001technical expertise, calm, and professional demeanor made her a trusted go-to person for so many in our district. Whether she was troubleshooting a complex issue or offering support to a staff member, she did it with grace and humility. She never sought the spotlight, but her impact was unmistakable. Towanda will be deeply missed, but her impact on this district will not be forgotten. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers. She loved her family very much. Thank you. >> Vice President Stencil, lead us in the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. If I could have somebody move the agenda table, please. Moved by Mr. Maloney,
002seconded by Mr. St. Vice President Stencil. Any additions, corrections to the agenda? Mr. Butler? I'd like to add uh consideration of the TOSA positions that were uh eliminated two meetings ago to uh reconsideration of that to the agenda. >> Yeah, I'm going to rule that out of order. It should come through um it can come through at the next at the 19th meeting. We'll do it at the 19th. We can add it to the agenda. it wasn't added to the agenda in a proper manner and I don't want to get in the habit of adding things at the last minute. The only reason we added the code of conduct discussion last week that Mr. or two weeks ago that Mr. Baragorio put forward was because of the timeliness and throwing off the um public hearing
003for the code of conduct if we would have waited to have that discussion till this week. >> Mr. President, >> I wasn't done talking. >> Okay, >> Mrs. Farmer. Point of order. >> What's your point of order? My point of order is that due to lack of due diligence and when these positions were discussed, we warrant and and I think there's a responsibility that this board it is a responsibility that this board reviews this in a timely manner that will then allow everything else to roll out just like the code of conduct thing that you had you said Mark added for the purpose of timeliness. >> I'm going to roll your point of order. not valid. Going back to Mr. >> So I'd like to ask if there's people who would like to second this
004>> and then we can overrule the chair's >> rule ruling. I mean, there's >> Sean, if I can >> I'm gonna do I'm gonna do you a solid here that I don't think I should do, but I'm going to give you the solid that you want to appeal the ruling of the chair, correct? >> Okay, you need a second on that. >> Second. >> A second. Second by Mr. Baller. All in favor of um appealing the ruling in the chair. Those opposed. The motion fails. >> Mr. Butler, back to you. >> So, what what I was going to say, I appreciate your point about the uh the timeliness uh that requires a last minute addition to the agenda. if the motion or if the uh item were to be approved uh um that we would
005add the readd these positions. It feels to me like that is a timely question because the district would then have to react to that readition of these positions uh to to be effective with the start of school. So it does feel to me like time is of the essence. I mean, the problem is, I guess, but the way my reason for ruling it out of order is basically nobody's prepared to really discuss this tonight. Nobody's done. I mean, I have a couple legal questions that I'm going to need answered beforehand because I think there's some um there's a potential per violation that occurred here and that we could be committing a per violation as a district for direct dealing. I think there's some issues that we have to look at before we can really have
006that conversation. And I don't think I don't know if Assistant Superintendent Larson is in a position to answer those questions with confidence. I mean, if she is, I'll let her. But I mean, I I think there's I think there's a couple questions that we have to get answered. And that's why I'd like us to do our due diligence. And I'm happy to add it to the 19th for a discussion of the board where everybody's prepared to talk about. Everybody has their talking points. I mean, you know, obviously you were prepared tonight, but I know I wasn't. Nobody else was, you know, to talk about this this evening because it wasn't on the agenda. So, I mean, I will add it to the agenda when we have board officers um at our next meeting and we'll
007talk about it the 19th. I mean, that's a concession I'm willing to make. Otherwise, I mean, I don't want to put Assistant Superintendent Larson on the spot with making that decision if this is a per violation or not for direct dealing. >> Oh, Mr. Bono, a point of information relevant to this discussion. Is the board going to be given uh a study a study session regarding the the information? >> Not prior to that meeting though. >> Okay. But but we will be getting one at some point. >> At some point along the way we're going to have a full study session on this but it won't be in time for Mr. Butler's request for the 19th. >> Thank you. >> Anything else? So any other additions to the agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor
008of the agenda. Trace, you against? Oh, okay. Nine to zero. You're four against eight to one. 8 to one. Okay. I just want to make sure. >> All right. Gas or GTA comments. I don't see anybody here from GTA. Anybody from GASA? Anybody from Gus? Acept teamsters. All right. Residents forum. Welcome to the Legion this evening. if you'd like to step right up to the microphone. Mr. Woodbury. >> Yes, sir. >> Welcome. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Uh, I'm Kevin Woodbury. I'm the first vice commander over at the Greece American Legion Post, and we're here tonight to talk to you about American Legion baseball. Uh, this is the centennial, as you can see, that of American Legion baseball. and uh an occurrence that had never happened before took place just a week or so ago. The
009the state of New York had their championships here in Rochester. As a matter of fact, at RIT, our post was the host. And uh not only were we hosting, we won. We are the state champions. Our team left this morning to go up to uh Shrewsbury, Massachusetts for the regional championships. They're all excited. They're a great bunch of kids and we're very proud of them all and uh I really don't have a whole lot other than that. We do have a gift. We have shirts for the board to match ours. So >> Oh, thank you very much. Thank you so much. >> Ladies would uh pass them out. >> Can we do a picture with you guys? Do you mind with the trophy? >> You got 10 bucks. >> I probably do. I probably do.
