001We're good. Hi everybody. Good evening. Welcome to our board of education reorganizational meeting. It is July 1st, a little bit after uh 6:00 p.m. Uh before we begin tonight, I would just ask everybody to join me in a moment of silence. Unfortunately, we lost a longtime teacher, Angelo Simula, um a retired English teacher who I believe retired in 1996, um who recently passed. So, please join me in a moment of silence. Cry Angel. Thank you very much. Um again this is our uh reorganizational meeting we're calling to order at this time and as usual we are going to rise and please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and
002justice for all. Um so next item on the agenda, we need to appoint um a clerk for this meeting and uh do I uh have a motion please? So moved. Uh that's all or we just approve. I think you just get to appoint. Okay. Sorry. But it says move by second. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's have a motion. Yeah. I reinstate that I would like to make that second. Any discussion on this item? All in favor? Congratulations, Kim. Thank you. Welcome aboard. All right. At this point, we'd like to conduct a roll call of the members of the board. Mr. Johnston, present. Miss Borton, present. Miss Han, present. Mr. Marshall, present. Mr. Martin. Mr. Kenny, present. All right. One of the first items that we need to uh complete as part of the reorganization meeting
003is um nominations and the eventual election of a board president for this coming school year. I wanted to open the floor uh for nominations for board of education president. I would like to uh nominate Mr. Johnson to continue as president. I would like to say wait or what are we doing right now? There are no other nominations for any other candidates. Well, we're just press nominations are officially closed. Um, thank you for the nomination and uh, Mr. Johnson, thank you for considering uh, we'd like to make a motion to approve the appointment of board president and um, have Steve Johnston served in that role um for the 2526 school year. Can I have a motion? Yes. Thank you, Chair. Mr. Ky, thank you. Second. Thank you, Mr. Any further discussion? All in favor? I I
004sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Looking forward to it. Nice job. And I will we will catch up on the oath. Yes. We also will sign at the end of the meeting just to keep the meeting. Well, I'm looking forward to uh another year. 25 26 be a good year. We got the capital project rolling, prop one, biggest uh project we've done in 22 years, I think. Uh really excited to see the second year of the long-term plan. And uh I don't know if we've ever had long-term plan in Fredonia. So, uh, that's been running behind the scenes, but now I think we hear a lot more about it in the second year. And just other other things like excited about, uh, further education for the board and, uh, our newly formed board operating
005procedures manual that we'll keep working on reveal to the public soon. So, yeah, a lot of good things for the this coming year. So, I have to start talking. Okay. So, let's get used to it. But, okay. So, we have uh tonight we have to approve the proposed agenda for the rework meeting of Monday, July 1st, 2025, including the adoption of a consent agenda for line items 9 through 20. Is that right? Uh could I have a motion from the table? A second. Second. Anything to be pulled out of consent? All in favor? Opposed. Great. Next, uh we need to uh nominate and elect a vice president. So, we'll open the floor to nominations. I would like to nominate Lisa for great. Any other nominations? Okay. Then uh close the nominations and uh we'll uh
006have a motion to approve the appointment of Lisa Fortnite to the office of vice president central school board of education for the 2526 school year craft motion. Mr. Marshall a second. Mr. Kenny, thank you. Um all in favor congratulations. Thank you. speech. I am looking forward to supporting our president in his second year and continuing to work with the board. I think we've got a lot of exciting things on the agenda. We work well together. We made a good team and look forward. So, thank you for stepping up and doing it for you. Thank you. Um, so we'll do the later. Um, next, uh, we need to, uh, authorize the newly elected vice president, Mr. Foreman, to notice the school board of education to act on behalf of president of the board in my absence.
