001call to order the regular meeting of the Board of Education today is Wednesday March 5th 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 okay start off with a reading of the mission statement we are committed to academic achievement and success for all students in a safe environment in partnership with families and our community our mission is to promote confidence Inspire passion for Learning and to prepare our students to become responsible Global Citizens is there an approval of the revised agenda motion second second all in favor I I motion carries is there any update on questions or comments from interest in citizens no there is is not
002are there any questions or comments from interested citizens here no that brings us to our budget presentation Dr Hustler we come over here no problem am I too close no I'm a little too close to you good evening uh thank you to the board of education for the opportunity uh for all of us to present the curriculum instruction budget for the 25 26 school year before I start I just want to give a a a big thank you to the entire admin team the department chairs the directors the principes the assistant principles who all work very hard in assembling the the curriculum instruction budget this year uh a big thank you also to the business office Patrick and his team because there have been many visits to the business office checking in on expenditure reports
003and um um you know positions and things like that and and so they've been a true asset and finally thank you to the cni office team um it's it's been a very busy set of weeks trying to get all of the various building and and Department presentations Consolidated into the presentation and get everybody prepared so just a big thank you to everybody um just an overview of the presentation I'm going to start with some general budget highlights to hopefully um kind of expedite the process a little bit in terms of consistent themes that you'll see across all the various budgets uh you'll hear from each of the building principles as well as our Athletics and PE and special special education departments regarding their budgets finally at the end I will kind of tie it all
004together of the various budgets that you're going to hear as well as any of the other districtwide budget lines that um all comprise the the curriculum instruction budget um just a quick reminder that this budget presentation is as of March 5th 2025 uh the reason why I say that is because we still have about a month worth of budget development to go before Dr Norman presents his final budget to the Board of Education um you may have noticed that the original draft presentation that I put up on Friday and even what's in front of you today has changed slightly because we had uh two seats that were budgeted for in the special education department that had to be removed because students were going into different placements so this is a very very very fluid process
005so what you're hearing right now is on March 5th um you know things continue to be examined and looked into as we prepare the final budget for Dr Norman to present next month so just some quick highlights first and foremost uh the budget you're about to hear um is designed to ensure that we maintain all expenses for all of our programs within the school district um our goal you know we we are are um strong Believers in the programs that we provide for our students and we want to make sure that the budget reflects our ability to be able to continue to maintain all of those excellent programs um in addition to that you're going to hear uh from each of the build building principles at the elementary level we have a a placeholder for
006some updates to our into reading program they have a new version coming out with some updates that are going to be included in the ELA uh textbook lines across the the elementary level uh as well as enVision Math each of the five elementary buildings have uh a shift in their enVision Math textbook line because previously those budgets were out of a district wide line and they've been moved into each of the buildings lines so rather than having each of the buildings talk to you about and my line is going up and my math line is going up those are consistent themes that you'll see across all the buildings um we increased uh our field trip budget line from a $14 per student multiplier to an $18 per student multiplier so that's a budget line that
007is increasing across the board um again rather than each of the building principles presenting on that that that's a theme that's across the school district and later on you're going to hear me speak about um our our continued investment in Career and Technical education programs and our special education budget um one quick question that I was asked that I wanted to share with the board I was asked about where our Universal prek program exists within this budget um our Universal prek program exists separately from this budget because uh a good portion of that program is paid for out of state uh state aid funds and there's actually an interfund transfer line that's within the general fund where the state aid monies gets deposited into and that's not considered a a a curriculum and instruction budget
