001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Purchase those 4 buses was approved by 83% E2 Gowanda HS Library: funding in the repair 0 fund of 82%. And all the library budgets not really part of the school district. It passed 84%. So I think, overwhelming community support. Thank you very much. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you for everybody for coming out also that evening. Congratulations to John Waterman. E2 Gowanda HS Library: re-elected Incumbent Board member, and look forward to working with Jared for another 3 years. Appreciate his service. Welcome to Brittany Olshowski. Happy! She's out more for 3 years and appreciate their dedication to improving the quality of education for students here E2 Gowanda HS Library: from Rwanda E2 Gowanda HS Library: also thank you to the Qantas Club. They supported me, the candidate, night a couple weeks ago,
002Jay Greenlee, presiding with Jay, France as an outstanding moderator, and Martin for helping put together an entire Qantas club for their support. Some sad news I did share with the board, and I think the community knows already. But unfortunately, Pepper, the very 1st therapy dog unexpectedly passed away last week. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you know, if you had pets, you're like a member of the family. So people here were very upset and sort of the Shields family was also very upset. So you know, I think our thoughts with them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Their family at this particular point. So sorry to see Pepper leave us E2 Gowanda HS Library: so a little more. I got a positive note. Congratulations, Sue Baker, on your agenda accepted her retirement. Resignation. I want to thank her
003for all her service, and wish her all the best. I had a chance to work with her for many years in high school. She's really wonderful, and I wish her all the best. Thank you. The parents, Seneca Nation Indians, sports boosters for many donations on your agenda tonight, which I'm thankful for their support of our programs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Spring sports. The girls and boys, lacrosse team and softball had great seasons, but they came to an end recently. Boys, baseball is still alive, and they played tomorrow night here against Porkville. E2 Gowanda HS Library: generally a tough matchup. If they win, they play, I believe, at the trick stadium. Jcc. On Saturday, so great season for all our student athletes, and wish the men always good luck tomorrow. And E2 Gowanda HS Library: what's
004it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's not it. Sorry with Molly here I got some other steering announcements for you. Sorry from the middle school. Just a couple quick things to put on your calendar. June 5th is middle school band and chorus concert, 6 Pm. June 11, th 8th grade, moving up ceremony and dinner, and awards, starting at 5 30 on this great night. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then June 11th Middle School end of year celebration awards night immediately following the dinner. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then field day is on the 13, th which is always a lot of fun, the rain date being the 16.th So end of the year stuff in middle school, the High School, a couple things coming up there, Senior Strut next
005Friday, June 6.th Seniors go over to elementary school and start their stuff. And through middle school, too. It's really nice. It shows positive role models. And what's the end product, and I know the seniors very proud to show their accomplishments off to their underclassmen and family and friends. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Class night is June 9.th Monday is coming up. We got invited. It's a good night. Celebrate our scholars and athletes, and celebrate their work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: June 10th and 11 is religious exams for the high school. So grades 9 through 12. Only students who are taking those exams, or or have other assigned work are expected to attend school E2 Gowanda HS Library: for those who don't, don't call. So there's a little confusion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then, regents, week
006starts on the 17, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: 27. So we're coming up to the end of the year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sorry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, alright, that'll move us into our direct organizational meeting agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I believe I don't have it attached to the agenda, but I gave you guys a E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I highlighted some of the things E2 Gowanda HS Library: they're working on gathering information for. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our intent is to have it ready at the next board meeting for you guys to do one final look so that we're ready to roll E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the organizational meeting. In the meantime, over the next couple weeks, if you could. Please look it over and ask any questions, Zach,
007ahead of time. Then we can make sure that we have it set and ready to roll. So it's an easy transition on the 9.th But if there's anything that you're unsure about. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or any errors that you find on it, please let me know, so we can have E2 Gowanda HS Library: have all that cleaned up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but we just kind of started it. So it takes a bit of time to to finalize everything on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do we have a plan what to do. No prices change it all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We should be fine, so we still have cep for another year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and the State approved the universal school meals. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So so they're supposed to be
008funding any if there was any gap between. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I believe we're fine brown. Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we don't want to get in a position where we have to change in the middle. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No. And I guess E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess my thinking was because I think this meal price is for adults. Yeah, so this is for adults. If we ever had to come back and change the price, I mean, we could. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I've always kind of assumed that we would take care of the students if we had to. Certainly. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: there discussion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So next we have our 2025, 2026 board meeting scheduled. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do have the meeting schedule
