001rise through pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, thanks everyone for joining us on this fine May evening. First item on the agenda, we have a capital project update from Turner Construction and CSArch, so I'll go ahead and turn it over to those folks. >> Hi there. >> My name is Mike Andrews with CSArch, principal in charge of the project. Thank you very much for having us here this evening to present an update on the design project and the schematic design report. Um Kyle is the project manager, Kyle Smith, on the project. He's going to be doing the presentation today. I'll be here in the back
002next to Sydney if there are any questions. Um Kyle worked with the district on the 2015 capital project. He's been engaged um with a number of projects with the district, so we're all in good hands. Thank you. >> Thank you. It's been 10 years. Thank you for the invitation back. I'm excited to be back. Um you know, working with Turner again, standing next to them through the project, so um yeah, I'm going to go through the schematic design, uh the um the the presentation. Um you will have the full schematic design if you don't already have it the board to review. Uh it's very much in detail, much more in detail than this presentation, uh but this is the high level. Any questions, please please stop, let me know throughout the presentation. So the goal
003today is to review the schematic design report, uh your project phases. There are two phases in the project, uh project schedule, uh and then review uh the individual scope items uh that were in the uh referendum voters. What is an SD report? An SD report is the first deliverable of any kind of project. It is, let's say, 30% of the project. It's where the design team comes in, gathers information, more information. We meet with end users, admin, teachers if the project is is focused on academics. And we gather information what we call programming meetings. So, we've already met with a lot of end users already. So, back in March we met with the kitchen staff and director. And then later on that same day we met with the admin and the business office and the
004administration area as well as speaking with end users for the secure vestibule. In April, we met with a number of individuals to discuss Husky Field and the requirements related to that portion of the work. Those meeting minutes are attached to the back of these current design report. Project phasing. The goal of project phasing, I believe you've had project phasing in in all of your projects to date. But if you're new to project phasing, design team works with the construction manager and with district needs and we split the project as needed. It's typically required when you're trying to get a project out earlier, out to bid or SED approval, to get project work completed prior to summers or to get in that summer. So, this example is phase one is is heavily focused around Husky Field.
005The goal is to get contractors on board and get better numbers during that time so that we can start work prior to winter starting. All right, we want to prep the field, get them ready, so when after winter and spring starts we can hit them hard and and put the turf down. We believe that would save the district one whole season of sports and going out earlier that way. Phase two of the project, the majority of the project is going to be submitted in unusual design schedule and then that again will go through. Here's the schedule I talked about. So, again, phase one going out to SED in August 14th of this year. Construction date will start October. We're seeing construction date, but really that's when contracts get put together. We're going to work with
006the district and present people here on this field and the minimal work on storefronts at Park Terrace and try to get that work again done before or start before the winter. Phase two, a large portion of the project we're going to go out to SED in October. We are seeing more and more projects be successful the earlier you can bid them. All right. Five years ago it was pretty normal to go out to bid January, February. That was the normal time frame. We are seeing with limited um with a better opportunity to get contractors that are just completed with your summer work or other summer work be able to bid it and have manpower right away. It also allows you to be able to order long lead items and make sure they're there. Summer construction
007schedule is very small. Uh so, we want to set up Honeoye City School District with the best opportunity to have a successful project and bidding it early as possible. Uh I'm going to go through the work. I'll do my best to identify again phase two and phase one. Um there is a lot of duplicates. There is This project was very focused on a number of things and you'll see that in the first few. You already know that cuz you went through and voted in the referendum. Uh at phase two with the high school, we're working with replacing the walk-in freezer along with the kitchen equipment. Uh the roofing scope here is to finish up the roof as in the graphic. It's about 29,400 sq ft of roofing. Uh all the uh school uh buildings uh
008will have replacement of interior corridors. So, all interior doors. You'll see that again on on a lot of these slides, but it's all going to provide safety and security throughout the district, and that's the main focus for the cores on the interior doors. Your boiler systems are focused around the boilers, the valves at the boilers, and then your condensate neutralizer at the boilers. You also in this building have what's going to be an ongoing theme or providing uh cooling system in your IT closets in order to cool down those that equipment so that it doesn't overload and then uh short out on you. And then this building uh gymnasium air conditioning. The middle school. Um site related, provide a new bus shelter. That's going to be at um your entrance of the middle school that
