001E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're good. Thank you. I'm going to call the meeting to order, if we could stand for the Pledge to the flag. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 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. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Make a consideration motion to accept the agenda? So moved. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Second. Second. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All in favor? Bye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That'll move us into our Board of Education bylaws. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The Board remains committed to providing opportunities for the public to address the Board on items of public interest. With that in mind, please remind yourself. E2 Gowanda HS Library: reasonable guidelines in terms
002of ensuring an orderly discussion and exchange of information during public meetings. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, sir. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The board may, as an entity, decide to provide a written or verbal response to issues… inflation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The person who wishes to address the board may do so by filling out the appropriate form and handing the form to the Board President. The board president will call upon the person to speak at the appropriate time. Each such person will be free for a time limited to 3 minutes. Please stand in the front of the board table and address the Board directly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You will be allowed to address the board on a single topic, and total time allowed for the public comments is 15 minutes. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
003Thank you. That'll move this into our board calendar. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our next Board of Education meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 10th, at 6.30 here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So next, I'd make a consideration motion to assess the executive session for the purpose of discussing matters relating to the appointment of particular persons. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Nope. E2 Gowanda HS Library: On paper? Aye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, Mrs. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, so, up next we have the office. I'd like to make a consideration motion to vote and approve employment of our new storage. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board of Education for the 2025-2026. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So… Second. Second. My favorites. So I… Me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Merry Christmas. E2
004Gowanda HS Library: One second here, I'm sorry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we've invited an appointment, so I need to get your open office. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, do we want to do that here, or do you want to move them somewhere else to get a better picture? I think if you want to do it right here, maybe I'll… I can come around the corner. E2 Gowanda HS Library: These are the open office cards to get back to you. So, you are going to… E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then you're gonna hear a new song. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get eyeballs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: office hours. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, go ahead, yeah. Alright, so you can raise your right hand. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will support the Constitution of the
005United States, of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of New York, and the Constitution of… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Within this time, the Office of Student Board of Education, a student. E2 Gowanda HS Library: education. E2 Gowanda HS Library: According to the specimenability, according to my… Well, welcome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just really following up to, the paper agendas. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You just took us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Congratulations, welcome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So next up is consensus items. I'd make a consideration motion to vote and approve Agenda items 4.01, 7.04. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any discussion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: On the July 9th meeting minutes for the public hearing, there's a reference to a Form 4 member that's still in there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: For 5
006seams in there? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Shit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's strange. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. Okay. You'll see it in a minute. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good catch. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Easy test. He's actually reading the minutes. Yeah, he's actually reading the minutes. There's actually 45 mistakes. Well, first of all, thank you for reading the minutes. He's just trying to show himself. No, never. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there any further discussion? RPC. And any on the Patch 1? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll probably give a… an update on the next one when we send out the bills. I can tell you on the tax warrant. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Collins has again, so their equalization rate went down. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 6%, so their
007tax rate went up $3. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Per thousand. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I'll do another synopsis, you know, my favorite. My favorite public entertainment. So, yes, everybody loves tax rates. I'll do that at the next meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I don't know if you want me to talk about the reserve transfers at all. We had… E2 Gowanda HS Library: back in June, we had said we might do these transfers. The biggest one, obviously, is for the capital project. So that makes sure… we have to have… make sure that at the time of the vote, that the money is there for the capital project that we're saying that we're gonna have, so that will help us get to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anybody else? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, we
