March 24, 2026 - Board of Education Meeting

001Motion to approve the minutes of the March 10, 2026 Board of Education meeting is presented. So moved. Questions, comments? Junior, senior, high school. Spring's musical sneak… So we'll take another short intermission in the board meeting will go up, and uh… the, um, uh… drama, um, students are going to give us a short, uh, sneak peek preview on the show, and then we'll come back down. and resume, because it really protect stability. You should do that. Avenge. that everybody who was here is invited? Nope, everyone here is invited. Or just, you know, 2026, 2027. So, we have some, um, there are some updates for tonight's presentation on, um, uh, the budget. as well as, um, we have an enrolled in Newport, it's attached after this as well, too. But, um, uh, just an update in terms

002of… you'll see this throughout the different slides tonight. Um, you'll notice we highlighted 7110. That number's already changed since we started our budget meeting conditions. It's down, um, two more students. And that number fluctuates up and down as we go up throughout the year, but… You know, just in terms of the, you know, stuff we're wondering, we highlighted, is the numbers being structured as… Uh, you know, we'll get into the enrollment in a little bit more detail. After we go through the updates for the budget presentation, You know, as we started out in the beginning of the, uh, beginning of… February now. Um, this is our fourth presentation that we've, uh, provided on the budget, and as we go through the development of it. We talked about the retirement system rates and how they have

003changed. Um, a big piece for the TRS rates, they're pretty much, uh, impacted the most by… Yep. I'm not sure why that's… But if you had stopped sharing and then try to share again, see how that's red next to it, where it said you're out of your stomach completely, and then start again. Thank you. That's weird, sure, we have it up there, sharing correctly. We can ask one of our audience members to remote if they can see it. Check the shed. Yes. No, so thank you, Johnson. Thank you, kids. Okay. So, are we through this one? Yeah, we're through that one. So it wasn't allowing you to advance the slides. Okay. Okay. So, picking up where the TRS, what I was about to say, the TRS rates, those are pretty, um… significantly impacted by, um,

004uh, Wall Street, what happens on Wall Street. Um, in terms of the fluctuation of those numbers. Um, energy services, uh, we haven't changed that number since the beginning. It's still looking at a 20% increase, uh, and we can see the fluctuation that we're having right now just in our gas prices for gasoline, as I think in one week they went up 30 cents, um, a week or two ago. Health insurance, um, increases by 10%, and we keep getting different, um, updates. The 10% number is pretty much solid from what we're getting from the consortium, but then they're projecting out a 9.5 to 9.25, and a 9%. Um, uh, will then increase, um, you know, by 1.4 million, or 53.8%. Um, uh, from 25 to 26. So we're looking at a significant, over the next 4

005to 5 years. A significant increase in health insurance costs. Um, which are driven by a lot of different things, um… prescriptions and, um, medical costs in general. So… For reference there also included the numbers in the middle row there, 665675. That is what was projected last year. Um, so, our number last year was a 6.5% increase, and that's what we're told, that's what we're working with, and… Now those numbers have changed to double digits, so just… It's a projection over the next 4 years. And just how they projected last year, they've already… they changed them for this year, and… you know, we're at a double-digit for this year for health insurance, so… Um, you know, the catastrophic claims over the GOPs, um, have represented the most significant impact on the insurance. The district insurance, which

006is inclusive of liability, workers' comp, And I've brought with coverage. BOCES costs increase, um, on an average about, like, 1%. Um, depending on the service, Existing, um, budget factors, and this idea came up last year during the budget process, and Ray George, before we voted on the budget. I'm gonna let Joe speak about this. Um, he, uh, put the initiative together to, um, put an exit poll together from our last year's vote. We didn't have a lot of participants, um, but we did have a few, and, you know, just to go over with what the exit poll and what people were saying of the small sample that we've received. Right. So, again, we want to make sure you have everything up there. That was from anybody who came to vote, we asked board members to

007please ask that. We had those laptops set up on the table. I suppose we only got 21 responses. So that is kind of the… most common themes of these were the programs that the 21 respondents said that they would like to see the district protect or expand upon. arts and athletics and music all came off, uh, probably 4 or 5 times. Um, staffing and class size. academic programs and intervention, key areas for protection include consistent education for all students, enhancements to special education, to early intervention, and then CTE programs at the UP and college sports programs. So, with programs that we have in place, it seems like the ask for us to continue those programs. Um, one of the other questions we wanted feedback on was communications. And how did our participants feel about the

