001Um, I'd like to call to order um the meeting tonight for the Fredonia Central School Board of Education. I am filling in tonight for President Johnston, who is enjoying some well-deserved time with his family. I am going to rely on some help from from friends tonight to make sure that we stay on track. But we start every meeting with a pledge to the so stand. >> I pledge allegiance 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. Um, we have a consent agenda tonight for March 24th. We have everything in personnel excluding A and new business excluding A in consent. Can I have a motion to accept the agenda? >> So move. >> Second. >>
002Thanks. >> Second. And does anyone want to pull anything out? Yes. Yep. >> All in favor? Motion of the uh agenda. Thank you. >> Um we have the first opportunity to hear from the public. The board has reserved this time to hear comments from the audience. Those wishing to address the board are asked to stand, give their name and address, and limit their comments to five minutes or less per individual or group. Concerns and comments during this session should be directly related to items listed on the proposed agenda for this meeting. Audience members seeking response should complete a board correspondent sheet and return to uh the district clerk. Do we have anyone who wants to address the board tonight? >> Okay. Um so we have uh approving our minutes from the last meeting. So our
003last meeting on March 10th um meeting minutes as submitted. Do I have a motion to accept those minutes? >> So moved. >> Thank you. session and a second. All those in favor? >> I Great. That brings us to our financial and federal report. >> Thank you. So, the first part we'll do tonight is the second presentation on 2627 budget. Thank you again to Mrs. Hines Morrison for making the slides more than just black and white. Although I will be going off my hand more clearly. So we do have remaining innose at this point which is not in most cases not unusual. The final equalization final assessment those are things that happen in August for our tax levy but we do have them on there because being not final could adjust the levy rate one way
004or the other. We also don't have our final bosses cost. This is a moving target at this point. Um, primarily for special ed occupational education and also our regular high school and middle school programs. Uh, it varies on enrollment. It varies on the individual pieces that each student has the need for such as occupational therapy speech and those kinds of things. And each bill I get an update. And then between that, I'm talking to Mrs. Pharaoh about uh potential placements for next year. uh confirming placements for this year, making sure that what Boseies is showing is an actual student and so on and so forth. So we do have adjustments there that are ongoing through the process, which then again leaves an unknown being the final tax levy. We don't know that at this point.
005We also do not have the final state aid amount, which is the legislative final amount. Typically, that's due April 1st. In the circles that I get information from, I haven't really seen a lot of chatter thus far, which leads me to believe April 1 is not going to be a hard and fast deadline. And that potentially can give us a little more state aid, which would obviously be good to go against our joint budget. And also, I'm still working through with our financial planner the final state aid and debt for our phase one, our project 2025, which will be coming onto the books in 2627. Taking a look then at our proposed budget summary. Uh draft on this example on the screen, draft one is the one you saw last time which is the middle.
