001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Fortunate to be allocated 1.5 million. So this plan, this plan, was developed before I came on board E2 Gowanda HS Library: by some of our current team members and those who have since retired. But we are. We have primarily used the funds for our musonics, so we have one of these in every single classroom. Our chromebooks, which are one-to-one devices for students in grades, 1st grade through 12th ipads for students in pre-k through kindergarten, and then the supporting E2 Gowanda HS Library: equipment that goes with those licensing cases, etc. So we've primarily used it just for those things. And so the plan just includes what we initially allocated and then spent in each year. So the 1st year of funding was in 2017 18. So again, primarily, our chromebooks, chargers, cases,
002ipads, cases, and so every page in the plan will tell you exactly E2 Gowanda HS Library: what we submitted to state, Ed, and what we actually spent and claimed for reimbursement. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You will recall that last year E2 Gowanda HS Library: you did approve a request. I'm sorry. Our 2022, 23 plan we had submitted and had approval, and we submitted them for reapproval. We had a year where we didn't have to spend any of our smart schools allocations because we had money remaining in the budget, and so we were able to use those funds to cover expenses, thus stretching out our smart schools allocation, which was great. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we had funds remaining from that year for this current year. So it was last year's plan that we spent
003this year on our chromebooks, licenses, covers in cases. And so what I am presenting tonight, and what will go to State Ed for approval. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yep. E2 Gowanda HS Library: is for additional chromebooks, and we are on a 3 year replacement cycle. So our new round of chromebooks will go to students entering grades. 1, st 4, th 7, th and 10.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: We will also have ipads for kindergarten. Our kindergarten students will be ready for updates and then viewsonics. Every classroom currently has a viewsonic. So now we're in the process of making updates to those 1st round of classrooms that got them. So you'll start seeing the need to replace. And so we want to just have E2 Gowanda HS Library: knock on wood. We don't have any classrooms
004that need them right this second, but it's good to have them, because our teachers really can't go very long without. If something happens to them. They've become such a a great tool for our teachers, and so E2 Gowanda HS Library: sorry what I'll be proposing and putting in the portal for State. Ed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: My notes up there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: As expenditures totaling $219,300. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What remains then for us will be 300. I'm sorry. Currently, what we have is 365,576. So after our estimated 2526 expenses, we'll have $146,276 remaining, and so E2 Gowanda HS Library: that probably could get us through a good amount of what we would need the following year. And so the 1st question I'd be asking if I were you is, what's the plan
005to replace technology when those funds ran out? One of 2 things. The 1st is, I would love if somebody put out another. Grant E2 Gowanda HS Library: that we could apply for. To continue this, I think most districts will be in the same boat that we are. We're actually one of the districts, that's, you know, a lot of districts have already gone through a lot of their allocations, so we're fortunate to still have some because of the smart spending. So if another funding source doesn't come out, then Barb and I've already started having those conversations about how we'll have to use the funds that we do have to make sure that we're budgeting appropriately to keep those devices ready for our kids and for our staff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we're already starting to
006have those conversations. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we'd probably get into bosis. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that always helps, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we have a great relationship with our boces. And they do a lot of help with a lot of our purchases as is. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: just keep planning so we can E2 Gowanda HS Library: move without hiccup and get get our kids, those devices and teachers devices. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What's the timeline on the approval E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will the last page. Our opportunity for comment for public comment is available through through July 9, th so I can get in the portal as soon as that closes it takes a few months. Yeah, it takes several months, and very, very slow. E2 Gowanda HS
007Library: for no particular reason. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What's it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: The lag time in terms of when we actually order them to actually get them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our most recent purchases from this current year came in pretty quickly. I mean our ipads and chromebooks came in pretty fast, wasn't it, Anthony? Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean a month or 2. I mean, it was pretty quick. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's not like a dog. Our school buses are way behind. No, we can get the technology pretty quickly, and we try to as soon as we do get approval. And again, this will be approval for next year. Right? We already have our funds for the current year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We try to get purchases in quickly,
008because we want to lock in the prices. E2 Gowanda HS Library: because those certainly can fluctuate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So at this time we don't see tariffs affecting that, or any sort of E2 Gowanda HS Library: not on the estimate, not on the estimates. Actually, some of our prices have gone down from the 1st couple of years. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So no, not on, not on our technology right now. I don't. I can't say where that what that's gonna look like, you know, in a few months, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: not yet. But as far as concern of it, availability of any of that. We have not seen that yet for technology, but I can't, can't speak to our other parents. We have not seen that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And for
009the view sonics that are being phased out. Are they the old devices that recycled? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Are they still in any sort of usable state? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, we haven't actually had to get rid of any yet. We're just preparing, because you never know. So we haven't had to. We've had to recycle some of the screens that are not interactive. So these are the interactive flat panels, you know. You can see me moving it. So we've had to recycle some other things. And sometimes people will. I know. I don't know if you've put any of these out to auction recently, Barb, I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: sometimes you can get. I don't know. I don't recall recently. No. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, I know.
