001Flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Can I start to move the agenda table, please? Moved by Vice President Stencil, seconded by Mr. Butler. There any additions, corrections, deletions to the agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor that passes nine to zero. I would like now to welcome our Arcadia Middle School students. Good evening, Mr. Long. >> Good evening, board members, administrators, teachers, and families. My name is Dobby Zangada and I'm a seventh grader at Arcadia Middle School. We're excited to present on a program that is making a real difference in our lives at Arcadia. LEAPS. LEAP stands for learn, explore, achieve, and play. Our goal tonight is to show is to share
002how this program is helping us and all our fellow Titans to learn, explore, and grow. Leaps is possible because of a strong partnership between the Arcadia Community Schools and the Boys and Girls Club. This partnership gives us a safe and supportive space to be after school. It means we get the best of both worlds. Great space right here at school and the resources and experience of an organization dedicated to youth development. So, what exactly is leaves? It's our after school program where learning meets fun. Every day is a new adventure. We spend times on hands-on activities, creative projects, and team challenges. The program is designed to help us grow in every way, academically, socially, and emotionally, all while having a blast. The adults running leaps are amazing. We want to introduce you to our fantastic
003lead staff. They make the program feel like a family. Cassidy Torres is our program director. Elise Carterelli is the assistant program director. And Marcus Birdong is our dedicated team lead. They are the people who keep everything running smoothly and always there to support us. >> Good evening. My name is Carlos Press and I'm a 7th grader at Arcadia Middle School. Our schedule is busy and keeps us engaged until the end of the day. We arrive from 2:50 to 3:00 p.m. for arrival and circle time. From 3 to 3:30 p.m. we get homework help or do quiet reading. the main event from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. That's when we do a group activity, arts and crafts, or STEM. Then we have dinner from 4:30 to 5:00 pm. From 5 to 5:30, it's time for group games,
004outdoor or indoor play. And finally, we wrap up with clean up and dismissal from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. LEAPS is a huge help with our school work. The program is committed to our academics. We get homework help and tutoring from the staff. We also get to do STEM projects and join reading clubs which makes learning those subjects more fun and hands-on. The program really focuses on our social emotional learning or SEAL. We learn how to build healthy connections and practice understanding ourselves and others through games, journaling, and group discussions. We have daily SEAL check-ins and and reflection circles. The activities focused on things like empathy, self-awareness, and relationships. A staff member said that they've seen us become more thoughtful and supportive of one another. And for me, I learned how to calm down when I'm
005upset instead of walking away. We get we also get to learn and practice new skills that will help us in the future. We work on leadership development. We play teamwork and communication games. And we have options for activities like art, music, coding, cooking, and even financial literacy. We can do career exploration activities, which is cool for thinking about our future. Um, good evening. My name is Lyanna Gestner and I am a seventh grader at Arcadia Middle School. This slide shows the huge varieties of activities we have available. There's something for everyone. In academics, we have coding and robotics. Wait. Oh, and educational games. For create um creative arts, we got we get to do arts and craft painting and drawing and music and dance. In recreation, we play team games and do fitness challenge. And
006finally, our club and special events are awesome. We have a cooking club, culture celebrations, and fun spirit days and talent shows. Leaps is clearly clear having a positive impact. We seen increased homework completions, improved school attendance, better emotional regulations, and a teacher has said students are more focused and motivated to learn. and a parent said they've seen a huge change in how their child handles handles frustration. We are learning skills that last. This slide is just a collection of photos showing us having a great time working together and learning. We really are excellent to to be part of LEAPS and we want to show we want you to be excited about it too. Last thing we want to share, we want to share is how others can get involved. To enroll in this program, families
007can get forms at the front office or online or contact their program director, Cassidy Torres, for details. The program also welcomes the community to volunteer or partner with us. Parents, businesses and organizations can collaborate through me mentors, workshops or donations to support us. >> Thank you for your continued support. We truly appreciate your partnership in helping us learn, grow, and thrive every day. Together we are building a safe and inspiring space where all students can succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. Picture time. The board deputy superintendent Baker instruction. I love it. >> That's it. Thank you. >> Now I have a time for board of education recognition. If I can invite the teams from Athena Middle School and Autumn Lane up. On behalf of the Gree Central School District, we would like to formally congratulate both
008Autumn Lane Elementary School and Athena Middle School for being recognized by the Democrat Chronicle as finalists in the Rochester's Choice Best Public School Awards. This recognition is voted on by community members in the greater Monro County area and represents the commitment to high standards, the incredible staff, the strong leadership, and genuine partnership with families. Autumn principal Mike Ferris shared that behind the recognition is a community of truly amazing people. The honor is fueled by the commitment of every staff member from administration to support personnel who show up daily to create a wonderful place for children to learn and grow. And in Athena Middle School, principal Todd Wallenhorst acknowledges that middle school is a critical time in the K12 educational journey. And Athena Middle School has a veteran staff who deeply understands the importance of these