009pulled up. I just E2 Gowanda HS Library: take care of E2 Gowanda HS Library: sorry wrong one. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So this is our meeting schedule the Blue for next school year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So want to kind of take a look at it. If you find any errors on it, or meetings that might have to change, let me know this meeting in April. It will be one of those days, so I just mark them both so that you keep them kind of both in mind that E2 Gowanda HS Library: this is the meeting, that Erie Tubosis will tell us what night it has to be E2 Gowanda HS Library: depending on their vote. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then in October there may possibly need to be a tentative meeting here over
010here on the 13.th It isn't an attended a tentative meeting that's actually in house. Our our agenda deadline. But the 20 second, we may need to have a meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We just commence your schedule. It's based around what we did this year E2 Gowanda HS Library: and heavy towards the springtime, because, you know, a lot of more things are going on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess something Barbara and I kind of talked earlier this afternoon. Thinking about again is the April meeting was the Daily. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You want to not look at vacation. Maybe the April meeting could be adjusted, and then the night E2 Gowanda HS Library: or the school boards thought we just do a quick, remote meeting, or quickly meet to do it. You can do
011it any time of day, too. I don't. Some school districts do it in the morning, and that's all they voted on was the Bose budget. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I was just gonna say that, Mark, yeah, we've had to do that in the past. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Create a new thing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 1st thing like 7 o'clock for a 5 min meeting or 2 or 3. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Mark was always there, even on a Tuesday. Yeah, I mean, I had to call him and tell him to show up. But you know E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess I I guess it's my time, my trying to say I E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not in favor of the monthly meetings. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
012I wonder why? A little busy. Now, Mark, I feel that in some ways we kind of lose touch. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Going once a month. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I prefer more often. But again I go with the majority. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I I would echo that to some extent. I wonder if there's a strategy there that we could on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't have multiple meetings again, but maybe it not be the business oriented stuff that would need our vote. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Maybe we focus that on one particular meeting in the month and then have another meeting E2 Gowanda HS Library: like a secondary meeting. That's more presentation based. We tried that a few years ago. Yeah, what happened? It's a great idea. I just thrown out. We
013had 2 meetings a month. Really, one meeting was business. Another meeting was based presentations and workshopping type stuff which made sense. But it seemed, as the year progressed, things, to start creeping into that second meeting before you know, we're actually E2 Gowanda HS Library: so I was good at critic. Yeah, I was like some time to talk about stuff and workshop, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'd say, can't try it again. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or could be a hybrid. I mean, it doesn't have to be every month. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what about like every 3 weeks? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So the only thing I would say is, it's confusing. It does E2 Gowanda HS Library: not a terrible idea like meeting more is. It's nice to stay
014in touch. But what are we accomplishing then? If that the members can't show up E2 Gowanda HS Library: right. We all have obligations. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know. I've been absent the last couple of meetings, but I'll be both the Admins E2 Gowanda HS Library: obviously, just speaking for myself. I know if we went back to 2 meetings a month I would not E2 Gowanda HS Library: feature. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I don't know, for Krista Brittany is gonna be coming on. John's not here to speak for himself, so E2 Gowanda HS Library: to try and go back to 2 meetings. I E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I would almost revisit that after we have E2 Gowanda HS Library: The new members on board that way. We can see what their availability
015is like as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just looking back at this past year, I don't think there was anything that we really needed to E2 Gowanda HS Library: have a special session for that, you know. Had that E2 Gowanda HS Library: we needed to have an emergency building, so E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would just follow back to, you know, were we effective and what we're trying to accomplish this E2 Gowanda HS Library: and everybody gets their own opinions, I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: especially since Crystal and John are here, and Britney, you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: get their feedback, and what they think. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Would it be possible to come up with an alternative E2 Gowanda HS Library: hybrid like we had said, like, maybe maybe not every
016month have a secondary meeting, but have that E2 Gowanda HS Library: every so often have a meaningful workshop E2 Gowanda HS Library: meeting calendar. You know what I mean like, for next next time we have the discussion with the E2 Gowanda HS Library: the full board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is that something that would be advantageous, or it would be just too. Well, I think E2 Gowanda HS Library: if you want to have like a workshop calendar, we can E2 Gowanda HS Library: keep our formal meeting calendar as is. And then, if there are certain months where you think that you want to have a workshop. Maybe E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know what months would E2 Gowanda HS Library: make the most sense for that, maybe October. See how the semester. How the
017year's starting off E2 Gowanda HS Library: December 4, th I mean, I don't know. Right? That's something that kind of E2 Gowanda HS Library: gonna come up with an idea. But the other thing with workshop meetings. I would E2 Gowanda HS Library: just caution. We probably have to have a plan. What is it that you want to accomplish at the workshops? What is, what is your focus gonna be other than just coming in and having a conversation? Right? Are there specific points that you want to look at so kind of like in the parking lot we have E2 Gowanda HS Library: in the past. We had, you know. Hey, blue blueprint works or blueprint updates, you know, 3 times out of the year. Right? Is that something that you want to be part of that?
