001Does anybody in line? All those two? Nope. Yes. Okay, good evening. Call the meeting to order. 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. So, welcome Peter, do you come Uh good evening. I'd like to ask for consent motion for item 1.03 approval of the regular board meeting agenda. On the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the April 20th, 2026 regular board meeting agenda. Did I hear a second? Okay. So, second. So, yeah. Any questions on tonight's agenda? If you hear none, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Two. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 1.04, approval of the regular board meeting minutes. On the recommendation of the superintendent
002to approve the April 13th, 2026 regular board meeting minutes. Any questions on the minutes of meeting just one week ago? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Two. You. Is there anybody signed in to speak? Nope. There middle school, high school update tonight? Yeah, middle school, high school update. So, here's an quick of what's going on lately both sides of the middle high school and athletics. Spring sports are off to a great start. The baseball team is currently sitting at 5 and 1 playing well and building momentum as the season goes on. The boys baseball team also had a recent trip to Delaware, which gave the team a chance to compete in a different setting, bond together, and gain valuable experience. Track and field has also been competing in invitational meets with athletes putting in solid
003results and a lot of personal best early best early in the season. Overall, spring sports have been competitive, well-attended, with good energy across the board. We also just came back from our spring break and the return to school went smoothly. Students came back ready to go and things have been picked up quickly again in the classrooms. Uh teachers have noticed students are focused and getting back into the rhythm as we head into the final stretch of the school year. On the academic side, state testing has been going on with students actively completing their assignments as a part of the end of this end of the school year testing schedule. In addition, Odyssey students will be preparing to head to World Finals, which is an exciting opportunity for those involved and reflects the hard work they've
004put in throughout the year. Looking ahead, AP exams are coming up in the next few weeks and students are beginning to prepare heavily for those exams. We also have prom coming up May 2nd, which is something a lot of students are looking forward to as one of the big social events of the spring. Uh one of the big highlights was the high school band trip to Virginia and Washington D.C. Students got to visit places like the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall. They also went to the Medieval Times, which is a fun experience, and took part in a workshop with members of the Capital Wind Symphony Sympharmonica where they got to hands-on feedback and advice to improve their playing. Lastly, Big Blue Little Blue had their final meeting last week, which concludes another great year
005for the program and having even more connections and relationships within our school community. Overall, things have been really positive lately across both sides of the school with strong participation sports, a smoother return back, and continued academic progress, and a lot of important upcoming events as well. A lot going on. Thank you. A lot going on. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Hold on, miss. Big blue, little blue, big blue going on. Two years, man. Just finished year two. Just a second. Okay. Good. Hold on. Any questions for Al? Thank you. >> Thank you. Hold on. With that You got a hard act to follow. Yeah. A lot of information. It's all as exciting as that, but we'll give it a go. All right. Stephanie and I are excited to be here to bring what has been a
006long process. You guys have done a fantastic job guiding, and again, kudos to the staff and administrative team for insights and a long journey to get to this point. So, today we bring to you final budget proposal and presentation, and with that, we'll be going through that, Stephanie and I. Some of it, much of it actually, will be things that you guys have already seen, but we want to put this out there because this is going to be the front facing presentation that we're going to the community. And so, we'll offer opportunity to ask any questions, and then at the end, uh there will be a motion tonight where the board will take action to approve uh this as well as proposition two. So, we'll discuss it more as we go along. Okay, as we've
007talked about already, our goals are the consistent throughout the entire process. I just want to reiterate those and the importance of us trying to really maximize each dollar amount and every dollar spent, and making sure that it's going toward uh that's going to benefit students, staff, and the community. We wanted to maximize the ability to generate state aid for future years as we are looking for ways to to make more revenue. Want to make sure that we're utilizing our BOCES services and other opportunities that will bring state aid back into the district. Of course, number three, and these are in no particular order cuz they're all important. This is a huge one, enhancement of our school culture and student achievement. That's what we're here for. Right? Without a strong culture as a foundation, students aren't