006Draft two is on the right side. So the big differences there uh amounts to about 512,000 and those reductions were primarily in the Boseies area where we had some student placements that changed that I was carrying differently than they are. I also had budgeted in the initial footprint that I use some different amounts for potential extras as I mentioned the occupational therapy to speech those kinds of things and also additional slots for students and aids. So I've now gone through and started to bring those back down closer to what we believe will be the the needed case. And then we also began to focus on the general support areas of the budget which is district office, business office, print shop, legal auditing and just getting into custodial maintenance. Taking a look at each of those
007areas, what I had in there, what we anticipate will be happening. And so we're able to reduce some money there. Uh that takes us down from the original draft of 8.75% on spending to 7.41%. In the past, the board has asked for a breakdown of how this uh breaks out percentage-wise against the total budget by category. So, you can see salaries are 48.2%, benefits are 20.04%, which is 68% of the budget. That number as we decrease the budget overall, that number will begin to climb, but typically you're between 68 and say 72 73% of the budget is locked into contractual obligations for salary benefits. So you can see that doesn't leave you know a great deal of things that you can massage out after that because a lot of the things that are remaining are
008things that you have to have like utilities and things of that nature. Uh and also as part of this an additional 3.82% is our debt service and with the exception of the project 2025 which we might have a little bit of room depending on the borrow dates to move the rest of it is your locked in debt service which you'll see a slide in a few minutes. So that pretty much is an untouchable as well. So right now you're looking at 72 73% of virtually untouchable in your budget. Just a quick slide on how we got where we are today. Distribution of what we broke out so far. We took out instructional salaries which were able to shift to our grants which is title one, title two, title four, uh section 611 and 619 which
009allows us to put some salary amounts there to 886,000 in instructional an additional 75,000 in non-instructional and then we also made the reductions to some of the areas that I mentioned services um and also in equipment contractual supplies and materials and supplies. What we've done is gone through the individual building budgets and made sure that things are categorically correct and placed in the right spots. So there is some movement from A to B to D to C and so forth. This slide shows our salary and benefits. The big draw here is one an increase in teachers retirement system which is a locked in rate by the state. So that that's a number we can't adjust much. And also the group health insurance. We are a member of the Stafford County School District Medical Health Consortium,
010but that rate this year was projected to be up towards 20% and we ended up settling at 16% for the plan. And that's based on a variety of things within the industry that are requiring us to change the method in which our plan funds it and also what the benefits are on that amount. The next slide is simply a list of the current equipment requests. Some of those are placeholders. Uh district office business offices have small amounts in there. The custodial department, I have a placeholder there, but I don't have their final request yet. Uh and the curriculum replacement, we have 15,000 for musical instruments, which was part of a board desire a number of years ago now to maintain buying musical instruments there. Then you see across the building levels, we have requests for
011things like classroom furniture and so forth. Also in Scholastic Athletics, 22,000 requests there. materials and supplies. These are the material supply contractual and bosia services. These are the major impacts across those three areas. I'll draw attention to a couple. Uh one, our occupational education PEK line were up 297,000. That's based on a couple factors. One, in last year's budget, we had six slots through the process and ended up needing eight for PEK. So, we had to draw in those two slots there. We also are up about 11 slots in the occupational education area, which is a good thing because that means we've got more students interested in going to the Votech program to learn the different services that are available there. But it also becomes a cost that we really have got not a lot
012of control over on that. Our Boseies special education cost, which I've mentioned multiple times during each presentation, we're about 325,000 there and that's still work in progress as I mentioned. And I should also point out Mrs. Sparrow reminded me during the course of conversation that it seems like our special ed costs are isolated to Boseies, but we do also have other outside placements, some of which are fairly costly um programs as well requiring transportation and the program costs themselves and that's elsewhere within our special education budget codes within our general fund budget. Health insurance, I already mentioned transportation, we're projecting 155,000 which is 2.99% based on the contract that we admitted a couple years ago. Now debt service which you'll see again in a few minutes were 535,000 for the new project. >> Mr. Quest
