001Good evening. I'd like to call to order the public budget hearing and the special meeting of the board of education. Today is Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. Please rise for the pledge to the flag. 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 for that. I'd like to invite Mr. Burgerer up to the podium and I'd like to ask the trustees to step down to the audience for viewing. [Music] Good evening. On behalf of the Monro Woodberry Middle School, our students, our staff, our our faculty, and our community, we would like to welcome the board of education, Superintendent Norman, our central administrators to the Monro Woodbury Middle School. We have some incredibly talented students here
002this evening. I hope that you were able to take a glance at some of the artwork that is on display in the back of the auditorium. And we are very fortunate to have an incredibly talented group of students that would like to perform a couple of songs for you. We have joining us tonight some of the members. It's about half of our seventh and eighth grade chamber chorus that's led by one of our music teachers, Mr. Brian Clark. So, I'd like to welcome our middle school students to uh the risers over here to perform a couple of songs. Thank you. This first one we This is called English. Hope you enjoy. [Music] la. [Music] la. [Music] All things Now [Music] La Scary. [Music] [Applause] laction of last night. Second night in a row selection short.
003[Music] Yeah. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] best friend. [Music] [Applause] That was beautiful. On par with a chorus I saw at a Broadway last weekend. Thank you. It's great. Smells like Smells like one. Yeah. Okay. The next item on our agenda is I need a motion for the approval of the revised agenda. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. And then I'd like to invite Mrs. Pulcanex up to the stage to present recognitions. Thank you. Good evening, Superintendent Norman and the members of the board. Thank you for taking the time to share this recognition with our students this evening. As mentioned, my name is Jackie Pulkinex and I am the FBLA advisor for the high school. I would like to introduce Joanna Scodudo, business development manager
004for the New York Blood Center. She is here this evening to present an award to our FBLA chapter. Here to receive that award and share this recognition with you is Pine Jgan and Ana Mahaltra co-presidents and Swathy Satia Morphy our incoming president for next year. Thank you again Joanna. Good evening. Thank you for the introduction. Um, I'm proud to represent New York Blood Center to acknowledge the accomplishments of Monroe Woodbury FBLA club. At the March 20 uh 2025 blood drive, they collected their 5,000th blood donation since the year 2000. There is no substitute for blood. Our local hospitals rely on New York Blood Center and our partner organizations to provide blood for their patients. These students are true heroes. With one donation having the ability to save three lives, the Monroe Woodbury FBA Club has
005saved over 15,000 lives, which is no small feat. The club works to advertise the event, educating their peers of the great need and encouraging them to roll up their sleeve to save a life. On the day of the blood drive, the FBLA students are critical to a smooth event, showing respect and gratitude for the donors as they check them in, assist donors uh through the ne different steps of the donation process, escort donors to the after donation snacks, um and also thank them for their donation. New York Blood Center's partnership with Monroe Woodbury FBA is greatly appreciated and valued. We look forward to many more years to come and lives to be saved. Please join me in recognizing the great civic work of these students. Thank [Applause] you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank
006you. We're going to move on to our public budget hearing presentation by Mr. Cahill. We're gonna go down just for the stage. Whatever you prefer. Okay. Thank you very much. Um, so I'm here tonight to talk about uh our 2526 general fund budget. And this is the statutory budget hearing night. And the uh the budget hearing is a requirement. New York State uh we we have to hold a hearing no less than seven days prior to the budget uh vote date and no more than 14 days. So we're within that window. And I'll just say the budget vote date New York State this year is May 20th. And the uh vote for Monro Woodbury will will be at Central Valley Elementary School from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. One thing I just I wanted to
007mention before we fully get into this is um I I would just say the I've said this before, the stakes are a bit higher this year for the budget vote because we're actually in addition to the general fund budget which is Proposition One, we're also asking the community to decide on or approve a proposition two which is related to uh capital project and capital spending. So this would be an additional $16.6 $6 million which would complement our existing $98 million capital program. I'm I'm going to get into the details of what that involves in the scope in just a moment. So, our budget priorities uh for next year are very much the same as the current year uh priorities. safety and security, maintain programs that support the needs of our students, and provide staff with