008going to learn at high levels, and if they're not going to learn at high levels, then we're not going to see the student achievement we need so or we we would like to see. So, student achievement is always at the forefront when we're making these decisions. Um we're create trying to create a continuum of special education services and build on the momentum that we have here in the district. And of course, transportation efficiencies has been something that has been discussed all along. And so, we are looking at trying to do what we can do to um use our own drivers as many runs as we possibly can. And of course, financial transparency. And I am proud to say the district is committed and has been committed to developing student-centered budget. I think you'll see that
009as we have put out our numbers in the past and you'll see them consistent tonight that our goals are to sustain a high-quality education and programming for our students uh despite our many challenges and the budget constraints we have, I feel like this district has done a phenomenal job in keeping the programs and the opportunities and experiences for students while looking for reductions in all other areas. That being said, I'm going to take you back through the progression of our budget development. Of course, the budget back on March 16th looks like it you see in front of the screen right now where we had a deficit of $1.2 million. From March 16th, we continued to dive in and brought forward to you um many reductions and of course there was a adjustment and slight adjustment
010in revenue and and some adjustments in the expenditure column. Uh to uh bring down the gap to 1 million dollars. And then tonight, as I mentioned, uh we're bringing to you a balanced budget based on the feedback and the direction we received from the board last week where we're going to be using, as you can see, a total of 970,000 dollars from fund balance and reserves. And we're going to break that down here in just a few minutes. Um but this provides a balanced budget with a gap of zero. And now we're going to dive into what that looks like as we break down the budget in each one of these areas. So our revenue budget uh does have a slight reflection in terms of and we're going to go into more detail. You'll see
011that one of the slides coming here. Uh we made some last minute adjustments to one of the columns, which is the BOCES prior year refund. So when you're uh purchasing BOCES services, any particular service that's not used, as it may be um it it it may be generalized and funded for a certain amount, but if you're not using the entirety of that service throughout the course of the year, they do issue a refund based on the cost that you already had put up front to BOCES. And we made a slight adjustment. We were anticipating 97,000 dollars, but of course we finalize our BOCES budget at this point and we made some adjustments and are expecting reimbursements of approximately 120,000 dollars. So our our revenue did uh slightly increase in that amount. And we will point
012that out specifically when we get to that slide. So Stephanie will take you through the tax levy as she did last time. Um this will be a review of everything that we've heard, but again, we want it to be front-facing to the community, so we're going to go through that one more time. Does that mean Okay, so Like Mike said, this is just same thing from last time. Um, the tax levy is an increase of 2.83%, uh, which is about $264,000. Um, this is the calculation of how you get to that number. A whole bunch of numbers go into it. It's a very fun spreadsheet, you know, if you like spreadsheets. Next is the foundation and the expense aid portion of the revenue budget. So, as Mike mentioned here, or excuse me, not on this
013one. These are going to be the same as they were during the last presentation. No changes have been made to these. Um, expense aids are based on expenses, so you have to spend money to make money. The next is the local sources. Um, this is where you'll see the change on the refund of prior years' expense proceeds. Um, like Mike Mike mentioned, it was $97,000. We did increase it to 120. This next slide breaks down which reserves we're going to be pulling from and how much appropriated fund balance we're going to be using. We're going to be pulling $80,000 from our workers' comp reserve and also $190,000 from our ERS retirement reserve. Yeah. So, as you can see, uh, the proposed revenue budget, the revenue, meaning specifically the expense aid, the foundation aid, the tax
014levy, and the local sources, uh, totaling $27,658,710. And the other portion of our revenue that closes that gap is the $970,000 which is a mix of the 700,000 in fund balance and the 270 in reserves as we mentioned. Our three-part expenditures come out to total budget of $28,620,710 but I did want to note there and I'm going to go into more depth as we saw last week and I'm going to re-highlight that. This does include a reduction of $477,000 over the course of this budget development cycle that we went in and carved out. Again, really looking for areas that don't have a significant impact on students and seeing areas that we can be way more efficient which we found I thought a pretty significant amount given our budget deficit. We were it was really important
