GCS BOE Meetings

001You good? One second. Okay. Yes, we're good. You good? Yep, we're coming back into session, regular session. It's 7:33. 16th September, 2020. We left off at public comment section. There's no input for that session so we're moving right on to 3.01 We're going to introduce Dr. Andersen for the superintendent report. Just one notable change that on your agenda tonight, our external auditors or virtually listen dialogue and presentation can be put into a presentation section here. The whole idea or Cook's idea is to bring our outside presenters of up forward on the agenda so they can be there (inaudible). Superintendent Report, opening our school. We're already in our second week of school, believe it or not. Last week we had two first days of school on Tuesday the 8th and then Thursday the 10th With both

002groups of kids and I think our real big plan by all accounts went very smoothly for as we'd hoped in these circumstances. Our principles, building grounds, cafeteria crew transportation, food service, secretarial staff have all done a really outstanding effort in getting us open. Last couple days we've been spending airing out the details. We want this for building that's expected. So thank you everybody for helping us start as smoothly as we did. A couple other things came up last week in New York State Department of the health per executive order has a coded school dashboard that was kind of sprung on us the last minute. Governor had an executive order on Monday of last week and I have new (inaudible) report to the state on another positive COVID cases We got that going and then hopefully

003just people's peace of mind. I'm happy to report at this point, we've had no positive COVID cases in our district. At least to my knowledge at this point in time, although there was one typo error. Someone mis-entered some data yesterday and made it look like there was one that's been corrected. So there's been nothing as of today. Athletics, I'm happy to announce that at least a limited season starting on September 21st. Swimming, soccer and cross country are going to start on the 21st Volleyball, competitive cheer and football are moved to the Spring I heard about March 16th. So our spring sports, are going to be pretty congested with multiple seasons running as one But that's so those students can get out and start participating again and then we've been talking about extracurricular activities. Every student

004groups. Maybe, maybe if everything continues to build his plan, start on or about October 12. To slowly rolling stuff out and just mindful of our dashboard of the state. Our region and our school. Capital project, lot of cool things are happening outdoors. Turf, the fields right now are nearly prepared and ready for turf which within a couple days will take about a month to install. But if you've been out there and many of you have. Check it out. It looks awesome, even if the kept as it is still looks pretty awesome. The tennis courts got resurfaced today. They are resurfaced for tennis and pickleball. There's been a strong contingency of pickleball players, I'm happy to note and then the bridge, down to panther bridge, it's been phenomenal and fun to watch get constructed this summer

005and it's nearly to it's completion. About two weeks from now, I'd expect it to be open if all goes to plan and if you've seen it, it's really got a neat structure, some neatly poured concrete. It really makes our school district and community look wonderful. I was going to suggest to Mr. President. Perhaps when it's official, do a ribbon cutting ceremony at the bridge. Good idea. Are you on board? Who else we might invite? Roll a bus across and go right out into town. Kind of cool. Ya that'd be nice. (inaudible). I'll let you know more about it as it gets closer and that's it for me right, right now. Thanks guys. Okay. Very good. Moving on to 3.02, the presentation. Who's giving the presentation Beth? Oh, do you want the auditors to do it

006now? Yes please. Alright, Adam and Alexis, I guess you're on now. Get you guys out of the way. Alright. Okay. Great. Hear me okay? Yeah, okay. I'm just going to spend 5 to 10 minutes here, very briefly, prior to this board meeting, we met with the Finance Committee meet group and went over details of how the year went and went over details of the report. So I just want to give you a very high level summary of that. Our responsibility as your auditors is to express an opinion as to whether or not your financial statements are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and provide reasonable assurance of free material (inaudible). So at the end of the day can those numbers and debt and disclosures be relied upon and I'm happy to say that we

007issued in unmodified clean opinion. That's the highest level of assurance, we can provide. So you've met the objective of your audit. Within the financial statement packet. There's three reports, the auditor's report, which I just went over with you and then two reports on internal controls and compliance. The first is in accordance with government auditing standards and we have 2 matters that were required to disclose and report to you tonight. One is an internal control. This is related to the district receiving assistance and preparation of other financial statements as well as the proposal of adjusting journal entries from us, BWB. Those journal entries include not only your fund financials, like your general fund, your food service, your special aid, so on. But it also includes entries relating to GASB 34. The long term presentation, I'll touch

008on that in one second. The other matter that were required to report to you as a compliance matter and the district within New York State isn't allowed to have more than 4% of its unassigned fund balance. In accordance with next year's budget and the district exceeded this 4% as a result, we're required to report upon that. The other report on internal controls and in accordance with the Uniform Guidance Act and the district receives over $750,000 in federal aid so you're required to have what's called a single audit. The district has had these in previous years, this isn't anything new and during the year we tested your federal breakfast and lunch program and I'm happy to note that we had no compliance matters or internal control matters to report so nice job. What I'm going to

009do now is just give you a high high level of how you did financially for the year and as I mentioned, there's two sets of data within your financial statements. There's the fund financials and then there's the government wide financials and so this government wide is presented on a long term basis. This includes your fixed assets, long term debt, your pension obligations and overall the net position of this presentation increased about $1.4 million. Now, how did that compare to last year. Well, last year, your net position increased about 3.5 million dollars. So the difference was about $2 million or decrease, but it was still positive. That decrease is the result of your pension plans, your teachers retirement system and your employees and retirement system. Those plans each year at an actuarial study that's performed. That

010comes up with calculations and determines what the district's proportionate share of (inaudible) obligation would be, and at the end of the day, do to those changes and assumptions and modifications in the study, your expenses related to pension plans increased $2 million. So that's why your, all you increased 1.4, it was less than last year because of this change in this study (inaudible). Now, where the district's focuses its time and effort relating to your general fund and during the year, your fund. increased from 7.9 million 12.2 million. So that was an increase of about $4.4 million. So you had net income profit. Now that was largely driven in the current year by a change in the treatment of Native American tuition aid. So overall, your revenues in the general fund increased by $2.5 million or 8%.

011As I said that was related to this Native American tuition aid. In previous years that aid was unavailable to be recognized and (inaudible). And therefore, there was a one year (inaudible) Well, in the current year. The availability of those funds changed and the district received half of their current year's allocation in the period that applied to. So now that those funds are available, you've ultimately recognized two years worth of Native American tuition aid in the current period. It's the appropriate treatment for this based on discussions with management and management has made this determination. So that is the primary driver of the increasing revenues. Now your (inaudible) decrease about $2 million or 6% and the reason for that was due to the fact that in the prior year payments related to your debt service fund or

012payments for your bonds, your principal and interest, you paid off one of those loans and so you didn't have a principal and interest payment of about 800 or excuse me, it was a decrease of about a million dollars in principal and interest payments. Your inner fund transfers, so those are transfers that you make to other funds they aren't loans. They're money that you you move over and absorb the expenses. You transfer funds to your capital products. In the prior year you transferred about $2.1 million. While in the current year, you're transferred about 1.3. So there was a decrease of $800,000 there. And then lastly, your BOCES services decreased about $480,000 and the primary driver there was due to the fact that last year, the district paid 2 capital payments to BOCES related to the debt

013service obligation that the district tab. So that was (inaudible) last year, and so you didn't have such payment in the current year to the (inaudible) get about $500,000 so between those 3 categories and three items that was, those were the primary drivers for the decrease in your expenditures The last fund that I just want to touch on, again, very briefly, is your food service fund. Overall, the food service fund experienced an increase, and it's fund to equity. So you had net income or approximately $21,000. Your equity increased from 138,000 to 260,000 and the primary drivers of that, your revenues increased about 114,000 or 15%. Well this was largely due to the impact of COVID. The district, once the district closed. They filed an application to do the Summer Food Program, and as a result, they

014were able to serve meals to all their students breakfast and lunch, so they incurred an increase in participation and also the reimbursement rate associated with meals served during COVID is at a higher rate. So overall, your federal sources increased from 583,000 to 739,000. It should be noted that another category transfer from general fund, during the year, there were no such (inaudible), you know those inner fund amounts. So, last year you transferred $42,000 in your general fund to your food service to help operations. This year, there was no such transfer. Lastly, when we look at their expenditures, the expenditures increased in the food service fund by 81,000 or 10% and the primary driver of that was these other expenses which actually was related to the purchase of equipment. The district purchased a new service line which

015totaled about $95,000. So it's kind of a one time expenditure, that you were able to incur and still be able to show profits in your food service fund without any assistance from your general fund. So all in all. I think a good year for your (inaudible) profitable for your general fund and your food service fund and really, that's all I wanted to go over with you tonight, unless anyone has any questions. Alright, so I'll start off with the committee, the finance committee, you have any other questions from earlier, his briefing. Any (inaudible) questions for the team, the audit team. Mark? No, I'm good. I asked my questions in the meeting. Okay So do you like to save it for the committee reports. Save your comments. Sure. Okay, all right, anybody inside here. Lynn, Janet. Any

016questions. I just have one question. Under financial highlights it says our total expenses increased by 5% during the year and then our revenue decreased by 1% Tell him what page you're on. I'm on page three. Yes, so that that represents the GASB 34. That's the long term presentation that your, your general funding, your fund financial statement from that presentation. That's the first set of data, the long term basis. So should we be concerned that we're spending more and our revenue is going down? Well, again, I think for the most part. Yeah, your, your revenues flat (inaudible) year, but the expenditures are significantly impacted by your pension plans and based on those changes in the actuarial assumptions that can fluctuate significantly year to year. The one thing to note though is, is that you still had

017more revenue than you did expenditure because your net position increased by 1.2 or 1.4 million is. wasn't that using some of the Native American money which really I think it gets all mixed in and that's supposed to be money where you were using for the Native Americans. It all goes into a pot and then it looks like we have more money. That's a good, good question, because I think I put your you mean. So, in the current year the way the treatment of financial transactions is different for the GASB 34 purpose than it is for your fund financials. Yes, GASB 34 recognizes the transactions in the year that they're related to. So even though your fund financials, your general fund recognize two years of Native American tuition. Your GASB 34 (inaudible) only recognizes one year.