009transitional years. As finalists, both schools have been invited to attend Rochester's Choice Awards Gala in December. We wish both schools the best of luck and are extremely proud proud of this well-deserved recognition. Congratulations to the staff, families, and students of Autumn Lane Elementary and Athen Middle School. Congratulations. Would anybody like to say any words or no? Okay, we'll do a picture then. All right. Pictures with the board. Deputy Superintendent and Flagler. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, Mike. You look good. All right. All right. 2.01 staffing. Can I So I move staffing to the table, please. Moved by Mr. Butler, second by Mr. Belzano. Any comments, questions, concerns on staffing? Seeing none, all those in favor that passes nine to zero. 2.02 the non-unit rate sheet. Can I Sony move that to the table, please? Moved
010by Mr. Maloney. Seconded by Mr. Butler. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to 4.01, the strategic map plan. Superintendent Smalline. Yes. So, I'd just like to call uh David Blouse come up with me as well as we go through our uh presentation. All right. Good evening. Um I'm very excited to share with uh the board um our plan uh as we begin our journey on redesigning our new strategic plan which would be uh strategic plan 2032. Um, as you're all well aware, uh, our current plan will come to an end at the end of next school year and we are, uh, beginning that process that will take us through this year and into next year, uh, so that we could begin our
0112728 school year with a new strategic plan. So our intention tonight is to share the process um go through our next steps at a very kind of high level um and really um ensure that is a collaborative and transparent process. So for tonight what we want to do is just spend a couple slides just sharing what is a strategic plan um and why do they exist? why are they important for um organizations like school districts to follow a strategic plan? Um that really puts us out about five years. So we'll walk through that and then want to give you the overview of what the next um three years will look like as we build this process and then have the opportunity to answer any questions that that you may have. So before we go forward,
012what I wanted to do is just take a minute to introduce um David Blowitz. For many of you um that are on different committees, you've had the opportunity to work with Dave. Um but Dave has been a teacher in our uh been with the district for 20 21 years. Your 21st year. >> Yeah. So, we're tied for amount of time in the district, but Dave uh began in the district as a special education uh teacher and during his time as a teacher, spent a lot of time um as a mentor teacher, was a teacher leader, participated in the school improvement pro process a as a teacher um and really was just a support for his colleagues um in the building. Recently um he became a teacher on special assignment for school uh school improvement and
013for professional learning and really during that time what Dave has done is expanded his influence across the district um played a significant role in district committees like our response intervention committee our special education committee he's been a key um contributor to our PLC district guiding coalition and also a big part in our shared decision makingaking team um that was put together um last year. In addition to that um in the creation of our uh strategic plan 2017 and in 2000 our most recent one Dave has played a a big role in supporting the process. Uh last year he was um kind of the lead or not last year last strategic plan he was a lead facilitator during that process and what Dave brings is very unique. Um Dave is still a teacher and what Dave
014does is he he does he's masterful at beginning with the why when he has groups together to stay focused on the the reason why we're together in this case the strategic plan. But in addition to that, he does an excellent job ensuring that all voices are heard and ensuring that the voices at the table, everybody has their opportunity to share and that there are we work through um different dilemmas that come up and that voices are heard within that final pro um product. Recently, I think uh we've had to share Dave outside of his uh time here in in the district. outside of his time, he's been working with some neighboring districts through their strategic plan process. So, because Dave has done such a nice job here, other districts have reached out where he's led
015and supported. You could see here, uh, districts like Northern Utica, Spence support, Kendall, and Holly. Uh, so we're fortunate to have Dave be a part of this process. Um, and I'm gonna let him now share the next few slides about what is his strategic plan and why is it important to a school district. >> Awesome. Thank you. Hi everybody. Thanks for having me in today. I really appreciate the opportunity. Extremely excited to get back into this work here strategic planning in Greece as well. So, so thank you for that. I do want to comment too on the slide before. So, thanks for all the the the positive words that that you just gave to me. what what I do within district and outside was is definitely a result of everything the leadership skill development and
016the empowerment that I've received here in the Greece central school district. So I'm truly grateful for for everything that I've learned from data analysis which continuous school improvement by Bernard and Gisy I was part of that process uh the listening leader and you know leading complex chain with Shane Safir and even most recently with our work with Dufour and and Jason Andrews around highly effective teams and and highly effective PLC's that that work has helped me grow as a leader um as a teacher in the district. So I appreciate all the opportunities that created for me. So thank you very much. Um, whenever I talk about strategic planning, I always start with this slide. And the slide's actually connected into the video, but for sake of time, we're not going to watch the video today.
