001Ready. Hi. Good evening everyone. It is February 25th, and, um, the board is opening the meeting for the purpose of taking a motion to adjourn to executive session, where the board will discuss the employment histories of ten employees and also, um, the appointment of another individual. Um, so I just need a motion and a second. John, a motion was on the second. All those in favor? Motion passes five zero, and we'll return to open session at 630. Thank you. Everyone. What is this, an executive session? So I need a motion to close this meeting a second. Um, the motion, John. The second. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. So we'll open tonight's meeting, as we always do with pledge to the. Flag. Of the United States of America to republic for which it
002stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Those traitorous remarks. Let me start as well. I am. Thank you. I have two quick reminders to start us off that the pre-K application closes this Friday at 4 p.m., and our kindergarten registration begins Monday. Included questions. Please don't hesitate to reach out to either my office or to the JFK main office. Uh, I also have the opportunity to attend coding fair at city staff right before break, which was a ton of fun. It was so great to see the kids dressed up, um, in their colonial era outfits, uh, making candles and churning butter. And they tried to reenact a day in the life of colonial era New York. Um, so it was a great way to end the week right before a
003break. And I wanted to give a quick shout out to our assistant principals who have really taken on the leadership for our power, our professional development sessions. And, um, they're doing a great job. And I just wanted to publicly acknowledge the work. Great. Thank you, Mr. Becker. Yes. Uh, so a couple of things. Uh, tomorrow we have our monthly new teacher academy. Focus on tech tools. Uh, shout out to Mr. Jim Schwab will be facilitating that session towards this month. And also, it's hard to believe the next week we'll be officially kicking off our hiring or recruiting, uh, season. Uh, Monday, I'll be facilitating a virtual learning session with colleagues from school and summers. Uh, the sessions call your hire. Know what? And it's a series of workshops this year leading up to the, uh,
004Lower Hudson County Fair, which will take place on March 29th. And also Amelia and I am is part of that. And I'll be headed to our unit society, uh, for their hiring there at the first campus. Uh, like, so to say. Okay, great. Thank you, Mr. Nelson. Um, so good news. So we are entering the final stages. Um, uh, they said approval for our remaining kind of projects. Obviously, there are three phases of approval. Architectural and other mechanical and fiscal associated to achieve the first two legs. Architectural mechanicals associated with you. I had contact, uh, this afternoon with this associate who requests, uh, permission from us to respond to. So we expect to have project approval of two weeks. And that coincides with our meeting schedule of some of the, uh, three houses and, uh,
005requesting responses. So they march, April, uh, for the board for the Spring Hill. Very big advantage of the summer construction. Uh, the remainder of my comments, I'll, uh, hold them to our organizations. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Three happy items to report on. Sebastian, I hope I don't sell your thunder. Thunder? Uh, we would like, once again like to congratulate, uh, senior Sophia LaRocca. Uh, last week, Sophia traveled to Addison, Alabama, to represent Brewster in the 2025 and JROTC National Service championships. Uh, we are aware that Sophia has been recognized as a top shooter for winning, um, the area one championship previously. Uh, this was the first the district's first ever invitation to the national, uh, Air Rifle competition. Um. Sophia computer competed fiercely. Pierce persevered through some extremely challenging conditions and continued to
006represent Brewster Wells. We are incredibly proud of her, and we once again thank Master Chief Campbell for providing this opportunity, uh, for and for his support of Sophia. Uh, Saturday, March 8th, uh, from 11 to 2, we have the various book bash. This is the fourth year that we are doing this. Uh, and it continues to grow in terms of participation, uh, every year. Um, so a number of local and notable authors will be there, some of which are alumni, which is very cool. Um, it's a community organization funded through Library and Research Foundation. Uh, the rec departments for the town of Southeast. And Patterson, co-chair of rotary for rotary. Uh, so many more. Um, we want to thank our yellow specialist, Miss Jeannie Deanie, and our community outreach specialist, with my support for their
007efforts in organizing this. And it's really is an all hands on deck, um, effort. And, um, we're proud to be able to host it again as we think of the results and celebrating as a, um, today, our eighth grade skier, Derek Crivelli, competed in the New York State Skiing Championships at Gore mountain. He finished 14th overall in the state. Not too bad as an eighth grader. Um, so we're proud of him, and we thank him for representing. Thank you. Yeah. That's amazing. Congratulations to. Um, I tonight, I don't really have any, um, remarks. A welcome, everyone back from the February break. And I feel like we may be getting there in terms of spring break as much as I sound today. And I registered my son for spring sports. So I feel like the more
008things I do with spring in mind, it may actually happens to come a long winter. Um, so welcome back to everybody. Welcome back to our students. And, um, you know, let's finish out the school year strong. So now we will go to our student representative Sebastian. Good evening everyone. Um, to start with, first of high school these past two weeks, the eighth grade incoming freshmen single parent mutation will be held this Wednesday or tomorrow at 626. At six three in the back to be just annual. Mr. Brewster will take place this Friday, February 28th at 630. Um, prom parent and student meetings will be held on March 4th, 6:30 p.m. um, March 5th, 8 a.m. at the park and March 10th, 6:30 p.m. and I'll see in athletics, uh, boys ice hockey made it to
009quarterfinals and is on the ice tonight at sports a rama versus seven. Uh, varsity girls basketball team has defeated Peekskill in a tournament game last Thursday and lost their second game to number one seed Walter Tennis on Saturday. Varsity boys basketball lost their opponent sectional games last Thursday at Carmel. Um unified bowling. Next Wednesday, it will be the first game at Carmel Skins Bowling versus Byram Hills at 3:30 p.m. Come see this team in action and you will walk away smiling. Cheer team is attending sectionals this Saturday at a high school. The program starts at 2:30 p.m. Wrestling. Uh, congrats to Ryan Brace, who placed fourth and Thomas will be placed sixth. Both. Both are in all section. Uh, Ryan Grace two time fall section and Thomas leading three times small section. Uh first year
010track had 20 athletes competing in sectionals, and three athletes compete at the state qualifier meet. Ryan Swindell and Jack Jesus both finished second, and section one class A and Ryan finished third at the state level, which include top athletes from a whole section regardless of the school size. And last but not least, the Sports Awards will be held on Thursday, March 13th at 630, uh at Wells. The seventh grade Green team is going to WCC on February 26th, and the seventh grade White team will visit on March game. Each group will tour the facility and receive presentations on cybersecurity, culinary arts, and paramedics. Students will hear from college students and their professors about what life is like in college students, uh, or visitors from the analyzed Middle Schools uh to watch program are visiting February
01127th and February 28th. It's rescheduled from the beginning of February, and they will be visiting our school for two days. If you receive this designation, we are placed in a consortium of middle schools that opens up a world of collaboration and sharing of ideas to meet the needs of a middle level learner. And the eighth graders will visit Mercy College on March 6th, and we'll go on full campus tour while learning about majors and careers, asking questions to current college students and professors, students will learn about other programs mercy has to offer, as well as athletics and music. CBS Winter clubs are beginning this week. Um, and we are excited to offer some amazing opportunities for students. We have parks and it's basketball, intramurals, crafty kids, gardening history, Linda Park, line dancing, science, sewing and