010>> No, that would be wonderful. Yes. >> So, we'll come we'll come around to you guys and we'll hold our shirts. Thank you. >> Tomorrow Oh, by tomorrow morning at 9:30 is the first game. Thank you. >> Everybody smile in All right. Ready? >> Awesome. I also like to thank uh Greece Central. They uh donated their fields Athena. So, a lot of the games were played there. And u I'd like to thank Superintendent Smallley personally. Thank you. All right, moving on to staffing. Can I move the staffing to the table, please? Moved by Vice President Stencil, seconded by Mr. Butler. Any comments, questions, concerns on staffing? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes 8 to zero. Moving Oh, Assistant Superintendent Larson, I'm sorry. >> Thank you so much. Um, so not on this evening's
011staffing, but um, we did approve a new assistant principal um, a couple meetings ago and um, he was unfortunately out of town, but we did want to make sure that we introduced him to uh, all of you and to our community. So, I'd like to congratulate and welcome assistant principal for the Early Learning Center, Mimoot Gadamemenley. Mimmoot is a proud Greece Central School District educator who has served in the community for the past 18 years as an ENL teacher at Longidge Elementary School. Most recently, he served for two and a half months as the interim assistant principal at Longidge, further deepening his commitment to instructional leadership and student success. Mimoot holds a master's degree in Tissaw as well as a school building and school district leadership certifications, all from University of Rochester. A former English
012language learner who has lived in who has lived the American dream. He is deeply passionate about equity, excellence, and access in education and now brings that vision to his new role as assistant principal. Throughout his career, Mammud has actively contributed to the school community beyond the classroom. He has served on the district's attendance and multicultural committees, led professional development sessions for colleagues, and stepped in as the substitute ENL summer school leader, experiences that have further shaped his leadership perspective. He strongly believes that every student possesses a unique intelligence and is committed to uncovering and nurturing those strengths within school culture. His favorite part of the job is greeting students by name and forming strong, authentic connections with them. He and his wife, a 20-year Greece teacher at English Village, are proud parents of three boys,
013ranging from middle school to college, all active in travel sports. Outside of school, he enjoys playing soccer and volleyball and watching football. Congratulations, Mimu. We're We're going to have you do some pictures now. You can do first with your family. >> Okay. >> And then we'll have um >> Maybe you should Yep. One more. We'll have uh Shannon Kelly. >> I just credit. I did hire Jeremy hired me 18 years ago as an ENL teacher. He was an assistant principal. Now we reconnected. >> Congratulations. Thank you. All right, moving on to 2.02 tenure. Can I have something move the tenure to the table, please? Moved by Miss likes, seconded by Miss Seaman. Any comments, questions, concerns on tenure? Seeing none, all in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to the accept. Can I
014so I move that to the table, please? Move by Mr. Fel, seconded by Mr. Butler. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor that passes nine to zero. Moving on to the GTA MOAS additional FTEES and I have so move that to the table please. Moved by Mr. Maloney, second by Vice President Stencil. Comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing that all is in favor that passes 9 to zero 2.05 non-unit rate sheet. Can I move that to the table, please? Moved by Miss Like, second by Miss Seaman. Any comments, questions, concerns on that? See? All's in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to 2.06, 06 the jewel agreement. Can I sign move that to the table please? Moved by Mr. Baragorio, seconded by Missike. Any comments, questions, concerns on
015that? Seeing that all those in favor that passes nine to zero. Moving on to 4.01 property tax warrant, superintendent Smalline. >> I was going to give this presentation, but I decided to ask Romeo to jump in and do this. >> It' probably be more entertaining if you did it. Thank you for the opportunity, Superintendent Molen, and very much appreciated. Um, so for tonight, um, we are going to finalize the 2526 budget development season with the, uh, hopefully the approval of the tax warrant. Before we get into the presentation, in front of each of the board members, you should have a revised presentation and a revised uh tax warrant memo. The original ones that were provided to you in the board packet um needed to change and the final one is in front of you this
016evening. Part of the reason or the reason for the change is as we develop the budget, we have to report our numbers uh to Monroe County who then sends those numbers up to New York State. New York State then finalizes and provides us back with what the on the levy the $128 million that we are collecting. The state provides us with a breakdown of how much of that will be collected by the town and how much of that will be reimbured to us by New York State through the STAR program. As of last week, that process had not completed. So, we gave you our best estimate. As of yesterday or this afternoon, we think the process has been completed in terms of settlements of tax surgeries that you saw, >> but Monroe County is not