010Doug used to try to see if people were interested in the parts and things like that, but we haven't had anybody reach out for that kind of thing recently, and sometimes you'll see some of our older devices that may not just be great on the network. We'll use them just to display things, so keep them as long as we can. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So thank you. Sorry. I I hate to ask this question just because I know there's some controversy, and we've E2 Gowanda HS Library: I already put a survey out to the community. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But how does a chromebook compare to, or the chromebooks that we issue compared to a cell phone or a personal device. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Compare in terms of like usability, usability. And as far
011as, like actual content on the screen. E2 Gowanda HS Library: is it less worse, sane E2 Gowanda HS Library: as far as like a screen time type, perspective. And I know this is kind of a E2 Gowanda HS Library: crummy question to ask on the spot. I mean, I think it depends on the purpose. Right? I think students certainly prefer sometimes the ease of a cell phone, right? It's a little bit easier to just quickly take out. I think most of us prefer a larger screen. One of the reasons we went with chromebooks was just. They have a little bit of a larger screen than some of the devices I personally prefer. A little bit smaller, like my device is lighter, because I think the chromebooks are a little bit heavier. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
012But the tech team went through an extensive review process through boces when selecting the best devices and their longevity. And so that's why they were selected. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Were you E2 Gowanda HS Library: like accessibility to the Internet and things like that? Is that what you were going? No, I guess it was more general and like just kind of. She kind of answered it right. But again, I know it's kind of a crummy question, because E2 Gowanda HS Library: reality is, is, individuals come most likely to school with a device, or there are right percentage that come to school with a device that could have these same capabilities. But yet we're providing that so? And I guess that's where. E2 Gowanda HS Library: fiscally, I'm E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of scratching my
013head. Why are we? And again, this is crummy to ask of you, because this isn't your call. Well, next year they won't be allowed to come in with any device. This is a little political in my questioning, and again I apologize. I'm not trying to shoot it at you, but it does make me kind of scratch my head of like, why are we E2 Gowanda HS Library: funding this when potentially we have individuals coming to the building control over. Yeah, and that. And that's a great piece. We have control over student devices. So we monitor them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We get alerts. I get several of them a day, and outside of school hours. So any. So our teachers have full access to see what students are doing on their screens at all times
014throughout the day in their classrooms, and in addition, we have a monitoring tool that every adult has this. There's only a few of us that have access. But we get alerts regularly if students are searching anything that's inappropriate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: if students type something that's inappropriate. So our systems are monitored. And so that is the huge benefit of our own devices. It's just the monitoring. We monitor all this. I get alerts all the time. It's all connected, so we can monitor E2 Gowanda HS Library: device time, use all that good stuff. Then it's an equity issue, too, I think, using electronic devices to your point. I mean, yeah, we, I mean. So we all have a E2 Gowanda HS Library: computers sit right here that we can all access to, but not everybody
015does so at least levels the playing field. So if we're using electronic media in school, everybody's got access to it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And that's that's part of it. But but to your point, I understand. I mean why they and something we already have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, we should be able to use it. But well, and I think a lot of our students come in with cell phones. I don't know how many of our students off top of my head have a device like a chromebook or a laptop to do the work on, and I think it would be very challenging for them to work on a small device like a cell phone for how much I mean our middle school and high schoolers, especially 7 through 12. All of their
016work is done, you know, on the chromebook through schoology E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm great prior to chromebooks. When my boys were in school they would use my laptop all the time. So, and it's not something they could bring to school. School. So this is E2 Gowanda HS Library: be able to bring back and forth. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. And our devices all go through updates almost nightly, whereas, like my own personal laptop at home, does not, unless I pay for an update, and I know. So it starts to get a little slower, a lot quicker. E2 Gowanda HS Library: cool. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Feel free to reach out at any time with any other questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Oh, here's my friend. E2
017Gowanda HS Library: So one thing I would E2 Gowanda HS Library: wanted to say before I start into the district. Wide safety plan is, I wanted to thank my staff we had, and we talked about a little bit here, but we had some flooding this afternoon with all the rain that came down. They worked E2 Gowanda HS Library: very hard this afternoon to clean up the basement, clean up around my office, clean up the locker room. Our athletic storage flooded. We had some flooding over at the elementary school that we had to do, and then we had to run back here, so I just wanted to thank them for what they do. It was great to see how everyone worked together. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and everyone came together from custodians to cleaners, to the
