001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Specifically. E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, good. Let's go ahead and call a meeting to order. If we could stand for the touch to the flag. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. For all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excuse me, I know. Make a consideration of motion to accept the agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, all in favor. Aye, aye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: thanks to our Board of Education Bylaws. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm just. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 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,
002the Board wishes to remind the public of its adopted policy. 1510, which sets forth reasonable guidelines in terms of ensuring an orderly discussion, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: during public meetings E2 Gowanda HS Library: in exceptional circumstances, the Board may, as an entity, decide to provide a written or verbal response to issues or questions raised during public session. 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 will call upon the person to speak at the appropriate time, each person will be permitted to speak for a time. Limit of 3 min. Please stand in the front of the board table and address the Board directly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board members will not
003engage in debate with members of the audience, but will take all public comments into consideration. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. That'll move us to our calendar. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our next Board of Education meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 9.th It will start at 6 30 here in the High school library. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Next, we have our consensus items, make a consideration of motion to vote and approve agenda items 2.0 1 to 5.0 1 second E2 Gowanda HS Library: plenty of discussion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They've changed the number of puzzles. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What's that? Yes, we did. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. And she said she would let me know which she would get rid of, so it would probably be the next one. E2 Gowanda
004HS Library: Once they know they're gonna get rid of one, they just they'll move it and try and get more miles out of it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we have no further discussion. All in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The list. 5 0 2. Review of the Treasurer's report. Financial statements for July, August, September, October, November December of 2024. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Take his catch it up. Any discussion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, we have no discussion. We'll confirm. Is this 7 0 1 E2 Gowanda HS Library: and comment on agenda and not agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We don't have anything this evening. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let's right into our superintendent's report. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Let's start off congratulations. We have 2 new recent retirees,
005Amy Miller and Kim, who accepted their retirement resignation letter tonight. I just want to congratulate them for their years of service, they'll be missed, and wish them all the best in their next endeavors. So congratulations to those ladies! E2 Gowanda HS Library: I want to thank the Seneca nation, the Buffalo Bills foundation, Capozi's pizzeria, delicious pizza, by the way, and iguana boosters for their generous donations that were accepted by the board tonight. Thank you so much. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Then one of the items was the office of State Controller Corrective Action Plan. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our our plan to address the recent capture Audit E2 Gowanda HS Library: and our plan to address the recommendations. Thinking about that couple other announcements tonight and tomorrow is the Music Middle School Musical Lion King, Jr.
006E2 Gowanda HS Library: if you're there now, hope you enjoy the show if you're not there tonight. Hope you can come tomorrow night because it's really phenomenal. Mr. Batt and the cast and crew really phenomenal phenomenal, just some really quick building highlights to share with you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: One this week the elementary school traveled over to the auditorium and watched the Lion King all enjoyed it. We're all very well behaved. The end of the trimester, for the elementary school is March 21st this coming Friday, and then the middle school. Of course they have their musical going on, which I think the whole middle school is involved in was phenomenal, and in the High school spring sports began. This week E2 Gowanda HS Library: director organized a media day that is scheduled for Monday,
007March 24th after school. For all our athletes, teams will have their team and individual photos taken for the Yearbook, especially photos and other sports, to get exciting opportunities to showcase our students if interested. So the athletic director Candy, knows much more. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have students participating in New York State Music Association, New York County Music Association. The last couple weeks we have our students represented in a variety of countywide musical events, both vocal and instrumental. We have an exceptional music program, and it shows the level of E2 Gowanda HS Library: what our students can perform. At the county level E2 Gowanda HS Library: sat. School day is April 9.th Students can take the sat exam in school end of the 3rd quarter is April 4, th believe it or not, and this
008will determine eligibility for Prom and senior trip, and just a few upcoming events. April 5.th Cabaret concert featuring our extra E2 Gowanda HS Library: and group at the Hollywood Theater, and believe it or not. We have a more board meeting before, but we are. Gonna be on spring Break here April 14th through the 21.st So E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's briefly, that's it for me right now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: please. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All right. So it's not on our agenda in this order. But we'll go to our student board E2 Gowanda HS Library: recently this month. We had the National Honor Society, Induction Dinner, where we had new inductees. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Blake, Herman, Lily Moore, Charlotte Almer, Valentine, Isabel Graham, Addison, Coda Noah Lauer
009Madison, Smith, and Lena Walshlager. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Wanna Middle school recently had a tech exploration digitarium experience. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's pretty cool. Middle school is also performing Lion King, Jr. We have the beer. Be your own hero. Career fair. April 8, th I think, for the High School. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We also have the Gowanda High School is putting on, say something week, a national awareness campaign organized by the Sandy Hook promise to help prevent school violence. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Guana Elementary School is, did a mini matrimonial ceremony for Q. And U E2 Gowanda HS Library: in anticipation of national Reading month Iwana Central School is also doing mindfulness. March. There's been a lot of activities in high school for mindfulness. March spring sports began, I know personally, I started