017And it just really highlights the importance of what this work is truly about, right? So, there's a simplicity of a strategic plan document that everybody always sees. But this work is more than that. It's really around creating a just cause for our organization. Does the development of idea of a future state that's so affirmative, appealing and inspirational that others are willing to sacrifice for unite with us and help advance our shared vision. Right? That's what this work is truly about. And how do we advance that vision? We develop uh our work through this idea of power story. So there's some research around this which I'll get into in a little bit. But I always start with the premise of something simple like think about your your favorite book or your favorite movie, right? What what
018makes those story lines so great, right? They hook us. They pull us in. They allow us to unite with the character along their journey. Um, you know, we're so we get so invested within those story lines, right? That we we try to empathize with the character, right? We send them our love. We send them hope. We send them power. We send them strength, right? As they face their trials and tribulations. And ultimately when they finally reach that political success, right, we celebrate them. We breathe that sigh of relief. We rejoice with them. And this is truly what this work is around. It's about creating a narrative so powerful that others want to unite with us along our way. that they find inspiration by our work, they find hope by our work, right? They want to
019become part of our journey and pursue our mission together and ultimately at the end we get to celebrate our successes as one entire unit and that's what we try to create with the strategic planning work. A little research around it too. Um as far as process where we go, uh Marshall Gance is a professor from Harvard study a lot of social movement leaders. Um he he gets into a little bit around uh Moses Bible story from Moses Moses from the Bible and how he led his people out of Egypt. Um he talks about some women's rights leaders um civil rights leaders even the farmers worker farmers uh movement as well. Um as he digs into that research he found out like what what do all these people have that help others organize around them help
020help them to mobilize other people and the idea was around this idea of power story. So he starts off with three components. One is a the power self which is really like who are we as individuals right? So what's our core values? What do we believe in? What do what what empowers us? What's our call to education? So we spend some time on the individuals who are part of this process and the next part of his journey is the power power of us. So now how do you get all those individual people individual beliefs and individuals calls to action to unite as one towards a common cause. Right? So he spends a little time doing some action around that and those social movement leaders were able to do that. Unite the individual with the group.