018mechanics, to the grounds to our seasonal laborers that are working right now. Everyone worked together to get that cleared up, and Barbie even had her staff E2 Gowanda HS Library: answering some pages so that we could stay where we were so that we could keep working to clean up everything. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So tonight I just wanted to talk really quick through changes that came to the district. Wide Safety Plan, the District Wide Safety Plan is an overview of what our building specific plans are. This plan will tell you what is in that plan, but it won't go through what we do for each of those situations. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The major change that came this year and and last year from the State was we have to, or Dr. Anderson has to
019notify the public either, no less than 24 h, and up to 7 days prior to us, doing a drill like the the lockdown drills. So there has to be a call that goes out to notify them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: This year. We have to page. When we do a drill it has to be paged. This is a drill. This is a drill. This is a drill, and then we can activate like a lockdown, or we can do a fire drill. But we have to page that. It is so that everyone knows that it is just a drill. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The other change that came about from the State was changing. We used to have lockdown, lockout, shelter in place E2 Gowanda HS Library: and evacuation. Those were the 4 things that we
020had. The state has changed those. I guess. There was some confusion with lockout and people thinking that it was actually a lockdown. So they made it a secure lockout. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Really, we're in a secure lockout. E2 Gowanda HS Library: really, the whole school day until the end of the school, when we open up some doors. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but so the the wording will change, and they separated, shelter in place they got rid of in place, and there's shelter, and there's hold now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Shelter in place is one that you hear all the time, and I go through this every time I do a training, but shelter in place is like a kid threw up in the hall. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We've had students that had like
021an asthma attack, and we had an ambulance come for them, and we keep everyone in their classrooms that will now be hold. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Which sort of makes sense because it E2 Gowanda HS Library: you're holding. I'm holding everyone in this room or in their classroom or in their offices until that situation is over. A shelter would be could have been this afternoon when we had flooding, and we were looking at. If we were going to have to hold students here because of the flooding in the village, that would have been a shelter, because we're sheltering from something outside that's going on, and it will probably be normally. It would be a weather related E2 Gowanda HS Library: incident, some reason why we don't want to leave the building. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
022Oh, evacuation teams to evacuate! I really don't know E2 Gowanda HS Library: what the difference is, but other than a few letters at the end. But it's the same thing, and it's something that we do for a fire drill. E2 Gowanda HS Library: something that we do. If we went to the church down the road, if we had to evacuate the whole building. So that's the other change E2 Gowanda HS Library: at the end of this policy was the pandemic policy, and that we changed this year. So it's more of just a general. It's not Covid specific, which is what it was before. It's more in general just to if that ever happened again. This is what we do so, there is all the wording that was for Covid was taken out. E2 Gowanda HS
023Library: Those are really the the major changes that came about through the State and through our review. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there any questions at Mark? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, and that you one or 2? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, this change in Saint Law requires us to notify the community. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does our current call system meet that qualification? E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, no, I only can reach people within our confines. But I think I only have to reach those people E2 Gowanda HS Library: parents of children that are being impacted. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not mistaken. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, I think the way that I took it was that it was. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We had to notify the E2 Gowanda HS Library:
024the community like the school community. The problem is, when these start happening, those schools ran their drills and moms and dads, obviously panic, because all these mercy vehicles. So the the laws were written that advance notice. I don't think it talks about people like outside. E2 Gowanda HS Library: like grandparents or just any numbers down the street, they wouldn't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's really no way to that. Yeah, I don't know how we would how we would accomplish that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and you can't. There was some schools that talked about sending out like at the beginning of the year, sending out the whole list, and on January 1st we were going to do a lockdown and you know, September 1st we were doing a fire drill. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The
025State doesn't want that. They want that E2 Gowanda HS Library: that timeframe where it's that 24 h to 7 days prior E2 Gowanda HS Library: plus of that prescheduled me if we were allowed to, because there's so much happens through the school year that we have to switch a lot like evacuation. We have planned for October 10, th and then the day shows up. It's just a downpour. So we're like we'll move it. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: it works until our dash, too. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: anything else. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It will be on our website for review for 30 days. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, and it'll be approved at your next meeting. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: just for the new members, this is not the actual plan. This