012strategic games. As a part of our 2025 success project, CV star has been working on the production of The Lion King Junior list. Any arts Welsh and Mr. Ryan Shevlin have been producing and musically directing the show since the summer. Students have known songs in a variety of display, so since December students have been learning songs in a variety of languages including Sapele, Zulu, Kosa, Soto, suena and Congolese. They have challenged themselves to learn advanced rhythms, harmonies along, memorizing the lines choreography. Our stage crew has been using their creative talents to be props, costumes and scenery for the show. In the CV Star Act classroom with Miss Danielle McKinley, students have been working on African art, including wearable art that will also be featured on stage. This is Megan Nasira. Well, this will soon be
013meeting with the Middle School art club to begin painting the backdrop for the additional scenery, and all students and staff involved in this project are excited for the final production performance, at least since, uh, JFK yesterday, Monday, February 24th, we celebrate the 100th day of school. Many of our clubs and staff enjoy the day by showing our 100 year old selves. JFK reads about to kick off this Thursday. It's a school wide reading adventure. Every student in the school received the same book to read throughout the month of March. The reading takes place at home, but related activities will take place in the classrooms. This is our third year doing JFK reads and our students have really enjoyed it. On February 27th, we'll have our dedicated kickoff at the Brewster High School, where students will
014learn all about the book we're reading. And this year, we're lucky enough to be hosting author of our JFK reads about that. March 31st, we'll be hosting a contest and choosing several students to have lunch with the author on this day. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Um, now we will launch presentations, recognition and discussion number, uh, 1.20 5.6, initial budget presentation revenues. Mr. Carlson. Uh, so, uh, tonight we're joined by that once our school business administrator presenting our first budget presentation, uh, showing our good news. And, uh, just politely ask if you could refrain from, uh, questions until the very end of that. Is that pretty neat? Oh, yeah. Now I have to take notes. So, first of all, talk to talk with you. Yes, I just turned it on. So yeah,
015that's with our listeners online. Okay, great. So, uh, this evening I'll be starring as Mr. Carlson's understudy. Before we get started, I just want to thank everyone here for all the hard work to put in. Um, um, to play. But I'm also a resident of district, and, uh, she understood Harry's own words, and he was really excited that I said that. Um, so thank you, everybody, for what you want to do. Um, so, as I said, I'm not whimsical school administrator. Uh, I work with a wonderful group of people upstairs in the business office. Um, we, uh, how to ensure that our finances are secure and that, uh, valuable programs provide the premises in the district. Uh, so I the first presentation, uh, many living up to the eventual budget vote on May 1st. Um,
016the general purpose of this meeting is to talk about, uh, revenues for the 25, 26 budget. Uh, your regular household. You referred this as your sources of income called income from sources. Um. Um, what you can see from this illustration, uh, is that a lot of this is out of our control. You hear me say that a lot? I'm sorry. I wish more of it was in our control of a million. We control that 45%. Uh, we do our best to manage it. Um, is very important, um, for our long term, uh, financial planning is, uh, to make sure we control. We can, uh, but essentially what we're trying to do here is understand the parameters that we're working with. So 95% of our budget is controlled through either, uh, tax levy, uh, which is,
017um, the control of the tax cut formula and stated. Um, when we generally begin to look at the revenue set budget. Uh, I've already toward is the governor's executive budget also. Um, this came out last month, and it has a 4.8% increase in, uh, education aid statewide. Uh, for Brewster specifically, it's 9.7%. And we'll get to, uh, what other pieces of of us. Um, that's a good thing. Um, but we can rely on it increasing that much every year. It's just not it's not sustainable. Um, the Rockefeller Institute was tasked by the Education department to work on the foundation. If one of and, uh, two things they recommended were to stop using census 2000 data and replace it with, uh, more current metric, which is called the small area income and poverty estimate. Uh, and
018they also to they recommended is using free and reduced price lunch. Um this used to be done on a people by people basis now instead of the district by district basis. So um, all students in restore are entitled to lunch. Uh, therefore, there's no need for any sort of paperwork. Parents, um, before this becomes how important matters. So they moved away from, um, and, uh, I guess this is a bit, but that's, that's a little, uh, for district. Um, there was no mention of the retiree income extension. Uh, typically, uh, that the number of the teachers year, um, the retirements, the public retirement systems, uh, if they return to work and have about $35,000. Uh, they wave that for the last couple of years of having these across the state. We've been, uh, beneficiaries of
019this. We have, uh, people in our transportation department. Um, retirees come back and we are, you know, dedicated to the district, and they help us fill some, uh, some gaps in employment. Um, and our transportation department, uh, air is great job in finding talent and retaining talent. This is just a bigger statewide problem. Um, so there is no mention of it. We're hoping it continues with the, uh, the fisheries to continue to grow. We're going to see. Um, as I said, our increase for state aid is 9.7%. Um, this is mostly due to, uh, foundation aid increases and the postseason categories. Um, the foundation knows there's two metrics that they changed have both, um, budget increases or actually using more current, um, source of data. Um, both are, you know, small income, uh, small area
020income, poverty estimates and the economically disadvantaged data. They both increase our formula by 5% each year. Um, so they're both 5% higher and a positive one. Um, so that's good for us. But again, this increase is due to a change in the measurement, um, changing the actual numbers so we can try to do this again. Again. And uh, the most needed increase, um, largely because of our use of postal services. Um, particularly our, uh, career and technical education program. So the more we participate in these services and policies, programs, uh, we have increased funding. So it's pretty much the same rewarding us, encouraging uh, districts to, uh, consolidate their resources in those programs. So here's our other CTE components, as you can see that, like Lewis found, actually that is overwhelming majority of our city,
021um, our excess capacity. I see a the dark blue there that is for our, um, our special needs students. Our department, uh, works with the SAT consultant, um, and essentially reports of New York City. Um, we have a per pupil basis for foundation aid, and we get an additional per pupil amount for our students with special needs. Um, our building either in mustard yellow, is, uh, based on our current, uh, construction. It's not our new construction that's occurring. It's our buildings we have right now. Uh, and that is spread out over the course of these projects. So that's actually really that exists. Not things are going to happen in the future. Um, our transportation in the green there. I will go to it later because I know there is a separate presentation having a little
022bit of transportation. Um, we created, um, you know, pretty much our allowances for transportation are needed, but also our new bus purchases. So, um, you know, as we have a fleet replacement program, we want to replace a few busses each year this year. Um, so as I say this for us, um, policy, as we discussed already and, um, instructional materials, this is aid. Um, typically for uh, textbooks, um, and things like that. It's, uh, textbooks and there's always, uh, textbooks and hardware and so. Okay. Um, the tax levy, the tax cap is overwhelming. Uh, you know, one of our of our meetings or so this is what we as the taxpayers to to pay for the quest in our district. So the tax levy is how much we would as taxpayers pay. And the tax
023cut is, uh, has to do with a formula that limits how much we can raise the tax levy year to year. So, um, you know, prior to the tax happening 14 years ago, um, so district budgets were going up and increasing rapidly. Um, so New York State, as a way to reduce the burden on taxpayers, introduced the tax cut formula that's supposed to limit, uh, how much um, the district can raise their taxes from year to year with us as majority. Um. So, um, a lot of this, the tax cut formula comes, we provide New York State with some data and uses that, but it's also data. Um, essentially we plug the numbers into a big messy formula and it spits out a number. Um, so we'll go over the most important parts of that.