008have no further discussion. All in favor? Aye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, that'll move to our public discussion and comment on agenda and non-agenda items, and on this evening. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I'm gonna go straight into it. Superintendent support that, E2 Gowanda HS Library: Clark will provide some thought, Dr. Anderson. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, Dr. Anderson apologizes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I remiss. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And he is very sick, so hoping for a quick recovery. He did want me to pass along, so we have with us Chandra. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Shaver. She's our new assistant principal at the elementary school, so welcome. Introduce your family. This is my husband, Rick, and then this is our little monster over here, who is eating her second cookie now. Oh, good! Hi,
009this is Charlotte. Hi, Charlotte. Charlotte, can you say hi? E2 Gowanda HS Library: She is outgoing, she's just like me, my poor husband. So, yeah. So, thank you, I am so excited. Yes. Yes, and our new, principals started also meeting last week and this week, so we are certainly happy to have them here as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: A couple other things to pass along that Dr. Anderson wanted to make sure that he congratulated the board on her tenure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, he reads our… During our treasure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excellent, and colleagues. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Teacher for superintendent's updates, our superintendent's days, August 27th and 28th. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The first day of school is 9-2. Update on the parking lots, so they've all been paved. E2 Gowanda
010HS Library: They're gonna finish sealing the smaller lots, and then… E2 Gowanda HS Library: They have to sit 30 days, so, they're gonna stripe, they're gonna make sure there's stripes on them before school starts, because otherwise it's free for all the parking lots, and you've been in any of them. It's kind of fun. Makes for an interesting… E2 Gowanda HS Library: But they'll be… they'll all be open by the time school starts. They may have some closures during the superintendent's conference days that we'll work around. The playground, the concrete boundary is finished, will be finished by Friday, and then the board in place, rubber bond goes down next week. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the pool, the bids you approved tonight, so they're gonna start demolition by the end of August. E2 Gowanda HS Library: With
011the hopes of being complete by January. The only, thing that we have some concerns over, we just don't know how long it'll take to get the HVAC equipment here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's been the delay in every project we've done lately, so that's the only concern. So, knock on wood, this time is the final pool project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think that's all. Oh, and I do want to say thank you from both me, my staff, and from Bob. I know all the buildings and grounds crew for everything that they do all summer, to make sure that the classrooms get opened. I don't think they ever get enough credit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because there's always something else that they have to do. So, but the cleaning of every single classroom, the waxing
012of every single floor, I've watched them in the whole crew, and they're cleaning gum and… E2 Gowanda HS Library: off the gym floors. I've seen them cleaning the lockers. I mean, there's so much that goes into what has to happen for school to open, so I just hope everybody says a big thank you to them when they come back. So they're pretty much appreciated. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Wonderful. A lot of good things. All good things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Up next on the agenda, we have our student board members' report, so we're gonna put them right now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, we reserve this time for our student board members to kind of give us some answers on what… E2 Gowanda HS Library: experiencing in the school, events that are going on, that
013sort of thing. I'm sure neither one of you are prepared tonight, but if you do have anything you want to share. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any of anything, you know, any student events going on right now? E2 Gowanda HS Library: sports, or anything. If you don't have anything, that's okay, because I know you're not really… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Early today, no. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Nothing to share today? That's okay. You guys are excited for school to be starting here in 3 weeks, right? Welcome to the new seniors. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, so we'll keep that painless for tonight. We'll let you guys have on the hook tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, so our dialogue and presentation, one bit is going to be postponed to likely
014the next meeting, so we'll talk about our 2025 capital project follow-up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: How did you have that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, I think everybody was here when we had the architects and the team here, that we've been working on, so… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I really just kind of want to recap, how that I talked about this. We just… we kind of need to keep the process moving. E2 Gowanda HS Library: project, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I just kind of wanted to highlight what the budget estimate was, and really go over all of the things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Amid? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think when we talked about last time, we tried really hard to kind of get some of the things out of the project, like
015the parking lots, the board in place at the playground, to make room for other things, especially the cross field, which I kind of would call it a more multi-purpose field, especially, I think, I just basically took the slides from the last… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Architects. … I think the only things that I've heard, any questions on… E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're about the humidity at the elementary school, which is included in the project, that we under the mechanical systems. I've heard about questions about the tennis court. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we've talked about that being pushed out, because it is an… it's a slight work, and we really wouldn't have enough aid for it in this project if we keep all this in. And then when we talked about the parking lots, or