009is between the high school and middle school that's at your ADA ramp and stair. That project work was done in 2016-17. Uh we're going to replace uh they're providing new coating system on the track. Um your envelope again, replace the entire roof. This is a big roof project here at the middle school. Um and um we're going to replace that that spray foam roof system. Um secure uh security and programming needs. Uh as the graphic shows, we're going to provide a secure vestibule at the district office. This is the last entrance to any of the buildings that lacks that secure entrance ability. Uh so, that's going to be included in the project. Uh flooring replacement at the admin areas as well as the BOCES in the next slide. And then provide electric shades at the
010glazing and center pods. Continuing on with the middle school scope, uh we're going to renovate and reconfigure the bus the business offices in this space downstairs. Uh kitchen equipment. Um we are um going to come in and provide an upgrade to your audio and video equipment in this room. This is your conference B20. So, uh provide cameras, microphones, secondary TVs uh to really bring the space up to you know what we're seeing standards on other school districts of this size. Um removing stairs. So, the stairs has been something that we've focused on for some time. Uh it's been a couple projects, but um we're going to be focusing on reviewing the stairs, infilling that area, uh and then in this project actually removing atrium stairs. Uh Mike Andrews is going to give a little more
011detail on that. >> Yep. So, the there are a couple of fire stairs exiting out of the second floor of the middle school. The stair in question that goes down to the atrium um does not have an exit sign. It was not considered a a legally required exit at the time the building was designed. Um it's communicating stair, but there are four other stairs that are reasonably close to it. We think that we are then filling the pit area and finishing off it's a much nicer space and it's a more usable um vestibule space we don't have the stair continuing down. So, what we've done is closed off the second floor mezzanine. Um we are um hopeful that SED will approve the stair being removed. It's it's not a common thing to remove a stair.
012Um this is not an exit stair, so we're we're comfortable making the argument that it can go. Um and if if SED doesn't feel that it's safe or in the best interest of the district, the stair will obviously remain. They'll force us at that point to put an exit sign on it and enclose it within a 1-hour rating. So, it won't be open to the to the um vestibule or it won't be open to the atrium anymore. The reality is we'll trade the scope of the demo for the enclosure around it. So, we don't see one being significantly more expensive than the other, but I just wanted to be up front that if the goal is to remove the stair, we're going to push to have that happen, but ultimately the authority having jurisdiction from
013a code standpoint is the state education department. And we just don't know at the end of the day whether they're going to be comfortable with the stair going. >> We arrived at that conclusion. Uh we spoke to the board about it because we thought that getting rid of that stairs allows uh more usability to that center area. If the stair stays, then so does the pit. >> That's correct. >> So, that's that's why we decided to go, "Let's see if we can remove it rather than enclose it if the cost be the same." The board's still in support of that. So, if we can't remove it, we have to enclose it? >> Yes. >> Pit still has to stay even? >> If it has to stay, then they're going to say it's non-code compliant because
014it doesn't have an exit sign and it's not in a 1-hour rated enclosure. >> We can review the pit. The pit's separate than the stair. So, to add add on what Mike was saying, so this never came up in the past uh near state finally um uh published their uh manual standards uh I think last year. Uh and in that, one of the key line items was that the state has uh the authority to require school districts to enclose stairs whether it's in the project or not. All right? So, um we are reacting to that and that's why it's something that we want to address. Um it was nothing that was required in the past. That's why it was never addressed. It came up in the past projects, but it is it is new in
015that new uh planning standard. >> Yeah, and in both in the 2020 project and the 2015 capital project, SED brought up that stair specifically. We're we're on a timeline where it's going to eventually be forced um to happen. They didn't force us to do anything with it in 2020 or 2015, but it did come up as a review comment. >> Yep. >> Is the space usable? >> Yes. Either way, that is >> Yes, either way. Thanks, Don. Thanks, Mike. >> Um continuing on We're looking to replace the the flooring in the middle school auditorium, the stage. Um CSR has been successful using black panel system. There's a number of options, but really what the goal is is that 4 ft by 8 ft sheets that allow you to put it down quickly and pick it
016up quickly as needed uh for replacement, but it's good for durability and then easy replacement. Uh we're seeing a lot of districts with the traditional hardwood flooring once it's damaged and and beaten up, it's costly to keep replacing that. Uh we'll provide more information to the district on our recommendations and other school districts that have it. Um and then again, let's just like anything, we'll provide our recommendations and information the district can make the decision moving forward. Boulevard Elementary School phase two. Um got quite a bit of work in here. Site work, we're going to focus on restriping the drop-off loop. Uh to provide a parent student loading uh to provide for parent student loading and commercial vehicle deliveries deliveries. Um uh on the other side of the building, we're going to be restriping the
017faculty parking lot, providing new light poles, and relocating the dumpsters. And extending that parking area to for a dumpster pad. Uh first reuse that space. We have some repointing of brick in various areas. Um I think probably the biggest visual impact of this building is going to be replacing the atrium or entry skylight and roofing system. Um if you've spent any time in that building, that that is very hot in that hallway between the school and the gymnasium. Um New York tester team will come up with a solution to replace that entire atrium and entry way and provide a more climate neutral or climate friendly space in there with our engineering team. We're still in the process we're very early on in design but we're going to be presenting uh very quickly here material options,