008resources and professional development that align with New York State standards. So, in in terms of safety and security, we have $120,000 budgeted uh in the general fund budget for next year for the Central Valley Elementary School security vestibule. Um we have monies in the budget next year for a uh panic alarm system. So New York State approximately two or three years ago there was a law passed called Alyssa's law which required school districts to consider uh panic alarm systems. So we have budgeted monies uh in next year's budget for that system. Uh you know in terms of um supporting the needs of students we have some new teachers uh in next year's budget. We have some special ed teachers uh an ENL teacher. We also uh have a substantial appropriation for uh special needs students
009for out of district placements as well. And in terms of the professional development and uh curriculum, we have a relatively new uh reading program which we are continue to roll out for next year and we've budgeted monies uh for a version three of that program and additional PD and materials required for that program. Oops. So, we've looked at some of these slides before. I won't go over it in detail, but this is a slide that details the computation of the tax cap. And sometimes this is called the 2% tax cap. And it's called the 2% tax cap because in the middle of this computation right here, there's something called the allowable growth factor. Uh, and the allowable growth factor is a factor in the computation which is the lesser of 2% or the rate of
010inflation. And that's where they get the idea of calling this a 2% tax cap. But it rarely is exactly 2% because you go through a computation. And I won't obviously I won't go through the entire thing, but the the takeaway here is when you run the uh the formula and you come up with our our allowable maximum increase for next year, it's 3.55% right here. And we're proposing uh a levy increase of 1.5%. So one and a half% for next year. That's the proposal. And that is the sixth year in a row Monro Woodbury has levied below our tax cap. And so this slide represents our our budget recommendation and proposition two. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about proposition two in just a moment. So we're proposing that proposition one is
011the total general fund budget and it's a $236.7 million budget. It's a budget-tobudget increase of 5.88%. 88%. It's kind of hard to see, but I have a little text box here which shows that. Uh, and that I would say that is a um slightly higher than would be typical increase, budgetto budget increase. Um, I mentioned some of the some of the items that were part of that budget. We also have uh nine buses that we're buying for next year. That was part of that as well as contract transportation increases. But the the important part here for our taxpayers is the tax levy increase is is one and a half percent. And we're able to do that because we received an increase in state aid and we're also using fund balance. And I have fund balance
012in quotes here because fund balance is both reserves and it can also be unassigned fund balance. And we're proposing to use 247 million of our reserves which are like our savings. uh the district has and 1.4 million from call it assigned fund balance which would be surplus that we anticipate from the current year. So you often hear that as the give back to the taxpayers and that's what it is and it enables us to as I say here reduce the the required levy increase. So we had a 5.88% 8 8% increase in the budget but only a 1.5% increase in the levy because we're using some of our reserves and some of our fund balance for that. And then proposition two, we show some of the numbers here. I mentioned 16.6 million is the estimated
013total cost, a cost not to exceed 16.6 million. And we have it as a proposition because in New York State capital projects require voter approval and the use of our capital reserve. If you notice here, we're proposing to use 5.3 million of our capital reserve. Also requires voter approval. Um, and the the good news, and I'm going to get into the the finances of it in just a moment, is we're proposing this, we planned this and engineered this to have no tax impact. And we're able to do that because through New York State building aid, approximately 70% of the project is paid for, in this case, over a 15-year period. and the building aid we're going to receive uh based on the projects or this this authorization will equal or exceed the cost of repaying
014this 11.3 million which we would borrow. So, I'll repeat that the building aid will equal or exceed the cost of repaying the borrowing. And that's how and we've planned it that way that this project uh will have no tax impact. And I I mention here, so this would be proposition two. We'll see that on the ballot and it's new and it's a nonrecurring item. Capital Proposition authorizing additional capital projects. So, next slide. What are we what are we talking about with Proposition two? So, Proposition 2, I've touched on a little bit. It's a proposed capital project with an estimated cost 16.6 million, which will complement our existing $98 million capital program, which was approved in December of 2023. And I just I've I've done a few of these presentations and I just want to talk