007I have a motion to pass. So moved. A second. Mr. Marshall. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Um, lots of nominations here. We next need to nominate an elect district clerk. I'd like to back up. Oh, yeah. Sorry. And I don't know if this is the proper time to ask this question, but five. And Jerry, are you on the reorgan? Oh, yeah. This is okay. We're going to have a chance. Okay. Regular meetings. No. Okay. No problem. Okay. So, uh, back to nominating and electing a district court. We open the floor to nominations for district court. I nominate. Thank you. Close the nominations. And, uh, need a motion to close it. Anybody else? Yeah, we're closing it just like we're standing on that one. Okay. Um uh we need to have a motion to
008approve the appointment of Ken Heights person for office of district clerk central school board education for the 25 26 school year. Can I have a motion? So move a second. Mr. Marshall. Thank you. All in favor? Opposed. Congratulations Mr. Rosen. Thank you very much. All right. Next, uh we need to appoint a legislator legislative liaison for the board um for the 2526 uh school year. Um I have a motion to bring that to the table. So moved. Second. Second. So do we have any volunteers for that? Thank you. Thank you very much for that. Appreciate it. My pleasure. So that'd be great. Um, so anybody else would be interested in that? Shake up their heads and nose and see how many you have it. All in favor? I opposed. Uh, next uh we have the
009to approve the appointment of and generally we do this as all board members. We take turns and rotation um uh as the Erie Tubosis leaison for the Fonius Central School Board of Education for the 2526 school year. We've uh done a real good job this past year about attending those. Very appreciated. Got a motion for Miss Mr. Marshall. Second uh all in favor. Great. Now we get into our committees and we have a few absent tonight. Um so I'm actually going to go through uh Mr. Lee a new board member Mr. Martin and uh also Miss Bolo is absent today. Uh M Mr. Barton has little experience with finances and he was asking to be on the audit committee and also the policy committee and Miss Gullo requested to be on the uh audit committee
010this year and then uh Miss Formula has requested continue on the policy committee which would be good to have one person continue and I as board president would appreciate staying being on the facilities committee and Miss Hannis requested the facilities committee which basically leaves an even one opening for each committee audit policy and facilities for so we have opening for each of those committee committees three committees we have Mr. Kenny and Mr. Marshall um Mr. Okay. Were you on two last year? Just one. Were you on two or two? I'm happy to do whatever needs to be done now. Same here. I do uh same facilities if need be. Okay. Uh you know because um yeah, that'd be great cuz that keeps rotation. Then next year you don't have to bubble off, you know. You
011just have to try to rotate it. So I appreciate that. Um you you don't mind Mr. See as Mr. Kenny's choosing the two to do double up. What choice would you I I'm man to so other things see that's how that's how I I view it. So well um well I'll let you two fight it out. I mean we have three I'm happy to to sit on the audit committee. Okay. Totally fine. Mr. Marshall Mr. Kenny. So, Mr. Kenny, policy and facilities. That's it's easy, you know, it's not a difficult thing to do to juggle. So, I appreciate all your efforts with that. So, we have to make motions on this. Uh, so, uh, we need a motion to appoint the following to the 2526 audit committee. Uh, Mr. Martin, Miss Gall, Mr. Marshall. Could
012I have a motion? Do I have a motion? Have a second. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. We need to uh appoint the following to the 2526 policy committee. Mr. Barton, Miss Fora, Mr. Kenny. Do that motion. Mr. Marshall. A second. Second. Mr. Kenny. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. And finally, we need to uh appoint the following to the 3526 facilities committee. All myself, Mr. Kenny, and Miss H. Have a motion. Miss Mr. Marshall. All in favor? I opposed. Okay, we're through consent on this one. And so we need to adjourn this roll meeting school district for 2526 school. All in favor? Opposed good 20 minutes. Not bad. All right. In the dark. I like that. What time is the sunset? Okay, got to move along. Um, welcome to the Fonia
013Central School Board of Education meeting for Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. This is our regular meeting. We confirc that we move right into the agenda. We need to approve the agenda for the venue meeting July 1st, 2025, including personnel excluding A3 and new business excluding C. Could I have a motion to the table? So move Mr. Marshall a second. Second formula and anything would like to [Music] what personal Is that seven personnel? Six personnel. Is it business? Oh, yeah. Sorry. New business. New business. New business. ENF, which is the coaching or paid and volunteer. Okay, we'll hold that. Uh, anything else? If not, all in favor? I opposed. Yes. Do we hear from the public? Yes. Um so we'll move along. Um we need to approve the uh minutes from the regular meeting of June 17th,