010track E2 Gowanda HS Library: Ghs. Senior and Lacrosse standout. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Brock cited National Junior College Athletic Association, National letter of Intent and Scholarship, Agreement. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Physical Education, teacher, Miss Katie Stang, brought a baby lamb, Tilly to the pets, and wildlife for students class E2 Gowanda HS Library: at Hawana High School. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Logan, Care and Taylor tussing were selected to participate in the 2025 Erie County Musical Music Educators Association's junior high, all county festival at East Aurora. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There is a bottle, and can drive for the Gawanda High School trap team. There's also, I've heard, candy grams for the Lion King, Jr. Musical for $1 E2 Gowanda HS Library: National Honor Society recently did blanket bacon for the Wanda Rehabilitation nursing Center residents, and
011we delivered at least over 20 blankets. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The Gowanda High School. Thrifty panther are taking spring donations from now until April 17th of 2025. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'd like to support students and go on high school and middle school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There was a National college fair field trip today. I know many attended that juniors sophomores, I think one Senior E2 Gowanda HS Library: the Travel Club hosted a chicken dinner fundraising tonight for the upcoming upcoming trip to Greece. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's all you have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, thank you for sharing. It's good to hear all the ins and outs. Is there anything that the thrifty pimp is looking for that's more of a need than E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're looking mostly for clothes.
012We also do like toothpaste toothbrushes, any like hygiene products for the kids. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They were looking for lip balm, and deodorant as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Summer clothes, summer spring. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: alright. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that'll move us into our 1st draft of 2025, 26 budget myself numbers. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? So I did give you kind of what is my 1st go around of our complete budget. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I started to have heart palpitations. After watching the news the one morning. So I did kind of add in some extra costs, not knowing really what's going to happen in particular with the food service programs. I mean, I don't know what's going to happen, I have no idea. So
013I did at least kind of add in some funding to transfer to the food service program. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Maybe I'm hoping we know more by the time that the budget comes around with. E2 Gowanda HS Library: like on the first.st Yeah, yeah, I don't know that we will, and I certainly don't know what will if anything, and maybe nothing happens. Maybe everything just runs smoothly as it is right now. But for our grants. Obviously. So, we know we have 1.3 million dollars that's currently paying for 11 full-time employees. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We did have some retirements that we have maintained the positions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the cost of the positions, and the budget. But we don't plan on replacing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We kind of did that strategically. For reasons
014E2 Gowanda HS Library: we you know we're negotiating contracts. You know. We have things to to pay for next year that we're we're not sure where they are. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we also, in the meantime, between when I presented Rich's budget 2 weeks ago, I got an email that the supply costs for our consortium and our electric are increasing 7 to 10%. So I did increase those budgets there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I asked them I'd heard about the tariffs and electric from Canada. But he said, that really doesn't have anything to do with it, because I guess we only get like 3 to 5% of our electric from Canada. It's more of just the supply costs, and there's all kinds of factors. And I listened to the all the different things about
015our hedging and everything else going on with our electric. So I did have to increase those costs, and hopefully they don't increase again. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We had talked about the transportation, so I did talk to Annette and Janine about special Ed needs for next year, and a lot of it is unknown as usual. So we know what runs we'll have to have, and then we seem to be keep getting a lot of Mckinney-vento runs during the year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I did add on. I projected additional costs for an additional contracted run. So for the full year, and then additional Mckinney-vento run, so that the Mckinney-vento runs usually are only like E2 Gowanda HS Library: 50 to 70,000 are shorter term. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but that a full contracted run
016can be a hundred 50,000 to 1 80,000. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: my fear is always not having enough. Right so, and not knowing that those are so impacted by special Ed in our enrollment E2 Gowanda HS Library: that my fear is to be too short in that area. So that's I did do that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then we've kind of talked about. I did add the transfers for food service and grants a little bit E2 Gowanda HS Library: on the revenue side. So I, the state budget is really just what the Governor had given us, plus that extra 200,000 that I'm projecting for policies. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then I filled basically the gap between our reserves, and I will show you. So I did do this. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
017my new based on what the Controller wanted to see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Where's my other should be another attachment. Kathy E2 Gowanda HS Library: should have been the attachment. That was the fund balance. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, it's not E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, I'll have to show it to you later. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so I did. A projection on the fund balances. I took kind of the sheet that I would have seen before. That has all of the reserves, and I did try to show E2 Gowanda HS Library: interest that we have to date what I think they'll end at at the end of the year if there's known expenditures. I tried to estimate what those were, and then for next year. So the ending for 6, 30, 26. I just
018tried to show what we would use in the reserves for the budget, because that was one of the things that the Controller's office had said. So I estimated in total it was 305,000 that we would use in the reserves E2 Gowanda HS Library: so 200,000 from the employee, benefit, liability, reserve, or ablar, 65 from Trs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 5 from unemployment, and 35,000 from the employee retirement system. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So kind of one of the things we can talk about and look to as we finalize the budget. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I could probably use more reserves and less unappropriated fund balance to fund the balance, or we could keep it the way it is. See, the hard part is trying to project. Who's going to reach the biggest one is 200,000.
