001Welcome to the meeting. Anybody online? There's four four welcome in online. Call the meeting to order. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States, one nation under God, indivisible with Yeah, Kevin. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 1.02 approval and the regular board meeting agenda on the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the June 16th, 2025 regular board meeting agenda. Second. Any questions on the agenda for tonight? All in favor? I I closed. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 1.03, approval of the regular board meeting minutes on the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the June 2nd, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Second. Any questions on the minutes and changes? All in favor? I any move? All right, Ed. Gary, the floor is yours. I'm
002not sure who's going to speak and Okay. Hi everybody. Hi. Um, so we are here to give you a quick update on where we are in the capital project. calling this our 90% design document update as we get ready to finalize things to go to SCD. Um so if you want the next there um so we're just going to kind of give you a recap of where we landed with the scope and we've got a lot of feedback from a lot of people along the way. So turn here and you can kind of take us through the inside. Sure. And we're here. Hello everybody. Good evening. Thanks for having us out for a quick update for you. Um, as Mike said, we're getting close to our RCD submission, so we're pretty excited about that. We've
003been having some really good meetings, um, with everybody and finalizing some details. And so, this is just a quick overview. So, um, there's five or six slides that talk about the scope. Um, starting with the gymnasium, of course, we know about the floor and the walls and so forth. That's all getting taken care of. Um this this is kind of a blowup that shows the area. Um but it's a full gym renovation. So you're getting um not only with the walls and floors, full um new equipment, finishes, um the floor itself, uh related to the gymnasium, there are some exciting add-ons, um locker room renovations, as well as team room renovations and a new passenger elevator. So, that's what's happening in that yellow block of um scope. And we we have some exterior enhancements, too,
004to kind of tie in the gym to the project that we did on the smaller gym. So, it's going to look cohesive when we're done. Uh this is the uh secure entry SRO office. Uh I think you've seen this several times and we just included a small plan with a small um detail blow up, but we're reconstructing that area. Um it's going to be minimal finishes on the right side, but the most important thing is that the SRO office and the reception um check-in attendance office is going to be next to the door. So allowing for um direct check in here, secure vestibial until ID badges are checked and then these doors can be released after credentials have been approved. Uh the SR office here and then we've got a smaller version of the tiered
005seating. Not quite as big. The tiered seating is in here right now. So there's a smaller version of that. And then um secure window film uh entrance door upgrades uh for security at all the doors and windows and then of course the finishes. This is the renovation um to the UPK art and music area. So, uh, essentially what we're showing, and you've seen this before, is this entire block here all the way from the exterior wall to the corridor gets renovated. And, um, that will include all new finishes, new walls, a new kil room for the art, um, a larger music room, larger art room, new cabinetry, and two UPK rooms, each with a dedicated singleuse bathroom that will be ADA accessible. Uh I did want to note on this slide in addition to that
006kind of recently we've been working on um some lactation rooms which are shown here in the blowup. Uh so there's a copy room across the hallway and as part of this project we wanted to send into SED this project which is renovating that copy room into a more efficient copy space here. It's kind of all copy and storage right now. So, we're making that more efficient in the back with copy direct access from the corridor, but then you also have a pump room or lactation room. You have two of them. One's internal with the idea that that that's used for faculty, and then there is an external one directly off the porter that could be used for events or if a second one is needed at the same time. And those rooms have refrigerators and
007sinks in them. So that was I think that was a nice uh enhancement that we came up with when we were trying to figure out what to do with the old kil room. So this is central to the building which I also you know we also like that it's here. It's not in one of the wings. It's kind of in the middle. So I think that was a good good thing to add for SED. Here's the corridor and um ADA access enhancements. So you see the the yellow line going all the way around starting with the tunnel here. We're still looking at doing um some upgrades in here for dehumidification. The rest are finishes and lighting and um creating a little bit more of a nicer hallway in the back here and less of a
008less of a tunnel effect for anybody that has to use this tunnel to get to the uh the stage for ADA access. And that's yeah, that's most of the upgrades here. There are a couple of things noted there under the building system upgrades for uh HVAC for the auditorium and we didn't have a plan to specifically show the dust collection but the dust collection system is happening as part of the package down at the tech wing. Here's the auditorium which uh we're quite excited about. Um full renovation behind the stage um ADA access upgrades. Uh we're doing uh pretty much a full redesign of the back of the stage back here to improve scenery shop storage. Uh there's going to be a lift for access to the upper storage area. Um it's going to improve
009uh circulation and also exiting and safety for occupants in the auditorium. Uh and it will include some new equipment and um lighting. So that is this that is where we landed on the scope of the project and I want to stress that this this base scope of project it meets criteria of the approved referendum and we are still on budget now that we're getting ready to go to SED the work's not going to stop. You can see we're continuing through the rest of the year. Um targeting a bid open era bid of starting the beginning of next year going through the end of March. So for the rest of this year, uh starting about the end of this month, uh we're going to be in SED as we're going to be in their queue waiting
010for them to pick it up and do their review. In the meantime, we're going to continue our quality control view review on our end and uh you continuing to tune up the drawings. campus looks at the the drawings like uh like a contractor would to try and identify change orders. It's kind of step one of trying to eliminate change orders. So, um and then we're also going to be doing our estimating, developing bid packages, things like phasing and logistics. How are we going to be on site? How are we going to move around? How are we going to try and minimize our impact to you guys during construction? So, all that is is to come uh later on this year. And right under the window there is our target beginning of April to start construction.