021And then lastly is the power of power of now the story of now. So, how do you get all those people together and also create a vision for the future that you're trying to accomplish, right? And that's part of the process that we'll go through here within the strategic plan. So, every stakeholder that we have involved, which Jeremy will will talk about here in a couple minutes, um we'll be a part of that process. So, we'll spend some time on the individual and the group and then think about how we can advance our organization. So just in basics like I said that I always like to start theoretical with that because I I believe in the power story and I believe in what what adjust cost stands for for our organization but in basic terms
022too our strategic plan it's just a roadmap for us right it starts off we're going to start this year thinking about where are we now right and then think about where we want to go and then how will we get there it's also future focused right so we're not just thinking about tomorrow right we're thinking about five years from now so what are the things that we're going to have to do to accomplish the goals that we need to five years from now and into the future. It also guides decisions. If you think about our work with the reach 2027 plan, every building was grounded into that work. So all their school improvement plans, our professional learning plans, everything was grounded into the three commitments that we have within those plans. So it serves as
023a guide for what we're doing. It's also a shared vision. So everybody in the group is working towards that just cause. Like I said, it's around uh them being willing to sacrifice some daily things in order to achieve and accomplish what we're ultimately trying to do for our students and our community. And lastly, it's a living document. So, this is not something that we just put on a shelf. We create that that that beautiful booklet and just leave be, right? We always come back to it. We have metrics in there that we're going to constantly analyze, come back to, talk about, um that you'll be informed about in this whole process. But we want to make that docking living. We want to make it actionable for people to be a part of. So, what this
024is is demonstrating to you is um really a three-year plan. So, what you could see, it says 2026, but it's really 202526. And we call that our preparation year. So, what we want to accomplish this year is to build a foundation, right? where we're gathering important information, data um through um shared all of our different stakeholders of what has gone well, what do we what are strengths of the current plan that we like that we want to continue, where are there some obstacles, what are some challenges that we're seeing within the current plan and then where do we what do we want to go further with as they mentioned at the end of five years from our new our new plan. So this year is is really a time for us to gather the information
025um and doing that through um a committee called the advisory committee that will help kind of organize how we're going to get out and get that information and what we're going to look at this year. So this is really our preparation year to gather as much as we can about our current state within our our current strategic plan. Next year is our it's really 2026 27 that's the development. Now that's when we really get into the nitty-gritty where we start to analyze our um our final evaluation of our current plan but then start drafting and thinking about our new mission, our new vision, our new vision and what are those core values that are going to drive that work. That's also where we start talking about what are those commitments that we want to see
026in our strategic plan as we go forward. What will those strategies be to help us support towards those commit uh those u commitments and then what will be those metrics that will be able to give us real-time information of are we on the right path or do we have to make adjustments. That's the work that we'll see in next year. Um, and we'll use u all different types of stakeholders, community forums, surveys, focus groups to gather that information with a goal of being able to bring a new strategic plan to to the board of education um for you to hopefully approve and then we adopt going into our 2728 school year. And that you could see that when uh we do launch our new strategic plan, it's not that we could just plop that down
027in front of everybody and say, "Here's our plan. let's move forward. That's going to take now getting that out to the public, everybody seeing what's in our new plan. And then from there, as Dave mentioned earlier, how do we start ensuring professional development is is going to be available to match the new commitments and strategies within that? ensuring that the commitments and strategies that are in our current school improvement plans for reach 27 now are going to be in those plans as we go into our new uh strategic plan starting in 202728. So our launch year is really going to be an entire year of rolling that out and ensuring that we can meet the demands that are in that strategic plan. So that's just a general overview of what the next three years will
028look like as we begin this work. Now for this year, um what we want to do is gather that foundation. So you could see we really want to spend time evaluate the effectiveness of this current plan. Um identify, look to see what's out in education, what are some emerging trends that we want to consider with our new strategies, looking at our demographics, our technology and workforce readiness. All those as ways that need to be included in our new plan. And so that first step is really going to be to develop that advisory um team which is really researchers and feedback. And that's a larger group you could see consisting of board of education members, admin, uh staff, students, parents and community. Um they'll convene on a monthly basis once that's up and running. And then