026is just overview of the plan. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Time itself is E2 Gowanda HS Library: the plan itself is about a hundred pages long, and it is specific to what we do. If there's a fire drill, or if there's a fire, sorry if there's an evacuation. This is what we do. This is where we go. This is E2 Gowanda HS Library: how we take that route. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If there's a lockdown, how we notify everyone how how that all works. We do not have to put that out to the public. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That is something that is just ours. What we have to. It would be this, the district wide, the more general. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So if that makes consideration motion to adjourn the public hearing all in
027favor, okay, through a couple. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Take any of that, any flooding and kill us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Take a break if you want to go. There was a around burn. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's some water signaling inside behind the wheel. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would like to call the meeting to order E2 Gowanda HS Library: if we could stand for the pledge to the flag. E2 Gowanda HS Library: pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: make a consideration of motion to accept the agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Second, good bye. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
028Our Board of Education Bylaws. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. The Board remains committed to providing opportunities for the public to address the board on items of public interest. E2 Gowanda HS Library: With that in mind, the Board wishes to remind the public of its adopted policy, 1510, which sets forth reasonable guidelines in terms of ensuring an orderly discussion and exchange of information during E2 Gowanda HS Library: in exceptional circumstances. The Board may, as an entity, decide to provide a written or verbal response to future questions raised during E2 Gowanda HS Library: any 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. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the person to speak at the appropriate time, and each such person
029will be permitted to speak for a time limited to 3 min. Please stand in the front of the board table and address the board directly, under discretion of the board. No more than 3 people will be allowed to address the board on a single topic. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Next we have our calendar. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our next Board of Education meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 9, th we will start at 6 pm. With an organizational meeting, and we'll immediately run into the regular meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I said. Make a consideration of motion agenda items 2.0 1 to 5.0 2. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Hold on second, definitely, a discussion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's 1 little about Amy Spears. The E2
030Gowanda HS Library: for the substitute teacher is that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do you know who that is by chance? Because I know Amy Spears? I work with the suny Fredonia, and I just wondered if that was her it is, it is! Oh, how fun it was! Great! That's good! E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's Dr. Amy Spears so interesting. She's a music professor, so she's a Mr. Swanson. Oh, I'm sure I know her! When I saw that name I was like E2 Gowanda HS Library: me and my mansions no other discussion all in favor. Aye, aye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so I know I don't all the way down to E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay. So all right. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: bring us into public discussion and comment on agenda items and non-agenda
031items. We have none. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we'll transition to our superintendent. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. I want to 1st of all congratulate the class of 2025, really proud of all their achievements. It's hard to believe we're closing out another school year. Commencement exercises are, believe it or not. Next Friday, June 27, th at 7 Pm. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Knock on wood weather holds that will be a hill of steel. So. E2 Gowanda HS Library: looking forward to share that special evening to those students, oh. E2 Gowanda HS Library: last week, I had an opportunity to attend and present some awards in your class night. I want to congratulate all the recipients, and, thanks to all the organizations, states who thought of our future students to make some of their post-secondary aspirations
032and dreams possible. So that's very, very thoughtful and congratulations this past week. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I want to congratulate our baseball team, congratulate Coach Smith, Coach, Deanie, and the entire team, probably one of the more successful seasons we've had in school history. The team won the section 6 title. They're the Far West regional champions, and made the New York State final 4. So a really wonderful season E2 Gowanda HS Library: coaches and Thursday to kind of score the team out of town on the way to Binghamton. I want to thank all the local agencies who provided emergency vehicles with sirens for the siren parade. It was pretty awesome, and it kind of brings a little tear to your eye. It was really nice to see everybody come out and support our students and just
033a lot of community and school spirit. So it was really, really great experience. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Tomorrow there's no school, or the district is closed in celebration of Juneteenth E2 Gowanda HS Library: be back in business on Friday under agenda. Thank you to the donations that are generously made to our school E2 Gowanda HS Library: organizations, and some congratulations also, and one, Barb Weston. Thank you, and congratulations on your E2 Gowanda HS Library: well position, was Sni. But I want to thank you for all your work as a board member all these years greatly appreciate it. And then we also had. Where did I put my notes that many people earn tenure? I want to congratulate all those folks we're really committed to them doing well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Future Ashley Wakely to
