001Call the meeting to order. Stand for pledge. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. All board members are present. For the record, superintendent report. Miss. >> All right. So, I have a update on the abatement regarding the vermiculite and the air quality testing. Um, so the vermiculite abatement that was taking place on the first floor which was tech office, social workers office and one classroom that was completed Friday um on 117. Um, we had actually projected they would have to work into this week. They did not. Um, so those people will be well the classroom will be back by tomorrow and so will the social worker. Um, the technology office since
002we have the opportunity because they got all their stuff out um to strip their floors, wax them, refurbish everything because it's actually empty. Um, I don't when the last time that floor got wax stripped. Tina does not remember. So, we're taking advantage of an empty room. Um, so that's being done. Um, new ceiling tiles are being installed and so it's opened and ready to go. We're hoping by the social workers office and the teacher will be back in by Monday and y'all should be right behind them with the technology office. So, that went a week earlier than planned. Um, air quality testing is continuing throughout the junior senior high school. We discovered three of the dampers in the middle school classrooms were not open and allowing fresh air intake. Our service contract provider, Train, came
003in and fixed those dampers without charge. Train and our maintenance department are in the process of checking all of the rooms to ensure the dampers can be open for fresh air intake. Gary Bowers from Boseies is retesting the middle school rooms um starting today. No, yesterday. Um testing will continue then on the second floor. So, we're just we're taking our time. we're testing everything and if need be then we retest and things like that just to make sure everything is going um on target. So we're continuing that. Um we did get um Savin's very large existing conditions assessment report. A lot of it is pictures um and they gave us this assessment report is just on the HVAC for the junior senior high school. We did ask Savin engineers to perform an assessment of the
004existing HVAC for Junior Senior High School, particularly in the main office, three classrooms, the wellwater equipment room, boiler room, custodian offices, two science classrooms, office on the third floor. If all of the work is done, according to their estimate, it would be $2,377 and $100. just to complete the work on the first floor. The cost is estimated to be $747,65. So Caleb has more information because he met with Train and Mike Skus, the head of our maintenance. He has more information. He'll talk about the possible solutions that we have moving forward. Um update on school safety and security. As I have said, um I reached out to Assembly Member Paula Kay. She is in possession because I did ask her for confirmation that she got my request for bullet aid in the amount of $184,000.
005In this proposal, I've asked for district-wide lockdown system, updated security access system, which is $89,750 and then 3M protective adhesive for the windows and doors for both buildings. And that would total up to $94,262. Her response is, I will be requesting this in the budget. We will also put you on the list for our capital budget funding. No promises, but I will be lobbying for you. So, that was her response. She is in um she does have it in hand. Um lobby day is March 3rd. So, I will be meeting with her and other people just to make sure that they can't forget us. Um they have given us money in the past when it was Ailen Gunther. So, and she knows that it's also Paula Kay's like that's her number one pet project is
006school security. So, that's what I really pushed. Um, and that 3M protective adhesive, you cannot say bulletproof anymore. It is projectile resistant. Um, because nothing is truly bulletproof. Um, update on buses for 2027. We have received three quotes from three companies. We actually have a meeting tomorrow with Leonard Bus. That was the third company we're waiting on. And Caleb also has more information in his report. I didn't want to steal his thunder. Um, but that's all I have for my report. So, >> so how did we go from downstairs in the office to to all these other rooms that we're looking at? >> So, when we No, so when we asked them to do the assessment report when they were walking around with Mike Skokus, we said, "Well, give us a cost for just downstairs."
007>> And then um that's when Mike Skokus, well, can you look here? Can you look there? And that's when we found out like the um fan the HVAC on top of the um third floor science classes weren't wasn't working correctly. Um so we had them look at that. So we just kind of said if we have them here let's just get everything so then we know it's not going to be peace meal. >> Okay. >> So that was the purpose of a very extensive report. >> Okay. >> Any other questions for Mr. All good. Thank you. Welcome. >> Elementary punchable report. >> Thank you, Mr. Hock. So, one of the bright spots from this year is our attendance. So, right now our attendance at 96.33%. Last year, at this exact time, November board meeting, I
008went back, we were at 93.2%. So, we're 3% higher than we were last year. There's a number of different factors uh involved in that, but it's really a great great um sign for us to be able to try to meet our goal of 95%. Um when you're at 93% in November, it's very difficult to make up those that 2%. It seems like a small amount, but when I'm getting the daily attendance reports, it's really refreshing to see five kids absent of all the kids at GRM. Um and that really is like I praised the staff at the faculty meeting on Wednesday. They're making it so kids want to come to school and so it's enjoyable. And again, it's elementary school, so it's a little bit different than what Mike Mr. Conklin has to deal with.