029the next committee that would help support that is our core team. And that's really just our planning and synthesizers. That's a group of a small group of district leaders which is really there just to help plan for the advisory team put information together so that when that advisory team comes together they could we could take advantage of our time together and get work done. So you can see there's two teams the advisory team larger team consisting of of multiple stakeholders and a core team a smaller group of district employees that is just there to help facilitate the work along as we move forward through throughout this year. So it kind of repeats of the previous slide. So our immediate next steps, our most immediate next steps that we'll do in this process is to form
030our advisory committee. Um different ways that we're going to start gathering um input for our current state things like our student uh leadership summit will be a great opportunity for us where we'll have students that be able to give feedback on our current plan. What's working? What's not working? What would you like to see? Uh we're scheduling out partners in progress similar to what I did last year. That will be an excellent time for people to give that feedback on our plan and what they would like to see. We're looking at doing two of those. We're just solidifying the dates right now and then we'll get them out to the to the public. And then things like thought exchange, surveys, all different ways that we could get that first round of information um as we
031begin the the next year, which is really the development. Um, and then our goal, like I said, is to bring uh probably myself and Dave come back by the end of this year and say, well, here we are. This is what we set out to do. This is the work that we accomplished, and this is where we see ourselves going into the 2026 27 school year. Questions? >> Mr. Bullard, >> thank you for the presentation. Looking forward to this process. Um the first question I had was uh around the uh the third bullet in your 2026 box that talks about identifying emerging trends in education, demographics, technology, and workforce readiness. Wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the way you envision doing that and and my hope is that as you're gathering
032that that the whole board will be able to learn from. >> Yeah. Do you want to talk a little bit? >> Um so every year we've been working closely with handover. um every year they've put out a like continuing trends in education um kind of based upon research that they've done throughout the country. So I think it's important like to being be thinking forward around what's going to happen in 2032 that we might not even like consider within our within our uh within our work like for example to some of the basic things I think about is some of the things that we've used for assessment in the past right like I has been a big one we came from a as web which was on our previous strategic plan right so those things can
033some can shift sometimes too so kind of being ahead of the game to dig into some of that research and figure out some of that is going to be important for for our work moving forward not that we have to adopt any of it but just kind of see what else is out there from other districts and how people are combating some of that work. >> I think another piece when I think of trends is um really looking at career pathways and opportunities for our students similar to the work that we're starting now that we know that that is important work for our students to have them ready to get out into the workforce whatever choice they determine. But that's an area we look at trends where we I think there's we're moving in that
034right direction and I think there's a lot of opportunity that we can incorporate into our strategic plan in that area in the area of um career development and career pathways outside of what we're doing now. So that's one area of trends. Demographic simply means who are students in front of us? Um our students, our community, our teaching staff to be really clear on, you know, who are we as a district when it comes comes to that work. Um and making sure that we're meeting the needs of our community and also getting them ready to life beyond high school. >> Also to add into that too, um another example would be the profile of a graduate. So our our profile of a graduate was something that was not done across New York State. So when we
035started digging into our work for the reach 2027 plan, we saw a lot of districts across the country starting to implement some of that work to get a clearer vision for what they wanted for their students of the future. As a committee, we decided that that was something that was important to us and we utilized that within our our current strategic plan. So I just wanted to give you example that's something that came out of that work before. >> Yeah, that's that's great. Thank you. And I'm glad you mentioned the internal trends also, Jeremy. A lot of times we when we're do thinking about trends, we're thinking about just out in the world trends, but I think those those things affect us internally as well. We look you you've got data on our our employee
036base and retirements and and all of those sorts of things that I think can have a profound impact on our ability to operate as a district. So, I hope that those internal trends get a lot of attention. >> Yeah, we do. We have to pay attention to that because we can have a vision, but we also need the certified um staff to actually go down that path. So, we have to have all that information before we put something into a five-year plan. and we have to ensure that we can give that quality experience to our students um as we build that out in the next five years. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. Yep. >> Oh, do you have Sorry, >> one one one more quick one. Uh uh I one of the things