008communication that was provided in past years? The overwhelming task last year, as you may recall, was they wanted to know more about board candidates. So, could there be a candidate night? We don't finalize those packets until April 21st, so if it's something that's, you know, the board would like to explore and try to have some sort of offering, it's definitely something we could do. We hadn't done it before in the past, it hadn't been something that was asked for, at least in my couple years here. the early direct communications and, you know, the quicker way to get out budget information. Again, We are bound by the time constraints, so we have all of these, um, presentations are all posted to the district website. We're sending some information when possible on social media. But, like, for

009example, the newsletter. The newsletter can't go to print until those candidates are finalized on the 21st. That morning, we're gonna pull the box that we ordered. So that's the earliest they can get to the print shop. Everything else will be prepared in advance, but they need that by 21 to then get those all printed and out in homes. By May 5th. So there's… you know, we want to get it out, obviously, before the budget hearing, but it's just one of those ones. As soon as we can, we'll put it on the district website, but we really can't get out, uh, They print cotton before that because of that timeline, so that's one big piece of… it's a bit of a change. Remind me what we can put out on social media in regards to the

010budget. Do we set the photo, but we don't put the full newsletter budget presentation. We send out the newsletter electronically anyways. To Paris Square, or to Square? And then there's usually links on the webpage. We typically do every year, this section, like the Current budget, and then the past budgets. I know there is some… complaints, I guess, um, from people who are community members, but not necessarily parents, because they have better sports. We can certainly push everything on social media. Yeah. You're gonna pay a link to downloading the newsletter before it can actually be in mailboxes? Yeah, basically April 21st is the very earliest. And typically, what we do is we have the newsletter 9 to 5, 98% done, and then when we get the board of candidates, Um, we… we put them in the

011order that they're drawn out, that they're going to be off from the ballot, and they need information that they provide us the data that they write it that they want to share with us. Um, compared to, uh, Newspire. And the overwhelming feedback on the communication last year was it went really well. Iraq speak with one of the participants of it, and he actually wrote down her response before I was, how did you hear about the vote? So, same third Tuesday every single year. It was, you know, nice talking with people, but it's… Um, I don't want to understand people are in a time crunch, you know, so they're in and out of there quick, so we're obviously open to any suggestions to, you know, get more feedback as to… a diverse group of stakeholders. So,

012those are just a kind of reminders. We talked about those after the budget last year, but it's something that our budget developer So, just, um, you know, not to go over this in any detail unless there's questions, we have the transportation proposals for the buses. We do have the NISVICT grant, um, for the electric buses. The order is going to be a choice of gas buses that are, you know, propelled by combustion and into gas, and then electric buses are there as well, too. Um, we also have submitted for a waiver. Um, we had submitted through the waiver, um, before the March 1st deadline. We received information back from the state and some clarification on one of the questions. And recently, again, our leader at the updated some information. And I think Joe had reported

013out at the last meeting, it was literally highlighting information from one question. to another, um, so you may have to note before, so… They said they weren't even gonna look at those until July of June 7th, so… I guess they're already starting, but it would be great if they would start branching one way or the other. You can either do this, or you have, you know, met the rubric to have that to your, um, Quaker, so we know exactly where we stand. So, the waiver is for two-year extension on the… Only 2027. Not the 2030, and that's… that's not in touch with me. The feedback that we're providing to the state. is you're giving us a waiver. to purchase electric buses until 29 if you were… if the district qualifies, but then you're not giving

014a waiver to push out the 2035 number to 2037, so now it's a larger price tag every year to convert your fleet, to convert our fleet over by 2035. Um, it's… I'm hearing that there's going to be, um… Um, legislation for something, but this round of the budget talks. Oh my goodness. They voted down the proposals to change the timeline? Yeah, I saw that as well. Wow, I didn't even see that. Thank you. Wow. So… I don't know what they're thinking, because… Uh, you know, talking… compared to talking with… it's like, we're gonna either have enough electricity for, um, microns, or enough electricity or a busted for a downhill. So, um… That's… and I… yeah, I thought that was pretty clever, came up with that, so I won't take credit for it, but… It was

