001You can make it. Welcome in the room. I'm online. Call the meeting. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States to the stands. One nation indivisible. Welcome again. Like to ask for consent motion on item 1.02 02 approve the regular board meeting agenda upon the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the May 5th, 2025 regular board meeting agenda. Second any questions on the agenda? All in favor? Any opposed? Like to ask for consent motion for item 1.03 03 approval of the April 21st, 2025 board meeting minutes upon the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the April 21st, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Second, any questions on that? All in favor? I post for consent motion on item 1.04, 04 approve the April 22nd, 2025 board meeting minutes on the recommendation of the superintendent to
002approve the April 27 2025 board meeting minutes. Second, any questions on the minutes of April 22nd? All in favor? Any opposed? So, I like to ask for consent motion on item 1.05, 5 approval of the April 22nd through the 24th, 2025 and April 28th through the 30th, 2025 board meeting minutes. Final recommendation over the superintendent to approve the April 22nd, 24 executive session board meeting minutes in the April 28, 30th, 2025 executive session board meeting minutes. Second lot of meetings. Any questions on on the executive sessions? No, just for everybody else, those were the the meetings that we had for interviews with superintendent candidates. So, we had um six minutes of various meetings just to keep everybody in the room. In fact, we will make a couple comments on that a little later. All in
003favor? Any post? you have here. Yes. Oh, there is nowhere. So, first off, I would like to start off by saying Cington, our teacher that is watching here now. And today is the start of the AP weeks that end on Friday the 16th. I'm wishing everybody the best of luck on your exams. We are proud to share that our very own Mr. Salatal has received the 2025 high school principles award at the end of April. The and next the high school art students were recently recognized for their exceptional creativity and skill and a jured art show organized by the Jendese Valley Council of the Arts. Their work was selected from a competitive pool of entries and showcased in a professional gallery setting. This recognition celebrates not only their artistic talent but also their dedication and
004hard work in the vis visual arts. The following students received a first, second or third place ripper. Emma Sher, Emma Conklin, Olivia, Musei, our branch, Aadia Winso, Izzy, Izzy Malber, Alicia, Alyssa Schlanker, Cheyenne Sergeant, Carly Hai, Elizabeth McDonald, Louis Golo, Abby Fowler, Jackson Willis, Colin Mulinari, and Olly Halquest. NJHS and NHS held their induction ceremonies in April. NHS welcomed 19 new members, and NJHS now has 27 new members. NJHS will be holding their last meeting and community service project on May 10th of this year at Temple Hill Cemetery. They'll be cleaning up the cemetery getting it ready for the Memorial Day weekend and the summer. Sophomore Lily Valentino was published in the Young Writers USA Story Contest entitled Fight Club. This competition was a scary short story of 100 words or less for 10 to
00518 year olds across the country. She competed with others around the nation and was published in the anthology. She wrote a creepy story about being watched entitled A Night at Home. Congratulations, Lily. Middle School Lifesavers Club has been busy creating a new bulletin board in the middle school hallway. The theme is grow through what you go through. The club members wanted a woodsy theme and wrote the names of every student on the middle in middle school on stars, flowers, or bunnies and then added some mushrooms surrounded by two big pine trees. The students in Lifesavers also created a teacher appreciation gifts. They created punny sayings that match the little bags of candy and treats attached to their signature lifesaver. Students will be putting them in teachers mailboxes this month. The class of 2026, the juniors
006are holding is holding a pancake breakfast fundraiser at Applebee's on Sunday, May 18th from 10 from 8 to 10:00 a.m. Tickets are $10 each. If you're interested in attending, reach out to one of the current juniors. The spring concert season has officially kicked off with last Thursday being the first concert with being concert band 4 through 12. This included collaborations between the middle school and high school and conducting debut by yours truly as a part of my internship of the middle school band. Speaking of collaboration, the Pitch Books were invited for a second year in a row to perform with the college a capella group Exit 8. Any questions? Jan, you did a great job conducting. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Shelina and I have been working together as part of