0142025. Could I have a motion? Mr. Kenny second. Mr. Nor, any comments on those minutes? In favor? I opposed into financial treasures report. Uh we need to untable the motion regarding the discussion of the 2526 uh tuition rates. We have a motion to table. So move a second. Mr. Kelly all in favor I opposed. So now we need to approve the 2526 tuition rates for non-resident students as recommended by the business administrative superintendent as follows. We need to come up with a number for the tuition for 20256 for K through 6 and tuition for 7 through 12 Mr. Kenny second. Second Dr. Z. Yeah, just a reminder this is a annual conversation and then annual approval. Um we try to think reasonably about what the tuition increase should be from year to year. Um we've
015done a couple different things um over the last several years. Um sometimes we've gone with the levy increase percentage, sometimes we've gone with the year-to-year budget increase and um last year we actually split the difference between the two. If we were to do that this year between um 1.9 and 4.8 roughly um but that would come to an increase of um 3.3%. So for the K6 um increase um that would be about an additional 100 technically $101 and for the 712 uh that would be an increase about $145. um that would bring the tuition um for K6 students to just over $3,100 and also would bring uh the 712 um tuition to slightly more than $4500. Um that would be the recommendation for Mr. Forbes and myself. However, um he did provide some other options
016here. Um 1% 1.9% 2% 3% 4% and 4.85 5 which is the year-to-year budget increase. So I'll leave it to you for discussion. Um but 3.3 would be a recommendation and that's what we did last year. Thoughts, comments from the board. Do we see any cost increases or we feel the need to go higher than that? in my mind thinking about um that we're talking about you know roughly 30 students um and you know no doubt there's some increases um in costs across the district um but 3.3% seems to be a happy deal that I think will cover what we're looking for to thoughts. Yeah, thoughts. I'm I'm leaning given given what's been going on with the budget in the vote and and where we find ourselves fiscally, I'm I'm leaning towards that that budgetary
017increase. I think if we get down to brass tax, we're talking about a difference of essentially 50 or $60. And like that that's that's where I'm at at the moment. Like it's an extra what $48 for K through six and an extra 60 some odd bucks. 70 bucks for 7 through 12. Um, that being said, I would defer to to Mr. Forbes and on that if that's what they feel is sufficient. Given the fact that we've had all these increases, um I think it's fair to ask an outsiders coming in and bringing your students for a little extra help. Can I uh just clarify you're talking about the 4.5%. Yeah. So the uh so in essence the difference between what Dr. Zil had said, right? And forgive me that that is what you you and
018John came to that 3.3 and you feel that that's sufficient essentially? Yeah, but please know we we understand it's an ongoing discussion and we know means would be affected if there's a different outcome. So the difference uh Mr. Johnson the difference is for me would be or where I'm saying that difference is is the 3.3 is at the $101 for a K through six. If we increase to the 4.85 85 with a budget increase. We're talking about $149. Now, in the grand scheme of things, Dr. Zel, you said it was like what roughly 30 students, we're talking about $5,000 a year. It's not a hill I'll die on, but yeah, I'm not questioning, you know, challenging. I just make sure I understand. So, you're talking about 4.85% 95% and K through 6 is 3,250. Oh,
019I see. Okay. Okay. I'm with you. Yeah. And so an additional 60 $50 per year because other students do offer versus other balance you want to drive students out at the same time don't see that that as a prohibitive cost that's my two cents thoughts That's about half of if you look at the non-resident student rate throughout New York State. I guess that's like an average given. So for state at the 4.85% about half of what average rate is throughout the state I support. elsewhere throughout the state. I think that's the average So, I think locally, um, I'm aware of of some districts that are more in the 1 to2 $2,000 range, and I'm aware of districts that are more in the 9 to10,000 range. So, there's definitely a spectrum of, you know, what people
020are charging and tend to fall pretty solidly in the middle of that. Those examples are Chicago County. So anywhere from 1 to two all the way up to 9 or 10 in county that I'm aware of. I mean we we do offer as a district classes many programs clinics to visit. Um so you know you're getting pretty good value from my thought process. I I I definitely want to recognize that we're at least moving beyond what we're asking our own residents. you know, the increase for the borrowed residents. Um, I I'm torn because it's not a significant amount of money and, you know, either way, right? it's not creating a a significant income stream for the district and you know balancing um and I don't I don't know it's something we look at every year
021and we tend to kind of differ on the methodology on on how we're approaching it. Um but that's probably only fair given we have to look at the circumstances at that point in time as well. Yeah, I take your concern. Um, the one thing that I I worry I wish we could be a little more consistent if we we jumped around the years could somehow settle on some consistency too. You know, I think that would be helpful. And 3.3% is higher than 1.9, but I didn't get what you're saying about. And again, it's you said $50 more if we went to 3.3 40. What is that? I forgot. $48 more for K through six and 65 70 bucks. I guess 70 bucks for high for the year. Like Lisa said, I with 30 students, we're