015pretty good. Um, let alone our, you know, as we're looking at that, we're looking at our budget. with what we've seen inflation, And, um, everything that's going up in costs, Um, uh, and uh, right into the tax levy, um, factors in the tax cap calilation, Joel. Yeah. So, just a reminder, um, when we submitted the tax cap, we're building the budget in 2.5. It's not a number that is a locked number until the property tax report and submitted, um, so it's just what the budget is built on, so looking at it as a revenue stream, Anything that comes in addition to where we are as we are, that would be one of… two places to generate more state. They can't generate any more sledding, miscellaneous revenue. So it's either increasing the brokerage fund balance, reserves,

016or blowing higher in the tanks. Or balancing some through both. Yeah, I mean, that's just kind of… it's… we only have so many factors, you know, that unfortunately we're in control of, and it's a shame that it's set up the way that it is, you know? This is… we need more static. So, you know, one of the things that I think we've said this, but as far as repeating in terms of staffing efficiencies, And when you use the word efficiencies, it's a matter of perspective, and there's different perspectives from dates. Um, they're taking into consideration when we're taking our decision. When we look at the profile, when we look at the budget for 26, 2027 expenditures, Um, without filling, um, uh, 3 of the four retiring decisions. Um, uh, it's, you know, just over $27

017million. Um, with the potential savings. It's over $30082,000. Um, as Joe had, uh, brought up in previous presentations, Um, an estimated cost with benefits and, um… Uh, um, everything and salaries, uh, is, uh, just over $89,000. And one of the pieces that, you know, from the last meeting to this meeting that we have changed in this is, um, We use the term, and all the district budget in a very similar fashion that we do. The estimated difference between revenues and expenditures without the replacement of the 3FTs, that number is in for entities and looks like it's a budget problem. shortfall, but within the budgeting process, we're looking at that as a fund balance and reserve plan, and within that fund balance and reserve plan, it's not to end the year on the negative when we

018get done with the budget, even this year's current budget. We will end the year We end this year in zero money, which we won't, and we're in trouble. We won't have money, um, for the next, um, 3 months of population expenses. So when we build this, it's kind of confusing for people, and they look at that, and they say, well, that's a negative number, You need to cut $1.6 million to help rebuilding in a fund balance and reserve plan that, um… Um, we're going to position ourselves so we don't run out of money. We need, uh, approximately a billion and a half to two million for operating expenses. that are, you know, through August, or through July, August, and September, because we know state and, uh, tax revenues do not come in until that time

019frame. So we're conscientious about that. And we also want to make sure within that fund balance and reserve plan, Did we look at, um, making sure we have money in there to go to our reserves? Our liability reserve is one, um, particularly one that, um, we specifically looked at, um, Uh, because of three liabilities we have out there right now, um, from many, many years ago. So… so the updates with the highlights that are prevented, and their numbers that have changed. Some of them are very slight. For example, the 89 or 83. It was the original number being Mr. Healthcare, there was a 9.5%, because that was the recommendation to the executive committee at the time, and we're up to 10% change in trying to highlight the change. Um, I didn't highlight the should have

020there, the 5.97% of the budget, that is what that 1.661 number represents. And just for a cost for comparison, in 2021, that number was at 6.16, so we're actually really flat toward where we Um, the hope in this governor's budget is that we'll get another 1% for mental harmless, which would be another $70,000, which again, would be oblige against that number. Continuing to look at when we're counting. Um, just… we're trying to be conservative as possible, protect budgets. I met with some of my colleagues, and I hear from some districts, like, we're only forwarding $40,000 in front balancing. We're in trouble. We've seen the news from other districts. We're laying off, you know, 85 positions, things like that. We believe in this conservative budget strategy for business and think it's gonna help for longevity of

021where we want to go about the training. Right. This budget has no one getting laid up. Um, this budget is keeping all of our current staff on, uh, just to repeat it, we're keeping all of our current staff. There's, um, uh, four instructional positions. And myself, who retired. You have to have a superintendent of schools. Um, and they're not filling one of, um… we're filling, um… Uh, we're gonna get rid of three positions out of the field, um, uh, that are retiring, so… And that's where, you know, Joe calculated out the, um, annual savings, um, keep that, and then I'll get into later on, Again, I've shared those, we went over them last week. I share them again in terms of what it looks like for class sizes, um, because I know that's a concern