008line so that does not uh appear in this budget however um Mrs Turley when she presents Sapphire there is a slight piece of the sapphire budget because there are three teachers at Sapphire who some of the supply money that is within your building goes to that program but um all of the other materials that Mrs charlei presents on focuses exclusively on K1 students within her building and not the upk program with that we're going to start off with Christine AR the princial at Smith clove good evening on behalf of our Smith clove Community I thank you for this opportunity to present our proposed budget for the 2526 school year for your consideration as Mrs marvich says at best we serve 477 beautifully diverse students at Smith Clove Elementary and this proposed budget reflects costs to
009maintain the excellent programs in place for student learning in addition to the increases in lines presented by Dr Hassler the one additional increase that we have is in the line of social studies and that increase is due to the co increased costs for the resources to support student learning as you can see by the Line to Line budget uh you'll see the increases to the principal line the ELA math and social studies lines as presented once again thank you for the opportunity to present Smith cl's proposed budget the principal line across each of the buildings is where the field trip portion of the budget is in included that I mentioned before so that's what that line increas is referring to up next is Mrs tki for Sapphire good evening everyone thank you for the opportunity
010to be here um our current enrollment is 281 students and that's the number that I use to build this budget we do have three upk classes in in Sapphire and we are limited to 18 students per class so we to we actually have a total of 335 students but the budget that you see is really for our 281 on the numbers as Dr Hassler said under general education um that's where we uh use the money for supplies for teachers and and um we have three upk teachers and we do give them the money from that line for folders and cotton balls and construction paper and all the things that the little that the little people need um and language art as Dr Hassler said is um for inter reading perhaps we will increase on that
011and the math is the additional practice books we call that homework back in my day but they're additional practice book so we're paying for that everything else is pretty self-explanatory awesome any questions thank you thank you up next we're going to invite our two five principles to come on up thank you and up next is Dr Morales for our pin tree budget good evening on behalf of pin tree Mr Martin and I would like to thank the members of the cabinet and Board of Ed to for the opportunity to share our budget we are currently at 7 143 students and as discussed previously you'll see increases in our principal math and English language arts line the other increase to note is an increase in our music line which is for additional instruments for our students
012great next is Mr Davis at North M good evening good um on behalf of Mrs greenblat in the entire North Main Community our 567 students would would love for you to take and consider our budget the only increase to our budget is basically um an increase in the furniture line for replacing some unsafe chairs in the fourth and fifth grade our PE line went up a little bit and that's just for some additional equipment for our PE classes thank you do we have a timeline on the cheriff good question is there is there a hold back on on furniture well are we we're talking about for next year yeah well uh as soon as the budget is presuming the budget is passed approved by the uh Community we could generate a purchase order for the
0132526 year send that to the vendor so it could happen as quickly as early July I would say Summertime with the goal of obviously having the for September yeah absolutely yes awesome you know we we generate a PO and just say Do not deliver or invoice us prior to July 1 awesome but the goal being obviously a sep m 1 um install for those so that way they're there for the start of the school year yeah I just didn't think that we we didn't have any backlog and Furniture I I I'm not sure specifically about the chairs um you might be interested Roger we uh L I was going to say we we have ordered some chairs for the current year we ordered some for the current year for the immediate classroom that and as
014far as I know I I don't believe there's any big dangerous chairs yes we we're planning to replace the dangerous chairs that purchase order was already done and as soon as we get delivery hopefully soon we'll be ready to and I'm not aware of any big backlog on the chairs or anything like that so yeah should have it all by September one and this budget request is to continue the roll out of additional same chairs for other classrooms yeah we made a plan to cover the next four years to get them all changed great right Mr Baron at Central Valley thank you Dr hustel good evening everyone I can now uh introduce myself as the proud principal at Central Valley Elementary School and [Applause] um man thank you like my colleagues I too am very
015fortunate to have a dedicated professional staff uh at Centra Valley and including my assistant principal Marisol and I present to you my proposed budget um well first uh my current enrollment is 386 and piggybacking on what Dr Hassler shared the bumps in my lines are attributed to the principal uh the field trips language arts for the um inter reading and the math all of that coming back to the building you'll notice I as a highlight all of my lines are at a decrease I followed a zerob based budget uh budgeting approach and I feel very confident with what I am proposing I'll be able to support and maintain programs at Central Valley the one area that I'm currently looking at I know I would like to replace the meeting carpets that are in the classrooms