018So the GASB 34 wasn't doubled up in the current year. So you really did have a 1.2 million surplus. Adam. This is Mark. Yeah. Can I answer Janet's question? Sure. Okay. Janet, what you're asking about whether or not the Native American funds are separate and set aside only for Native American. That basically is the Native American supplemental funds. The Native American tuition funds are basically funds that come in and go into the general fund. So where do the supplemental funds go? Is that the impact aid? Isn't that the one that's supposed to help programs. They're in the general fund too but we (inaudible) Okay, all right. Okay, I got it. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions. All right, very good. The audit team you guys thought about Olean? Yes. Okay, just checking. All

019right, thank you for the brief, very good brief. Thank you, sir. Thank you, guys, appreciate your help. Thanks, Adam and Alexis. Take care. Thank you. OK. So moving right along, we'll move right into 3.02, administrators reports. Who wants to go first? Todd looks like. Alright Todd. You look like you're ready. Yeah there we go, just got to find that mute button. Hi, good evening, everyone. Hopefully Mrs. Ferneza shared with you just a couple documents. (inaudible) That'll be, the first one is just an attendance overview and gives you some breakdown of the numbers in a blue group, grey group, who's coming what days. The current number students we have in person, that are here, five days a week and then hundred percent remote students as well as those that are identified in that group that are

020parent taught or homeschooled. Also wanted to give you a snapshot, as my colleagues will to. Just some attendance looking at September 11 14th - 15th. Percentage of students absent by grade level, but then also daily average attendance, just to give you an idea where we're at comparatively to last year. It's a little bit low. Right now, and I'm sure I attribute to that, you know, through some of the online stuff is going back and forth. We're usually closer to 87 89% to school, but hopefully when we work the kinks out, we will be back up there and of course our total enrollment district is 3.2 not 3. But that's the attendance overview. Just an update on a couple of (inaudible) The weeks are going by faster. We did that grade five meets principal orientation September

0211st - 4th. Went extremely well. We had two sessions for the four days. So eight sessions total small groups, it was well attended, but it really helped to calm students and get them ready for middle school and I, as I said before, and I think in an earlier board meeting that was just concerned about grade five students coming into the building and you know all these changes and policies and the you know uncomfortableness if you will. They did great, though. So thank, huge thank you to Rich Smith and his crew for getting the building my building ready early for that. That was the first week going full teachers back and it looked great. The markings on the floor, things are set up was, it was just clean it was, it was awesome, and also thank

022you to Ned Nelson for having the bus ready for each day. So we got to talk about bus procedures cause we walked right from the time they get dropped off or off the bus into the building, exit the building, temperatures taken and all those things. So I think parents felt that that was a great thing and then the second, I have a copy from today. We did our hundred percent remote support sessions. We had forced 4 group scheduled on the hour starting at 9 o'clock. and basically I just wanted to bring out students that were 100 remote, make sure that they know exactly what they need to be doing each day after the first week. How to take attendance, how to get into schools, where to find things. How to download, upload all those things

023and work through those. So that was pretty well attended. We had about 28 students come out in different groups at different times with one family member and a huge thank you to Candy and Ed. They just did an awesome job as always and supporting our families and kiddos. Get them logged in and parent access and all those things. So it was just, it was awesome. So, on top of that is, Dr. Anderson said that from the middle school perspective all buildings, I mean we're doing great with reopening our plan and take it one day at a time. Awesome. Okay. Anybody have any questions? Yes. Let Janet go first Mark. Sure. Okay. Todd. This is great. I just want to ask a couple questions about so you have a total enrollment in your school of 321.

024Correct Yeah, okay, what does UGS stand for? (inaudible) Right, okay so Now you've got, I guess, September 15 was Friday when we got those you know 17% of kids that didn't Yesterday, Today is the 16th. Okay, so that was Tuesday. Yup. So we had six grade, sixth and seventh with a lot of kids out. Yep. You have any ideas why you think we're having that, like grade six seems to be a problem. Yeah, like I said, I know it's usually around 10, 11% on average across grade level so that one, 17.5. I think, again, getting familiar with leaving their home and taking attendance, you're getting the (inaudible). You know, like I say, I like to compare it to a few weeks and take a look at. Okay. I think that it's just like I said,

025it's not when they're here, it's when they're home where we're seeing the difficulty. Janet any other questions? No. All right Mark, you're up next. Okay. My question is regarding the (inaudible) on the I - Ready benchmarks and what is it and when will we hear the results. (inaudible) we're actually we're running those next week. So as you know, middle school is always, you know, we're using I - Ready to identify where students are at with reading and mathematics for all grades 5 through 8. It's an online program that we run the benchmarks three times a year just to kind of, first of all, start the year and identify where students are at, are they on grade level, are they struggling. Do they need additional support. We're running those for next week, Monday through Friday, in

026person well as remote. Link is in schoology and then once we have those results, goes with the board and gives an idea where students are at. The next and how we help them out so that that will be coming. Any other questions Mark, any other question Mark? No I'm good. Alright Lynn. If they're late logging in are they absent? No we go in and correct it using we have a centralized email system. They're technically late, but we go in and correct it. We do have students, you know, again, we're trying to make sure that we have best practice, you know, getting kids up and we're saying 7:30, 7:35 to make sure they're on the program and logging in. I have one more question. Logged in there if they can by 7:40 but if there's some

027cases where students are waking up late. They're not making that deadline or they're having issues, technical issues. Right and we're taking them one by one. But for the most part the tech department did a great thing and centralized an email. [email protected] and students email right in. They know, we already have probably on average four or five students a day to say, you know, I woke up late. I'm here, I'm rolling. Then we track and in each of the buildings they're doing the same, I know. Mrs. Pickering has offered help to so I do know that has happened. Yeah, it goes right to Mrs. Fort, myself and and then we relay in and figure out how to correct it, but it's cute. It's great. I mean, like I said, the kids will chime in. Forgot the

028login. I just woke up, you know, it's kind of, it's kind of. Yeah, I was just curious to see if it was one time thing. Lynn do you have any other. Nope. Alright Jim, Jim Hotnich? You have any questions? Jim, are you still there. Yeah, I'm on Todd. Yeah, Todd. I got a question for you. Okay, overall how are the kids accepting it though. I honestly Jim I think Just speaking from the middle school perspective. I mean you know it's it's different. I mean, man. You know, the transition single file and the hall six feet apart. You know, entering classrooms, but they're doing. They're honestly doing great and you know the truly that the hybrid model, that the smaller numbers really helps that. You know, and teachers are doing, like I said, part of a

029reopening plan about the social, emotional aspect of it and just getting students and getting comfortable and they're going to appropriate mask breaks. I mean, the first, you know, two weeks are really been about procedure and routine and you know I mean We get to it. We said it earlier in a district leadership team meeting, you know, we get to 20 minutes of a lesson, it's all the procedures. All those things going on right now. That's okay. But most importantly getting students to get comfortable with the procedure and routines and really from my vantage point, they're doing exceptional. I think you'll hear the same from my colleagues. Okay, another question. Excuse me I'm I can't talk to well. I'm not supposed to be talking at all today, but I never quit talking. I, I'd like to

030know your first day of school with the buses, concerning buses. Okay. Normal time of getting all the kids in okay and On the time you actually got them in on the first day with everything additional Would you say about 14 minutes different, 15? Yeah, yeah you could. You know we were still good routines down, and we were fine tuning some of the things you know we got away from we made a quick switch and I'll give credit to Ray Logan, because he came up with the idea, you know, I mean, Jim formally how the buses would come in. On the middle school side and just park and be stationary and wait for us to do a mass unload and we're going to do three buses at a time. But we ended up actually doing one

031location, the building we dropped grades eight and five and buses roll up there, or stop, drop there, they come pass through me. Where I'm taking care of walkers and drop off and they go to the other end of the building and they drop and go. So instead of parking waiting, they come in and pretty close and that has done a great job in the line. I mean pretty close to the time that you know we got to release and they're not you know outside too long. Those two locations, they roll in, drop, drop, go (inaudible) is efficient pretty good. So in other words, it's improved every day. Yeah, is that what you're saying? Yeah, exactly and dismissal is the same. You know, again, the volume is before on any given day. So we're rolling, you

032know, we're rolling buses out faster than we have in years past. Okay, another question for you. Yeah, man. I know I'm asking a lot of questions Todd, I apologize, but did you have the layout of the busses coming in on the first day. You know what we did and we changed it. So, you know, then we adjusted it and we just like I said, re-issued it. Now, we're set. Like I said, coming in and you know, whoever comes in first, is there doesn't have to be lined up routine because of the way we're doing it in the afternoon though they do park and wait but we got that defined Monday, I think we came out with a set of who's parking where. Okay that's what I was wondering because I know There was no flow

033for the elementary school. They had no clue what buses were still out. Well you understand what I'm saying? Okay, all the paper that sent to you. So, okay, that's why I was wondering Yeah, I appreciate it Todd. We're all in good shape now man. They will leave us, they're leaving earlier than they ever have. At least by I'll say, two, three. Great, great to hear. Thank you very much Todd. You got it. All right, any other questions Jim? Are you good. Okay. All right (inaudible). I just have one more question. The tests that Mark was asking about that you're giving next week. Mm hmm. Is it possible when you give us the results that you can give us the cohort from the following year. So we follow it along. Totally. We normally only get just

034what's happening this year and if we could start getting, you know, like maybe four years, but we see what's happening. Definitely. That's what that gives us an idea. We've done that with with state assessment scores, but we can easily do that, Janet. It's not a problem. Thanks, not a problem. Okay, I got, I got a couple of questions Todd. Sure. When we did the rehearse or we did the walkthrough with Janet and I and we talked about the transfers from class to class. Right, did that happened like you had envision? The transitions. You know what, we changed that up too. Teachers came to me and I was preaching from day one patients, flexibility, adaptability. and that you know in any regard if a teacher or faculty or team, you know, has something that they felt

