001Welcome to the meeting. Welcome online. Welcome in person. I'll call the meeting to order. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America tonight. You good evening. I'd like to have a consent motion for item 1.03, approve the regular board meeting agenda upon the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the May 19th, 2025 regular board meeting. Second, any questions on the agenda tonight? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, so salute. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for item 1.04, 04 approval of the regular board meeting minutes for the May 19th, 2025 regular board meeting agenda. May 5th May No, May 5th. May we get second. Any questions on the May 5th meeting minutes? All right. All in favor? Any oppos? So move. Under item 2.01, 01 the appointment of the
002superintendent. I'd like to read the following resolution. Resolution appointing the superintendent of schools and approving employment agreement. Michael Boswit. Whereas the board of education conducted a thorough search process to select a new superintendent of schools. hand. Whereas the board of education after careful consideration has determined that Michael Boswick possesses the experience and necessary qualifications to serve as a superintendent of schools for Jennis Central School District and to continue the orderly administration of the school district's ongoing programs and projects. And whereas Mr. Bosik has agreed to accept the board's offer to the appointment as the superintendent of schools effective July 1st, 2025. Now therefore be a resolved that the board of education here boy hereby appoints Michael Boswick as a superintendent of the schools of Jens Central School District effective July 1, 2025. The board of
003education hereby approves a written contract of employment containing all the relevant applicable benefits, terms, and conditions of employment for the superintendent of the schools. Third, the board of education authorizes the president of the board or the vice president in the absence to execute set agreement on behalf of the school district and to file the same with the school district. On item 2.02, 02. I'd like to ask for a consent motion for the appointment of the burn tender. Second 01 second 01 201 motion made and seconded any all in favor. Any April I better not be with that Mr. But I'm going to just uh for everybody's sake momentarily, I'm just going to read a little bit of the press release that we have. So the board of education is excited to welcome Michael Boswick as
004Jennio Central School District Superintendent. Mr. Boswick will join Dennisio Central School District on July 1st, 2025 after serving as building principal at the Horsehead Central School District since 2012. In addition to 22 years in education as a science and math teacher, STEM curriculum mentor and building principal. Michael hold the bachelor of science and master's degree in education. There's a long list here. A certificate in advanced studies and educational leadership. Graduated from the year-long future superintendence academy and attended training on emergency management, school safety by the safe by the state police, homeland security, and the FBI. In his time as an educational leader, he collectively developed a curriculum to launch the STEM pipeline initiative in the greater southern tier Boseis region. Developed a response to intervention and multi-tered support system framework cultivated a lively and thriving
005school culture culture and trained by the Faulner Institute for Education and Project-based learning. Michael and his wife Elizabeth who is also here tonight. Welcome. Have two college age children. One's entering college, one is in college, Julian and Nolan, and will be moving to the Jio area as soon as houses become available. We've already started looking. He's an avid sports fan and outdoor enthusiast. I can go on and on and on, but uh you'll have plenty of time I can trust to uh to meet Mr. Bos. So, the floor is yours. Thank you, sir. All right. to the board of education, staff, students, community. This is such an honor to be here tonight. Uh from the second I walked into the Jio Central School District in the community, there's just an amazing sense of warmth and
006you can tell that the school district really is the center of the community. Um I am completely honored to be named as your next superintendent. It is it honestly from the bottom of my heart. I look forward to all the great work that we're going to be doing, continuing the great initiatives that we have already going here in our community. I want to say in our community now and I look forward to continuing that rich tradition. I know Jio has been built on a a really awesome past history and it has an extremely bright future and together I look forward to doing that. I'm a collaborative leader. I'm not a top- down leader. I look at I look forward to working together with all of you to continue to build the best learning experiences going
007forward for everyone. Um, and in my first year, I plan on listening. I plan on learning. I plan on hearing your stories. What have been the challenges? What are the opportunities and taking all that information and seeing what we could do to build a great plan leading our students into the future? And I'm so happy to see some students here tonight, their bright eyes, um, and their zest for learning that we're going to continue to bring out here. So, uh, once again, thank you so much for this privilege and I look forward to dedicating my professional career and everything that I have. My wife and I will, uh, be really committed to this community and I just look forward to the years to come. So, thank you very much, Ford right away. My favorite color.
