001to the flag ofed St America to the Republic for which it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay make the minutes note that Nancy couldn't be here tonight Lisa please at this time Mr Corp and here will recognizing McKenzie Elementary student council excellent so we're going to start out with our student council we have some student council members here so I would love if have you on up right up in the middle right so these are members of our city council who are elected this year we finally been able to induct them we had a snow dat in February when I want to give them their certificates and they're going to take their pledge council members there you go you guys are going to repeat after me it's right on
002the back all right as a member of George the elementary school student council you guys go that may be me I just turned my mic on I don't know that might be me all right we're going to be really loud okay I promise to always be enthusiastic and always have a can do attitude about activities that I undertake as a council member I promise to always be enthusiastic and always attitude about activ that I promise to help create team spirit within grm I to help create teing spirit with G I promise to proudly lead my peers and openly listen to their concerns and always respect everyone's ideas PR to open list to their concs resp I promis throughout the academic year to keep up my academic effort social skills and work habits I promise throughout
003the academic year to keep my acad I promise at all times I will be an exemplary role model for all to see I promise at all times I will be an Exemplar role model for all to see and I understand that it is a privilege to be on the George Ross McKenzie Elementary School student council and I take this responsibility [Music] seriously seriously all right so big quick Round of Applause up here for second so Abby is our student body president she's been on student council for two years right the maximum that you can be on at George Ross mcken element school liliana's been on student council for two years now as well and Alyssa is a new member of our student council in the fifth grade all right and they have to give up
004a lot of times their lunch in their recess and not here tonight is Miss curtzman who took over as a student council adviser and has already brought great ideas that these guys have come up with and be able to um work with Miss kurtzman to make it happen and you know bringing color Wars to grm talking about a tether ball court in the back where the playground is so please another round of applause for our student council members and thank you very very much all right don't sit down nope and now we're going to move on to the a Awards can I have Jeremy pomerans come on up please so when another classmate who was bleeding Jeremy went to get him a tissue to help the worri classmate feel better and for that act of
005kindness Jeremy take a look right over there that's yours with a free ice cream cone all right P there you go take that look at mom take a look at Mom all right round of applause for [Applause] Jeremy where's Rory come on up Rory so Rory also noticed another student had dropped part of her lunch on the floor so Rory gave her his sausage from his lunch and did without it that's an act of kindness right bud take a look at Mom hold this hold this and smile there you go thanks Rory looking sharp tonight bud hey Rory nice boots buddy can I have Rowan Brady please come on up Rowan so during the power outage if you remember a couple weeks ago we had a power outage and grm had to start a little
006bit later that day Rory with students in the cafeteria Rowan elected to keep students in the primary grades engaged with some board games we brought some board games down and Rory was there with a bunch of his primary grade counterparts right in the younger grades was able to keep them entertained for the while where we didn't have electricity so for Rory this is your act of kindness oh sorry about you hold that M all right thanks for all I'll take that thank you all right and can I have David beam and oliv AO Olivia come on up this AOK award was given to both of these students by another student who was sad one day and they were able to cheer her up so for you guys all right hold this we're going to take
007a picture there all right and David thank you for helping another student cheering them up let's take a good look at her guys all [Applause] right and last but not least can I please have Abby Carney come on up so our student body President also is receiving an AOK award tonight for all our help with our lost and found at grm if you haven't seen our lost and found it is plentiful all right but we're getting past those winter months where we don't need a lot of those jackets so if you know anybody might be missing something it's probably in our lost and found it takes a lot of effort to organize it we have hangers now and coat racks it's wonderful and it's neat and it's easily to go it's very easy to go
008through so for Abby there you [Applause] go all right Mike you're up yeah look at me this month yeah jior sen high school has a whole stack there we got one student here Brook Morgan come on up yeah take that Mr car former gr yeah former G all right Brooke this is from M Ross Brooke went above and beyond to help other classmates with their work clean up the classroom after a project and use any free time to get ahead on assignments Brooke's self motivation and ambition are truly admirable great job Brook want to hold that up hold that [Applause] up great job and not out do you Mike but I forgot a student so I get to go next really Chase I didn't see you back there Chase come on up Chase roads please
009come on up he did it on purpose got so Chase has been helping his classroom teacher with a number of different things that she hasn't even had to ask for so for that act of kindness Chase there you go [Applause] take one more glance Mike just to make sure I don't have anybody else I think we are good Mr carp here are you sure you're good now you good I think I'm good Mr coin you're good yeah I'm good at this time like I always do you will not insult us if you want to go home and enjoy being home on your couch unless you want to stay here and be bored the rest of the night congratulations to everybody have a great night [Applause] right we got I I turned my mic on you
010did nobody want as long as they vote Yes who wants to hear about it that's right who cares taxes aren't going up like my electric bill did thank I don't know say $200 a month to $700 a month what what yeah mine too I know people that got $1,000 a month for Elric I'm not going to want to open that was that usage no that's the bill the bill a bill I've seen a lot stuff on it it went from 13 well it didn't triple it went almost double it went from 13 to 207 cents a kilowatt my oh no I don't want to open this thing I just had the solar people at my house last night all right Mrs prer you're up me yep all right so I'm here to talk about Sol
011180 gr where we are um where we started what's for so we're in the competion 180 I need the m y you need the mic so is this all together then what's up well we have you as waste production and then we have Sullivan white 0 but you guys all together yeah I'm going to do my presentation then they're going to jump in on on the the backside um I need a mirror so we received um $10,000 from suvin 180 to implement um the waste composting um initiative um if we win the competition amongst other schools in the county um we could win $75,000 for first place second place is um $50,000 so we're working towards it um so hold on all right how oh what did I do Jed just this is just I