018Or do you want that to be part of, say, the regular meeting? Because then we could kind of E2 Gowanda HS Library: I could see that have a purpose like, have a point for the workshop. You know what I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Some things like that the blue, the blueprint, I mean you can delve more into it or ask. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I think that's useful. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We do. Have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We? Do have a couple months already with that extra meeting, you know April, we could leave that potentially as we get closer where it could actually be an open meeting. If we have a lot of things to cover. It seems like around the budget vote. We do have a lot more topics of things
019to discuss. So there's that, you know a possibility. There. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you're going to have it twice in May. October is a possibility for a tentative meeting, so it seems like the months when when things are slower we do only have one meeting scheduled, and if we do need that second meeting, it looks like the calendar kind of E2 Gowanda HS Library: accommodates that already. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, you'll have budget workshops that aren't on there, too. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: there probably will be, you know, potentially extra meeting popped in there for workshops. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Times. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Maybe we overlay some of the budget workshops in there. So that we know I like that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, we could do that. It's not
020a terrible idea. Come up with a draft workshop calendar right that way, you can see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, then, like to meet your guys. Convenience, too. Just like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So for the formalized E2 Gowanda HS Library: formal board meetings. Do we wanna make any adjustments to the calendar? Are we okay with this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm for now. Tentatively right, we can readdress it. When we have got numbers E2 Gowanda HS Library: we'll have, we'll have an overlay of our budget workshops. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The other thing, right? We also have port retreats that we we need about. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's what is it? 4th shared? August 4.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: So yesterday, so is there any way to E2 Gowanda HS Library: combine
021those with other districts enabling districts of retreat? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is it a thing? Yeah, you could do anything really. I mean, our retreat's designed for our particular business. But if there's a general topic, general interest. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's bored. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There'd be interested in other board members to do that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Pardon me the ideal, I think. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or something. I mean, there are things that we could be doing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, we already kind of share services with them. We've never had that, I guess what I mean to kind of move that to the next step. You kind of have to come up with ideas like, what? What would you want that to look like? What's E2 Gowanda HS
022Library: right? We can. We can invite them to a workshop. But if we don't have a purpose for a topic for the workshop then. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but E2 Gowanda HS Library: they're not going to come right. So if there's something that you want to address, say, combined sports combined academics, right? Have E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of a plan. But that would be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That would be where I would start at all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not taking the ball and running with that one. So if you want it, you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will pass that back to you. Okay, well, I mean, that's E2 Gowanda HS Library: talk about. Is there a way that E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I think we have a fairly
023rigorous pure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: How Pine Valley does it when they only have, like 30, 35 students in a in a grade. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Are they doing Singleton's, or what? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or whether we can do anything, distance learning wise, or we have in the past. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Zack Gizzard, who, you know he's used to work there. But also you go to pine value of physics for that. There's some logistical barriers to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, so yeah, to answer your question. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think that's 2 topics there, right? Shared sports, or E2 Gowanda HS Library: like shared sports and shared faculty at that point. Yeah, I mean, we share most sports. I mean, they come over. We share most sports already
024with them. That's that's partnerships in place. Invite's always open. But some problems with it's really, truly, the Dl piece is okay. But then. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, do we want the class they're selling us, or vice versa? And then with Zach going for that example. It was a lot of travel time. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then with the science class, particularly, there's like a lab component and then rain into who's going to teach the lab at Pine Valley. So there's some logistic things that are kind of E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of barriers, but not just in there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Impossible. But our buildings, schools talk. And so if there's needs, you know, we try and help each other. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You can see all there kind of
025bigger point that I would look at E2 Gowanda HS Library: right. Our role as board is not to have our hands in the middle of everything, right? So we don't hear that there's a problem on our end, and they haven't come to us with a problem on their end. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right? Should we be meddling in that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: almost the be able to go at it if it's not broke. Yeah, leave it alone. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I mean right, Barb, you're quiet over there a little bit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Guys reach out. See if there's a topic they want to talk and just have a meet and greet. Oh. E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, you could reach out to the superintendent. See