015to us to make sure that every dollar spent was going to the right cost so we're able to find those savings there. So we're just going to review the three parts of the budget. Again, these slides have not changed much from the prior presentation. The first category is your administrative portion of the budget. These are costs associated with the district. The overall percent increase here was 1.88% so not not too big of an increase. The next part of the budget is the capital part of the budget. This is your operations, this is your your debt for all of the projects and things that you do in the district. Here there's a pretty substantial increase 6.33%. This mostly relates to adding on our fourth year of bus purchases and also bonding out our last budget. The
016next part of the budget is the biggest part of your budget which is your program. This is everything related to the students. Here is a 6.03% increase, and most of this relates to special education. So, coming back to our final budget, these are the same numbers we already saw. All of those numbers, the revenue as well as the expenditures that we just laid out, are bringing us to that total of $28.6 million. You can see where the revenues are broken down, as well as the expenditures in the three-part budget that Stephanie just went over to produce a balanced budget with a $0 deficit. Now, I really want to take some time to focus on the reductions. Again, I pointed this out last week, but I I want to make it very clear that as we
017were developing this, although there are some increases to our budget, you know, some pretty significant increases that we necessarily didn't have a whole lot of control over, some of those things being increase in health care costs, some special ed costs, some fuel costs going up tremendously, as well as energy costs. So, because those are out of our control, we really had to dive in very closely just to look at how we can be more efficient. And then, this is the same list that we saw from last week with one addition, which is the reduction of a general general ed elementary position teaching position due to attrition. And you're going to see in just a minute that it's not a reduction in the budget because we have gone and backfilled to add a special education position
018that was necessary. Okay, so I'm going to talk a little bit about that in just a minute. Again, total reductions are $477,000 to date with all of these different categories. Okay, budget additions. There were some necessary things that we needed to put into the budget and for full transparency, we want to make sure that we bring that out to the board and to the the community as we've been in discussions with about these things along the way. The first one I do want to note, you'll see that at the bottom this is actually no addition to the budget because it's offset by the attrition of a general ed position and so this special education consultant teacher is going to bridge the gap between where we need to be for next school year and the year
019after. As you know, some of the budget additions that we put up for the board to consider had a middle school 811 special education teacher, a teaching assistant as well as a social worker and some consultant teacher support. So, after the direction you guys gave us last week, we put our heads together and came up with a plan to come up with an idea of how can we bridge? We know next year it's going to be a big ask in order to bring all those positions on. So, if we could slowly bring on a position to support the needs that we already had in place or we already knew about next year at the elementary level, if we knew that the case loads are they're manageable, but they're challenging, right? And so at the consultant
020teacher level, right? The the teaching staff's doing a phenomenal job making it work this year, but for next year we could add that teacher in and that would provide support in the consultant teacher classrooms balancing out the case loads of our special education teachers with the idea of that position transitioning into the middle school at 811 teacher in the following school year, year. Um so that's a last that we need to consider in that budget the next budget budget development cycle. Again, that's no addition because it was offset with the attrition. Um we are in need of a golf cart. Originally, as we had discussed, we were looking at a UTV and to be able to meet the needs of our buildings and grounds crew as well as transport some of our guests that need
021accessibility assistance from the top parking lot down to the field during during events. And right now we're using the UTV, um but that is not guest friendly, right? With the exhaust and everything else that goes along with that. So we looked at a much cheaper option, um cutting the cost from what could be 20 to 25,000 dollars to much less budgeting. Possibly it could be about 8,000. We're looking at getting a used golf cart for that. Um and this is because there's going to be a less parking out back due to the construction. So we do believe we might have to transport some more people. There are instrument replacements that need to take place. Instrument replacements of old instruments will actually likely offset the cost of the repairs that we're doing. Right now we're spending