016so I'm excited to have the opportunity to do that for our staff for our students other than that um again my uh my budget's in front of you and I am pleased to say that there are decreases in every area with the exception of those few lines that were mentioned previously any questions no thank you right thank [Music] you and up next I'm going to invite up Mr burer and Mr mcy and up next is Mr Burger he'll speak about the middle school budget thank you Dr H Hassler uh good evening Board of Education members superintendent Norman and Central administrators on behalf of the monre Woodbury Middle School I thank you for the opportunity to present and our proposed budget for the 25 26 school year in our requests for your consideration you will see
017a slight increase in a few lines throughout our budget uh one of those lines is our principal lines in addition to the uh districtwide increase in field trip line we are also uh budgeting for our eighth grade mural uh I know that the when the visitation committee came by earlier in the school year was something that we discussed if you have not been in the building we invite you to come check it out because it is now completed and it looks unbelievable we've gotten a lot of great feedback from our eighth grade students but our entire Community is something that we're looking to build on as an annual um thing to celebrate our eighth graders just a quick synopsis because we are very proud of it um our all of the eighth graders were allowed
018to uh give some input as to what the mural will look like objects or you know things that were in there and then we had a muralist come in and take all of the input from our eighth graders and design a mural uh he came in he did the outline and then each of our eighth graders were invited along with staff to go and actually paint part of the mural uh we we were fortunate that buildings and grounds quickly supported putting some spotlights on the mural as well so it's really popping in the hallways generating a lot of excitement so uh we're looking to continue that and make that an annual tradition so uh we're we're asking to increase our principal lines to support that our general supplies lines uh slight increase and that is
019due to purchasing locks for our students for their lockers we do give students the opportunity to bring in their own locks from home some of them are uh they they feel very attached to their own personal locks in different colors and things like that ours are very Bland that we offer but if you do not have a lock um it is a safety feature that you know for safety measures we do need to make sure that the lockers are locked so we do purchase a number of locks every year to ensure that for all of our students where asking for a slight increase of just under $1,000 for uh science texts that is for an online text for our biology students it is a six-year subscription so it's not something that will need to be
020presented or renewed on an annual basis uh we would revisit it again in six years this is the same text that they are using at the high school uh as well so it aligns with that music lines uh we are entering a multi-year phase of uh proposal to re replace some of our musical instruments this this figure that you see of just over $1900 is to replace one tuba for next year for the middle school and lastly uh we are respectfully asking for an increase in our world language line by $2,000 and that is for our world language Department to uh bring in an assembly for our world language students these are our core uh classes that you see in front of you with the doll figures and then the following slide is our Encore
021areas with a total of just over 2% increase as our proposed budget for next year any questions questions no Mr mroy all right thank you very much okay good even good evening everybody uh like my fellow administrators I'm grateful on behalf of the high school Community to be able to present the requested budget for the 25 26 school year I'm going to highlight some of the increases and decreases you'll see in the next two slides um staff development you'll see in the principal and the conference and meeting lines up a little bit due to uh increased professional development costs uh in the general education fund you'll see an increase due to we have two classrooms uh stagecraft room behind our Auditorium and our tech room in 120 that is in need of Cabinetry the and
022shelving in disrepair not really fixable anymore so we're looking to upgrade that uh text replacement this is actually decrease you'll see in the social studies line it is down substantially that is because we were able to cover the six-year uh digital TCH contract with this year's funds dropping uh the request for next year uh and musical instruments our musical line is up this year as well due to student needs we have a few musical Insurance requests that you'll see in in the lines this like the middle school is our core subject areas followed by our elective areas and we overall are down 70% overall at the high school this year okay I have one question when when we're seeing I know Furniture is Furniture but when you're building shelves and stuff I know when we