017yet complete. So one other one additional point before we go into this one is as you recall over the last couple board meetings uh we brought taxerary settlement agreements to the board. The board approved them. They have made their way through the court. Those number those settlements now need to make their way to the county into the final numbers. What that does is one of the tax surgeries, for instance, as an example, if a organization that we that was assessed at $3 million for their organization, their assessment changed to uh $1 million, that $2 million difference brings down the taxable assessment number to the district, which means the rate changes between the county and the taxeries. We believe we've got our final numbers and that's what's going to reflected in both the the documents you
018have in front of you today. Slight changes but basically the the slides are the same. Also at the end of the before the end of the evening uh once the tax warrant is approved if you if you could go see Lori uh and make sure that you sign every each board member signs off on him. So, the request this evening, as I mentioned, is to have the board approve uh the 2526 tax warrant at 128,72,28. Um, it's a 2.06 increase percent increase over the tax levy from last year and it complies with the property tax uh calculations um provided by New York State. And again that is um 13 out of 13 or 13 out of 14 years that we have uh been within the tax cap calculation. As I was mentioning um in the
019levy amount, the levy is $128 million as you see here. As best we know, the tax collector at the town of Greece will collect $115.5 million and New York State will send us approximately $12.6 6 million in star reimbursement. Okay. But we will always collect our $128.1 million. The what I'm gonna get later. Also included in here are uh just for reference um $24,817 worth of what's referred to as section assessments. So what's a 520 assessment? um their properties that had a whole or a partial exemption on them, maybe a maybe a senior limited income exemption or an enhanced star exemption. The property was sold and the new people buying the house are not entitled to that exemption because they're the new owner. It gets relevied and those people have to pay their fair share
020of that prorated tax portion that gets collected from them. And that's referred to as the 520 uh re- levies for 2425. Last year, our tax rate was $25.11 uh per,000 of taxable assessed value. That is increasing to $25.37 per thousand of taxable assessed value. It's an increase of 26 cents or just over 1% from the prior year. As I was mentioning earlier, Monroe County is still waiting for New York State to download uh the STAR file. Um it'll provide some changes to us. It won't change the levy, but it may change the numbers from the previous slide where you could see a shift where we might be getting less from the star reimbursement, but we'll just have more collected by the town of Greece. So, the numbers may change at the top, but the levy
021amount will always stay the same. We won't know that until probably the end of the week. Um, and since this board meeting is this evening and versus next week, um, we've done our best shot at, um, providing the numbers we believe they're going to be, but they may change slightly, but again, it will have no impact on the rate, nor will it have an impact on the levy. So, just a couple of notes um, regarding equalization that uh, we wanted to bring back up. So the star exemption is adjusted to reflect the equalization rates. As we know the equalization rates over the last five years have gone from 100% back in 21-22 to a current 2025 equalization rate of 61%. And it's decreased each year for the last 5 years. That is determined by New
022York State not by uh the school district or by the town of Greece. in 2324 and 2425 there was a decrease in the basic star exemption only. So if you had the basic star instead of having 30,000 deducted from your taxable assessment you had something less. But if you were on the enhanced star it didn't impact you in 23 24 and 2425. In 2526, the current year for this warrant, there will be a decrease in both the basic star and the enhanced star because again the um equalization rate has decreased further and again as mentioned in 2425 last year it was 68%, we've been notified this year that is going to 61%. Um, and then this will further decrease this the basic STAR, the enhanced STAR, and other exemptions when we get into the 2627
023uh school year as well. Even the veterans exemption that we recently approved will be slightly less than what we thought it was going to be in the spring because the equalization rate has gone down. So, I just wanted to put that out there so folks understand that. The star savings that people will see on their bills is the lesser of the calculated savings or the capped maximum star savings provided by the state. We took a shot here. We've given you an example. So should you get questions uh you might be able to address it with uh folks who might ask you. So let's look at the basic star top box in 2425. Your basic star was worth $23,760. It is currently worth $21,150. So, your star exemption coming off your taxes has gone down a