022talking about sixth grade total. So maybe we'll uh we'll go back around the table. So Kenny, uh where are you at right now? So depending on when not to pick a school outside of Fredonia, if I wanted to bring my boys here, 7 through 12, it would be 213 that I'd have to pay to addition. That would be the the increase. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I'm good with the 485. because I see the AP classes, uh, all the sports, all the extracurricular activities. Um, I can only think of really one school possibly closest to us. It is maybe something similar to I'm calling personally. All right. Okay. 4.85 Day five of this. Um so um do you have actual here? Yes. Okay. Uh so um we need a motion to approve the 2526 tuition rates of
023non-resident students as recommended by board by the business administration superintendent as follows. K through 6 30 $215 7 through 12 $4,611. Got a motion in favor? So, Mr. Marshall, have a second. Second. I guess we're done with discussion on Okay. All in favor? I post. Thank you. Thanks for the discussion. Put around the table. Um, we next have a transportation contract. Have a motion to bring that to the table. A second. Second or Dr. Zox, anything on this? Uh, yeah, despite uh the school year wrapping up. Um, we're already into uh summer program mode and uh we appreciate everybody who's part of uh continuing to deliver services to our students um over the next couple months. These are some of uh transportation contracts um as dictated by IEPs and other uh special education needs. Any
024questions, comments on all in favor? Uh we next need to award the bids for art supplies. Looks like we need to change that or has it been changed to 2526? Yes, it has come from Friday. 2526 school year. Uh I have a motion and these are annual surprise I think. So I have a motion to bring that to the table. Second Dr. Zox, anything on these art supplies? I think different from last year. Uh nope. It's a little unique that um by regulation of art and music supplies um our summer vids. So um this is the art obviously um sometime you see music and uh we're excited to continue to support our art students and a lot of the great work that they do. If you were here for our art show um a couple
025weeks ago, it was really fantastic and very impressive. So, this helps support students in those programs and classes and we look forward to another year. Great. And you know what? I I mentioned music athletics, but art is right up there too in terms of reasonable school. We have amazing art program. Um, any questions? All in favor? I post. Uh we also annual 2025 2026 purchase order uh release. Need to approve that. Could I have a motion? For a second, Mr. Marshall, Dr. Zox. Yeah, we have a variety of purchase orders in the queue ready to go uh to get things off to the uh the start of this school year and this officially allows us to release those and get things moving forward. So again, another exciting moment that we kind of turned the page
026and uh open uh 2526. Any questions on all in favor? I opposed. Uh we also need to approve the revised contract with children's educational services for the summer 2025 occupational therapy service for a cost of $10,26. Do I have a motion for this? Mr. Kenny, a second. Mr. Marshall representing school this occupational services. Remind me of what that is, Mr. Sparrow. So, we approved the contract at the last meeting for for all intents and purposes a full-time position, but when the schedule was done, we had a full-time position plus two days. So this is the over those two days. Questions on that? All in favor? I think the last thing under financial was to approve the bond resolution for $22,100,000 capital project safe and dry. It's nice to thank you to the district to the
027voters like us to move forward with this. Um so we could have a motion to bring respond resolution. So I have a second Mr. Kenny Dr. As you might notice our attorneys put this uh resolution together. It's fairly lengthy. Um but basically says a couple of things. One it gives us permission to undertake this property. Um, it sets a max of cost at $22.1 million and as Mr. Johnson alluded to for little of Fredonia Central Schools, $22.1 million is a sizable project. So, we're excited to move forward. It also allows us to apply the remaining capital reserve funding uh towards the project. It also gives us permission to borrow money uh to finance the project. So summarizing that's the uh resolution in a nutshell. Again, we appreciate our taxpayers um approving this portion of uh
028the proposal back in December and we also appreciate Young Wright who continues to do a great job supporting us and um helping us prep and plan as we get closer. Again, this project will take place in two phases. um we'll be able to get some works started sooner than later and again we're thankful and looking forward to it. Great. Any questions on all table? I takes us out of the uh business and finance and moves us into personnel. We only have one item tonight and asked to approve with regret the resignation of John Forbes, business administrator of June 30th, 2025 for the purpose of retirement. So, I second Marshall Dr. uh we appreciate John's work and uh you know wish him well in the next phase. Y certainly saved us the money over the years.