009But when kids want to come to school, they come to school more consistently. They come to school when maybe they have a sniffle or a little bit of a sore throat or their head might hurt, right? All those things that we can't see through either a thermometer or something that gets comes out of them. And so we're really happy about that. We're announcing our perfect attendance classrooms every day. We're we're noticing that parents who um historically have been picking up their kids early are no longer doing it because kids are asking them not to pick them up early so their their class can have perfect attendance for that day since we announced it. Um and so those are all things in the right direction. Academically, we just had a great celebration of personal narratives in
010sixth grade last Friday. Um one of our new teachers, Samantha Mc Williams, uh invited parents in as well as um staff to listen to sixth grade personal narratives. And it was really eye opening just to hear some of the things they were willing to um discuss in their personal narratives when they read aloud the sixth graders. And you got to you got to know them even more. Our sixth grade is a very small class. It's only 20 um 25 students total. Um and so it's one of the smallest grade levels we have. So they're a really close group and so they had to share in front of their peers and now they're 11 and 12. So, it's a little difficult, but they all did it and it was wonderful. And it uh showcases our writing
011program as well. And and and the great work that those third, fourth, fifth, and sixth graders are doing in writing as well. Um up to sixth grade. Uh in math, we uh we have our coaching visits every month. Um and they seem to be going very well with Mrs. Golden, Peggy Golden. Um we're getting good feedback from staff that the time that they have with Peggy is useful and she's giving a number of resources. And what it's really helping with is giving us that vertical alignment through the grade levels, especially how we speak and the vernacular that we use for math. And that's one thing um that's always been one of my goals is to making sure that we all talk the same way, right? And it seems like a little thing, but if I'm
012talking about addition and subtraction a certain way, and so is the second grade teacher and the third grade teacher. That consistency only helps the student. So that's great. We had our student council elected last week for election day. Uh one of my favorite days of the year at GRM. Um we're hoping to have them um sworn in in the January meeting. And our fall fall clubs are currently running. They're going to be ending uh some of them will be ending next week and some will end the week right before Thanksgiving. Um we have a Veterans Day, a veterans event on Friday at GRM at 2 p.m. Um that we're really excited about. Um a lot of coordination amongst a number of staff members. Um there's too many to name right now, but um I do
013want to give a shout out to Mrs. Curtsman who's kind of spearheading this um and Mrs. Knight as well as Mrs. Bisjack. We're having veterans come in. She was able to coordinate with the local VFW and they'll be coming in at 2 PM. So, you're all welcome to come in. There's some refreshments that um uh Cherish, Mrs. Bleick is, is uh providing which is going to be great. So, it's been a total team effort. So, I'm excited about that. Tomorrow um we have a spirit week next week. Um November 25th, we have our leader and me fall fling where we do a reverse 2-hour delay schedule and students get to sign up for different activities. Um, so from one o'clock to three o'clock, um, even though it's a reverse to our early schedule, that one
014o'clock to three o'clock are just fun activities. It could be bracelet making for kids. Um, I'm going to be doing a Lego challenge. We have some directed drawing. Um, so each staff member selects something and the students get to sign up for it. So, we're excited about that. And then our PTA book fair is the first week of December, which is always a fun week at GRF. And that concludes my report. >> Very good. Any any questions for Mr. Grumpier? All good. Okay. You need to go back to your >> No, no, I'm good. Okay. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Secondary principal report. >> All right. >> You get educated, Mr. >> Thank you very much. I was I was going to talk about attendance, but after you said that percentage, I don't
015know if I'm going to say mine now. Um, but the junior high school from October 9th to the 10th, I was at 92.69. And I put in my notes here, that's an increase. So, I am happy with that. Okay. You want to make me I can make you feel just a little better. >> Okay. Sure. The state >> knows that high school attendance tends to be lower. So they weight them as 1.1 students >> instead of one. >> Thank you. That's perfect then. >> I mean I don't I don't know if it makes but it'll help a little. >> It's all right. >> Um so talking about health and safety as well. Um the safety team and health and safety team met for the junior year high school to discuss building safety. And this is
016something that I'm working with, you know, uh Mrs. Farah and uh and Caleb on like just how can we you know when we're doing this project and stuff like this what what other things can we look at if we need to um but so we met we had about 10 members come and I'm encouraging staff members at the junior high school to come to these safety meetings so we can talk about you know our building in general um we have had two lockdowns have taken place this year one was in the cafeteria um we have another lockdown coming next week and school physicals have also taken place here at the junior senior high school um initiative updates Our leader me action teams have been meeting and discussing plans for the rest of the academic year.