026if there's any thing that they need E2 Gowanda HS Library: that we can help them with right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we could be a lot of the stuff is done. Superintendent, superintendent. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, we're board stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: stuff. I mean, they know they can ask vice versa, but reach out to her E2 Gowanda HS Library: anything more for this piece. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our 2025, 2026 standing committees. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I attached a copy of our standing committees, and I just took a certain board member off E2 Gowanda HS Library: and put some stars where where that wonderful member used to be stars, yes, stars. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and just wanted to see what committees you're on. And when Britney gets here
027we will need to. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, kind of readjust this, and and let her onto some committees and work on like the visitation committees. I don't have the updated meeting dates yet E2 Gowanda HS Library: for E2 Gowanda HS Library: The representatives for the different Erie County School Board Association Committees. I'll look again and see if they're out there now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess we'll probably wait till the July meeting to the very 1st July meeting to move people into committees. So take a look, decide what you want to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: cause I know you guys are itching to do stuff. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: just let me know what you want to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We put you
028on everyone. No, I can keep you busy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: She's not here to defend herself. But Kristen is so E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, do you know what that would possibly? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, yeah, we can do that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have it here somewhere. Dr. Anderson. Yeah, we'll just get ready. As you know, the cell phone ban or distraction-free stuff went went through the State legislature. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, starting August first, st we really need to have a policy in place for outline what that looks like for students. I'd share with the board pretty much. K. 8. Right now, there's a cell phone. It's 9 through 12, I think, most heavily impacted. And honestly, this year, I think the High School has really done really good
029work. With that they've reached a really nice compromise between students putting stuff away during instructional time, but then using it appropriately during their lunchtime, or whatever that is. That's not really the intent now of the law, so I've taken the opportunity. E2 Gowanda HS Library: shared some draft policies. I've written a draft policy. I've got a survey ready to go draft wise to collect information as required for our stakeholders. But I'd like to convene the policy committee to take a look at stuff and at least have a draft. E2 Gowanda HS Library: then maybe be able to share that our June 18th meeting. Not a hurry, but it has to be on the books by August first, st which the lateness of the state budget and the legislation and the timeline E2 Gowanda HS Library:
030people's policy development processes. I think that was the E2 Gowanda HS Library: robust on the State's part, but you know, I guess we could do our due diligence for E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I can share more information policy right back. So if there's a date time we could meet and other things have been busy here in June, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: the deadline for the policy to be in place as well. August first.st I mean, there's no E2 Gowanda HS Library: cell phone, please later, I said in public. But I did. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there any associated penalty? If we don't have it in place by then. E2 Gowanda HS Library: probably get a call from this day E2 Gowanda HS Library: like, why is that on the website that's got
031that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then to to Rebecca, she and her staff already has really kind of crafted some good regulations for the high School. You know that I can share with the committee and share with the Board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's pretty reasonable, and we also have to re-look at the Student Board Member policy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we need some more specifics in our Policy Board member. I think it's I think they're requiring us to put some more. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which in ours is pretty generic, but also we have timeline in there, and according to our policy, we should be interviewing student board members for next year now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I only just read that. So it's new to me. Yes and no. Rebecca's
032campusing high school right now, looking for applicants, but like everything the students there tend to want to be involved here and involved in everything else. So you know, we're E2 Gowanda HS Library: she's doing her best hopefully, soon E2 Gowanda HS Library: let me test my candidates for you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but it makes sense to select them at the end of the junior year rather than E2 Gowanda HS Library: because sometimes we're not ready to appoint them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's pushing November before they get on board. Yeah, it would be nice to have them to go September E2 Gowanda HS Library: years into the meeting, or in the summer do one? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there any student Council feedback on that? On how they're selected? E2 Gowanda HS Library:
033I, just out of curiosity, haven't heard from? No, but obviously Rebecca, or at least I and she. You have an application. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's available to every city senior interested. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They can apply. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then they collect it. Interview, and then she sends kind of does a little vetting and sends those to me. And I basically send them to the board to interview E2 Gowanda HS Library: it. I guess if we deep dive into that requirements. And E2 Gowanda HS Library: what's authorized to do that with that? Does it need to be a senior? Or can it be anyone from? E2 Gowanda HS Library: He needs to be a senior without the looking. The current law says it has to be a senior. Yeah, I thought
