'd like a motion, Ryan. Second, Heather. Okay. Uh, any anything on the motion? All in favor? I Well, anyone opposed?
014Hearing none. The motion has passed. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.