016the tennis courts in general, we've talked about the making more parking, we've talked about E2 Gowanda HS Library: different… doing different things with it. I think after we have this project, and we have more fields over here, we may know what we need to do with that tennis court. I don't know whether we're gonna keep it as it is, redo it, or whether we would look for more parking, so I think kind of pushing it out and waiting to see what happens with this stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Will be to our advantage. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then I've heard about, the foyer, which obviously the foyer and the auditorium are included, so that part of the design process is when we have… we bring in groups of people to really talk through what
017they want, how they want that space to look. So the piece, like, I know that the boosters are clearly interested in that, so they would be on that team. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And it usually involves people who use that space the most, so it would probably be some students, some teachers, some of the musical people, and then even have the boosters and athletes and stuff that would be on that part, to address those issues. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think if there really weren't any other issues that people have, I think we've heard mostly positive things, that we would move forward with this being our project, and then the architects and attorneys and the team can start to move forward and E2 Gowanda HS Library: Started the process to get everything moving. E2 Gowanda
018HS Library: It was, real-time. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's no impact, so no tax impact. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Nothing in detail. Sorry, go ahead. Alright, go ahead. I was gonna… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Who wants to go first, Raphael or Susan? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, Martin, what do you got? Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: a couple of things. First off, I have a problem. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We say that… Does it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: cost. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do people hear anything? E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's like, if I… E2 Gowanda HS Library: turn my truck and get another one, and they give me $25,000 for my truck, and I have to pull $15,000 E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or $10,000 from my savings account. E2 Gowanda HS Library: To pay
019for my… a new… a different truck. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You can't say that it costs anything. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm saying there's no tax increase. No additional. E2 Gowanda HS Library: tax increase. There's no tax increase related to the capital project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, but our architects multiple times said it doesn't cost you anything. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You're using your savings here, that's what the reserve is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: … I do wish we'd call it something a little more cross-filled. We will. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, we will, as we change. Yep. It's a harder sell… E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you say it's a lacrosse field, because the lacrosse people like it, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. You can play lacrosse, or… Yes, it's harder. …
020in some ways. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I've been on the board a while. P. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the inside work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: On a capital project generates a certain amount of dollars that can be used outside site work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right. That are coming from the state. E2 Gowanda HS Library: … I'd like to get a better breakdown of that, so that I know What we're actually covering E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think that was in the presentation last night? No, it wasn't. Okay. I mean, the… incidental costs… E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's all kind of locked together in… in along with the… Guys, my concern is that E2 Gowanda HS Library: When we talk about things like Tennis courts. E2 Gowanda HS Library: For other needs of the
021district. E2 Gowanda HS Library: When we're given a lump sum figure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we don't have the ability to say, well, I really think that this is the priority, versus, say, lights on the playing field, or building this mini stadium with a grandstand. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have no problem with the turf field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it's… It's been proven that it's advantageous. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not sure about the lights and… Like I saved that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the pictures on it, and I'm wondering how much of that series. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We had no breakdown on the figures. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: When we say we can't do the tennis courts because of what we've put into the project.
022E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's an example of… Somebody's making a decision for us, rather than us saying. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Maybe we don't do the lights, and… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or something like that, do the scores, or… E2 Gowanda HS Library: What other needs does the district have? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And what do you want to do with the task force? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't think anybody plays tennis, I think that's kind of the question that we had. And I think because of that question, and because we have the pro… like, I don't think we know, necessarily, in 5 years, what we want on that E2 Gowanda HS Library: on that parcel of land that the district owns. I think that's kind of part of the reason it was not
023included in here as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because we don't have an answer to really what is needed. Right, but in other ways, the other thing is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Not just the past courts. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What does the district need to kind of? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Pushed to the side. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If we scale back. I mean, our reserve… We're not tied to what E2 Gowanda HS Library: what the state is giving us, I mean… Yep. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Kathy, can you go on the next slide? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Example, if we have a $44 million project, and we're getting a 94% E2 Gowanda HS Library: Reimbursement on here. So we're talking 6% of that should be local share. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 9 million.