013these are where the budget is up or the total allocation for these >> are the increases in those last year >> was mentioned. Next slide is a debt service summary and this again had been a slide that in the past the board had wanted to see just kind of comparing what we have out there for debt on the project 25 for 2627. There should also be 148,000. This is interest that got cut off on the screen. Basically, the rest of the debt is fairly level much like your mortgage would be. You can see that as the principal decreases or increases, the interest changes decreases in vice versa. So that the end result of payment is pretty consistent just how it's distributed principal. On the revenue side, I've listed the major sources and the percent that
014they encompass for the budget. So, in this example, our state aid is 49.07%. Our tax lev is 47.63. And you'll see as we go through the remaining meetings before you have to establish the final proposal for the voters that those numbers will change. the state percentage your budget will likely go up as the total budget goes down and your tax levy amount will likely go down because as you reduce your budget that's where it's going to come off of. At the bottom of the screen you can see kind of where we ended up the last three years and pretty much we're running in a almost a 5050 range between state aid and tax levy. The difference being the local share which is things like interest income which comprises a few percentage points and also whatever
015amount is applied for fund balance against the total budget within this proposal remains a capital outlay project of $100,000. We're headed towards likely repair and sealing our tennis courts. If we do outside work, you have to do a minimum of 10,000 on the inside, which would be continued flooring replacement at the elementary school. And there's also required interstate architect fee. Within this proposal also are resignations and retirements on instructional side. We do have one on the agenda tonight that's included in this presentation today. And also five of those people are eligible for the contractual retirement incentive. Staffing main interview and discussion with administrative staff and we'll discuss that further in upcoming budget hearings. The tax levy limit is not is it generally figured as a 2% cap but it's not necessarily isolated to that. In
016our case this year it calculates out to 2.44%. If the budget is defeated twice by the boards we still need to comply with the administrative cap which is 11.5%. We're currently 149,000 under that cap. That number will move as we make changes to the budget depending on what category we make the changes in. The next slide shows our tax levy limit from the initiation of it in 2012134 through to the 2526 year and final and then we obviously don't have the final tax levy for this year but the levy 2.44. So out of the previous uh 14 years starting from 1213 to 2526 we had 14 years that we were at or below the cap and 10 of those years we were below the cap and you can see that graphically on the screen. Another
017slide we added for this evening is just to give the board and the community an idea of some of the services that we continue to share. We are in consortiums for health insurance workers compensation through BOSIES. Uh the electric and natural gas which is through the SME consortium also through Boseis central business office with ER2 Boseies. We do have a long-standing relationship with the village of Fredonia on a municipal for bid for fuel for our own vehicles. We also do bid out which is not a shared ser just as I mentioned on a side we do bid out our fuel for the buses as well. We do share athletic programs with neighboring school districts, transportation with three other districts. We do have a part-time art teacher, long-standing part-time art teacher that we share with Forsville,
018and we have special education both ways with Forsville. Next slide is just to show some comparative budget data going back to 201617 in terms of total budget change and final percent. And then the next slide is the path forward. We do have another meeting currently scheduled for the 14th of April. Hopefully by then we would have this final state figures. We also have the ability to have an additional meeting the following week up to the following week which would be to April 21st. And I think at this point that would be my recommendation and talked to Dr. Zul a little bit about this that we look at actually scheduling that. I think we're going to need the time based on where we are. need to go to get that extra week in there, especially if
019the state doesn't approve the budget. And then your budget vote will be hearing on May 5th and then budget vote will be third Tuesday in May, which is May. Mr. >> I guess I just wanted to reiterate that this is a work in progress. Um, you know, and over time that percentage um year to year becomes lower and lower. We were over eight, now we're at about 7.4. Um this is part of the process. This is part of what we do to get to a number that we know will be feasible um for the district, for the community, and continue to offer a great education for our students here at Fredonia. Um in terms of that additional meeting, as Miss uh Hines Morrison and I talked a little bit more about it, we thought perhaps