022thousands of dollars on instrument repairs throughout the course of the school year. So doing some replacements likely could offset a chunk of that cost. We do have some safety upgrades that we want to focus on, which is some visual signage and strobes in case of emergency situations. Um if we ever have to go into a lockdown or as we practice that, we want that to integrate into our existing infrastructure and our PA system is the original to the building, which we know is many years old and sometimes is unreliable. So we applied a couple years ago for a cops grant and then the cops grant was awarded to the district, but the district doesn't even put in seed money. And the seed money is um $108,000 that we put in in order to get or
023or excuse me, 300 and 50 54. Okay. $1,000. And so with the cost of those together, this is a one-time expenditure in order to be the district's safety upgrades within the district. So, that is in the budget as well as uh the early college access coaster, which is reimbursement from New York State for expenses related to ACE courses. As you know, we teach many ACE courses and give students an opportunity uh to take the higher level courses that challenge them academically and help them prepare for school beyond high school. Um and so the as one of the initiatives and I'm going to go into some detail showing you how this is going to work for next year. Um but one of the initiatives from New York State is to increase the opportunities of early college
024access for students, which is why they made this coaster. The coaster is going to give districts back a considerable amount of money, but the idea behind it is to provide the best experience for students to help them be prepared in the years ahead. So, I'm going to go into explaining this. This is going to become a really busy slide. So, I'm going to try to break this down as much as possible. As I said, it's a New York State initiative to increase opportunities early college access and experience for is for experiences for students. We know we offer many AP courses and ACE courses, which give the students um access to those higher level courses. Um students receive credit for the ACE courses. Um new This new coaster is now providing state aid on tuition. It
025provides it on a portion of the teacher salary as well as instructional materials and any other training or associated costs that go along with it. And of course this supports um by paying the tuition for this across board for students, it provides more equitable access. Up to this point um with this being a an aidable expense, we'll be able to provide the tuition for all students taking ACE courses next year. Now, right now only those families that choose to pay for that course are getting the credit for the course. Um but if we provide the tuition up front, this is providing a more equitable approach and opportunities for students regardless of their financial situation. Okay. It's also a revenue generator and I'm going to try to break that down for you. And this is a
026this is a it's a I don't want to say complicated formula, but there's a lot that goes into it, so I'm going to break it down in its basic form here. So, for instance, um this is based on the maximum aidable salary per year for the teacher, okay? So, next year the state says the maximum aidable salary amount is $40,000. The year after that it's going to be 50,000 and the year after that is going to be 60,000. So, this formula is based on for next year the $40,000. So, let's use a scenario that a teacher in they break it into semesters, too. So, a teacher teaches two ACE courses in semester one um and they have to break it down into semesters even though, you know, our courses are not we're not all like
027that. So, two ACE courses in semester one. So, if they have six courses, two of those ACE courses represents a 33% of their caseload. Okay? Stop me at any time if this isn't making sense. Um Let's say the teacher teaches one ACE course in the second semester and two ACE courses in the first semester. In the second semester, only teaching one out of six would be 17% of their instructional course. So, you'll see where that comes in. Now, the tuition cost is $225 per course through GCC. Let's say we have 15 students, which is a is a total of $3,375. You'll see how all this plays into the formula. So, in semester one, the maximum aidable amount for the entire year is 40,000. So, if it's 20,000 in semester one, that's half of that in
028the semester one and semester two. And of course, they were teaching two ACE courses. So, it's 33% of the caseload. So, 33% of that 20,000 is 6,600. The tuition cost, because there are two courses with 15 students in it, and I'm just giving a rough example right now, is 6,750. So, the total cost that potentially could be aidable in semester one is 13,350. Semester two, it's broken down because they're only teaching one ACE course, 3,400 for the salary, tuition 3,375, total cost 6,600 6,775. So, the total cost for the entire year could be 13,350 for the salary. 6,000 or excuse me, for the total cost. In the semester one, 6,775 for semester number two, which is a total 20,000. Now, our aidable rate, our state aid rate, 59.5% this year. Next year, it's going to