029I think senior administrator this is way he knows he knows this this place. Um all in favor. Um so on to new business and we have two items now consent. We need to approve the uh submission of the innovative program waiver application we lock early childhood uh center motion to bring that to the move for second. Second thank you. Yeah, I included a quick line in the um weekly update, but um to summarize again um we're submitting this waiver um so the new special ed class that we we locked and again that was adjusted from um not replacing the prek position um that was also for retirement transitioning that to a special education class and this allows the class to be taught by one teacher we approved recently Jenny Wilson with Dual full certification in
030early childhood uh education as well as students with disability birth to two. So if we did not do this, we would be obligated to hire two teachers, one in each certification area. Um so we appreciate Mrs. Piper um working with representatives from uh New York State Education Department uh to complete this waiver correctly and on time. And uh this is a win for the district that we're able to cover um with one person with dual uh certificates and uh again Virginia being here. Um she's excited and looking forward to getting started and uh already started transitioning to real uh informally over the last several weeks. Questions on that? All in favor? I opposed. And now we uh move on to the item that was pulled by Miss for out of consent uh which is to
031approve the appointment of the following paid coaches for sports season F and E. start this and uh now approve second things too. Approve the appointment of the following volunteer coaches for the 25 26 sports season. Uh could I bring a motion to bring that to the so second? Um all in favor? Do we do we do no discussion? This is the discussion. This is just Yeah, we had the motion and the second discussion. Yeah. So discussion. So this form you Yes. So I think it's a new process for us this year to pull all of the coaches for the entire year in out at this time. And I'm just wondering if there's an opportunity for us to table until we can have a more detailed review um of the coaches given kind of moving everybody
032which is has not been our usual process absolutely reasonable request. Uh there's seven other coaches that we have. There's seven other coaches that we need to have. We're missing some as well. I'm here. Yes. So, that will be like an opportunity. And that's uh I'll take the blame for that one. Yes. Well, there's also So, I think Are you just referring to the to the track coaches? Yeah. Okay. So, there's also some other positions that are currently vacant that are not on this list. So, they won't be allowed in there and some of them are not until the spring. So, right. Yeah. Okay. So, I'd like to make a motion that we table this second. Okay. So, we're making a motion to table uh E and F the appointment of volunteer and also the coaches.
033for the foreseeable until we uh can gather more information on these appointments. Um so we get a second. All in favor? Opposed table. Great. Okay. So public superintendent. Yep. Thank you very much. First and foremost, I wanted to welcome Ron Tanelli tonight uh who started his uh new position as our new vice principal today. And uh Ron, we're excited. We appreciate you being here. Um seems like quite a bit ago you were actually approved and uh glad to hear everything went well wrapping up in Casagen. And uh welcome. I don't know if there's anything you want to share with the group at this point. Um it's it's great to start actually. um you know it's a lot of lead up and build up and um not necessarily doing two jobs at once but trying to
034pay attention here to to things also trying to wrap up a school year which is not an easy thing to do. So um I just appreciate the opportunity again um you know what do you do on your first day other than dig in and see where you have to go. So that's kind of what we did today and met with as many people as I could that were here and and free for a little bit and uh just looking forward to to starting completely. Welcome. Thank you. Glad to have you here. I'd love to hear any uh other items. Yep. A couple more. Um, one is you may have noticed earlier in the agenda, there were two policies uh tonight that are on as a first read. So, this is the first time to um
035present them here and um potentially get a little feedback. Um both of these policies have also got quite a bit of attention um in the news and just generated a lot of conversation. Um so the first one um is regarding maximum temperature for school buildings and indoor facilities. Um so basically um the policy outlines that the district is responsible for addressing health, safety and comfort of students and staff in extreme heat conditions um whenever that happens to um occur. Um the policy does define a couple things. extreme heat condition are days um when the occupied occupied educational and support services spaces are 82° F or higher. Um it outlines that rooms uh temperature should be measured in a shading location roughly 3 ft above the floor and near the center of the room. It also