020giving us a little bit of leeway and shooting for the 20th, April 20th, possibly for an additional meeting. That's a Monday evening. that would give us a day in there just to make sure we have everything solidified before we would need to um submit the legal notice. Um I don't know if board members tonight can commit to that. We can come back to it in the superintendent report, but I think that would be helpful. That would give us almost an extra week um to not only let the unknowns shake out, but also just process and make further decisions. So I think that'd be helpful. Any questions for Mr. on this second round? >> I was just you have still in there the 750,000 coming out of the >> currently. Yes. >> What is your goal
021to reduce that? >> That would be the desired end result. Yes. And those amounts, those additional amounts for um the PEK and the special ed, are those aidable at all by the state? >> Yeah, and that's a good question because there's a lot of things within the budget that we do get aid for either through Bosey's aid or other aid. So some of the special education services we do stack billing for that which we get aid back on. building debt, we get building aid back on that post. But in the moment, you have to pay for it because categorical aids of any kind, which would be textbook, library materials, software proceeds, building aid, transportation, those all come back in the subsequent year once the state finalizes their aid based upon your actual expenditures for the
022year. As opposed to foundation aid, which is your basic formula, basic operating formula, which is current. And that aid that comes back, does that get figured in then to this budget? The aid that came back from a year ago this >> Yeah. What'll happen is uh both with the governor's proposal and legislative proposal, we'll get a print out of their estimated aid. And then that's what we're using conservatively in the process right now. And so some of the things that we may do is we may look and building a is a good one for that. With Maggie from Mun Solutions, I'll say, "All right, this is what they're showing as aid." When we take a look at the individual breakout of debt, do they have everything that we are supposed to have? Are they missing
023something? So, as an example, when you do the building condition survey, which is once every five years, sometimes they don't pick that up in their aid because that's just not a normal thing. And then at one point a couple years ago, they had us at the wrong building aid percentage by a little bit. So, there is some fluctuation there. And then also uh things like the cyst classroom that we had at wheel school last year. There is aid that comes back against that. But in the moment you have to estimate it based on what the class can hold versus what you think the enroll was going to be. So there is some fluctuation on that as well. Also a high cost student say they moved in today that wouldn't be on the aid projections that
024we have because state has no idea. But looking forward I could say hey are we going to get aid on this? Here's the estimated cost. So maybe I can bump that up a little bit to kind of cover that. So there's a little bit of that jockeying back and forth that goes on on that side. Uh the operating a is pretty much locked in which would include your lottery aid payments that numbers generally other than if they give us more when they sell the final budget that's pretty much locked in. But categorically is there is some fluctuation here. >> A few questions for you. Um, can you So, uh, can you speak to how you forecast what's coming in from the state when they don't know what they're doing? Like, how do you come up
025with that number? >> I take right now I've taken the governor's print out from January 10th or whatever day it was and that's what I'm using there. And that's what >> other than the building aid which we did adjust a little bit >> and in the past that has always been relatively reliable as a forecast. >> Yeah. Um like an example this year sent recently sent a projection for the aid and it doesn't match up comparably the state's actually a little more which is a positive because revenue this year which again is the state's estimating based on data they have from a year and a half ago and post is estimating on data of actual use now. So, based on what you're using now, this is what we think you're going to get. So, there
026is some fluctuation that, but in general, I would say it's pretty close. Okay. Um, and then you mentioned we tend to hover around 50/50 state aid versus the local contribution. >> Y, >> is that normal? >> Historically, you've been around for a while. Is that >> uh It's actually come closer together. It used to be a little more apart. >> And when you say that more state aid versus >> percentage wise, more aid and less budget. >> So we're receiving less and less state aid. >> Well, you're receiving more money in total. >> More money. >> It's percentage of >> less is a percentage of budget >> and that's based on other things like death or staffing or whatever the case may be. >> Which leads me to my next question. Can you and I
027know I asked you this last time, but I like beating a dead horse here. Um can you speak to the cumulative effect it has when we are well below the tax levy limit? So in 2017 2018 it's kind of when it started a run of like three or four or five years of being well below that that saves money and that's great. However, there's cumulative effect of costing us money in the long run and I know like can you just talk about what that means? >> Sure. So in the perfect financial world, both uh the debt's a good example and also the tax cap and tax levy, you want to try to keep things as level as possible. Makes the community happy. It makes things easier to do that you're not getting a lot and