029be 16.4, so it is slightly going up. So, that means the aidable rate is $12,156. All right. So, that is revenue, and we're already paying a portion of that teacher salary out of our budget. So, that would just be for one teacher. This is a very basic example, not to say that it fits the perfect mold here for Geneseo, but this is the formula that the state is going to be using. I want you to understand what the generation of revenue is going to look like. Now, we still have to put all of our information through the spreadsheet, um but as I had mentioned, the districts that have taken the lead on this across the way, um are seeing um excuse me, revenue generation into the six figures. Uh one I can speak that offers
030a lot of base courses, this one BIOSS to this level, but is going to be upwards of $170,000 of revenue coming back after their aidable month. So, this is just an example of the benefit of the early college access closer, mainly because we're providing students a great opportunity for students to to get these higher level courses, but also um that it's providing some revenue for the district, since we're already paying that amount. All right. Continuing on. Here are the district reserves, and we wanted to make sure that we update our amounts based on allocation, and Stephanie's going to go over this um of our allocated amounts that went into the current budget cycle, as well as the ones that are in the next budget cycle. Um so, like Mike said, the first column is where
031our reserves stood as of June 30th, 2025. The next column over is the amount of reserves and the specific reserves that we allocated into the 2025-2026 budget. The way that it works is you're not able to put on move those funds over from the reserve till the end of the fiscal year. So, as of June 30th, 2026, all of those will be moved over um into our budget. And then in 2026-2027, these are the specific reserves that we're going to pull from. Um when you subtract out full years, our uh reserve balance is going to be $2.3 million. Okay, we do have uh two propositions that are going to be going on the ballot. The first one is the um ability to expend the sum of $28.6 million, which is our final budget. And the
032second one, as we saw last week, is the same one that we had up, which is proposition two, which would be the ability to purchase um district vehicles up to the cost of $495,000. Um we really want to point out the aid rate that we get back on transportation is a little bit higher than our general aid rate. It is uh 69.8% back, and we're looking to purchase a full-size bus as well as a smaller bus and two vans. And the region reason for these purchases is to keep on the cycle of replacement every 10 years, as well as these two vans are going to allow us to make some of those private runs or smaller runs um so that we can not have as many contracted runs, and we're looking for more savings. As
033you know, we were able to save um a very significant amount of money starting at the beginning of this school year by bringing back some of those contracted runs, and we're looking to do the same, and which is allowing us to, with those savings, um purchase some other vehicles to bring some further ones back. I also like to point out that this is year five of our five-year bus purchase plans or keep us on the rotation. It won't fluctuate our tax cap. It just keeps everything kind of kosher. Which brings us to the end of our presentation. Um so I just want to highlight the fact that we will have a full budget hearing for the entire community on May 12th. We invite everyone to come out to the auditorium at 7:00 p.m. and on
034May 14th, there's going to be another one in the community, a budget presentation at the Big Tree Inn at 6:30 p.m. Um and this final budget presentation will not just have the budget numbers that we just went over, but we're really going to be highlighting our program to show the community the bang for the buck they're getting with this budget and all of the great opportunities experiences um courses as well as um our entire programming that shows what an amazing experience our students have here at Genesee R. Um and we're uh like I mentioned earlier, trying to be very fiscally responsible as we're making decisions for the budget, um but I think that translates into an amazing opportunity for our students as well. So with that we will open it up to the board for
035questions or comments. Mike, um the specialized position that you've added in while that were I just want to know what does it look like at the gen ed classroom level with the attrition of that classroom. Uh what does your how does it affect the kids in terms of numbers of classrooms because you're borrowing from one place to help another, right? I mean that's what that does. So what is happening at whatever you're having an adjustment in sections of grade levels what >> Yeah, so there'd be an adjustment in a a section. Um, I can say that there's a lot a lot of programming for stuff like Beacon that has shifted this past year as well where we're looking at having more than even um the current number of students we have in our 1211. Um,