011So in a nutshell roughly two months earlier roughly two months earlier. SEDD review time frames have shifted a little bit. We did pull our schedule back to a a comfort a time frame we're still comfortable with, but um it it allows us to get out early in the year, which is right where we want to be. Okay. To start being So I I mean I mentioned to you earlier I talked to Kevin and John just thoughts thinking ahead at some point I I think as you go through the next phase you'll you'll kind of manage and identify the logistics of construction traffic in and out during school times and so on. That's correct. So um that's part of what we're going to be designing. Actually, we as the construction manager now stepped in and work
012with you guys to design the logistics of how and how we move around site, where staging areas are, we need temporary roads, that kind of thing, how we're going to access buildings, all those kind of logistics are are to come. We'll be working with with you guys and except, you know, all ideas that we have to make this go really smooth, we're open to as well. Thank you. Yeah, one of the things that um was important from the board's perspective and I think from the user group's perspective was the locker rooms and the uh appropriate access. You want to just if you can shoot back to that slide and just quickly mention that? Yep. General will be helping me here to go back to the locker room. It's the first I think it's the first
013floor plan. Yeah. So, right here, we don't really have a blow up of it, but this area you're talking about here. Mhm. So, if you recall, um, earlier in the project, we had sort of an enhanced design of this area. Everybody out there, it's the lower left yellow. Yep. Sorry. Um, we had an enhanced design for that area, which basically gutting the whole thing. Now, that came in over budget. So, we're sending two designs down to SED for you guys. One is the enhanced and one is the one that meets all the criteria of the original referendum, including renovating these into team rooms. um lockers and finishes and then access was the biggest issue to the um coach's offices in the back without going through the locker rooms. So, we created little side entrances for
014them to go directly um if you had a a a coach that, you know, a female coach going through the male, you know, locker room, that wouldn't work out so well. So, you can access the coach's offices directly and there's no connection between the coach's office and the locker rooms or the teen rooms. So, that's the that's basically what the the goal was um for that area. And we also have the more enhanced one just in case uh the district wants to entertain that option or can afford it. We're going to send both to SED. So then you have more flexibility um to pick and choose in the end uh what the project will be in that area. Thank you. Great. Do the PE teachers are the same as the coach's offices or or is
015that different? PE teachers have their own office. Is it there's there's additional offices down here in the locker rooms. Um so we have we have coaches offices down here and also coaches offices up here related to both both locker room share that maybe um I think the lock the coach's offices or or PE teacher offices here are sized for two depending on what the current situation is with that particular room. Where's the elevator? The elevator is right here. Okay. So, it's going to be accessed off this hallway. Okay. And also, if you go to the lower level, right off the new entrance that you would come in uh from the small gym, this is like the back entrance now. It's going to be right there. And that that'll be able to take you to the
016second floor. And that's going to be a regular passenger elevator, which I think is going to be a little more user friendly than the current elevator and the current freight. Yep. Um the other question I had was um earlier in the design phase there there was you guys were trying to work around um fire suppression and the dust collector. Didn't we solve that? Yeah. So the dust collector it's it's a full new system. Um it's totally code compliant. It's going to have the dust collector is actually going to be outside. Then the duct work goes inside and inside when it comes inside the building, it has to be um there has to be a fire suppression sprinkler system in it. So what we had to do is we just had to um well this shows
017it good. Down here is where it's going to be. Um we had to find the closest dedicated water service line that would be accommodating for this. Uh because you can't tap into a line that could be valved off by mistake. So it has to be kind of a dedicated water line that's always charged. So, we found a connection point right here near the main entrance. So, that's going to be a small I think it's a 1 in line that comes down the hallway into that room. And there's nothing outside, so there's no issue with freezing or anything. Um, and that's how we're going to bring in fire suppression that that satisfies all the codes for that. Great. Any other questions for SEI or campus? Well done. Big time. Thank you. Right. I've uh a couple