024E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sounds more than 6%. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just wanted to check what you're… E2 Gowanda HS Library: The map was off here somewhere. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The math is not off. I think that it also has to do with what the MCA will cover. Yes, yes. So we have that information. I don't think that last month, last meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think that's probably more information than most. E2 Gowanda HS Library: can handle at one point when we're trying to just basically do the high level. But we have all of the information, so if you want more information, we can certainly share it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we're trying to get globally what we want as a project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All of the details
025about what the lights will cost, those are all, I mean, they are estimated. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, I think if… I still think if we're pushing for tennis courts, I still think my question still is, what are we doing? I'm not saying necessarily tennis courts, I'm just saying that we're… it's an example. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I, I have some, I have concerns. Yeah, I mean, there are, there are additional details behind these. E2 Gowanda HS Library: These are basically the concepts of where we want to… where we're trying to focus E2 Gowanda HS Library: our money. We know we need to… there are certain things that basically are above the line that have to be done. The roofs, some of the mechanical stuff, the parking lots, they're basically for, changing some things,
026changing that thing, more for safety, for students at the elementary school when we talked about changing the entrance over there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I guess if it's… I don't know really where we would scale back, because I think, collectively, as a group, when we went through with Rich, myself, everybody… we talked about what was kind of needed to happen, I think this was the list that we came up with. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But if there's something else that you want to be able to move forward, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: I provided, I think you just have to do that quickly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would concur, I think a breakdown would be advantageous, I think. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It'd be good just to see everything broken down, and then
027that way we can actually kind of line out where we're seeing this spent, and then we can answer to that a little more in detail. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I just think we're past the point of nitpicking. E2 Gowanda HS Library: As far as, like, tiny little things, that's all I'm trying to say. So, I think that each thing here, I don't know how you're gonna necessarily decide what you would take out to add something else in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: without knowing all of the details that we went through to get to this process. I mean, we've spent months on this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So it's not that I don't… I'm happy to share and share. I think the process that we went through was very detailed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: to figure
028out what ha- some of the BCS items that have to happen. There's certain things that definitely have to happen on this list. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, I'm… if you want to share, I think we can send those out. Well, I think something that might appease everybody here, right? Really, the only thing in question is going to be the multipurpose field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right, so the breakdown of the cost of that, right? If the breakdown on that cost is it's half a million dollars for lights, are you able to do anything with the tennis courts for half a million dollars? Probably not, so that puts that to bed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Now, if half the project is tied up in lights at $5 million, let's say, that would be a different conversation
029that we would have. I don't think that lights are that big of a part of the project, right? But there's… E2 Gowanda HS Library: cost, right? So… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't think you can use some from the baseball field. Too heavy of an ask, right? If you're able to share some of that information, that would be… E2 Gowanda HS Library: You explored alternatives, such as adding more E2 Gowanda HS Library: I forget what you call it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Not just the lights, but the… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Can you put more on the baseball field? Yes, like, the slide just says that we can use some on the baseball field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And the other thing is, you could actually lay out the… Mechanics for the lights. E2 Gowanda
030HS Library: Under the field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, all that stuff is underground. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And not necessarily do the polls this time, but the next time we do it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let me… The lights were a big concern, that… E2 Gowanda HS Library: What year loose. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, one thing I will say, having kids that play baseball and softball, lighting on the fields and being able to play at night is… E2 Gowanda HS Library: super important, and safety is paramount, so, to say that we don't do the lights, I mean, you're kind of limiting yourself as far as the… E2 Gowanda HS Library: When you can use the field, right? Because now you're… especially in the fall and in the spring, when you don't have
031daylight past 6pm. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that becomes a challenge, so I would have a hard time arguing against the lights, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: No. Cool. That's kind of… What I'm asking is, Talking about E2 Gowanda HS Library: talking about it, I mean, you… we've already made the case for the turf field. Sure. You're making a case for the lights. I can agree with that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: debts, what I've heard before. Okay. I know, and that's fair, and I think… E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, we get information at a very global level, like, hey, these are the needs, and we don't necessarily get the why, and, you know, I would argue that's the why for the lights. Same thing with the bleachers. Why have a stadium or a field if
032you can't have people sit and watch? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So… Are there other things that we could do? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Probably, possibly, maybe. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I just want to be able to answer your questions and make them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just similar to that, but I guess the question I had was, or what was brought to my attention, was the usage of the turf field. That's not going to inhibit us in any way. I'm ignorant to sports, and I guess how they're played and everything else, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess there were some, temperature days last year. There were some concerns on turf fields that we can't play on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: On those, because of temperatures? I don't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess
033that was a concern that was brought to my attention. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, I think the… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, if you have hot days, you're not gonna be playing, regardless of whether it's turf. I mean, your temperature might come down a little bit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, I mean, you're looking to balance out the, can I play when it's been raining out versus not being able to play when it's a little hotter? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know, this was specifically calling out, I guess, turf field that brings the temperature up. Oh, it absolutely does. Yeah. I wouldn't know, but… I mean, I've heard that, but I… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I brought that question up once before, and basically they said they didn't see a difference on the
034temperature. E2 Gowanda HS Library: As it feels, … and based on the… Excuse me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If we can get out there earlier. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And it's spring. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And not tear off everything. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Gotcha. Yeah, that makes a big difference in terms of how long E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our season can go without it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excellent. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think our softball and baseball successes have seen that. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: question. … Is… E2 Gowanda HS Library: The multi-purpose field, there is not a concrete design for that yet, either, is there? I mean, they've just done the mock-up of how… basically, I mean, they had to figure out things so it would fit. So, that's when they
035figured out… Pell Oslin worked on the fields, these fields. E2 Gowanda HS Library: basically did… they've done multiple different designs to see what would fit, and that's when they figured out that they could have a full-size football field there. So… It's not like the… like, we don't have, like, a Wanda Panther. I mean, we know where it's gotta go, basically, and then beyond that, it's kind of… I know, I heard some concerns from… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Athletes and parents and coaches and whatever, especially involving That if it's enclosed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Like, if that field's enclosed, that that may actually take space away. E2 Gowanda HS Library: from where they can practice now, and I just… but see, that's what I'm saying, I didn't know if that even got that far, like, if
036there was a concrete barrier around it, or how… No, it was just fencing to keep the keys up, mainly. Totally. It's the keys. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that wouldn't be as much… Yeah, I mean, I don't… I think when we… I think they showed the pictures, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I want to say, I mean, there's space around… I want to say there's space out around… Right, right, just the bridge. I mean, they would practice in there, too. Right. So I don't know… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because right now, they are going to spread out, like, all the teams can have space. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that could be a concern. Yeah, I mean, just… it's… but that's the thing, like, I'm just saying, we almost have to see what the…
037Yeah, I can't remember if the… Well, I think just like with the baseball or softball field, right, if they're gated as long as the gate's not locked, you can still go on and use the field. As far as the overall space, you're gonna lose some footprint with E2 Gowanda HS Library: With the fencing, with the gate, with the bleachers, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I have to deal with the geese and the remnants of the geese. I think you have a… E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's a trade-off. An official trade-off. Right. Did you two have, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: We were real concerned about the time scores here for a hot minute, and further down the road, not by any means right now, not inserting anything, but something to consider is we could
038E2 Gowanda HS Library: implement an outdoor public basketball court there, because like you said, I don't play tennis, nobody here plays tennis. Pickleball is one thing you can use for it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But a lot of students here do play basketball, I know we have a lot of open gym. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And the park courts are not? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Not really playable, they're not safe. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, just something to consider. So, a consideration for repurposing hotels. Yeah. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, do you want detail on the, all-purpose field, do you call it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Other… are there other concerns? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there anything… I mean, do you want us to wait on this moving forward with the project,
039or are we okay to move forward in the… E2 Gowanda HS Library: What kind of spam? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not saying cold enough, I'm just… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, and I have that MCA stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: … It's a good day, man. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the project date. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Based on the new law on cardiac E2 Gowanda HS Library: schools have to provide AEDs, accessible AEDs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Out there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I was gonna be from my question is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: AEDs in the school, are they accessible to, like, the youth, to everything else, or are they, you know, locked? No, I… E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll have… I will get back to you on that, because I know
040I've had this conversation with Rich and Candy to make sure that they were accessible anyway. E2 Gowanda HS Library: … But I'll get back to him. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because we did have that conversation, and then I know she has one that's portable, like, they take for cross-country and stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And they take with them at other places. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right. My concern is that when you open up the fields to, like, you… Football, whatever else. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we're under the obligation that we have to have AEDs that are accessible for them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, it's not in the organization. It'd be on youth football still, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: It would certainly help the youth programs to have them accessible. E2