024little bit. We also do a calculated maximum star in 2425. that calculated was $596 was the calculated star that could come off your tax bill. Okay. And since um the maximum just beneath it was $655, residents saw $596.68 come off the basic star because it is the lesser of the calculated or the capped. Similar will happen in 2526. The calculated basic star is $536. The maximum you can get is $597. So residents will see $536 come up credited towards um their basic star savings, which is down about $60 from what it was last year. On the enhanced star, a little bit different. Enhanced star in 2425 was worth $63,100. It's now worth $58,550 off your taxable assessment. When you calculated the star last year in 2425, it was $1,584 calculated. The state then says the
025most you can get on your enhanced hour is$,574. So all residents saw 1574 because it was the lower of the calculated and the capped. That changes in 2526. The calculated is 1485. The cap is 1574. Same cap, but since the calculated is lower than the cap and you have to go with the lower, seniors will see a slight reduction in their star reimbursement by about 98 bucks, $99 for this current year. So, what's that mean? We took, as we have in past years, we took a uh typical home that's taxable assessed value is about $200,000. Um when you look at the bottom line, your tax bill will go up about $112 for the same $200,000 house in 2526 versus 2425. Beneath that is a little bit of an explanation of why due to the tax
026rate increase from 2511 to 2537. Okay, just that difference on the $200,000 taxable home, your bill will go up $52.17 just because of the rate increase. But due to the equalization rate coming down um and lower exemption amounts as a result, you're getting less of a benefit. So your bill is going to go up by $60 due to the star in the equalization. Similar is true if you have the enhanced star. Your bill would go up $140 versus uh a basic star of 112 for the same reasons. So we are asking um for approval of the tax warrant is as final as we can make it um as of this evening. Um again the tax rate increase is about 1.04% 04% uh which is u um a little bit higher than what we had thought
027it would be last week at about 0 93% but um we're asking the board to we're suggest uh asking the board to recommend approving uh the warrant for this evening >> questions. Does anybody have any questions? Just like >> um Romeo, does this include the veterans exemption? >> No, veterans exemption will not take place until the next school year. Okay, thanks. >> This year it did not. We said it would be for the 25 >> 26 27 school year and then our plan would be to have a a study session uh or two regarding that and bring the board up to date by the fall or early January as we move into applying that exemption for next year. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Buru. >> Thank you, Romeo. Um, please clarify for me. The $128
028million levy is the amount that was approved by the voters in May. That's correct. Okay. So then we apply I'll call it mechanical rules regarding equalization and uh the the exemption amounts. We're just ratifying the process. Is that >> you're read? That's a good qu good point to make. You are ratifying and approving the levy >> which is already >> and the correspond but the levy's already been approved and this is formal adoption that we hand off. >> Nothing really has changed in the process. >> Correct. >> It is the levy that you are formally approving in written form for 128.1 million. >> Thank you. Again, the rate could change depending on what the assessed values are within the town. Um, but whether the town collects more or the town collects less or whether we
029get more back from the state or not, the levy is the levy. And we'll either get that in tax collections, star reimbursement or reimbured by the county during the tax collection season. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Butler. Romeo, can you remind me, and I apologize if you've said this already, but the the change in the star exemption, is that formula driven or is that something that the state basically says we're going to change the star exemption to this? >> It's the it's so when we were at 30, when we were at 100% equalization, okay, >> the basic was worth 30,000. Now that we're at 61, it's 61% of the 30,000 is what you get as a star exemption amount. So as the equalization comes down, so does the value of that star exemption. >> Thank
030you. >> Any other questions? Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to 5.01. Can I Sony move the establishment of the 2526 tax levy? Moved by Vice President Stencil, second by Mr. Maloney. Any comments, questions, or concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes nine to zero. Moving on to change orders. Can I move the change orders to the table, please? Moved by Mr. Butler, second by Mr. Bonagori. Any comments, questions, or concerns? I just want to say that these change orders amount to a $38,642 savings approximately. With that, all those in favor of the change orders, that passes 9 to zero. Moving on to quarterly reports of service contracts in excess of $50,000. Can I sign move that to the table, please? Moved by Mr. Maloney, second by Miss Seaman.