018of times tonight, once in the beginning of the meeting and then a little later again, I'm going to jump in and and uh make a few statements. Uh I'm going to start right now with some thank yous. First, Matt Pratz is here from the PTSA, and I want to congratulate ETSA under your leadership as president for the New York State PTA Gold Apple award, correct? Me, I think, for increased membership and membership engagement. Yeah, we uh increased our membership by 75% last time. Wow, great job. So yeah, we uh we did a lot of different things and uh I had a really good core group. Uh I'm here, but there's a few people I wanted to just thank uh while I'm here. Uh so uh Tara Button, she's the secretary for elementary school. She was
019president before I was, and she has been awesome. Rock Steady. Uh she actually received the regional PTA Jay Ernest the boys award in November uh for her time as president the two years before I came in, which was absolutely moment. And then uh Chris Secor is our VP. Uh she's been wonderful. Uh when I got sent to prison in February, Army National Guard, so I was on the other side. Uh she uh had to step up to president and uh she really did been our big person to events. Yeah, it was funny them telling, "Oh yeah, PTSA president is in prison at the uh uh but uh yeah, and then uh Meg writes uh she runs the uh the bike bus. She's our secretary. moving into our DP position and uh she's been great uh
020especially when it comes to getting Sunni Jio students in corporate a little bit more. She's brought some volunteers from there. Um and then uh Jennifer Bennett is our treasure. Uh she's our first year with us and uh she's been wonderful. Uh and a few staff members I personally want to thank. Uh my wife obviously she's our teacher liaison. She's the one that runs all of the um the mini grants. Um, I also want to thank uh Megan Curley here. Uh, she's been to almost as many meetings as I have. Uh, and uh, she's been so fundamental in getting us high school uh, volunteers to come down and help out our Christmas shop and and book fair. And it's been huge. And she made a recommendation that that we are going to take, which is uh,
021for the improcessing for new staff. Uh, the PTSA is going to provide their first Go Blue t-shirt. Um, and for the entire kindergarten class when they come in. Sure. Go Blue Glue will be donated by PTSA. Uh and we thought that that might help uh create a sense of community. Um and then uh uh last is Katie Shu. Uh she has been absolutely phenomenal. She came in, recommended doing the holiday shop, recommended doing the hero dance. Both were huge successes. She suggested them, then she implemented them, executed them, and followed through on them. So, if you're looking for leadership, if you're looking for someone that brings a lot to the table, uh Katie Shu, the uh who uh works down at elementary as a speech teacher, right? And then uh Christy New uh holds the
022uh community uh Genesis community committee. Am I saying that right? Okay. All right. And uh one of the things that that inspired me from those meetings was it talked about how the PTSA is really sphere when it comes to volunteering, right? So that our goal has been trying to bring as many volunteers as we can. uh we were able to provide uh some actual volunteers that got fingerprinted and brought into the school as well as ones that are working PTSA events. And then this summer uh we're going to be having a table at the ROI Rotary Summer Festival. We're going to have a table at the uh at the farmers market a few Thursdays doing fun stuff for kids there. Uh so community outreach, she kind of inspired me to to make that more of
023a priority. So I'm hoping this year was really good and I'm hoping for uh even better next year. So, thank you for Yeah. Thank you very much. Much appreciate that. So, given that this is the uh kind of our last meeting for the school year, I know a little later this month we're going to formally recognize employees, faculty who are retiring. But I do want to just from the board's perspective say thank you. Tracy Butler, 24 years of service. Chad Henderson, hard to count. I think it's 26 plus six. 26 full-time and six part-time years. I'm correct. Darlene Hunt, 17 years. Heather Mau, nine years. Angela Weber, 27 years, but I think this may be the second or third time she's retired. Not sure. But and also uh from the bus drivers, Tammy Lemon retiring.