035would work slightly better To come to me with that and we work through and the teams were concerned about the staggered release that it would be end up in a situation for teacher hadn't release their class that soon we'd get jammed up in the hall. So they said, let's look at that as a carousel and for grade seven, eight, that's exactly what we did and basically they released all the same time and it might elongate fit for students to go down the hall and around. But that's basically what they do and they're spaced out the entire time and they go around that carousel in the hall, you know, the two respective wings until they hit their classroom. Then they go in. Been working perfectly. Okay. That's how I envisioned it when you presented. I just

036to see how it worked. Yeah we change that. Okay. The check ins at the door, pretty smooth? Yeah, again, we got the walkers and drop off coming in the morning, and I'll just say, you know, (inaudible) But a lot more is being dropped off in the morning, you know, Dr. Anderson has been out there with us and taking a look at that and so having that (inaudible) with scans. We're doing one student at a time, but it's still picks up the group that helps to move students through there faster. Okay. Okay and the only issue we run into. It's kind of funny that we had a cold morning here last week where it was 42 or whatever. I forget, I think Monday. The days are running together here and the the handhelds were slightly effected

037though. Beth had to backup into the hall little bit more to take temperatures, because students we're reading low but Again, we're learning on the fly. A lot of these things and correcting them. So no bottlenecks? Not too bad. I'm sorry. No bottle no bottleneck. No, no, no, no, okay. We got cones outside and at this point we've been doing good, doing great like I said (inaudible). Okay, great. My last question is I've been hearing some information about the chargers. The students get chargers for their devices and are they staying charged up. I heard those some charging Yes, some charging issues are happening. Well, you know what, this is what we're seeing. I think this is across the building, is that students either are, you know, we're going to deal with some of these issues where

038they don't have the charger. They forgot the charger. They forgot to charge it. Last charges. So we're trying to sort through those and we had a discussion again. Dr. Anderson was leading on that topic and how to correct it in classrooms and get backup chargers and, you know, and give consideration to those things in the classroom. But you know, that's like I say, not, not a huge. It's a minority right now. I mean you know that it's happening but nothing crazy Want to look at and correct, for sure and like I say, have maybe a backup charger per classroom. If not a centralized extension cord with one of those multiple ports where students can plug into so they don't have to change their seat location so Funny you should ask because that was the topic

039of discussion today. Okay. All right. Just as long as you guys have visibility on there. David, you got any questions. He's muted. You're muted. There he is. Nope, I'm good. Okay. Thank you, David. Thank you. Right. No other questions we'll move on to the next administrator report. I can go. Okay, you should have a one page report where I am, also spelled out our daily average attendance total. Now that is the beginning of here. and we're averaging and we talked about this at our admins meeting today we're averaging really right along what we normally would average. So we're not off on our average daily attendance at all. Considering that punches happened and then I broke it down by grade levels that you can see their kindergarten, first, third, and fourth and again we're all, we're

040right where we typically are at this stage of the game in years past. So that's a good thing. And then I broke apart our I broke apart groups. So you can see where we are and this This is a bigger thing for, I think, at least at the elementary level, we have a much higher percentage of kids across all four of those groups, including homeschooling which we're seeing a huge rise this year and then same thing with our fully remote. I have the most kids that are on fully remote out of all three buildings with 73 right now. Um, but, you know, we're juggling it, it's been it's been a, it's been definitely a trial. Especially with the fluidity of kids moving between group designations, that's been challenging It's starting to level out a little

041bit, which is good. And hopefully we'll, we'll continue to slow that down so that we can get that and really settle in, you know, in those groups and get moving. The other thing I had on my report is just a quick little blurb about our open house which is going to be really different for us this year. Although I am very excited about it, given what we're seeing so far and the teachers are doing a really nice job. So it's going to be full virtual and the reason why we went to full virtual is because and some of you can attest to this because you've been to our open houses in the past, but we get a real packed house. So there's just really no way for us to do it and maintain all of

042the PPE that we would need to maintain just because of the sheer volume of people that we get every year. So what we're going to be doing instead is that you have a peered open house Google slide show that I created. On the slide show there is a slide for every grade level and department in our building, including all of our intervention related services, special areas, specialized programs. I mean, every one is accounted for and everyone will create a bit emogi for themselves. That will be on that slide and then attached to that slide. They're creating a video that will pretty much contain all of the information that they would have presented, you know, to their parents if they would have to be open house in person. Then on that night. So then once that

043is completely done, we're going to send it out the day before to all of our folks for schoology. So they can access it and then that night of open house. Everyone will still be in attendance on site. To be there for either teleconferencing with parents or zooming in, with parents and students that may have questions or, you know, wanted to do some more face to face. But some of the videos that people have been making I'm starting to get them in and attaching them to their bit emoji and they are really, really good. I'm just super proud of the work that they're doing and they were a little nervous doing them. But they're really doing a great job. Any questions. Okay. anybody got a question? Janet? No. Janet's got the floor. Carrie, how many of

044you have in kindergarten total? I have, let's see. Let me think about this, Janet, because, sorry you can get it to me later. I know, it's just that they are changing more frequently than everyone else, because we've had so many incoming late registrations for kindergarden. I think that I'm at, like, I want to say like 63 kids right now. And first grade? First grade is high. I have 90. And second grade? Second grade is a little lower. I have like 68 and third grade? Third grade is a little lower as well. I want to say they're in the high 60s, low 70s. Okay, and four? Fourth grade as high as well and that's about 90. Okay and you've got group AB, which I'm assuming those are like the blue and Yes. What's group C. So

045grouping A is my Monday, Tuesday group. Okay, and then group B is my Thursday, Friday. group C is 100% remote. Group D is hundred percent in person and then of course homeschool is you know parent taught. Okay, great. Thank you. Sure. Mark, You have any questions? I'm good. Okay. Thank you, Mark. Lynn? Just the same question that you asked Todd about chargers. The chargers are going home with the kids. I know these little kids are have to be responsible for taking all the parts home. Yes, yes. So, you know, like Todd said definitely that's something that we have had some conversation around because one, it's the first time that the elementary school has allowed devices to go home for all our kids. So this is a new experience for us entirely, sure, and in doing

046that, we had to real really rearrange how we were doing our charging because up to this point because they weren't going home. All our chargers were put together in groups in classrooms, either in a mobile carts, or in some other form where it was stored very safely in the classroom. So all of those had to be picked apart and put you know separately for each kid. So we are finding ourselves we either chargers are being left home or they're coming back and they're not charged fully, and so we need extra charges in the room to make sure that we're charging. So yes it's been a learning curve for all of us at the elementary school (inaudible) Jim, you got any questions? Jim Hotnich. No, I just got just one Carrie. How are you doing this

047evening. Good, how are you Jim? On the buses now has that it improved as far as the lag that you had on that first day? Yeah, You know you didn't know what was going on. Yes. Yeah, so you know, a rough, coming in is is really been pretty seamless for us because they just come through the loop. You know, one at a time. They drop off, come back. It's the pick up and the dismissal that's really a lot more challenging because we typically would take our kids out and drop them off bus to bus. Whereas now, because we're using the small loop, we can only call a certain amount of buses at a time and then kids are coming down and loading and so for our bus drivers, that was challenging because one, they don't

048know all the kids on their route yet. So they had to check their rosters off to make sure every kid was on the bus because teachers aren't riding them through that anymore, but two, we didn't have really a system for lining up. They wanted to go in a certain amount or a certain line up a day. We toss that out, literally, after the first day and kind of changed and tweaked it and so now when they come. It's kind of first come, first serve. They just line up and those are the ones that we call and we get them out quicker. The bus has been great about checking the rosters with us. There's been a couple times where they have, you know, I've had to get on the walkie talkie to Annette and she's been

049great help sending the buses back because they did have all their kids and it's you know, it's just a matter of time. It's getting better and better every day. You know we watch our time every day and we you know we cheer when it's a we reduced it by two minutes and then another day. We reduced it by another two minutes. You know, before you know it, it's going to be back to the you know, 20 minutes swing that we were down with the old system. What I can't say enough about our Our bus drivers have been super flexible and just terrific. I can't, I really can't say enough about them. Okay, so. Okay, then I will say this because I know I felt as I said about like that first day was 14 minutes

050different you know. Yeah you had said. We all know it's first day is always late. Yeah, always. No matter what you do and but I would like to commend you know on what I see, command the staff and the custodians staff. The bus drivers, the teachers and, you know, for making sure everything was well that very first day and I thank you. No, it's our pleasure. I mean, you know, I would agree with that and we've had a ton of people we, you know, we've kind of joked that it's all hands on deck. I have, I have a ton of people on duties for both parent arrival and drop off as well as pick up every day as and I have a ton of people on bus duty which is not normal. I mean you

051know we we really didn't have that amount of staff in years past, we've had some but not to the extent that we have right now and that's just to facilitate you know us getting through it in a timely fashion. So I really appreciate everyone chipping in and helping to get it done. Well, thank you very much. Okay I have no more questions. Okay. Thank you, Jim. Dave, you got any questions? Nope, I'm good. All right. Thank you, Dave. I have one question. Go ahead Ron. Yes. With all these groups. I actually got two questions. With all these groups that you have annotated on your form Those numbers, is that your total registered students? Yes. Okay. Now, I noticed on these two briefings this question here is for Sandra. The difference with the homeschooling and remote

052is the homeschooling like the New York State or is there something different? Homeschooling is parent taught. So those folks are off our roster and not counted as our students. They are literally a school within a home and no longer GCS oversight, other than we're a regulatory body to make sure that they're taking care of kids and following curriculum that they need to and then if there are concerns where they're not, we will (inaudible). Right and we just keep track of them as as registered numbers, but not as like attendance and stuff that's totally theirs. Right right they do not count in our state aid. Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right, Carrie. Thanks. We'll move on to the high school Hi Everyone, I'd like to echo what I've heard already I want to say thank