036indicates that support service spaces um do not include the areas in which food is being prepared um for consumption by students. Um it further outlines that um when temperatures um in a room reach that 82°ree mark um that the district would be obligated um to where practical um put measures in place to cool that space. They talk about things like turning off overhead lights, pulling down shades or blinds, turning up on fans, opening classroom doors or windows to increase circulation, or sometimes keep those doors closed and windows closed depending on um the variables. Um turning off unused electronics that produce heat and also providing water. Further, the policy talks a little bit about when temperatures get to 88 degrees Fahrenheit and the superintendent or designate may um direct the building principles to do a couple
037of things. One is move students to a cooler space within the building um or even potentially um close school early and uh send students home if need be. Um, we are processing exactly what this might look like for our school. This is part of our administrative work over the summer in terms of identifying areas at every building that tend to be cooler. Um, we do have some air conditioned space, but not a whole lot. Um, but we are going to need to think about how do we adjust and adapt as outlined in this policy and uh we'll be doing so over the next few weeks and potentially this would be on our agenda on July 22nd um as a second read and potentially approve um also getting some attention although lesson for since we did
038go to um a no cell phone policy this school Um the second policy involves the use of internet enabled devices um during the school day. And generally this policy um talks about um students not being able to use uh these kinds of devices during the school day anywhere on school grounds. However, um there are some exceptions um to that rule. if authorized by a teacher principal or district official for a specific education person purpose. Um where necessary for management of healthcare issues or concerns uh for a student in the event of an emergency for translation services um on a case-by case basis as determined by a school psychologist, school social worker, school counselor. um and also um as potentially required by law. Um there are also students who have individualized education um programs, IEPs, and
039um section 504 plans that sometimes indicate student needs access to a device as well. Um please note that each school um within the district will establish a plan to identify and verify students who need access to a device during the school day and communicate this information to all faculty and staff to avoid any confusion about who should have access to a cell phone or not. We are ahead of the curve here. Um we have been in this place for the past school year. Um as Mr. Pashki mentioned a few months ago, our students responded very well to this, very um cooperative um very little fanfare about this and we were anticipating some um our students were fantastic. Um our parents supported this initiative and I think we had a really productive school year in part
040um because of the uh reduction in distraction by cell phones and other devices. So, um we will make sure that we're paying attention to the policy. Um it also talks about um a place to store devices which will be in student lockers. And it also talks about how a parent um can get a hold of their child while at school. and we are recommending that they would call their school main office um which um has people there um throughout the school day and uh they would help facilitate contact between the parent and the student. So this just kind of is another layer to what we're already already doing and uh it'll be implemented in September. Um, yep. Just a couple other things. Um, in going back to the temperature policy, I don't what measures do
041we have? What steps can we take proactively to play? Do we have temperature gauges for the rooms? Have we done a survey? Do we know what the hot parts of the buildings are? I'm sure is that something we've done? Yeah, that's in process, but we do know um you know those parts of the building in that um early morning to afternoon that are the sun um continually um are definitely the the hotter parts of the building. For example, the new middle school hallway um the rooms that um are basically the science rooms tend to be fairly hot. Um we are looking into um beyond on the stats that we do have in each room and that the new things they are digital so they're fairly accurate but again they're asking for middle and blue to
042be picked off the ground and have um some way to achieve that. Um and again part of the administrative work this summer will be thinking about what are the spaces that tend to be cooler where are the air conditioned spaces. Um you know how many classes for example if we needed to fit students in this library we fit two three classes in here comfortably. I know wouldn't necessarily be ideal for instruction but as opposed to being in 80 89 90 degree room um this would probably work. So that'll be part of the conversation. Luckily for the high school, we have Mr. Stella to help us make some of those decisions. So thank you for work in progress and we can update the board as to some of those plans or some of the challenges that
043we might have. Actually just recalling a conversation I had with one of those science teachers last year. She mentioned, you know, obviously we all wish we had air conditioning, right? a nice wish to have. But she was mentioning some cost effective ways being science teacher south facing rooms that face the sun. She she suggested just planting some trees and offering some shade to those windows and possibly tinted windows which are more expensive than some cost effective ideas to lower those temperatures. Also, real quick, want to just me mention graduation. Uh, we had a great day. Um, everything went very smoothly, smiles all around, just overall positive energy um over at Sunni Fredonia and uh certainly best of luck to the class of 2025. We appreciate all they brought to the table um over the course