024So, I wanted to uh certainly recognize them on behalf of the board for all their service. Later this month, we'll do something a little more formal at the the end of the the school year, but uh didn't want tonight to pass without saying thank you for all their service and all they've done for our students and for our district. So, okay. Uh next, uh Giana is not here tonight. I don't think but uh we were we did have a little bit of recognition for her. We'll give it to you to give to her. so for being the student rep for this year and bringing us all the news and a lot of now the next three are a little more challenging to to kind of keep composure on. But um I will say to Craig
025Phelps, thank you for all your service on the board of education. We have a little bit of a plaque for you. 14 years. I think that's right. I think so. All right. But thank you so much for all your first. Mr. Salotel, we've already accepted your resignation with regrets. I mean, your retirement, excuse me, 22 years of service. Okay. A long time. And and I will personally say I know 22 years it's not an 8 to5 or 9 to5 73 job for you. It's going to be 247. I know I've personally seen you. Um late nights when Andrew Chandler's here for the fire, you're here as well. Whatever is going on, I know you're here. So I just want to say on behalf of the board, thank you so much for all your your service,
026your time. and dedication. He will be missed. I think a little later this month we're going to have another recognition that Alli has set up that Mrs. This is for everybody else, Mrs. Salel has set up. Um, and we won't be as brief or kind leave it there and kind of let that float for a while. Okay. Maybe over in there, Dr. Hun. Wow. Where do you begin? You came to us last August out of retirement again by the third, fourth, fifth. Not we've lost count. But Dr. Hunter, you have guided us this year. You have brought, I think, an incredible level of respect for your knowledge, your experience, your dedication. At countless times, you have put up with my phone calls and and and others working with the board. I know it hasn't been
027easy at times, but uh we truly truly do want to say thank you and how appreciative we are of your service. So, we have a little bit of a plaque for you and a little bit of a card for you, but so much you will be missed. Thank you. I know there's a great coming for you. There sure is. It's going to be tough shoes to fill. Well, there is a good replacement. So, thank you. Thanks. No. All right. So, we're gonna briefly just say thank you. There is cake. Megan, I'm not sure who brought the cake, but thank you. Um, cake is here. Very brief breaks. We will serve a little cake and then we'll get back to the meeting in a few minutes. Can't have a celebration without her Let's send you Next
028on the agenda is Thank you uh Mr. McNo and thank you board of education. Um my presentation is more of a public hearing which means that uh following the presentation anyone from um who's attending this presentation is free to ask any questions along with the board of education because um that is the the process and the um format that we will use for a public hearing. So this is our public hearing for the code of conduct. Here we go. Um, the idea of a code of conduct uh was originated by New York State in the year 2000 and it was the cornerstone of what was then called the SAVE or the Safe Schools Against Violence Act. Um and it was the most essential piece of that save act. The purpose of the code of conduct
029is right there and Jennisio owns that purpose to ensure that safe, respectful and inclusive environment for all of our students and any visitors attending um the school district as well. So, our work with the code of conduct um went through a couple of steps, at least four steps. We started way back in April when we had um Chrissy New uh Megan Curley and Craig Bea work with their building level teams to look at what the current contract uh code of contract was and to get a sense from their faculty and their constituents what's working and what's not. We then held a meeting of the district safety committee in May and got input from them. We got input from legal counsel on what are the most critical new and important legal issues that should be included
030in your code of conduct. Last month we did an overview of the board of education and tonight we are going to be doing our public hearing. There we go. So uh with our overview of the code of conduct uh what I want to show you is the uh table of contents. What I want to focus on and ask you to focus on and anybody who thinks about the code of conduct is that that second bullet on the left rights and responsibilities is the core the heart of any code of conduct. Once you have defined those rights and responsibilities or your students and your members of your educational community, that becomes your touchstone for what you really want behaviors and the culture to be all about. Now, the code of conduct doesn't stop there, but it
031has to start there. The other pieces that you see, the other bullets that you see there, add some definitions and processes. When things get complex and it becomes difficult to meet the standards, that can be hard to do. Each of the teachers, each of the students, each of the parents, each of the administrators understand these are the steps that we're going to take. So when we did our overview of the code of conduct, we made about seven or eight critical key changes to the code of conduct. I'm going to just quickly go through each of these seven key changes. First of all, included in the code of conduct is cell phone policy. Now, we're still in the process of finishing up our cell phone policy, and Kevin's going to speak to where we are with