019I'm projecting for next year, right? So I don't know who's going to retire at the end of in June of 2026. So I try to take some of the amounts, and I'm estimating we'd use 200,000 E2 Gowanda HS Library: we can estimate in the budget that we want to use more E2 Gowanda HS Library: for all those reserves. So I can change the 3 0 5 to 4, 50, or or something, and decrease the amount of unappropriated fund balance if we want to. If we want to change something. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we can leave it the way it is and see how we end at the end of the year. I can always, I mean, between now and the time we adopt the budget, I can certainly go back and see if there's areas
020that I could tweak, and maybe what makes the most sense. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I guess because it was brought up through the Controller's office. And it's recent news and recent discussion. I thought if anybody had an opinion on what you'd like to do, I can certainly go back. Doesn't it make more sense just to use the reserves and create more flexibility on the E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah. I mean, I'll always say what we're going to use the avalar. I mean. Obviously, I can only use the payouts for sick leave of who retires. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's probably the biggest one in flux. We can use the Trs and ers anytime we want. So those 2 I can tweak the avalar I can always tweak, and then at the end of
021the year see who retires. I mean, some of these payoffs are like $65,000, and some are like 5. So it's a huge difference on who retires. What I can use for the ablar. It's just a very hard thing to project E2 Gowanda HS Library: but if I can certainly go back and and tweak the ers and trs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I can certainly look at them and come back when we come back for our next E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the full budget. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's good, you guys think E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that was kind of the one thing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So in total, the budget's increasing a million just under a million 4, it's 3.8%. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do. I want to go back and
022kind of make sure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know, I mean, maybe I'd be less conservative and decrease it in certain areas. But I think I would like to know a little bit more between now and the time we do the budget before I would do that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: unless anybody has an opinion on whether you know, we kind of like that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: because I mean, we've always been conservative. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I just I really have no idea what's going to happen at the Federal level none. And it changes every day. Right? So. And that's the bigger concern. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's nice to know it's not just us, though. Yeah. Yeah. And I think everybody's in the same boat. They did, because we nobody knows anything
023under you don't wanna under budget E2 Gowanda HS Library: And so that's that's where we're at now. Basically. E2 Gowanda HS Library: have to say regarding this sheet that you gave us on to have agencies and glen E2 Gowanda HS Library: that you zeroed in on the food. The kids are hungry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Pay attention. No, and she has some fund balance available, but certainly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, to fund her whole operations she would need, and and I know she'll get some. I know the I just don't know what the State's intent is because they talked about universal free meals. Well, I don't think they envisioned no Federal money coming in and have to pay the whole Federal amount and the State's amount so. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I
024haven't heard anything, have you? I haven't heard anything on the States what they're going to do. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: obviously, we want all of our kids to be eating and eating E2 Gowanda HS Library: every day. Yeah, I mean, that's retention. But they're gonna have Federal money's only so much money in New York State. Something's gotta be different. E2 Gowanda HS Library: unfortunately and hopefully, it's not feeding children. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I don't know if there's any other questions, or if you have any comments on any changes, you'd like to see E2 Gowanda HS Library: any additional information you'd like to see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Conservative is good. Yeah, yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: fair enough. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All right. Thank you. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
025So if we have nothing further with that but the one, this is 9 0 2 E2 Gowanda HS Library: discussion on hiring practices. Yeah, thank you. It came up what our practices are here at the district, or how E2 Gowanda HS Library: so higher across the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and should have the board just sit down and kind of brainstorm just kind of general steps that that take place here in the district. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, there is no board policy for hiring. That's generally right on E2 Gowanda HS Library: the procedures and the regulations generally given to the superintendent E2 Gowanda HS Library: to do that work. The Board only hired the superintendent for the most part. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but you know, our purpose of hiring is always to
026retains to recruit. People, retain people and develop high quality employees really align with our district's mission and goals. So the hiring process can be a little complex or very simple, depending on what we're hiring. For example, a substitute teacher come into the district goes to that patient process. E2 Gowanda HS Library: quick reference, check background check for the principal. So they meet with Ashley or Billing principal before they they get on your agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Now, if we hire a building principal or a teacher. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and there's a couple different steps in that for a teacher. There goes to an interview committee, meet up with the different folks in the building principal would make the recommendation to the superintendent generally about the 3 best candidates. If they're there, and then