036like Sarah can speak to that. So we're trying to look at how we can be a little bit more flexible and how we can support the kids with what they need on the program that that they need rather than trying to fit them into the programs that we have. Um When faced with a budget deficit, I was able to work with a number of different people and provide input on for example, um the whole the current third grade cohort, we have them in five sections, but there are a lot of students who are in our 1211 that are at that level. So that reduces the number down to less than 70 or 68 at level. Um, that even shifted a little bit lower. So then when we look at and we move them in fourth
037grade, in four sections, we can do that more easily. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. It's annual review season, so it's hard to give an exact number >> Right. Right. Of where but So our rough projection at this point, and Christie, correct me if I'm wrong, is with five sections, it would be about 13 students per classroom. Right, which is a really ideal amount. >> Yes, it is. It'll provide 17, which is still very reasonable, but allowing um and that's not including the students that are in self-contained classrooms, but to have that extra consultant teacher provides to be the ability to balance those case loads to provide support. Support. Thanks. Any other questions? I'm going to just for a moment open up to anybody out here. David or Allison or anybody else want to No. I'll just
038ask for one minute clarification on the peace closer. Yeah. Um well, all the students who are in the classroom who are currently there have the option, right? Take algebra, you can either pay your $225 to GCC with credit for GCC or not. So, two different classes being delivered at the same time, right? Is under the new model, will everybody be registered for the GCC credit? >> No. No, it'll still be a choice. Okay. And whether cuz right now, um you know, it's the students that are paying for the course that are opting to go in that and that'll be the same model for next year, but we would anticipate and we have built in uh the ability to pay for more students. I think some students don't take this opportunity for financial reasons. Um and
039so, it'll still be the same choice model the courses that are being offered and whether or not they want to still participate in this or not. Do you know what the current English sort of use rate is? Students who are in, you know, an algebra class that's got 13, 15 students in it where they could be registered for uh for the GCC credit. What's the percentage of students who might do that? Do you have data to track that? It's going to affect the reimbursement, right? So, if um if the current use rate is, let's say, 30%, we open up the gate so that um students for whom the core cost is prohibitive right now, uh take advantage of it, it's 40% likely to go to 70 70% um or the number's going to be sort
040of in the margins there because we already have a high use rate. We have a really low use rate, then it's not financial. We do have a very high use rate in this district. Um we just got a report and um I believe it was 55 or 57 students are taking advantage of that, which is a I think a pretty good amount for a district this size. Uh, and so we would anticipate a little bit more, but I don't think it's going to be significantly more. You know, you really don't know until you get that next first year's data, but we're prepared for you have to expect that there's going to be a slight increase. So, I've also reached out to some uh regional schools, so we are a school that has not historically provided
041even before this close or there are many schools across the region who have provided tuition. Um, paying the tuition of students to to take part in these ACE courses. Uh, our district has not chosen to do that, but obviously will be next year. And so I reached out to the superintendents to ask what what would be increased. And so some districts it's proportionate, as you mentioned. I mean, if you don't have a lot of students participating, you can expect it to go up. But because our participation rate is high, I can't give you an exact percentage right now, uh but we have we have planned for that increase. And then we'll be able to recalibrate better using data from next year to plan for the following. Did I answer your question? Okay. Thank you. Any
042other? So I I had a question about the the you described the the position as being kind of a bridge for the special education transitioning into 811 for middle school. Is that going to utilize the same person? Is that the plan? Not necessarily. Okay. It's a great question. Cuz cuz certification will kind of throw a monkey wrench into that. It will. So right now we're looking at it as the position is is in there for next school year to be able to provide the support that we know we have next school year. Um, but the idea that that because that position's in the budget that it that the itself will transition into the next one and we'll re-look at our numbers obviously and then how that's going to affect the CT face points. Uh but