015a little bit about our existing program that is about to start this summer. This spring and summer, phase one of that will start and it'll start with a series of security vestibules uh we're doing at uh Smith Clove, Pine Tree, and Sapphire. And it'll start with a boiler replacement at Smith Clove and a boiler replacement at the high school and also work at the education center. New roof, new windows and repointing. So that is starting this summer and that will take us four to five years to complete. And what we're talking about with Proposition two are projects which complement that which w which work in unison with that. Um again I talked a little bit about uh why we're why we're asking for voter approval because the New York State Capital projects including modifying the
016scope of an existing project or initiating something new require the voters to authorize us to do that. So that's why it's on the ballot. And so let's get into the scope a little bit more. So the project scope, and this is this is kind of exciting, I got to admit. We're talking about adding central air conditioning to three of our elementary schools. Pineree, North Main, and Central Valley Elementary School classrooms, offices, and assembly spaces would get central air conditioning. Why only these three schools? I've heard that question many times. Because these schools are slated to receive new heating systems. We're going from a steam system to a hot water hydronic system, which makes adding air conditioning now easier and much much more coste effective. Adding at a later date would be much more costly. And
017I've I've used this analogy. We are doing sort of uh this this steam to water conversion. It's new boilers in the basement. It's new piping that will run through the building through chases through the ceiling down into new unit ventilators in every space, every classroom. So by adding an additional pipe and a slightly different unit ventilator, we have air conditioning. So it's because of the nature of the work that's occurring at those three schools, we can so coste effectively add the air conditioning as part of our proposition too. And I have a little, it's kind of a half a joke, timing is everything. This is really a great time to do it. Uh, and it's a really it's really cost-effective time to do this. Um, I mean the other piece that we've mentioned at other
018meetings is is now a law in New York State, the heat index law where uh classrooms and I think workspaces when they hit 82 degrees, we're required to try to start to mitigate the heat and when they when they hit 88 degrees or become hotter than 88, we're no longer able to occupy the space. So, it's now law that we have to sort of intervene and you know, this is a really good way to do that for these three buildings. The other big piece of of Proposition 2 is enclosing the classrooms at North Main. So, that's going to enhance our security there and our instructional functionality. We're upgrading electrical capacity at the middle school, Smith Clove and Sapphire. That's going to enable us to install window units and they're fairly substantial. We had our architects
019sort of spec this plan out. They're two-tonon units which will will adequately uh cool the uh the classrooms to condition those classrooms. And then finally, there's a handful of miscellaneous things. There's uh roof train, plumbing and pathway work, some abatement work, and some work at the ed center as part of that. But the bulk of it, over 90% is the air conditioning at Pineree North Main CV and enclosing the classrooms at North Main. And finally, the financial or tax impact. I none and I've talked a little bit about that. The the project has been planned so that New York State building aid will equal or exceed the cost of the bond repayment. Use of the reserve and this is monies that we had set aside uh last year will cover the local share uh which
020would not be reimbured. So it's uh an effective way to handle this and do this and the timing is is really good. um and complemented by our other project contingent budget rules. So in New York State, if the budget uh is is not approved on two separate occasions, school districts are required to adopt a contingency budget. So the contingent budget has a series of mandatory cuts such as equipment and um use of facilities when by the by the community when there's an expense involved. But the the biggest most ownorous part of the continued budget is there can be no increase in the tax levy. So for us for next year that would be approximately a $ 1.97 million reduction in the budget um that we we would have to go through which would be fairly
021substantial. Um that's the the contingent budget rules. And uh finally the upcoming budget dates. So tonight is our statutory budget hearing. Uh we're going to mail our budget notice tomorrow which will have more information obviously about the budget but also about the Proposition 2. We're going to do a Crusader chat in the very near future. And then the big day is May 20th, the annual budget vote date uh in New York State. And that'll be at Central Valley Elementary School basically all day 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. And that is everything I had in a nutshell. Are there any questions? Okay. All good. All good. Okay. Thank you so much everyone. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Cahill. I'd like to open up comments from interested citizens on the public budget hearing. Mr. McGovery, sorry. It's okay.