023visited the middle school and other buildings A lot of times our staff is sometimes actually building those units is that a potential possibility here or is this all outsourced material that you're purchasing it is a potential opportunity we just started those conversations uh depending on what happens with the budget we'll kind of move forward with that but that is a potential possibility for us thank you any other questions well thank you very much thank you [Applause] and next up is Brian Wilson our athletic director to speak about our Athletics and PE budget good evening everybody uh before we get into the proposed budget I just kind of want to give everyone a snapshot of where we're at right now for the athletic department uh so we do have 73 total teams in the district broken
024down as you can see and I also too want to put in there the amount of students participating in our programs so obviously this spring right now we're currently in the registration state age uh so I could give you those numbers right now we have a week to go before it closes we're about 650 kids registered so far I expect that to obviously get close to last year um but as you can see over the last three years we've had a decent amount of our student athletes participating in athletics uh for our budget are two huge highlights uh one kind of is already in play for this upcoming spring is the co-ed Varsity clay target team uh that is actually in our uh number of teams that we have right now so that'll be starting
025uh but that line is in our budget for next year and also our wrestling team right now was a co-ed team which we're looking to split into a boys and a girls team uh this year was the first year that the New York state had a girls wrestling tournament uh so we're looking to join that mission and having two separate teams uh so you'll see that line as well uh to increase our uh budget for next year as far as fette goes fette were pretty much on par as what we were with last year questions no thank you thank you and up next I have Eric Ula who's the director of Elementary special education Karen Jordan who's the director of people Personnel Services and Randy Conley who is the director of secondary special education your
026turn good evening thank you for the opportunity to speak with you tonight it's an honor to be here to disc discuss some of the important aspects of our budget and educational priorities in the coming minutes we will provide you with an overview of several key areas that we are focusing on in the coming year including the increases in PPS Administration and Hospital Iz ation lines the decreases in the CSE and Health Services line as well as the out of District tuition which has been increased by the 27 students thanks so the increases in the PPS Administration line is due to IEP direct and Regional information center cost being moved to that line along with Medicaid billing costs increasing the hospital instruction increase is due to a rising cost of educating students who are being hospitalized
027and we looked at a year-to-year analysis for that the reductions in both health services and committee on special ed were uh made after an analysis of actual expenditures in 2324 and to look at how much we've spent so far this year to be able to discuss each of the subcategories and why there is either an increase or decrease when we take a look at the tuition non-resident lines those are our students that are parentally placed in private schools within the Monroe woodbery Central School District borders and we build back so for example if a student attends one of our private schools that's located within our borders from Washingtonville we build back to Washingtonville so we get that reimbursable claim back to us the tuition resident when we think about bosies every year we have an
028increase of 3% right off the bat so so we are um have we currently have an projected an a very large incoming kindergarten class that requires low ratio classroom structure with High um management needs so we have an increase of 27 students from year to year that will be projected to go out of District um these children within the bundle bundled amount it includes the program related services and if they require Aid support when we think about our resident tuition um those are our students again that are going out of district and require more intensive services our chapter students those are our um Family Care hom students or the group home students we have a decrease for next year because where we previously had three additional students we have one student that will currently be
029a chapter student and as you can see we have a 21.55% increase the the tuition resident line um qualifies for all stackable high cost Aid reimbursement from from uh the state and from the federal government correct the tuition non-resident line is fully reimbursed and the chapter student line is also fully reimbursed at the school district correct the tuition resident um when you say the stackable aid for the public and for us to know is that at 100% is it at 90% 70% so we have the cost at for the um it's the difference between the cost of the public expense and the the cost above the public expense so it's at 68% above the the public expense okay and this budget number includes the differential no this is the full dollar amount and then it's