024Um, these are just for, for biggest components, except there are others, but they don't necessarily apply for school district. So, um, according to the regionals, um. The first one is what we call our tax base school factor. Um, this is historically has the highest number of it at 1.7%. Uh, since the tax that was introduced. Uh, this is, uh, essentially new construction of additions within the district, essentially, um, you know, brick and mortar things that will increase the base, uh, amount of taxes. Uh, these are our tax levy. Um. Uh, we're told that, uh, black holes underline print there. The Central School District has no control over this factor. So a lot of, um, and we've we've been in contact with our tax assessor. Uh, this is not finalized March 1st, but in talking about
025access A, we don't have to choose in two days, uh, without the two biggest things driving this were the, uh, majestic center of the road and the Brewster Subaru's, uh, mutual. That's, uh, the second, um, biggest, uh, contributor to the next cap is the allowable growth factor. Uh, this is the cause of the most amount of information when it comes to the tax. Uh, a lot of times you'll hear people refer to the tax cap to 2% year to year raise. Uh, it is 2%. Um, the lesser of 2% for the consumer price index. So you can see there, uh, the high consumer prices is, of course, out there with 80%. So we're not, you know, 80% anymore, but we're still over two. So I think, uh, comptroller's office sends us out a report every
026month. It was 2.99%, so we'll have around 3%. So therefore we're going to take that 2%, uh, and apply that to the next formula again, which is our school district has no input or controls. Okay. Um, highly reduce those are payment to, uh, tax agreements uh, or negotiated between Putnam County Industrial Development Agency and commercial businesses. Uh, essentially to, um, foster commercial business growth in the district and to reduce the burden on, uh, regular taxpayers. Um, you know, agreements are made that will, um, allow businesses to grow. Uh, you know, uh, a rate that will make them fully tax over, over many years. Um, so new, new pilot agreements, uh, decrease the tax cut. Um, because essentially that portion of, uh, our taxes will be covered by that agreement. And then as they expire, uh,
027because the increase in the tax, because now those, those entities, those businesses are fully taxed. So it increases the tax cap. But really as that business becomes fully tax, you know, and you use the, uh tax on. So we have limited control of the stock and we have a whole lot of control. But yeah, it's just a little part of the rules. Um, so again, this is all as of March 1st. Um, important to note is that our the, um, Brewster Industrial organization is not currently included in our units because they have not received their certificate of completion. Um, so they have been included in our, um, uh, tax base growth factor, but not included in our power. Once that becomes finalized, um, and they'll probably be in contact with a tax assessor. And we
028obviously don't have any questions. And, um, travel solutions. This has, uh, two components capital construction debt, which, um, our current capital project hasn't yet hit this. This is actually the tail end of our last capital project. So there's about $250,000 here. Um, exclusions. Those $50,000 are from the, um, older, um, capital projects. The remaining larger portion is actually from our state, uh, school busses, which are considered capital expenses. Um, this year, uh, we're the fleet replacement program calls for investment in water busses. Expensive. And that has driven up our, our, uh, capital city. So, um, you can see that we do have limited input. We have some control over this and this as well as things that we do, um, like to exercise our control over. And as part of our ongoing financial planning, um,
029I get this limited control, but, you know, we only for good. So here's your summary of tax components. Um. If you notice that two of the taxpayers wrote that during the well, the growth factor, which we have no control over, you've been an overwhelming majority of our tax cut. Um, right. Uh, you also notice that our allowable growth factor is not the 2% I mentioned before. This has to do with some of the algebra formula. Essentially, we take last year's tax levy as well as last year's exclusions that we applied to. So it lowers the number down by about 900%. Um, so as you can see our our tax cap stands this year a 4.15%. Uh, we do not have, uh, any intention of going up to that 4.15% with our most. But, um. So,
030uh, here is a history list for years, as well as where we want to go for next year. Um, the big thing we want to take away from this for the tax gap is that each year, you know, one of the different components is really driving the tax. Um, our current year is that tax base growth. And the likelihood that you can see is decreased a bit over each year. And this is the highest it's ever been. Um, but you can see again, the allowable growth factor that, you know, that the 2% we talked about is fairly consistent in there and in the capital exclusions. You'll see especially that big jump in 2024. Those are things that we can kind of strategically control. So in 2324, um, even though we eliminate the tax cut by
031paying off some, some debt, we do that strategically knowing that tax values would be jobs. So it's a smarter way of going about things and controlling what we can. Okay, so here's a summary. Uh, again with the tax levy. Uh, 401 5% is our tax cap. Although, you know, we don't want to go anywhere near that number. Um, our local sources, uh, you notice that there's that, uh, $80,000 increase. Um, this is, uh, mainly from a transfer from the debt service fund. Essentially, we're earning interest on money that we have. And, uh, you know, uh, that we're hoping throughout the year and we're strategically using that to pay off debt. And so students capital project. Um, this is also is offset some of the capital student growth. So in controlling what we can control. Uh,
032we talked about state and federal aid, the appropriate fund balance. You know, if there's $1 million less that will be used in next year. Um, this is, um, us kind of. I don't want to say balancing the budget, but, you know, really trying to keep our revenues in line with our expenditures. Um, essentially, New York allows us to, uh, to hold some money if it's so safe and giving year, our our expenditures are lower than our revenues. We can hold on to a certain, uh, percent of that money to use, uh, in future years here. Um, we've had less need and, uh, less money in there use. And that's good because our revenues are aligning with our expenditures, and that's what we want. We're not a business. We're not trying to run a surplus. Um,