007my internship. It's fun. Thank you so much. Thanks, John. Thanks. John, can you put that one slide back up just briefly? I guess we'll take care of that now. Just uh call a little more attention to the guy sitting to my right here. Uh we had the honor Craig Billy and I had the honor of uh attending the uh the association the region 11 association and uh it was it was a real honor for us to attend and and see the recognition that Mr. Salotel received that night as high school principal of the year. Um I will say Mr. Bey gave an incredible speech that night. got people laughing a little bit and uh few things that Mike probably doesn't want to be repeated that said uh it was uh congratulations Mike we don't want
008you to miss out on this but thank you uh yeah I appreciate that and I was honored to be there and I thank my family and all of you for going as well but it's really a genial central award this is directly related to the wonderful students amazing and staff, supportive community. It's really your awards, board of education, the administrative team. Uh, it's like the coach that gets coaching here in the NFL, right? It's the players, it's people in the trenches. Those are our teachers, our students, the community. So, I got this on behalf of you. My name be on may be on it, but it should be genocidal central. And I've been very fortunate and I'll be forever grateful for all this wonderful school community. But really, I think it's important to know I
009mean we've got the best assistants, administrative team, students, staff has been just absolutely remarkable and obviously a very supportive board and community that allows us to achieve it at a high level. So thank all of you for really your award. Sure. Well done. Thanks. Uh, Livingston County Youth Bureau Awards. Everybody's hidden back there. I know. We're going to keep the awards and the celebration going. So, um, I'm gonna invite up with me Sarah Quincy. This is the program. I'll just have you pass around if you want to take a look. I tagged our students in here if you want to see who else was mentioned. Sarah Quincy, Jess, James. So, um, the youth bureau or the youth board is a community group that has a representative from each one of the towns in Livingston County.
010And Jeff Rose is our representative from Jennisio and Jace Merrick is our representative from Roy Plains. So they do a lot of work behind the scenes as being part of this youth board that we don't really get to see, but all of our students here get to benefit in a couple of different ways. So this night that we specifically were at was looking at recognizing youth in Livingston County based on a couple of criteria that the board finds value. So I'll let Jeff and James just talk really quick about what the youth board represents for Livingston County. Um, I've been on the youth board for probably like 15 years. Um, it's a lot of trying to figure out where to allocate funds that we get from the state. Um, uh, like youth court and probation,
011I think, are a couple examples. Uh, we also get the last couple years we've had a chance to, uh, kind of divvy up money that's been, uh, set aside for youth sports and things, which is nice. But yeah, the highlight of the board is always the teen recognition awards where um uh they try to recognize students who might not get that spotlight all the time like you know the captain of the three sports and the the lead in the drama club productions and things like that. They try to highlight students who do other things that kind of go maybe a little less noticed uh throughout the school day that you know persevere that show a lot of grit and determination um and things of that nature. So, they're all nominated by people within the community,
012teachers, pastors, neighbors, 4 leaders, lots of other uh places they come from. Um, and then there's addition to recognize them. They have a guest speaker that is often like a past recipient and, you know, it's just a way to recognize, you know, all the kind of like the unsung heroes in a sense of of the school districts in the area and the towns in that area. So this year's guest speaker was a previous recipient like you said who's the assistant uh principal from Honeyway Falls Lima. Um so it's kind of neat to see how people who stepped in these shoes as youth grow to be adults and continue to stay in the community and become members of the community that are kind of giving back to youth themselves. So uh we got to celebrate them.