044of their experience here at Fredonia and we look forward to hearing all the great things they will move on and do in the future. Um, same thing for this school year. Um, as Mr. Tanelli said, wrapping up a school year is not an easy task. Um, thanks so much to all of our faculty, staff, our administrative, um, personnel, board of education, uh, really everybody in the building and in the district pulls together at the end of the year to bring it home. And this year was no exception. Um we also appreciate um our students again being cooperative um willing to be flexible here and there especially um during that last week which we did get some very warm warm days um and generally just a just a positive end of the school year. So thanks
045to everybody for that. Um lastly I just wanted to note although I know Mr. Johnson, you usually do this, but I did want to point it out specifically that um you know, our next board meeting will be July 22. Um and we do have a special special meeting tomorrow night, July 2nd, uh at 6:00 p.m. right back here um to clean up a couple personnel items that are unresolved at the moment. So, I just wanted to make sure that stated and clear to everybody interested. Any comments questions on superintendent? Okay, that means I get the pair once again the same thing. Dr. Zo said the uh next regular board of education meeting will be Tuesday, July 22nd at 6 p.m. for high school library. Also, we're going to have a special meeting um on Wednesday,
046July 7th, 2025 at 6 p.m. also here in the basement library to deal with specific uh personnel issues. Uh so, leads us to near the end here. Uh any general comments or reflections from the board, further comments from just echo, you know, graduation was a really fantastic event. always happy to be a part of that end of year celebration and a very productive school year. I think a lot accomplished across the district. So, I think a lot to be proud of um and well-deserved break for for some and uh we'll be back at it. Hopefully a great any other comments being my first graduation ceremony I attended. Uh it was a great sign up for the class of 25 was very well done. Yeah, it was it was it was a great graduation and the
047speeches fantastic speeches with speakers and performances performances and the public was really engaging here at So I really enjoyed it. It was cooler on stage. They got those LED lights going. So it's much more manageable. Um, anything else? So protocol, Mr. Tanelli is here on Mr. Powski's seat. We always start with Mr. Powki. So we'll continue that trend, but is there any other further comments for you? Uh, no, just uh, you know, starting off I I I want to thank Aaron. Obviously, he left a pretty clean office, but uh um you know, anything that he thought that I might need as I step in, um he's been there to answer my questions and and he's pretty easy to get a hold of having him for for another while in the past. So, um that's been
048helpful. Uh as everybody has been helpful to me. Um for me, it's just about, you know, getting in getting in the door, getting in the office, and now just kind of digging in and looking to see what what I can do to to help move forward forward knowing you as much as I can while I'm here. So, that's what I'm going to start with. making sure everything runs as smoothly as it can. Very excited to have you. Do you mind, Mr. Telly, sharing a little bit about your um individual meetings that you Yeah. So, one of the things that I've done is uh in in starting off here is I've given all faculty and staff the opportunity to sign up for a 30 minute just kind of meet and read over the summer. uh whenever
049they have the opportunity. I I threw out there about 75 different halfhour time slots and I'll let everybody sign up for when they feel comfortable coming in. Um I ask a couple of questions that are pretty standard. Um just kind of asking a little bit about their vision moving forward about what they would want me to make sure that FOMO continues to do. Um things they think that we should concentrate on right away, things that, you know, the new guys should leave alone because they love that being a part of the FOMO tradition. Um, and then just a little bit about, you know, their plans and about them and, um, making sure I learn a lot about who they are as people and and how they would want me to support them. Um, which is
050a really important part of stepping in anything for me as a leader to make sure that I support in the way that they feel comfortable. So, um, you know, that's a really important thing that, uh, that I'm going to start with, I think, over the summer. So, um, I'll meet with as many people as as they feel comfortable with me. And and then I give groups um the opportunity to to meet beyond that 30 minutes. So, if the student council reps, the the three teachers that that supervise student council want to come in and meet with me because they have specific needs that they want to talk about, they don't have to count that as their 30-minut meet. So, they have the opportunity to do that as well. Great. Yeah. A great way to start