033in the list, uh, you see, there's appropriated reserves. Uh, that's $200,000. Um, this has to do with, um, specific funds. Um, in this case, we have a year reserve. So the employee retirement system, the rates have increased. Um, so we have this money in reserve. Uh, we released $200,000 last year to invest this year, and that, again, offsets, um, the tax burden. Uh. And so, um, that's about all. I've got some questions for you guys. Um, um, so this is Michael, who is part of the next couple of weeks of, um, board meetings. There's, uh, different news on cover, uh, all related to, uh, you know, the budget of, uh, the 20th. I would really urge all of you to visit our district website, um, because I saying my program for, uh, this position. Uh,
034I found is very useful, and I'm not sure what this one, but there is, uh, a lot of really good resources on our website, videos, presentations with, uh, transitional housing, which is where that sense of urgency for business owners. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, no. No! You stand. Are you okay? So I have a lot of passion, so I let others go first before if anyone has questions. I will let you go first. And then if they care about us. All right. Um, so I am going to start at the top. Um. So if we go to, uh, slide two. So. I don't. I have never heard of the small area income. Does that significantly change our dynamics, or is that does that keep us? I mean, if we're going up in,
035uh, potential, uh, New York state aid, it, does that have a much different picture or just a more current snapshot, like, why do they not use a 2010, uh, census? I mean, they know that, um, so they test in New York City's newest apartment just arrived already. You know, I'm familiar with that. So just like in the changes it time, does it significantly change our profile of how it looks. And that's why we're seeing that uptick in potential aid. Or is it just the 4.8% increase in education and statewide is giving us so much more money for year? Just. No, I think for us specifically. So when I take us out million, um, they give us about a million different metrics pages and of and just numbers and uh, acronyms. Um, and essentially when you,
036when you out you look at them side by side and eventually you reached a point where, um, last year and since 2008, um, this year, is this, uh, story already estimates and the percentage that they're applying to the tax formula? That's right. It was 40% using the census two data and 44%, um, excuse me, small area income, uh, the estimates. So I think the idea is, is more of this is giving us the hard reflection as opposed to data. That's okay. I don't understand why we what used to 2010 at minimum for 2022. Ridiculous. I think there were some problems with the 2020 due to Covid. I just I assume that yes, all right, 2020 was cool, but £0.20 is more current. Even better. Yes I agree. So now the free and reduced price lunch.
037We all know that last year we were able to get it because some but did. Wasn't it the change in last school year that went to the economically disadvantaged data? Isn't that how we got it now? So economically disadvantaged that number is always existed. But for purposes of the foundation formula, they're now using economically disadvantaged that number instead of free reduced uh, lunch applications. Because now there's no incentive really driving parents a lot of free lunch application because they were already entitled to a free lunch. So prior to this, we were fearful that we were going to need to compel our, uh, free and reduced, uh, lunch population. And you're already getting free lunch, but would you mind telling us out anyway? It's going to get us additional state aid to, um, to districts around
038the state. We're having these conversations how we can actually, you know, uh, you know, compel people for all these forms. So I, for one, am very thankful that, uh, I, um, we just got a shout out is going to be used. So we believe that next year we will be able to maintain lunch for the entire district. Yeah. This. So this is independent of somebody. So community eligibility provision is actually, uh, three years okay. Uh and so that's how we got it. Let's see I just I did not touch in school. Okay. Uh, so that was in the state budget. Okay. That's perfect. Okay. So now no mention of retiree. I know that there was going to be a meeting with legislators. I know it was a topic that was brought up with legislators. Is
039that something that might be up to you? That might be Michelle. But like are they taking that back that you that you need to let us know quickly because we have to kind of big rolls on that. Yeah, I think so. And I've seen it in this, uh, and uh, I think all of the council too. And when we had our meetings last week with some elements later and, uh, Senator Harckham, we did we did bring this up. And a lot so that at this point last year, it also was not included in the 24 or 5 budget. Or when it came time for negotiations, it made its way. And so we, Steve and I had this conversation a year ago fearful that it would go away. Again, it was included in the governor's official
040budget proposal. We're both happy to see that it made its way into the legislative, the adopted budget and even, um, included in that. Are police officers included in that? Because, yes, yes, because we had a lot or we also we've had people not apply to certain positions because they were afraid of us. Right. Yeah. Residency is what actually comes. Okay. So, um, now here comes that last bullet. So I've separately, outside of the board, I have asked spouses for information. So and I have seen some of the data and I'll actually I'll bring some of that up. Well, um, I'm actually surprised because if we are going up in Boces revenue, we are also going up in Boces spend. So it's almost a net net of of what, um, what that would drive versus the
041cost. I'm surprised to see such an uptick because I've asked them for information on some of their most popular programs. And we have one kid, three kids. And one of the problems that I have with Boces is how they are. This is a separate topic that I have to review some documentation, but ah, uh, how equitably they are putting out that because we have school districts that are twice the size as us. So okay, they might get more kids, but, uh, from a Brewster perspective and one of their most popular programs, it has 25 spots. We have one student and that next school has ten. Um, so 3000 in our district, 6000 in their district, that school has ten kids and we have one kid. Even though we had multiple, um, we have multiple applicants.