022for us as educators. It's a concern for parents. Um, but it's a matter of efficiency and how much we can ask. from the community for a tax increase, um, and what else we need to keep the district valued. Joe Biden. So, this would be a highlighted slide. This is a proposed budget for 26-27. By comparison, this is… we're gonna keep the presentation as consistent as possible. This is for March 25. presentation, for the most part, is gonna look like to look back at how we did a side-by-side comparison. Um, it's grouping quotes together, so… We have lots of budget codes, um, so our board code is our 10-10 code for essential administration is our 1200s, our Finance Codes are our 1300s, and so on. So it's just kind of a breakout of, like, whooping those

023together, just to see where we are. the number, I guess, I highlighted the most are at the bottom number is a 1.6 budget-to-budget increase. Uh, that is one of our smallest budgets-budget exclusives increasing. as far back as I can find. an effort of… Offering of these retirement incentives over these last couple of years. Uh, looking at wherever, you know, a code was an expensive the way that he had originally planned, then we don't need it anymore, you know, and we're looking at places where we had built-in fund balance, we're doing that as well. Um, and just working through and making sure that we're protecting program as best as possible. Typically, you're going back to what Joe mentioned refined balance again, and where he's, uh, shaved off, um, 10 different accounts, shaved off, um, money in

024there that was used for fund balance. We want to make sure that we stay Um, right around that 4% down there in unrestricted fund balance. Um, at the end of every budget year, and that's an important number to keep in mind, not only because that's what the number… state, um, New York State recommends that we be at. If you're over 4%, they send you a, um, a letter, a shaming letter is really all it is. There's many districts that operate with, um, an unrestricted fund balance above that. Command last week, there was a Virginia act. So, that's, you know… tying up quite a bit of money, um, we've never been that high. I think 2 years ago, when we were at 4.06, Yeah, I mean, so we run over, but we are overstaging. I think

025we're going to be covering a little bit. 2,000… 2,000… I think it was 14, 2014, um, our fund balance was so low that we were, uh… put on the, on, uh, the State Capitol Trade Labor District in physical stress. Um, that year, we reduced, um, through attrition and through layoffs, Um, somewhere between 370 and 470,000 borrowers in positions. Um, and I, you know, found, you know, one of our goals, which I hope, um, to be in that position again. And, um, we've been very successful with the support of the board and the community. Um, to keep a healthy, um… uh, um, budget. And be responsible. Could you explain the increase in the debt service? Uh, we have new bands coming on for this project, so there wasn't any bands in the other one, but we

026still… The debt would still stay flat. We're still keeping it with pretty intact. So when the project's done, those bands will convert to bonds? And that, you know, that's kind of a typical process for the project. So, although it's in the general fund, it's one of those ones where that number could go up $50 million, and it really doesn't have anything else to do with the general fund number. It's kind of its own side. piece that is attached entirely to… the building deed ratio, and then the local share, which we have maintained as minus hostile. to that service number, even. Uh, the purpose of this one, when we had a look back of it, is just kind of where we are with enrollment and how it's gone down 8%. We talked about before. If we

027go back one more year, that number goes up to 13%. Um, even, I know we got our headquarters since the start of this, we were at 712's actually gone down since we began our budget presentations. Um, so I guess if I was going to highlight one of those selves, it would be that the state aid has increased 33% at the same time as tax levy has only gone up 16%, so over that time frame, If the state decides you're overfunded, or come back for $300,000, I don't know where it was catered from. Uh, the increase in, uh, the cost per pupil over that time frame Do you think that that's because of combining enrollment or increase the needs of students, or about donation efforts? I'll take that from the Shadow Nation, or both. When you…

028when you look at the findings enrollment, and then we look at our class sizes, When you go from here to live in the trough and the class size versus you know, 60% or 295. Not only is your own defining the faith of teachers, salaries… Salaries and benefits go up to levelists. Great one, absolutely. Good point. One of the requirements is the three-part budget, so that is grouping our folks into… this comes out of a handbook that's published by the state. that these are administrative expenses, programs, expenses, capital expenses, expenses, excuse me, administration simply developed the first site where a program is directed. tied to teaching, capital is pretty much… facilities grounds, and that sort of risk is pretty much just puts them there. And then, uh, health and benefits is spread all the way through,