022I've been called worse. Uh I promise not to sing show tunes unless that'll help. Um so good evening, uh Dr. Norman Cabinet, uh, President Tower, members of the board, and members of the Mwood community. Uh, my name is Daryl Murray, and I'm the president of the Mwood Teachers Association. I'm here tonight on behalf of the MWTA to speak in support of the proposed 2526 budget and Proposition 2. We believe that the budget presented by the superintendent and the board is not only fiscally responsible, but also maintains current programs and staffing so that students will continue to get many of the supports they need to be successful. And if you were impressed in any way by what you heard earlier this evening or the awards that uh our students are able to get on behalf of
023their classmates, the school community, that's why we're doing what we're doing and why um this budget should be supported. On a personal note, I want to thank the superintendent for crafting this his first budget with a willingness to include all stakeholders in the process. We are grateful that we don't find ourselves in the position that some neighboring school districts find themselves in. And we also realize that resources are not infinite. This budget is an acknowledgement of the needs that we have brought forward on behalf of our students and members. And it represents a positive step and down payment on future investments that will improve student outcomes and quality of life. We will always continue to advocate for what we think is best for our students and members because there's always more work to be done.
024We happen to be halfway through National Teacher Appreciation Week and uh nurses week and today happens to be school nurse appreciation day. So, I want to shout out our wonderful school nurses who are doing uh the Lord's work every day uh with problems big and small. Um and we're grateful for all of our members and all the things that they're doing to um you know, educate students and represent the profession well. We were actually fortunate to have nice president Melinda Pson here in early April and she visited with teachers, SRPs and students in several of our school buildings and not surprisingly she was very impressed with everything that she saw um including the little miracles program at the high school. Uh the music students and the chamber orchestra ensemble, the science research students um at
025the high school. We took her to see the UPK program at Sapphire. uh she saw a grade two classroom in Pineree, an 812 classroom in Pineree, and then finally we came here and met with some members at the middle school. She even shouted us out at her keynote address because Monro Woodbury is doing great things. Um and it's a testament really to what we're able to do when we work together. Just one year ago, I was here talking about air conditioning, and here we are finally making some progress on these critical upgrades for climate control. Some people may think it's a luxury, but I can tell you, even as I'm standing here right now, it is necessary. Um, students and staff will perform much better when they are able to be comfortable and safe um
026in in our classrooms. And Proposition two is a no-brainer. It's tax neutral. It does uh a significant, you know, job in making these improvements. Um so I would encourage people to support that. I'm allowed to say that. Um it's easy to get distracted obviously by a lot of the noise that surrounds us. Um but when we focus on what's important, we are able to do really, really good things. And I would like to thank you all for the opportunity to address the board. I look forward to continued and future collaboration. Um, I would again strongly encourage the members of the community, especially my members, to support Proposition One and Proposition Two on Tuesday, May the 20th at Central Valley Elementary School from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Polls are open. Vote early. Vote often. Happy
027birthday, by the way, Mom, if you're watching. Birthday's tomorrow. And happy Mother's Day to all the mothers. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Maroy. [Applause] Okay. Next. Is there a motion for the approval of minutes from the April 24th, 2025 meeting? Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. And Miss Hawk for personnel. Thank you. I'd like to request approval from the board for the items listed under personnel this evening. There any questions? Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. And Mr. Cahill for business and financial. Thank you. I would respectfully request approval of business and financial items 8.1 through 8.7. Any questions? Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Uh approval for motion for the committees on special education and preschool special education recommendations. Motion motion second. All
028in favor? I. Motion carries. And next is our student board of education representative, Mr. Escobar. Hey everyone. Hope you're all doing well. I was fighting for my life this week with AP tests, but I'm done now. Uh I don't know how I'm still here, but I made it. Uh, I have a quick report on my visit with North Main, which was my final visit to a school as a part of my second round of visits to the two through five schools. If you remember, the data I was collecting was on student relationships with their peers. I won't go into all the details of that again, but the data from my visit showed the same trends uh that was that were seen in the data from uh Pine Tree and Central Valley. Um, so just to