032that. Um, and we're just beginning the work of putting together our school calendar, which will include the cell phone policy. Each of those pieces right now, code of conduct and calendar, contains a sketch of what the cell phone policy will be until the full policy is completed by the uh policy committee in the board of education. Uh the new requirement needs to be in place by August 1 and we'll be communicating that new requirement to the students to the and to the community. Um second major change was definition of weapons. Uh it this was something that our SRO helped us with and legal council helped us with. Um with so much that is happening both in the community and in the larger community as a whole, it was very important to make sure that weapons
033were well defined um in a more uh open fashion so that we could understand better uh how devices might be used to harm other students, to harm faculty or to harm students themselves. So it is a much more uh open framework and definitive from a legal setting. Um our policy committee did an extensive amount of work in changing our policy in regard to timeout and physical restraint. We essentially have completely removed we have completely removed we haven't essentially we have completely removed the concept of corporal punishment from any of our um any of our actions and policies and now from our code of conduct. Um these reforms um are focused on the concept and the work of deescalation, safety plans, behavior management and then ultimately restraint procedures with approved pro uh with pro approved procedures
034so that a child won't hurt themselves or others. Here we go. Additional changes. Um, we wanted to make sure that the newest technology that's involved now to help with safety was also included in the code of conduct. This is not intrusive use of technology. It's to help with safety in regard to situations where there is reason to believe that uh a person could hurt themselves or weapons be available or that um illegal um materials such as vape or um uh any type of uh nicotine devices were with students. So we've added now um those technology features uh for metal detector and vape detector. We've changed the definition uh of law of police uh from a very general term to all law enforcement. So that law enforcement is uh whether it be federal, state or local
035following the same procedures. Uh Mike Salatel did some significant research both legal as well as through the state in regards to how we need to work with federal agents. This code of conduct um uh codifies the steps necessary for us to not infringe on law enforcement but to make sure that law enforcement is also following their appropriate steps before they enter a school building. Uh we also uh better define classroom visits. We want classroom visits. We enjoy classroom visits but they just can't happen randomly. and classroom visits need to be approved hopefully in advance by a building principal. And then finally uh the uh last major change to the code of conduct in was to make sure that under the concept of plagiarism that we included any type of AI device um that was used
036in order to uh provide uh a uh documentation a document that someone was passing off as their own individual work. The next phase of the code of conduct is the appropriate distribution. So after the board approves the code of conduct later this evening, uh we will make sure that copies are available on the web, that copies are available in the district as well as in each of the building offices, that a plain language version of the code of conduct is included in our school calendar so that it is available to students and parents uh for their access. And then at the start of the school year, we know that uh our principles hold general assemblies in which they speak about rights and responsibilities and also have an opportunity to address the code of conduct. So
037for me, that was the major overview that I wanted to make sure that the board has. I've given the board their own copy of the code of conduct so that you've got something at home that if you get calls or there are questions about you certainly can feel free to check something out and check with the appropriate authorities. So at this point because it's a public hearing uh if there's any discussion or questions I'd be glad to How long we hold the hearing open? Hearing is hearing is open until there are no further questions then we close then we close the hearing. John, I see some there's somebody on chat. I don't know if that's a question for this or not. Any questions in just commenting on the 360 degree? There there's one new. It
038says there's one new. Click the red. All right. Okay. Nothing rel So if that's it, there are no further questions and we will move forward with approval of the code of conduct and the distribution of the code of conduct as uh stated stated in regulation. Okay. Thank you. Thank you everybody. So that was my presentation. Mike, I I don't know if you've got anything from Mine's going to be very brief. Mine is just a special thank you to the board of education 22 years and all the the support I've received from the board of education throughout those years. It's deeply appreciated. Um couldn't do my job without that support. So, thank you for everything you've done. I know volunteering for the board can be a thankless job, but but know that I'm very thankful for