008Well, do we want to get pictures? With Okay. Yeah. Well, you're Are you going to be here for the full meeting so we can get pictures? Oh, yeah. We're Sorry. Thank you. By the way, I have your contract here which I can now sign. Thank you, sir. Okay. That'll go to all right yours. I'd like to have a consent motion for 2.02 employment of tenure employees. The recommendation of following employees shall be appointed tenure effective September 2nd, 2025. Courtney Hathaway, Marissa Brinka, Jamie Chenny, Ashley Cullinan, Morgan Savino, Katie Shupe, and Angela Weber. Second. Any questions? All in favor for these excellent educators to receive tenure. I opposed. Still moved. So, I'd like to make just a real quick comment. Um tenure is something that people talk about but generally don't understand the professional commitment that
009an educator makes in order to become a tenure teacher and then to maintain the quality of a tenure teacher. So this is not just some small undertaking by the board or by these teachers. It's a significant professional achievement. So my congratulations for a significant professional achievement in the work that you have done and moving forward. Yeah, I would like to also second that. A lot of people have said uh you get 10 here. You actually earned tenure and all of you have done that through magnificent work, dedication, determination, resilience because those first few years are very very challenging at times but you earned it and uh the longevity that you will carry through Jio for the years to come will benefit countless students over the years. So I'm I'm impressed with all of you. I
010think you really have bring Jenna to a whole another level and you'll continue to do that. So this is just the beginning but a big hurdle that you have earned that special recognition. So thank you for everything you have done. I look forward to the many great things you continue to do in the future. So we yeah do now you get some cake. Yeah. Um that would be the right way to do it. We're going to take about a 10 to 15 minute recess because it's really not a celebration unless you ever especially if we have some kids in the audience and some senior citizens in the audience. The cake is very important. Can we get a picture? Oh yeah yeah yeah. Nice to catch. We should do that now. So if the tenure group
011would come here audience, you're more than welcome to get Well, we do a quick picture. So relationship are you John? Do you want to use the cell phone district cell phone or you want to Okay. Where do you want us to stand? John, where do you want it? Yeah. If John would take one presentation. Yeah. ready. So we have the floor is yours. on the far side. Is that okay? One of you turns here. So, this is our final presentation from our incredible elementary student council who um continues to really foster leadership and excellence in our students. Hey, kindergarten all the way through fifth grade. Um, so tonight we have Oliver and Ruth who are with us to give an overall update of what's been happening schoolwide um to support all of our go blue
012traits and um and then what where we're heading before our final days at the end of June. All right, I'll turn it over turn the floor over to Mrs. Sabino. Yes, of June. you do them better than the adults do. So, we appreciated lots throughout the school year and two of the ones we did were bus driver and lunch hero appreciation. So, one thing we did for bus driver appreciation is we made a like we like how you roll posters for the bus drivers and brought them two boxes of sweeter cinnamon buns. And then for school lunch heroes, we made like cards and thank you notes to the cafeteria staff telling them why they're awesome. And so then also we made them aprons that each grade level signed. That's well done. Uh in addition to
013our lunch hero hero and bus um driver appreciation, we also did a administration assistant and nurse appreciation for Miss Button. We gave her a poster saying that we love her and she got a gift card for our appreciation. That's what we did. And from Miss Yates, we gave her a band card, including a gift card to go. Great. Well, it's not here. So, um, so for Miss New, um, we went with the nacho average principal theme and all the all the kids wrote her very sweet notes. Um, and we gave her this little nacho average principal book and um, a gift card um, to go along with that theme. And then during teacher appreciation, the kids actually helped the PTSA by being coffee runners. So teachers could put in their order on a little slip
014and they would run back and forth because obviously we can't leave the classroom when we have students. So they were very helpful in making teachers feel like they were still getting something while they were teaching. Um, and then they also helped design a snack bar um, for if you give a teacher a cookie, a donut, or a muffin based on the book series. And so those foods were available throughout the day in the faculty room. They did a great job. Maybe they need your magic power. Thank you. So for donations that we did over this student council year, we did the elementary family reading night for the snack snack station. We each volunteered and the snack station for 20 minute increments to make sure people got one. We helped with the fail fifth grade whale