018renderings, signage for the district to review and and give direction on. Um clearly we still are going to provide natural light in there. Just look at um sun angles and provide the best angles possible without providing more solar heating. Uh kitchen equipment um in this building as well, the cores. Um there are areas that uh were not completed in the prior projects of um putting uh wall tile in the corridor walls. That will be completed in this project. Boilers, valves, neutralization, IT closets. Kingsborough Early College Secondary School phase two. Uh we're going to provide a new digital building entrance sign. Um whoops. Yes, uh provide a through traffic no double parking signage. Uh if you've been down there that is pretty tricky still with cars. Uh we're going to um review that with our our
019civil engineers and they'll take a look at that again. Uh kitchen equipment, cores, uh condensate neutralizers, boilers, valves, IT closets and then replace the the gym we were talking about. Banneker In this building we got kitchen equipment, the cores, your boiler systems, the IT closets, the valves at the boilers and again the condensate neutralizer. Park Terrace so phase one. All right. Um I just want to point out again so this is the earlier one that's going to SED. Uh this is you're replacing your field with synthetic turf, uh your batting cages, bullpens, uh all the fencing, uh extending your 88 parking lot if feasible, and then also repaving your access road down to South Kingsborough Ave to that concession stand again if budget allows in the project. Uh our civil engineers came out um 2
020weeks ago to take a look at that. They're also going to come out on the 20th again to to take a look at the space. We had a very uh positive meeting uh with a uh field turf uh representative uh and I think we're on a uh good direction for this first phase. Uh in order to get state aid on site work, you have to complete 10,000 $10,000 minimum of work inside the building or at the envelope. So, that's why we're going to replacing a storefront door systems, doors, um and the glazing around it uh at the lower level at Park Terrace. That would allow the district to receive that aid in phase one. Phase two. Uh again, providing new digital building entrance sign. Uh we're going to reconfigure the parent drop-off area and bus
021loop and parking lot. That is going to be a fairly large site-related project. Uh um so, all the park all the parking and um vehicle circulation on top as well as the parking down below. Um building and kitchen equipment, door cores, um boilers, valves, neutralization, and IT closet cooling. Moving on to Nico, a lot of this is very similar uh but really focused on keeping the building operational. Uh the cores and interior doors, and then your boiler system and IT closets. Over in your transportation building, uh we did with move one scope item to phase one in order to try to get that completed uh ahead of time. That's replacing your um um the fuel oil tank um at that building. Phase two cores, boiler systems, valves, IT closets, and neutralizers. And that's it. I
022forgot my slide for questions, so I have no questions today. Sorry. But no, any questions anybody has, again, we're going to put up our our standard, you've seen it in the past. If CSRS is new to you, you'll see the new ST report. It's very descriptive in what we have and what we're providing. We do want to sit down with the stakeholders as we have in the past and go through that report. We have questions, we know you're going to have questions. And our goal is to move forward in design development next phase and move forward with what the district is going to work on. >> Should be no surprises anyway. I think it's going to be a great project. I think it's the other ones, safety, efficiency, functionality, and certainly create some showpieces that
023the whole community can use. When's the fence going around park? Would that be phase one or phase two? If you mentioned that, I didn't hear it. >> Phase one for around Husky Field is going to be phase one. So anything on the lower end that's to deal with the turf field, the fencing, or >> Okay. >> batting cages, bullpens, all phase one. >> Got you. The fence that goes up along Park Terrace by the practice field, it's as old as the rest of it. That's not in this project? >> It is, it's currently not in our project right now. As always, we're willing to take a look at anything the district wants to take a look >> Yeah, it's a good I just think it's going to be an eyesore we do everything else and
024then you have that one run of fence from Husky to the entrance of Park Terrace. That's probably more visible than any other fence we have for the community. So, there's something to earmark. >> Yeah, we'll take a look at it. I mean, there is a design contingency built in. I mean, that's what I just explained to you. So, >> Just to be clear, we would do that in phase two. So, that that would come online after the turf field and the fence around the turf field that would be replaced. The larger fence that goes up the hill towards Park Terrace, towards the building, we would add in phase two. >> Okay. Yep. >> All right. >> Okay. >> I could No, thanks. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, everybody. >> Thank you. >> It's our next
025item. We have a presentation for a new club, Husky's Attic. I'm going to turn it over to Danielle Freeburn. I'll student. >> Yeah, thank Hi, everybody. Uh my name is Danielle Freeburn. I'm a high school teacher, social studies, up in the GHS. I just want to say thank you for your time for slating us a few minutes in our day. I'm also a board member, so I know how valuable your time can be at my own school. So, thank you guys for being here. I know the paycheck is very large. I've also brought Payton with me. She is our not technically president cuz we are not a club yet, but I'll let her introduce herself when you get to your slide, okay? Uh last spring I came across a social media page that highlighted a