039all your efforts and support throughout the years. I'd also like to support the admin team, John, Christy, Negan, not Craig Gat, but Mrs. Hilt too for all your support and working with you is just a real joy. I left Mr. really out for a reason, but uh just a remarkable partner co-pilot to have for many many years and uh I can't thank you enough. We've developed a special bond and friendship that will last a lifetime. So, thank you for everything, Mr. Feler. Um Dr. Hunter again for coming back and uh starting my career here with you and that ended was was a real treat. It's something I've always cherished. Morgan, for your help this year, um really it was great. welcome. I know you'll do a great job moving forward. Mrs. Chandler's in the audience
040today. I'd like to thank her for her leadership with the GFA and the staff as a whole. Uh it's just a real pleasure to work here at Tennessee. The adults in this building are very caring. They're very um giving. They put the time and energy in to offer our students the very best educational opportunity. So, I know that comes with your leadership as well, Mrs. Chan. Thank you. uh the families out there. Uh again, a lot of special relationships have been built over those years and um that those are just things that you just cherish in the role I was at. So when you go through the community and you see people over the years that you have had the fortune opportunity to work with that just makes everything worth it. And of course the
041students, my favorite part of the job. I still enjoy seeing students from 20 plus years ago, from three years ago, whenever. And we always engage in some wonderful conversations because they they are what we're here for. And uh each and every day I walk out of building, I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with young people and and hopefully we all make a difference with them. Last but not least, my family. Uh they have been wonderful as uh Mr. Talio said a lot of late nights a lot of weekends a lot of phone calls and all that and without that support at home in the backbone of everything um I got two daughters here. My wife Holly Caleb Lexa was here but she's on duty so she had to go but uh
042I I can't thank you enough. I would not have been able to last this job without all your support. Hold down. Can't let this go without saying thank you for the great walk through today. If you want to say anything about that. Well done. Another moving up. Yeah, know a it's a tradition obviously. Yeah, I think Mike has uh kind of and taken under his wing and provided leadership and uh I think the students really enjoy it and uh this year we threw a little wrinkle in and and Mr. CS take the take the lead and take them through the halls and uh outside and stuff like that. Um, I think uh he got a good round of applause from our students and obviously uh definitely well respected and we don't know that he cares
043for students and done a great job for Jenna um inside the school and outside the school. So we will definitely miss him but we know where he lives. So so Holly do not block the road or drive be there if we need anything for everything for that. Thank you. Good. Okay. So, anybody signed in? Nobody. Okay. With that, I know there was no audit finance policy. Oh, yeah. We had uh three policies on the agenda tonight. Uh 5410, which is a um competitive bid. uh policy and stuff like that. We made a we added to it with Stephanie's insight. Thank you. Uh request for a quote or bid section. All purchases over 5,000 but less than $34,999.99 cents will now require three quotes formal written quotes before any requisition process. And anything over $35,000 will
044be required bid. That's the only change that was to that document. that actually is going to help us out during audit process and things like that for for that. The other one is 5420 internal control governing construction project change orders. Um the dollar amount that the superintendent of the schools was authorized to approve in a construction project was established at 35,000. Uh that's been lowered to $10,000 for the change orders. Uh that was the only change there. it's significant enough, it can address all the smaller issues that need to be taken care of in a short period of time. You know, um examples would be like, you know, maybe moving a door, adding a window, taking a window out, etc. Those type of things in order to keep the project moving. But anything above and
045beyond that is a little bit larger scale now. And it's going to come back through the board, all right, and insight, you know, through SEI and campus to give us, you know, their insight and that's the reason why this change order is taking place. So, um, that kind of cleans that one up. That was the only change associated with 5420 was lowering that dollar amount. Um, the longest item of discussion, obviously, what Dr. Hunter touched on earlier tonight was the uh the the new policy or the new change to the code of conduct in regards to the use of uh internet enabled devices during the school year, i.e. cell phones andor other applications, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, etc. The committee worked extremely hard in establishing definitions for that. Um they established a very good method for