029go over um some of the things that were shown, students feel safe inside of these buildings with an overwhelming amount of yeses to the question, "Do you feel safe in school?" A lot of students talked about how they made uh classmates upset. They answered yes to a question that said, "Have you ever made a classmate upset?" But um they recognized this in their uh extended response to it. I think allowing students to talk openly about the mistakes they've made and and encouraging that kind of growth uh creates an environment where people improve and it helps to um emphasize growing and changing as as people. Uh the primary conclusion from this data uh just like Pineree and Central Valley was that a lot of students uh expressed that they don't tell their teacher certain things because
030they don't want to cause drama or be a tattletail. Uh so I still suggest that some form of anonymous message box be set up in classrooms that would allow students to communicate these problems in a more confidential way. And that's all I have for today. Uh, with that, I've visited every single school in the district twice now. Uh, and I believe the next meeting I'm scheduled to be at will be my last one as board of education representative. So, that's pretty crazy. Um, uh, I have some final thoughts outlined for that meeting. Um, and I'm excited to share those with you all next time. Um, and I'm also excited to be taking part in the interview process for the next uh student board of education representative. Um, and so congratulations to all the candidates who
031have made it uh in that process and to all the students who were who did not receive the invite to come interview. It was still amazing to put in that application and go for this position. Everyone who did was an amazing talented student. I know that. Um, yeah, I'm also excited to be at the academic awards ceremony tomorrow. Uh, I was invited to say the pledge of allegiance, which is going to be really nice. Um, yeah, so that's pretty much everything I have for today. And, uh, yeah, thank you guys so much. Thank you so much. Okay. And Dr. Morales, any closing comments? Just a few. I'd like to thank Mr. Clark and the members of the chorus tonight. Their performance was nothing short of amazing. I'd like to thank the members of the FBLA
032for their efforts and congratulate them on a well-deserved recognition. Similar to Dylan, I think that our elementary team is also happy to announce that testing is mostly wrapping up with state testing just with one more day of third grade in our nis slot. Um, I had the pre privilege of attending Pine Trees multicultural night. It was so much fun to see so many students. It was a wonderful turnout. excited to share their cultures. Attended the district art show and again just amazing work by so many different students at all of our grade levels. And a final thank you to our teachers during teacher appreciation week and our nurses as well for all you do every day in and out of the classroom. Thank you, Mr. Cahill. Um yeah, I just would like to echo uh
033some of the things that uh Dr. Morales said and wish everyone a nice evening. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Vas. Um, shout out to Pine Tree u hosting an amazing multicultural night. Um, it was a really good experience. I love that passport idea. Went home and I started to find my son's passport um when he was uh in that age group. Um, so big shout out to to Pine Tree. Uh, thank you middle school and and uh admin team to hosting us. The kids were amazing as well. Um, distractionf free learning committee. So we've been meeting for last about four months. Um what this committee's charge is to look for what is the governor's um uh proposed u mandate might come down. Um and at this point we are developing two options. One option is
034what does this mean when the governor passes the budget and then part of that budget it's called bell-to-bell um mandate. um that means that the students would not be allowed to use the cell phone during the the the the bell during the time their time of this within the school building. The other option is more on a on a soft uh launch what we call internally is if there is an option to have some local uh uh decision making. What does that mean to us? Um should we allow the students to use that for during the non-instructional time or not? And this committee comprised of 42 members. It's a rather larger committee and a variety of different stakeholders, teachers, uh guidance counselors, administrators, students, um assistant superintendents, my colleagues and and what as of now
035where we are today is we are developing uh these two options I described earlier and in our last committee meeting that we met uh last week um we have formed the subcommittees. So the one team would be at the middle school, one would be at the high school and one would be at the K5. And this committees these subcommittees would be developing the process in case if the governor comes down to uh to say bell-to-bell schedule bell-to-bell mandate for the cell phone as well as the electronic devices. We are also looking at the current misba policy and making sure that we are adapting to that policy based on what would come down from the governor's office. Um we'll keep you in the loop but that's kind of what the status we have as of now.