017Um we did have a Thanksgiving sendoff planned. Unfortunately, we're not going to do that next week because the gym floors are being done. So, we're going to push that back to Christmas. So, I'll have more info on that um when it's around Christmas time, the holiday time. Hope Squad members met and went to G uh they went to GRM on Friday, November 7th. So, we have the Hope Squad initiative through Solvent 180. about 20 students went to GRM to get their foundational training to become certified uh home squad members and uh you know they had they had pizza as well and they had a really good time over there and it was a good time to kind of get those 20 students together and uh they got to know each other a little bit more
018did some fun activities and stuff so it was very good and we're going to continue training with the with the students in the near future as well uh curriculum and instruction like Mr. Carpetier said the math department uh our math teachers met with Peggy Golden as well. I had a very uh good good day with her. They actually sat through one of her lessons because they wanted to see her kind of teach the the curriculum that they' be teaching. So I believe they did tape diagrams. I think it was uh it was a good lesson and they had a really positive day with uh with Mrs. Golden. So the seventh graders uh on top of before I forget they went to Kenosa Hall today and ate some really good food. Um about 28 of them
019went. They I saw pictures. It was really good food. I'm going to go on that trip. But uh uh I got to pick that trip. Uh but so they went to Kenosha today and the seventh graders also went to Sprouting Dream Farm with Single Bite on October 27th. So seventh graders are they're they're done for a little bit right now. They've done a lot of trips. So uh but all good stuff and Mrs. Poucher does a nice job of organizing that stuff. Uh Miss Glee also took a group of students. I believe they were freshman to Willow Wisp Farms on a field trip. Um, and and they had a great time there. That was pretty much a kind of a full day event and uh came back with some positive feedback. And then Miss Garren
020just took people to uh students to Sunni Sullivan for a campus connect event um where uh I believe it was uh sorry I'm drawing a blank on the name. Who was the organization that was there? Frost Valley. Frost Valley was there to do some activities with our kids and then they talked about kind of the college process and connected on that level as well. Um, and then lastly, the first marking period, I can't believe it, it ended on November 7th. Report cards were published on November 11th. And, uh, we have parent teacher conferences coming up on December 1st. And just let everybody know, the junior senior high school will be utilizing pick a time again to schedule conferences with teachers. So, information will be going out about that very soon because before you know it,
021December is going to be here. So, um, and, uh, that's it for me. >> Any questions for Mr. Conway? All good. >> Junior Senior High School student report. Marissa, you're up. >> Okay. Um, so, Student Council was able to get nine raffle baskets donated for Isabella's spaghetti dinner, which is a lot more than we expected. So, that's great. Uh, student council is also currently hosting a Thanksgiving food drive. Uh, we currently have 80 bags, but the goal is 100, and I'm sure that we will get there. Uh, like Mr. Conklin said, Hope Squad just had our first official training. Um, we just wrapped up Red Ribbon Week, uh, the spirit week. A couple kids won uh, free movie tickets for dressing up for spirit week. Um, seniors are beginning to discuss the class trip, so
022I'm sure there will be more to follow at later meetings. Um, students just took the PSATs, SATs, and the ASFAB. And as of today, I believe all of the results are in for those tests. Um, as far as athletics, we are concluding our fall sports seasons. Uh, varsity girls soccer, we were class D section 9 champions for the first time since 2018. Uh, we made it to regionals but lost two nothing. Um, but we ended the season with a really good record of 113 and one. Uh, varsity football is heading to O'Neal tomorrow for the section 9 championship. So, wish them luck. Uh, the cross country girls won their division. And then varsity winter sports will begin on Monday, November 17th. And that's all I have. >> Yes. Very good. Any questions for Marissa? All
023good. Mr. Krebs, >> good evening. Um both Mike's uh kind of talked a little bit about their uh professional development things that are happening in their in their um buildings. Uh we did have a conference day um October 20th that went very well. We had a lot of activities that were uh surrounding our leader and me groupings. And to kind of go along with the leader and me, we're looking at um having student representation on all of our committees at the junior senior high school. And some of that is actually happening at the elementary school as we speak. So that's kind of our next stepping stone to uh our leader and me progress here at the junior senior high school. We had um Gizmos training. Gizmos is a product that provides lab simulations for our
024science teachers. So, all of our science teachers at the junior senior high school have that training. And then just today, we had read 180 training, which is a literacy program that supports tier three, which is the students that need the most uh um instructional support in literacy in grades three through it goes through 12th grade, but we did grades uh three, four, five, and six. So, we had that training that happened today. Uh we also are um I think I had shared with you a couple of months ago that we are one of the schools that are uh in need of support from the Mid Hudson Regional Partnership and part of that support is because we didn't have scores that uh met a certain threshold with our student population that was uh special education. And