051off with time here. So, actually looks like we're starting tomorrow. Is that right? Tomorrow morning. Yeah. First couple double signed up tomorrow morning. First up, there you go. That was a good start. Great. Thank you, M. Sparrow. Anything? Um, getting ready for summer school starts on Monday. So, you know, there's always a lot of energy around that, a lot of fine tuning. So, that's what I'm focused on right now. And just kind of getting into the different level of Disney that that's presents. you know, it's it's still busy. It's just a different kind of business. Like that phrase, a different level of busy understand. Um, yes. I echo what Sparrow just said. You know, a lot of people are like, "Oh, you must be so glad." It's like it's like it's a whole different ball
052game in order for everything to be ready, you know, in September and it has to start in May. And so we have to, you know, continue all of all of these things. um so just a kudos to the entire admin team as they work together to do those things. So um very grateful to be part of the team and very excited to have Mr. Tanelli part of the team again formally but you know so happy you're here and congratulations again. Um I would like to give a shout out to the um elementary PTO. They put on a fantastic field day last week and um due to the heat and the new policies by Governor Hokll it had to do a pivot um and there was a possibility of it insteading a whole day condensed to
053a half day and I just have to give a shout out to the PTO to Jamie Radkkey the president of the PTO who's also a teacher here um as well as some teachers and members of the PTO that helped to redesign the entire schedule so that the students wouldn't miss out on any of the field day activities in a half day and the special area teachers who jumped in to run some stations um so that teachers you know would be able to have their planning periods and contractual obligations and things like that. It was just the most beautiful pull together of everything and um I was very happy and uh to be back in my elementary stomping grounds and with uh Mrs. healthy who's a speech language pathologist here. We were in charge of the
054popcorn machine and uh so we you know after a while at first you're like oh the aroma of it and then you don't even smell it anymore until you walk through the building people like you smell popcorn. Um and shout out to Mrs. Morrison who I reached out I'm like we're never going to keep up with them. Go and get me the giant bags of pre-made. And so um we you know we we c topped it. So, uh, it would be about 100 to 115 kids coming out at a time and, uh, and the entire elementary school got to have it. The fire department was there. They had the big giant hose going and the kids were running through it like a sprinkler. There were just so many different stations, bubbles and ice cream and
055um, just bounce houses and all kinds of different things. And they all just had a blast. Tons of parent helpers. We had a volunteer at our popcorn station and just everybody who couldn't do enough to be helpful and supportive. So, just a shout out to the PTO for an amazing day. The elementary staff that pulled together to make it happen so that those kids didn't sleep. So, I'm sure they slept well that night after their sugar high crash was over, but it was wonderful. So, it was a great just like I it was last week on Wednesday and it was just a fantastic day. Thank you. Sounds like it was a fantastic day. Half day. Half day. Yes. Still half days. It was it was and uh you know seeing all our little friends out
056there and they were just like they couldn't believe that they just came out and their eyes are all wide and they're just like what you know it was just such a carnival atmosphere and all the different there were four different stations they could sorry yes four stations they could go to and each station had fortified activities so they just went out and rotated and and they were just like you know like oh my gosh this is my dream you know it was wonderful Thank you, doctor. Thank you. Miss Morrison, anything you think? Uh, a couple of things. Um, to go back to what Dr. Wright was saying, um, never in my life did I think I would, when someone said, "How was your day?" I said, "I stra I literally seat belt four bags of
057popcorn into my car." Um, so that was definitely new for me, but fun to be able to walk through the halls and everybody like, "The popcorn's here." Like, I've never felt so loved. Um, so it was fun to be able to help and kind of get out of the office and be able to see everything firsthand and to echo um her sentiments. It really was amazing watching the fire department. I think the firefighters smiles were actually bigger than the kids because they had the hose turned down so they could help the kids like be firefighters and to watch them interact, it was so much fun. Um, I don't know where seniors. If you two could sign the lovely oaths that are on the table before uh the end today, that would be fabulous. Sure. And
058uh yeah, that's all I've got. Great. Thank you very much. Okay. So, uh we anticipate uh the need to enter into executive session. I got this far. Um to discuss personnel superintendent evaluation and collective bargaining agreements. Can I have a motion to go to executive session? Mr. Marshall second. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Okay, we're in executive session. Thank you, Brandon, for attending. We'll take a short break and then we'll go to executive. Yes, I am.