031Any comments, questions, concerns on that? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes 9 to zero. Moving on to anticipated bids. It's written information only. Does anybody have any questions? All right. Moving on to the consent agenda. Can I sign the consent agenda to the table, please? Moved by Vice President Stockol. Second by Mr. Farmer. Any comments, questions, concerns on the consent agenda? Seeing none, all those in favor? That passes. Were you a yes or a no, Tracy? >> Okay, that passes nine to zero. Thank you. And moving on to superintendent comments. >> That came fast. Um, good evening. I just wanted to start just by recognizing um, Tanda Buckingham. Sean mentioned her at the start of um, today's board meeting. Um, but I also wanted to recognize uh Tanda and uh simply say just
032how um how personally blessed um I am or I feel to have had the opportunity to know her um as a person and um also as a colleague. Um she will be truly missed and um her family will will be in all of our prayers as we go forward. I also just wanted to uh mention summer leadership. So uh some of board members attended last week was our summer leadership academy, also known as SLA. Um summer leadership academy is a is a longstanding tradition in our district that I have personally participated in u now for 20 years began in 2005. And um and I said this at the start of our of SLA last week. Um that the focus and topics that we have discussed through the years, it has changed. Um but the common
033thread um what I believe is our district's commitment to professional learning and to leadership development. Um this year we had close to was it 240? 240 participants. Um that includes teachers and administrators. That is a significant change in how we ran summer leadership. Um in my 20 years here, if there was any, it was typically just administrators and that was GASA administrators. Um and just recently did we start in um bringing in um our teacher leaders. Um when I say teacher leaders, I'm not talking about specific title. I'm just talking about our leader teachers that are leaders. Additionally, um we had leaders from facility and operations. We had leaders from the from finance department and transportation. Um that's a significant change. And I will say this wasn't mandated to them. This was a request uh
034which I think stems from a lot of the work that our department of human resources has done with them through the years. Gina and um Jen Hendrickson where we have informal training throughout the year and building um excitement for the work that we're doing across the district and they asked to to come. So that is a uh significant change. A key message that um was repeated throughout the entire week um is that leadership is not defined by title. It's defined by influence. the influence you have to make change um in protocol in processes, behaviors um and beliefs. Um and that was really evident in the work that we did last week. I will say that the work that needs to get done in our district for our students, it cannot happen through directives. It doesn't
035happen top down. For a lot of us, we live through that. It will take a collective commitment from all of our stakeholders if we're going to make the transformational change that we hope to do for our students and our community in this district. Um I'm very proud of the planning committee that put this that put this work together. This work started um formally in January with a team of people. I will say informally this work starts the week after SLA ends. We already are talking about what we will be our focus. What will we build on because we are continually working for coherence to build from year to year so that people understand um where the work is because this does not happen overnight. So coherence and continuity are critical when we look at the
036success of our district and we're on that path. So, I'm very proud of that team. And for those of you that did come, I'm very proud of the the decorating team because the room was ridiculous. It was our theme was level up. We used that idea of video games, leveling up like you do in video games and the room looked like an arcade. It was incredible. So, um I just want to publicly acknowledge uh acknowledge the groups that that put that work in. Um, I'm excited for the work that we started, um, and the work that we're continuing. And I will say that for this work to have the impact that I know it can have, it begins here. It begins with all of us sitting at this table and and that we model what
037we're asking for our teachers and our staff across this district. And I am confident that we could do that together. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Super Molly. Board member comments. Mr. Farmer. Thank you. Good. Good evening, everybody. Cognitive dissonance is real. It's been a whirlwind of July filled with fun family and outdoor activities as well as some work that need to be done that needs to be done including researching what schools our rising senior might be a good fit for in 2026 and then deciding which colleges and universities to visit and possibly attend. I was driving home from Saratoga Springs on Sunday known to be the busy busiest travel day of the week. We were needing to stop on the route for various reasons. So noting what facilities were available at the rest stops