042Now, the applicant ratio might be a little bit different, but still the spots in that that you might be get. So from that, I'm actually kind of surprised to see that we're going to go up so much, even though I do see a large push for kids going towards, um, the, these, this, these, um, educational opportunities. But the challenge is if we're not getting our kids in and that there's not an equitable way that they're distribute, just distributing the limited spots. How are we getting so much money? So it's important to note that okay is all inclusive. The career and technical education portion of it is actually, um, you know, not a, not a, um, you know, a major part of it. So with all of these, um, on policies, what we do, the line
043by line budget that, you know, that I go, it's all the resources, all of our technology. I mean, as a coach service, all that, all of it. Okay. So it doesn't say it, but I think it came up. It came up as CTE. So it's not related to CTE. It's related to Boces services that we take advantage of all those services about CTE is a part of it, but it's not. Not even a lion's share of the majority of our Boces services are, you know, really technology items. Um, um, and uh, it's collective services again right now. So that being said, we're literally I are expecting a four point something, uh, percent increase in state aid from for next year, 9.7. So 9.7 including but the Boces part plus all in. So all of those
044categories because transportation aid you know make up helps you know slightly uh access cost. They may have gone down. So collectively all our entire state aid budget is increasing nine point centers. And so 4.8 everybody in the in the in this year winners and losers. Right. So if we if we went up 9.7 statewide average is 4.8. If we went up 9.7 there are certainly happy districts that didn't see anything close to 4.8%. And we actually so it isn't that that we did. Yeah. So we did better than average. We're the highest in the county. Okay. Um, so that's incredible. And a lot of money that we are getting from state. I think you're going to read between the line. I know when we when we get to the actual budget. So now, um, the
045pilot from what Matt said, pilot, they do not yet have their CEO dotted yet. I to actually cut off that much. But they have a functioning building that should have a tax assessment. So are we able to collect taxes and don't cut off this March 1st. So we are getting taxes non pilot. Yes that is going to come into our this year budget. Yeah. So they're part of the taxpayers. Okay. So they're part of the tax base. And then next year they'll come out of that line item up the tax base and go into a pilot will still have net net money, although less than their appraised value is much less now. So they get their no. Their appraised value is their appraised value on what that finish building is versus even if they haven't
046finalized it. There's only one of the built in storage. Okay. And then when does the pilot start from approval date or. So it's, uh, taxable status. So in in speaking with, um, the assessor, they're not likely to receive their certificate of occupancy by the March 1st taxable, which in effect is 2026. If on March 2nd they did it wouldn't take it until 2627. So any time between March 2nd 25 and February or March, as of March 1st, 2026, it would affect the 26 months. So is that ten years from that date or ten years or something? Yeah, ten years from that. Okay. So will effectively be from what if they don't show up on March 2nd? We'll get more money this year than we would get next year, even though the building stuff. But in
047terms of what we're getting, that's what we keep up in the pilot and they're going to dilute the taxes of all existing residents. All right. Um, do you think anyone else has other questions? Well, I dropped my last box because apparently I'm not allowed to. He did very well. I don't know why we couldn't cover them with questions and experiences as far as, like, we don't want to throw up. All right. The last question I have is the ghosting out on the numbers on the initial revenue budget. That is because you're peppering us for a big reveal next time of unlimited impact to our taxpayers. And we took a similar approach. Um, when I say it was 20 to 3 or maybe 21 to where we knew that we weren't going to go out and
048get staff, we still have to balance our budget. Yeah. Okay. You know, this is our first of several presentations. It's our hope that we have our balanced budget, uh, budget balanced by our next presentation, and then we'll know. Uh, and again, it's a similar approach. So you told me that, uh, again, unless it was a 22, 23 year, but we wanted to, you know, maybe. No, there are no intentions of going out to a 4.15% tax cut. Uh, it is, uh, Matt mentioned our target at this point is 2% and should likely come in under two years, but our target is at 2% of an increase to taxpayers when we're getting $9 million more from the state. And our operational costs go up every year. So we have not lost our 10 million, but that
04910 million doesn't represent 100% of our budget. And I'm sorry, you said 10 million again, 10%, but 10% represents it. Okay. Yes, sir. Yes. Actually a quarter, uh, quarter of our revenue budget. But it is typically what we wind up going up and like. So we go up about 3 million, uh, on a, on a regular basis. So I always say we're a service organization. So and our employees are mostly subject to planning board improvements. And within all of those collective bargaining agreements, uh, at least revenue schedules that are entitled to a minimum 2% step increase. Yeah, that's a, you know, percentage on top of that and pounds. So in some cases, we have employees who are getting 4% increase year over year. And those are our operating and a shrinking population health insurance and
050a shrinking population. So I'm just balancing that. Um, on, on costs. Um, uh, we have achieved the number like the classroom sizes. That is uh, is ideal. Even some myself might say at some point we are too small, uh, for some of them. But like, we have a shrinking population and a, you know, uh, 9% increase in funding. That's a really hard sell to the community for, for anything. So even going in and say, we won't even touch the 4%, but anywhere near 2% is going to be something that's actively questioned. The last thing I was going to ask is, um, with everything that they have put forth, are we are comfortable on where they are with the medical insurer, what we have to contribute for years. And yeah, so we know that our patients
051are no, uh, ers is uh, actually is increasing. But unfortunately TR and health insurance as we know every year is a challenge. Okay. Um, but you don't have to touch. We're not going anywhere near the reserves that we keep or any of those things. Because we are. It's a network. Yeah. Well, so is we are using whether or because it gets increased again, uh, trust the pension contributions increase and, uh, you know, pretty simple as you search for answers. So you one would not agree either. Um, well, as the here as reserve is specific to the IRS. No, I, I get that. I mean, like the one going up and one going down would not all offset each other in the regular budget without going into. You could we could but we we committed 200,000
052last year. We're trying to figure out okay. And what is the bounds of that. So that reserve is one more for you review as a finance committee. So you'll be revising our, uh, you know, reserve at the end of this year. And we always make sure that on our interest reserve, this will be funded. And, um, you know, that will be our, our goal again. Um, theoretically, we still are receiving like a 4% interest rate, partially or 5%. So maybe that 200,000 is actually not as impactful, right. Because the actions that are going on. I will just say this is part of what, um, address and my great job to do the best we can, um, you know, we are and the community has been very good to us and to the district and supported
053budgets and capital projects. We're not looking to take advantage of that, um, generosity or to, um, do anything that would be near, like we said, the 4%, each position that's open, we talked about this administratively, we look at with. Careful discernment. We need that position, what it would look like if we didn't have that position. We repurpose that position within that particular grade level or content area somewhere else throughout the district, and we reallocated somewhere else. These are conversations that we have an ongoing basis and we're continuing to finalize. And, you know, any recommendations that we would make, um, would be very strategic and would be meant to just fill the final components of what we need resource wise for vision 2026. But that is most definitely at the forefront of our thinking. And it's