013So we want to bring towards you tonight um the four candidates that were awarded. I have to say that, you know, I think there are many students in our district that are worthy. So, I hope that bringing this to you as well kind of brings to light how many students really could be nominated for award like this for the youth board in future years that you yourself could nominate or other teachers or parents or staff in school. So, first uh nominee is Anna Ferraro. So, Anna Ferraro was in my first grade class 11 or 12 years ago. Um and she never left. No. Um and she had a opportunity to have a study hall uh in her schedule and she chose to use it volunteering in my classroom. So last year she came down for
01445 minutes every single day and sat with first graders and read to them, wrote with them, gave them hugs, took them to the bathroom, took them for a walk, whatever they needed on that day. Maybe snuck them a piece of candy. I don't know. I wasn't always watching. But they love her so much. which I think there might have been some bribery of sweets in there. Uh and then this year when the opportunity came up again, she had two study halls in her schedule this second half of the year. And where did she find herself but in my classroom? So I wanted to recognize Anna because she checks a lot of boxes of criteria of a student that you really see achieving in multiple fields, but also it's the time away from those activities that
015she chooses to spend with kids here in the district and giving back to our own kids and her old teacher. So, um, for that reason and all of that you see up here, I nominated Anna Ferraro and she was recognized as one of our team recognition recipients. Next up, who couldn't be with here is Lizzie McDonald who was nominated by Sarah Frenzy. I wanted to um read to you all what I uh wrote about Lizzie um and it was in the um the what is it called? pamphlet that was handed up. Yes. Um, so when I think of Lizzie, so many positive characteristics come to mind. Perseverance, kindness, grit, integrity, intelligence, and so many more. I've known Lizzie for years as a student and community member, and she's one of the truest examples I have
016ever known of overcoming challenges while becoming a better person every single day. Lizzie is an avid reader who fought through difficulties with dyslexia, accepting with gratitude the support she received along the way. She works to the best of her ability on every assignment and misses no chances to learn even more than required because she has a passion for learning. Lizzy has worked all her life through struggles with autism spectrum and the result has been her continually growing understanding and empathy for others and her unfailing kindness. Not only has Lizzie refused to let any obstacles get her down, she has excelled. Lizzie was accepted into every single college she applied to, even some honors programs. Lizzie is planning to use her personal growth by helping others and hopes to become an art therapist. She does not
017brag or boast about her accomplishments and this amazing story can be easily missed. I hope she knows what an inspiration she is to those who know her. And hopefully you can see she really reflects a lot of what what Sarah said, right? Giving back to the community and I look forward to seeing where she goes. Thanks, Sarah. Thank you. Shine. Thanks. So again, I'm Jim Americ. Hi Kevin. Hi. How are you? Good. Good. I nominated Shine Sergeant. I'll just read briefly uh what I we wrote about her. Actually, my wife, she gave me a hand doing this. But Shine Sergeant is sophomore at Jio High School. A genuine role model Livingston County. She's an example of hard work. It is an integral part of shaping youth in the community. Over the years, Shine's been involved
018in many clubs at school, including band chorus, and student council. As her commitment to athletics and academics increased, she was unable to continue in extracurricular activities, but remains involved in drama club. Um, an academic, Shannon pushes herself to reach her dream of becoming an architect, taking AP art courses and specialized classes increase her knowledge of structural design. Her high academic achievement is displayed through her membership with Junior National Honor Society. Cheyenne Cheyenne's true passion, however, is athletics. She's a member of the varsity indoor and outdoor track teams, varsity soccer team, and plays um on Premier, which is a club soccer team. Cheyenne's love of soccer has transformed her into additional leadership and opportunities. She volunteers her time as a youth coach with the Bronze Bears soccer program. Um imparting her own words and love spot
019and shape or imparting her own love into the sport, shaping her youth in the community. That's why she was nominated for Gro. So, thank you, Shy. Thanks, Lauraai. Uh, real quick, Lauraai is an all-around representation of what it means to be a good teen leader. She's involved in sports and fine arts at Jennilio School District. Laura is a member of chorus, plays multiple string instruments and orchestra. Has been featured in several drama club productions. Additionally, she's an athlete on the cross country teams as well as an outdoor and indoor strat. Despite her participation in many extracurricular activities, she's able to maintain a high academic achievement. As a member of the National Junior Honor Society, she's a positive role model to those around her. She's responsible and hold her employment. Um Wings also is a babysitter
