001that >> on the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the September 15, 2025 regular board meeting agenda. I have a motion. All >> in favor say 1.04 >> 1.04 04 upon the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the September 8th, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. I have a motion. >> Second favor. >> All right. So, um items 2.01, elementary school updates. >> Yeah. So, we have Ally Fowler here. >> Yeah. So, our other remember we met Jonah at the last meeting. So, Allie's our other one. She was at a soccer game last time she's here and now Jonah is at a soccer game tonight. So, they're flip-flopping. Um, so Alli's here and she's going to give a little update that's been provided by the elementary school. So, whenever you're ready, Ellie. >> So, first the
002highlights. 400 elementary students were welcomed onto campus with music, donuts, positive chalk messages, pom poms, adult escorts to classrooms, hugs, and high fives were all around. Classrooms jumped right into daily blue double lessons on common expectations across the school. All of the lessons aligned with an acronym like bus. E meaning be kind to drivers and others. You meaning use levels one and two voices and S being sit in your seats while the bus is moving. The elementary school also had their first family event with first Friday coffee chat in attendance with parents of kindergarten students and parents of students just starting at Jio. They joined Miss New and the mental health team to talk about many emotions families go through when returning to school. They shared resources from zones of regulation, which is a uh
003a resource all students are immersed in right now to understand their emotions and what to do with them. Uh coming up, we already started our I Ready Diagnostic tests and other screening tools which will continue this week in the coming weeks. Just a reminder that the first early dismissal day will be on Friday, September 26th at 11:15 a.m. And mark your calendars for the first fall family night on Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. where we will have a variety of learning sessions available for families from learning how to use parent square and how to navigate big emotions at home using the zones of regulation, but also tips for developing readers at home and more. Community organizations will be able to set up for the hour for families to connect with them
004RSVP in City Square. >> Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Hold on. Um so item 2.02 middle school high school. No report and we'll move to presentation this. Uh so I'm here again. welcome uh and thank you for having me uh to present the cross country team overnight trip that we are hoping to go on again this year. Um something that we have done uh for seven, eight, nine years now in the past. Uh really has two bold goals to it. One is for team bonding and an experience for the team to be uh together while not necessarily being on GCS's campus as well as the competitive side of being able to run outside of section five and compete against some of the other best athletes other sections have to offer. Um and in this
005case section two is where we are aiming for again um we typically try to align it with three states which is an invitational where states is going to be. Uh Queensberry High School has kind of got a a lock on that for several years. So in order to avoid just repeating the trip, we're doing a couple of small tweaks but keeping the things as well. So just kind of following along the the hope would be this trip would be from Friday, October 3rd to Saturday, October 4th. Uh we would leave after the students check in at GCS. Um and then we would go to Green Lakes State Park, which is something that worked for us last year really well. And we're going east anyway, so uh it kind of makes an educational stop as well
006to see uh the different lakes. We will picnic there, take a hike around and just kind of be able to see um the sites of that park. Um a nice feature is a couple of state parks we're going to hit on this trip that are relatively inexpensive, but are going to help keep the cost down for the trip as well. Uh after we leave Green Lake State Park, we're going to arrive at Grafton Lakes State Park, which is just east of uh Troy, New York. Um a little bit of a personal touch from my end. That was the course where my whole high school 5K was. a little bit of a a piece where I can share my cross country history with the team. Plus, it's an area that I'm familiar with, so if we
007get lost or something like that, I can get us out of out of a jam. Um, they also have a great lake that we will do an actual practice running around and that will be the essential like cross country free meat practice like we would normally have before a meet there. Um, and then after that, we would do a quick pasta dinner um at the the pizza place there. There's a soccer complex with uh pavilions that are covered in case the weather is bad. um and do that as well. Uh and then for the fun part, we're going to go to uh Space Adventure Miniolf in Crossgates Mall and just do a little bit of low golf kind of later in the evening. Um and then head back to our hotel, which will be uh