053you to everyone who has helped prepare the school from transportation just really knocking it out of the park to I'm sorry my cat meowing because there's a moth inhere. Sorry about that. From transportation to the Teachers just working their butts off. I just really appreciate all the hard work that everybody's been doing. I also gave you a one page report. So I, it's greetings from Gowanda High School, the top. So I want to talk just a little bit what we're trying to do to make school feel more normal in an unnormal year We have arranged for student pictures to be taken. So that's coming up. We've had to do multiple days because again you know we're in a hybrid scenario, We have a grey group day, a blue group day, 100% remote group day and

054then make ups in November. You know, when you think about the things that you wouldn't normally have to do, we have to arrange senior pictures at later date because they are not allowing students to share those black drapes. So, you know, even when you think something simple, we have to rethink the wheel in every area. We're also doing spirit week for the next two weeks to make sure that each group has the opportunity to participate in all five Of the decades that we're going to feature, since this year our theme is a twist in time. So I want to thank student council for arranging that and really it's to celebrate that our students are back and they're able to participate in sports. Although, it'll be a little bit of a different season. Kids were excited

055about signing up for soccer and cross country and just getting out there and running. I have worked with Candy Phillips and Dr. Anderson, the past week to talk about planning for the return to play. Candy has been meeting with coaches and I feel really confident about our students partnering with Pine Valley in soccer and then also cross country this year and I'm really excited about that to start There's a couple other things down at the bottom for you, just so that you can see we're working on updating our progress report comments just to make sure that there are appropriate for 2020 which is an unusual year. We have a plan in place if we had to close school tomorrow. Our teachers are ready to, you know, flip their instruction to totally online. Which I'm pretty

056excited about. We've talked about that this week and like Carrie mentioned, we are having a 100% virtual open house and we're doing something very similar as the elementary school. I'm excited Ashley Wright, who we featured over the summer as an exemplary teacher. On schoology has put together some exemplar and models of this would look like. So that teachers can see what we're looking for as far as virtual open house. A couple other things that are not on here that I wanted to mention that I was thinking about from some of your questions, if we are also trying to work with colleges to put together a virtual college visits. These would take place on Wednesdays for 30 minutes. They will be posted on schoology so that students can still have that experience, even though they can't

057go to the college or have those college reps come to us. Someone asked about, I-Ready. So I also wanted to mention that I have been (inaudible) who, again, you know, is a rock star and he's been helping get together. The (inaudible) rosters which is that I-Map testing, we can take similar data at the high school for reading levels. and this year we're expanding it in the past, we've done it in 9th and 10th grade only. We're able to expand it this year to our junior class, which I think is really important. So this will be one of the first data points will have for incoming freshman to see you know where are our gaps and then for especially for our 11th graders, I really want to see where are they at as well. We're having

058a planning meeting on this Friday, and then we'll be implementing it probably the end of September. So if you're looking for our report that would come sometime in October. Let's see, let me talk a little bit about the attendance. So I did (inaudible) the bottom of my report as well the attendance and I included our, our group totals. You'll notice that there's a little bit of a difference at the high school, our blue group and grey group. This is our (inaudible) groups, are pretty even. We have a much smaller number 100% remote group which is our red group total. So compared to the middle school and elementary school. We only, we only have 16 students. So it's a, it's a smaller number. I also included some comparison data last year with our first four days

059of school. You can see we are slightly lower this year and on here you can see that the blue highlighted days are the days that the blue group would report and then the white gray color are the days that the gray group would report and what we're sort of initially noticing is that attendance is dipping for students who are on their remote days. But they are definitely here in person and they're excited to be at school in person. So we have an attendance committee meeting set up on Tuesday of next week to really dive in, what does this all mean. Where can we reach out to students, are we missing any students who aren't checking in and we're starting home visits for students next week as well. So I think that's it for me. What

060questions do you have? Very good. Janet? Just wondering, how many homeschooling kids do you have? I don't have a homeschooling service. That's been turned over to Cindy Cooker and Sandra Simbridge. Maybe you might have the specific numbers. All right, how many do you have in ninth grade. I don't have the cohort offhand. I can go email those to you. Yeah if you could. I just wondering how we are 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. You know how many kids we have. Um, I will tell you that the enrollment. You can see dipped a little bit. So we're at 299. Last year I had about 320 that's because I had a large senior class. Almost 99% of them graduated, which is phenomenal. But my incoming freshman class was just a really small class. I think it's about

06170-ish students. So that's why That's it. Alright. Mark, you have any questions? Yes I would. Wondering what Talk to me a little bit about Boces and how that's going. Oh yes. Thank you. One of my favorite parts of my day is seeing all of the students and I've asked them, you know, how's it going at Boces They have been just all smiles. I mean, kids. are welding already. They're in nursing classes. They're doing all of their hands on work at Boces, so when they go to Boces, that's what they're doing, their clinical stuff. When they are on their remote days, that's when they're working on some of their core area assignments, math Or ELA if they take those classes at Boces. So by all reports from students. Things are going great, and nothing but great

062reviews. Thank you. Anything else Mark? Nope that's it .Okay. Thank you, Mark. Lynn, any questions? No, not really. Think they've all been answered. I know that those kids have better with charges, little bit maybe. Yeah actually teachers have said they've been really prepared with their Chromebooks every day. I'm really impressed. Okay. Very good. Thank you Lynn. Jim, do you have any questions? Nothing. Thank you, though. Thank you Jim. Dave. No, I'm good. All right. Thank you, Dave. I have a question. The numbers you have there for the blue group, the grey group and you said the red group is total remotes. Yes. Okay and then those numbers are the total number of registered students. For the high school. Yes. Okay, so I kind of like added that up and came out to 297. Is there

063two people missing or I don't think I included our 100% in person students, those would be our special education students in our 6-1-4 classroom. Okay, so that's a different category. Yes and those numbers are as a first day. So there might with our enrollment. I think we've lost a couple past couple days or I'm so sorry, you lost them? Yeah. Students transfer out and transfer in every day. So that might be the 2 students that you're talking about. Okay. Now when you say transfer, like leave the district? Right, yeah they transfer to another district. Yes. Okay. All right and then I see on here that you have a Europe trip, kind of, they're looking at. Have they selected a country yet? Yeah, so this is the Europe, I did want to include this because it

064was I think Dana brought it up a couple of meetings ago that we needed to discuss it. The Europe trip is a trip that was planned to go to Italy in April of this coming 2021 school year and so for that we are meeting as a district. Dr. Anderson and the advisors next week to discuss next steps. We're having a parent meeting and then bringing it to the board to make some decisions on on what we're doing next. All right, you guys, is there somebody keeping an eye on the COVID? Numbers over there because they got hit pretty, pretty hard over there. Is anyone tracking that to make sure that you don't get to a certain thershold and then you're going to change it. Yeah, so I think that's something that, you know, we want

065to talk to Dr. Anderson about and present to the board because this is a board approved tripped so We want to bring it back to you. All right. Very good. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, moving right along. I think we got Special Ed. next. Yep so really a lot of what's been happening in special education and was touched on by the principle on her report. Okay. Really kind of hit on everything. The only thing I have really to add is that we can you know take everything (inaudible) individually (inaudible) and make certain adjustments for certain students. Maximize it for them. So, not anything pretty unique for me to present beyond what the principal presented but if you guys have any questions. I can answer those. Alright we'll go around the

066horn. Janet? you have question. No. No questions. Mark, you got any questions for Special Ed? Yes. Okay, go ahead. Mark, you got floor, Looking at looking at your report and what's being approved. I'm curious how a 12 - 1 - 1 class runs in COVID time. Well, None of our 12 - 1 - 1classes are (inaudible) So that helps but (inaudible) (Inaudible) desks are spaced apart like they are in all other classroom. And so it the teachers are having to work on ways to connect creatively structure it because usually there's a lot of small group instruction going on. Right now that's (inaudible) When you can't put kids in small groups get everyone has to be apart. So a lot of our Special Education classes are at the elementary school and so We have been identified

067locations that you can break up their groups (inaudible) and I want to give a shout out to Rick and thank you to Carrie and Barb cause we're rearranging, moving a lot of the furniture that's being stored at the elementary school and classrooms is getting moved out, I think this weekend, right Carrie? And so that will open up more instructional spaces to help break up classes, you know for certain activities. Maybe use it for an hour here, a hour there. That should help. That'll be huge because the Elementary school has no space. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you Mark. Lynn, do any questions? Okay no questions for Lynn. Thank you Lynn. Jim. Jim Hotnich? No thank you. I'm good. Okay Jim. Thank you very much. Thank you. Dave? I'm good. I may. Thank you very much.