020for the American. Thank you. Okay. And uh she's respons achievements, but her unique uh and bright spirit that she also has. Thanks, Laura. Congratulations. Well, we just want to also recognize you for your support of our youth in our district and many of the policies that you put in place give them the chance to be successful and have many of the opportunities that you see up here that they participate in. So, please celebrate with us in um congratulating these four youth. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much for all you did. under. All right. So, we have a few updates to go over tonight. Um, a lot of it obviously goes back to some leadership and things that our students do and some other opportunities for them to do that. Um, [Music] thanks. Uh, so
021here are the four change the batteries. Uh, board of education student representative. Um, a 2027 global travel opportunity. uh a big blue little blue uh heartfelt tearjerker that you're gonna view. Uh it's a really amazing thing and uh you save that for last so everyone can cry, see the amazing things that happen, but it's a a great thing. You'll you'll really love the video. And then obviously uh staff appreciation week and just some things that we're doing this week uh to show the appreciation and all the hard work and dedication that our our staff put in uh every day and and go above and beyond to do the things that uh our school better and our students more successful. All right. Uh so you obviously probably know this student represented on the board of ed
022education starting July 1st. Um every board in New York State will have that. Um, so we are currently working on getting two rep we're getting two representatives for you. Um, is what we're working on right now. I met with all these sophomores and juniors a couple weeks ago in ELA classes and kind of went over it with them. Um, explain the process, explain the opportunity. Um, spoke about having student voice and being able to share uh things that are going well in our school and things that we can do to to be better and make our school better. um and be part of that and sit here and have those conversations with you as a board of education from a student perspective and student uh voice in that. Um there's an application uh which is
023online. So it's it's a Google form that students are filling out. I think I have like five applications um already submitted. Um it's about five questions just on their leadership ability. Um what they think what they could bring to the board of education, how they could best do that. Um, and then a letter of recommendation from a a staff member or someone in the community that's not related to them. Um, just about their leadership qualities and um, what they can see there. Um, so that's in the process. The closing date is uh, May 9th for that application process. Uh, we'll do some interviews with the applicants and then hopefully we'll have a couple in place for you and then there's a training I think on June 9th um, that they will go to and uh,
024learn how to be a a student board member. Um, but it's a great opportunity. I do think it'll be beneficial and I think you know like I said a lot of them um were interested in it and I you know it's a lot of our students are involved in a lot of things. Um so that'll be a little bit of a challenge but uh you know we'll work through it and obviously having two two people on it I think will will help out to make sure that there's always someone here um to to give a student perspective on any questions on that or the process or anything like that with that. So hopefully we'll have that in place and ready to go for you. Um so Chris Petri uh social studies teacher new hireer uh
025this past year um came to me and asked about an opportunity um that he would like to offer our students. Um so he's going to share a little bit about this um opportunity. It's not a formal request uh for the trip right now. It's more about um are you on board to support this um so that he can move forward and start the planning process. Um, and then we'll probably come back early next year, probably in like September, um, with a formal request for the trip and the itinerary and those kinds of things. He has a lot of those things in place. Um, also about the company that he's considered using, um, the tour company, just so I want to make sure they're on there. So, he's going to share some insurance pieces and things
026like that so you can see how that all works. Um but uh he's gone above and beyond and uh we've reached out to the art department Beth Adams and also the foreign language department Katon RDE. Um so it's kind of a collaborative effort um trying to reach uh all different subject areas and content areas to as one to offer this opportunity for students. So I'm going to turn it over to Chris Petri. So Chris, welcome. And all you and John's gonna have to probably awesome. Um so I actually was fortunate enough to go through and have my own experience in high school um with this same exact trip. Um it was a huge experience in my life. It really shaped how I think about the world and after being able to work with the sophomores
027um of Jio, it really inspired me to go through and try to give them that opportunity that I was so fortunate enough to have. Um, so what I was planning, um, is a trip for February break of 2027. Um, so two years from now or a little short of two years from now. Um, but our plan would be to visit Paris, Normandy, and London. Um, over the span of about 8 days. Um, so we would go through and use the EF tours uh, company. Um, that's what I used in high school. I've been working with them for a couple months now. Um I have a specific represent uh representative uh that I've been working with. Um they've been super helpful. Um so just an quick overview. Um if we could go back one slide. Thank