030reimbursed the sub year after after you file the stacking with stay dead you get reimbursed the following school year so this dollar amount represents the full amount the reimburse the reduced amount okay so so the money reimburse should be the following year following year and that's going to cover some of that correct when Patrick presents his Budget on Revenue that reimbursement appears on the revenue side for the subsequent year thank you thank you thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you so each of these budgets compile into one large curricul and instruction budget the overall curric and instruction budget is broken up into six different uh sorry eight different areas core programs which is k1 Ela Math Science Social Studies District programs which are our various Encore programs PE Athletics special secondary which is business
031Student Activities and Bose's occupational Ed instructional support buildings category is the principal Line supply lines conferences and meetings education Support Services is Ela AIS and nonpublic textbooks instructional management is um the instructional management curriculum development and then special ed is special ed in PPS so to give you an idea about the overall size of each of those um special secondary is the largest category special education is not included in this because of the size of that this is the remaining budget lines special secondary is the largest component of that because that includes the tuition for Bose's occupational Ed but this gives you the breakdown of all of the the the ratio of all the other various programs across the entire curriculum and instruction budget so this represents the overall cni budget which includes the various
032presentations from each of the different buildings um the core programs reflects the into reading increase and the math textbook increase but you'll notice that overall that line has changed much because it's included largely with the various textbook lines um you may notice in the overall District y budget there's a reduction of the districtwide math textbook line and that reduction is the result of the buildings now budgeting for their math books so the reduction in the district wide line is why you saw the increase in each of the various building budgets so overall that's not a net increase across the entire budget um the district wide programs the increase there includes two main things the various music items that were spoken about by the buildings um as well as our family and consumer science department is
033is proposing uh an update in some of the appliances that are in our fax classes uh P physical education is as Mr Wilson presented um special secondary programs is included in the um the various um the the the various lines most notably the CC line the reason why I want to bring attention to that is the that increase of nearly $200,000 is the result of us currently budgeting for an increase of 10 seats next year in Bose's occupational Ed I've shared with the board in previous years that we've had an incremental increase of about five seats we've seen a pretty significant increase in interest of our students that are participating in that program so you know at this moment in time we're planning on budgeting for 10 additional seats rather than the five additional seats
034um so that's what that increase is is attributed to the instructional support line uh is is basically the field trip increases that I spoke about uh education Support Services is AIS enl and textbooks the increase in that line um in previous years we have some students that are in out of District placements in various programs who get um English as a new language services in their out of District placement and that was previously uh included in the special education budget however it's a separate bosis line that we've created now in the education Support Services line that line also qualifies for State a because it is a Bose line and the students receive that service at um at their Bose's placement the instructional management line is flat and the special education line is as reflected when
035our our three directors presented any questions well done thanks Dr Hassler and thank you to the presenters [Applause] [Music] okay next is the approval of minutes from February 19th 2025 is there a motion motion second second all in favor I I motion carries and for personnel Miss Hawk thank you I'd like to request board approval for the items listed under Personnel this evening 8.1 to 8.17 any questions motion motion second second all in favor motion carries and for business and financial Mr kahill uh thank you I respectfully request approval of business and financial items 9.1 through 9.5 um is there a motion motion second second all in favor I motion carries actually I'm just going to back up for a minute because I'd like the board just approved Dr Morales as a Cabinet member so
036on behalf of the board I'd like to invite you up to your seat at the [Music] [Applause] de thank [Laughter] [Music] you okay and committee on special education and preschool special education is there a motion motion second second all in favor I I motion carries and report by our student representative Mr Dylan Escobar hey guys uh hope you're all doing well um my presentation today is going to be a little different than my usual ones uh it's going to be less data heavy so I'm going to get through it a little bit quicker um share your all so sad about that um uh yeah uh right now I'm a little over the halfway mark for my time in this role and I want to do as much as I can to make sure that the