008somewhere in like the Wolf Road Albany area. We're kind of comparing prices right now to find the best one as hotel prices keep going up and up each year of the trip. We're doing about the same thing, but the trip keeps getting expensive as a lot of traveling does. Um so we can provide more detail if needed on which hotel we're specifically at for the families once we commit to that. Um the meat event uh the next day will be at Saratoga. Um it is the first time this meet is being hosted by Saratoga High School. Uh breakfast will be provided for the kids in the hotel. We'll make sure that the hotel we pick has that. Um and then the races are are following that schedule there. Um, and then lunch would be on
009the students own at a concession stand, but we would go to stop at an ice cream uh place on the way home for a little post race celebration um in Johntown, which is on the way back um home as we go west. So then we'd be hoping to get there by dinner time. Might have to do a dinner stop on the throwway and then we'd be back on Saturday night by 900 pm. And then the next slide kind of has just the general notes about the trip. So students would really only need a packed lunch for Friday and money for concession stand and dinner the next day. The team would be providing uh the dinner. It's just Olive Garden. We had switched to the pizza place. Um the mini golf be provided, the ice cream
010would be provided all through team funds raised between the oak tree fundraiser. Uh we're selling beef sticks as well and then doing a team t-shirt fundraiser where specialties is just going to add a little bit on our fundraiser card plus our team account. Um, and then everything else would be needed for the athlete, but it's not too much, we feel, for a two-day trip. Um, nine hotel rooms. My assistant coach, Danielle Rice, unfortunately, has a family obligation, but Beth Ward is a parent as well and a teacher here, too. She's going to be able to be our female chef um for the trip. So, she's Ellie Ward's mom who's on the team. Uh, so that's why there's two coaches room there, both for the driver. And then our girl team has enough for two rooms
011and our boys team has big enough for uh four rooms. So it's very kind of similar to other trips that we have done. There's a couple of different stops along the way. The team has had success doing this. Um Simon Agalar was a state medalist last year at Queensberry. Um and trips like these definitely help the competitive side. Not to mention just the team camaraderie, our voice team uh who won the division last year as well in terms of also having just great memories and great you know connections to besides the success. So um here again just to try to keep the momentum with this trip rolling uh for another year because it is an overnight board has to approve that. >> Does anybody have any questions? >> So if we move item 3.03 approval
012of the uh cross country overnight trip on the recommendation superintendent to approve the cross country trip overnight. I have a second >> second. All those favor. >> I don't want kids. >> You're good to go. >> Thank you very much. Good luck. Try to get better this picture. >> Thank you. Thanks again. >> Yeah. So, let's start with some athletics. Fall season's off to a really strong start under uh our new leader, athletic coordinator, Kyle Ficanti. And um so we're working kind of through the transition. I know Craig is helping a lot a lot helping a lot out with athletics and and getting Kyle up to speed with that and kind of transition to leadership. But this fall, we have 230 student athletes across 16 teams and five sports. That's nearly 60% of our students
013in grades 7 to 12. Pretty astounding. So that level of participation is a huge testament to the excitement and school spirit in our community. So that that's absolutely fantastic. This year's focus is building stronger connections between coaches, athletes, families. Coaches are working on clear communication as you know without using cell phones to communicate changes in schedules. Parent Square is our our primary mode. So we're we're working on that transition as well. Um, uh, the relaunch of the student athlete leadership committee will give student athletes a stronger voice and leadership opportunities. And so those are some updates from athletics in terms of transportation. Some great things have been happening in that too. is we heard at the last meeting um some definite concerns about uh looking at our practices in in great detail and we have
014over the last couple weeks especially you know this the this past week and looking into some long-term fixes as well kind of softwares out there technology that would be available. So uh we're going to utilize that along with Traversa which is our main software for the transportation department looking at routes uh making things as efficient and reliable as possible. So we've also successfully installed and launched our new fueling system which is up and running that is not just improving safety and efficiency but better record easier record and tracking of the data with the fuel pumps. Um, last but not least, I want to highlight some technology. So, John Holt and the tech team were busy, really busy all summer long getting uh the rooms all set up, roomto room technology inventory, rewired and clean Chromebook