036Okay. Are we allowed to ask questions or no? Can you sure? Okay. So, is the do we know if based on the soft piece of it that each school would have to do the same thing? So, for instance, you have the subcommittees does that mean that if we adopt the belltobell if that's what the governor says that each of our buildings will do the same or if is it based on age? We are looking at both options. We are looking um at at what does this mean for our secondary students versus what does it mean to our K5 students. So it could be different then it is possible that it will be uh two different options as well. Uh we have done the committee has done a lot of research um and and there are
037some some interesting trends out there that we could actually follow. Any other questions? Thank you Dr. Vas Dr. Hassler. Sure. Just to kind of continue on everybody else. Thank you to the middle school for hosting. Congrats FBLA. Uh happy teacher appreciation week. The art show was awesome. Um, we have this is sort of the beginning of awards season as Dylan mentioned. Uh, we have a lot of different recognitions that are happening right now. All of our honor societies are having inductions. Um, so congrats to everybody that's being recognized in the upcoming weeks. Um, Special Olympics was awesome. We're going to be recognizing our Special Olympiads at at June meeting, but that competition was it was absolutely outstanding. Um, the board also asked me to give a a quick update regarding the guidance advisory council, which
038is one of our district goals. And just a reminder, the the district goal was to conduct a review of our K12 guidance program and ensure that it is fully aligned with the commissioner's regulations regarding uh New York State guidance programs. Um, the committee has been doing an extensive amount of work. uh that work recently has been around the mapping of the the state provides a recommended template to map out your K12 guidance plan and we have subcommittees at the elementary, middle, and high school level and they've mapped out all of the guidance services and programs that we offer across the school district and they've aligned them to all of the required state standards and they've identified what the assessment measures will be for each of those services. Um, we're now in the process of compiling
039those guidance program delivery maps into our guidance program uh plan that will present it to the board of education. The guidance plan has to be approved by the board on an annual basis. Um, and that will be in place and presented to the board for approval for the 2526 school year. We're already in the process of um planning for next year uh where we now now that we have it outlined and mapped on these delivery maps of excuse me identifying gaps and finding areas where there's three sets of standards that the guidance program is intended to provide support to our kids uh academically social emotional learning and career development skills. and we're now in the process of going through all of those standards to ensure that we provide services uniformly across the board and equitably
040in all grade levels. So that's sort of the next phase of the analysis that we're going to be doing. We anticipate meeting at least one more time before the end of the school year to at least compile it into the guidance plan. Um and then there's also a a state required assessment tool and we'll be doing an end of the year assessment as well to evaluate what our progress is. So, still more to come in terms of our work. Thank you, Miss Hawk. Thank you. I'd like to acknowledge and congratulate a few individuals who are in our audience this evening um and were appointed tonight in uh their positions. Uh first, we have Lauren Kapool. Lauren Kapool, you can raise your hand, Lauren. Lauren is currently a special education teacher at our high school who
041this evening was appointed as our new CSC chairperson. Congratulations. Also in our audience Oh, you he can clap again. Also in our audience tonight and um on our agenda this evening um as a special appointment is Laney Vallet. Laney um raise your hand. Thank you. Laney is going to be our new dean of students at the high school uh beginning um this summer. So congratulations to you Laney and welcome to the Monubberry family. Thank you, Miss Novak. Um, thank you. I I echo all the recognition that was given so so far. And I also wanted to just take a moment to recognize um the young writers of our school that were featured in the photo news two two weeks ago. Um, for those of you who may not know, the photo news is a local