028then not getting anything. And if you take a look at the tax cap over time, it's been fairly consistent with not too many anomalies in there. So if you had maintain that, you kind of established that that's kind of your benchmark. But once you go to other lower numbers, no fault of anybody, it becomes kind of a perceived belief that that's where you'll be next time. So there's that perception. And then numerically, obviously, if you're able to go 2% and you go zero, that's an impact because you've now not levied what you're legally allowed to, assuming that they would pass at that. >> And so over time where you may have said, "Hey, I could vote for 2% but we did zero. There's an amount." And next year if we assume 2% would have gone
029because people would understand at 2% level as an amount and then over time you could look back now and say every year you were under it was this much and over time it was that much. So it's a cumulative effect and also the low numbers the zeros do have a potential impact into your tax calculation subsequent years. Uh the last I'm sorry the last question I had the the trucks the fall truck that was still in the equipment. >> I've not other than adjustment where things have been budgeted as equipment that shouldn't be or vice versa. I have not cut anything. >> Thank you. As far as potential retirements and attrition and so forth, um would there be a minor savings if potential positions weren't filled or a fair amount of savings? >> It depends
030on what you filled and what you didn't. >> Okay. >> Um so typically if you have retirement, you're going to budget a replacement and if the person's eligible for incentive, you would budget that as well. In year one, in that scenario, you generally don't save a lot. It's year two, you would save on that person. >> Okay? >> If you also have people who don't qualify for the incentive, you don't replace them, then obviously there's a pure salary savings there. So, it really depends on position by position >> and and obviously the savings in that second year would be you're not paying a top tier teacher versus just starting off, >> right? And you also lose that you're not paying the incentive, which is a one year generally one year payout. Sometimes tax wise you
031have to a little bit off here. >> Any other questions? Great. Thank you. >> All right. So then we'll move on to rest the rest of your items. >> So we have budget status, investment report, revenue report all kind of tied together through the dashboard that the board asked for previously. Um again, not a lot of changes. We've been projecting things a little bit on the high side like in utilities that with the win we had that's kind of holding true there. Revenue side we continue to adjust that positively as we hit further in the year with the investment income. We're up 77,000 in treasury bills over what we had budgeted there. So that's a good thing did mention the a moment ago. So we're kind of tracking where we need to be. So far
032so good with that. And I guess and then on the rest of the revenue side, uh any of the aid payments that were expected in the month, which was primarily lottery aid and textbook, we got that as >> anything on the temporary. >> Can I have a motion? So moved. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I also one more thing that the board has this which is the annual budget booklet. Uh three sections tax personnel and other which has a variety of historical data on levy budgets staffing all those kinds of things. So some of it's pretty good if you're into reading through numbers. >> Can't wait. Mr. Forbes. Thanks. >> Some of it is interesting. I just said to you only more just >> great okay thank you um so moving on to
033the personnel section of the agenda tonight um as Mr. for mentioned we have um an additional retirement um to review and approve tonight um and that is the resignation of Ellen Foley early childhood teacher effective July 1st for the purpose of retirement um this is a pretty pretty big one um for the district um I will turn that over to Dr. No. >> Yeah, I'll make a couple comments and I'll open it up. I see we have a couple FTA members here tonight. If anybody would like to uh share a comment um you know, absolutely 40 years um in the district and uh if you've ever been in Ellen Foley's room, you see a couple of things that jump out to you. Um first of all, the enth enthusiasm um the energy uh the positivity
034um the absolute belief in early childhood education. Um I believe the absolute belief in public schools and also um she is one of those teachers that allows students to fail, has students do things on their own, has students explore, um has students really engage in their own process for learning and she will allow that to play out, allow them to struggle to eventually uh get to a better place and meet those standards that we want them the standards. It's pretty impressive to watch. Um and you really get the sense that this is a master teacher uh that's in the classroom. Um she certainly has been um had a huge impact uh in the district. She is probably the one person that when people um meet me and they haven't been around Fredonia or maybe are
035lost touch a little bit, a lot of them ask me if Ellen Foley is still working at Fredonia and they share a story about themselves or their ch children or their grandchildren for that matter. So, um, we appreciate very much all Ellen has done. Thank you, Ellen. And, uh, she will certainly be missed. Anybody else around the table? Um, I, you know, will just say that I had four children, um, start their educational journey in u Mrs. Foley's class and and their time in the district. And um I feel very fortunate that they had that opportunity and you know received that excitement that connection to nature and I have enjoyed visiting her classroom going back for some of the different events over the years. Um she certainly will be missed and and she has a