028you. Uh the trip would take place over 8 days like I said. So February break that year would be around the 14th to the 21st. Um but there's a give or take day as of right now depending on traveling and booking. So we go to Paris, Normandy, and London. And then so in Paris students would have the opportunity to see sites such as the arct triumph uh Eiffel Tower um Napoleon's tomb, the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Palace of Versailles and the Lou. Um so we want to be able to include both global history. Um I always start off my year teaching about Versailles. So I really want to go through and do that with the students. Um and then they move obviously is one of the great art museums in the world. Um,
029and then students will spend two full days exploring the city and really diving into um, the culture. So, a big piece of this trip is not only the guided tours with EF, but having time to go through and explore the city in small groups and being able to walk around and going to different restaurants and going to I went to a a small bookstore. I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I was in high school. Um, and just really exploring the city and exploring the culture. I'm just getting like chills thinking about it. So excited. Um, next slide, please. Uh, so in Normandy, students will have the opportunity to see the beaches of of the D-Day invasion and the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Um, we will also go to the Cien Memorial,
030which is one of Europe's top history museums. Um, so when I went on this trip, we were able to go to the beaches, and I have sand in my classroom from the beaches of Normandy that I pass around every year. Um, I have a story about going to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial and finding one of my relatives names on the wall of the missing and the cemetery playing taps and taking down both of the flags at the cemetery and me being able to hold them. And these are just, you know, personal experiences that the the trip gives students the opportunity to perhaps go on, right? I mean, I think that there's just endless opportunities that we can go through and do on this trip and hopefully future trips as well. Um, after Normandy,
031we'll go through and cross the English Channel by ferry, being able to see the cliffs of Dover. Um, and then we will also have a walking tour of London and being able to see sites like Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the Houses of Parlor. Um, so I just think that there's so many opportunities in this trip to see these global sites and be able to bring that back with them and be able to apply that to their learning as well and really ground themselves in what they learn in my class, what they learn in their foreign language classes and what they learn in their art classes. All right. So, um the cost, sorry, I think I'm missing the slide. I apologize. Um, so the total cost is around it's $4,200. I believe it's $4208. Um,
032and EF sets it up to break down into monthly payments um for students to make it more applicable and affordable. So, this includes roundtrip airfare, ground transportation, full-time local director that is familiar with all the cities uh that we will visit, six dinners and breakfasts um throughout the trip, and then taxes and gratuitities as well. Um it also includes the global protection insurance that will go in later. Um we also ask students to bring a recommended amount for spending money because they will have to pay for souvenirs um and lunches. But all museums that we will do or tours that we will do will be covered by that grant total um that I mentioned. Um so that recommended amount that we were thinking was around $250 American dollars. And we would like students to be
033able to go through and exchange this money prior to the trip in order to stay away from ATMs and standing in long lines for the ATMs and have everything prepared. Also, it gives students a budget when they go abroad. Um, which is another thing to learn on this trip as well. Um, so two opportunities. Oh, insurance. Okay. And so there is a risk-free enrollment period. So for new travelers, if we get this ball rolling and are able to sign people up for the first seven days, if they decide that they actually don't want to go through, they get a full refund. Um after that, uh there are percentage refunds as we go through up until 110 days before the trip. Um there are also insuranceances in case something happens. So there's a $50 uh $50
034million general liability policy. The peace of mind insurance is up to 45 days prior to the trip. We can alter the trip dates or destination in response to terrorism or other world events like natural disasters. um this got instituted because of COVID. So trips had to be altered and then global protection and then a search charge or or an extra charge for global protection plus this is available to all travelers. So this covers medical expense coverage and tour cancellation coverage. Next slide. Yeah. Um so fundraising. So students would get their own personal fundraising page through EF. So EF sets this up for students. It kind of acts like a GoFundMe for them to help fund raise um money for themselves to make it easier for students to pay for this trip because it is quite