041Gowanda HS Library: We hope all our budget, I mean, we're… The item. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You can afford it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Don't disagree with you there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anything else? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Just, is there gonna be another… there won't be, right? Until we're on to approving? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, we can bring… if there's something specific you want us to share, we can. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, does the building… I guess, when does the building committee meet on this type of… I'm just… haven't gone through a building project before like this. I have… once we kind of… once we knew that we were okay with this, then we'll start to meet with the building committee to try to… that's what the building
042kind of first. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We kind of did this a little bit backwards this year, basically, I think just because it took us so long internally to kind of come up with the project and figure out what we could do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But internally, with the money and trying to do the parking lots and do other things to make more money for the project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So… E2 Gowanda HS Library: now we'll start to move into the committees, and the committee's really the ones that goes through the details on these things. That's normally how it would come, and then the committee would bring it back to the board and say, yes, this is kind of what we did. I mean, you can always tweak things after the fact, you
043just can't want to change the scope. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So once we move into the committees, that's where kind of the bigger, deeper discussion happens. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, I'm just looking at the timeline as far as… E2 Gowanda HS Library: There won't be a ton of time, right? Well, even on the, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: When you look at the planning phase, I mean, that's still committee work, that's committee-type work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then the votes in the center. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So the building committee would… we would have some meetings with the building committee. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Come back. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, the question there is, where does the building committee want to meet? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Regarding it. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
044Hey, sooner. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. They work it out. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, it's actually… In some ways, as a committee, you have to realize that Your architects will become E2 Gowanda HS Library: Where you need them to be. It's not… E2 Gowanda HS Library: When the architects say, we're gonna be out here at 9 o'clock in the morning. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I mean, it's our meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I guess my… E2 Gowanda HS Library: what it kind of sounds like is we would have been… you said it, kind of, it's flipped this year. A little bit. We would have been a little more well-read in, yes. You would have, yes, and I think because we felt it was more important to try and explain everything to the
045full board, instead of doing committees, committees, committees, and then a full board meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Based on the timing, it's just, this is kind of how it landed, and I felt like it made more sense, especially with newer board numbers, to kind of explain the bigger high-level stuff, and not be in the nitty-gritty. … E2 Gowanda HS Library: Kind of understanding the scope and how things work with building aid, and what we're limited on-site work, and kind of how those things work in general. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then go into the nitty-gritty. Because, like I said, when we look at the project, I think the project is pretty solid. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, yeah, we'll see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we were pretty happy with it, so it was
046kind of like we got to the point of, well, we know what we need, and here's what we can add. So, it really didn't leave for a lot of wiggle room. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So now we… now, now, but now when you get into the design phase, that's when you can say, okay, on the outside field, we're doing this, this, and this, and you can kind of… you can still tweak those things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's where you kind of have more input and scale with some of the details. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Paint on the walls, not the walls themselves. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The paint on the walls, not the walls themselves. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Like, do you want a G in the middle of the… E2 Gowanda HS
047Library: The logo in the middle of the field. I mean, those are the types of things that, once you get into the design phase, really matter. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, and I guess that's just… E2 Gowanda HS Library: being a board member and a community member that gets, hey, you're on the building committee, like, how did you come to this decision of the multi-purpose field over the tennis courts? It just is an awkward conversation of, like, well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's where we've… E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I guess it could be a notch conversation. Fortunately, we have design professionals that have been hired to… E2 Gowanda HS Library: analyzed that. Well, and they, I mean, they analyzed it, but it was really our decision. Quite honestly, it was Bob and I that
048really were pushing for the multi-purpose field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I think that's good… you're gonna get way more value out of that than those tennis courts. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I still don't truly believe we know what we want to do with the tennis courts. I think that was our struggle in the discussion. We've heard people say you don't have enough parking when there's events. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we may have… need more parking when we have another field over here. So I feel like we don't know necessarily what… right now, what we want to do with it, and we're trying to plan for a project. I think your bigger bang for your buck, and… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Trying to basically add another turf field will support… will support more
049people and more students E2 Gowanda HS Library: Than the courts, so I guess that would be my answer, is that this is going to help more students than the tennis courts. I mean, that's… E2 Gowanda HS Library: When you look at the numbers, when you can have all the kids that can practice on it, when you have your gym classes out there, when you're having games, you're gonna have multiple things in that multi-purpose field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think that was… that's kind of what… that's the way we looked at it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, and we'll work with Schedule. Great. Perfect. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, so if we have nothing further on that, bring us to our first reading. Policy 5685, maximum temperature for