012don't know I use a board and you [Music] okay yeah you can just hit slideshow or that one slideshow go to slideshow top right hand side right no right the way you're the right there you go there you go so um waist in compost out as the T-shirt uh shows that I have on um that was part of the grant to help uh the teachers wear uh shirts to um promote um the initiative with the students um so the goals of the grant um to analyze the uh amount of waste produced in the building um work to reduce that carbon footprint and educate students on the process and the importance of repairing and replenishing our Earth um our goal is to do composting in the school and then take that composting and warm castings to
013our existing Gardens um to improve those uh the grounds and whatnot so um so part of it too we were um going to work with Caleb to analyze the numbers um which you have all of the numbers in the packet that you have um but I'll go to that in just a minute a couple minutes um and increase uh student student and staff Pride um in the outcome of the school so there were our goals um we're working towards those when I did a waste audit in May um this was uh what we came up with we were putting um a little over 4,300 lb of waste into our dumpsters um with only 60 um 652 lbs being um uh recyclables so that's a lot of waste coming from our classrooms cafeteria in the kitchen
014um so the two images up there the car and the white rhinoceros are just images of what um 4,300 lb looks like so just to give you a visual on putting that every month into the garbage into a landfill um so we've purchased a scale we've purchased buckets for sorting in the cafeteria um if you've been around the building you've seen the the green um composting or the recycling bins the blue recycling bins for um um uh plastics for um drink bottles um we purchased Lumber to create a three bin system similar to the one that's in the picture and also the shirts um such as what I'm wearing now um organizations that we're partner partnering with um we've had Cornell Cooperative come in along with the 4 program um to do um Earth Defenders
015um with our seven graders and um a couple of our high school students um a single bite comes in to talk to the seventh graders about their um Whole Foods um we're going to try to get maybe a group to go to the Department of Sanitation to see a landfill and see what everything happens um svin 180 obviously um next TR and I'll touch on next TR in just a minute um so here are some of the pictures from the career in Tech program um I partnered with cherish bck to um uh have her and Tech program do blueprints for the three bin system that is now built out into the um upper area so we worked with maintenance also to build that three bin system from their blueprints we are working on putting food
016in that so the kids had a great time um learning how to to do the measurements to um drill and nail stuff together so they had a good time working on that October day um this is part of the earth Defenders program with my health class um we had them come in talk about um various ways to recycle what we can reuse reduce and then um the kids had some um healthy snacks with uh um it was zucchini zucchini bites like zucchini pizza bites so that was that was good so this is where we are now so so our total so far the total garbage that we are we have put into the dumpster is um 12,620 lb we've saved 3,400 lb from going into a dumpster we've composted 462 lb liquid so that's any
017um soup uh milk water from the cafeteria 412 lb and then next TS Plastics 61 lb and we've been pulling out the recyclable tray the compostable trays that the kids are using and we have 94 lbs of those um unfortunately right now they're sitting in my classroom until we can um fully compost um up top so there's a graph for you to kind of look at the month across each one um if you want to look at the numbers broken down even further they're in your packets that you have in all of your um board minute stuff um it's interesting to look at so they're the the packet numbers are what we I'll sit with Caleb with and or Caleb and Jill can sit and look at what you know where we have high compost
018days that kids don't AR interested in the meal that they're being served so um so there's just a picture of the um the com or the next trucks and that's the the white bin that's over on the side there too so any soft Plastics garbage bags sandwich bags um uh Amazon packaging um Bubble Wrap um uh bags from um uh pellets like if you have pellet stove all go in there so that's all bagged up and that's what that picture is there and there's the graphic of the 94 lbs of trays and that's the 94 lbs that we've saved um there are some days that um the kids are not as um forthcoming in doing their composting and whatnot so that's where our current hurdles are um student Buy in getting them if there isn't
019somebody standing there at the buckets to say no you need to put it in this bucket it goes here it goes you know the tray goes over here um and currently currently we don't have any composting occurring in the kitchen so that's something that we would like to work on so there there are two hurdles and jumping points right now so um one of the things um our composting numbers are I'm going to say higher if you look at your packet there's a a column there for Waste which is stuff that can't be composted right now I've been using the Lomi which is that white thing that's on the table over there I can take the meats and the dairies and put that in there and it dehydrates it and it turns it into um
020this nice stuff if you want to pass that around it's just dried like food and then I can take that and put that into the um uh composting area up there so then we can actually compost the meat and the dairy instead of just having it disposed of so that's where we are any questions are the bins closed what's that are the bins closed uh they are not right now um we haven't been putting um a whole lot of food in them because it's been cold so we've got to wait for um a load of dirt because we to mix the dirt with the the food that's going in there so it's less likely that the animals will come to it but I also have money that needs to be spent from the the grant
021that we're getting fencing to fence the the the main the first bin they're going to be out here in about probably 3 or 4 weeks there's a couple skunks that have been visiting no I'm talking about bears yeah I'm talking about bears and we have them here all the time huh you were told Bears stay away from compost or not I don't know that's true they're garbage eaters period if if you do it correctly it's less likely so if we as long as we get the dirt it'll be okay so we need to get you a load of dirt yes okay yeah that's easy enough any other questions you need a load of dirt how big a load you want uh I need about three yards I'll take care of that okay thank you where
022you want it dumped up there someplace right next to the I will dump it until I get a hold of somebody okay I'll get you a little dirt next week awesome thank you I didn't know you needed it we just save some money I can spend it somewhere else you going to buy dirt you going to buy dirt sure got a mountain of on my on my own Mountain I'll bring it down to you next week awesome any other questions awesome thank you thank you thank you bite bigbody told me they needed dirt they D I'm dumpling over the bank right now yeah while they're getting that ready when check out so that was milk um no it's um usually Pizza [Music] um trying to think of what else is uh this might be some
023regular food too like if we don't have enough like I'll just put all of it in so it could be the vegetables it could be um oranges so it's all now dried and just compostable listen if you need something like that again just call me I'm dumping dirt over the bank right now okay no um my room ends up smelling yeah when when it's working and it's processing like it Heats it up um it does kind of stink in my room so the kids might walk in let go it stinks in here hi everybody my name is Megan malali Gore and I'm the director of Health and Wellness at Sullivan 180 I provide oversight to the empowering a healthier generation program and our mental health program which we are working with uh Eldred High School