015watch. um finances and for the kids that are not going on the whale watch, they're going to do help pay for them to go to the bowling alley. Also, one one thing that we did, uh, this is the stuff that we did that we accomplished, and we've done a lot, but the, um, biggest thing that student council is most proud of is the Jio Elementary Post Office. And there's still more to come. Like pastries with Peeps is this Friday. It where you bring a grownup or uh mom, dad, grandma, grandpa. And then you can have a drink. You can have donuts and pastries. And then also the schoolwide gift of the go blue devil's fence um down at the turf field with made by cups, the one that we had shown earlier in the year
016where the company that sells um the colored cups. So, um, we went back and forth between the playground communication board, which was about 3,400 made by the same people that did our current playground, and that's just not in our student council budget this year. So, we put that on the back burner for potentially a future project. Um, but the go blue devil's fence or I think it's genio blue devil. Either way, it's similar to lettering. Um, it was about, what did we say? 540ish, I think we looked at based on the quote. So, we thought that that was manageable and would really kind of um look really nice next to the turf field. So, oops. This one for you. There we go. So, here are some possibilities for 2025 to 2026 outdoor purchase. So, um,
017we thought we could do an outdoor classroom pavilion, and communication board on the playground, an outdoor water fountain, painting blue on basketball court, painting bases on kickball pavement mode, painting four square on the pavement, spray paint mini football field in flat dress area, outdoor hooks with people. Well, this is not we're going to achieve all of this, but it's possibilities like the outdoor classroom pavilion that's probably going to be around somewhere around like 2,000 $1,000, but most of this could be accomplished um before school starts again this year. Remember why we chose an outdoor focus though? Yeah, we chose an outdoor focus cuz most kids need like fresh air, um, energy cuz most classrooms don't have like windows to see outside. This might be a little problem. So that's why we want to add this
018stuff outside, make it feel more real. Any questions? Wow, that was fantastic. Great job. Nice job. Great speakers. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Just a special thank you to um Mrs. Zino and Mrs. Ross for being our leaders, our co-advisors for the student council this year. Um stepping in for Mrs. Kay who had done it for many years. Um but it's um wonderful to see our little leaders um really guiding the future of the school because they are the ones that should be in charge. So thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Any other Dr. Hunter is speaking? Yours. Okay. Um, so um you bring us the boss. Uh we have the worst um setup here in that you Mr. Shael and I have to follow the students. Never good and you can see
019why. That being said, um Mr. Shel and I are going to move forward with a brief presentation. Uh before I start the presentation, I just want to make two quick notice uh statements. one, you probably those walking in and those in the community have already seen a first look at the art show. It is again absolutely incredible. Um, so I would say it gets better every year, but the last time I was here 15 years ago, it was good. Now it's better. So it must be getting better every single week. So, uh, if you haven't seen the art show, please up all week. take some time. It real it it it will make you smile. It will make you feel good. Second of all, I do just want to quickly note that our treasure Stephanie
020Hill is home feeling very very sick. Um uh and she would wanted to be here. Uh but Mr. Salel and I said nope, she's going home. So hopefully she'll feel better in the next day or two, but she is home to ill at this time. So, what I'd like to do now is move forward with a little bit of a project update um in regard to where we are with our with our renovation project. Uh oh, yes, I do want to make sure that I introduce that uh our friends from campus construction. Um Mike Ferrari and Gary Huffman are here uh in support of our presentation and helped us organize these slides and information to share with the board of education. So thank you for being here this evening and help you thank you for
021the assistance in putting together this good information. So, the starting point for um uh an update uh here in May is that we've looked again at the project scope. And we've talked about this project scope since the beginning of our work back in October. But again, it's important to see that the capital improvement project, which is the bottom line, $23.8 million, is broken down into three components. the construction budget, the construction contingency and an incidental budget. Um the important thing for us to emphasize here is that we are back on target with our um project budget and scope. So um here's the way the project is unfolding over uh the next few months. We got our project approval on October 2025. We can't say it enough. Thank you for asking. 2020 project approval was 2024.