015carts, upgraded our Windows 10 machines to Windows 11. This is support for Windows 10. It's out the window now. Um we're also expecting pun intended um so they there you know we're also expanding the use of our health ticket system Qware to include the technology and buildings and grounds improving how we track and respond. Um I don't know how many on any given day or given week we get you know but it it's seems like it's more and more and so this is really helping us to keep track and respond quickly to get a quick fix. Um in our on our facility side cabling upgrades in the auditorium uh now provide enhanced audio options for production supporting both academics and the arts. So a lot of great things happening across the district. That's my report
016for today. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Is anybody sign? >> No. M >> we didn't meet this >> under 7.02 policy. We met tonight. We just view policies of the 1000 line. Those policies basically are really aligning themselves really from district clerk's responsibilities legal status to have a board of education most of that established foundation of what the board does can do. we're going to enter them into a first read at the next meeting and such. Um, we did take a look at a couple of the 5,000 accounts that were up the second read and it was just some monetary changes um setting that you know anything between 20,000 and $34,999 you know meaning is operational for the superintendent to use um from there and then come back to the board onformational items and
017stuff like that. >> Yeah. >> Other one was moving um up to $35,000 from one line item to another to be able to balance budgets and cover costs expense without coming or waiting full board for approval that type of thing. So the superintendent has some flexibility to some room. So there's some two changes that was, you know, gives me the opportunity to keep things moving. Um, does anybody have any questions? >> Um, GCEF Megan. >> Yeah. So we had our first meeting last week. It's a wonderful first meeting and I think um a lot of the conversation focused on looking at the inception of the foundation and then looking at how in the years past that Jio has changed and so how can they also change along with us and they want to be just
018super thoughtful and open and accepting to whatever it is that our students need now. So it was a really good conversation, productive conversation. I think we're all on the same page moving forward. So, they'll be really accommodating to a lot of our future um requests. Anybody have any questions? We'll move on to item number eight personnel. U be it resolved that the board of education of the Jennio Central School District upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept the following consensus items. They include 8.02 through 8.05 which are appointment of substantive teachers, appointment of a clerk typist, appointment of a teacher aid and appointment of districtwide safety committee members. Do I have a consent motion? >> Second. >> Any discussion? in favor. >> I would just like to point out to the board too that Andrea
019is here. Andrea Rounding who's going to be taking Sarah's place. So, welcome aboard. >> Thanks. I'm looking forward to >> official tomorrow. >> Yeah. Move on to section 9 under new business. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Jenny Hampton School District upon the recommendation of the superintendent accept the following consensus items in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board. They are 9.02 through 9.05 of the CSE CPSC meeting minutes for 2025 26 approval of the second read of policies. Approval of the whale watch overnight trip and approval of service. Have a consent motion for those. >> Second. >> All in favor. >> Discussion. Sorry, >> just a real quick discussion. The whale watch uh original dates went out three nights for three days of the whale watch. It's going
020to be an overnight trip to make sure. >> Yeah. >> So, we got a motion made second. >> Other questions? >> All in favor? I >> um under the business office section 10 >> be it resolved that the board of education of Virginia Central School District on the recommendation of the superintendent accept the following consensus items in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board. 10.02 is the acceptance of donations. Second donation is $1,000 from the Jennese Valley Conservancy >> to the cross country. >> Want to take the opportunity to say thank you publicly. >> Uh very generous donation to our cross country team. So thank you to the Jennese Valley Conservancy. me. >> So we move on another business. >> So any board committee comments from the board president. >> How's it going
021so far? Good. You do a great job. >> Mike will be back next time. So he'll be no executive discussion. Motion for German at 78. >> Maybe you should stay on. >> You hear that? >> Craig said maybe you should stay on. You're making a record. 719 record. >> There you go. >> Yeah. >> Thank you all for coming. >> Thank you very much. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Stay down.