026thrift shop in a local high school. Um a good friend of mine actually worked in this school. It's Greenwich, not far from us. Um the thrift shop, it showcased students who were involved volunteering and thrifting, which we both love. Uh and I thought, if them, why not us? Uh from there it was a dream that became a goal, and then a vision, and then Husky's Attic. Uh, the process, although it seemed daunting, with the support of administration, I worked with Mr. Headwell to kind of put this together. Um, the the a lot of my colleagues who donated uh, all of the items that we have so far. Uh, and then the students. It it was seamless. It was amazing how much support that we've received and how well received it's been from the students, wouldn't
027you say? Uh, we found a room, we asked for donations, the community stepped up, a lot of my friends from my local community who uh, at Corinth as well, we've also initiated something similar to this, and it's been very successful. Uh, the students jumped right in from there, and then the rest is history. Uh, we now currently operate two to three days per week. I would love to do it more if I had more time, open up in the morning, so that excuse me, uh, some of our students who like go to P-Tech would be able to um, have an opportunity, or maybe after school. Um, I do coach, but we'll we'll make some workarounds with that. Um, so I would love we're here to ask you today if this could become or be recognized
028as a club, we'd love to get more volunteers. I would love to fundraise, and hopefully reach out to a couple thousand students. Uh, we did put together a few slides for you folks, and the students even helped to do this. Uh, I just listed out what the purpose of the club was. Obviously, we're trying to provide free clothing. Everything in the thrift shop is completely free to every single student at GHS. Uh, not only do we have clothes, but we get book bags donated, we get bags uh, for kids to you know, take for overnights. Um, what other kind of things do we have, Pam? >> Prom dresses. >> Lots of prom dresses. This has been like one of our best adventures ever. Uh, all the students uh, male and female love to hang up
029the dresses and take a look at them, and then we have people coming in shop. Uh, I think we've collected almost 60 dresses this just this year, uh, and we've sent out 35 to 40 to all just our local GHS students that have Some of them are brand new dresses with tags still on them. So, we love it. We love it when the kids come in and shop. Uh the goals, obviously, we're trying to ensure students have access to essential items, right? And so, that's kind of where the fundraising piece come in. When we get items donated, like just essential uh personal hygiene items, we cannot keep them in stock. Uh I have colleagues that donate two or three bags, and within the first day, 40 minutes that I open during academic support, those items
030are all gone. So, that's really the things that we want to be able to do some drives, or to uh be able to hold fundraisers so that we can purchase that stuff all year round. Um it also helps create an inclusive and supportive equitable school environment, which is really what we're trying to do for students. Uh provide scholars with leadership opportunities and needs that they need for not only for college, but career readiness. Right, helps them Payton's going to talk a little bit about that. Um student leadership, learning, and impact. Uh we have eight to 10 really dedicated volunteers. Payton shows up at my door almost every day. Are we open today, Ms. Freeburn? Are we open today? And uh two other sisters who weren't able to be here tonight, but they also help every
031single day that they can. If they don't have an academic commitment, they are in uh taking donations, folding clothes, hanging them up, helping people shop. It's just endless. It's It's amazing. Um I talked about the college and career readiness. Obviously, this is just an opportunity to offer um a club to students who maybe wouldn't normally be involved in something that's completely different than anything else that we have. Um Why approving the club matters? It helps support student leadership and services and learning. Allows us to raise the funds, especially for those high-demand items that we can't keep on the shelf. And ensures long-term sustainability, right? It This is working. So, I service If I can open two days a week, uh we see 40 to 50 kids just in a very short period of time. They
032shop, they take home bags, they have new clothes, they have stuff for spirit week and prom, upcoming for homecoming, just so many great things that they probably wouldn't have the opportunity to do. Um and then ultimately it strengthens our strengthens our school school community. Colleagues can come together, the kids can come together. You probably work with different uh students that you don't get to see on a daily basis. All right. And I've also provided some great pictures, too. I'm going to get to your slide and I'll let you chat for a few minutes. Do you want to introduce yourself? >> Hi, I'm Cadence Glovnia. Um I'm a junior at Gloversville High School. I really enjoy the thrift shop because I really take an interest in fashion, so that's kind of in it for me. I
033like to go through all the clothes donated and see if there's any pieces that I want to take home. >> That's the perk. That's the perk. >> Okay. I come down every single day that the Attic is open whenever I'm free to help keep it running. I sort clothing, put items away, organize donations, and make sure the space is welcoming for every student who walks in. Volunteering at Husky Attic means a lot to me because I get real hands-on experience that will help me in future jobs. I've learned responsibility, leadership, communication, and customer service skills. I love being part of something that makes a positive difference in our school. Why I want Husky Attic to become an official club is students who volunteer deserve recognition for the time and effort they put in every day.