037voice of students is heard and that people are also familiar with my role as much as possible uh this month I had the opportunity to speak at an introductory meeting at the high school for uh elll students uh during my portion of the presentation I spoke about my role as board representative uh what it entails and how these students can reach out um as well as other resources in the high school that they can use for support uh I got to deliver my speech in Spanish and it was excellent to hear that I was actually understandable to the students um I recently took the Seal of biliteracy test it was a wonderful experience and I want to thank Mr Vasquez for the opportunity and for organizing such an informative presentation I'm committed to representing all
038students regardless of background and language and even as policy might change in the future future I want to ensure that this position and likewise all student leadership uh throughout all the schools is focused on protecting and uplifting our entire population so um afterwards I had the chance to meet with Mr McElroy and Dr CR at the high school about some of the things that I went over at my last meeting uh the portion of my last report on uh school counselors caused a little bit of a stir last time uh and I wanted to discuss a little bit about that some of the ways that we can improve in advertising clarifications from for me and uh it was a very informative meeting and I'm happy to see that what I'm discussing at these meetings is
039taken into consideration by school leadership and is put into action um and semi- related to my role as Board of edre I got the chance to go to the middle school for a presentation about the video production classes but while there I did get to speak to many middle schoolers about miscellaneous concerns within the building um and I want to schedule a meeting with the Middle School Administration in the coming weeks to discuss some of the things that we went over and um uh I want to make sure I get clarifications and understanding it's a lot of different M miscellaneous things so I don't feel like going through every single one of them today um but it's nothing bad uh a lot of it was yeah a lot of it was kids asking for school
040one day a week and pizza every day but um you know I'll see what I can do about that um very important last thing I want to mention is that this week I am once again visiting uh the K1 schools uh Tuesday I visited Sapphire and tomorrow I'm meeting with Smith clove I um it's really important to me that students are always respectful of others with differences uh so I am reading to them this book uh we are all wonders if you know the book Wonder it is the uh it is a children's book version of that and um it's a really wonderful story um about a kid with a fa difference he has Treacher Collins syndrome and um it's really important to me that kids are familiar with students uh and just people in
041general who might have facial differences and educating them on being respectful and kind no matter the way someone looks Because deep down um we all just are fantastic people and what's on the inside is the most that um is the most important so uh we had a great discussion at Sapphire about how to treat others with respect and um it was just a great time the kids were adorable and I'm glad to be informing students about how to respect others with differences and disabilities um it's just really important to me that these kids are getting the opportunity and learning about um some of the things that they might see in the future um and that's uh almost everything I have for today I hope to do more visits uh to the schools in the future
042similar to what I did at the middle school where I just get to discuss with students their concerns directly rather than coming with a structured outline or area of focus um before I go there's one more thing I'd like to bring attention to um and I'm sure it will probably be mentioned later in the meeting but a family in Monroe recently lost their home in a in a fire and they need all the help they can get uh there's a GoFundMe that was just released um for the family um I don't know where it's posted right now but if you'd like to donate uh contact me and I'll send it to you um uh it I'm sure it's probably posted on Facebook as well but the family needs all the help they can get so
043um if you can just please donate and my thoughts and prayers are with the family as they're trying to rebuild so yeah once again if you can donate um please just reach out to me I'll send you the link or I'm sure it's posted Elsewhere on Facebook or on uh one of our pages and um yeah that concludes my presentation for today thank you [Music] thank you for your commitment and your focus and your passion for your role Dylan thank you um there is a a mandate now that school districts have to have a school board student representative and I saw that our Orange County Schoolboard Association is going to be having discussion about it with some of our component districts I think it might be a good opportunity for you to speak about your