036special place in in my heart for for her time with my children as well. So >> likewise I had three not four. Miss Foley had all three of my daughters go through the program. We love Miss Foley >> and uh I think the district is super lucky at such a young age because it's critical at the youngest ages to have somebody that's wonderful. So I will not accept her resignation. >> Um any anyone else like to offer anything? Okay. Um I do need >> I can't not. Um Mrs. Foley is an institution in Pong as anybody uh who's ever met her knows master teacher uh finalist for teacher of the year in fact last year. Um and I'm willing to bet a lot of these high schoolers remember being in her classroom or even seeing
037her um in prek. And even my eighth graders, I mean they all remember doing those nature journals in her class. it just makes a big impact on them. I think it it lines them up to uh participate in quests when they're in eighth grade. So all of these things, you know, carry through and then come back as student leaders. So that passion and love uh for nature and for children is evident in everything that she does. >> Well, unfortunately, we do need a motion um with regret. Um so >> no, not doing it. So moved. >> So moved. >> Will you make a second, Jerry? >> I'm not sure I can make. >> Okay. Second. All those in favor? >> I And welld deserved and many best wishes to her in this in this next
038phase. Um, okay. So, moving on to new business. We do have approving uh a few items pertaining to the 2526 budget um vote. So the first one is to approve the legal notice um as presented. So you can just give us a quick summary of that. Um it's it's a really really long winded way of saying that we're having an annual budget vote. It's essentially what it says. Um it also lays out when the budget uh is available for public viewing and things like that. Um but it is it's very much a business as usual sort of piece. Um and just kind of on the back end of that the next motion after this um I'll just add kind of piggybacks on this because as you know Mr. Forbes and Dr. Zelios alluded to things
039with the budget are in flux um at this point. So, should anything need to change, um, that second motion that we have does allow the district clerk, in this case myself, to make the necessary changes with the okay of the board without having to have it be a board approved at a meeting, which just allows us to be reppponsive when we need to be and not make the process so we can get the information to the record as soon as possible. >> Great. Thank you. So, I need first a motion to accept the legal notice. >> So, move. Second. >> Second. All those in favor? I. And then the second motion is providing our district clerk the um ability to amend if as we move into the process we need to make any amendments. So
040motion for that. >> So second and second. All those in favor? >> I great. >> And Mrs. for that would also include if we decided to add a second proposition um for the community to consider um our board term limits uh from five years to three years. >> I know that's an ongoing discussion but this would also make that a little simpler to add >> we decide to do that >> and I think just uh the expectation is that we will revisit that uh at the meeting on the 14th. So we will make a determination um prior to that. Okay. Um so that brings us to the second round of public comment. So um we have this second round opportunity to hear from the audience. Kind of the same um same process. Anyone wishing to
041address the board, please stand, give your name, address, limit your time to five minutes. Um and these items uh can be uh do not need to be associated with any of the agenda items that have been discussed. Do we have any one that's interested? No. Okay. Um, so our superintendent report. >> Yeah. A couple things just to touch on. One of them we just did. Um, just a reminder that we have been in discussion about the three versus fiveyear board terms. Um, I think it would be helpful if we could finalize kind of our thinking prior to the next meeting, have a discussion, and then determine um, how we want to move forward. And again, the resolution would actually be to move this forward to the community, >> right? >> Um for their consideration and
042their vote um ultimately being determined by the uh community, not um us around the table here um in isolation. Um I also wanted to mention that we also in terms of other ongoing discussions have talked briefly about the idea not this year but the following year. um about graduation being on Friday night as we conclude that week probably kind of culminating that momentum of that week on Friday night as opposed to Sunday. That continues to be a discussion. Um I think we would probably want to have some determination there over the next month I would say. So um more information to follow there. I also wanted to make you aware that as of right now at least the um July 9th meeting um David O district superintendent from E2 Boseis um will be here to