034so. I mean, I could look real quick. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sorry I did, the surprisingly obviously would be if it were appointing them or something. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I believe our policy says that also. But yeah, the law, it's our policy. But I guess that was my question is, I couldn't remember. I thought the law E2 Gowanda HS Library: stated that they could be. Yeah. The only other question would be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Can we still have multiple student members or under the new yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: under policy that's not searched to twidth. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then I guess it's x back. So so it's it doesn't pop up easily. E2 Gowanda HS Library: taking advantage of the the searching E2 Gowanda HS Library: we haven't had any
035huge, notable concerns with cell phones right? I guess, in the district. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What do you mean? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, so we haven't heard anything directly. I guess that E2 Gowanda HS Library: we've had students. Parents come to us as board members. Right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, no. But I mean does not say there's not issues in the building. So what you'll find is happening. So this is my thinking about it. What I anticipate is that bell to Bell prohibit prohibition of cell phones, even with things in place. And probably what's gonna happen? I'm just guessing some students, maybe sneak them on the desk. E2 Gowanda HS Library: go to the bathroom, pull them out of the cafeteria. So that's gonna be an enforcement issue. And you're gonna make teachers
036waste probably class time to enforce stuff or the cafeteria ladies to enforce it or in the hallway. So I think it's good, and then assume that all teachers enforce equally. That's always an issue, too. So I think that's where we may have some issues. But I don't believe anything's ever come to this board table without cell phones. We've been E2 Gowanda HS Library: years ago. We confiscate them and only return the parents we've had used many times. We've gone both extremes. I think, this year really landed a real nice compromise ironically, with a cell phone man coming. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I was gonna say, so, do we have any sort of quantifiable data to E2 Gowanda HS Library: how many issues we've had even in this, in this school, moving forward. E2 Gowanda
037HS Library: can we have a compare and contrast when this law is enacted like this? Is it spiked? Can we just keep that in mind. I'm not on the policy committee. So I'm just trying to advocate that. Well, maybe you should be. Yeah, if you want to. There's going to be an opening. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'll see you'd be great. Right? Yeah, absolutely. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have the data in the school. Everything's logged into our data management system. So we could easily compare this year to next year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh. E2 Gowanda HS Library: because what happens is, there's nothing, no real prohibition about having a cell phone, but using it is basically E2 Gowanda HS Library: against school rules or disorderly, not disorderly conduct, classroom misconduct, or maybe even
038insulination. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I can see it being enforced in classroom, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: if they happen to have one in the cafeteria. I don't. I really don't see a lot of destination. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Think it's a law, but it's something like tea walking. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I guess that would be the concern right? It's like E2 Gowanda HS Library: I've had been getting very close. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think you are. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It does. By the way, it does say as a high School senior. It has to be the student board member. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So do you guys want to schedule a policy committee now, while we're all together E2 Gowanda HS Library: still on. He's still here. E2 Gowanda
039HS Library: When when are you available, Barb? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let me see. Hold on honestly, though. Do do you want to have it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Dr. Anderson barb, too. Do you want to schedule it in E2 Gowanda HS Library: June? I mean, it is a crazy month, but well, hopefully, before the 18th E2 Gowanda HS Library: read some back and forth to the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so you do want something at the beginning of June, if possible. E2 Gowanda HS Library: hard. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I didn't grab the 9th or 16th on Monday. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I feel like you are all here. So after the Board meeting concludes tonight, you can just. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm
040just trying to solve a problem. Here you are good at that. Why meet on another night when you can just have a conversation tonight? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So did we decide, or we don't know, or what are we? I am not prepared for that discussion tonight. Max E2 Gowanda HS Library: is there already? E2 Gowanda HS Library: like a draft one that other people are using. So we just need to look at it, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: scrambling to put their zone together. So models, I pulled one for us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're still waiting for hero on policy service. I think they'll probably develop one in the future E2 Gowanda HS Library: doesn't exist right now. So we got stuff to share. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, the law is
041pretty clear. I don't think that would be okay, just push that policy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The other thing that I would bring up our policy is, there was an incident. Where was it? Namehurst, or E2 Gowanda HS Library: one of the one of the schools suburban schools regarding use of AI and E2 Gowanda HS Library: It was issued. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not sure how much it involved the school, but the school was was involved for for a week. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Regarding the students use of AI outside. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it was revenge, Porn, but it was oh, deep, deep! E2 Gowanda HS Library: Take a picture, and like a Yeah, do do our policies cover that? Or how far can we reach? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'd