027I would make the recommendation, but no matter what they are, the prosecuts recruiting application review, the application, interview, reference and background checks. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then that person sent them recommended report. So it's it's E2 Gowanda HS Library: the best it can be. It's objective. It's not subjective. And E2 Gowanda HS Library: a lot of different opinions or people's feedback is in the mix. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And of course, applicable law and regulation can't discriminate those types of things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Folks are hired. They're probationary employees depending on what the job is. Civil service employees are generally on a probationary period up to a year, depending, if they have higher service, that job E2 Gowanda HS Library: teachers for years. So I always view that as an extended interview. So
028we have ample time to grow and support that person that time. But things just not working out. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know we we let them go. You know it's not not a good fit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but I just want to say this is not subjective. It's very objective, the best we can. There's a variety of steps depending on the process, and we make make the best recommendation we possibly can to the board for E2 Gowanda HS Library: final system approval E2 Gowanda HS Library: in terms of the labor market. It's pretty tight, you know. There's not a lot of folks out there everpass we've been fortunate to get, although I guess the pool is shallow in terms of numbers. We've got some pretty good applicants to fill our position, so we've
029been fortunate in that regards. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know just too involved in some. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I was just going to say that we went to Teacher Recruitment Day, though, and we did see 10 candidates. So we had somebody scheduled every half an hour, including science, which is almost next to impossible to find. So it's a very positive, energetic. E2 Gowanda HS Library: motivated group of people that we saw today. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think we'll have some really great candidates for any open vacancies we'll have for the New Year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't know if anybody has a specific questions for that meeting about the process just encapsulated it really generically. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: yes, yes. Yeah. I like like this on paper,
030and I mean, I pretty much knew that. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: the one piece I want E2 Gowanda HS Library: crazy, nice dish when we have E2 Gowanda HS Library: someone on our agenda, or something that comes up and E2 Gowanda HS Library: board members see a red flag E2 Gowanda HS Library: or know where to play, because all of us knows no things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't think it's a lot of people. E2 Gowanda HS Library: How do you want that handled? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, in that sense. Obviously. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we don't know everybody, you know, or vice versa. So if there's things that you might know that we should know prior to hiring someone E2 Gowanda HS Library: when we release that? That's what's kind of
031important. When the agenda is released, it's released to the Board review the person present, but that's released to the board in general. Just take a look at it real quickly, personnel, and just kind of look at names real fast. If there's anybody like, you know, this person is, you know, one criminal from someplace. I know who's not, you know. They want to take a look at that. Just please keep in mind that E2 Gowanda HS Library: got to be fairly objective, you know hearsay, and you know E2 Gowanda HS Library: people's grievances from the past sometimes E2 Gowanda HS Library: put in the process because it may not be true. Then we get opened up for other problems E2 Gowanda HS Library: like think more often than that, we get a lot of hits to
032listen. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right? Yeah. And I brought it up because I mean, we have new board, newer, newer board members and E2 Gowanda HS Library: mean, update another one without how to handle it. Yeah, they're they're not here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, thank you. You can go back. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yep. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Then 9.0 3 stop arm cameras. It was probably E2 Gowanda HS Library: last fall about stop arm cameras, and I just reached out to Ben Shields provided some information to the Lake workforce and provide that with the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No. E2 Gowanda HS Library: there is a law that authorized school districts and municipalities to stop our cameras on school buses to impose penalties on vehicles that pass a school bus while a
033school for the purpose of dropping off and picking up passengers. I think it's a little digging myself. It's a little convoluted with how that happens. It's often the municipality that's actually going to authorize a ticket, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're just kind of a pastor does. Let us understand that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Who would have to reach out to the counties and E2 Gowanda HS Library: powers be? See if they want to help us enforce that. I guess. My question is, if you had a chance to read some, a little bit of background, something you'd like the district need to pursue E2 Gowanda HS Library: or not, and I did reach out to Annette E2 Gowanda HS Library: was here. I just asked, like in her knowledge, how many people that she's aware