035a cost. Um so there's that. And then we I'm also open to working with um the other teachers to be able to come up with fundraising ideas for ourselves um in case this won't get the job done uh because we really want to open this up to as many students as possible. Scholarships are also available. So the global citizen scholarship fund. So the EF educational tours awards $100,000 in scholarships to students across the country. So any of our students can apply for the global citizen scholarship which is granted on both a merit and needs basis. So those are both two opportunities to raise money to pay for this trip. Um okay. Are there any questions? Is this just for juniors and seniors or are you opening up to all high school students? So we are
036thinking of advertising this to the 9th and tth graders so that by the time 2027 comes around it would be the seniors and the juniors to go on a trip. And my thought is then to do a rolling um kind of advertisement to do a trip almost every two years if this takes a Is the insurance cost included in the 4208? Yes. I really commend you for doing this. I I too got to do a similar experience uh like this when when I was at high school and um it's lifechanging really is. So So thank you for for being I'm sure you've thought about students and parents will have to have like thorough rules and regulations what they can and can't do. parents would need to sign off and what happens if something does happen
037over there where a student misbehaves, what is going to be the policy to get them back home. Just things to think about as you're planning. But Chris, I mean, I I fully support any opportunity for our students and others to to travel abroad and uh spend time as you have and others have. And you know, we we did this for a while. We've had a number of trips this from the district, but obviously some things happened in the last few years that caused us to kind of get away from that, but it's good to see it come back. And I I commend you and I commend, you know, the work you're putting into it. So, thank you. Good luck. I mean, anybody else sense of the board? We're okay. Looks like we all like travel
038overseas and enjoy it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Before you jump, just congratulations on coach of the week. Thank you very much. Perfect. So, yeah, thank you very much for supporting that. Um, obviously Chris came with the idea and really wanted to to offer that opportunity for our students and before he jumped in too far and moved forward with it, we wanted to make sure that we had the support of you as the board to to start the process and move forward with the company and uh get going there. So, thank you very much for that support and uh we'll probably be back early in September with the official uh itinerary and vote for the travel. All right. All right. So, Big Blue, Little Blue, we have complete Oh, no. We have successfully completed
039our first year. And if there was ever a trying moment when we met, these pictures are all from our final get together. when we met in this moment and and you watched the video and just even as sad to say it was the tears too of will I ever see you again and will we ever be in together doing it and it just the the impact was so clear. This affected shy of a hundred students between bigs and littles. Um and it it really it was a tremendous program and we look forward to most of these bigs who are returning next year who are we'll miss the graduating ones but um who are returning we'll invite them back as bigs and then we'll open it up in September to more bigs and hopefully start the
040program a little sooner in the year. So thanks to Carly Hi. We have this lovely video that she put together. She said it was really easy and I technology wise I'm like okay sure cuz it looks very complicated but we can cue that video in the The light of the [Music] night of the night. Don't be alone. [Music] First time I saw that I was like, "Okay, please really just thank you for your support." Um, as we transition to our our final slide about staff appreciation, when you hear the term, you know, it takes a village. This program took a village and it was only successful because of that village. So, thank you to everyone who was a part of it and we can't wait for next year. Thank you. Excellent. Great job. I think
041did a lot of work, a lot of planning um and we had a good group of staff members that really engaged and uh you know from elementary to middle school, high school and just really came together. So it was a a great initiative and a great thing for our student body to do that and and build that connection between elementary and middle. So so great job. Thank you. Uh GCF staff appreciation. Uh it's this week. Um obviously Megan just talked about that a little bit. Um, but we have some things planned each week um that's up there. Uh, we have some shout out things uh where te students can write some shout outs and leave a little note for uh staff. We have some things around the building that the students can rip off and
042give to teachers as well. Um, so really just trying to promote that uh with our student body as as well as us um here at school just to promote it and really thank our our staff for all their hard work and their dedication um that they do on a daily basis for our students and our community. So, we just wanted to to end with that and thank them for their all their work and support. Great. Well done. Thank you. We don't have anyone sign. It's already been said a couple of times tonight, but it can never be said enough that it is staff appreciation week. And we we are so thankful for the dedicated, talented, and committed staff members that we have here at Jio Central. They come to work each day with a passion