042have to go. Look, I'm not right, but I'm sure if someone does the deep fake. Because I remember someone had something very similar to our math teachers years ago, not using AI, but had planned like a really kind of nasty story on Facebook, we could reach them with our current policy. So I'm assuming, with our current AI policy and our other code of conduct stuff. We probably could get people for that E2 Gowanda HS Library: just saying with AI becoming, I've never used AI got a flip phone. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: well, then, you can bring to the school. It's not apply to the cell phone there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What I'm saying is, the the kids are much more tech savvy than E2 Gowanda HS Library: our policy has to kind of
043govern what they can do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know the circumstances surrounding the deep fake that you're speaking to specifically, but regardless of whether it's something with AI or a student used a different tool to generate something. Our current, acceptable use policy for technology E2 Gowanda HS Library: in school would cover something in school, but if they used one of our devices outside of school. It would also cover our devices when students do something through technology on their own personal devices, and it extends into the school day. I know our school resource officers have responded to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, it's different, depending on the circumstance, not just the school, and then we probably consult our school attorneys because I mean, I don't know all the speech issue, or it
044could just be downright criminal activity. I don't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Have you had students E2 Gowanda HS Library: use things on personal cell phones outside of school, it carries into school, and then we've responded appropriately. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What I'm saying is, I want to make sure that our policies can encompass that that we E2 Gowanda HS Library: but we can review those, and the other one is that is coming up again E2 Gowanda HS Library: hasn't really been revised. To show. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we need to be a little more specific regarding E2 Gowanda HS Library: what the expectations are out there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Social media land. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so Cathyo is the policy committee. Are you guys
045setting up the 1st week is better for me than the second week. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, E2 Gowanda HS Library: and that's good for you. Barb. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Mr. Mayor, how about you? E2 Gowanda HS Library: The 5? th I'm hoping for streaming. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thursday. That's an all day thing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 3, rd 4th in the afternoon treasurers are in the afternoon. We she's got to call them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: This might not happen before the 8.th Yeah, maybe maybe not afternoon. The 3, rd I think I'm open. E2 Gowanda HS Library: free of the morning. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What about the second of June? That's Monday? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, my morning! Only we gotta be ready. E2 Gowanda
046HS Library: Morning on June second E2 Gowanda HS Library: morning. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do it. What's late? 1010 o'clock works for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: June second, 10 o'clock. You're in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Guys. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So very long circle to get to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so do we have anything else for standing committees. E2 Gowanda HS Library: no Board of Education Communications. We don't have any committee reports. Do we have anything to share? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, we have no committee reports to share that'll move us to our round team apartment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, see, I had a question. What were our total number of voters that came out that day? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I can answer that quickly. It's
047in the minutes that I attached to the agenda. Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: at least. What? 2 70. What's the highest? 49 up, 2, 66. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What I thought was funny. The highest vote was on the repair reserve. Yeah, that's what I'm using, which was 320. The basic budget was a lower. People don't vote for everything on the ballot, right? I know I was like that E2 Gowanda HS Library: 2 seconds. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, okay, so this might not add, I don't know how to add, I don't know what happened there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: regardless thank you to all that came out and voted E2 Gowanda HS Library: congratulations to our new board members and our returning E2 Gowanda HS Library: congrats to Sue Baker on her retirement. E2
048Gowanda HS Library: She definitely has served her time. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and sorry to hear of Pepper's passing. It is E2 Gowanda HS Library: fur babies are not. That's not cool at all. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I definitely feel for all for the kids and the staff, you know. I'm sure that was a hard hit. That's all I got. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Think I've stirred the pot enough. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm good E2 Gowanda HS Library: we do have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or if I put it in board box, I'm sorry. The annual dinner celebration at the Erie County School Board Association. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's going to take place on June 12, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I do have to let them know tomorrow. E2 Gowanda
049HS Library: So is there anybody who is who is interested in that annual dinner? E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's something you would want to do is that E2 Gowanda HS Library: there's a high school band concert. That night I was. Gonna say that in my round table E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's middle school. High School is the 12.th That's what I have written down. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Don't take that, as you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then we have the Rural Schools Summer Conference coming up in July. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We are, I believe we are no longer members of that. Anyone interested in that one. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, I'm gradually passing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I am a little so what do we need to? What's the expense? The