034my right, is earned tenure. I want to congratulate her. It's been a real pleasure working with her, and she's definitely an asset to the district, Ashley. It's like another four-year term. It's like I just won the President. Yes, I got my wave done all right. There you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So so well, let me get to this next part here. People ask about the pool. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and this will come up another topic here in a second. Right now it's E2 Gowanda HS Library: request we've released. Bid Docs requesting proposals, looking at hopefully. A meeting in July. The Board will accept the bid just to start the work. So that's where we are with that timeline. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Then let. It was in Buffalo News today and yesterday about
035E2 Gowanda HS Library: lead testing and some schools in Erie County and across State probably failed. Well, several years ago the State of New York reduced the limit of permissible lead in the water from 15 parts per 1 billion, which is the federal standard to 5 parts per 1 billion, which is certainly lower. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We just did our recent testing on June 7, th we're still waiting for our results, for the elementary middle and high school in hill steel with water. The last time we did a test, those results are on our website for 2021, and we did a mitigation at the elementary school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and where we have a lead filtration system. And then we did a lot of plumbing work here in this complex kind of get
036rid of all the old plumbing. So we'll see what the results look like. We have to go back and be there, you know, repair fixtures and do stuff like that. What we're also doing is getting tests on the source of water coming into the district. I don't know what its lead content is, either. I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I don't know. So we'll find out. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: so we'll get those results online soon as they're available E2 Gowanda HS Library: within 48, 72 h of your receipt. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's lead for capital project stuff share on the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Very early patient. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: You awarded a bid tonight for your parking lots. We are within that.
037The high school front and the pool lot are in the middle school parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Golden Top this summer sealed and striped. The High school lot. Looks like it's been through a I don't know war zone for lack of a better term so excited about getting that done. The elementary school is on the dock. They'll likely be in the capital project, which we'll talk about here shortly, and then one other. I give Rich Smith credit for this. We've always heard conversation about having a sidewalk around the side here on Panther Street. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know. It's kind of expensive, but they just came up with the idea. Well, why don't I get a paved walkway so makes sense. So we've been busy except for the night this summer we'll have
038a paved walkway asphalt 6 foot wide path here from the science wing all the way around to join the sidewalk, so there'll be a pathway for people to walk and students to access without actually being on Panther drive there. So people talk about lots. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited. But who knows that stuff? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Really, as you can tell, I'm really excited about that. And then E2 Gowanda HS Library: I want to see the Board's availability in July. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let's see if we can have a meeting on July 23rd regular day. It could be at 5, 5, 36, 6, 34, whatever you want, but what I'd like to do. One order of business that's in front of the board at that time is to
039approve the bid for the pool, so you can act on that. We get the repair started. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But we've also been working behind the scenes developing E2 Gowanda HS Library: really a scope for the next capital project. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And maybe it's really a job for the building committee. But we just kind of thought, maybe just bring it all to the board and just talk to you collectively. I'd like to introduce the board. Some proposed scopes to the project which was based on your buildings condition Survey. That was done in 2022 today it's my roof leak. So you know, roofs are going to be on your next, not glamorous, but they need to be done. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and some other things choice that the Board will have to
040weigh in on. And then the financial scope. Talk about the finances, and what E2 Gowanda HS Library: project can the district do E2 Gowanda HS Library: without any impact on local taxes. We've done a good job or collectively putting money into our capital reserve fund, which is the local down payment for these projects which really gives us a lot of ability to do a lot of work when we had a chance to save without any impact on our local taxpayers other than the fact that obviously, that's our collective money in that account I recognize that. So I was curious. If you're available, it could be the 20 second, but the 23rd is the Wednesday kind of keep the Wednesday theme. E2 Gowanda HS Library: if that's okay with the board, and if what a good
041time is E2 Gowanda HS Library: informational, pretty cool stuff. But the one decent business really has to. We have to prove E2 Gowanda HS Library: we need a quorum. Yeah, definitely have to have a quorum. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any preferences 20, second, 2023rd E2 Gowanda HS Library: went through. Okay, people watched it. Yeah, they just stick with the website E2 Gowanda HS Library: in time. I'm here all day and we'll discuss the board. We can do it anytime. E2 Gowanda HS Library: (443) 553-6630. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get you out here in time to go grill home, or E2 Gowanda HS Library: it doesn't matter to me. I can run out of the house for a little bit, but I'm not pushing. It E2 Gowanda HS Library: is our releasing gears for Bob Clock.