037I'd love to see is is or hear is how you're planning on keeping the because I know there'll be board engagement uh in the strategic planning process but I wonder how the if you've got a plan for the whole board to stay sort of a breast of the plan as it's being developed so that we it's not there aren't any big surprises at the end of the process. That is 100% um what we will look for our different opportunities through study sessions, retreats, of course members that could be on the advisory committee, but I do see a an in and out um as we gather information to make sure that you are have an opportunity to give your feedback um and be a part of the process as we go forward over the next two
038years. So 100%. Thanks. One thing that uh when I've shared our work across the state and with some other uh districts nationally too, people love the component of um our our measures of success. So the board last time had an opportunity to look at each one of our commitments and come up with bullet points about what it meant for them to ignite learning, what it meant for them to cultivate trust, what it meant for them to expand opportunity. So your voice in that process is huge. Um and like I said, people people around were absolutely absolutely love that process. So, I would love to do that again too with this group. >> Thank you. All right, moving on to 5.01. Can I have somebody move the quarterly reporting of professional service contracts greater than $50,000
039for the 2526 year? Moved by Miss, seconded by Miss Seaman. Any comments, questions, or concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to 5.02. Change orders. Can I move those to the table, please? Moved by Mr. Malone, second by Miss Farmer. Any comments, questions, concerns on that. I'll just say that change order amounts to a $12,60 expense to the district. With that, all those in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to 6.01. This is written information only. Quarterly reporting of service contracts 20,000 to 50,000. Does anybody have any questions on that? Seeing none, moving on. Budget and revenue status report. Again, that's certain information. Does anybody have any questions on that? All right. Moving on to the treasures report 7.01. Can I move the treasures
040report for August 2025 to the table? Moved by Vice President Stutzel, second by Mr. Bonagorio. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on 7.02 the bid. Can I sorry move that to the table please? Moved by Mr. Pongorio second by Mr. Maloney. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing all those in favor? That passes nine to zero. Moving on to um program action student trip Arcadia High School. Can I sign move that to the table please? Moved by Mr. Farmer. Second by Mr. Butler. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing that all those in favor that passes nine to zero. Moving on 8.02 02 Athena student trip and I move that to the table please move by Miss Seaman second by Miss Felerano any
041comments questions concerns on that seeing all those in favor that passes nine to zero all right board of education information committee reports board of education code of conduct committee report Mr. Monagorio. >> Thank you, Bill. Board code of conduct committee uh met last Wednesday. It was our third meeting. We have uh had some some really good exchanges. There's a variety of opinions uh within the committee. Um but we've been um asking some some questions. Um kind of I guess wonders would be would be the uh the way it's often put amongst the uh the education folks. um asking questions about the messaging that's in in the um in the document itself, whether it lends to uh uh clarity and uh ease of reference u and uh consistent application. Uh we've we've had some some input
042uh from from teachers um kind of u just um anecdotal I would say um to to provide some some insights with regard to um whether whether consistency actually flows from the document. Uh we are uh in the process of uh I think focusing more on how to uh how to deepen the the um um just ability to access it for for a just uh in a practical way. Um it's uh just an ongoing conversation at this point. I expect that we will be developing some some um discussion points for for a final report as it's actually coming up uh fairly soon. The the the fall moves along pretty quickly. So, um I don't know if any any of my colleagues on the board have anything that they would like to add into that. >> Thank
043you, Mr. Bangorio. Moving on to the Mono County School Board's legislative committee report. Miss Slike. >> Well, one of the reasons I ran for school board is to advocate and um so I am a representative for Greece on the Monroe County School Boards Association. Um, we reviewed the 13 position papers that will drive the committee's work with legislators and I thought I would just read to you what the topics are. If anyone is interested, I can send you the position paper so you can get more information about it. um career and technical education um program funding, the impact of staff shortages on school districts, the role of regions and um state ed department for public education. Public education, the federal role, support, not governance. Implications of the minimum wage increase on public schools. Charter schools
044vouchers and the cost to public education down to seven. Universal meals in public schools. The state's investment in public education. Keeping our schools safe and secure zero emission but bus transition. This was kind of interesting because um they were they're very much in support of the um electric buses, but they just listed all of the obstacles right now and they were many and they didn't even talk about solutions, just that the state's transition period was not realistic at all. Um next one is mandates. um 12 bus drivers needed and 13 supporting the emotional well-being of students and staff. Um we had a lengthy discussion of the prek um issue. Most of the districts that responded were talking about financial. I chimed in that ours was an issue of space and I um shared what Kelly