050district? Well, I will have to find that out, because I don't know if it's in this packet of information that I have with E2 Gowanda HS Library: Cooperstown Statemore. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's for the conference. But then you also have your hotel rooms which are E2 Gowanda HS Library: between like 2 50 and 400 a night. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's it's not a bad conference, because a lot of give me a lot of E2 Gowanda HS Library: schools from Catarugus and Chautauqua go on, but they're more involved in New York school boards. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They do discuss more issues for sure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So if there's not a deadline under that one just yet, or there is. But there's E2 Gowanda HS Library: some time we have some time.
051Yeah, so I can come back to you with more. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, and then, as a reminder, all board members need to take the child abuse E2 Gowanda HS Library: training tutorial yearly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do we want to do that as a workshop altogether. Or do you guys want to do your training individually? E2 Gowanda HS Library: You recall in the past you just had to E2 Gowanda HS Library: log in and listen. Some people already have that training. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You guys want to think about it. It is for next school year. So it's not something we have to do right now. But you will have to. Probably good time would be the summer, maybe, to get it out of the way. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do you?
052Do you have to take a child abuse training? Okay, but you would not. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Would be used to college students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: school board members still, mandate mandated reporters it used to be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I almost. I feel like they changed that I'd have to double check. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's really like if you if you're if somebody shared. Oh, at the other police units we're not mine. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you guys want to do it on your own. If you send us a link, I'll figure it out somehow. Not on the flip phone. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it's best if you come in again this year and just watch it, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm sorry. I think that that is
053it for me E2 Gowanda HS Library: all good is that working? I'm all set. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excellent. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Also, I was just gonna say, there's the high school chorus and band concert on June 12.th That's E2 Gowanda HS Library: so. I won't go to the dinner, because I'm going to go to the concert. But anyway, besides that, with the band, they did an awesome job at the Memorial Day Parade, Middle school and high school, and today the modern band went and performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I can't wait to hear how that went. So that's cool. And they did go to Suny Fredonia also, and performed E2 Gowanda HS Library: there at the Williamson College campus with some college kids, and that
054was pretty cool. So rah, rah for the music department. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I, yeah, I also was going to say, my my condolences on pepper, the therapy dog not to be a downer, but that was a real bummer. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That was sad. Jackie's my good friend, and she was really really upset by that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So yes, that sucks. But here we are. So anyway. E2 Gowanda HS Library: where are we after the minor band? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Mona? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. Yes, seeing the band participating in memorative services. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, the annual dinner. I only attend every 5 years, so it's not this year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do we know what prompted this harassment and
055bullying and school boards? Yeah, no clue. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I haven't really heard nothing in our area but reading the text of it seems like there were actual School School Board members at some place. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't have no idea where I'm making spiritual comments about certain groups of students E2 Gowanda HS Library: which the Property Commissioner and the Attorney General write that, but at least in my circles. I haven't heard anything E2 Gowanda HS Library: for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Why, we would run for a School Board position if you E2 Gowanda HS Library: that dislike of a certain group, or within the school, reflected this for all students, not just your favorites. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's all right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't have much other
056than you know. Spring sports have been fun to be a part of and to watch. Good luck to the boys baseball team tomorrow, and graduation is going to be here before we know it. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: exciting and scary time for the seniors, I'm sure, and their families. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: my daughter's a junior, and I'm not. I'm not ready to look forward to that just yet. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, nothing further for the round Table. We have our parking lot E2 Gowanda HS Library: planned it up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is there anything we want to add any changes we want to make? E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's update the data, lead the candidates. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Would it be inappropriate? E2 Gowanda HS Library: The presentations
057in there from black Passport, is it? Or is it you guys parking lot? E2 Gowanda HS Library: He's got, fellows. This is on break on the second, so I'll reach out E2 Gowanda HS Library: Black Password, are you on the? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we had one of the Nisba actually E2 Gowanda HS Library: presentations? He spoke. He's a sponsor E2 Gowanda HS Library: spoke about a number of things, is in regards to school security and safety, and then resources that they could potentially provide. I think it would be advantageous to have them come in and give a presentation to the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Don't know how everyone else felt about it, but what's it called black passport. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's the one where they kind of can profile.