046contacting students during the school day. On-site storage is um spelled out very well. Authorization for student usage above and beyond reporting. There's been a couple um small minute changes in regards to the reporting. uh the policy committee thought it was going to be uh beneficial if we got some feedback on how this policy is being accepted, how it's being enforced and concerns. So, we'd like a report out at the end of the very first semester. All right? So, we can take a look at it um the data coming in from that and review the policy if we need to make a change. And then obviously at the end of the second semester or school year, but then also part of the annual reporting process. So we got a good collective picture on it all the
047way around through the school year making any adjustments if necessary stuff like that. So um that'll be the one that'll be developed up. We'll make a few changes to that. 5410 and 5420 will be processed up for the first read to be conducted in July. And we're also going to have these changes made um on the cell phone policy um for first read in July as well. move this through so it's going to be effective in place when the students um start. Um I think according to the budget process that the state put together, we have to have it ready by August 1st, correct? So we have two meetings in July to be able to get that done. Uh so I think we're in very good shape. I think that the cell phone policy is
048um in very good. It gives us a uh you know a wide birth to be able to move and adjust it accordingly back and forth a little bit um as we deem as the as the administration team because we're challenging not challenging the wrong word we're giving them directive to enforce it which might be a challenge to them they're right okay I want the genoc go there but I think it's going to work very well for us. I think it's going to address what's going to need to be done. Um I think it's going to be accepted. That's my personal opinion and that of the policy as well. So there you go. All right. There's your update. Well done. Thank you. Yeah. Just want to say thank you to the administrative team for the that's
049happening on the cell phone bill. like I it's a tremendous undertaking and it's coming at us as quickly uh much faster than any of us are prepared for, but we appreciate everything that you're doing and we are trying to to work as fast as we can. So, um that we can do the best we can for our GCS students. So, thank you for that and for all of your input and answering our million and5 questions. We appreciate you. Thank you. Well done. Great job. Thank you policy committee and others. Well said. Anything on GCEF? Just to thank them once again. This is a busy time of year for all the trips and without GCEF we could not offer the wealth of opportunities we have for students to celebrate the end of the year. So just
050just a thank you. Okay. So starting in July we and Mrs. Curley will be the Okay. First. All right, we'll ask some tough questions. I'll be ready. Okay. Thank you. All right, with that, we turn to a long list of personnel items. All right. Under personnel, I'd like to ask for a consent motion from item 6.02 through 6.26. So, can I break in real quickly? Sure. Uh, I'd like Sarah Warner, who is going to be our new special education administrator, to quickly stay sit up and say hi to everybody. Um, if you can do a two second interview introduction, I'm sorry, of yourself and of your family. Sure, that'd be great. Um, I'm Sarah Warner. I am very very excited to um take this lead to Jennio Central and I have with me u my
051child Joe Cho and my husband Jackie. So that is that is just a little bit about me and my family. Thank you for having me here. Welcome. Thank you. Well, Sarah, we're about to prove you, but I just wanted to say thank you as well. Thank you to you and your family. It's great. We know that you are fully certified in special education and uh we truly appreciate you joining this Genio Blue Devil team. The team in the front row and a few others I'm sure will indoctrinate you real quick. Sure. I'm ready. Very excited. One more. One more. 6.03. Mrs. Curley. Yep. Um, as middle school assistant principal, curriculum director, I think anyone that has been in our building and around our school community understand what the terrific job she did throughout this year,
052jumping into a whole new role. Um, Greg and her just really developed a team that is absolutely remarkable. The strides and growth that the middle school made this year in high school was directly due to your leadership. So, thank you and be many great things to come in the future. And what do you want me to say, Megan? Go Blue. Can I have to ask you something to turn around? He's not appointed yet. What else you said? Yeah. Yeah. We appreciate it. Megan, congratulations. Thank you. about to me. So any a lot of personel I'm going to make a couple other comments in a minute but uh with regard to 6.02 through 6.26 I think 6.26 merits further discussion amongst the full board. We haven't really had a full discussion on that. Okay. So we're
053we're going to take a vote and then if it warrants that then we can certainly go into an executive session being that this is a personnel matter. Is there other members who wanted to have further discussion? So two, five, no, five proceed to no. Is that fair? Okay, based on that, let's see where we the vote turns out and then we'll go from there. But we can also have further discussion after even an incl. With that said, all in favor of items 6.02 through 6.26. 26. All in favor? I I ner I I I Okay, motion passed. Greg and Don, I certainly follow up with you both for um with that. Uh there's a number of things we just approved in the personnel section. I want to make a few comments here. The first one