044I would love to yeah role here it's actually this evening well that's great Drive quick not this one but we can yeah no worries no it's all good no it's all good I actually um I was speaking with um uh Dory Johnson at the high school she is on the Pine Bush um Board of Education and they're talking about introducing that uh role to the board and I was giving her some advice on it and just what they can do so um yeah I've been in talks with other school districts about the position but yeah I'd love to reach out and speak out whatever I can to educate people on the role okay I'll make the connection thank you okay is this highlighted because I always forget this next session or okay next up reports
045by Board of Education committees vice president serel for audit I throw you to I usually start that way nope that's fine uh audit committee meeting we have the next one is March 26 which is a Wednesday at 5:00 pm that's the only update I have right now thank you for policy Miss Donahue yeah uh we haven't met since our last board meeting our next meeting is next Tuesday the 11th at 8:30 amm right here in the uh Central School District office and everyone's welcome thank you all for visitation Mr Reynolds our next meeting is Thursday March 13th um bring your own Donuts uh 4:00 uh Smith clove I think and 4:30 here at the Ed Center thank you Mrs McClary for the capital projects um no new updates our next meeting is Thursday March 27th
046at 5: PM okay Miss Simmons I know tonight is their school board meeting thanks suzan yeah the on the agenda as you stated was um Governor hok's mandate that each school district have an exif anado School Board rep uh student rep which we have so yes thank you Miss Simmons okay reports by board and central office we will start with Mr kahill um thank you I just like to thank my colleagues for their efforts um and work in putting together next year's budget uh I know it's a lot of work um I'm involved with it as well and for your presentations tonight everyone did a great job and with that I hope everyone has a nice evening thank you Dr vas good um I had a pleasure to uh attend ay of the mind last
047week and nice to see you there uh eight team participated um and and school team Miss uh team mcky and Rivera took the first place they will be advancing to this to the State final uh in the uh in the April in Syracuse big shout out to Team One um and I had a pleasure to see their performance even though their their solution did not work they did not flinch they continue with the whole process and they were awarded with the Omar uh it's a special award uh Omar is the mascot of RC of the mind and they've been awarded for that award so oh big shout out to all the students and a great teamw workk uh with their teach as well and thank you to parents to show up there too um Dr
048Hassler I I I saw Annie it was amazing I saw a Wizard of Oz it was amazing uh good luck to the middle school coming up with honk and to the high school with Secret Garden uh was at the pr prism concert it was great I also was at Odyssey the mind I saw Dylan compete great job congrats to your team thank you um and that's it I wish everybody a good night thank you to everybody once again for their support with the budget thank you h thank you uh we're in the midst of our hiring season for 25 26 school year and I'd like to congratulate a few people in our audience tonight um who will be uh PR assistant principles at the high school coming September Gina matis and Dylan fer [Music] congratulations
049and also currently in an interm capacity uh to my left you've already mentioned Dr Caren Morales and I'd also like to recognize Mr Tim Martin who will be stepping up currently in an interm role as the pin tree interm [Music] principal thank you Dr Morales a little bit off the cuff um I would just like to uh thank the cabinet and the board of ed for this opportunity I'm really excited to work alongside my people Elementary administrators and teachers you're an amazing group and I'm thankful to work along side of you each day and I do want to just make a selfish plug for Annie at Pine Tree it was absolutely amazing um have a good night um just wanted to thank the presenters tonight it's always it's it's really truly a pleasure to see
050to have a face to the building um so thank you for that um and of course those those who don't have a building are special ed um so thank you congratulations to the new appointees have a great evening thank you you miss Donahue yeah U thank you very much for the budget presentation it was very informative very detailed as always uh congratulations to the newo appointees and uh welcome Dr Morales to the cabinet and I'm looking I had a blast seeing SpongeBob the um the wizard and what was the other one Annie Annie I can't wait to see honk this weekend and I'm looking forward to the high school performance of The Secret Garden and there's just so much so many wonderful things going on in this District we've got so much to be proud
051of have a lovely evening and stay dry Miss Simmons uh I I want to reiterate the sentiments uh welcome Dr Morales um congratulations to all of the new appointees I've also had the honor and the distinct privilege of seeing all of our wonderful performers at SpongeBob and Annie and the visit of Oz at Shameless plug the Middle School honk Junior play this weekend might be the best one but you know I'm not biased cuz my children are in it or anything but I do encourage you all to come out and support it is a wonderful wonderful production as all of the Productions have been um thank you to all of the presenters and the building administrators um meeting you on the walkthroughs of your buildings and getting to put numbers to some of the things