042You. Okay? 5, 30, E2 Gowanda HS Library: 5 o'clock. Yes, but July 23rd at 5 o'clock. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Startup. How does that work for you? I'm gonna have to check. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. I think the one of the biggest pieces that they want to explain is how the Mca and how E2 Gowanda HS Library: how to maximize our project E2 Gowanda HS Library: to make sure that to them. So basically, we can do so much work here which generates money to do outside outside work. The fun stuff, right? So that's episode is the maximum cost allowance. Right you're up to, and then I'll let you talk. Yeah. So the maximum cost allowance is really what would E2 Gowanda HS Library: aiming to maximize what you can get. But you can only
043do so much work in every building every 5 years. So after 5 years, it resets. So what we're trying to do so like with the 1st capital, the last couple projects we were able to do both of those fields outside. But it was also because we did a lot of inside work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we have to kind of try and find that balance, to try and maximize the aid that we're getting and doing enough inside work to then be able to do outside work. So there's things we've tossed, tossed around, maybe lacrosse field. We've tossed, tossed around other things to do outside. But then we have so many things to do inside. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So and the parking lots are outside. So that's why we're trying to talk. We basically
044tried to get some work done on the parking lots this summer so that we can kind of maximize the dollars done in the project because we're taking. We're trying to take things out of the project E2 Gowanda HS Library: to do now, so that we can then maximize what we can do with the projects that are bigger, bigger, and better things of parking lots right? Nothing sexy about doing a parking lot of it just looks nicer, but the roofs have to be done. So that's taking up a big chunk. So I think the biggest piece that you'll learn that night is really how to take the money and try and make the best allocation of it, and then see what I see. What we have to do is basically the base, and then what our
045options are to do with the rest of the money that's available to us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So in this presentation would be from yourself and the contractor. Really, it's mostly young and right. We'll probably do it. We have a financial advisor, Maggie, from municipal solutions, who also works on it. She's the one who really does a lot behind the scenes with all of that. But she. I don't think she can be there that night, but Alyssa, from young and right can handle it. I can chime in as needed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's really the the architects that are in, and probably buffalo construction that are kind of leading. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, we'll leave it. It's our project, you know, the experts that we've hired to actually have. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
046So you know, they'll they'll be their churn E2 Gowanda HS Library: chime in with some expert opinion. Talk about the finances and the nitty gritty! But you know it's a scope that we collectively, our leadership team has kind of put together, based on the E2 Gowanda HS Library: trying to sell us stuff. That's not. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's a resource for us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's exciting. I'm really excited about it. It is exciting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We had some really interesting good good things for our administrative side to get loose. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think that's it. I think I've exhausted myself. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yep. E2 Gowanda HS Library: alright. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So next up we have our draft organizational meeting agenda E2 Gowanda HS
047Library: attached to the the agenda tonight is the organizational agenda, and it is complete. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does anyone have any questions about any of the items E2 Gowanda HS Library: pretty straightforward from years past? It is. It is so. This is the agenda that we will have for the 1st July meeting, and it'll be any questions you have. If you have, please ask them prior to the meeting. Bring those to me so we can have them answered, so that we can just come into the meeting and approve this in one quick swoop. This is all standard stuff that we do every year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're required to do. Many of these things sets us up for the year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have nothing further on that that'll move us
048to our 1st reading E2 Gowanda HS Library: policy. 73, 16 use of Internet enabled devices during the school day. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: this is the draft policy, and you can see some of the recommendations they made that we crossed out. We're keeping those things in place. This is the one change that the policy committee made E2 Gowanda HS Library: to the policy that was provided to us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Hope tonight E2 Gowanda HS Library: is to approve it at the next meeting, and that is because we do have to have it done within a certain time frame. We typically do E2 Gowanda HS Library: 2 readings, and then the 3rd step is the approval. But we only have 30 days to get this in place. So
049we at the next Board meeting would be having a motion on the agenda to skip the second reading and go right to approving the policy at our next meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So also with this one, please take a look and and E2 Gowanda HS Library: let us know if you have any questions about this policy E2 Gowanda HS Library: prior to the board meeting, so we can get everything squared away if you're if you're questioning something E2 Gowanda HS Library: gotten any feedback from. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, let me know about the changing of. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, I think I shared that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure they will. Yeah, let me look it up real quick. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I, about 70% of the people are assuming they