068I do have one question. For enrollment, you track any numbers for enrolling for Special Ed., are they all have to run included into the other. school, the building. Yes, my enrollment is embedded within. I can give you a breakdown of the (inaudible) Same thing, we've had students moving in and out of the last couple weeks. Last movement of transferring (inaudible). Okay (inaudible) usually around 100 (inaudible) Okay. All right, that's all I have. Good brief. Leah? We have anything to report? Really short and sweet. Just working on our standard services for our Title Six, but I do want to acknowledge the work we've been doing with Seneca Nation Education Department, they're trying to do some innovative things and supporting our Native students that are Participating in hybrid activities so that's, that's a work in progress and

069I hope to give you more details on that but that looks like a, like a Wednesday Virtual Lab. (naudible) setting up Otherwise, again, we're just doing our normal, ease down our paperwork. Our number is right around 18 right now and we usually are around 20. I guess we can acknowledge but Rebecca had mentioned that we graduated quite a, quite a few students this year and so that kind of accounts for a little bit of a decrease. Those numbers won't look out (inaudible) for a while because we will still see students transfer in and out. Okay. You said 350. 315. 318. 318 Okay, anything else? Okay. Any question for the Title Six? Mark? I'm good. Okay, thank you, Mark. Jim? I'm good. Okay, Janet? I'm good. Okay. Lynn? I'm good. Alright, Dave? I'm good. Okay, thank

070you. Alright thank you. Good brief. Alright so let's go on to (inaudible). Hello everyone. Thank you for your time. So in the area of the Office of Curriculum and Instruction. I was behind the planning for the four days last week and acting on behalf of Dr. Anderson, I want to say thank you to Ron for helping us with our kickoff on Tuesday and sharing words of inspiration and insight. We really appreciate your presence and your contribution. The four days, featured professional development around the integration of technology at the classroom level. There was a particularly something called the tech, tech playlist where teachers would learn about the expectations and be able to see video and get more support around using schoology, both to post assignments to communicate with the parents as well as the creation of

071videos and at law 2D compliance, along with a number of other things and included do some catching up around zoom. Wednesday's are going to be typically our PD support days and that will be more needs based right now. So based on our first four days. We asked teachers to take a check for understanding so we could gauge where they were based on what they learned around tech innovation and based on that information we're going to be offering more one on one support around schoology as needed and next week we're going to enter into both best practices around video use. We've begun to work in the area of creating that K 12 multi tiered system of support plan. MTSS and we have by regulation, we need to have one K4, or at least an RTI plan

072and Carrie has done a terrific job of giving us a base that's going to be a model for us as we craft a plan 512. Elizabeth Davidson and I and Todd sat down and met with the middle school team and have begun drafting. We're going to be meeting again next week and that's so, that's been lifted off and we're working towards supporting students around academics, behavioral supports and social emotional learning We also as Leah mentioned Leah and I've been working carefully with the Seneca Nation, not carefully, but we've been very thoughtful and intentionally working with the Seneca Nation for several months now and to be able to get this Wednesday support day with on territory support is really Nothing small of a a Herculean is what I said and to that it's going to happen

073and we're hoping for we're planning for an October 7 date is terrific. So with that, on that day we'll be providing support and our teachers will be traveling on territory to provide that directly on site and it's been a special thing. There are many people Trudy Jackson, Any White, Leah of course, Dr. Anderson and Ed Nelson, Barb Smith and Amy Lymberger. They have been absolutely critical in that plan. Our next project. My next project is going to be moving forward with the Student Support Center After school and so we're just figuring out how to get those extra, extra support students, either in the cases on territory or after school, so I will have an update for you next time we meet Okay. Are you ready for some questions? Alright we'll start off with Janet. Any

074questions for Sandra. Okay, Mark? You got a question for Sandra. Yes. Okay, go ahead Mark. You got the floor. I hear that they're doing that, I-Ready and the I-Mac assessments going on. At some point here, we would need to find out. I'm Terry, don't jump on me. I'm using second third grade as an example. What wasn't taught in second grade when we were shut down for parts of the time is being picked up by third grade now. The question, my question is, when Will we know what we have to make an adjustment for the third grade curriculum. Because I mean, again, fit it all back in Right, that's a terrific question. Carrie I see your on. Yeah, I'm happy to answer that Mark. I heard that elementary school. I can tell you that this was

075a huge concern of ours. You know, given that when we went fully remote last spring. We really only were able to send around ELA and math and so there was a lot of standards that teachers really couldn't do through the full remote and couldn't do through packets which we were you know doing at that time, which, you know, now we're doing things totally different. We're doing things digitally, which does help and so there was a lot of explicit instruction that could not be done. Just because of the model that we were stuck in. So one of the things that my teams has done of course of the summer working together over the course of last spring, and then even at the beginning of the school year, is to look at the standards that each grade

076level identified as being ones that they, one either didn't get to enough to have kids master or didn't get to at all because of the closure. So those standards were then shared with the grade level prior and shared with the grade level above them so that that we can have that vertical planning that was done and then the first three weeks of our school year was going to be our, is our acclimation period and then a period of time where those standards that we're missing. We're going to be covered by the current year's teacher Mark do you have any other questions. Are you okay with that response? Yes for now. Okay. Alright thank you Mark. Lynn, go ahead, ask your question. I was gonna. It was just a comment. I was going to bring it

077up at round table, but now it seems like a good time for it. I spoke with a grandmother today. Who has a fourth grader and she said that I bet you're so excited to see your friends and she said, Grandma, I have five kids in my class and I, and even though the kid is very disappointed I state that this is a real opportunity. for kids to get some huge teacher time. This one on one teacher time that we always are looking for. I think we have this huge opportunity that this is created that we can help these kids catch up. Very good. That's just a comment. Okay, we have a questions Lynn? No. Alright, thank you Lynn. Jim, Jim Hotnich, you got any questions? No, no, I don't. Thank you. Okay. Thank you Jim.

078Dave, you have any questions. Nope, I'm good. Alright, thank you. Thank Janet, you're good? Yeah. Alright so I have a couple questions. You had mentioned the tech playlist. Is that the same thing as as playground activity that you guys done earlier with the board. That kind of the same thing, or is it something different? Different, different. So there are file cabinets. It was a virtual earning space in one cabinet. When you pull out the file drawer would be around schoology and how teachers were to set up their, their classrooms, their instruction and specific things that they needed to do and they could. These are like these digital library? Yes, yes. Okay. It literally looks like a file cabinet and that you can click on it and when you click on it, it opens up and

079you know what files are there and then you can navigate that so becomes a learning space. Okay very good. Thank you. I got another couple questions. This program that Mark was talking about, is this. got something to do with the universal targeting type initiative or this something different? What it is, is it's part of the screening, if you will, to determine what students would then go to another level of support. Right. So In terms of those multi tiers depending on where students are they might be recommended for the next level of support or the next level of support and that looks differently dependent. Okay so that the universal targeting is those levesl. Yeah and we call it probably universal screening, so. Okay. Yeah, the screening to determine what support is needed for those students, depending

080on where they're falling and it's interesting because I-Ready is going to be pretty steady in terms of their standards, but we had last spring, the teachers all indicated what they had taught and assessed. and they have that information as Carrie mentioned that I shared that with them in the beginning of the year, so they could have those conversations and decide how they're going to fill those gaps or address those gaps as best they can and so that I-Ready benchmarking will be ongoing throughout the year, because it's a way to both know where students need to go and whether they're getting what they need and need to get out move back into another tier Okay, very good. I just wanted to clarify, because I know when we talked early on. It was targeting, but I like

081screening better. I like that. Now you had mentioned that there's going to be an activity in October, was that October 2nd? (inaudible) He said something about the Seneca Nation in October something. Yes, we're hoping for. Well, I don't want to say hope because I like to say, let's make it happen. We're planning for October 7 is the first day. And that's going to be there. Yes so our JOM and our Title Six folks are going to go on campus there and have spaces to work with students. We're forecasting somewhere around, we have a need for about 75 students. So we hope to place them there that entire day so, and we're looking at a time roughly say 9:30 to 12:30. We're working out that specifics. We also want to be sure to communicate that with

082the parents so that they know what's happening. So we're working collectively with them. Trudy and Amy and again, Leah has been a terrific partner in all of this and really good. Okay, very good. This is going to be a multi locations or all in one spot. I think its, as far as we understand it's going to be the ECLC. Okay Okay, very good. That's all I have, anybody else have any alibis for Sandra? Okay, very good. Any other administrators? Rich. Rich, go ahead. We started the (inaudible) study that is being done by train. They've been here for about the last two and a half weeks. We've had two texts from train that have gone through every unit ventilator, every air handler, every exhaust fan and made sure that everything was running up to what it

083should be. We've had another tech that was out here that did a walkthrough of our building envelope to see when we get the study back. It'll be what we can do to save energy with our doors or windows or caulking that we can do. They looked through the entire building, they went through the bus garage, this building, elementary and our pole barn. I also had a rep that was here today. He'll be here tomorrow going through all the equipment, looking at ages, looking at just ways we can save money. So that's on going, at some point, I'll have that report that I can bring back to the board. Okay, very good. Anything else? No. Any questions for Rich? Mark, you got any questions? I'm good. Okay, thank you. Jim, Jim Hotnich, do you got any

084questions? No, I'm glad. Okay. Dave, you got any questions? Nope, I'm good. Okay, alright thank you Dave. Lynn? Janet? I have one question. I'm not sure this is in your category, but the cleaning of the buses and the (inaudible). You kind of got any information on that? Are they. No that's all (inaudible) is taking care of. We give them the supplies. Right. The disinfectant, the you know the whites. We provide them with them, but she is set up that rotation as to how they do it. Do you see them give any reports? Are they're being done, or how they. I have not heard back from her as to how that. No. Okay. Can you, I can find out. Sure. What do you want to know? Are they, when they do the first drop off and

085they go back out, are the buses being sanitized? Yes, they're supposed to go to those those seats. I know that's what did, what the discussions were prior to the opening of the school. Was it in between those runs, they would go through and sanitize the or disinfect the buses. Okay. All right. I just want to make sure. I can find out how that's going on though and how much time it's taking them. Because you guys did the rehearsal with the school, the classroom. We learned step by step with them, SDS and You know, when they going to wipe it back down and all that stuff. I just want to make sure that we don't miss anything and wind up with a potential hazards of somebody catching something. Sure. All right. Very good rich. Thank you

086very much. Okay, so no other questions with the administrator? Nope the auditors covered my, okay. Alright. So moving right along the 4.01. The calendar by the district clerk. Our next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place on Wednesday, October7th, 6:30 here in the library and also remotely via zoom Ron, I'm just wondering, how is it that the village of Gowanda can have a meeting and have the public come, but we can't I haven't heard anything like that. They have one in public. Yeah, they did, they had one in the Hollywood theater and the public came. Maybe the spacing then. Yeah, probably the theater, because it's so big. fairly larg.e facility. Really nice Spread out. Yes. I mean, you could go into the auditorium or larger venue here and in space people out appropriately. Even if