058E2 Gowanda HS Library: It was a it would be utilizing digital resources, I would think. Digital tools. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think I believe I don't want to speak too much to it, because I just E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't want to mess it up E2 Gowanda HS Library: plenty of the waters, but I think it would be an advantageous presentation if we can get them in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're in Superior county. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do they use their own tech resources to do that? Or do they look at our tech resources? Do you know, did they say I think they say in the presentation on how they would execute it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's kind of a 2 edged sword. I mean. E2
059Gowanda HS Library: you have an idea of something that potentially could happen, I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: seems like we'd have an obligation to do something about it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's not just that's only the 1st step. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Hmm. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Recognizing what might happen. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then I guess the other question I would have is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: other digital resources are digital feedback. Is there any E2 Gowanda HS Library: chance we could put a report on there for E2 Gowanda HS Library: schoology, Facebook, and any of that kind of stuff to see where we're at, as far as E2 Gowanda HS Library: number of number of clicks, number of and all that, I guess. Impressions, I think, is the technical industry
060term. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm is that something that we can? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will share those data points in the blueprint report in July. In the E2 Gowanda HS Library: we speak to it with the parent engagement pieces we'll we'll report out on you know how many posts. And who did they reach for Facebook? I'm not about it's not. I can't break it down like by demographic like. I can't say E2 Gowanda HS Library: who exactly clicked on everything with the Facebook post. But, E2 Gowanda HS Library: I can get a little more specific into the schoology posts we'll pull like how many times school messenger was utilized. So we do put some of that data in the July blueprint report E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's broke out by grade then, or
061is that broke up? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Some of the things can be broken down by grade level, but some of them cannot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: My concern with schoology, and some of that is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what do we have in place E2 Gowanda HS Library: who mean? Not all kids are raised by their parents. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Lot of them are raised by. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's a number of them that are raised by grandparents, or as a significant caregiver. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If they're getting close to my age, they may not be E2 Gowanda HS Library: tech savvy to use. However, we're reaching them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'll choose basically our learning management system. That's how teachers interact with students. It's not necessarily designed for parents.
062E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's designed to help parents keep track of some extent. Yeah, but didn't know that at all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, we've always made it available to families who, if they've requested, we will still send everything home that we send electronically. We'll send it print, you know, for families as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I guess just to that point, though, that could be a potential opportunity and reason to have that data of that is, are we missing an opportunity to expand E2 Gowanda HS Library: the individual back home? How to utilize those tools, I guess, would be my E2 Gowanda HS Library: part of the reason why asking for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't matter of so long. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, we're required. We're
063required to do the State digital equity survey in the fall every year, and that survey data we E2 Gowanda HS Library: can share here if you'd like to see it. But we also have to share it with state. Ed, so we know, you know, which households have access to to Internet who doesn't have access. I haven't seen State Ed move forward with any changes from receiving that data like in terms of giving us additional resources to put in the hands of our families. But we do collect it and share it every year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and something we could certainly press on if we felt the need to. Alright. E2 Gowanda HS Library: he just did that. Yeah, we have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're done now sounds good.
064E2 Gowanda HS Library: Didn't know we have nothing else for the parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Make a consideration motion to recess to possession for purpose, discussing employment, history of a particular person. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you can stop the recording and go ahead and shut down. We'll just be adjourning after. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get to clean up quick. And I'm gonna just restroom.