022Yeah. Yeah. 25. It was October. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. There's been a change of Right. Boy, isn't it remarkable how time October 2024 and we can't say enough thank you to the community for the from the support they gave us in recognizing the importance of this renovation project. Um uh almost immediately uh we jumped into some preconstruction work. Um and that's where the concepts that uh the community voted on um and the uh plan start to take some architectural shape and the designs have been in pre-construction development for that time period from April through May. The intense work then follows and the report today is based on that more intense work where designs are fully developed. Contingencies are reduced. Scope is better defined. Specific elements that we want to make sure are included. Other elements are
023studied and better plans or best plans for how to meet those ends are defined. Design development is mostly the work of the architects and our design teams. And we've had uh groups of teachers, administrators, um some community members working together to share ideas with our architects in order to build that design into a much sharper product. Once we have that sharp sharper product, our construction manager not only refineses the designs but continues making estimates regarding projected costs. The big goal that we're focusing on now is June 16th to bring to the board some final construction documents. And those will be close to preparation by the end of May, beginning of June, and they'll be presented to the board for final review on June 16th before those documents are submitted to SED for their uh consideration.
024We know that SED approval times are lengthy. So that's why we wanted to get this information to the board for final assessment and approval and move those forward. Those are literally every line, every concept that anybody in a construction field would be able to look at and be able to make a determination on exactly what this project is all about, what we want to accomplish, and how it will be costed out in order to put it together in in a final piece. SED is in June and then sometime in the fall we're hoping that um SED is going to get back to our architects and construction managers and give us the go ahead so that we can develop a construction uh calendar at that point. So the key point here is to check off the
025things that we've completed and where we're going. Costimus are back on target. Design work has been completed. We've met with our key user groups completed. Architects, user groups, construction manager. Those three pieces. Listen, learn, add details. completed, redesign in process. In fact, we're moving towards construction doc documents, robot estimates. That's an ongoing piece of work uh that's being completed by our friends from campus for construction management and they're constantly looking at designs and making better and refined estimates. So, that's being updated as we speak. So, let's just take a look uh at a little bit of the design status. And this is where we're at. The gymnasium renovation and repairs critical. As we learned at our last report in March, we needed to obtain more detail. That detail has been obtained regarding internal structural designs
026and that's enabled us to get back on budget. We are even in the process now of working in our gym renovations on planning finishes and some related equipment that will be included in the construction plan. Segment number two, existing corridors. The work in the existing corridors is mostly about tunnel improvements and reducing or mitigating humidity. We are currently designing multiple options to address humidity. When you have a piece of your building that's underground, there's going to be groundwater and there's humidity. So, uh, the architect and the construction manager are looking at multiple options in order to begin a plan to address and mitigate those humidity issues. The realization that uh we want to make sure that the board understands is maybe not until we open up all the doors and take a look at all
027of the drains and all of the walls will we have all of the answers in regard to humidity mitigation. A critical piece of what we wanted to accomplish in this renovation prog pro um program is to redesign the existing locker rooms. And critical for the existing team rooms is to make sure that there is a private hallway. So that coaches would have a coach's meeting room and officials would have a private officials room and that there would be a private access to those meeting rooms without any coaches having to pass through any type of locker rooms, male or female. Those redesigns have been developed and they're currently in the design development project moving towards construction. They are there. We made a decision to reuse original lockers. That means reusing original lockers, but whenever you take
028lockers out, that means bases, tops, and side panels need to be replaced. So, we're going to use as many of the pieces from original lockers as possible. The auditorium renovation, um, we had significant, um, and valuable input from our user groups. Um they really dug in with the architects about how to maximize space and how to access and eress from the space. They talked about how to best design storage cabinetry and to locate the storage cabinetry to maximize space but also to provide student flow and production flow outside of the main stage. Um and then they went through and helped the architects refine and add detail to the existing scope. This was really good work and a lot of good collaboration. the secured entry. Um, some minimal changes. The exterior glass doorway or storefront will