024on so Sullivan 180 is a nonprofit and we our mission is to turn around the health of Sullivan County one degree at a time and we do that by focusing on people places and policy but we now have an intentional focus on prevention and youth our Flagship program is the empowering a healthier generation program so our County Health rankings have um not been great since the Inception of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sullivan County has ranked as County number 61 out of the 62 counties in New York state um just recently we've moved up to County number uh 57 so we're making a little bit of progress what we realized a couple years ago um in working with Partners throughout Sullivan County and specifically with County government is the number of dollars that are put
025toward prevention is only 2.5% the rest is spel on spent on other health expenditures so prevention is really where we want to align our work we want to get to kids before they create un healthy habits so these are um this is a snapshot of some of the programs that we offer much of the programs that we offer are actually happening here at Eldred school so if I stop uh start on the top left beautification happens here at Eldred Catskill Edible Garden Project both of those you guys have applications that are in the re the grant review process the garden is hopefully going to be revitalized in the front of the high school here into a great big uh beautiful Edible Garden Community Development is focused on Sullivan County Community outside of schools empowering a
026healthier generation the healthiest fire department challenge youth mental health is happening at Eldred high school we have trainings and workshop School nutrition which is happening at Eldred in fact on Monday there is a professional development day that your school cafeteria staff are participating in we have scholarships we have internships and we offer prevention like The Catch My Breath curriculum which is a uh vaping curriculum but I'm going to talk to you about empowering a healthier generation so it is federally mandated that every single school have a wellness policy which you all approve you guys have a great wellness policy we've been working with you for several years you all have been working with uh Cornell Cooperative Extension and Kelly is your Wellness coordinator but she's also your HG advisor and Heather Ty in the elementary
027school is your uh HG advisor so what we've done is we've taken that model of there's eight districts in Sullivan County and bosis but with Manor and Rosco now merging there will be seven districts there's 22 school buildings so we stien a human in every single building to work on health and wellness policy so that when you take a school like monacello for instance there's six buildings instead of one person working on health and wellness there's seven here at Eldred instead of one person working on health uh and Wellness there's more we also bring in Community Partners to help with that we've created the healthier generation Council which is made up of Wellness coordinators those healthier generation advisers which are all listed up there but then we have over 25 Community Resources those are organizations
028throughout Sullivan County that provide free tools resources and equipment to Sullivan County Schools I'm going to have Barbara my colleague come up she is the case worker for your school in particular and she's going to tell you a little bit more about what's been going on here okay hi thank you so much for having us here today so as Megan was sharing um we work with a couple couple of people um on your staff with the empowering and healthy regeneration program um I work very closely with Kelly um I really enjoyed working with Kelly's really been um just just fantastic we have a great Rapport and I think that she's really doing a fantastic program here um so as you know what Kelly has just shared about the competition grant that she's been working on
029and this has been a 2-year Grant cycle and this is involving uh recycling sorting composting and trying to lessen the carbon footprint that your school district is making on the environment um and that's the project that currently happening at the eldrid Junior Senior High School and over at George Ross McKenzie Elementary School Heather Ty is the HD adviser and they have implemented an outdoor learning space that's the picture right on top over there um it doesn't give you the full view but they have a permanent structure outside not too far from where the basketball area is it is a year- round gazebo that is installed in there and they're able to bring classes out there is an optional learning space it's a less restrictive environment um a more explorative learning environment for the students and
030it allows for alternative ways of teaching to Foster self-regulated Learners so in addition to purchasing the hardtop gazebo they purchased 30 surf desks if you take a close look at uh what the students are SE Seated on the surf desk if you're not familiar with those it's uh one unit where they could sit on it and then there's a part that raises up into a desk so any work that they're doing they could they have a spot to lean on when they're sitting there outside and um and there's also a small shed out there that they have to house all the equipment so when they go outside to learn all they have to do is just bring their current work with them and everything else is stored in the shed so that's uh pretty much
031about it with what's happening with the current grants and um we really enjoyed working with both Kelly and Heather on these projects okay we're going to fly through the next couple slides so in regards to the competition we were very happy to be able to come here tonight to brag about what's happening at Eldred I would like to say that both of your school principls Tracy Caleb we've met with them we've spoken to them via email many many times they've welcome welcomed us with open arms and we really appreciate that um so what it means to be in the competition Grant the competition was created in order to boo schools to a higher level of health and wellness and create a campaign to promote goals of the school district's Wellness policy so this is a
032triennial year for your wellness policy which means you guys are going to approve it again and we'll stay in good standing with you know the Federal Regulations there are four school buildings competing in the healthier generation competition so we have Eldred middle and high school we have Livingston Manor middle and high school and then we have two schools in the Montello District Cook Elementary and Rutherford Elementary the schools in joining the competitions have committed to marketing and communicating their school wellness policy they attend our healthier generation Council meetings and learned about what resources we have throughout Sullivan County they participate in District Wellness meetings and they've committed to the judging process which includes a site visit and a presentation so because we have um these great prizes we looked nationally this year for our judges
033so we're flying judges in who are from outside of Sullivan County unbiased judges that are able to bring um their professional experience to our schools so we'll be really excited to share who who they are pretty soon but what will happen is the end of the school year is coming soon um Kelly will submit her final report school will be over everyone goes home for the summer and then the new school year begins we fly in our judges and they spend almost a week with us they tour around the schools and they um participate in a presentation that Kelly will present to them and then at our big healthier generation celebration at bethl Woods we announce the winners no one from our team is aware of who the winners are so it's very exciting for