043share information about the capital project that is being proposed through Boseies right now. Um just like we went through a process um they did a building condition survey of all of their campuses. um the recommended work came to about $150 million um through their architect. Now, the plan that they're going to propose um is about a third of that, right? About $50 million. Um but in order for that to move forward, every district in the VOCE would have to approve um the spending that would be attached to that plan. Um and then every district would have a share of helping to pay for that plan. So, he would be coming to share the details of that. That would not impact this budget that we're talking about tonight and we approve um in May. Um but
044we'd be looking at that impacting the following budget and the first payment would be July of 2027. Um, so more information to follow, but I just want to have this concept out there and this plan that's a proposal at this point um known to our community because it would impact our budget, but we'll leave it to Dr. to give us a little bit more information. >> Dr. Sorry, could you say that date one more time? When is he going to be here? >> I believe that it's July 9th. Is that >> Does that sound correct? I'm sorry. June. >> June 9th. Okay, >> sorry about that. >> Thank you. >> My fault. >> Um, also again, we touched on it. Um, we're looking at adding an additional meeting to finalize the budget. Um, again, the
045date currently in consideration is April 20th. And also just wanted to touch real briefly on the ongoing conversation about our school calendar for next year. If you're a board member, you have a copy in front of you. There's been a couple adjustments there. Um, one is that we recognize that Labor Day is late, September 7th. So the current draft um that week before on August 31st and September 1st there are superintendent conference days. Um the next two days the second and the third would be days with students. Um so we would be able to get ahead of some of our instructional days. Um, in return for that, we would be adding back um days not in session, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and also the Wednesday um before our winter holiday break. So, um right now
046those are really the adjustments that have been made and I don't know if there's any discussion here tonight. Um I think we will also be looking to approve at the next meeting um after break that 14. So any questions comments there? >> What's the logic behind the 4th of September being? >> Just trying to maintain still that Labor Day weekend that for some people is sort of the last gasp of summer. um and still trying to um create some type of extended weekend there. Um we could consider um that day as an instructional day. Um I do appreciate the collaboration with the FTA. Michelle Green was here tonight. Um I got some good feedback from um our administrators um other people in district office. We appreciate this being a collaborative effort. That's all for superintendent
047report from our students this week. No. >> Okay. Well, thank you. I know it's been a very busy couple of weeks um with a lot of things going on at the high school. So, um Mr. Tanelli, did you have any updates you wanted to share? >> I do have a few things. Um first of all, I'd like to congratulate Mr. Wendle, the casting crew of The Music Man. Um, there are some some folks here from uh from the musical here tonight. Um, from the set to the music to the acting, lighting, sound, everything. It's it's like a Broadway level production here. Um, it is amazing to watch. Um, I saw the first weekend's shows which were amazing. Um, it's by far the best high school performance I've ever seen. So, congratulations to everybody involved in
048that. Um, just quickly, I wanted to throw an update out there from our inservice day um, a few Fridays ago. I wanted to update the MTSS inservice part of it. Uh we had Gary Schaefer in and I think I spoke about at the last meeting that we had from Niagara University. He did an overview on MTSS for all of our middle school and high school staff which was was wellreceived and then our tier 2 support group from the high school had a chance to meet with Gary for about two hours and he handed out some stuff and I was just going to throw these around the table here. anybody that wanted to take a look at them just to give us some um guidance on how we build our program to the very best of
049our ability here, work with as many students as we possibly can with our MTSS program and then um from there build it out even further. So, um those are some of the things that he passed around to us and that we're going to use as sort of our building blocks. Uh I also wanted to thank our counselors at the high school for putting together a fantastic career day last Friday during the half day. Um so, Mr. Hobs and Mrs. board really brought in 18 speakers. Came in um heard from Chris Lro who works at the career center Sunni Ferronia. Um he spoke to all of our students and then students rotated through four different groups of um of the day. Uh saw four different presenters from law enforcement to um you know folks working for
050the Cornell Cooperative uh Institute and a whole bunch of different places that really kind of uh put the finishing touch on a really nice half day for us. And then this week we are going to start meeting with our seniors because uh when we return from break we're really about 10 weeks away from the end of the school year and uh it turns our attention to everything senior activity. So I was going to going to hand out our cool little uh half sheets here but I just realized after eight adults proof read this thing that it says class of 25. Um we really really concentrated on making sure our dates down here were right. Just forgot that it's the class of 26. We'll fix that and I'll get those out next time that we need.