029and then I think people, I think, is the other code that gets split, uh, amongst program and administration. So there on that, but that's just kind of the short of it. Obviously, the negative 0.4% decrease in program, Just drop that in 2017. And then the increase in administration is partly because we were without Well, partly because we're about? In the next presentation, I'll be more of a line-by-line and highlighting those specific. I would say the biggest part of it is probably contractual applications, it's probably the majority of it, but… um, can look at it and kind of highlight, have, like, a threshold thing where this increases about 5% things like that, and break that out a little bit differently. And obviously, out of those debt service. Yeah, the 70-20-10 breakdown. Yep. Well, just the… and

030then the increased administrative is also, like, like Kacen said, that, like, the teachers at RP are going to be more just in sync with engineers. So, reserve fund balance plan is how we use reserves to help balance the budget along with fundamental spending. That part of the sum of the appropriate fund balance is often helps you sort of generate or form another revenue source, and also look against the never going to the taxpayer. Um, the TRS Reserve, again, for another example, the superintendo just spoke about, it's directly tied to building stock market. It is something that… obviously officials are really keeping a close eye, too, because the stock market has been doing well, and consequently, TRS is down, and it looks like that's obviously going the other way. I don't expect TRS to continue to

031go down, which I would be surprised if all of a sudden to 2% bounce back the other way, and that's 2% at the time. all instructional salaries, so that it'd be $180,000 that… so having a TRS reserve in place is trying to protect against those swings. You have 2% smaller. Avalon, that's one of the reserves we use for, um, The employee benefits and liability reserved for… Um, our SIC buyouts, um, any benefits that are deployed to being on their way out. So, our retirement incentive is one of those places. So the return incentive, as you remember, up to a max of $30,000, considering we get all four, capitalizing on that, that's one of those spaces. So, let's… allocating where that 1.66 million gallon number would come from, and a recommendation for something similar to what

032we last entered for a fund balance, you want to keep those numbers relatively stable. TRS has been one of those reserves that has gone down over the last few years. We've used it, and we haven't been able to fully funded. Our total fund balance for the district has increased by 800,000 over the last few years. Um, one of our… A revenue source that's done better for us has been interest. So having money in reserves obviously generates interest, but interest rates are also down. There's less money in there, so it's… you get it for both sides. And with the reserves, we can… we look at the reserves as, um, for the audience, uh, and for the board. We look at the district reserves as a savings account. Right? They've got in our own households. And we

033look at those monies for the unemployment to ERS, TRS, analog, Um, and also not listed as the capital deserved. Um, we plan to put money in there with permission, um, at the end, at the end of the audit cycle, which is around August or September, and if you remember from the board meetings, It'll be to fund this reserve up to a certain amount of money. And, um, that's where we come up with the dollars when we say a fund balance and reserve plan. We don't want to spend… Um, all that money that may not be able to replace it. Um, because that's where we'll learn into some physical problems down the road. It's really just a replenishing cycle each year. It starts over me. Um… And, you know, and this is us planning forward to

034try to, um… Uh, make sure that we stay on an attractive we've been on the last few years. So, more to come with, um… projections for that table. And, you know, this table is just, you know, making a determination as, you know, this budget is still proposed, the board hasn't approved it yet. You know, work in that a $27,823,000 budget. How we would bring up that $1.6 million that's on the last slide, and divide that between the preserves and fund balance. We determined that within the next, um, a couple weeks, and uh, hopefully have the budget that the board foods on… at the next board meeting. April 7th, April 7th, the last time to approve the budget is April 20th. Um, and uh, because then, if we don't have an approval by then, we won't

035meet the statutory requirements. of, uh, getting the information. So, um… Uh, and if you remember, just as a reminder, there's been years the state has not been, um, on time with their budget. And we've approved our budget in the beginning of April, and then adjusted the budget when, um, the state of dollars come in. And, um, we're hoping that the numbers stay as they are, or most ideally go up. I don't anticipate there hasn't been news coming from Albany that they're going to decrease the page that they were already put out there in the first set of abrons, so… Um, events happening in my tenure. Um, as a superintendent, as then as administrator. That's happened a few times, where… Things get squirrely in Albany, and… Um, they come back with less meat than what was

036on the governor's yard. So, um, so we started these presentations here. This was where we started from. Um, what that didn't include, I think there was another 3 or 4 positions that were requested, which you see on the next slide. Those were important. In addition to that, I think there are another $230,000. So, that was the difference where we were when we started. through our roads and continue to, you know, there still are numbers that aren't finalized. Still, we're, you know, insurance and over with those, that is. We're pretty confident, but we're gonna fight for it. And Reagan's been great, she's been a half off for us, and they have gotten better rates, so, you know, hopeful by the end of their day is terminated down further. Uh, but to start, we wrap a $2