034everyone but that is open to the public we encourage all of you to participate we don't have a date yet because we have a lot of bethl Woods concerts to contend with but we will soon it will be toward the end of September um and there's usually about 500 guests it's a lot of fun so we'll send out those invitations to uh soon but how can you help um we would love your help in securing Guardians staff student and community support for the wellness committee to invite the wellness committee to present to the school board at Future meetings to share ideas with Kelly and with uh building Administration on how you would spend that first and second place award so that is part of the criteria that needs to be met we need to see
035how you're going to spend that Grant award should you win it or as Mike would say when you win it that's right um encourage information sharing uh on all health and wellness initiatives and get everyone excited and then of course join us for the celebration in September please um we've included in the slides a lot of the trainings and workshops that we offer please take a look but you guys are pretty well aware and you've taken advantage of a lot of these we have in print our community resource guide we print it every year it's going to be be in the Democrat on Tuesday we printed 25,000 copies and please reach out to us if you need anything thank you very much for having us thank you for working with us Kelly is a superstar
036I'm sure you already know but if you have any questions we'd be happy to answer them thank you very much thank you thank [Applause] you you just have to be clean dirt with no rocks you continue rocks I mean clean dirt she want like top store does she just need dirt she just Kelly you need just dirt I mean you got some rocks in it you're good with that or you want clean dirt I no no no no no okay all right at this time Mr we are here up superintendance report so so first of all I want to say we've got Athletics is happening um congratulations to our both our boys and girls varsity basketball teams for being section N9 class D Champions as we know they're traveling Saturday to opposite ends we got
037the boys going to sou County Long Island Center mares we've got the girls going to Kingston and that's olster um so those are happening both on Saturday good luck to both those both teams you know they're amazing young men and women CU you've got I think nine boy um nine guys on the basketball team for the guys and I think seven six well we had six to the season we pulled one up here yeah so seven for the so we're not riding with a deep bench so you know they're just amazing I also want to say congratulations to our archery team cuz tomorrow they head to Syracuse for the states so how they do tomorrow you got eight going to the States and how they go tomorrow they may be on the road to Kentucky
038for Nationals and that'll be third year in a row fourth year in a row I think third gr are you counting last year well they got the bid they got the invitation comes counting last year right we tried yeah I was up for a while over there at the airport but it's okay so by you know Saturday evening we'll know which group of from We're small but we're Mighty who's going to again um continue their run for the state and who's going to the Nationals in Kentucky um so I do want to give you an update on the state budget Caleb has been working so hard we've been lots of conversations regarding the state budget um we do not have the executive budget yet we do not have a past state budget but I did
039get an update on what the assembly has now proposed so both now in our early state aid runs they were going to they were giving us a 2% increase and that's what we budgeted for now both houses are proposing an increase to that state aid run the foundation Aid which would reflect like what we're used to in the past um one I believe the Senate is proposing a 2.9% increase and the house is proposing a 3% increase so you know hopefully and then they're both proposing an increase to Bose's Aid reimbursement um the Senate is proposing an increase to the capital outlays for each School District from $100,000 to $250,000 the interesting thing is both houses have rejected the executive proposal regarding that cell phone ban or the um distraction free school zones um what
040the Senate is proposing is language that is put into the amendment that would give more control to the Local Schools regarding how to handle cell phones and that would and what the Senate is proposing which to me is very logical and rational it's saying that cell phones just be put away during instructional time but kids have cell phones during non-instructional time um we at the beginning of the year we did the cell phone like almost like shoe carriers and the kids drop off their cell phones and and Mr Conan correct me I'm wrong we have seen a massive decrease in um referrals based on just cell phones just by doing that simple thing calculator pouches calculator pouches thank you I they to me they look like shoe pouches like what you would hang on the
041back of your door so I'm that's going to be interesting to see what actually comes out of that cell phone ban the other um last thing that they both houses are proposing an increase to the monies allocated per child for pre kindergarten so um the Senate wants $6,700 per pupil pre kindergarten and the house wants to actually increase it to $10,000 per pupil now we got to see what governor hok wants regarding her executive budget proposal and then the negotiation start the last thing I have is snow days thankfully we have only used four snow days so we still have three snow [Music] days I 1986 April 26 26 in and just so I you know I have proposed um I am proposing that um those three days could be April 11th which is the
042Friday before spring break April 21st the Monday after spring break and then May 23rd which is the Friday of Memorial Day weekend um I haven't sent this out to the parents yet um you know we can talk about it but I'm looking to send that out possibly next week early next week because parents do need to have a chance to plan um because that is two additional days if we do run into a situation like again with April then we do have time to pull things back I think they're I me personally I think they're great days to give them so but that concludes my report questions discussion regarding snow day give back days I was going to say we should discuss that anybody got any against anybody against those days I was extending Memorial
043Day Weekend extend Easter break I think that's a good thing to do I mean honestly the last day of school last year everybody was like why they don't really do a whole lot in the last day of school I mean I went to school for hour you know so I mean to extend a couple you know one weekend and extend the breaks I think it's a great thing so there you go awesome thank you any other questions or discuss question all good very good Elementary principal report sorry so I just first wanted to say and give a big thank you to everybody in this room here um as many of you know I was away for about 3 weeks I got activated by the New York Army National Guard to support a state active duty
044Mission um when you have to leave your building there has to be an administrator there each and every day so for the administrators here that helped me and Bethany's not here as well I really want to say thank you I really appreciate it my heart hardship became your hardship but thank you for leaving it and the walls are still standing and everything seems to be okay so but from the bottom of my heart I really appreciate it I had it was an involuntary activation I had no say in it this time um and so but it's good to be back I will tell you that so it's really good to be back was very happy to have you back I think I was getting on her nerves oh way I get on her nerves too
045uh so um thank you and so our attendance uh went down a little bit from our last meeting um just a little bit but what one thing we've done from since our last meeting is we've had our district social worker Kylie livit um and Anthony um I forgetting his last name at the moment Devar um they've been gone on some family visits all right and they've been able to start to build relationships with those students who are chronically absent and we hope that those chronically absent students will come to school more consistently um because after a little dat data analysis at grm um there's about four or five students if we could have come just literally 20% more than they are we would be above the 90 5% threshold right so it's really our chronically