038on the roadside signs, seeing a restaurant at the red stop at seeing a restaurant that said they weren't open on Sundays. I thought that's weird. The busiest travel day of the week and they we and the uh they hired a restaurant. I did a quick search on Bing, found an article dated two years ago stating this re restaurant was being told to open seven days a week. It hasn't happened. Seems like there was probably poor research done on the selection of this restaurant to be included and not the best choice made based on data stating that Sundays are the most heavily traveled day of the week. Research plays many and important roles in our individual lives, including where to eat when traveling. We also know institutions in our lives depend on research including our field
039the field of education where we use ongoing academic and social qualitative and quantitative research uh anecdotal observations surveys tests form formative as well as uh sumitative testing CFAs researchbased practices to provide the best teaching and learning and educational outcomes for our students. We hire the best people capable to run our district. Those are the people that we sitting at this table who we as board members have decided they are effective. They are well-meaning and they know what it means to be an educator and how to plan. And as Jeremy just talked about earlier, the leadership last week. So as far as the research, this includes the science of reading, an academic example of research, the umbrella term, if you will, which includes many research-based studies to bring together best practices for improving reading instruction. Restorative
040justice is another practice that we use in our schools implemented and part of our progressive discipline plan that allows our schools to maintain a balance. Showing grace for students who make mistakes. Those mistakes can be corrected by students guided in ways that support positive youth development. We know that restorative work when done as intended goes a long way in maintaining a balanced school environment. The two examples given allow for a well functioning school district and buildings where students achieve academically as well as socially. Of course, there are many other pieces that make our district function with practices that are central to the efficacy of education in our schools. One of the difficult pieces of restorative work is continuity. So there must be a hub district office that supports and works collegial collegially with individual school
041buildings that then brings community to the district as a whole. The cont I'm sorry that then brings continuity to the district as a whole. This also shows a commitment to students, staff and community that this practice is honored and valued. Saying all this, last meeting we were handed a copy of a page taken from the code of conduct which had missing text, no data or context included with no time for due diligence because of timing. Yet this body voted five to four to eliminate the words reduce overuse and disproportionate use of inschool and out of school suspensions and school discipline. Explanation given. It's just verbiage. By removing these words, this action may have started us on the path of reviving the schoolto prison pipeline, thus criminalizing children. Yet can still acknowledge that there are are
042some children who benefit from alternative placements without criminalizing. Suspensions does not make school climate better. It sets up a mouse cat game and elevates punishment to a level that only causes students to miss out on more education. This leads to low literacy literacy rates and a prison population full of people who can't read due to lack of consistent learning undiagnosed issues whether it's ADHD and females with a symptom being lack of impulse control as current research has reported. Once diagnosed, this can be treated with research-based best practices, including guidance and counseling, social emotional. This can help move a a stu a child to understand why they may do what they do ultimately to elicit change without the need of a me of medication in some instances all based on research. Another example is undiagnosed dyslexia
043also researchbased. Adolescent minds, brains like their physical bodies developing as a complex system evolving into an adult who learn to think critically through mistakes and guidance from adults in their lives, parents, extended family, church as well as teachers. While we find continuity to be important with academics, social and emotional work doesn't seem to hold the same significance. We are responsible for children from the beginning to the end of the school day. Why they while they are with us, we are charged to support the whole child, their academics, physical bodies, and emotional well-being. The board of education, in my view, is not only to be a guardian of the community's money that allows our system to run effectively and efficiently. Thank you, Romeo and team. But also to support those we represent and employ for the