037million just difference between Um, miscellaneous revenue state aid and a 2.5% tax levy. versus what their total requests were for expenses. So, just in total, so far, this is what's not included in the $27 million,800 number, um, where those First, uh, the 2.5s and the one full-time position plus benefits, which we were estimating at your time of about $230,000 at any given admitted period, putting more specific, how much more we should talk about it in the first February meeting, um, but we didn't revisit adding any of those positions because we were looking at Um, reducing tuitions through attrition. So again, those other three positions, that 260, 75, 48 number, we looked at it on a previous slide, that would be the cost of hiring the brand new teachers that would be worth their total would

038be about $267, or between the two. That's under $500,000 if you didn't make it into what Our proposed budget is, or this might have everything in our number. in the propositions. This is how the proposition will print. It needs to go to print, uh, next week. It has to be out by April 2nd, you know what I'm saying? a crossbank 4th grade, 23. Um, so it has to go to print, it needs to be printed 4 times, um, before the budget, and we won't have the budget dollar amount to include with that, but when the, uh, community comes out to vote to be budgeted amount will be on there, so we know that there was. Um, our library proposition. the bus propositions, this is what the language actually will read. Um, and confirmed upon Council

039that if Proposition 3 passes, Proposition 4 is automatically null and void in the House did remind us that neither one actually, uh, is, you know, you're not obligated to actually… follow through on messages and authorization. to get the buses. But if Proposition 3 were to pass, there would be no proper shape form, because I couldn't be that this one passed by, you know, X number of votes, and then… We just didn't vote on the fourth proposition, and it came up 15-7, which wouldn't matter, because the first drop of commission workers were already asked that one. Again, that's what proposition for is, with what the waiver would be. Um, I looked a little bit into what can actually be included in the proposition, and the proposition is really about just keeping ownership of the vehicles, because

040they go through transportation and aid, where the infrastructure they go through a building in ratio and other parts of our general fund, so just We'll provide additional information, just like fact sheets of what to be doing now. And the last time we did this in December of 2024, the proposition would reflect another time we were being bullet management costs less, and it just has proven to true electric buses have cost more. they'd just be growing up, they want to order the 56%, and refueled themselves electric is going up, and is against the same thing that says the grade line. So… the recommendation or the question was asked. Why can't they be rehearsed? So we're grateful to reversed them, and then it stuck to the community if they would be interested in exploring. We just do

041our due diligence. Um, what needs to be done still. We still need to finalize, um, a budget. Um, we hope Did we have in the budget on April 1st? I hadn't offered anything, and I don't know if anybody else has, that there would be a budget-ready brokers. I mean, the last few years. Um, so I find it highly unlikely that we're going to have a finalized date budget before we begin to have our budget approval. And then the one highlight to add here for important dates coming up is We're gonna get the material into the budget newsletter and have that process as fast as we can. Another one, like the budget notice. We can't send out the budget notice until the day after the budget hearing, the very earliest we can get that is May

0426th. So, the churn-on and stuff is just so quick. anybody's looking for information, I would advise having to complete back the website, feel free to, you know, reach out to the district, or you can send out whatever it is that, you know, any is looking for. just some information like this is what everybody noticed they're just not available there. Any questions? Anything else that you can think of that we haven't shared? I have some enrollment numbers and trends that I'm gonna go over the next. But from a financial statement, is there any questions that borderline has? And developing please answer, or when you answer in a different way. When it comes to budget, I don't think there's any bad budget. I'd rather get them now. Instead of at the polls, and then they don't… and

043people don't understand. I'm selling. How would you go ahead and I've got, um, a few slides on enrollment. Some of them are just, uh, tables that you've already seen. and information on, uh, Mr. Mumford and I were playing around. Uh, for the last… not really playing around and working hard is really what it was, is putting together numbers and, uh, we wanted to talk and talk about, again, the impact on Not, um, filling those three positions, and, um, really trying to, you know, get down into the, um, details of it. Uh, on this first slide, it just, uh, provides a 2024-25 enrollment and the number of teachers, uh, in each of the elementary buildings when we're talking about. not filling, um, uh, some issued positions at the elementary through attrition. Um, I want to make