025because of that uh we have to have some uh check off boxes that we need to do. And one of those is provide some support for our staff. And we're going to focus on universal design for learning. That's pretty much steps in which learning takes place within the classroom. And we're focusing that on those grade levels that really had the most need for those uh students, which is grades five through eight. So it's that middle level grades. And lastly, I've been working on uh looking at what our March 2026 conference would look like. So, we're kind of starting to kind of develop what that program would look like in March. >> Very good. Any questions for Mr. Grabs? No. >> Okay. G. Mr. Russell, you're up. >> All right. Let's see. Okay. I got a
026working one this time. Good. Okay. So, uh start off with tax collection has just been completed. I just sent the uh uncollected tax reports to Orange County. The ones for Sullivan County aren't due till the end of the year. We collected more than we normally do. Normally we correct collect between 90 and 91%. This year we collected 93%. You're going to see on the agenda 6.02 it says appointment of assistant tax collector position. That was uh that is not a new position. I completely slipped my mind and put it on in the summer with the tax collector. Um she helps typically typically it doesn't hit $1,500, but um she helps in September and early October because the volume is massive and um they have to also send receipts out to anybody who's paid. So she
027assists uh Dorian Hansen with that. Tax collection went really well this year. I didn't get very many phone calls at all and um and like I said, we collected 93% of the taxes. The rest come from the counties. They hand it to us and they become the collector after that. Uh we also started collecting credit cards this year. Um and next year we will collect AC uh payments as well. So you can pay through bank account. I didn't realize they were two separate um signups on the program. So I had originally just signed us up for credit cards and they asked afterwards if I'd wanted to sign up for a but it was already October at that point and I said nobody knows that that's even an option but that will be an option next
028year as well. um in the cafeteria. Uh Mike had talked about Single Bite. We had Single Bite come in. They did like a taste test with uh this um it was like beef stew which was really good. Kids liked it and you know they had little stickers up there to say yes, do you want it back or no if you don't want it back? And there was a ton of yeses. Um they're like a local food organization. Uh they're going to give us a voucher for a free trial of 60 pounds. Now, they don't take the place of our cafeteria staff. It would be an option with this thing and it would be on a limited basis. So, um I'm talking to them about what it would cost to have them do one locally sourced
029from scratch meal per month. Um the first one's going to be free. It's this 60 pounds. They cook it, bring it in. Our staff serve it. So, doesn't change anything that's going on cafeteria wise, but it does give us an extra kind of uh option that's local and that and they source it and make sure that it's um that it meets all the FDA specifications because that's that's always can be tough, too. Like, so when I go to Jill and I say, "Hey, I want to make a locally sourced meal." The FDA has like all of these rules. It has to have 2 ounces of this, an ounce of this, or whatever. And you have to put that together. So, they take care of all that for you. So, we're going to see about that.
030But the 60 pounds one is free. Now, on Tracy's report, uh, with the ventilation issues, the other thing that happened was why we ended up testing more rooms, too, is um, as the tests came out, more people were asking. We said, you know, it might be better just to test the whole area rather than peace meal as it kind of came out. And, um, speaking to train, what we learned was some of the vents weren't working. So, that's going to be a solution on a number of the rooms which we're getting for free. That's part of our maintenance contract. Um, and I spoke to the our our train representative and I told him, "Hey, I really need you to go through all this, make sure all the vents are coming in. We're going to double
031the outside air coming in in those rooms. That should fix that." Now, for the main room, because the 2.3 two or the 2.7 million is going to be that's something we would have to bond out, which we will probably do at some point on the next bond project. We know that they're going to want us to have AC and HVAC and all that kind of stuff, but until then, I sat down with um our representative from train and he thinks he's got a workaround which he said will almost certainly be less than 50,000 that will make our main office, you know, uh the air quality will will be good down there again. So, we have two units outside. One of them is a very old unit that isn't um particularly good and then the other
032one is currently not functioning and then there's duct work that brings that air in. So there is outside air. However, there isn't fans in that duct work to bring it in. Right? So you got this unit that's bringing in the air into a duct but nothing that's pushing it down that hallway and into where it needs to go. So, his solution was he's going to add a large blower fan at the end of one hallway, then however many feet down halfway, and then fix the unit that's currently not functioning. He thinks that that will bring the air quality um the the the the ashray standard is 1,000 parts per million for CO2. And at its worst, I believe it was in the 13 or 1400 range in the main office. So, he believes that would