087they come here, no one's gonna hear a little half our (inaudible) Alright. Kathy anything else with the calendar? I just wanted to let the board know that I'm not sure if you saw it in your email, but yesterday we had an email from the Erie County School Board Association and they are rescheduling their annual awards dinner. It's going to be kind of be a Pickup order event and one of our one of our board members and is Mrs. Vogtli a recipient of a medallion Star Award. Wow. She's gonna receive a plaque and a certificates so I don't know if you saw this, Janet but I do think that entitles you to a meal. I think it's when I got my surgery. Okay, okay. So beginning of October, right? Thursday, October 1 is yeah, we have

088to know by September 25 if anyone wants to wants to do that. I think I'll pass it (inaudible). We just pick it up and yes it's a pick up award and or certificate and also if you pre order a meal, it's a pick up for that also. Okay. I guess they're going to have like a lawn sign and when you stop and pick it up there to take pictures at that sign and it's going to be a neat kind of outdoor surgery. Sounds really nice. What are you having surgery on? My knee, my second knee. (inaudible) Congratulations, that's awesome. Okay. (inaudible) If I can just write down, just ask them a question not related to the calendar. Okay, but the high school office asked me if we would still, the board is still interested in

089doing a student school board member this year. Would you guys like to do that like they have in the past and have a student board member? Is the high school rep still here? Rebecca? Yeah, she checked off. Is there any, is there any benefit. Is there any benefit. That goes with these students if they've participate in school board activities, governmental type stuff, or is there anything significant that that they get praise for? Well, you know, it would be something for a student to put on a resume or a college application. Typically, I'm a little late on you know getting my senior letter out there and typically I include the application in my senior letters. So that's why I was wondering what the direction of the board would be. Last year, I think we appointed someone

090really late in the year and I was hoping to get it done earlier, if possible, if we were going to do it. Right and so I just wanted to check with you to see if it was anything significant that a student could benefit from a you know a governmental type. I think we could benefit from hearing from them, considering what they're going through, it's totally different than when they can bring stuff to us that we may not hear. Right. (inaudible) That's why we picked them all, everybody that applied last year and unfortunately, two of them didn't ever get to come but they really did have some good ideas. Mark, you got any input on this? I think it's a worthwhile program. I mean, it gives the student, a lot of experience in I think go

091from what I've heard from students before they learned quite a bit. There's a how government works or doesn't work. Okay, so very good Mark. So, in, in the past, how we did it like the first half and then somebody else picks up the last half or In the past, they've just chosen one. Last year we decided to anybody. We had 4 that were really. Yeah they were all good. Great kids. I mean, it was hard to pick between one. Okay, just so So we'll just So we can go, so we can go but Becca can do an interview. Yes that's what we did Generally speaking shouldn't they show a cue your query that high school kids of interest. We had a lot of interest, really good kids. Sometimes you lose that one or two. The

092principal can (inaudible) those candidates to the board and you can make a decision. Okay. Alright, so let's go ahead and move forward with that. Rebecca. Okay, great. I'll get the application out to see all seniors. I'll mail it home probably at least no later than the first part of next week and then we'll work with Kathy on a timeline and arranging interviews for you. Okay, rappreciate it. Thank you. Excuse me. Excuse me, Ron. Go ahead Jim. You got the floor. Okay you were discussing that just now. We were discussing it at that (inaudible) meeting and the input from a lot of the older board members, plus the teachers say that the kids bring a different total perspective. Not only do they get leadership qualities doing it. Okay. They also help us learn to what they

093need for tools to learn. Okay I mean, that's the gist, I got out of the meeting on Saturday. Okay, very good. So we're going to move forward with that. Thanks for the input, Jim. So we'll move forward and build through the interview process and will select one for this, this this year 2020 - 2021. All right anything else Kathy? I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention. We talked within the office a couple days ago about the calendar and I know we talked about as a board where to put all of the different committees and all of the meeting dates and stuff and to capture them on the flag. However, the flag is a notification of public meetings. They're open to the public and some of our committee meetings are not open to the public.

094They're just meetings within the school with staff and so those types of committees like the upcoming safety committee that will not, I need to remove that from the flag because that is not open to the public. That's an internal meeting. Okay. So moving forward I need to be conscious of that, if their internal they won't be on that flag. So I think all meetings, maybe should be on Ron's standing committee and parking lot items and then, on the flag, which is shared with the newspapers and posted on the doors for the public, that should only be public meetings. Okay. And then you're still going to do all those Google invites, right. Yes. Right. Yes. That makes a huge difference. Very, very good. Making sure we're on track. That sounds reasonable. Dr. Andersen does that sound

095reasonable? Yes it does. Okay, so that's all going to do the flag that comes out, all committee meetings will be taken off of here and placed on our standing committee and parking lot matrix. If they are open to the public. If they're all, if the committee meetings are open to the public, they'll be on the flag. Otherwise, it will be on the board BOE's committee matrix and we can monitor that and Kathy will make sure that we get Google invites so we don't forget. All right, very good. Good questions. Alright anything else? Alright so Kathy is good. We're gonna move right along to a Board of Education communications. I don't have anything that was given to me to put out so going on the 4.03. Board of Education Committee reports will go ahead and start

096off with the policy committee. If Mark, you got any updates on the policy committee. Not in front of me. Kathy would be in a better position to let us know what we looked at. Okay, alright. We basically just dealt with the ones that were talking about deleting or the potential to delete. Yes. and the new ones that we received from BOCES. So what I did is I looked at that group of policies we have where we had the list of policies to be deleted. However, we're changing that word to archives, because they, they're not going to be deleted and gone forever. They're going to be archives. So our archives policies, our current policy 1250 will be removed from that archive list because that will not be archived and so I updated that list and that

097will be on the next board agenda for you to approve and I updated the, in the 2000 policies which will also be on our next agenda, I believe it was 2320. We made some changes to the wording on that one. So I made those updates and we'll have those at the next meeting. Okay, very good. Mark, you have anything to add to that committee meeting report? No, not for the policy. Policy, I'm sorry. Alright. Thank you. Anything else, Kathy? Alright. So moving right along to the Treasurer's Finance Committee report. Who'd like to do that? Mark? Sure. Okay, basically, when we talk with the auditors, we're able to get into a little bit more in depth regarding the change of the GASB 68 which impacts the GASB 34 which was the report that it's a long

098term report. The other thing that was talked about was the hold back that occurred. We had how we were treating it, the 20% hold back that occurred in June, as some discussion in terms of how we treat that on a financial basis. It's going to have a significant impact this year because it's basically funds that are kind of booked but they're not going to be available. Okay. Is that it? That that's the highlights. Okay Mark, I just wanted to recap some of the questions you had brought up when you and I had a discussion. You said you wanted to possibly bring up some questions about long term finances we had when we were talking, you go, we had to look at some stuff down the road. Yes. Essentially, when I talked with you. I think

099the board really has to take a strong look or have get from administration what the plan is if the governor goes ahead with the 20% reduction me now. Although we have a significant fund balance, we're not, we don't want to blow it up all this year and I don't even think it would cover what the 20% percent hold back would. The other big thing, and I did kind of mentioned it to the auditors, but they really didn't give me an answer is, if this state holds back 20% of the building aid, that makes us a significant difference to the district in terms of we may want to kind of slow down on our building project if if the cost is going to be jumping from 3% to 20% for the district residents. We won't know

100that until later but once, we want to keep that in mind as we're going through this project. Okay, very good. I just wanted to make sure that when I speak to (inaudible), get a chance to speak with other board members kind of offline about concerns and the questions they bring up to me that we highlight on here, so we can get it on the record and not lose focus at some of these potential Issues that that might surface and we all need to be aware of it. Okay, so on that note, I spoke with Congressman Jacobs office and Congressman Reed put in a bill, bipartisan for that money. But they have no idea if it's even going to pass and they aren't they aren't real hopeful, hopeful that we're going to get the full money

101or and I asked them, I said if Congress gives it to us. Can you designate that form. You can't give it to anybody else. That it has to come to the school districts That he can't hold it for something else and they were talking about putting that in the bill to make sure that if the money comes, the districts get it, but it's going to be, they figure over a month or two before they even get to that bill and I also have something else on the audit committee or the, yes go ahead please Okay. Mark dug this out of the archives. I have no idea how old this was in the Audit Committee Charter. Everybody got a copy of it? Yep, I send it to everybody That was all that CC on it. So

102it is in it's right now we have a Treasure and Finance Committee that they're saying is the Audit Committee, but the audit committee in here says it's supposed to be seven people, they're supposed to meet four times a year, technically Lynn's not supposed to be on it because her daughter works at school. I mean, it's four pages that we're not doing so I think we need to look at it and decide how we're going to handle it because this says it's supposed to be seven people. We've appointed three and then when we were trying to go to the meeting today, we were told we weren't allowed. So I don't understand why we've got two different committees. If Mark was address it, or you still have an audit committee established by board policy that is all

103board members. No that is this audit committee and it' not all board members. It is, this is all members of the board. Then (inaudible) established the Treasure and Finance Committee, which is three members, which is meant to be a subcommittee, which is not supposed to have a forum. So that's the Treasure and Finance. They're two separate things. We never appointed an audit committee. It's by policy. There's not. We do not have an audit committee policy. Yes you do Janet. Where is it? You're on the Policy Committee. I know. And I can't find the External Audit Committee Policy. I have not been able to find it. But this charter is again, is totally different. So do we just ban the charter? So Mark, can you give us some background on this charter that you forward to

104me to give to the board to review. It probably needs some tweaking. I'm not sure. Okay, the charter is something that was required by state law, and it was drafted by our attorneys. The board passed it in, I thought it was 2006 2007 to comply with State law. Normally we don't do much with a charter. We do have an audit committee, which is the board as a whole, plus at times we can have a community member on it for a long time. There Richard (inaudible) Always interested. Jim you got something to add? No, not really. Okay, right now, okay. Taking it all in right now. I heard you in the background. I thought you had something to add to the audit. No, no, I'm getting my coffee. Okay. Okay. Tell him to shut his mic