043the idea that that position's in there, it could be re-posted cuz it's a different position. It will be re-posted because it's a different position then anyone will have the opportunity to jump into that and that provides a little bit of flexibility right now because we don't have all the information but provides the the flexibility for whoever's interested in in this particular profile to then if they want to stay in that position and transition into the middle school 811 program or provides the flexibility for us to look at a different person if they're a best fit. So with that, I'm going to say just a blanket thank you to everybody who has worked on this. I know there's been a lot of heavy lifts and a lot of challenges that you have faced in terms of
044bringing a balanced budget. Uh it's never easy but I want to thank everybody for your efforts. Thank you. Good night. So we will be voting on this and the bus proposition shortly. When we get to that, yes. Do you have more that you want to fill in? on your superintendents report? I do have a couple. I think you're next. All right. Um so I do want to mention the capital project. I want to try to give brief updates at all the board meetings as long as there is information on the uh deconstruction of the gym floor is going well so far. It is all ripped up. They've gotten down to the rubberized portion that needs to be removed. Um, and so they're working on that next phase of what that looks like. You know, so
045it's a challenge, right? You're like you never know what you're going to run into with a school back that was built back in the 1970s. And so they're working through some minor challenges, no major hiccups that are going to impact the work, but you know, their next phase is the abatement phase of the mercury floor as well as then moving into the locker rooms after that and and continuing on. So we'll give you some updated timelines as things come along, but so far so good. Everything's working out quite well. Everybody's on on board and they're working at the pace they would have expected. Um, I do want to mention GCEF just received an award a nomination and an acceptance of award from Sany's region 11, Georgia Vito. There is a friend of education award that
046would the district applied for and so based on all of the great work that GCEF has done to support the programs and the staff here at the school. It's it's quite a model that wants to be really highlighted across the state and so they're receiving this recognition which I believe the award ceremony is this Thursday. Yeah. And so that's a fantastic recognition for GCEF. We had some great honor societies ceremonies as you know, as we know this the past couple weeks. This absolutely fantastic. All of the academic achievement leadership and character of our students and we were able to highlight those. We're very proud of everyone as well as the technical honor society that Dawn spearheaded for BOCES. We hosted that here at Geneseo in the auditorium. So it was a great experience for all
047of the regional BOCES to be nominated and um uh awarded for their great efforts and they're part of the Technical National Honor Society. Um and so one of the things I just wanted to mention again about the PA system and upgrades is that as you mentioned they're coming from the cops grant um John and I are looking very closely at three different vendors who are able to provide a very similar service for that. So we're getting quotes. We're in the process of getting those quotes. We've been meeting with the vendors and we're going over to fine-tune the scope of work that needs to be done exactly and then we'll be making a final decision on what what who's going to be awarded that contract and we'll bring you updates as they come along. But the
048whole idea is that we hope to get started on that as soon as possible looking at possibly this summer getting that that work started. Okay. Any questions? It'll be a busy summer. Yes, it is. Also. Thank you. Thank you. Uh no opinions tonight? No. Mhm. Devon policy? Yeah, policy committee met tonight. Uh we reviewed five policies in the 2000 uh section of the book which really starts down through our community relations. Uh a media policy was one of them. Um looking at post patrol ones as well as um district standards for webpage publishing and things like that. We do have five policies submitted for first read tonight of the 2000 accounts. Like or or orientation and training board members, committees of the board, attendance by the board, etc. That's what we do. We're first read
049tonight. So we're busy. Right. Thank you all. After that, for the personnel. Section 8 personnel, I'd like to ask for consent motion for items 8.02 through 8.05. Any questions on the personnel items? Good night. None. All in favor? We need a second on the first. I'm sorry. >> We need a second. Didn't I already second? No, I didn't say it out loud. Second. I will second that. All in favor? I. Section 9 under new business. Uh I'd like to ask for separate votes for items 9.02 and 9.03, which is um I'd like to ask for consent uh vote to approve the resolution regarding the proposition number one for the 2026-2027 school budget. Okay, not a consent, but an individual's. Individual for each one. We'll get it right on the second. You want each one? Yeah,