043and energy to best serve our young people all the way from preK up to 12th grade. We we have a tremendous commitment level from our staff and again uh this should be every day if for staff appreciation as everyone knows uh the world of education is not easy and the teachers are the front line and the staff are the front line that each and every day have to come give their very best oftent times in generio appreciated but sometimes even across our nation not as appreciated at the level they serve. ly deserve. So I want to uh on behalf of Dr. Hunter and me also extend the deepest level appreciation for our staff. Thank you for all you do. I can just uh before you jump on behalf of the board of education too, we
044certainly I want to echo what Mike said. You know it's it's one week but in reality it's it's every day throughout the year. um what you do for this district, the faculty, the staff, the administration, all of you above. Um we we we can't thank you enough for your dedication, for your hard work, and and uh I know there's a lot of festivities to some degree planned for this week. Board Bobby has has coordinated on behalf of the board of education with PTSA and the admins and so on to uh I think our day is Thursday. So we will uh we'll we'll provide you on some recognition throughout the week, but just tonight we want to make sure we go on the record and say fully that we thank you and appreciate everything you did.
045Okay, just a little update on testing information. As it was previously mentioned, the AP exam started today. So, uh that certainly is a big sign the end of the school year is coming. Our New York State ELA and math assessments have been completed and science is up next. Friday is the end of 35 weeks. So I know our teachers at the high school level that have regions exam will start planning for the reviews and supporting students get them well prepared to be successful in the regions exam. So the end of the year is here when all the testing starts popping up. Another update real briefly, the New York State budget, another extension was granted last week, so we thought we'd know the facts by now. We certainly don't. We're hoping we get the final numbers
046very shortly. Uh we have based our budget on what the early allocation that was committed to Genio Central. So that's how we started our budget. If we have some unexpected increase in what is allocated to us, we will certainly put that in reserves and use that for district priorities moving forward. What do we know? The cell phone ban is going to get approved. There is absolutely no question about it. After the bill is officially approved, we will wait to see what are the requirements for each district. Right now, we haven't really seen the requirements. I did attend some meetings where I got a basic idea that what does it mean belltobell? How do we store cell phones? So, there'll be some options for districts. Um but we'll have to really make sure we understand what
047the requirements are. Eventually it will be BOE approved. We will put together a comprehensive plan involve a lot of the key stakeholders in developing a policy to get approved by all of you. But uh right now the July 1st is still the deadline. I don't see that changing. So, we'll have to really probably work at a pretty aggressive pace once we get all the requirements. It appears school lunches are also going to be fully funded this year. So, that's another um priority for districts and it appears that's going to take place. What don't we know? And uh it's relatively big. We don't know how any cuts from the federal government are going to impact local budgets as well as the state budget. We'll have to wait to see as that continues to roll out, but
048right now we're in a good place through great planning of staff and the team to be able to get our budget out there and anything that adds to it. This just be a bonus for our district. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. ladies. Uh Greg, anything from finance audit? Yes, we met just prior to this meeting. Um got a pretty busy agenda which stepped us through um very well. Um talked just in brief talked about the I think you've all heard about the some issues with the pool. So talked about how that's being addressed. Um, and what that looks like. I talked about a grant, an e- rate grant for licensing the wireless network. We'll get basically get this all done for not too much money out of the district's pocket. Um, kind of took
049a first look at the reserve fund plan. Um, got some paperwork on that. I think we're all going to kind of contemplate on that. We'll our next meeting in the beginning of June, we will make a recommendation to the board which then we would hope the board would pass in that that first meeting in June so that uh by the by the end of the year here we'll have a a policy and we'll know how to allocate any any extra funds we have here at the end of the year. [Music] Um then we also talked about um which I was surprised we never really have an official policy in place but we so we talked about some spending limits that we would have to go to three bids at at certain levels and we'll have
050some recommendations there too as well as uh looking forward into capital project and what you know for change orders what would be within the scope of what the administration could approve and what would the board would need board approval. I don't be honest about it. So, we'll have some recommendations after our next meeting on those policies as well. Thank you. Okay. Anything on policy? Well, we're going to have a meeting on the 19th, I think, is our next board meeting. I was scheduled for that date. We've got a busy summer line ahead of us. We've got to get policy in place for the student representatives to the board. Um, obviously the cell phone policy would be forthcoming and a couple others that we need to have ready for even earlier for the June board meeting.