033bring that down into acceptable levels and would cost a little less than $50,000, which do you want to pay that? No. But this is it's far deal better than 747,000. And now, as for the other rooms, what we learned was the vents were completely closed. What was happening was they could either be at 100 or zero. So, when we set them to bring in outside air to 100%, they would open 100%. when you set them to bring in outside air to 10% which is what they were originally set. They closed completely. So it was like an all or nothing kind of a thing. They came in, they fixed those uh we set them at 20% outside air. So we doubled it from the 10, but it wasn't even doing the 10 before. So I think
034those rooms which are being retested right now are likely to come back far better than what they were doing before. um and we should be able to put off that project until it's time to do a bond if this all works out. He also had a couple other solutions, but he said we're going to start with this one because it's, you know, it's the most practical um both in price and in scope, right? You don't need to install a new unit and you're just putting two fans in a hallway and a duct works. So, we said it's the least invasive as well. It's something that can get done relatively quickly. Um, I I still don't want to promise that we'll have the main office before summer. Um, because that, you know, I don't want to
035overpromise, but I am working with him to try to do it as quickly as possible. And if that ends up being a workable solution, you guys might have a main office again. Um, we're also on pace to finish and complete the paperwork for our bond project prior to December 31st deadline, which is actually ahead of schedule. We were scheduled to get half aid. We were thinking we were going to have to get some of the work done in the spring. Um the sound system purchase order has gone out, so we should have a sound system in I, you know, I was hoping to have it in by November 22nd, but he said definitely before the first week of December. Um Josh Strang and Boyce, we spoke to them. They're going to come in and do
036this foot bridge um right out here out here. And uh I asked them also to give us a quote on some of the stairs cement work while they have a cement truck here for um some of the stairways out there. Um but those are just the little odds and ends that are getting finished up and uh all of the contractors told me that they should be done by the first week of December. That means we would get a little bit more money than we expected this year. If you complete the project by December 31st, they give you a full year of aid instead of half a year in aid. Um we budgeted for half a year aid because I didn't think it would be finished by then. So um we're a little bit ahead of
037schedule on that which is good. And then as Tracy said with transportation, we met on the buses. Um on the bad news side, the buses are going to be between 180 and 195. They're all in the same ballpark. We did go out for quotes because, you know, we didn't want to just if we're buying them, we don't want to just take what the first one was, but they were all in the same kind of vicinity. Um and that's for the diesel buses still lot cheaper than electric, you know. So that's um but that's about 33% higher than than 5 years ago. the negative side about that and I'm just saying it now that I don't think it's I don't think we have to put it on this year's agenda. I'll have to talk to the
038lawyer. I think it goes on next year's agenda. Um but the voters have to vote it and we will not be able to say that it's tax neutral because of the increase in cost. What happens is for our tax cap, the tax cap has a bunch of different components, but one of the components is the difference in voter approved capital costs compared to from year to year. So capital costs go up 50,000 that gets added to your tax cap. And that's why it says in there the voters approved to buy these buses and tax for the amount therein. Right? So altogether the whole fleet would be $630,000 more. You'd take out a 5-year loan. Right now we're paying 6%. We should pay less. We got this last lease at the height of the interest. The
039interest rates have come down one and a half% since then. And they're expecting next year for them to come down another 75. So I'm being conservative. It might not even be this high. So that's an extra 108,15539 a year after aid because we get 26% back. Voters don't have to pay for that. So that would add 75% to the tax cap. So it's not massive, but we wouldn't be able to say that it's tax neutral. Uh certainly still much cheaper than than any electric bus would ever be. Could you just clarify that the 180,000 is per bus? >> Correct. 180,000 per bus. We own 15 buses. We would only be ordering 14 this time. Um, however, the smaller buses are also cost more money, right around the same amount more. It's about $45,000 more a
040bus, but yes, that 180 is per bus. Um, and then on the high side, that 195 is with all the we asked for for what exactly what we had. And then also a quote for like a couple one with some more bells and whistles like um some better lighting packages around the outside and all that kind of stuff. So that's why the range. Yeah. Well, you have to, you know, when you learn, you don't order stuff and you say, "Hey, it would be nice if we had some better visibility over here. What could we do about that?" So that's why the range, but all all three vendors were in the in the same in the vicinity of each other. None was like grossly more or less than the other. >> So it went up about