046absent students that are because we're so small they bring down our attendance rate pretty significantly um our countywide reading challenge that is run by Miss bisj is up over a th books which is great we're in second place in the county um Cook Elementary at a monel is in first place we're going to try to catch them by the middle of May when when the competition ends we we gave our star winner Benchmark and we have our grade level meetings next Thursday um we we're using targeted enrichment in the mornings to improve our um first through sixth graders U math skills in the morning and we've been able to the last time we did Target enrichment in the morning we did it for third through sixth grades we've been able to expand it to first
047through sixth grades and that's been really uh beneficial for many of our students NHS tutoring ended today um it was run by uh our um student body uh representative Connor White and we had uh seven students participate and it's really been a big plus we've gotten a lot of good feedback from parents and that was was pretty much run by those National Honor Society students and just moderated by Jackie fine which was wonderful uh prek so for next year remember we talked last year um what we were interested in what the prek numbers were going to be upcoming well last year's prek numbers were upwards of about 35 students we currently have 34 prek students this year's enrollment is 18 students so after the last prek enrollment day we have we've had 18 uh enrollments
048there will most likely not be a significant change because that flyer goes out to everybody in the entire district for prek and that's what we normally see for a prek enrollment it doesn't really change much from there so it looks like um we'll have anywhere between 18 and 20 prek enrollments for next year important dates coming up the second trimester at grm ends next march uh next I'm sorry March 21st next Friday uh families can then view their report cards in school tool the following Tuesday on the 25th and then later in the month the week of the 27th and 28th we're going to have music in our schools month as well as the following week we have the week of the young child which is right before spring break which is always a fun
049week at uh grm clubs are finishing up for the winter and our spring clubs will start after spring break student council induction was tonight thank you for that and then I just want to give a shout out to uh Mr ke our fette teacher at grm he has started on his own a basketball league for Eldred and it is off and running and the gym is absolutely packed on Saturdays when we have when he has the games there and so he's really put together everything he's used students as referees there's a number of community members and teachers as coaches and it's been open to Second through sixth graders so it's really he's done a really great job with coordinating all that and I think him and I have talked about this since I got there
050and just getting it off the ground was a was a was a big haul and he's been able to do that this year so that concludes my report thank you thank you any questions for Mr you were away for 3 weeks right yes your poor wife twins twins and two more right triplets and one more yeah so yes my wife absolutely had her for what I well had it much harder than I did Absolutely I'll tell you a funny story after the meeting I look forward to it Mr cocklin all right you're up much um so attendance at the Junior Senior High School is actually up 2% from the last time I reported it so 92.1 18% that's good good stuff going on again our votech attendance is is impressing me as well those kids
051get on that us every morning so I'm very happy with that some academic outcomes I want to talk about uh we just released it's also on the website is our 2526 uh course guide all right so what we are offering at the junior senior high school next year we're very excited with that I met with Department coordinators um you know and then a scheduling committee has been put together and stuff and and we came up with some good electives while keeping in mind our Sven County Community College courses um as well as you know the regular regions courses we offer here um the students are meeting with Miss Garen to go over their course selection sheets um basically each grade has a sheet of what is required of them to graduate and they they go
052through it and they say well I'm going to take this next year I'm going take this and and and you know everything uh scheduled for them is is made and that that's the good part is it's student driven um we were just approved we we finally got official word from New York state that we are able to offer the Seal of Civic Readiness for our students um it could be on their diploma and it's a seal from uh New York State like I said but the kids in uh Mrs 's class are doing projects and so basically it's you get points for um doing certain things to to gain the Seal of Civic Readiness so there's a bunch of things the kids are doing in middle school to work towards High School Mrs o said
053I believe there about nine students right now that are doing projects um to get the seal at graduation in June which is good stuff um we offer the SATs today March 13th I believe we had about how many Mr Krabs 16 16 students took the SATs today in the library um the student recognition assembly was delayed due to weather um but we had a chance to celebrate our students on Friday February 28th that was students in honor rooll on honor roll high honor rooll uh principal's list perfect attendance and also our shining star awards um we did a cafeteria lockdown drill today went very well um and hope Squad was introduced officially to our faculty at our last faculty meeting which was last Wednesday and we're going to begin the process of selecting student members
054um hope Squad is part of what Sol of 180 off offers and we were chosen for the pilot program um and it's it's performed really well so we're moving along in that process um I also want to congratulate our basketball teams it's like it's not every day that you have uh two you know boys and girls teams playing in the in the Regionals Regional finals um so when I talked to Mr GIC I said we got we got to split duties this weekend so uh I've chosen to go to Kingston and she's she's chosen to go to Long Island um well yeah chosen I guess you could say that you know so uh but yeah so uh we splitting duties but that's very exciting so congratulations to them um the waste Warriors as Mrs Prat
055was talking about we're we're continuing to compost we're crushing it okay and I do mean it when I say when we win that $75,000 as you can see it's a thing that S talks about um Connor's not here tonight I wish he was U but he's he's a little under the weather I just want to let you know that Connor White's been selected as a national uh merit scholarship finalist um and according to my digging I believe this is the first student to be selected from ELD um it's a he applied for the National Merit Scholarship um along with some stuff that I did for him and he is one of 16,000 in the country and they will pick the winners in the spring so it's a very huge accomplishment that he's attained so very
056proud of him for that and archery is heading to the uh States tomorrow at the New York State Fairgrounds which uh good luck all right what time you guys leaving 6:30 6:30 a.m. all right and uh we had color Wars which was on February 14th it's been a while since we had board reports so we did color Wars and I believe the Juniors were victorious in color Wars um they crushed it yeah the Juniors was it was good some important dates uh we have a PTSA meeting coming up on March 18th EXA sorry I can't imagine why the junior CR they're all on a basketball team boys girls they dominated like yeah it's it's insane um we have a PTSA meeting which is coming up on I got the date correct right Tuesday 8 18th