054it guides every conversation. Yeah. And I think I think thank you for saying that. I think that's an important no. Um, you did a great job. So thank you. And you did go to answer my question. The only thing I will say is, and I know I brought this up before the show, you guys do the valuation, is there going to be we asked a lot. And we have added p-tech that we are able to source that from from grants. Um, we have added a lot of um, dual enrollment courses, which as a parent that sent their kid away on AP and junior moment, dual enrollment was just like it was golden compared to AP, although some of those classes have both. Which is a great thing to strive for, great opportunity. We were able
055to show that we are better meeting the needs beyond just the upper level kids. We are better meeting the other level. So I think that's incredibly important and exciting. But the question that I you just said, you mean you like always encourage you to do is what can we stop doing? What can we stop doing and stop doing? And like something like looking at certain AP courses. Yes, we invested in the time and money to educate that teacher. They have that basis. But if we are seeing a decline in that class because it's so rigorous, because I can better get, um, my class through a manhattanville class that's now going to be approved versus if I don't need that three or 4 or 4 on my AP exam. All of those things are really valuable
056things to be able to say, we're going to stop doing this one and we're going to pivot here. We don't need another teacher to stand up this course, because we're going to stop this one and be able to migrate that. So continuing to be able to do that and then demonstrate it back to us and examples of, hey, we started this, but we we stopped this. And how how do we do that? Balancing out. All right. Does anyone else let me question that as much as we like to have Victor on the hotseat? Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Should we clap for him, Victor? No I don't. Unless you're going to clap for me or not. All right. We're going to move on now to our first opportunity. Public remarks. And this opportunity
057is limited to, um, action items on our agenda tonight. So if anyone has any remarks we'd like to make specific to the action item, which is to ask that you make your way to the podium, state your name and direct all your comments to the board. All speakers have three minutes to make whatever remarks they'd like to make, and we just ask that you not identify any students or staff in your remarks. So if anyone has any public remarks tonight on the agenda items, um, action items, please make your way to. All right. We don't have anyone here in the meeting. And we also did not receive any emails since our last meeting about the action item. So we will close public remarks and move on to action items. Action item number one. Approval of
0582025 2026 District Calendar. Yes. Thank you. I'll take that one. Another sign that we are getting closer to spring is the approval of the 2526 school calendar. So some highlights. Um, to note, uh, we start school on September 2nd. As a reminder, we cannot start complete before September 1st at the state level. We do not receive any due date for any day that we are. And students are in session prior to that day. So we have Labor Day on September 1st. We start right away on September 2nd. Uh, this calendar, uh, afforded us an opportunity to have two professional learning days, one in the fall and one in the spring. We do that in October and March. That's key to us, uh, moving forward, uh, from a, uh, professional development or professional learning perspective. Um,
059this also gives us an opportunity to have, uh, two weeks again in December. So January has been enjoyed in 25, 26 to 27 sworn, um, or we had earlier spring break in this calendar. Um, Easter falls on April 5th. So you see, the last week in March is actually when it begins. Uh, we also built in uh, three uh, plc earlier releases, um, which we've had for several years now. So thank you again for that time. Valuable learning. Um, in the last day of school is June 26th. It's pretty late again this year, but again, that's based on, uh, stated determination. Our Regents exams in and rainy days. Um, as a reminder about process for this. So once we go through it, um, we have all of the heads of the bargaining units look at
060it to give us some input on that process. Um, they have, um, given their blessing, um, and, uh, you put it forward for your approval. That's all I could think. Uh, it's, uh, Sikorsky troll for her work on his calendars. All right. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second to this item? Jamie. On the motion. Scott. Um. Second. Any questions or comments? I need a couple, so I'm just going to apologize because I do have a couple questions about, um, some of the items today. I don't think any of them are too harmful, but, um, you brought up a really good point, Michelle, that, um, we're going to the 26th because, you know, uh, state regulations. So do we have regents is like on that Wednesday, that Thursday or Friday, I think
061the last ones on that Thursday I remember. All right. That's good already. And I think it's one that a number of the number of our students take, I don't remember which one it is, but it's as if there's like a student. Um, so just like the comments that I did get is that that two weeks at Christmas was excessive. Like, actually, like I said, I don't have to actually do anything with my kids up. Um, so but that was one of the things. And then of course, being able to figure out how we get out earlier at the end of school because that that we've just heard and also it's something to just think about. And this is a, um, focus group of one. But if there are still days and I know we tried
062to check them on to the Memorial Day weekend, are we able to ever take them on to the last day of school instead of three? You have to. Even if there's not a Regents on that last day, is it the, um, the rating day that's determined by the state, which is usually the day after? I mean, these exams. So eight, eight school districts elsewhere is that's governed by New York State. And what everyone's going to finish on the 26th is mission days. All right. That's true. All right. It's a half day, but it's still a student session. All right. Cool. Thanks. Should anyone else like questions? All right. Seeing, um, let's go to the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes, six zero. Action. Item number two. Disposal of district property. Technology. Equipment. Yes. This
063is being requested in accordance with Ordinance Policy 5250. Dispose of this. I mean, as you can see, the encapsulates the majority of these items are access points of general inflation rules. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion and a second for this item on the motion. And a second. Any questions or comments? Saying I'm going to go. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Action. Item number three. Approval of 20 2425. Instructional Services and related services. Contract for Mountain Lake. Yes. This agreement has been reviewed by attorneys and this recommends approval by our Director of Personnel Services. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. Can I have a motion and a second for this item? Just on the motion was on a second. Any questions or comments? See? None. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero.
064Action. Item number four. Approval of stipulation agreements. Relief number 3610. Yes. Thank you. Uh, details will provide support for that concession on the street. Yes. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second? Gentleman. Motion can ask any questions. Comments? Okay, let's go to the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Action. Item number five. Approval of Stipulation of Agreement for employees 40 to 40s. Yes. I apologize for redundancy in this. Also, uh, this also provides support regarding the opposition. Okay. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second for the seven star? The motion. Any questions or comments? Let's go to the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Action. Item number six. Approval of resolution for a general agreement between the district and employee number 4066. Yes.