105off. Maybe you should mute your mic so we don't hear you yelling at your dog. So when we put the committee that you said, and I'm perfectly fine not being on it. I mean it. (inaudible) When we put it in place in 2007. Was it 2007 or 2005? When I, Mark was on the board. Yeah, yeah. He had a sister and a daughter both working in the, right? I mean I know (inaudible) a small community. Exactly, We're all interchanged. I mean, I'm perfectly fine. That's why I'm saying. We need to change, we need to change. This says it's seven members. It says you have to have four meetings you have to have My or you have to have minutes and everything. So I think we need to maybe find out what other schools are doing,

106but I couldn't find a policy that goes along with this. Okay, maybe we need to establish what we're gonna do today. Yeah. Mark that you wanted to Take this to the Policy Committee? Is that a discussion that we need to talk at that level. First, or well The first question would be, What does it take to change that charter. I mean, That's more a question for our attorneys because they're the ones that gave it to us to comply with State law. Okay. Maybe we should check with a couple of schools and see if they what they're doing before we (inaudible) Barb. Yes, I'm happy to. Just reach out. If they have a charter or they have a policy or do they have both. Every audit committee is required to have a charter. So back when

107the law came out that is probably why your attorney drafted of that. That charter is definitely outdated. You don't even have an internal audit function. So if I was going to draft a new charter, I would probably start from scratch. to the things that actually apply. Okay, so we need to find out. Is that something the union attorney would look at? I don't think, we don't need the attorneys to do that . Yeah I don't think so. Okay. I have sample chapters in other places. Alright. So can we get one that from somebody else's that's up to date for the audit committee and then we can discuss that. Yes and get it in place. Right (inaudible) At your reorganization meeting every year you adopt the resolution that states, your audit committee is the entire Board

108of Education. Right, we did that. Right. But right now it's against our charter. Yeah, the charter, the charter is no good. What you're saying, there's new charter. so let's get a new chapter. Will update it, but you just got to make sure that for the record that they're two separate entities here. We have a Finance and Treasure committee and this is the three that sits down with Barb and the Superintendent and kind of. When needed as when needed, right. You know the checks and balances oversight type stuff. We have an audit. Barb is going to get us online. And we'll make sure that we get back on track with something that was really old. Yes. So Mark, you got any additional comments for that? Was that ok with Mark, looking into that for us? Sure.

109Okay. Alright so Kathy's got a question. On our Standing Committees document, I've had audit committee highlighted while we figure out what we're, what we're going to do. Should I, is that good to leave as is? What do you think Barb? You should have it currently the audit committee is the entire board plus one, plus a community member. We had no more than two extra community members in the resolution. Okay, so yeah. So this is correct and then we'll also have the treasure and finance committee. Right but add one more community member into that or just put a little 2 in parenthesis I guess. Yeah, for that instead of writing a twice. Alright, sounds good. Alright. So moving right along. That's awesome. Alright so upcoming committees, we got and Technology Committee coming up on October 12th.

110The Safety Committee coming up October 15th. Transportation Committee coming up on October 15 as well and I'm sure that health and welfare. Dr. Anderson's working diligently to make sure we stay on top of our oversight committee checks and balances. I really appreciate that. (inaudible) do a planning meeting will Probably maybe probably late October, early November (inaudible) alright, thank you. Alright so. Okay, moving right along. Anybody else got any questions about this matter. Okay, alright. 4.03, already did that one. 4.04 Board Administration Roundtables okay so we'll start off with Jim Hotnich Yeah. Typically, just let everybody know what I was doing when I was at that class. I'd say they had a lot of interesting people, a lot of knowledge there. I met Dave, I met the attorney. I, I couldn't tell you how many people

111I did meet and everybody is so helpful there that they want to help the new board members succeed and that's what kind of got me because I had problems. I asked questions and everybody gave me answers immediately, you know, just a plot, you know, so, you know, and I, I can't wait to the next meeting, you know, but that's about all I did really except for (inaudible) school. Well, and that's about it. Alright, awesome. Thank you, Mark. Anything for roundtable? No, I'm good. Alright Dave, you got anything for roundtable? No, I'm good. Okay, thank you Dave. Lynn? Yeah, I just wanted to say that I've heard so many positive things about these two weeks. I know that there's been speedbumps and glitches and that's to be expected, but I've heard from kids from teachers from

112parents, and I've heard a lot of positive things. I mean, that, you know, I know that there's been but I know I there's couple kids in my family that we're really excited to get back to school and even at home and so it was. It's been really, really good. Okay, very good. Janet, do you have anything? For the school and did a few, I mean just been doing research, and a few things. Other than that, I haven't really done anything except today. I was in Rite Aid and 2 the girls were fussing, because they didn't want to wear masks, they were thinking about going total remote So, I mean and that's I pulled out the law and it says we don't have to wear masks. We have to be six feet apart, unless the school

113decides Joe and I don't know who in the school makes that decision. Do you Dr. Andersen? Let's just keep it positive. Let's keep to roundtable. yeah but I'm just trying to Well, we met all summer long term to determine how we're going to open this place up safely. So a lot of input from our unions. Our leadership we determined that we were going to go with social distancing and face coverings. That was our collective decision. If it gets below a certain point. Do you think they'll take them off or wait until somebody recommends it. We're going to have to wait till the DOH comes out with some recommendation and I'm not so worried about the face coverings. I think right now. It's the social distancing at 6 feet. That's the only thing that this allows

114us from bringing back more kids because we're mapped out with that spacing. But hopefully you know things improved. (inaudible) hopefully bring kids back. We'll see how that goes, though. For that question, it was a team effort. and they said, we're climbing (inaudible). Our numbers are climbing. (inaudible) But it's not around here. That's what I don't get. I mean, they talk about closing everything down but It's not even like you know (inaudible) It's important not to let your guard down. I's just important to let your guard down so it's all of the risk assessment and it's always better to err on the side of safety at all times and that's very important. Yeah I've been in hostile environments and you don't want to guard down because once you let your guard down like we're moving along

115smoothly now. Throw a wrench in the game and we're going to be in the blue and then will really see, we'll see really fingers pointing for sure, okay. So I think for, let's see, did I miss anybody for roundtable or am I the last one. Okay I just want to give a shout out to everybody on the team, everybody. I mean, Rich. I mean, the stuff that you've done and your team with all the safety managers. It's just unbelievable. Just all of the plexiglass and all of the little tricks to the trade and making sure everything is safe and ready to go. Just just impressive and everybody, everybody that's on the team, Sandra making sure that I mean she was hurt, she's hurt on the battlefield and just striving forward and it's just this whole

116thing was just amazing and to to see Dr. Anderson kind of orchestrate this whole thing. and doing the walkthrough with the middle school with Janet and I was like clockwork. I mean, the stuff that I'm used to in my prior occupation that everything had a contingency to a contingency to contingency. So, very good. I mean it was just amazing. So I just wanted to do a shout out for to everybody. Kathy with her kind of really organizing, helping us out with the board and really organizing. So we can start focusing on proper oversight of the district, so they can take care of business down there on the ground. They maneuver through these difficult times. and get better and better at it. I can really appreciate the middle school doing their rehearsals and every day gets

117better. I know when I started feeding the veterans. Holy crap, took all day that to get it done. But once you get it going and do it a couple of times, it starts going like and everybody's alert and that's important staying alert will keep everybody safe. So it's just amazing that All of the, all the players the transportation, and the buses and everything just this big moving machine. It's just a really impressive and I'm really glad that we had a really safe opening and moving forward with the safety measures. It's all part of a risk assessment and we'd rather err on the side of safety than have something go wrong and that's just from me and my experience. In hostile environment and it's just a great thing. Alright. So moving right along. Will go to

1184.05 Board of Education parking lot list. As you can see, if you take a good snapshot of it, pretty much all of the task force items are winding down There's probably a couple of items that probably still need to be looked at on that but we'll maneuver through that. We got the climate survey still needs to be done. Standing Committees we're plugging in dates. Dr. Anderson's working on that to make sure that we ensure that we have the appropriate meetings, appropriate number of meetings and appropriate oversight throughout the school year and then the presentations that are coming out. Dr. Anderson's coordinating a lot of that stuff to be filled as well. The training everybody's doing well in the training. I know we, Kathy's probably got some updates right now for the conference so she can

119highlight some of those items. I haven't (inaudible) be we can do it quickly right now instead. Okay. That's fine though. I do have the people who are attending the whole conference. I do have (inaudible) The sessions are recorded so I did have some people say that if they could attend attend sessions later they would like to do that but there is not an option to again to register for it later, it was at the moment. You can only watch those recordings until December. I believe. Yeah, I talked to the guy and he said, if there something specific that we really wanted he could add but at this point. Then I also asked about handouts, because and he doesn't even, they don't know anything yet about any of that stuff so They might not have it

120all prepared yet. Yeah, so it's all kind of. From my experience, the handouts, like mine are still up from last year's still available. I can see they're not going to do that because it's so I think as it gets closer closer, maybe Doug can help us. I don't, I don't think there is a copyright on that. The presenters and generally share their information with the (inaudible). So can we can get it in some format, we can figure out how to upload it to Google Drive so everybody has access to it. Or even contact information that we can request it and then have the presenter send it to us. That's true, that's true. I got all that stuff. Just emailed them and they'll send you stuff. So how many people we got lined up. We have,

121now this is for the (inaudible) conference. Virtual. Virtual like the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Mark is scheduled just for the three (inaudible). So Mark's got the three (inaudible). You still good with that Mark? Yes. Okay. Thank you and then Ron, Dana and Janet are set up for the full conference. Okay and then I wanted to work out the communications. Yes and you're setup for communications. Okay and then Dr. Anderson is set up for the full workshop and he's also doing communications also (inaudible). There you go Alright, so that's good for the conference. We're all set. We're going to have some participation on there and bring some good stuff back. Alright, so, we got some long range stuff on there. We're still slugging it out with the policy book. Big ol five inch book, we're plugging away