029be reinstalled. So, we are going to be able to reuse those pieces. However, we're going to move it back so that we can enlarge the vestibule so that it truly becomes a larger and more secure access entryway. The offices for attendance and for the SRO can be enlarged because of that larger foyer. And we will have minimal decreased seating but some opportunities for students to sit be near windows so that as parents or friends come for pickups they have a lo place to be located. Our changes in elementary UPK again were again thanks to our art, music and UPK staff provide some uh significant additional thought. We reduced uh through uh architects and the construction managers looking at SED requirements. We reduced the number of exterior doorways and window capacity, but still kept it at
030code and kept it in a in in a situation where we're uh providing a larger uh footprint uh but not decreasing safety. Uh our windows are also designed to code so that they are compliant with energy efficient standards. And most importantly, as we're looking at that piece, UPK has a setup for the multiple stations that they need. Art and music has a setup for the multiple um uh materials that they use for the m multiple structures and how they organize students. So, we're able to retain the larger spaces for them. Um we are still in progress and we know it's important in to make sure that we have um a facility to support uh any of our uh visitors or our staff members or faculty that are nursing. We want to make sure that there's
031a safe, comfortable, and appropriate place. Um, our architects have the SED codes and we are still in progress to make sure that that piece is completed. building conditions. We're constantly looking at what is in the building condition survey because we know that anything that we can get renovated andor improved during a capital project is a much better use of community funding and dollars. So, the pricing for the boiler has been appropriately updated. Duck work for the dust collector is in final stages of design. so that it is safe but again not um an extensive expense and we were able to make a decision that the HVAC that is on top of the C cafeteria roof which is an immediate need for replacement is now within the scope of the project. So those are my pieces.
032I want to see if the board has any other questions. um on what on how we might be able to fill in some details of where we're board. Any any questions at this point? Gary, are you looking at the roof still or is the any any decisions made on the roof roofing? At this time, no. Okay. Are you talking about the roofing for the of the cafeteria or just the Yeah, just the HVC and discharge. Okay. So, I guess we'll see the rest in June 16. In June 16th, you will see the rest of this in full detail. Okay. Before it goes to SED. And this got us back when we budget. We are on budget right now. Beautiful. Thank So as we move from design to construction now it's just sharpening the lines uh
033because we don't have to focus on the costs. Great. Thank you to all of you campus SEI the internal teams who have gone through and evaluated everything. So much appreciated getting us back on track. Thank you Mike. Yes I'll be very brief. Uh there just a few topics I'd like to discuss tonight or present to you. One of them being and you may read in the newspapers and across social media that the budget numbers that were released are just anticipated. We have gotten every indication that those numbers are going to be very very close u if not the exact number. There are two factors that could impact then one being the biggest factor to federal funding. If something significant were to happen there, that could certainly impact in New York state funding and and what
034schools receive. There are still 400 plus bills that need to be approved or not approved. So, are the majority of them not related to school? Yes. Some are directly related. Some have a ripple effect. So, we'll just have to wait to see how that all plays out. But from our standpoint, what we're hearing, it looks like the numbers that were released are going to be pretty much what schools receive unless something significant happens. That being said, there is a big focus u not just across the state, certainly in our region. Last week I part of two full day meetings, the zero mission busing, the cell phone uh policy, graduation measure measures. Uh one big thing is teacher and administrative shortages. How is the state going to tackle that? Can we speed up a process to
035get people certified? Can it become local boseis control instead of state control? So those are all things that are are very big on the plate that schools will be looking at with a close eye next year. Also, early college programs, there is a big push right now to support schools in offering early college programs in addition to the trades and skills. So how can schools do that and get support from the state to offer these programs that obviously benefit student learning and it it's career and college readiness. So we use those words. I think there's a big push to say how can we increase the funding for these programs at the local level. Shared services is something that is going to be coming up more and more. And when you saw the regionalization survey that