034of that actually passed. Stop school bus lights flashing kids, she said. 5. I don't know if that's a lot. I don't know if it's a little. It's probably 5 too many, but I don't know if that indicates any problem, or I don't really know as a comparison. E2 Gowanda HS Library: give you an idea of what she experiences. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but we'll look at them. You think our guest might know anything on that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know other things and that sort of stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Buffalo has a bit more aggressive program. It's probably one of the only ones. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I know when the bus drivers see them they try to get their license plates, and then they'll tell Ben. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But
035I think Ben goes then and talks to him E2 Gowanda HS Library: usually, and sometimes, even if they describe the car, they know who it is, if it's somebody. So yeah, especially if there's hand gestures. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I guess a couple things with the stop arm cameras. Obviously, it's a huge safety risk to our our students getting on or off the bus. I'd be curious, you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and not as aware of 5 instances so far this year. But, you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: have we reached out to all the bus drivers, or, you know, can. Is that something that can be done in the future to say, Hey, like? Because sometimes you see something, and you don't report it. You just, you know, like life goes
036on. Type thing. The other thing right? If there are more instances, right? Are, is there any sort of grant funding that would be available to, you know, purchase these because E2 Gowanda HS Library: everything comes with cost? Right? So if it's a matter of well, there was. There was 5 in a whole school year. Does it make sense to spend $250,000 to get stop arm cameras for all of the buses. I think we would have to have more, at least, in my opinion, we'd need more information before we. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, in one way or the other. I have fake cameras. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I suggest that even if we put signs up on the wards and stuff to say, you know, reminder like, stop stop school buses. Just kind of
037sometimes people are paying attention or whatever. So another alternative to stop our cameras is just like dash cameras on the bus right? It doesn't have to be something attached to a stop arm. But if the bus driver knows like Oh, hey! This car just passed, they can E2 Gowanda HS Library: review that, you know, if there's dash, cam footage, or something of that nature. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the one that actually brought this up, and I think E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm willing to drop it if it doesn't make sense right now, at this point E2 Gowanda HS Library: support. E2 Gowanda HS Library: maybe we can find out more information on. Was it the same bus, like the same routes that are a problem. Yeah, the same person passed them 5 times. Right? Yeah,
038repeat offender. Yeah, yeah. It could be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think. You know, at this point. Maybe just pull the drivers, and, you know, see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: something we feel is problematic. If not. E2 Gowanda HS Library: let it be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So not into our board superintendent evaluation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's like a board put on paper, a timeline for our annual evaluation before self evaluation as superintendent. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We use secret valve, and then there's the tool. That's E2 Gowanda HS Library: the board we chose years ago, and at this point it loaded up into Super Vale. I'm fine with it, and I'm fine with its performance. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You talk about bridging them. E2 Gowanda
039HS Library: Remember that as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would recommend, though in the timeline, that E2 Gowanda HS Library: by myself evaluation, the Board self evaluation is complete. By April 16, th no E2 Gowanda HS Library: month away. It takes a while for me to add a lot of stuff, and you to comment E2 Gowanda HS Library: the board. I'm fine with it. If you're okay with the timeline not necessarily E2 Gowanda HS Library: pressed in stone, but kind of gives at least pace to help the rest of the school year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I believe in contract that is supposed to be done by may first.st So just in the essence of keeping with contracts and other obligations E2 Gowanda HS Library: relationship, yeah, and it's good practice. Yeah. E2 Gowanda
040HS Library: so can we get Kathy to send something out to all of us to remind us that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Wait, not everybody's here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I could, too. My memory shots up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I'll send out an automated robo text message E2 Gowanda HS Library: log in the super email and get your homework done. You can send them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I think you know it would be important, like everybody. Take it, try to take the time. Make sure you can log into super, Eval, if you need to recite. E2 Gowanda HS Library: absolutely have to complete it by just E2 Gowanda HS Library: self evaluation, and then I'm doing my own by the 16.th So then, after the 16th mine, mine will be
041available for you to comment on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so you can look at what I've said. You can everyone say but E2 Gowanda HS Library: any other discussion for that one playing pretty good? Yep, he's a fantastic right? And everybody should have E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, the evaluation guide. Alright. So nobody needs me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, there's your hard copy of what it looks like. There's definitely a little more in depth, but you can figure out. E2 Gowanda HS Library: sure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So next we have Board of Education Communications. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have this letter from Ms. Anita Rage. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but he received copy of this. Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so that's really all. We've received E2 Gowanda HS Library: all the