122at and So, any, any questions on the matrix? Looks like it's coming along really good. Alright so no other questions. Moving right along to external audit review. Okay, we did that earlier. So we're going to pass 5.01. Move on to 5.02 second reading the security for student data and teacher, principal data. I know that was send out to all board members to review. We did the first reading last week or last time was it Kathy? So any feedback? Anybody got any feedback on that. (inaudible) right. Okay, no other comments, then we'll move right along to 5.03. I'm sorry. Hold on, hold on, going back. We have to put it on the next agenda for approval. Yeah. Okay, I think we're good. Mark you good with the moving it forward to the third reading? The approval

123level. Sure. Okay. Alright anybody else, everybody else good with that? I'm good. Okay. Jim? I'm good. Okay, thank you. Alright so we're good. All right, thank you for that. Moving right on, 5.03 (inaudible) virtual 2020 conference we just covered Moving on to 6.01. We're going to approve a consensus agenda items. If I can get a consideration of a motion to vote and approve the agenda items 6.01 through 8.01 So move. Second, I'll make sure So Lynn. It's Lynn and Janet. Sorry Jim. Too late. It's okay. Okay, so we got any discussions? Open for discussion. Anybody got any, I do. Okay, go ahead, Dave. 8.01. Do we need to appoint appendix (inaudible) coaches, even though the season may or may not ever start and then if we do appoint them and there is no seasons, then

124we, you know, we're not going to take their pay away. Yeah, we will. We're just pre filling our positions and preparation for those seasons, but if the seasons, do not happen. We will pay them for that, or if seasons cancel midstream will probably work some that pro rated deal with them. (inaudible) (inaudible) yeah, they fill out a, I mean, there's a, little thing that they use Yeah, they did so yeah just get everything stacked Dave and then they if we don't need them, we just don't use them, (inaudible). Go ahead. Sorry, that's not going to create pushback that they're going to want paid. I mean, I haven't seen what we're doing. So I don't know. (inaudible) very cooperative with us in the spring and I wouldn't anticipate push back. Can't get paid for what you're

125not doing. Just normal verbiage in their assignment. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Alright, does that answer your question Dave? I mean, it answers my question, but our track record is paying people that weren't doing their job. You know weren't coming to work already. So I I don't get it, but whatever. Alright, so your question is answered. Alright, anybody else? Any discussions on any other items between those that I just mentioned? Okay, so We'll go ahead and vote. There's no other discussions. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Alright motion carried, thank you for your input. All right, moving right along to the financial account reports. (inaudible) and financial statements. Yeah. Three of them, there are (inaudible). You may just want to ask if anyone has any questions about those three. Alright, so there's three reports that were

126attached to this packet April 2020 pdf April, May, June on (inaudible). Right. All three of them, sorry. So that's 9.01, 02 and 9.03 for April, May and June. The Treasury report. Okay, so if there's no other questions, it's going to come up for approval for the next meeting. Yep. Okay. So moving right along, 10.01 accept resignation of assistant transportation supervisor Charles (inaudible) Sorry, my apologies So moved. Second. Alright, Lynn and Janet are on their game tonight. Alright, so we're open for discussion, anything? Any issues with his resignation? Okay, we'll just go straight to the vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Okay. Motion carried, thank you. Alright, so we're gonna move right along to the resolutions to discontinue a board member removal hearing proceedings. for Mr. Dave E. Barnes. After our executive session

127last meeting the board had come to a conclusion that in the best interest of the school district and the importance of maintaining all of the members throughout this difficult time was more important than going through 12 days of hearings that would take us away from our oversight requirements of the district and the finances that would take it's toll. So throughout all of these difficult times and stuff that was acquired through these hearings. We all decided that we're going to start working together and move forward. So we're going to proceed to read the resolution as a recommended actions, whereas the Board of Education, which is the board of the Gowanda Central School District voted on May 14, 2020 to adopt charges of official misconduct against board member David E. Barnes pursuant to New York State Education

128Law Section 1709 18, number 18 and whereas David (inaudible) was designated as hearing officer to for purposes of conducting to hearing on the statement of charges against Mr. Barnes pursuing New York State Education Law Section 19 1709 number 18 and whereas hearings dates to consider such charges of official misconduct against Mr. Barnes. have been scheduled for September 29th, September 30th and October 1st, October 6th, October 7th, and October 8th 2020 and whereas the board has carefully considered the unprecedented challenges presented with the regards to the reopening and operating of the district for the school year 2020-2021 educational programs in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and as determine that it is in the district's best interest to discontinue and above referenced proceedings against Mr. Barnes, in order to ensure that the board can devote it's full

129attention. and resources on the health, safety and success of district students during these unprecedented times and whereas notwithstanding the discontinuance of the above references referenced proceedings. The board wishes to affirm its commitment to the standard that the board and each of its members must work together in a constructive, professional and respectful manner in order to provide the necessary leadership. for the district and to provide the greatest opportunity for the success of the district district's educational program in each of the district students. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the hearing on the charges of the official misconduct against board member David E. Barnes are hereby discontinued and it is further resolved that the cleric, the district clerk's shall provide notice to hearing Officer Hoover that such proceedings has been discontinued and be a further resolved that

130the board wishes to affirm the standards of the board conduct as set forth by law number 1110 school district and Board of Education legal status and authority, bylaws number 1111 board member code of conduct policy number 2110 ECHO school Board powers and duties exhibit policy number 2160 school board officer and employee ethics policy number 2700 board staff communications as well as any other relevant adopted board policies and be a (inaudible) resolve that as affirmed by the Commissioner of Education of the state of New York, all members of the board have a duty to engage and constructive discussions and deliberations in order to achieve the best possible governance of the district and to secure the best educational resolves for students as well as the responsibility to comport themselves properly and set an example for the student

131body. So move. All right. Second. Lynn and then Janet. Thank you very much. Open for discussion. Okay so we'll go ahead and vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Mark? Opposed. Okay. Who else we missing. Dave you say something? Do you vote? We can. I don't know, I'm asking. It's just a question. Can we do a poll vote? We have to do a poll vote right Mark? Have to do a poll vote. You just have to write down everybody's name and then what they voted. Okay. Normally the clerk does that. Okay, you got that Dan. Okay, so Dan got that. Okay motion carried. You got to find out where everybody poll voted. (inaudible) Okay. Alright, poll vote. Mark said he opposes. Hotnich? Jim? Sorry. Yeah. No have to change it, I have to oppose to

132Alright Lynn. Yes. What is your vote? Aye. Pardon me. Aye. This is crazy. I don't know that I have the right votes here. Ayes or nays. So Lynn is an aye. She's an aye Mark is a nay. Mark is no. (inaudible) So, Janet. yes and Ron are ayes and Jim Hotnich is a nay. (inaudible) Alright so what's the final count. 4 ayes and 2 nays. Did we get 2 nays? (inaudible) I don't think he actually said anything. Dan did you vote? Yes I said I'm a aye or whatever. Okay alright so we're good. Alright, motion carried. All right, moving right along. Right, so we're going to Thank you for that. We'll move on to 10.03 which is a resolution to discontinue board member removal proceedings for Janet L. Vogtli for as the Board of Education

133Board. Gowanda Central School District voted on May 14, 2020 to adopt charges of official misconduct against board member Janet L. Vogtli pursuing that the New York State Education Law Section 1709 number 18 and whereas David A. Hoover was designated as the hearing officer to for purposes of conducting the hearing on the statement of charges against Ms. Vogtli pursuant that New York State Education law 1709 number 18 and whereas hearing dates with respect to the charges of official misconduct against Ms. Vogtli for to be scheduled and whereas the board has carefully considered the unprecedented challenges presented with regards to reopening and operating the district's 2020 and 2021 educational program in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and has determined that is in the best or in the district best interest to discontinue the above references proceedings against

134Ms. Vogtli in order to ensure that the board can devote his full attention and resources on the health, safety and success of district students during these unprecedented times for as not withstanding the discontinue of the above reference proceedings. The board wishes to affirm its commitment to the standards, standard that the board and each of its members must work together in a constructive, professional, respectful manner in order to provide the necessary leadership for the district and to provide the greatest opportunity for the success of the district's educational program and each of the district's students. Now, therefore be or now therefore be it resolved at the hearing on the charges official misconduct against the board member Janet L. Vogtli are hereby discontinued and be a further resolved that the district clerk shall provide notice to the Hearing

135Officer Hoover that such proceedings have been discontinued and be a further resolved that board wishes to affirm the standards for board member conduct as set forth by set forth in bylaw number 1110 school district and Board of Education legal status and authority bylaw number 1111 board member conduct code of conduct policy number 2110 echo school board powers and duties exhibit exhibit policy number 2160 for school board officer and employee ethics policy numbers 2700 board staff communications as well as any other relevant adopted board policies and be a further resolve that as affirmed by the Commissioner of Education of the state of New York. All members of the board have a duty to engage in constructive. discussions and deliberations in order to achieve the best possible governance of the district and to secure the best educational

136results for students as well as responsibility to comport themselves properly and set an example for the student body. So moved. Alright Lynn motioned. Second. Alright Dave seconds it. Discussion? Alright. Nobody has a discussion, we'll go right to the vote. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.Aye Opposed? Anybody oppose? Aye, aye Are you (inaudible) or are you opposed. I'm opposed. Opposed. Okay, so you got that. Okay, alright so motion carried. All right, moving right along, we're going to go into section 11 executive session 1101 to recess to executive session so I need somebody to consideration a motion to to recess to executive session for the purpose of discussing the abundant history of a particular person. So move. Second. Lynn, Janet. Alright, time 9:48. Did you vote? Sorry. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. It's still 9:48

137Will you be reconvening afterwards? No, no. We need to make Mark the host. Marks got to host.