050we can do each one. Bobby? Yes. Gretchen? Yep. Yeah? Yep. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Myself is my All right, let's ask for a vote. Roll call vote in regards to proposition or um item 9.03, which is approval of the resolution regarding proposition number two for the 2026-2027 purchase of school vehicles. Okay. You need a second. Bobby? Yes. Yes. Gretchen? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. All right, 9.04 through Yep, like to ask for back to normal business. Like to ask for consent motion for items 9.04 to 9.08. Any questions on any of the items? I just have one question on the on 9.07 on the um on some of the students' IEPs, there are duplicate services and dates listed on their IEPs but they're the same. And I was just wondering why
051things were listed twice. Is it that they listed a typo or is there something that I'm not understanding? Do you mean from the 25-26 and the 26-27? >> I thought it was 26-27 when I looked. I don't have my quick computer in front of me. >> It's okay. Um they shouldn't be listed twice. They may be listed um under 25-26 and then 26-27 as the same. Um as far as far as the related services and the amount that they're getting because that may not have changed. Because right now we're in the middle of doing annual reviews 26 Well, of this school year but to prepare for 26-27. So when I when I read through the 25-26, right? And then the next attachment was 26-27. Yeah. So when I read through 26-27 and then it could
052be my glasses, so which is why I'm asking. It's okay. So like on you know, student A >> Yeah. it says some of them are extended school year services, so the dates were different. But on some of the students, they had services that were listed, you know, speech therapy from I'm making up these dates. That's okay. From, you know, April 20th till June 30th of 26 to 26 or 26 to 27. Okay. And then underneath it it says the exact same thing with the exact same dates. And so Also, maybe one of them was a group versus individual? >> Maybe. I'll look at it more closely and I'll let you know what I find out. I'll tell you Sarah. I just that was the only thing that struck me when I read it. I was
053like it just looked different than it has when I read them in the past. >> Okay. I would have to do a double check too. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. So Yeah. You want to say something? No, I have a question about 9.04. Okay. Um under the tax report card the math on the prior year if you just double check that. Is it um I forget which line item that was. But it didn't seem to add up. Like it it is a out size number um towards the top. Mhm. I don't have it in front of me, so otherwise I Okay. Yeah, I'll look. Sorry. Okay. >> So then do you want to pull No. if there's a question? No, I just like you before it goes out like she just double checks it.
054Check it. Okay. Question anyone? But your item or question pull 907? No. No. I I'll I'll figure it out. That was there. It just it looked different to me was all. It's probably me. Okay. All right. Did I hear a second? Yes. Any other questions before I call for a vote? All in favor? I. Any opposed? So moved. Business of that just real quick. That consent motion should have been through 907 and then 908 being the first read of policies. See if there's any That's a discussion item. Not an action item. So, we just need to open it up to see if anybody has any feedback on the policy that we put up. Look for this read. 2000s. Uh we voted on the the first read, but I don't have any questions. questions. We'll get
055better. Okay. No, we're fine. All right. Um The next item is 1002. Yeah. 1510 business. New business office. Like to ask for a consent motion for 10.02. I see check and warrants. Check warrants. Check warrants. Any questions on check warrants? No. Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? So moved. On the section 11 or 12 10.02 micro business. Yeah, I I'm not going to bring up a lot tonight. We We've talked about Vision 2030. I think I'm going to kind of defer any further discussions until after we get done with the budget and get through that process over the next two and a half weeks-ish. Um I might have mentioned that May 14th is a budget discussion at the Victory Inn. So, I have extended an offer to everybody here, um spouses, and others
056who want to attend. I sent one out to a lot larger distribution as well throughout the community to try to get people to to come and listen. Um I have been had further discussions uh with Senator Helming who had who did call me in again the other day. So, we're talking through various budgetary support and uh more to follow on that as we get through as the state gets through their budgets. That's all I'm going to bring up today. Anybody have anything else for the for the good of tonight? All right, with that um Item 12, board president report and comments. No, no further comments. We're going to enter executive session. Yes, at this point in time we'd like to enter into executive session to um discuss, excuse me, personnel matters. Okay, thank Both favor
057of entering executive session. All right. Any opposed? So moved. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. It's getting shot. I So well I always needed to buy this was used to have