042communications. Just a little moments into our committee reports. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You're ready. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I missed the safety meeting and another obligation E2 Gowanda HS Library: there. So just to our Round Table. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Alright, I enjoyed the bus presentation, and I was hoping for more answers. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It is what it is. E2 Gowanda HS Library: At some point I'd like to E2 Gowanda HS Library: get back to where we're 1st under grade project board. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, not right now. But I'm interested. It's been partially, and what the results are. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The last thing I have is that, as of last night, I'm now mayor elect for. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Come here we go hurry up, and
043they got perfect congratulations. What is happening here? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So when are you retiring again, Mark. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's good cool. Go ahead and pop in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good had to sneak in there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just one quick thing at our next board meeting on the 9, th Mr. O'rourke's 7th and 8th grade students from his Health and science nutrition course are going to come and just talk a little bit about his class and bring some samplings. So just if anybody has any dietary restrictions or allergies, or just anything for his team to be aware of. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just nominate Kathy, I guess, over there let Kathy know, or Bob know, just so we can make sure that that's communicated. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah.
044So we're in for a real treat. I think E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's awesome. Yeah, yeah, I have nothing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Give it a minute. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get me E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just couple things if anyone wants to attend the annual meeting at Laguitis. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's April second, so please let me know, so I can sign you up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I didn't put this in board, docs the mandated training E2 Gowanda HS Library: because everyone has already completed it as board members. But just so, you know, you are welcome to go again. So those are the the governance and the fiscal. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm just, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: I believe in word, docs, I do have the twist on tech.
045E2 Gowanda HS Library: If anyone's interested in attending that, let me know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get you registered. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's it for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, nothing else, all right. Thanks to the bills for their donations. That's E2 Gowanda HS Library: very much appreciated. Hope to catch the Lion King, Jr. Tomorrow. Obviously busy tonight. I also want to, you know, welcome our guest, Dave Lowry coming from Ecasb. If you follow his emails, he's quite a busy man. And when he sends out his emails so welcome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And lastly, the one thing I want to mention is the mock interviews for the stem that everybody got the email that came out today hope to participate that on Friday. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll see you all
046later. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's not like that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Just same way of reiterate what everybody else has said. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thanking everybody for the generous donations. There were quite a few this time around that was pretty cool, but hard to believe that people my age are actually retiring already. But congratulations to Amy and Kim. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. Wish I could attend Lion King, Jr. But I will not be able to this year and congrats to the National Honor Society inductees. That's that's really a big deal. So that's good for them, that's all I've got. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well for our special guest this evening. Is there anything that you wish to share. I don't want to leave you out E2 Gowanda HS Library: two-year term for
047the Mspa. Area. One director is up. So I just sent a letter to you today in the mail. Okay? And I'm looking for boards to nominate me. I need at least 5 boards to nominate me to get me on the ballot, and then I would appreciate your support as well. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excellent! I don't have much other than, thanks E2 Gowanda HS Library: to all of the wonderful sponsors making donations. Retirements are always a good thing. So congratulations on the retirements. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I look forward to seeing the Lion King, Jr. Tomorrow night. Unfortunately, I'm not able to make it tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Feel like our arts and music and those things. They always E2 Gowanda HS Library: do a wonderful job, and they put on a
048great performance. So I look forward to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That'll move us into our parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Obviously. April 16, th we have the board and superintendent evaluation. So there's your 1st reminder. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't believe I saw anything else that we need to add or change. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does anybody have anything they want? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, so nobody else has anything for the parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Make a consideration of motion to recess, to executive session for the purpose of discussing employment history of those a particular person to move E2 Gowanda HS Library: yes, in favor. Aye.