044benefit of our students. Attempting to make decisions without prior to little notice, we can cause harm, confusion among the people we hire to teach and guide our children. This never goes well. My request is that when things of this nature are to come in front of the board, that all are informed. Whether it's referencing policy number 2370, schoolboard member request and use of district information, or email, transparency can be done even with sunshine laws in place. I'm disheartened that we may have broken trust and cause chaos with those we are sworn to support. I'd like to request that assessment of school board operational procedures uh policy number 2340 be added to the agenda for the retreat as required by our own policy. Thank you for member comments. Anybody else? Mr. Ber thank you. Uh, I
045want to uh say a special thanks to all of the staff and teachers who have been working so hard all summer long to give great experiences to our students and enhance their learning and help them come back to school uh even uh more ready to learn than they uh than they were at the end of the school year. I want to send out a word of encouragement to those students who are currently in summer school. Uh pushing to get there, especially those seniors who are um um driving to to make it across that stage on August 27th. You're almost there. You can do it. You've uh you've come this far and and I'm looking forward to being there shaking your hand. Um, I want to say to our teachers, our administrators, our staff, our bus
046drivers, our cafeteria workers, our tossas, uh, all all, uh, people employed by the district to enjoy the rest of your summer. We're looking forward to having all of you back for a successful year. And, uh, um, the superintendent has announced the theme of Greece proud uh, this year. And I just want to say I think that's a great theme. I'm a lifelong uh, Greece resident. I'm proud of Greece. I'm proud of our students and all that they accomplish. I'm proud and I'm especially proud of all the adults who are committed to doing first what is right for students. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Mr. Fzano. >> Uh I just would like to echo uh Superintendent Smallen's um words and also echoing um other board members who attended the uh summer leadership academy. It was
047just inspirational to be in the presence of our staff, our teachers, our administrators, teacher leaders, regardless of title, people working together, rolling up their sleeves in real genuine, dedicated efforts for the best of our for our students. Um, it was just great to behold and it was a great time um sitting alongside with our colleagues in Small's Arcade. It really was quite a sight to behold. Um I'm really excited about the moves towards the professional learning communities and the efforts we've put towards that. Um as well as our four um DX as we look to um to improve and enhance our student achievement and working as true collaborators um in buildings. Um again thank you to all who were a part of that. Again, it was a great pleasure and I too am very proud
048to have been a part of that and um all all the best as we launch our our new school year. >> Thank you, Mr. Feler. Board member comments, Mr. Bonagorio. >> I would also like to uh echo echo my thanks to teachers and administrators for giving their time last week. I was fortunate to be able to make it for a little bit of the Monday session, the opening. Uh there was so much energy in the room and that was really great to see. So my my appreciation uh to all who participated uh and I'm sure there were some who wanted to and weren't able to, but a great effort. Um a lot of lot of good work seems to have been done there. And so thank you. Thank you to all of them. Um, I
049will just acknowledge that the uh the motion that we approved last week regarding changes of the to the code of conduct were were provided in advance to the board of education, the entire board of education and let it rest. Thank you. >> Any other board member comments? Good, Monica. Good. >> Okay. I'm just going to take a moment. I'm just gonna um I want to recognize somebody. I got a phone call um about a week or so ago about one of our employees in the Gree Central School District who did an extraordinary thing. I have friends throughout the um fire service, law enforcement, public safety communities. And um right around the 4th of July, a friend of mine from Engine 10 had a call and our deputy superintendent happened to be there. He had an
050individual that um probably ODed on um something that Narcan revived him. So some type of an opiate product. And Mr. Fleming and I believe his brother-in-law his brother-in-law um did CPR, performed CPR on this individual and did an amazing job till the fire department got there. And it's something I think we should recognize. I mean, bystander CPR saves lives. I'm a big proponent of it. It's a huge, you know, people that get saved. It's because of bystanders that take the time and a lot of people don't take the time. So, I just want to recognize Mr. Fleming because a lot of people would have walked away. And with that, um, by the time we meet the next time, our student athletes will be all be on the field starting their practicing for the fall. So,
051I'm looking super forward to that. And with that, Mr. Maloney, it's your time to shine. >> And I would like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting. Is there >> a second right here? >> Vice President Stencil. All those in favor? That passes nine to zero. Thank you, everyone.