041$50,000 then. >> Yeah. Yeah. Almost 50,000. Yeah. >> From when we from when you could purchase them five years ago. >> Yep. >> So at that 75% on that tax you were talking about, if we could, you know, if we could keep it below the cap, what would that do for us? I mean, we've been against the cap, which we have to be. >> Well, we we have to Well, that gets added to the cap. That's part of the cap. Um, and unfortunately, I would keep recommending you go to the cap until they keep this the state ties your aid to the property values, >> right? >> And what they're saying, which is true. Actually, it is true. Um, downstate, and this is Orange County, too. Orange County, Solomon County, all of them, the property
042values has risen very quickly. Mhm. >> So what they look at, but just to give you an example, is this year's aid, which is lower. Again, we only got 28% on our buses this year. We were getting 45% on each transportation dollar just four years ago. >> That was based on the property here being worth 1.1 billion. This year, the all of the property in Eldrid, according to the state, 1.4 billion. They're two years behind. So that means they're going to keep dropping our age for the next three years. Now it's leveling off, right? Like property prices are going up. They're still going up, but they're going up normal, but for the next 3 years, I'm thinking you're going to have to go to the cap because they're going to keep dropping our aid because
043they said, you know, it went from 1.1 billion to 1.2 to 1.4. Now, this year isn't much more than last year. So last year was 1.4. This year was 1.46. So it's starting to level. It's still going up, but they're always going to go up. property values just, you know, nothing stays the same. But when it's going up really fast, they start slashing aid. Um, once that stops, then you can kind of start talking about whether you go to the cap or not. But like while they're hacking your aid, I I don't know that you'll >> last couple years the cap's been what, one and a half, one? >> No, it's been it's been a decent size cap. But what's happening is depending and again the equalization rate messes with this a lot but like
044this year your cap was 4 1.5% but the real effect was only three >> right that's >> because you guys have new property coming in every time they build a building it eats some of that >> they give you a number but it's not the real number >> like for instance I I think Tracy and I were were going over it one day like if you took if you bought the same house in Sullivan West Monosel Liberty the taxes would considerably higher. We've kept ours at a good rate and and certainly I'd like to go back. There were a few years where we didn't go to the cap and we we left. >> Well, I was going to get to that because back five, six years ago, we didn't go up against the cap. We
045were about a percent and a half below the cap, but then they lowered the cap, but it forced us to go against the cap, >> right? But then what happened was with the state aid is our property values started exploding. So that was after COVID. So 21 22 22 23 property values went up 20 30% and they started hacking aid away few hundred,000 a year they take away every and then you start saying well there's no way I can't go to the cap because the state is coming in and saying they're giving me 200 left less I got to get that someplace. Well, what I'm getting at is >> I don't like the word sell, but we have to explain why we're doing this. >> Y >> the reason that we're doing this, and we're
046going to get out on the street with it. We're going to need to know what we're talking about as far as why we're doing it, what we're doing, and how much it's going to cost, and how much it would cost us if we didn't do it. >> Right. >> That's what we have to know when we're getting hit out on the street. And that's what I'm getting at tonight, >> starting now. Because I mean, come January, February, we start out of budget. >> Yeah. and we're gonna find out what the cap is and we're gonna have to, you know, know people going to need to know why we're doing this because as soon as you put that kind of thing on a ballot, there's going to be a lot of questions. >> Yeah, >> that's
047going to be a big that's going to be a big thing. >> So, but I'll have a decent idea of what the cap is in December. >> That's what I figured. We don't we don't have a meeting in December. So, in January when we come back, we'll know what the cap is and we'll know which way we're going. >> Well, that's better anyway because in January they give you um the governor releases her proposal. So then you got both because you always have two sides. You got your state aid and your and your real estate taxes. So then you have both of them, >> right? >> Okay. >> This is an election year too for her. So >> that's why I'm hoping that it's not uh too brutal, >> right? I mean >> I mean
048they're giving out inflation reduction checks. So I mean >> yeah, >> you hope they don't give out of one hand and say we got to take it back out of the other. Well, >> any other questions for Caleb? All good. Thank you. Mr. Leut, Sullivan County posts. Any information? >> Uh, nothing new. The the 75 year anniversary is coming up Tuesday, November 25th at Sunni Sullivan. Um, Dr. Dor is retiring this year. SED will assign a a superintendent and um he or she will fill in once Dr. do four wheel tires >> until they get a permanent one. >> Yes. >> Uh yes. >> So what's that cost a day? >> Don't know >> it. Um the interim superintendent we do we the superintendents were notified. It is the superintendent of um Delaware >> County.