042paper that has some distribution in our district and once a year it features writers from our elementary schools. So the elementary students select are select there's a select few of them from each school each class featured in this paper and they write about topics about in what inspires them or what are some good memories and I love this. I go through all of it. I love it for two reasons. One it demonstrates our growth. So you can see the kindergarten first grade all through fifth grade how the writing just grows and grows and the talent that you see with our students. but it also shows the great instruction that they're receiving and that's because most of these writers are calling out their instructors as their source of inspiration. So, I just wanted to take a
043moment to add this to the recognition with the art show and and all of these other things um to bring your attention to that and really recognize these young writers and their instructure instructors. Um thank you. Thank you, Miss Dahghue. Yeah. Um the course was amazing. Thank you so much. I can't get over how talented the students in this district are. They're just amazing. And congratulations to our FBLA students. I also attended the Pine Tree Multicultural Evening. It was amazing. Um I went with Caitlyn. We we had such a good time. It was really so much fun. And the passport was a great idea. Uh thank you, Mr. Cahill, and your staff for the budget presentation. And thank you to the middle school for hosting us. The mural is gorgeous. It's absolutely stunning. And I
044It's teacher appreciation week. I'd like to thank all the teachers and nurses nurses for everything you do. Thank you so much. Have a good evening. Thank you, Mrs. Simmons. Um, I'm just going to echo, it's going to be like a broken record, but I also really am floored every time I go to a presentation of talent of students in this district. Um, I was honored to be uh a part of the district art show the other day at the high school. The level of talent, attention to detail, the art, the sculptures, it was like walking through the most expensive Parisian museum to look at the most sophisticated art projects and each of them had a story when you spoke to the young artists and it was just super inspiring. And the level of talent in
045this district beyond beyond amazing. Um, as Miss Donahghue said, we had the honor of attending the Pine Tree Multicultural Night. We had some delicious food, had some wonderful conversations, and all of the parents and family members that we spoke to, they all mirrored the same sentiment that this district and the schools and the staff members are all just exceeded their expectations in terms of they all just feel comfortable leaving their children here. Knowing that we celebrate diversity, knowing that everyone from every part of the world feels welcome here. And I I said this before, but Monroe Woodbury, it envelopes you and you just feel like it's a part of one big family. And I think that was a great presentation of that. Congratulations to all of the honor society students and happy teachers appreciation week.
046Happy public servant um recognition week as well and happy nurses week. So, thank you. Have a great night. Thank you, Mrs. McClary. Um, thank you. I just want to mention because it'll take place prior to our next public meeting, but our next capital project meeting that's open to the public is Thursday, June 12th. That will be our last one for the um, school year. Thank you to the middle school for hosting us. It's always great to come and see the buildings and get an opportunity to see what the kids are working on. The mural was beautiful. We appreciate the uh, early invitation, so we had a chance to view it. Thanks to Patrick for the budget presentation. Um, it's always insightful and I know that we've had questions behind the scenes, but I think the
047hopefully the public is aware of how much effort goes into it and should there be any other questions that people are reaching out to you. I think there's a crusader chat coming up. I think somebody me asked me about that and I told them to check the website. Um, so hopefully if there are any questions, they're getting their information. Um, thank you to the new hires. Uh, welcome to the school district and to the transfers. Um, and uh, I want to just say a thank you to Taran as this evening, unfortunately, she is on our resignation list. She has been an excellent district clerk and um, I wish her all the best in her new journey and thank you for your service to the board. Mr. Reynolds. Um, I concur with all my teammates, obviously,
048especially our blood drive folks as someone who's uh someone else's blood saved my life. So, I greatly appreciate that and um get out and vote, right? And I will say do the right thing when it comes to that, right? There's a lot of uh great things going on in our district and we need money to do that and Patrick and the team have done find a great way to keep our taxes low and execute what our children need. So again, it's about the kids, so remember that when you get out and vote. Appreciate you. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. Um, I just want to echo everyone's statements. Um, but I also really thought I was going to get through everybody and be the one to thank Taran, but I guess not. Um, it's it's hard being