051So, we'll start that one. We'll pick back up where we left off. Okay, great. Thank you. Anything? We have an upcoming GCEF meeting. So, I'll have a report at the next board meeting as well. They continue to support our students and teachers with daily ongoing throughout the district. So this time of year it's very evident with all the trips, professional development, different things going on. So once again, we thank all the GCM committee members for their hard work. Great. Thank you. it. Um, while we're talking about committee reports, it it feels like we've been on a separate committee for a while and I thought I would throw in a little bit of an update at this point. The the board of education has concluded its interviews with superintendent candidates. We have um completed a a
052rather lengthy and long process for the last three weeks. We have um had variety of breakout sessions that led from 23 down to eight and then down to the final three. The final three we opened it up to the community and uh we had stakeholder groups who interviewed during the day. We each of the three candidates then um spent some time in the auditorium with community members for a Q&A session and then met with the board each night uh while they were here. So we have concluded that process. We I guess we ask a little bit more patience as we now go through the legal discussions that take place and they have to in all these cases we get uh lawyers involved and they're going to go through their discussions and uh on behalf of
053the board I will be representing us to see where those discussions go. Our plan and our hope is that uh this month we make that uh announcement. In the meantime, while the lawyers are working on their work, we have started a press release and started additional uh planning for eventual meet and greets, if you would, if I can use that phrase, with various community groups, community members, internal, external, and and so on. So, that process is is in in its final stages here. So, I just wanted and I did send out a note earlier today to all those gosh three dozenish people who participated in the interviews from student uh representatives, faculty, administrators, community members, parents, and so on that we've we've had as part of that process. So, I just sent out a little
054thank you note to them earlier today, but that's it. feels like it's been a separate committee. But I thank everybody for their time. Um those who were not part of that interview or email uh today, if you're listening, thank you as well because there was roughly 25 to 35 people who showed up in the auditorium each day, which was really nice. All right, with that Kevin under personnel like to ask for consent motion for items 8.02 02 through 8.08. Sorry. So, um before I open it up, I just wanted to let's see which ones are they. We have one relatively early retirement announcement. Um just wanted to acknowledge with regrets but at the same time going to be here a while uh for Jen Bugby. We appreciate all the work and even though we do
055have her for I think two more years but that said we make recognition and oh here it is under 8.02 02 just to acknowledge um Brad Leman has decided to move on to other opportunities. So we want to thank Brad for his u his time here is his his efforts and and his contributions. Any other comments? Any notes or personnel? Okay. Motion made second. All in favor. Any oppose? So, um, under other appointments, I'd like to ask for a consent motion for 9.02 through 9.04. Second. Any questions on any of the That's coordinators, T coordinator, extracurricular coordinators. Okay. All in favor? I post. So move. Under section 10, new business like to ask for consent motion 10.02 through 10.08. Second. Any questions on any? So we certainly thank those in made donations for the whale
056watch and others. Hello there. Any post? So under number 11, the business office would like to ask for a motion for consent for items 11.02 to 11.03. Second. Okay. Any questions on checks? Classroom activity buttons. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Under item number 12, like motion for adjournment at 7:50 p.m. Second, anybody want to stay longer. Baby move.