052that you do I think it helps us to to visualize kind of the needs and where you put the money money that you know you use for our students so that's always very much appreciated um again everyone have a wonderful wonderful weekend and please do come out to to the next iteration and good luck to the high schoolers on their secret garden I will be there to see that as well thank you Mrs McClary um thank you tonight to the presenters it is always great to hear from um all of the people that are behind the scenes putting in all the work so thank you to that welcome to Dr Morales and congratulations to the other appointees all very well deserved and I know the district will be all the better for it so thank
053you for that and um I had a great time at Annie so thank you for the invitation it was wonderful and have a good night thank you Mr RS uh yeah I saw Annie and Oz they were awesome thank you to all the students obviously in the hard work for the staff and the leadership to make all that happen I'm very much uh welcome to Dr Morales thank you for stepping up we appreciate you and uh good luck to you Mr Martin as sing over the seat um I'd also like to say Well done on the briefings tonight especially an executive level brief I appreciate everyone who briefed appropriately and precise and all the leadership who made that happen um I think that's better for our community uh to understand the budget a little bit
054easier than digging down to every bottom number right so uh keep it simple so I appreciate that have a great night be safe thank you Dr kman uh presentations were awesome although I did miss uh the beginning I couldn't stop and during the sun outside um thank you for the presentations congratulations to Dr Morales I can't see she's there uh congratulations to all the appointees and have a great evening thank you Mr to say something um wonderful presentation today um I wasn't able to see them I'm very sorry but uh great job to all of the uh two through five students with their uh musical Productions and uh I'm hoping to see honk this uh this weekend and um uh also congratulations to all the new appointees and Dr Morales um I know you're new
055here I'll show you the ropes don't worry oh that was good thank you superintendent Norman good evening everyone I too share the same sentiments that have been expressed tonight um I do want to take pause to just um really acknowledge the cabinet and the Board of Ed some of these appointments things that that we talk about there's a lot of work that take place uh behind the scenes and so um when we're together you we're stronger we're best and and tonight we just uh see the full manifestation of all the hard work that go that takes place behind the scenes um yes congrats to all of our presenters and performers uh that's been shared um my highlight test drive of school bus event event will be uh Saturday April 26 uh you can check our
056website for registration congratulations to the four musicians named to all eastn honors Ensemble by the National Association for music education and also want to highlight that we recognized Don ricardi Cook manager at the middle school as our most recent Crusader calls for Applause recipient what an amazing you individual and is so great to acknowledge our kitchen workers people that uh that sweat behind the scenes so thank you thank you to all thank you vice president s um I just want to thank everybody though that was my favorite budget presentation ever wow it was so Patrick you have some the bar the bar is raised for next month yes it was I'm going to sit up it was re foot brilliant Bri fo brilliant it was not too brief it was almost 30 minutes exactly I
057timed it when it started um but it was well done you hit the highlights really great job appreciate that um I also want to uh recognize little Broadway at Monroe Woodbury uh we have some of the best kids and theater programs around um I'm looking forward to uh honk if I can make it there I might have a schedule conflict so I'm going to try uh and then obviously the high school presentation and I want to welcome Dr Morales and all the new appointees and wish everyone a great evening thank you thank you I feel like there's so much to say but there's been so much said also but I agree that excellent presentation thank you it was well done and and I think very easy to understand all the different pieces um Personnel I
058do want to comment on Dr Morales and Mr Martin for your flexibility and support support and supporting some of the changes that were were approved tonight and congratulations to miss matis and Mr fer and also I just wanted to acknowledge that we are coming out of um black history month and I I recently had the opportunity to watch your video where you visited with the Smith clovers and uh it was a very moving interaction that that I watched so thank you for that and again thank you Dylan for your commitment it's very noted thank you and with that I will ask for a motion to adjourn into an executive session to discuss Personnel motion second all in favor I motion carries have a good night