049in this seat. Um, but that's it. And have a great night and go Knicks. Yay. Go. Thank you, Dylan. Is there anything you'd like to add? Yeah. Um, congratulations to the FBLA students who received the award today. You guys are awesome. I know a lot of you. Um, uh, I want to shout out all of the students who participated in the trip to DC uh, last week. They competed in a uh, in a musical competition. All of the different um, groups in our school, voice ensemble, wind ensemble, um, etc. All them. And, um, we swept. So that's what Monro Woodberry does. Um that's true. Uh the art show was absolutely amazing. I got to go and the talent is amazing. Um happy teacher appreciation week. Uh I want to shout out uh Mr. Mroy on
050your uh speech just now. It was very well spoken and um I love the work that you guys are doing to represent our teachers in the district. It's critically important. So thank you. And um happy Mother's Day as well. Uh, hi mom. Happy Mother's Day. And um, I just found out about the uh, thing about Miss Clark and she has helped me so much in this process of being the board rep. I want to give you a little more of a formal thank you at my last meeting, but um, just right now, thank you so much for everything you've done for me and um, yeah, I hope everyone has a great evening. Thank you, Superintendent Norman. Good evening, everyone. So much have been said and I'll certainly try and brief our exception, but I do
051echo all the sentiments of acknowledgement and gratitude. Uh, thank you Mr. Burgerer for being a great host tonight. Um, I too attended our art show last Friday, my wife and I. Enough said. We have talented students and I certainly want to acknowledge them for their work and and all the beauty that they bring to our district. um FBLA uh students, our chorus, thank you uh for what you do, what you represent. This week, we are acknowledging teachers, nurses, our transportation workers, and and not just them because they're on the on the calendar, but everyone. And you from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you for all that you do every single day. You matter. Um thank you, Mr. K Hill for such a great um budget presentation. I know we've been
052going at this for for months now. Um also want to acknowledge the cabinet for your updates. Very informative. Thank you. Um getting back to the budget, uh this week we will uh make our way to to the senior centers and um I do encourage the public to to ask us questions and we we want to share. We want everyone to know all the great things that we're doing. So, please uh let us know what what you want to know more about and thank you for all the work behind the scene for making this happen. Um, happy Mother's Day and good evening. Thank you. Well, I think I'm definitely going to echo a lot of what was said tonight. Uh, first, thank you to Mr. Burgerer and the middle school administration and the building looks beautiful
053and clean and the artwork in the back of the auditorium. Thank you for sharing that with us. Um, that was part of the art exhibit over the weekend that I attended with Mrs. Simmons and Miss Novak. Uh, opening night like everyone said, it was absolutely unbelievable the talent and the the inspiration and a lot of those pieces back there. I I remember and they they were done by some of our very young students uh in the middle school as well. So, the level of talent is definitely very very high. The chamber chorus was beautiful. Um I'm wow it really sounds like you you're at a Broadway show and uh FBLA reaching their milestone. I also like to thank Mrs. Pulconex for her leadership with the FBA FBLA students. I know that she's been very instrumental
054over the years in having a big impact on our students and and what they do after they leave us with, you know, civic engagement and being involved in their community. So, thank you for for mentoring them and leading them. And yes, today is school nurse uh appreciation day. So, thank you to our school nurses and teacher appreciation month. Uh should be every month, right? We're thankful for everybody every day. Uh thank you to the uh MW Teachers Association, Mr. Mroy, for your your comments and your support of the budget. and I am looking very forward to attending tomorrow evening's academic awards for our our seniors at the high school. So with that, have a good night. Uh come out and vote for the budget and the uh board of education trustees on May 20th. Happy
055Mother's Day. And is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I. We are journed.