050were on board with E2 Gowanda HS Library: policy of a ban is 30% more overall. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think some of the comments were especially for high school kids, students, you know the kind of young adults. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but when parents are concerned they would be able to get a hold of their students like that job obligations outside of school after the school day get a hold of their employers, you know, just young adult type stuff. But some people E2 Gowanda HS Library: then, at our next meeting in July. This policy will inform your code of conduct. So there's some tweaks we need to make to that which we'll be talking. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that, and then E2 Gowanda HS Library: the buildings within their handbooks have some specific regulation
051about how they're going to put the policy E2 Gowanda HS Library: shared that with you. But we'll we'll ever document. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excuse me, we'll see how it goes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have nothing further on that we'll move us to our Board of Education Communications. We have none. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, speaking of Policy Committee, we have our committee reports E2 Gowanda HS Library: policy. We just talked about this came out of the meeting E2 Gowanda HS Library: any other committees E2 Gowanda HS Library: so that'll bring us to our board and administration roundtable. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Pardon! E2 Gowanda HS Library: Congratulations to all those that tenured congratulations. That's a lot going on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I'd like to thank all of you for my time
052here 7 years. That was a long time, you know, not as long as some for the public. I appreciate the opportunity. I really did enjoy my time here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: done E2 Gowanda HS Library: many things. I learned many things I saw, and would be able to be a part of some of the changes. I helped E2 Gowanda HS Library: help make some of the changes that I've seen all for the good, you know. So I'm excited to see where you guys take it from here. You know, I wish you guys all the best, too. So yeah, and who knows? Maybe I'll just pop in sometime. Yeah, that's all I've got. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright to not to rehash a lot of things that Dr. Anderson said. But I want to. E2
053Gowanda HS Library: you know, congrats all the newly tenured folks, and, most importantly, the class. This year's graduating class, big milestone, and they should definitely be all proud of it. Sports teams fall or sorry. The spring season was fantastic, capped off by the boys baseball team, which was a fantastic thing to follow, and last, but not least. E2 Gowanda HS Library: good luck, Barb, you know it's been a pleasure sitting next to you these last couple of years you've been a mentor and a friend kind of helped me along my way, so that'll be missed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll start off with thanking Bart. Thank you for your service on the board, and wish the best to you, and hope to see you again, for sure. But I guess other than that the middle
054school. I did attend the middle school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: make sure to mention that, seeing I have a little one in there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it was exciting to see all of those children get the awards, and it was interesting to see some of them that I knew from other organizations E2 Gowanda HS Library: like for each and such. So and then I'm telling you E2 Gowanda HS Library: some different things in board docs, different events. They're out there. If anyone is interested, please let me know. Remember to look over the standing committees that'll be at our next E2 Gowanda HS Library: next meeting. That will be hopefully finalizing those and E2 Gowanda HS Library: I am definitely going to miss far. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's been great having you here over
055the years. I've enjoyed you very much. Thank you. And I hope to see you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, definitely. Good luck. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's good. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll miss you. We've had some rough years, and then we've had some really great years, but it was always. We always tried to make fun of it, and always best for the kids, and I'm happy that I'll still get to work with you. And again I want to give richest girl a huge shout out. There were a lot of bad things all happening at once today, and they E2 Gowanda HS Library: everybody pulls together and works here, which is really what Wanda is about. So it was always nice to see, and they do work very, very hard. So
056E2 Gowanda HS Library: thank you for your vote of approval. This evening I will hopefully be here through 2041. So a little bit earlier than what we heard earlier, so I'll still be here in 2041, probably with Bob and Barb. I'll miss you at these evenings, but I know I'm going to still work with you. We have a meeting on Monday. We do. Yes, so, looking forward to continuing that. So thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm going to go over a few items that everybody else is going over. Congratulations. Thank you for your service. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The baseball team was amazing. It was great to see the parade. It was great to see that the athletes were sitting in the back of pickup trucks, so everybody could actually see them this time,