050school buildings and indoor facilities. Is that any discussion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Set policy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: This policy is brand new, so we didn't have to make any adjustments to it, but also, we are in compliance already, so, … E2 Gowanda HS Library: We read through this, and it… we already meet this policy, so we didn't see any… E2 Gowanda HS Library: want to make any changes to it. So. E2 Gowanda HS Library: take a read over, we'll do, a second reading at the next board meeting, and if nobody has any changes or suggested issues with it, then we will approve it in October. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, for Board of Education Communications, we have none. Aside from this policy, do we have any other committee
051reports? E2 Gowanda HS Library: One thing that came up during that committee meeting was kind of a side note that I thought I should share with the rest of the board, was potentially coming up with commitment E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or mission statements for our different committees? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And again, and I understand the opinion of what came from E2 Gowanda HS Library: committee and policy meeting. But I just figured I'd throw it back out there, and full disclosure, like I said, in the committee meeting, coming to the end of my term, as far as board E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board of Education, I realize, as a Board of Education member, I realize, like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what have I left behind? So, like, that was kind of the context that I
052originally approached it, from my perspective. But then I also realized, too, that there's other board members that are not on that committee, or on other committees. Maybe they would have some input of the direction those committees take. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So they were kind of the bumpers, if you will. E2 Gowanda HS Library: like, the guardrails for the bowling ball going down the alleyway. That's kind of how I saw it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But, I'm not saying that we have to do them, obviously, by any means, but just with something that came up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I thought I'd share. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think that would be a great… E2 Gowanda HS Library: school board SMART goal that we can work on as a board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Evaluate
053that and implement that if, we so… It's invoke. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any other committee reports? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Did you guys want to schedule a building for Medicaid? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Meeting, or do you want to figure that out on… Yeah, and then we'll schedule. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Very well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's nothing further there that'll make it… bring us to our board and admin roundtable. Mark, do you want to start us off? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I wondered how the attendance was on the… Yeah, on Tuesday. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What's that? The attendance at the meeting on Tuesday? I was not there. Are you talking about Blueprint Day? Yes. Oh, Blueprint Day. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Unfortunately, I will admit, it was not well attended. We only
054had 9 participants, including the, consultant who E2 Gowanda HS Library: works with us on Blueprinting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will say, though, with two new principals coming on board, that I think the conversations that took place in the time that we had were some of the best conversations I've been a part of since I've been here the last few years. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it was a really great opportunity in a small, more vulnerable setting for us as an administrative team and some of our, E2 Gowanda HS Library: teacher leaders who were present, to really dive into where we've been and what we're currently focusing on and where we need to go. You know, kind of bringing them up to speed, and so we all felt great leaving there. E2 Gowanda HS
055Library: I think now, next steps as a team, we just have to decide what are the best mechanisms to continue those conversations with a larger group. So we already have some ideas for how we can capitalize on our well-attended events that are already scheduled in the district, to get some increased stakeholder participation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What one thing that comes up? E2 Gowanda HS Library: whenever I see a meeting scheduled, like, from… E2 Gowanda HS Library: What is it, 12? 12.30 to 4.30? 12.30 to 4.30. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Not a sign here, working people need not apply. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're not interested in your opinions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's kind of the sign that you're… you're saying. You may not put it in writing, but… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes.
056So you're suggesting maybe flexing the time more of, like, a 2.30 to 6.30 instead of a 12.30 to 4.30? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or something, or… We're opening it up so that… E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's fair. I was gonna say, why not? Why not? We've discussed breaking it up, so maybe if we're gonna start doing some monthly conversations or bi-monthly conversations, that maybe we do hold one that's going to be during the day, and the next time we meet, it's in the evening. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because we've heard from community members and our staff that both work and both don't work, so we want to try to accommodate as many people as we can. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And for anybody who can't participate in person, are there other options where they can
057share that feedback? So, we are taking note of those things, and we'll try to accommodate, adjust moving forward. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's all I have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Congratulations to them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You'll be honest. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I scratch faces. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Welcome to our school board members… our student members here. That's the student input. E2 Gowanda HS Library: communication with the student body, that's good, and welcome to our new administration and things like that. I just, because I feel like I'm kind of the community cheerleader, so I'll just mention a couple community things coming up. We've got the youth… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Youth Football Pep Rally coming up here next Friday evening at 7 o'clock, I believe, right? Am I right about that? E2 Gowanda