045and I shared on the way to Albany and that is what if we partnered with our legislators and use some of the vacant commercial spaces somehow to be able to have a partnership. We thought that might be a cool idea. So we did speak up about that. Um they asked for they took off the one about the universal meals because that was already funded and they asked for ideas for um other um position papers. I had suggested um legislating some of the benchmarks of the science of reading which they've done in many states and how New York State is still lagging. Um, in fact, with the last national report card I saw, and it covered COVID years, but of course that was true for all of the states, um, there were only six that made
046had a bigger decrease than New York State. Um, so that was it. Um, when I did look at these position papers though, tax cap came up a lot. So, I referred to our expert on tax caps and anything business um and Romeo had a few words he wanted to share with you about that. >> Thank you. Uh so, M board member like shared with me the position papers. Um I took a look through them this afternoon just more the more the ones that were financially or operationally would have an impact on the district. And what was pleasing to see in there um is that most if not all of those advocacy points that Monroe County uh school boards is using uh is coming from either business offices throughout the county, superintendent groups throughout the county,
047other advocacy groups uh in the area. really all getting behind kind of the same uh things with the ongoing knowledge that costs are just going to continue to increase and the way the tax cap puts a cap on things and the way you have to override it and a lot of the ongoing mechanisms that are currently in place need to change at some point in order for school districts to stay sustainable uh down the road. So, um, I was thankful that she shared them when it gave us and our team a little bit of a heads up of what's coming down the road. Um, but it sounds like it's moving in a in a great direction for us. >> That conclude. All right, M. Farmer, you're up. Monro County School Board's operations committee report. >>
048Hello. Yes, this is a presentation of the Monro County School Board's District operations. Uh, Dr. Jeff Samra, a retired chief technical officer. I think he retired from uh Penfield or Webster, I'm sorry, I can't recall, but he wrote a book and he said that uh the the most practical small wins for your CTO within our districts is uh a multifactor authentic authentication. Uh let me take these off. least privilege and account cleanup, strong password policy, data backups, and I think we on the board have seen these as we've gone through our uh testing that we need to do every year in terms of the data. Um we also he also talked about how important it was for employees awareness and professional development saying humans are often the weakest link. So he thinks it's very important
049that um people are engaged with this work. How are we protecting the data? Um he wants practice security awareness programs, simulated attacks, collaboration with HR and unions, clear reporting channels and link professional development to board of ed policy. So um it was, you know, it was it was interesting. It made some sense and I believe that Jeremy and Gina were also there and I think we kind of walked away with all the same kinds of things. I'd like to just add one other thing. I think this comes under operations. I was at Olympia's football game last week and they called out for volunteers to hold the chains and nobody volunteered. But I did so I went and volunteered. I did it when my kids were little but anybody that's the best seat in the house
050when you're moving the chain. So please volunteer. Thank you. >> That really wasn't part of the committee report. I'm just going to call you on that. Yeah, >> little bit of leeway there, Miss Farmer. All right, Miss Fellzer, you're up with the Monro County School Board's information exchange committee. >> Yes. So, I'm the representative from Greece for the um information exchange committee and um in September, the topic that we um heard and learned about from the Webster Central School District was on artificial intelligence. Um it was really a very engaging presentation because most of it was interactive with prompts and it required us to be out of our seats and gravitate towards um a spectrum of like an imaginary more to the yes I agree to no I don't agree with that position and in
051the middle because there is a lot of controversy potentially around AI how it's utilized um in our schools but also in our larger world and what are the implications for us um we didn't answer or resolve any questions But it certainly gave us thought around um what our next steps might be. And those materials were shared with the board. So you have that that was sent to you electronically. And Miss Farmer was there as well. And um I think um Gina Beyond a little um Larson was there too. >> My my my relationship with you is showing. I've known Gina a long time. This past um month, the topic was shared services presented by the Hilton Central School District and it really was a very inspiring um exchange because being that they are smaller district
052populationwise, they rely on partner districts including Greece um Hamlin and Parma to um work collaboratively with the their school district and they meet quarterly with members, elected officials, town mayors um from Hilton Karma Hamlin and representatives from Greece and together they work on initiatives in support of one another and I think it really is a great testimony to what can get done when people work on behalf of students. One example um a special police force was formed for special events being that Hilton doesn't have its own police force. So that was one example that was shared. But I think just that fact that tonight we're talking about, you know, shared services and how we we can move forward in many different ways as a district, I think um that ability to partner with our community,
053I think is really going to be um very impactful for us. So something we might want to continue to do. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Rosano. Mr. Maloney. >> I'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting. Second, second by Vice President Stunel. All those in favor? Thank you, everyone. Have a good evening.