065This also requires the board this session. Okay. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second to decide which side of the motion you are on the second. Any questions or comments? Let's for the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Action. Item number seven. Approval of resolution to authorize. All receive one rock to negotiate data privacy agreements. The Chief Privacy Officer of the New York State Education Department initiated efforts to streamline the contracting and negotiation process under New York at Law 2D for school districts. So as a result, the Rick one Risk Operations Center was established to improve vendor management, data security, and privacy practices for school districts and Boces statewide in collaboration with the Student Data Privacy Consortium. This resolution will authorize the ROC to negotiate data privacy agreements on
066Brewster's behalf, simplifying the process of securing securing DPA, the data privacy agreements while enhancing data data privacy protections and saving a tremendous amount of time in our technology department. Our attorneys reviewed the resolution and it's presented to you. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion and a second to. It's got a motion to answer. Prior to this. Was it done on a school? High school? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Yes I did. Um, so just wondering. It does say that, um, you know, are they. And maybe Jim's best to answer this, but are they actually holding data or just negotiating the GPAs on behalf of a consortium? No. Um. So sorry. Are you. Can I go there? Sure. So essentially, every, um, uh, vendor that we use, we need to have
067a data privacy agreement. So each individual school district is is, uh, working with them. So each of these vendors has, uh, uh, student or staff data, but Brock does not have student or staff data. No, no, they are just negotiating kind of as a clearinghouse for the rest, for all the districts. And it's a standardized GPA that everybody could utilize and talk about without sharing right out of pocket. Perfect. Thanks. What else? Have any questions or comments? All right, let's go to the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Consent agenda. Uh, yes. Just one note. Uh, this argument worries a lot of DC Republican chaperons. But it's right around the corners. But it's getting better. Um, and we put the consent agenda for April. Okay. Thank you. I have a motion and
068a second for this. Jamie. On the motion. Melissa on setting. I don't have any questions or comments. I do. I just, um, and forgive me because I know it's been it might have come up in a previous update, and so maybe my brain is not recalling it, but I see several P-tech afterschool program. I just want to get a description of what that is. And then the second question is, um, so I see one more coaching appointment and then what is it total that we're still missing on screen? I'll, I'll double check. I want to say it's true. Okay. And it might actually be down to one for you next that provided the update. Um, and then in terms of picture, um, as we've been been talking about this part of when, um, what we
069wrote into the grant over time as this, um, additional structured support that would take place. Um, so this is, um, exactly that there are students that are struggling in particular content areas. We can ask teachers to stay on certain days in order to provide that support. So this has been, um, we've discussed as we PTA, there's a provision already in the contract for it, and it would be funded through the PD grant. Okay. And so this is at the high school kids participating in those classes. And I just like, you know, like some of the names I was like, oh, will they be. So are these teachers teaching p-tech or are they coming in to support in addition, like, you know, like one is English. So I was like, oh, it's English on the P-tech
070route. So there are these cohorts, as you know, in the cohort as they take specific classes. Um, so they might not be p-tech classes, but they have students in them. Um, so I don't know that all of these looking at the list, I'm not sure that all of these are teach those cohorts of students, but they are students or they are teachers of that particular content area where those students may need support. Okay. So the content area may go outside of P-tech. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Anyone else have any questions? All right, let's go to the vote. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. Okay, now we're at our second opportunity for public remarks. Once again, if anyone has any remarks you'd like to make. Um, we ask that you, um, go to
071the podium. Every speaker has three minutes to make whatever remarks they like to make. We just ask that you state your name. Uh, don't identify any student or staff in your comments. And this, um, public remarks period is not limited to action items on the agenda. If anyone has any remarks like any. Hi everyone. My name is Tracy Jones and I just had a I wanted a, um, point of clarity, uh, slide to state aid components. So maybe some questions. Uh, so I was just, I thought I heard. I just wanted to clarify that on that slide. Uh, it was, uh, the bar that was requested, 58.4%. So I got. For three in the presentation. Um, yeah, it's the foundation bar. It's it's, uh, reflecting cookie point course. Uh, present there. Um, Foundation. Uh, the
072presenter mentioned that it was, um, it's dedicated 26% of the total revenue budget. Um, 58.4% of that is. That's special. That goes towards special education. Uh, it doesn't say that there, but. And that's why I had to kind of go back. I just, uh, I believe I heard the professor say that. So I just wanted to make sure I understood that. Right. And if I didn't understand that appropriately. Um, and again, I'm not certain about, you know, how this how this all breaks down. But in regards to. Contingency plans for special education expenses. When? When? Special education expenses exceed whatever is allocated within that 50.4% for state aid. Um, I would just add my my question is like how is that handled? Um, Doctor Bosch, again, you mentioned that the you know, you know, these
073things age group. That's right. Um, it's just it's just like, um, sort of a blank for me. Uh, it's something I'd like to understand more about, if it's possible. I know, you know, we're not always, uh, you know, I'm not always privy as a, you know, public participant to some of the details, but, um, again, with when there are, you know, there are there needs there, you know, there's assistive technology to transportation. There's a lot that goes into that. It can easily exceed whatever is allocated by state aid. A lot of time it usually does. Um, it'd be interesting to know more about it. Um. It's more of a comment than a question. I do want that. You know, that bit of clarity. I do believe that was a special education bar. It's clearly a
074lot larger than the, you know, the other buckets of money there, you know, percentages. But I was just, um, I was I was wondering what sort of, um. What happens when, when, when the needs exceed what's allocated and how how priorities are handled? I don't know if I'll get additional clarity on that, but it'd be nice to know. And, you know, whatever I'm privy to as a public participant. Thank you. Thank you so much tonight. Okay. Um, so we'll close public remarks. And we did not get any emails here. So, um, is there anything that you can. Yeah, I'll take part of that. And then I can, um, as Mr. Crossing have done. But, um, the short answer would be that it would be supplemented by other sources. Um, we have the local budget. That
075or the general budget that would, uh, fund some of the items that you discussed. Um, we also have some grants that come in 611, 16 these grants, uh, more supplemental in nature. Um, but we have those funding sources as well. So the short answer is, if it's a mandate, we will use one of those funding sources to, um, fund it. And if in most of the cases, we go above what is mandated in order to make sure our students are successful. And if you wanted to clarify the question about. Yeah, and just in terms of like the, uh, the revenue. So access cost aid is the dark bar and that's what's, um, that we what we receive, um, for providing services to our special needs population. Uh, and also just to note that it's not,
076um, it's not treated like a cost center. Um, so, like our budget, our state aid comes in on the revenue side of our budget. On the expenditure side is where we provide for services in staffing or, um, you know, instructional materials and what have you. Um, so in that case, it's again, it's not really considered a cost center where it's not directly related to the access cost data on the revenue side, or rather, there's a separate, uh, special education budget on our expenditure side. Thank you. All right. And if you need additional or you know. You know, you can always reach out. Um. Okay, so, um, we did not get, um, email. Um, since our last meeting. So we'll move on to board remarks and video committee updates. Is there anybody who has any remarks