034A club would give more students a place to belong and feel included. We could raise funds for high-needed items like hygiene products. It would help us keep the Attic running smoothly and sustainably. It encourages leadership, teamwork, and community service. All skills that matter beyond high school. >> Good job. >> And I did share also a couple of other students as I mentioned sisters and their experience and uh the kids are just having a great time. And students who stumble upon us when they come down the art room and they come find it they're just so excited to come back and shop. Um we mentioned all of the items that we have but um we just really hope that you guys find value in what we have done. Um like I said it really has been
035seamless and this is totally student driven. They're super excited to bring in new items and always asking if we can get more items donated and what can we sort today? So we hope that you guys find value it in it and hopefully can approve it for uh the next school year. So thank you so much for your time. Any questions? Happy to answer. >> Very good. >> Thank you. >> It's awesome. >> Appreciate it. Yeah, stop by anytime you want to. Right? We even have kids if if they don't have time to come volunteer that they help with artwork and posters. Uh they've created the name, they've created the vision uh for it. So that's that's awesome. >> Yeah, my guess is right now the board without doing official vote I'll say right now that
036they would fully support this. >> Absolutely. >> Awesome. >> For sure. Can they use it for volunteer hours? >> Thank you. Yes, and I have so we've had a few students that have done that. Um uh work based learning. We've also uh hooked up with a few students for for that. So more than happy to. And I said even if they don't have time because of other commitments academically uh to actually physically come they can do some digital things for us help put out to the community or create a Google form for us to collect items so that we can you know go through them make sure we've got them before we put them in the store. Happy to do so. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah, great. Thank you guys. Thank you for your time
037so much. >> Thank you. >> Next item on the agenda is public comment. Anybody here tonight? We'll move on to the next item, which is board discussion. Um a couple of Board of Education minutes to approve. I'll start with the March 30th meeting. Any questions or anything? Motion to approve that one by John, seconded by Kelly. All in favor? All right. Anybody opposed? I'm going to abstain on this one. I'm going to abstain. Yeah, I'll abstain. >> You'll abstain? All right, okay. >> And then we have the Board of Education meeting from the April 29th meeting. Motion to approve that by Kevin, seconded by Kelly. All in favor on that one? Any abstentions for that? >> I'm not >> Okay. Anybody have anything else for board discussion tonight? All right. We're moving right along. Move
038on to superintendent's report. >> Okay. Good evening, everybody. Glad to say in my report, Bailey might have mentioned in her report, but she uh was named her valedictorian for class of 2026. Congratulations, Bailey. >> She may have mentioned it. >> I was I was wondering I was like I was wondering if she'll say it. >> So I was wondering. >> Congratulations. Well done. Um My first item is uh reimagining teacher leadership update. So last week uh Chris and I and members of the admin team met with I think 27 GTA members and uh we gave them uh a couple of documents. They're attached to this. It's looks like a little bit out of order, but the uh The first one was what is collective instructional advocacy. And really what why is it important to have
039teacher leadership? Uh I think this third page would explain it and it's goes on the second page. How do teacher leaders help build collective instructional efficacy? I won't read it to you, but collective instructional efficacy is what uh you know, Hattie's research would indicate uh has the greatest impact on student outcomes. It's not socioeconomics, it's it's not you know, education level, it's collective instructional efficacy. Um and that's really important as a educational institution that we collectively buy into that um because what we do here matters when it comes to student outcomes. So, any organization, we have people in the business world in this in this on this board and understand that the table of organization when you come to manage managers and and uh you know, leaders below you who then manage the ratio is
040far less than what we see in education. And you have a building principal with say 300 or 2 250 staff members, that's a that's a ridiculous. You don't see that in a private sector, that kind of one person in charge of that many people. It just doesn't happen. Um so, it's important to have teacher leaders even if they're they're still members of the bargaining unit and and colleagues to have somebody deliver messages, communicate with the administration, it makes perfect sense. And you know, we knew a couple years ago that you know, we lost our department coordinators due to misunderstanding and disagreement, uh we have not given up on on that the importance of having teacher leadership in this district. We think it's critical. I think the GTA leadership would agree that it's important. And hopefully,