049Um last name Croll I believe K R O L L. But it's the superintendent of Delaware Boseies. So he'll be in both places. >> Okay. >> I just I do know not to interrupt, but I do know the day-to-day operations of Sulliv Sullivan Boseis will be Susan Zeers. She'll be like the day-to-day kind of like the CFO. >> Okay. And >> that's my report. >> Any questions, Bob? >> Yeah. Uh, I'd like to comment on the sports, of course I always do, but I think it was a great year for the girls. You can't dwell on your last game. You have to dwell on your season. You guys had an awesome awesome record and an awesome season. The boys football team, they're still going. I mean, if they go to next, if they make the
050next two games, they they they're going to be heading for Syracuse for the States. Cisero >> or Cisero. It's up there. Yeah. Okay. Cisero. Oh, okay. Up towards Lake Ontario. >> Yes. >> Uh I think that's big for a little school like Elder. >> I really do. >> That's awesome. >> Cross country. Do you have anything to add to that? Because I I'm sorry. I didn't >> They have lots of personal bests. >> Outstanding. Perfect. I mean, if you think about it, right, we put that facility together. What a way to break it in. I mean, yeah, we had a homecoming game last year, but we really broke it in this year, you know, with the records from the girls. And I mean, I hear, you know, and the kids are great kids, you know,
051that's that that says a lot, you know. You talk to the kids, you talk to all the girls that come off the team, they come off the field, hey, they're all, you know, happy. The the boys, they're the same. You know, they're so respectful. They're you don't see them in in the office. You know, it's like being a team on the field and off the field because if you get in trouble in school and you get sent home for three or four days for fighting or something stupid that hurts the team and all these kids are all team oriented, I think I I think it's a lot to be said for the for the for the school district. I I really do. They're all great kids and uh I just I'm real happy. I I
052enjoy going to all the games. I love it. And unfortunately, I can't be there tomorrow night. I would love to, but my youngest decided to come home with two grandkids and we're having a to-do tomorrow night. So, instead of going to the doghouse, I think I better stay home. >> And you and you can stream the game. >> Oh, don't worry. We'll be watching it. Don't worry. I >> saying on the big TV, you can stream the game. >> I watched it last week. I was wasn't able to get there. I had an appointment in Jersey, but I definitely watched it last week. So, that's my report. >> With that being said, I'll take the public comment on the consent agenda items only. I guess we're good. Moving on this time, I will make a
053motion to approve consent items 4.01 through 7.05. Take a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion by Amador. I'll take a second. >> Second >> by Beth. Okay. I will take any >> Do you want to comment? >> Yeah. I'll take uh any any conversation any on any of the uh items. All right. So, I had a phone call tonight. Uh I think there's some mis information out there about this ski thing that we're starting this year. So, somebody said to me it's going to cost to send this student to piggy back off of Monaceel $20,000. Well, I got on the phone I needed to make I need to find this out especially after talking while we're talking now. Right. So what we've what we've come up with not a hard number. I want
054to make sure people don't think this is a hard number because it's not but it's in the ballpark. Coaching fee at 6218 season practice $600. Lift ticket $600. $270 section 9 fee and a $200 jacket works out to $7,900. Okay, that's what it costs, not 20,000. >> So is that that's per student? >> That's per student. >> Correct. But but then >> but not per student. >> No. >> So if we had multiple students, so I'm gonna take my notes back. So coach goes, would it be the same coach with Monaceel? They're going to be together, correct? >> They with shadowing, we have to have them on. Um, so they have their own stipen, but if we had more than one kid, so like the $200, $270 section 9 fee is for us to have
055a Eldridge team. So that's not per kid, right? >> Um the like talking to um Monaceel um they have 20 kids on their team, so they're um practice fees are a lot greater. So they break that down per kid. Um so it just it does some per kid, but the coaching stipen which I still have to negotiate and talk to the um faculty association that has to be an MOA. I'm putting the number in there because that's the number that we've paid other winter sport coaches. So I'm going off of the number of the 62118 um $6,218. Um but that has to be negotiated with the faculty association. Um, but that's what's in the contract right now for a winter coach. That would stay the same no matter if we had one kid, two kids,
056five kids, 10, you know, whatever. And that's also what we've been paying for the wrestling coach that we've been shadowing, Sullivan West. We did initially ask Monaceel and Sullivan West if we could combine with them and they both said no. They have full teams. Um so they said you can shadow us and shadowing is only allowed in individual sports and skiing is one of those sports just like um cross country wrestling you know it's not allowed in football it's not allowed in basketball. So, but yeah, right now roughly I'm conservatively speaking, you know, you're talking about $7,900 that includes a coach >> being paid for00 like if an extra kid wanted to go it would be 1,400 bucks a kid about >> the rest. >> And they have to provide their own equipment. they have
057to provide their and that includes like we say a uniform but it's really just a jacket because they have their own you know what I don't know what they call it racing suit or whatever it is for alpine skiing. Um now what Monaceel does and I agree with this is the for a ski lift so the lift fee is like $600. So the kid purchased that at the beginning of the season. If they complete the entire season, then they get reimbursed half of that lift fee by Monaceel because their idea is if we just say sign up for the ski team here, we'll pay for your lift fee, then they quit the team. They've already got their lift fee >> and they ski for >> and they could ski for an entire season on Monaceel's
058dime. So that's >> we learn that in the conversations, >> right? So >> pays to reach out and talk, right? So you learn something when we learn that. So then they said this is their policy that the student parent pays for the lift fee. If they continue they complete the whole season then at the end they turn in the receipt and then they get half. So because again that lift fee is not just for practice they can go there with their family with their friends whenever they want and that's at holiday mount. So >> okay all good. Any other discussion? I hope this will inspire more kids to Me too. >> do this, you know. Me too. >> Are we still going to have the ski club here through >> They go to Big Bear.