044sure that we understand that, and people don't construe that as we're cutting, no one's losing their job in this budget proposal. I think it's important to note that this is hopefully done in the future. We can be more like this future for workers' labs. And we don't get, and you don't want to, um… lay out people in the future, and part of that goes back to, and Joe said it, and Noelle said it, is our strategy Back when we had… we'll go all the way back to when we received the federal monies, and we've added, um, positions during the federal monies, and I can even go back farther when we had Um, the resources at the time, sometime around 2017, 2001… 19 between those two years period. We had a year where we had 11

045Out of 16 new enrollments going to third grade, Um, and that year, we added a third grade teacher, because I think we had reduced down to 2 or 3 sections. And that bounced it up too high, and then we added additional positions that rocked well, too. Um, based upon enrollment. And then since that time frame on our enrollments declined, So, when, you know, we're getting asked questions. Um, when we're meeting as an administrative team, the administrators are talking with their staff, Um, where are we getting our numbers? Why are we doing this? I would rather be hiring and filling positions as opposed to not filling them. But mathematically, it would mean, um, a significantly more amount of money. As we showed on the pre… on the previous slides. from the budget, so… Um, I will

046read those to you. These are… should be familiar. Uh, and then 25, 26, You can see the, uh, 215th at Rockwell, 239 at Wheeler. And then, uh, for the teacher ratio over on the side. Now, when you look at this student-to-teacher ratio, I tried to do this in the same format that the state does when we look at our state report card. And what they do is they take every, um, certified, um, teacher in the building, or TA, and that's how they come up with the teacher-to-student ratio. Um, so I tried to do that in a similar fashion to how it's done on the school report card. And then you can see in 20… 526, where are the numbers, um, uh, are with Rockwell at 181. And then, uh, Wheeler at 2.33, and then the

047student-to-teacher ratio at 8.2 until 1. And then the… Oh, this is missing a number, and I think this future staff ratio is correct, because kids aren't included for 26, 27? See how there's 6 and 25, 26? So there's 22 total, and if you go to 26, 27, there's just nothing? under TAs, so I think that ratio should actually be 7 for students and staff. Okay, we're… So it's actually both. It's 11.13, significantly lower. Transferring the tables from the paintbrush. What? It's gonna be the same. That's exactly right, man. Let's milk this one. Change. It should actually be 20 total. And then, so that's 164 students to 20 staff. Which is an average amount of student-to-staff ratio of 7.1 to 3, as opposed to 11.7. So it's actually less than both predicisters. So, in this proposed

048budget, without filling those positions… Um, without filling in those positions, we are looking at… We are looking at kindergarten enrollment to create a 31 square… 3K at 31 students. Kindergarten at, um, 32. We do anticipate those will go up. Um, uh, the pre-K enrollment is actually, um, uh, pretty close to what we have this year, so that's why we used the current, um, pre-K numbers this year for next years enrolled. Um, but that's what we happen to know today. So you can see the class sizes are, um, relatively small for, uh, pre-K and K-7? And then, um, with, uh, maybe 3 positions, Um, 3 teaching positions across the board, um, up until 6th grade, which this… after the month of February and March, um, we haven't had, um, 4 positions in, uh, 6th grade, or

049the 5th grade this year. And, um, in collaboration with the principals, we came up with this as where we would do our teacher assignments for next year. And what each, uh, grade level would look like in class size. based upon the enrollment that we had already gone. 24 are the two that… No, I think it's… I think it's 8.2 and 8.2. 39th and 23. Yes, there may be. Okay, so, um… Wheelers will be awful. point free, or .3 compared to last year, and Rockwell's will be the same. congestion. Yes, thank you for… oh, thank you for coming in. Yes, we're gonna definitely go back and forth on that one until you get to it. Let's look at reports of… Yeah. 101 to 10.4. It's still 10. It's essentially where it was 10, yeah. Yes, and

0508.2 right around. So, um, so then, then we took these charts, and, um, we've been experimenting with AI. Um, so we're going to have a disclosure on that. Um, which is fine, uh, but this, this kind of what we just went over, It just took those numbers, and it did an analysis, um, biased or unbiased, I'm not sure, but, you know, my jury's not out about, uh, artificial intelligence. I know it's here to stay. I don't think it's leaving us anytime soon, but… I just wanted to share with you, in terms of what it comes up with. Um, as it comes up with working at overall only if they're enrolled with staff insurance. Um, it comes up in the, um, some pretty good numbers based upon what we provided. And similarly to your point of

051the 176, I go back there, we should literally just talked about this right before, uh, that number's actually 164. But to say, I generated campus will just change the one, but it was using a projection of an estimate of what kindergarten's low point is, and then using actual information. So we… I mean, we had talked about that at our board agenda meeting, we talked about, do we throw in our estimate? Um, or did we throw in what we actually have? So, in one of the presentations, I think it was the last, um, the first meeting in March, We have projected revenues in there, and then for this presentation, I think reporting the actual reports we have Um, to date for being held, uh, that we have either enrolled, for applications that are in our hands.