041by having so many teachers involved in this process of really determining what roles and responsibilities teacher leaders should have, um we can come to a mutual agreement as to what that can and should look like with the goal of improving outcomes of kids. That's what this is about. That's why we're all here in the first place. So, we had a great uh first day. The the teachers uh answered the questions that you see on page two the and the front and back. A number of questions that talk about defining the role, uh core duties, responsibilities, priorities, selections, sustainability and growth, including professional development, things like that. So, really appreciate those people who've been participating. Feedback that we got was was was outstanding and happy to report that we are not far apart on what we
042believe uh teacher leadership can and should look like in this district. So, we're going to meet this Wednesday. We're going to kind of flesh out their answers, where we see the commonalities, and hopefully create something and then present it to the leadership team. And even if it's an MOA that would sunset at the end of next school year, we're negotiating next year anyway, so hopefully we can have something in place and something to build on. Really hopeful that we can get there. So, appreciate everybody's time. Any questions? If If you flip through those few pages, >> My question is there were 27 teachers who who participated? >> Yes. >> Um volunteers selected? >> No, all volunteers. It was asked We wanted a a range people from across the district. Every building was represented. Um so,
043then they really worked for between an hour and 15 minutes, hour and 45 minutes. They were They broke into various groups and answered these collectively, put their answers into uh a Google Doc that enables us to aggregate the their answers and find commonalities. That's where AI comes in great cuz I have all the answers and I've read them all, and I know Chris and Christina and a number of the ministers have as well, but using AI to find uh you know, the common threads um was was nice and easy. So, we use the technology available to you, and uh we're going to share that with the committee uh this Wednesday. And if we have to have another meeting to finalize a product, we will, but that might not be necessary. We want to be mindful
044of everybody's time, and May is a busy time of year. It's Luckily, it was it was pretty uh nasty weather last Wednesday, so nobody was missing anything between 3:30 and 5:00. But, uh happy with the process so far and optimistic that we're going to uh get something off the ground. Any questions? All right. The next item, uh primary building special education relocation proposal and building boundary line adjustment. So, this is something uh that's going to be a bigger lift and there could be people who are happy, it could be people that are not happy. If you go to the last few pages of your document, you'll see the benefit questions to consider. We I already mentioned to the board about the proposal from the elementary admin team to move our special education uh K-2 to
045Park Terrace exclusively primarily for the purpose of of maximizing the uh service provider's time, professional development for special education teachers. It makes a lot of sense. Um you know, there's the other unintended unintended uh positive con- you know, consequences for lack of a better term is uh bussing. More efficiency with bussing. All the All these kids get door-to-door. I think any elementary educator tell you we've had problems with uh common start time in our three buildings, kids and families attending multiple buildings. Sometimes our staff are sitting with some of our most rambunctious scholars uh for extended periods of time. So, we're hoping to find efficiency with transportation. Looking at the initial map of this district when we uh went with grade level grouping and created and when Meek when McNabb closed and Meek closed uh
046the board of Ed at this case at that time obviously made a decision to say, "If you went to Boulevard, you're not going to Park Terrace. If you go to Meek or McNabb, you're going to Kings." Um if you look at the lines on that second page, you'll see people who live up by where Mr. Lot lives go to Park Terrace. And if you look at the proximity to Kings, you'll see that people have been asking our administration for years, "Why are we going to Park Terrace? We're so much closer to Kings." And it'd be so far easier for me to walk my children to Kingsboro. I could pick them up so much quicker if if I can send my kids to Kings. So, with the number of kids that would be drawn to Park
047Terrace due to, you know, we have pretty significant special education numbers in our district. Um we obviously want to ensure balance and equilibrium in usage of our space in our two primary buildings. We're kind of proposing, and I, you know, met with the team, Chris I met with the elementary team, of looking at moving the current line of demarcation to First Avenue between between Main Street uh and Boulevard Elementary School. And you can see on my rough rendition here, maybe I should be a map maker. Um By by redrawing that boundary, it creates more uh balance in the city of what children would attend school where. Uh it allows people far closer to Kings Road to attend that school. It provides more efficiency in our bussing, and we're looking at possibly staggering our start and
048end time in uh the primaries and Boulevard for to to service those parents who have kids uh in the primaries and those in Boulevard. It helps our teachers who are uh monitoring children for uh extended periods of time after the school day. We don't really see a whole lot of downside in this, except people who are currently impacted and may live in an area that we're talking about possibly moving. Um saying, "Hey, next year, your first grader is going to be going to Kingsborough." Yeah, hopefully they're going to be good. It's closer. But they may be like, "No, my child is comfortable. He he or she has friends over at Park Terrace. Why are you doing this?" So, I don't think you can be all things all people. I think this makes sense. I've looked