057I got it right I was I was right 6 virtually so uh it's helped out a lot doing virtual meetings because I think we get more attendees so it's been very good Wednesday March 19th is music in our schools concert looking forward to that and on Thursday March 27th is our bethl Woods art show and also on that day we have a womanin law program trip to the uh svin County Courthouse too so um lots of good things happening and that concludes my report any questions from Mr all good thank you student council report is not here took care of that Mr cribs good evening how are you good all right um very short and sweet uh we've had a couple of conference days one in February one coming up on Monday um on the
058one on Monday we have uh two groups that are coming in one is going to do literacy with uh our staff that are prek to fourth grade and then we have a outside presenter that's coming in to present a program called one trusted adult and that's for our fifth through 12th grade staff in essence that program really has a lot of support um we've had a couple of Staff members that have gone to the one trusted adult um presentation already and it's really connecting with kids and they're trying to make sure that no child in Elder goes without somebody that they can connect with as an adult and um it's a uh hour program and then the afternoon um there'll be some other activities for our staff to present we've had PD uh Narcan training
059uh at our high school level um that was very well received they were asking for that um for a couple of years now and so we were able to put that in place uh on a Wednesday and most recently we did PD on artificial intelligence for AI and that I hope that was well received by our staff we hear a lot of things that go out there but it really provides them an opportunity to do a lot more with their planning of lessons and activities for students and use their time more productively rather than uh searching for a lot of things sometimes so I just one hour in that I'm hoping provided them a lot less time that they can focus on certain things and use some of the AI platforms that were suggested for
060their lesson planning and that's all I have for you this evening any questions for Mr KB nothing welcome you're up Caleb all right okay so I'm just going to go briefly over where we're at with the budget right now um this first slide I always put up it's just kind of what we think of when we're putting the budget together we want to be mindful of tax increases we want to make sure but we still want to make sure that we're in good fysical health and that we can still maintain all the programs that we have um start you off with the revenue so the tax cap this year is up to 3.97% now uh I actually have a last slide where I'm going to go over that but I might skip that and just
061start it right now in that 3.97% is a $100,000 Capital outlay project that is not mandatory it's something that we would like to do Tracy and I had talked about something that you guys can discuss it's also not something that is guaranteed to be 100,000 so that's 77% of that tax the real tax cap is 3.2 what that Capital outlay exception is is you can do up to 100 Grand when they say that what they mean is you can add that as a one-time tax it comes back out next year if you don't do the project another project now we use 100,000 cuz that's the cap but if we determine uh like for instance one of the things that are on the list of of projects that we'd like to get done is redoing that
062floor outside that cafeteria if that gets quoted at 50,000 um that number would only be 50,000 that that number would come down so it's a little more complicated than most years because we have to go out and get a quote for whichever project we do decide to do um 3.2 is the real tax cap now that's something you guys can decide to do or not do we're losing some state aid money we've been constantly losing state aid we lose state aid every year we were at like 6.3 million when we started here and we're down to 5.6 now um and it's really just the market values so how they determine wealth is the market value of the houses themselves right so when that Equalization rate goes down that essentially is the state saying that your
063Market values have gone up and it lags 3 years so this is going to continue we're going to lose probably a couple hundred thousand every year for a few years before it levels out um and you can follow the equalization rates that's when it'll level out when those Equalization rates stop going down we'll stop getting hammered for state purposes for real estate tax wealth um right now it's mostly in Bose's Aid and transportation Aid that we're losing so Transportation Aid is going down from 35% to 28% so that's a lot we spend about $1.1 million on Transportation so 7% of 1.1 million $77,000 in transportation Aid We're going to get less than what we would have gotten last year and Bose's Aid is Bose's Aid will level out after this cuz Bose's Aid has a
064floor never goes below 36% we're at 36% now so that's the only bright side there is that it's easier for planning purposes I know I'm never going to go below 36 um so that might maybe it won't go down quite as bad next year because you know Bose's Aid won't go down um and the other the the main thing we're losing there is our Bose refund was a little bit lower that went down we got 366,000 this year normally I budget 400 and every other year before that we were at above 4 00 so I only budgeted 350 this year and then the rest of that is I don't believe we're going to get quite as much in Medicare uh or Medicaid I'm sorry we don't get Medicare money Medicaid money um otherwise that's not
065a big fluctuation in other what you get is Pilots interest your bosis refund and then the money you get from the schools for health and wellness and the tuition I don't think those are going to change the main ones that are changing are the Bose's refunds and um the Medicaid money uh Reserves this is a weird one all right so I'm taking more money out of our reserves this coming year and I'm going to tell you why um the state was looking at our and we know this this has happened for 12 years at least as far as I could look back we've had a deficit in the cafeteria fund all except for two years um and how that gets booked on your books is we owe the money back to the general fund well
066they want me to pay the money back to the general fund they told me that they'd give me 5 years to pay it back I don't think we we need 5 years I'm doing it over three um that's kind of that's kind of fake income and fake expense because the audit report that we give you shows that on there it shows the neg3 and the two so our overall fund balance is not going to change but it's going to come out of the a fund and into the C fund um but it never leaves inhouse no no nothing no I'm not it doesn't even it doesn't even move in the bank account it's entirely on paper I go into wind cap and I say take it from a and put it into C there's not
067even a bank transfer involved cuz it's all we use a multiun same account yeah it's a g trans plan that we submit to the state yep and I I submitted a 5-year one but I'm going to try to I mean we have the money to pay it back anyway but that's what that 150 is so um I I should I probably should have on this slide and and for the next one when we go to vote for it I will show I'll show what the increase in our budget is without that because it's really small otherwise that that accounts for not quite but almost half of what our entire budget increas is so and it's not really right it's real but it's not it's not it's not we're out buying more stuff or anything like