058HS Library: 7? 6? Okay. My kids are kind of aging out of that stuff, so I'm not as involved as I once was. Anyway, that's at Phillips Field, that's always fun, watching all the kids getting all excited about the upcoming E2 Gowanda HS Library: fall sports season, so that's fun, if anybody wants to check that out. And we also have in Gwanda, we have a Ducky Derby. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Have you been to the Ducky Derby? It's very fun. A bunch of rubber ducks are dumped into the cataroga Street. Pay 5 bucks for your ticket, and you might win some money. So just saying, that's not… That is on the 24th. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. You get to name your duck. You can name your duck, yes. You may have to come for
059that. There's kids games, I hear, and things like that, and extra things, so… and I didn't, of course, write down the time. I want to say it's at E2 Gowanda HS Library: 2? It's usually in the afternoon. But anyway, there's that going on, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: just community rah-rah over here. But, yeah, and I guess that's all I got, and we're just excited to get school started here pretty soon, and my kids need to go back to school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: My own children, right? We need some structure again, some routine. But anyway, can't come soon enough. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Welcome, girls. Welcome, Chandra. We're so excited to have you. We do have our two new principals on board. I will say that I feel that
060this has been the most positive back-to-school that we've had. I think that's being felt at all levels. There's just a really good energy E2 Gowanda HS Library: in the team, two weeks ago, we had our district leadership team meeting. It's a two-day workshop where we work through the work that we're doing in our professional learning communities and our collaborative teams, so we had reps from every grade level and department, and our entire administrative team was E2 Gowanda HS Library: present as well, so that's 30 people, so that was a larger group, and so I think those were just, again, really strong conversations. In addition to that, our administrative team had our retreat this summer. Again, really just positive conversations about the year ahead, so I would just say that… E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're really
061looking forward to getting the year started. Also, on tonight's agenda, you approved the resignation of Megan Radoni, so I just want to wish her well. She was a tech integrator on our tech team, so we're in the process of filling her position. So, a lot of new faces coming this way this year, but again, really positive energy, so it's going to be a great year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Nothing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Kathy? I'm good. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Ladies? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Usually at this part, this might be where you might share things going on with students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you guys for having us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Appreciate it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Welcome new faces to the team. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess I just kind
062of was relieved to hear the… trying to target more of the, stakeholders. I was excited to hear that, so… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Because that was one of my questions tonight, was going to be, how are we actually doing that? How are we approaching that? One caveat I would say is specifically students, stakeholders, I guess I wonder what we're doing to… E2 Gowanda HS Library: hear from them, as far as programming and or anything else? Well, each building principal has committed to starting a principal's panel this year, so they… I know each building principal's going to be forming monthly sessions, breakfasts or lunches, with student groups, so I know all three have committed to that, so that'll be coming in each building. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then just the last piece to that would
063be just what we're gonna get. Like, what's the deliverable on the reporting to us, as far as board, I guess? What… E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I know that you probably don't have that answer. From the students? Just any… all of that. So, any of that type feedback, any of that type stakeholder feedback, or the students' feedback, or… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Facebook feedback, any of that kind of reporting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what you have access to? I mean, I think that we'll all continue to share updates as we receive them. I typically present 3 times a year, on the goals that we've identified and the progress that we're making, or not making, towards meeting those. And then I know that Dr. Anderson has a plan to continue E2 Gowanda HS Library: the department
064or leader presentations that we did this past year, I thought those were really impactful, where each building principal or department lead came and did a presentation, focused on their work, and so I know a lot of that information and feedback has been shared in that setting as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And certainly, if there's anything that you're feeling like you're not getting enough feedback on, please just let us know, and we'll bring that to the filing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good luck to Jacqueline Reeves, I know she'll be missed, her contributions, and Megan Radoni, I was gonna mention that. Welcome to our new faces, Ms. Shavers, student board members, glad to have you here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: … And that's pretty much all it for today. E2
065Gowanda HS Library: Just to echo what everyone else said, welcome. Congratulations, girls. And, super excited about the new principals as well. I went to school with Chelsea, and I think Darlene was already a part of Gwana before, so welcome back to her. So, yeah, I think it'll be a good school year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Wonderful. I don't have much to add, other than summer always seems to fly by, creeps… E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure does. Faster and faster every year. So, that being said, I look forward to another exciting school year. Hopefully we can have a lot of positive change and keep going in the right direction. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our last thing on the agenda for the evening is our, board parking lots. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anybody have anything they
066want to have added, or changes made? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, but I don't have it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I want to show you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: At some point, I do want to hear more about how the reading. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Greetings come along, but… Please don't tell us when, or… E2 Gowanda HS Library: That seems to be a good servant. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Big a topic for Airbnb? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anybody have anything else? E2 Gowanda HS Library: If we have nothing further for the parking lot, I'd make a consideration motion to adjourn the meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Second. All in favor? Aye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thanks, everybody.