049at it in different ways. Um I think we did, you know, any change is is not always welcome. Um I think looking long term, it makes perfect sense. But there will be there would be a be a upheaval if we approve this uh change. But I open it up to the board. Ultimately, you're the deciders. If you say, "Dave, no." then that's so be it. We stay with our current scheme. But Chris Brian's in the back. Any Any Even Jody, any issues that I didn't arise or or positive outcomes that I didn't mention? >> No, I think the you know, the pros and cons there's a long laundry list of pros, but you know, the one large con is >> Right. >> for families. >> It's just change. It's a change, but I'm hoping to
050to be easier for parents to pick up their children. I'm hoping it's easier for our staff who are monitoring children after school. I know Miss Fegel is sitting there and her and I have had numerous conversations about the challenge of of watching some of our Boulevard scholars due to the uh challenges of buses getting there. And the And the fact that these are a lot of these special ed kids are door-to-door. Uh we we're hoping that hitting two buildings instead of three for those that population will create efficiency. Staggering the start and end time will create efficiency that serves both families and staff. Uh it's closer. You You look at the map I provided to those families. Uh John, I assume your kids went to Park Terrace? They did. Yes. Okay. Would it have been
051easier for you to send your kids to Kingsborough? >> Um yeah, it's definitely closer. So I would say yeah, absolutely. I know that you know Yeah, it definitely would have been more efficient and easier. I'm sure. >> So that you know, obviously balancing our section numbers, we're still looking at that. And even with the special education students all moving to Park Terrace, we want to ensure our section numbers are balanced. We don't want to have 13 kids in second grade at Kingsborough and 22 kids in second grade at Park. We can't have that. That's so you know, there may not always be perfect numbers of sections each year. Some teachers might have to teach second grade one year, first grade another year. We do that already. Um I think it's important to be nimble and
052responsive to the cohort numbers. That's just doing our job. As opposed to just trying to stick with four sections every year regardless of the numbers. That's that's incumbent upon us to to be flexible. Any Any downside? I mean, besides knowing that some parents might have to be told that their children will be switching schools after they may have established relationships in one. We're talking about how many kids? 20 to 25 kids what we talked >> that were impacted. Correct. >> Yes. >> And some of those may be welcome may welcome that change. >> Very much so. But it could be a little PR hit for us. It's hopefully in the short term. Hopefully change, you know, they get used to it and they're like, "Wow, this this actually is easier. I can walk my children
053or it's much closer and I can pick them up. My son is at Boulevard. My daughter is at uh, King's and I can pick them up and and not have to have them waiting for me." Things like that. So, keep moving forward. Okay. Thank you. Um, and I'll I'll have an update in June as to where we are with that. Couple other uh, TOSes updates. Uh, the middle school dean, we passed that in the last uh, meeting. Correct, Daniel? Uh, the Boulevard uh, part-time dean and the literacy coach uh, MOA, those two were tabled. Uh, I met with Miss Fegel. She has some We met made a couple of minor adjustments and assurances and the union will be voting on those and uh, I don't think there's a whole lot of issues and we we
054expect those MOAs will be on the June agenda. Hopefully. I was also asked by my board member about the Regents Review MOA in the high school. Uh, that has been approved by the board and it's by the union, but unfortunately no none of our high school teachers have signed up to take advantage of this in the middle of the day. I'm not quite sure why. Miss Headwell, are you aware why no one's taken advantage of that? >> I'm not aware of why they haven't taken the opportunity, but it's been uh, publicized and pushed out which is on a voluntary basis and understood that they can be paid during their planning period but >> Okay. It's great for kids so I'm not sure what the what the issue is there but it's a great opportunity for
055kids. I know when I was a US Global 10 teacher I would have jumped at this opportunity. I'm not sure what the problem is. Uh last thing I want to mention is thank you Cathy and Chris for putting the newsletter together. Every year they've done a nice job putting our newsletter together for Cathy for for constructing the budget. Um and when people see you know the increases when you look at those those are a lot of increases and they are. Just want to mention that you need to be more competitive in non-instructional salaries. That's not an option. I appreciate the board recognizing that because we would have a hard time opening our doors with our non-instructional without our non-instructional people. We've lost numerous people to surrounding districts whose pay scale was far better than ours.