059>> Yeah, >> Big Bear. Okay. >> Yeah, >> cuz that's a club. That's not >> Right. It's >> Yeah. This is This is a competition. So, this is >> And for that ski club, we just pay the advisor. The kids have to pay their own fees. They have to pay all that stuff. >> Oh, right. >> They get bus for the bus to go. >> They get a bus. Yeah. So, we pay for that. We don't pay for you know now and with the ski there there's no snowboarding. So just there is no snowboarding and alpine skiing because a lot of our kids like well they have snow. No they do not have snowboarding ski. >> Just alpine skiing. Just skiing >> racing. >> Yes. >> All right with that I'll take the vote. Beth.
060>> Yes. >> Crystal. >> Yes. Okay. Moving on. uh old business to come before the board. Any old business board member? >> You know, I just want to say like the kids get did great as far as the sports, but I want to give some uh credit to the coaches too. They were pretty amazing and the camaraderie that you kids had on the team boy was amazing. I know so much about the boys, but I know they had what you girls had to practice yesterday. I said, "Jillian, but the season's over." She goes, "I know, Mom. I think Coach Moscel is in denial that the season's over." >> So, yeah, they're pretty amazing, too. Those coaches >> had a pretty good turnout for spaghetti dinner, too, didn't you? >> Yeah, Izzy's spaghetti dinner was huge.
061>> No, not that one. They had They had a spaghetti. >> Their own spaghetti dinner. I was just thinking of the baskets that student council put together for Izzy spaghetti dinner. any new business to come before the board? >> I have some things. Um just two one idea and and one observation. So, um I thought it might be a cool idea and I probably just have to talk to you about this too, but um to have us as board members if we are able to donate our time to it. um might be cool for us to come to the elementary school and if there's like a literary month or something like that and be guest readers just as a way to um be involved in the school community um if we have the time and
062are able to do it. Um so that's just one thing. Um, my other thing is about our uh just looking at our social media accounts um and seeing other things that other districts have do um in the area, the district that I graduated from, which is very pretty much the exact opposite of of Eldridge um just in terms of location and size and and everything. But um the you know we post a lot on social media and my fear is that sometimes important information gets lost on it. Um and I did a very nonscientific survey to to see and in the um just in the past month so from um October whatever today is 13th till today um there were 22 general announcements 33 sports announcements and here's where it made me a little sad
063eight will say uh academic >> uh information club information about McKenzie and four about the junior senior high school. So that was a little um there's it's a little uh off in terms of what is being focused on since we are a school district and so academics really should be at the forefront of what we do. Um, so I also understand that if what we're posting is what is the information that is provided to go out. So I just think that it would be great if we could maybe look at what is being posted, if there's a schedule, you know, if there's content that can be created, if the students could help create the content. I know they don't have access to their cell phones anymore, but you know, um, once it's collected, could they
064help put it together? Could there be more videos? Can we really be mindful about the pictures that are going up so that they're actually good aesthetic pictures um that paint the district in a the good light and the great things that are actually happening? Because right now, I'm afraid that's getting lost. That's my spiel. Now I know with leader and me that can be done and you know I know student council in the past we've talked about it leader and me between the culture team we also have an academic team we can definitely work on that from both buildings um I don't you know again we try to put out as much as possible I it is skewed towards sports um and I don't disagree with the fact that we do need to push more
065of the academics um >> and other things like >> and other things clubs are doing with >> nothing about art. There's nothing about all the other things that >> you know. >> Yeah. Um but no, that's definitely something we can get and we've and we can get the kids on there. I know we've >> we I've applied for a grant for podcasts. I know doc um Conklin's talked about podcast. So, we are but we just have to get it out there. >> Great. >> Yep. And maybe we should consider doing a separate page specific to athletics then so that way you know so big things like when you you know the girls were at the game last week um you know when the cross country team went to the um went to the sectionals >>
066so it doesn't get lost. So, so those things are but like you know we're about to enter basketball season and indoor track season and there are 18 games a week you know between >> yeah sorry we got to listen we got to prepare you know between modified JV varsity girls boys every night there's basketball so >> four out of five nights I sit right Mhm. >> That's why football's great. You get one a week. >> Good thing you're not doing concessions for 5,000. >> No, there's I I specifically don't do concessions for basketball. >> But yeah, we can definitely look at that. >> Okay. Yeah. Thanks for listening and considering. >> Absolutely. >> All good. Public comment on anything you want to talk about. All good. All right. Announcements. December 11, 2025 regular board meeting
067is cancelled. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 8th, 2026 p.m. at the GRM. Everybody keep that in mind, please. >> We're ready for you. >> We did that to so the sports don't have to worry about, you know, they're going around our meetings. We'll just move over there and they can do what they need to do. Uh, I need a motion to enter executive session talk about a contract. >> I'll make that. I'll make that motion. >> Kristen Maid, >> I'll second. Uh, okay. Everybody, enjoy the holidays. Don't get too full next Thursday. Be safe, be healthy, and we'll see you in the new year. Safe trip home, everybody.