068that um without it our budget would be um right around 20, 90,000 which is about 280,000 more than last year which is pretty much just covering raises and and increase costs um this is what would happen with the school tax rates and what the annual would be on a $200,000 assessed house um a $200,000 assessed house right now when they say you have a 56% Equalization rate is about a $350,000 house somewhere between 350 and 400 um this does not take into account what happens with the equalization rates because I have no idea what they're going to be at it's too early and an equalization rate could come out and one of the towns could end up that's out of our hands significantly different than what's up there that's out of our hands though well
069it's completely out of and and they unfortunately you don't tend to get them until after we vote before the it's before everybody votes the public votes but it's usually after the board votes so they're due right around May 1st so unfortunately you don't know about it until it's time for them to go out and vote um as as a percentage of the budget this hasn't really changed much last year property taxes were 66% this year they're 67 state aid is where that came from it was last year state aid was 28 they keep reducing state aid and unfortunately we have to keep going up to the cap to make up for it um hopefully those Equalization rates steady at some point and then I would expect state aid to steady uh This is how we
070do our tax cap so we start with a 13 million the tax based growth factor that first one that's 8 so 8% that is for new buildings so you shouldn't see see any tax increase for that 8% of it the 2% is the 2% that everybody hears about um that's based on inflation it stops at that and then there's the difference between your pilots and your exemptions between the two years so if you lose a pilot like we're going to get $6,000 Less in Pilots they add that into your tax cap if you're going to have more in overall debt that's your debt payments minus the aid you get on them you get to add that in in that year now that goes up and down all the time this year it's up partially because
071the aid we're losing is transportation Aid so the bus lease we have is almost 300,000 a year I'm only going to get 28% of it back instead of 35% that 7% goes into my tax cap so that's 21,000 of it um that's kind of how that ends up in there and then the $100,000 Capital project is in there too if we take the $100,000 Capital project out you see that plus exemptions down there that'll go down to $992 so right now I have a $100,000 project in there as a placeholder oop uh as far as expenditures go we're in um we're more or less keeping steady on most of them instruction is going down we aren't going to replace a couple of the people we're expecting three retirements and a departure or two and we're
072not going to replace two of them technically one technically two one really we have people on leave and so it's going to come to what was that maybe yes or maybe no well yeah maybe yes maybe in the end there will be two fewer people on the rolls than there were before but some of them aren't currently there now so um in general support that's increasing um largely it's uh utilities and um we're kind of Shifting around some of our salaries so uh it's something we've all discussed here before is so some of um technology goes into instruction it goes under computer assisted instruction so we're revamping the technology department at the end of this year we've already done some changes to the business department but we've also been discussing increasing the maintenance department so
073having a supervisor in there and that might also require that's in this budget right now it can change there's some fine tuning that's going to come in in between but if I need I did put in the budget for a part-time maintenance person if it turns out that having somebody doing the supervisory leaves us kind of short-handed on that that doesn't necessarily have to come to fruition but that's where a lot of that increase came from the decrease in instruction is because of the retirements and the people departing it's not um we're not getting rid of any sections or anything like that or reducing our spending on supplies or reducing our spending on college courses we're not reducing our spending on any of the programs themselves um we're just potentially losing some sections that we
074wouldn't have to replace for um um transportation 1.93% that's just that's just inflation that's just a normal bump on that we're not looking to do anything different with Transportation we're still in a holding pattern um waiting to see what happens with this electric bus um stuff uh employee benefits 3.57 anybody who's got health insurance knows that that's just a normal increase that's employ our biggest employee benefit is health insurance that's 2.7 million of the8 million the other the second largest is retirement that's 1.3 million of it um and then there's some smaller ones like workers compensation unemployment if somebody goes out in unemployment and some other little uh insurances that we have but those are the two big ones retirement and health insurance ERS retirement is going up significantly and luckily TRS is going down
075a similar amount so they're kind of offsetting each other um TRS we're going to have to pay in 99.5% of each dollar compared to 10.25 this year so you're getting a nice decrease however in ERS we have to kick in 15.2 right now and they're going to up that to 16.4 so it's going to go up 1.2 however we have more TRS salaries than we do ERS so they do offset even though it wouldn't sound like they would they definitely offset TRS is usually around 600,000 ERS is usually around 280 so even though TRS ERS is going up more there's less of it so um our debt went up 2.38% that's just the bond payment we were this year we're paying our last payment on the old bond which is lower then the first payment
076is going to be on the new Bond by the end of the new Bond it'll be lower than what this one is so it's not it it is going to work out to be tax neutral at the end of it but um it starts out a little higher and then the transfers are that transfer is entirely to or is $100,000 is to capital reserve so how you do the capital outlay project is you have to do is a transfer to capital reserve it's all or to the capital fund it's all accounted for in the H fund so they show it as a transfer from a into H and any um um construction you do has to be accounted for in the H fund um and then the rest of it is going to the cafeteria
077fund so that was that 150 coming out so that's why that's up so much again the expenditure categories are fairly similar instructions down a little bit but that's actually mostly because the transfers are up um and general support went up a little bit debt is almost exactly the same employee benefits are almost exactly the same transportation is almost exactly the same um where we have some good we've had some good cost savings I've been enjoying these administrative meetings the last few times because every time I walk in there we are saving some money so votch costs are going way down $145,000 we'll spend less on votek this year uh in part because they're having really good um they have really good enrollment there so they're actually reducing their price by almost $1,000 uh per student
078and then there's a we have a different kind of formula mostly because us business officials are conservative in nature so when they do the finals service requests we would way under represent how many kids were going because we didn't want our bill to be too high and Bose's got tired of that and so some time ago I don't know before I even started here they went to where they take an average an average of the last two years actual attendance so whatever we put on that order form doesn't affect our bill in any way shape or form because they kind of caught on and we were all doing it and all of a sudden they'd have a ton of kids and they weren't expecting so um we had two years ago we had 40 students