056Uh we're pretty competitive in the other categories but non-instructional CSEA not so much. So this hopefully will really level the playing field for us in our region. Obviously Cathy already spoke to the increases in in health insurance, energy, things like that. CTE slots and special ed costs which you know special ed especially is a significant portion of this. There will be aid flowing in the following school year. So what the taxpayer sees as a significant increase uh it's not fluff and there will be money coming back to this district in the following school year for those increases. And hopefully their efforts would be foundation, PTA, the library, uh we can really meet those parents of preschool age as in like before they enter our pre-K program. And hopefully we see children coming to us who
057are more age level where they should be with literacy and uh you know there's a lot of community agencies who are able to work with parents on the social emotional well-being of children. So we get kids come to us who are well regulated who have some literacy background and exposure. You know, we think that this district can certainly improve in regards to having school age ready children. Uh that we'll see a decrease in the amount of uh services that they would need upon entry. So, that's that's our hope. That's our goal. You know, we are streamlining our program, uh the literacy program, math program, K8. Uh I think we're doing all the right things and being mindful of the taxpayers' dollars. So, uh hope everybody comes out to vote. 5/19, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
058I'll conclude my report. Any questions for me? Thank you. >> Next item is the student and board member report. You know, what are we doing? >> Um I just wanted to highlight a couple events in the month of April. Very brief. Um we had our musical production for the Schalmont Drama Club on April 24th, 25th, and 26th. It was Freaky Friday. Um I know they put a lot of work into that production, so um I just want to applaud them for that. And then we also started our Unified Basketball season and we're currently four and one. Um I take the stat sheet, so I don't play. But, um we've beaten Amsterdam, Schalmont, Guilderland, BP, and then we lost to Scotia by two points last week, which was um a bummer for sure cuz they were
059up the whole game. >> Referee bragging. >> Um and our next game is tomorrow in the high school at 4:30 p.m. if you'd like to come. And next I wanted to highlight our new Big Brothers and Sisters Mentoring Program. Um for those that don't know, it's a program in the trial stage where GHS is connecting scholars that have experienced specific obstacles um through their personal school life experiences to younger scholars at Boulevard Elementary School that are also experiencing some or the same similar issues in their own life. Um and this program is providing young scholars a safe person to talk to that may offer a different message compared to adults that they'd regularly talk to um about these issues in their academic buildings. Um next I had the pep rally last week and spirit week.
060We had a whole week of fun at GHS. We had throwback Thursday, beach day, um maroon and white on Friday, and then we wore our college shirts also on Friday. Um and then alongside the pep rally we had our prom court announced and then top 10 for the class of 2026. And then I also just wanted to recognize important people in the month of April who do a lot for GHS. Um we had National Nurses Day, Teacher Appreciation Week last week, National Therapy Dog Day for Phelps and Duke in the high school building, and then Administrative Professionals Day for the secretaries in all of our buildings. Um and then upcoming we have prom this weekend, and I'm really excited about that. And I also wanted to thank the board for appro- approving and providing buses
061for us to the Apex um in Crossgates for our after prom. So, yeah. Thank you. >> I need you guys to Hot mic, you can't go on outside. Sorry. Sorry. All right. Everybody stop. Good shoes, you walk in. Nice job. Nice job. Good. Nice job. Anybody have any questions for Riley tonight? Good job. All right. Next we have our recommended items. We have 7.01 through 17.08. Did anybody need anything pulled? First >> 11.01. >> Just for voting purposes. >> For sure. Anybody else? All right. Motion to approve 7.01 through 17.08 with the exception of 1101. Motion to approve those by Rob, seconded by Kevin. All in favor. That'll be everybody. All right, motion to approve 1101. Sharon seconded by Ed. All in favor. Any opposed? No. Anybody abstain? Kevin abstained. All right, all right. And
062now we need a motion to go into executive session to discuss personnel items. Motion by Ed, seconded by Mike. All in favor. And that would be everybody. All right, there will be no action taken afterwards. Thank you everyone for attending.