057which was amazing. I love seeing that E2 Gowanda HS Library: the scholarships, the award ceremony, was phenomenal. I love going to that every year I get to present as a booster, I would like to hopefully in the future, open that up more and so more community members go to that. More underclassmen go to it and see what opportunities they have and the money that's being handed out, and the presentations that are occurring. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's sad to see such low attendance, but I think that it's not promoted, and I don't think that people are truly invited. I think it's more of an invite only, and I don't think it should be. I think it should be more open to everybody else, so everybody else can see it and acknowledge, acknowledge these these students
058and their accomplishments and E2 Gowanda HS Library: and the scholarships that they're receiving. And that goes along, too, that with the sports awards that were handed out the other day, a couple of us boosters had the privilege of attending it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which is amazing. They do it in the gym. It's nothing big, but it would be nice to see it maybe get a little bit bigger. These parents aren't aware of it. I mean, I remember when my kids did it way back in the day, and I didn't know about it until after it happened. Nobody's invited to it, and it would be nice that maybe, and I'm just throwing it out there that maybe it should be something that's done every season compared to just at the end of the year, because
059you're recognizing E2 Gowanda HS Library: athletes from the fall. You know what I mean that they're well past being acknowledged. They should have been acknowledged when they happen. But don't get me wrong. I love that it's being done. I'm not putting it down, and just be nice if it was E2 Gowanda HS Library: a little more often. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Congratulations to class of 2025. I'm glad and excited to be on the field next week because it's gonna be on the field because it's not gonna rain. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And what other things I think that was it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you who's speaking. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll just be a broken record and say, it's been a fun time with Barb. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I knew Barb from
060when our boys played sports and stuff together. But it was nice to be with you in this setting, and and I wish you well, and thank you for your service and all those good things E2 Gowanda HS Library: congrats to the class of 2025. They all should be coming to Suny Fredonia. But they're not. But you know. Sorry I'm probably not allowed to do that. But anyway, anyway, it is really cool to see. I went to the High School band concert last week, and they announced the seniors, and where they're headed, and it's always really cool to see, you know, all the different variety of. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and goals and and aspirations. So good stuff. Very good stuff. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: it was a good. It's been a successful 1st year,
061I feel like, and I haven't been kicked off the board yet. So that's good. I'm still here. I'm still here. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: for your service it's been a pleasure working with you am looking forward to graduation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Nice! Shout out to the maintenance staff. I mean E2 Gowanda HS Library: they do. A lot. Takes a lot to keep the complex going. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know, she we just kind of take right terms of what they do E2 Gowanda HS Library: just kind of an 9.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: The bridge on Sand Hill is closing for a week through the painting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: maybe use it that accordingly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So a couple of things. This last
062weekend I had the opportunity to chaperone the 8th grade trip to Washington, DC. And that was quite an experience. As E2 Gowanda HS Library: most people are probably aware there were some other events going on in DC. Over the weekend, including the military parade. So I just wanted to give props to the chaperones and the ability to be flexible and E2 Gowanda HS Library: deal with the E2 Gowanda HS Library: on the fly changes that had to happen. As a result of that. So overall, I would say the 8th graders did extremely well in DC. They got to see a lot of wonderful things very well behaved and quite an experience. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: thank you. Or thank the 8th grade class for having given me the opportunity to go with them on
063the trip. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Congrats on tenure. That's always a phenomenal thing I know in years past we've done a kind of a meet and greet over the summer. I don't know if we're going to continue that, but if not congrats to everybody, and class of 2025. It's a E2 Gowanda HS Library: phenomenal yet crazy time in your life, right? So congrats to all of them for making it through and on to the next chapter, just like with Barb. Thank you for your years of service. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Being a volunteer is often goes unnoticed right? And you know the fact that you've stepped up for as long as you have that that's truly phenomenal, speaks volumes about you, and wish you nothing but the best. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's not goodbye,
064but we'll see you later. Absolutely. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's all I have. So we'll get right into the parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does anybody have any changes or additions they wish to make. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we should be in good shape unless anybody has anything E2 Gowanda HS Library: we don't have, we don't have executive session. No, okay, all right. Well, if nobody does have anything further E2 Gowanda HS Library: consideration of the motion to adjourn the meeting all in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I said, so a lot of happens tonight.