079in votch which was unusual for us most of the time we're between 23 25 maybe 26 or 27 at the most um that 40 is dropping off and the last two years we've had like 25 and 26 respectively so we're going to get build for 25 kids instead of 40 kids um at about 15,000 a person so that's huge savings um I already talked about the retirements and departures uh fuel bids have come in substantially lower and we're locked in so uh Fuel Oil we're paying $2.9 a gallon for fuel oil this year we will be paying $251 a gallon this year so 40 cents a gallon less and we order roughly 45,000 gallons so 50 cents a gallon is like $22,500 on that diesel fuel is even better $242 a gallon for our diesel
080uh and we order close to 40,000 gallons of that that's also down from 290 and change so big savings on the fuel this year um we're looking at our software in our maintenance contracts we always do that for additional savings we're again saving some money on out of District placements that number keeps going down um I I fluff that number up just a little bit in our budgets to account for students that might come in that we don't know about but uh it's at 900,000 you'll see is the budget line that shows for Bose services and special ad that's our out of District when I calculate the actual number if I just take the students that are in there and that I know are going to graduate it comes to 753 th000 so I've left
081about 150 buffer each of the students usually costs between 80 and 100,000 to send there so I leave that buffer in there so if a student comes in that we weren't expecting we're not shot and if we are we can move that if we don't have someone come in we can move that elsewhere that's also the same for under special ed in that line You'll see one that's out of District tuition um that's for students who are in placements outside of bosis like Center for Discovery and places like that we only have two students out of District right now I estimate that it's going to cost right around 310 for them but I budgeted 400,000 just in case another student comes in so those are up a little bit but in general that number used
082to be 1.2 million from Bose's actual not budgeted actual and uh a little over 400 for um out of district and just over time we've we've done a good job of the the 81 having the 811 down in the elementary school helps a lot um anytime you can have a student stay in house rather than go out it saves you quite a bit of money uh and then the last slide was I kind of jumped ahead earlier because having to speak about the tax cap um the state allows you one Capital project per year not to exceed 100 Grand which will be aided at 30 8% so that you don't have to do quite as much for you don't have to go have a separate vote like you would for a regular Bond you can
083have it be part of the budget vote um it gets added into your tax cap if you don't do a project the next year it comes out of next year's cap so it's like a one-time shot so it'll go 58 in but if we don't do another one the next year they'll take it out and we'll have a lower tax thing for that um and then the year after when you get the aid for it that also comes out of your tax cap the next year because you can't double dip um that is a discussion that we can have I've been speaking with Tracy we have a bunch of ideas I'm bringing up the floor cuz that was one of mine I'm like it's pretty soon I think it'll be more tape than it will
084be Flor but I'm sure there's a ton of other things we can talk about um and that's just something that you guys can discuss or if you are trying to go lighter on taxes and it doesn't have to be 100 it just has to be more than 20 they won't let you do less than that um and that's where we're at with the budget we still have a lot of information flowing in like Tracy said we actually found that out was it yesterday that we got the information on what's going on with the house and the Senate so we would stand to make quite a bit if they increase the prek number to 10,000 a kid I would go from so we have 18 students right now and they're giving you 5,000 a student so
085we'd get 90 we'd go from 90 to 180 so that's a lot of extra money um 1% of foundation Aid would give us an extra 40 and change thousand it's never a lot of extra money k no but I'm saying a lot of extra money okay that's not what I mean but what I mean what I mean is it would change this might be one of the few years most of the time what I tell you in March is pretty close to what's happening in April but if in between there I find out oh my gosh we're getting $247,000 this number might change and the allocations in it might change but um but extra money we with what I've presented here we have plenty to operate on and there's wiggle room built into it perfect
086any question for Caleb thank you Caleb real quick just to elaborate on what M fer and Mr conin talked about with the two teams in the archery club on top of that and a Gentleman that's been first ever picked to go what you were talking about on top of that big bad Bill feler has been coach of the year year and Trey Kaufman has been player of the year and I believe if I'm not M mistaken here James deerman Cohen Mcgill and Eli I what's his last name Gonzalez Gonzalez I believe they made Allstar Allstar yeah the team yeah yeah well the whole team did well no no there was I think it was four total including Trey well including Trey okay okay Trey uh that's that's big that's big stuff for us you know
087we're a very small school in a very small town I'm sorry oh and Olivia for the girls oh that's right and Olivia for the girls that's right I forgot about that I should I should know that I heard that many nights uh so a lot of good things are happening here at LG I was going to say Amanda was also nominated as the um orang County emerging Athletics director perfect good that I did not know thank you so not not to be short and sweet but you know great things yeah great things happening you know being here for 58 years of my life going to school here this is good stuff this is good stuff so at this time I will take public comment on the consent AG agenda items only you three you want
088to say anything very to mention the um no no we didn't have any stud yeah I know I got it today so yeah I didn't necessarily but yeah there's a through Sol 180 and um hope Squad we were uh given 10 seats to um the Hurleyville Performing Art Center for the teen Warrior series so it's a um it basically we're every every last Friday of each month we're going to take about I don't know where our list was at 7 or eight seven or eight seven or eight students um to uh see movies to view movies in their movie theater and um have a plant-based lunch and uh just meet with other um schools from around the county that had other seeds too so we're taking we have a lot of trips at the Junior
089Senior High School so it's like a lot a lot is going on right now introduced to networking yeah yeah so there's been a lot going on well the topics are also so they're going to do a social dilemma um VAP and the ders of the marijuana so conversation M good all right this time approval of items moot I need a motion to approve consent items 7.01 through 10.03 I'll make the motion motion by Stacy second by Kristen any discussion on any of them Noone all good to take a vote all I I I yes approved old business become before the board new business to become before the board second public comment on anybody anybody has anything to say all good uh let's see here our next meeting will be held at the junior senior high
090school on Tuesday April 22nd 2025 at 6:00 p.m. be held here I will not be here for that one to put that on record and that's Tuesday it's Tuesday is that yes that's yeah I I planned some trips around the 8th which I thought was a normal second Thursday I'm doing good I'm playing all my trips talk to my lead person over there and it's uh no Scott it's the 22nd said well I can't change my fishing trip so at this time I'll take a motion to enter an executive session for contracts motion by Kristen second second by Stacy everybody have a safe trip home