051>> Great. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Dinger. >> Yeah. Um I just want to thank our newly developed student leadership team that welcomes new students. We actually welcomed uh seven new students this week into the elementary school. It's only Tuesday, so it was pretty pretty exciting. So, we've had some new tours, uh little welcoming committee for the kids, which is pretty fun. Uh I also want to thank our PBIS team for the battle of the buses. We've been working with managing behavior um in those tricky places and we've had some incentives there to help um kids make right choices. And then I also want to thank Mimi Joy from the high school. She continues to come down to our elementary school to offer tastings for obscure new foods. This week is going to be homemade maple
052syrup from her backyard. That's what we got going on. Thank you so much. >> I know you've been anxiously awaiting the results of our attendance madness bracket. Yes. So, it was down to our two sixth grade teachers, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Renzo. It really came down to the attendance on the half day, and Mrs. Renzo's class was able to pull out the win. So, they will be recognized. Um, Mrs. March did it on the announcements last Friday, but they will um have their prize at the end of this week. So, that was exciting. Um, we now have a pride bingo game going. I think I mentioned this last time where there's different um classroom expectations and behaviors. And each day the call um you know the teachers then work with the students to hopefully earn
053their their square for the day and we have had some classes earn their bingo. So that's exciting. And um Quest is underway with all of their preparations leading into their big um 4-day hike. Roughly 60 students total and about 30 from our middle school. So that's exciting too. >> Thanks. Um I know Mrs. Piper is not here tonight and I'm sure that she would want to say some words about Elen Foley, but I just want to say it was hard to imagine for without her. So, um just a quick not recognition there. Um under personnel, we appointed Kelsey Moer who is here tonight. Um our new occupational therapist. So, I just wanted to recognize her and we're really excited to have her on board. >> Welcome. Um I adore Ellen, so I'm kind of sad
054to hear kind of like chattered about. Um, but I've every time that I've had any interactions with from staff during, you know, meetings for students just in the hallways, you guys have been wonderful to work with. So, I'm just so excited to be a part of the team and to help the students. So, thank you. >> Yeah, really excited to have Kelsey on board. Um, she and I have known each other professionally for a number of years and really very happy about that. So um last week on Friday which was March 20th we recognized March 21st which is world down syndrome day. So put out some information about Down syndrome and ask people to wear crazy summits in recognition of that day. So we did that. Um this week is inclusion week which hire highlights
055our inclusive school community environment and really um emphasizes and recognizes all diversity and unified basketball is also underway. So some excitement to look forward to there. Great. Thank you, Mr. >> Um just you know it is budget season. So um but just a reminder to anyone if you or anyone you know are thinking about running to fill the two board seats that will be up for uh grabs as it were at the meeting. Um board packets can either be gotten right off the website. You can download them from there or you can stop in the office. If anyone has any questions, feel free to go to the district office. Great. Thank you. Okay. So, the next regular board of education meeting will be Tuesday, April 14th at 6 p.m. in the high school library. Um,
056our next meeting. Um, we do anticipate the need to enter in executive session to discuss personnel matters. Um, we won't have any business when we come out, but can I have a motion for executive session? >> So, moved. Second. And with that, we'll be in executive session. Thank you so much, everyone. >> Hey there. How you doing?