036went out, a lot of schools and communities got concerned that that was about merging schools and it really isn't. Uh it's about how do we share services? How do we share costs? Uh can we share a psychologist? Can we share a facility? Special education's a big component. A lot of schools even in our close area are sending students when they find a placement a good distance. Some of the schools in our surrounding area enrollments have dropped significantly. So they have the space, they have the building and for cost cutting measures. If we could staff those programs on a more regional level, it would benefit obviously budgets, but I also think benefit student learning and and that would be a big plus. So you you should start to hear more about that really soon. A few
037other areas that you may start to hear um some pressure put on the state to increase aid to schools. One with SRO funding. Uh at 110 I think it was just for bigger schools. You're hard to find a school right now across the state that does not have an SRO. How can schools get aid on that or will the state supply of funds to hire SRO's? So, that's an area special education and then obviously mental health support. So, how is a state going to help local school districts manage the increased costs which is greatly needed for mental health support across all schools. So you'll hear more about this probably throughout next year all those topics cell phone August 1st you'll hear because that's when the policy has to be in but those other things will
038continue and there will be some impact in genet uh if graduation measures change we may have to add some things we may not be able to mandate some things as you know we go above and beyond where you're met that may be something we're no longer able to mandate not saying you can't offer it But how do we go about that? So there'll be much change coming down in the future and more to come. So thank you. Do we have a sense of what the title one two three four the professional development costs that we received today are? We have a sense. Yes. Yes. We do know exactly. We do know what our budget is. I know it's not cents. It's more dollars. But yes, absolutely. We do know what is in our budget and
039what we are planning on in regard to what those fundings will provide in regard to uh staffing materials um external staffing um and programs. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? We have uh one. Oh, okay. Um, Meg Re. Yes. Um, hi everybody. My name is Meg Res. Uh, I am the mother of a second grader and a kindergartener here at PTS. I'm a resident of the town. Um, and I have two things that I've come kind of just wanted to bring attention and also um if there is kind of future steps, some planning and convening stuff, I'm happy to participate in conversation. Um, the first is the second grade. Um, I have been hearing murmurss nor where again not involved in decision-m not looking to place blame on anything but heard rumors around
040potentially going back to four classes uh as third graders. Um, I recognize that there's significant budget and financial not just constraints but also uncertainties that exist. Um, and I also what I'm looking for is essentially a reminder. I think I was here less a little over a year ago uh with at least two other parents who spoke with me and a room full of first grade parents um who were here to share and voice concerns around the behavioral challenges and impact negative impact on student learning that was happening not just in the third first grade classrooms all of them all four classes had extreme challenges you can look back at your notes and I encourage you to do so if there's an opportunity um if you're considering what this looks like Um there was an
041ability for the for the school to find funds and adjust things around. I don't know what magic you managed. Um but you were able to have five classes for the second grade year. Um which has managed the situation. Um it is not gone. And I think that's a really important thing to look at and especially when you're considering the next year, right? Fifth, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade. Like this group of kids is staying together. It is a big class. It is 66% boys is huge. It is something that the the district necessarily doesn't have all the time. Um and I'm very curious as to like what does that look like? Are we anticipating year after year coming to this point in the year where you don't know how many classes they're going to
042need to be successful in that situation? Um I it makes me nervous that we don't know or that there's back and forth or we're trying to figure out how this goes. You should know very clearly if there's evidence that there's they can be successful in four classes. And I don't know what evidence that you're looking at. I don't know what is being considered from everything that I've heard from families and the teachers and my own kids experience in this class. It's not that there isn't evidence to support that if we put them back into four classes, they're going to be successful. Um and just a reminder of where we were last year. Um this is an impact that is not just to the first grade classes. This is an impact to their teachers, to the