077would like to share? Um, I know we mentioned before that we had some calls and advocacy calls. Um, last week with Senator Harckham. I was on, you know, as I said minutes later. Yeah. Um, with Doctor Ghosh, um, who has always very articulately set forth, you know, each district got to speak about what was important. And there were many, many who raised the, um, the retiree issue and other issues. But, um, yeah, it was helpful. And as always, you know, very, very open and very supportive of, um, the concerns from their districts. Does anyone else have anything they'd like to get something close to? Um, so one of the things is, um. What? Um, as John had mentioned, understand, like what would be interesting to understand and I think we've talked about this previously in
078the past, it's just kind of understanding as we look at the budget, that line item. Um. Um, kids that we send out of district how that is pacing from, you know, last three years and our opportunities, uh, for bringing in in-house. So for instance, the one that we've approved tonight is 12 one one. I know we have 12 one one in certain sections of our schools. That doesn't necessarily mean that's the most appropriate, but just being able to understand what we're looking at on a year over year basis as we start to talk about the numbers of the budget. So nothing necessarily tonight, but, uh, having that a frame of mind as we start to see, like, are we seeing more kids go out of district? Are we seeing kids that are actually able to
079come back into districts, you know, and so forth? And then the only other thing, um, again, a couple parents have reached out to me. And then as somebody that had graduated last year and had a junior this year, um, there's a prom meeting and Sebastian brought it up. And so, you know, there's been questions about why is there a prom meeting? I don't think the last two years have required a prom meeting. Um, I have um, as always, I have no time to the community, the parents. And so. So we had in-person prom meetings up until Covid, when I came to the prom. Then we went to a video of, uh, prom, uh, project, which is, uh, giving out, um, the people who presented to the county coalition cares. Uh, we have a video from
080them. And then the last two years, we had a video from the morning brew that we had the kids watch, and then we had the parents watching and parents showing off us. Um, the prom advisors, the senior junior class advisors did not feel that that was actually being listened to. Uh, so they requested that it be an in-person actual from project meeting. So that's why I just. Thank you, ma'am. Can I just give a quick, um. Because it is an important driver in the budget, and it is something that we have, um, spent time talking about and having meetings on the calendar to continue to talk about the trend that you're talking about in terms of students that are out placed. Um, it is increasing significantly over time. And it's not because of our lack
081of trying or because of even, uh, any sort of deficit here at the students that we have been sending out of district have significant needs that require these, um, out of district placements. Um, and so we have that constant analysis going on. Um, the other piece is that the PDS department works very diligently, um, starting, um, and visiting every um student who receives services, um, all the way through students who are currently isolated to say, are there different supports that if you don't have them. Now, if we did put them in place that we could bring this particular student back. So it's, um, they're very costly or very cost conscious about this. We want to, um, educate students in their own district, but we can't sometimes we just cannot. Um, and so we're, we're it's
082an ongoing process and we're trying to, um, you know, unpack it all as it evolves. But with that, I'm sure that we're not unique. So we went in and said, hey, can you help us understand what the trends are across all these school districts that you guys do? Because from a state aid perspective, it's 50 grand a pop each each year. Roughly some of them are, some of them more because of transportation, um, and stuff like that. So now we're we're talking about that level, and that might be something that needs to be advocated with New York State, because we're seeing, again, those ties back to early intervention, early intervention on mental health challenges. So I know we're bringing in co-chair. That's great. But a lot of these challenges are kids not having supports and
083and mental health coping skills as an early age. And then now are we seeing that increase, uh, collectively across counties, across um, consortiums that we're seeing everybody is doing this and having this challenge versus us because I'm sure that we're not unique in that. And then how do we go back to advocate for, you know, in New York State, you either need to help us offset those costs. You need to, you know, figure out something because you don't have the mental health, uh, supports early on in the child's life because of, of, uh, funding. And now we're expected to bear that, and it's going to break the bank on what we can do, and it becomes a significant challenge. Okay. Um, so, yeah. Yes. I think, um, last week during the school break, the town
084of Southeast awarded us that LaRocca and our own doctor of cosmetic Gulf, uh, justifications for the Great Park. I would just ask if somebody asked about it. Please do it. The school's in session, so maybe. What do you think? Um, I did have one question on related to the post breakdown. And I know we've talked about this a number of times, um, representation of students. And to say that the difficult to get information is likely. Would it help at all, or is it appropriate for the board to either as a board send a letter or some type of request, um, forward kind of policies are whoever's covering it would be not just for us, for other districts to say, I know they have that and it's personal that obviously the case, but there's a way
085to just get a simple break out just so we can see how it's going. Also to help our parents, our parents know I can watch quantum mechanics, but there's not many slots, so let's not get this hopes up. And that's planned in advance because there's a lot of it's a look at classes, math, English that you have to take before you go to policies. And if you don't do the proper ones, you know, if you get to the right here. So just some type of simple breakout just so we can see that the size of it that we're fine with, but just a simpler representation, that's all possible. Once again, if the board needs trying. Thank you. And I have some information that I got and as a parent that I'm happy to share, I
086haven't had as much time to digest it and analyze it, but I'm happy to share that, um, as well. But I have, uh, I do have quite most popular program elements of all those things. But even, you know, um, as you look at your CTP program growing, you know, we have our CTE teacher in high school who is doing carpentry but is teaching kids electricity, which I have benefited from because I just have the ceiling fan installed by my 16 year olds. Um, so like that's the kind of stuff, like, how much more could we expand that from a right? You're not going to get a custom program for them to have a program. But now we're going to look at, you know, bringing in something, uh, something else that just went into the construction
087the other side. Before this, we were like, we would love to be able to come and talk and, you know, be able to to talk about that stuff. So where would we be able to fill in additional, um, gaps for our kids that are not getting into the most highly coveted programs and stuff that, you know, I did not tell my kids that I heard that I heard channeling expertise that we apparently already have, ordering about in class sections for staff and so forth. The time will tease you out. So I gotta get everybody right. This one that I didn't see that. So I think that's a legal. You're on school grounds. Yeah. My my back to you. I like the foul language. You're trying to catch me. Um, right. To our next upcoming meeting
088with Scott and I will be attending a middle school to watch visit us, which means that as many as one of those days. Um, and then our next regular meeting is May as, uh, March 11th. Sorry. Um, as always, if anybody has any remarks that they'd like to make to the board and superintendent, they can do so by sending emails a weekly at Brewster schools.org. And tonight, we do have the need for an executive session to discuss collective bargaining negotiations. So I need a motion and a second for that. Janine emotionally and or on the second. All those in favor? Motion passes six zero. The board will not be, um, returning to an open session. No action will be taken. Um, in meeting. Thank you.