054is a little hard. Okay. And we just accepted, one of the items we just accepted was a um a long-term um long-term replacement. Yeah. For long-term um leave of absence. Leave of absence. Thank you, MD. Or one of our teachers. And I'm not going to go into detail, but um Katie Rener, our our thoughts, our prayers, our support are for Katie. Okay, I'll leave it there. Um her family is is is working very hard on her behalf. And uh with that, we just approved that long term. We've already talked about Megan Curley. Congratulations. Sarah Warner, congratulations. Uh, also congratulations to we just hired some new teachers. Congratulations and welcome Cody Clement, Margaret King, Sheila Wilcox, Andresa Herb, Dece Leonard, and uh, substitutes Kylie Gower and Alexandra Molain. And we just hired a bus driver, Rosemary
055Vander. So want to say thank you, welcome, congratulations to all those that we just approved in the in the personnel section. Any other comments, thoughts? Okay, so we did all in favor any opposed. So on new business, um item 7.02, 02 uh is an acceptance of a bond resolution which requires a W call vote. So with that said, I'd like to um address that one only and then move on to the others for consent motion after this after that final resolution. So in your packet um under item 7.02, 02. It's acceptance of bond resolution on a resolution authorizing the issuance of of not to exceed $375,000 bonds of Jennisville Central School District, Livingston County, New York, to pay the cost of the purchase of school buses for the said school district. President for Yes. So,
056I'm going to go just right down the line here. I agree. Is that what you need? Yes. I agree. You agree? Hi. Hi. Roll call. 7. Thank you. All Kevin, as you go back to the um consent agenda, I'm going to ask John B to just do a 30 second update to better understand 7.04. It's a pretty complex uh agreement that we're entering into in regards to some technology purchases, but incredibly wellthought out in regard to the needs that John has identified and the finances that Stephanie Hill has organized in order for us to move forward. So, if you could do 30 seconds. Thanks, Dr. Hunter. So, um I think it was four years ago we started purchasing technology and you've heard me talk about LIO purchases and multi-year purchase agreement. Um it does get
057complex and I wanted to make sure that uh well Dr. Hunter asked to explain it that if there was any questions to ask now but basically um we uh the board approves it. It's three-year purchasing agreement and then as soon as it comes up we add another one on. So what we've been doing is funding $100,000 about worth of technology um through Edex and get the Bosey's aid rate on it. Most of that primarily has been funding uh boards uh board replacements, smartboard replacements and devices, whether it's um Chromebooks uh uh staff laptops or even desktop computers. Um why it goes into a multi-year purchase agreement? Basically, our board would approve it and then if you guys approve it, it goes on to edit to approve it and then it goes up to New York
058State um for state level approval. Um because of that timetable um they ask us to um add 10% on to the like what you're approving just in case if it gets uh hung up in any part of that process. I already have the quotes on it. So the quicker it goes the you know the the better it would be but in case there's um inflation or or or the the quotes are no longer valid once the purchase happens. They don't want to start the entire process over again. But um basically one of those Michael purchases came off this year. So, this will just be adding on again. And we're looking for 100 Chromebooks. I'd have to look at the details. I think the SA is in there. Um 30 um desktop replacements and 10 of
059these boards we've been doing a year, which has been kind of a um a good cycle to replace those interactive boards with these because these are a heavy lift. But are there questions about that? that you know as far as how we're purchasing it or why we're using uh the purchase it for me it makes more sense because what we had been doing before is um waiting for capital projects and had these huge ticket items that we purchased a whole lot of technology at once but there wasn't a true sustainable replacement plan and this really has has afforded us the ability to do that thanks thanks section. Yes. All right. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 7.03 through 7.09. Second. Any questions on any of the administrative list? All right. Any
060opposed? So, under the business office, I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 8.02 through item 8.06. Second. Any questions on any of these? I know you've all been working hard to find it committee, especially in reserve plan revenue status. Stephanie, you're probably hard work put into these great reports. Thank you. Um, excess fund balance and so on. All in favor? All right. Any oppos? Thank you. Under section 9, executive session, I'd like to ask for a consent motion to move into executive session at 82 p.m. Uh, just to clarify, this will be for um to discuss a superintendence hearing, a specific student matter. Exactly. With that, okay, all in favor entering session. Thank you everybody. Nice defensive.