043entire elementary school staff, to the entire elementary school. These are students who were moved from their classes into third, fourth grade classes while while behavioral issues were being managed. This is significant and just nothing has changed. It has been managed because we know that lower smaller class sizes are more effective learning environments. But this is a situation that last year impacted the entire elementary school in a lot of negative ways. And if you're not confident that all of those the contributing factors are managed and are going to be successful to go, I highly encourage you to think about what that looks like to not go back to four classes next year. And if you want to or need to get back to four classes in the future, what is it you need to see to
044demonstrate that they're ready to be back in four classes again and to think about what that data actually looks like today. So I just want to put that out there. there is a lot of concern and you will hear a giant uproar from lots of people if four classes is what's announced and you're going to be managing that over the summer if that's something that comes through. So I just want to put it out there. I know it's an ongoing issue and I also think that it's something that can be managed thinking about what your budgets are, what your capacity is and what you're looking for from those classes and the teachers and the kids themselves to be able to get back into a larger classroom. Um the second the second issue that I have
045to interrupt you before you do second issue. Sure. Mrs. New and her grade level teams have done an extensive study on what the needs of the students are at each of the grade levels and they've addressed that grade two situation with appropriate staff. So, okay, well said issue addressed by a principal and the grade level team. Uh, and we're in a pretty good state doing seriously. What am I not going to say anything? Yeah, I don't want to put you on the spot, but So, the answer is yes. Yeah, we're maintaining five sections, right? But we also have we're adding an additional um special class, but it's called one class. So, that's in addition to five sections that will be at third grade. I I was mostly like I know and also consider that it's
046gonna be it's gonna be a question fourth grade. Okay. So I cut you off. I also bumped in on your time. So we got to watch that. Oh, sorry. So the other one is Universal PreK. So both of my kids went to Universal PreK. Um and I it came to my attention. Um my kids went to Pride and Joy as daycare too and then into the UPK system. Um we know Jennifer Dhy really well. She's we all know she's a phenomenal universal prek teacher. My concern is and I know there are in this the GCS has struggled transitioning from one UPK class to two. There have been a lot of bumpy things along the road. I am incredibly concerned with how UPK and also that teacher is being treated as not an employee of Jio
047Central School. um she is being asked to take 24 students, 24 three and four year olds is preposterous and it is not something that's going to transition to this school in this location. So why you would put it on a daycare is really overwhelming to me and daycare staff and employees. I know she's phenomenal. She's made an outstanding curriculum that has set students up for success here. It is that is outrageous and I get it for a year where you think there are unexpected things that happen. That's also the plan moving forward. That is a lot to put on employees that are not your employees. You're asking other things from the curriculum of of her curriculum. And I don't know if there's a plan for what does it look like to actually get two functioning
048phenomenal curricular UPK classes into this building in a short timeline as soon as your your classrooms are ready for that. I want to put that out as a concern. I don't know again no idea what's happening or what's being there. I just it's a vision for what is that program going to look like. You have a phenomenal successful thing right now. 24 three and four year olds is outrageous. That is not something that is successful for the kids. And you have a teacher again who you are not funding that has created amazing things. She has gone above and beyond and figured out how to manage 24, three and four year olds in the space. That is not that's not her purview. And they also it's a lot to put on her. Um and I worry
049that that's we're what does that look like as we move forward? And I want to put that out there that this is not sustainable. It's not how we should be treating our employees or our educators who will choose their teach their students because if she's if she doesn't know how to put together a room where she doesn't want to spend the eight hours it takes to figure out how you manage 24, three, and four year olds. What if she doesn't want to do that, which she shouldn't have to, it's the kids who suffer and she knows that. And so she goes above and beyond and spends every waking hour and then goes and works in a daycare at the end of the day. And I want to put that as not accept. Thank you. Anything
050you want to address there? Uh, no. Well said. And we Anything you want to address? No. Okay. All right. I know we're we're looking closely at UPK. So that's why I've asked each of these to weigh in at this point. We're not quite But thank you. Okay. That's it. uh audit finance. Don't worry, we haven't since last meeting. Okay. So, we'll meet again the first before the first meeting in June. We had a big day tomorrow. Kevin, anything on policy about that? Yes, we uh policy committee met tonight. our first um draft of the student cell phone policy, which is a mandate that came out through the governor's budget that we have to institute the student policy using cell phones and other learning devices and and how we're going to actually start to structure that
051so it fits all the needs of everybody. So that's we're working on that Wednesday. Okay, great. Thank you. No, no, we did that at home. Um, Mike, anything on ECEF? We met last week. It was a very productive meeting. GCEF is very generous and now has raised the grant. My plastic. We should define what GCEF is. Yes, it's a Dennisio centric education fund which is comprised of community members, school people and they just support our teachers and students. We have two ports of that. One being educational opportunities for students, the other is to support economically disadvantaged students. So just a it's a tremendous resource that our district's able to use both from an educational standpoint also meeting the personal needs of students. So we met last week they're going to increase the amount of grants
052up to 600 for a teacher to apply for. There has been also a lot of discussion what really falls under the grant proposal and what falls under e economically disadvantaged supporting students and families and so there's been a lot of progress made. I think when some fell in between it allowed the committee to take a closer look at it. Everyone had some valuable contributions they made to develop and some parameters that we will be going by in the future. So once again, just a terrific, terrific organization for our district. Yep. Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Any questions on GCF? Kevin and personnel, we've already done 7.02. Correct. 1036. All right. This time I'd like to ask for a consent motion for one item only as 7.03. So, appointment of a middle school high school
053press. Second. Okay. I'm gonna before I turn it over to Mike, we're going to take a vote. All in favor? I. Any oppos? Okay. 7.03 is approved. Mr. Vely would love to be here right now, but he's joining the students and staff on the grade eight trip to Washington DC. So, he did prepare something for me to read to everyone here tonight and I'm sure he's very excited to be in the hospital. I would like to sincerely thank the board of education, Mike Sal, Dr. Hunter, the dedicated staff, our incredible students, and the entire community for the opportunity to serve as a middle school high school principal. Having been part of this district for nearly two decades, I am deeply grateful and honored to continue serving in this new capacity. I look forward to building
054on the strong relationships we have developed over the years and working together to support our students and school community. Thanks for everything. All right. All right. We'll make him pay when he gets one. Yeah, we'll make our vacation. I think he's paying right now. Yeah, he's already paying, isn't he? Yeah, he paid full. I must say I'm not sad to be here. It's a great trip, but for many years this actually. All right, continuing. We would like to ask for consent motion for item 7.04 through 7.14. Second. Any questions on the personnel items? Appointment of special education teacher, bus monitors, acceptance, resignation, some changes there. Any questions on any of that? I I just like to say under 7.05 the acceptance asation of the teacher. Um I fully support Yeah. that that difficult decision. Um,
055you know, it's a wonderful thing to become a parent and you know, kudos to her for making that choice for her child and, you know, in the future, she can always be welcomed back. Very, thank you. I read her letter and I agree completely. It's a kind of bittersweet. Certainly, she uh labored over the decision but decided Parenting was number one. All right. All in favor? Any oppos? So under new business for consent motion for 8.02 to 8.06. Second. Um, any questions on the donations, any of the CPS, CSSE meetings? All in favor? Any opposed? Any Oh, yes. Great question. We want to acknowledge one. Yes. So, no, thank you. We just want to formally acknowledge that the donation with to the giving closet by Jane Flood is uh very much appreciated and uh thank
056you for reminding me to call that out. She's a former library media specialist here and uh certainly has a great interest in in supporting the giving closet that is driven by Courtney. Is it Courtney? Okay. Thank you. All right. Good. Yeah. Under the business office, I'd like to ask for consent motion from 9.02 through 9.04. Second. Any questions on the treasures report revenue status? No. No. Okay. I'm sure you've talked through that in finance. All right. All in favor? I any oppos? Uh, no. We had originally thought about having executive session, but we will not tonight. Okay. At this point, so we're going to pass on executive sessions. So, I'd like to ask for a consent motion for motion to adjourn at 86 a.m. Second. Anybody want to stay longer? No. All in favor? Okay.
057So move.