052Because the fluctuation on this one, This was ran yesterday. So, as long as the week before, and the numbers all change. They're all off, like, one high, too low, one high, all the way across. And we talked about when we should make them all non-access, because I had a judgment yesterday, and it was… Just to show how quickly it does. It fluctuates, but unfortunately, it's fluctuating down. So, Rockwell, the difference in Rockwell is here based on that. ratio has gone down from 9 to 8.2, and then the student-to-stat ratio at Wheeler to an up from 8.9 to 10. Correct. Okay. So, similar types of increase from student-to-teacher ratio. And, you know, just, uh… As a reminder, that includes all certified, um, instructional staff and, um, teaching assistants in buildings. really the anomaly across what they

053were going to do with what it does is wheelers. I'm stupid racist. They never changed. It was, like, 3.34, 12 years ago. It's still 234, before the other ones are down significantly. So, you know, on the next slide, you know, talks about our conserved analysis and class side, and the paradox. Like, with smaller-owned districts like Tully and Central, the class sizes are highly bought high. I mean, we can see that right from our own attendance reports. They are one-year grade level, and I have 45 students. Um, and we can even move to the current, uh, senior class. When we went back and looked at the senior class, I think we're… 4 and 1 today, Jim? We went back and looked at that sheet, and we were as high as 61 and 57. When they were

054in third and fourth grade, and as we literally draw a line and a diagonally down to senior deer, they went up and down, and then around 9th grade, they dropped down again, and then they stayed, they stayed down and dropped down to 37. 41, just back and forth. Very transient. Um, I'll say twice. You know? Yeah, I think it's important to recognize that that's a big change in our community in general. Um, where almost, like, we have more rental as opposed to home construction, and that just creates, like, a… a less stable population of students overall. And if you will get just district data or statewide data on transit, transit population of students, Um, when they moved from school to school, that's a disruption in their schooling, and it usually results in That created gaps,

055uh, so… You know, that has changed as, you know, those who grew up in Metro. the number of homes that were owned by families, as Noel said, has gone down. They're owned by landlords with corporations that are densities now. In our wealth factor with the nervous because, uh, we've gone down. As well as, if everyone's still on 3 lunches and 3 breakfasts, if we were to do that calculation, in the last 13 years, The percentage of people who qualify for free response has gone up strongly. The mid to high 30s to 48.9% of our population. So, um, things keep changing. Um, this is just some paradoxes to look at, um, and, uh, then we ask AI to analyze it initially to come up within that. Now, uh, that's the size difference in the small schools,

056like when we talked about that junk trade that so small this year. Um, we look at other outliers and the elements very, they call it the powerhouse effect. I know we have exponents as adjectives. Um, some of them I like, some of them I dislike, and Mr. Northward and I have spent some time looking over this and looking over the data. Um, you know, and the suggestion was your current elementary 18 to 20 is optimal in some districts. Um, in other districts, that's too low. In other districts, that's too high. And where would you look at our numbers, um, we're gonna… we're gonna be in pretty good shape, um, in terms of class assignment numbers. And my distraction. But other people will say, and teachers will say, and they've said to me, Um, we have

057to keep our class size as well. That, you know, that's… and everyone has a different opinion on most loans. I respect those. Enroll the style of stability and projections. That is what we talked about, the downward just for something meaning for their, um, Uh, in another fashion. And, uh, we were supposed to spend most people out into 3 buildings. And then we jump right into, um… Each of the student ratio, whether the junior-senior high school, we felt there's almost even clarity to work for that. Um, two through a ratio to Jewish student hospital, and we rarely looked at the four main subjects. um, class enough has been four main ones, because everyone has to take those, and then you look at all the other electives that we offer, and those enrollments vary based upon the

058number of students are interested, but we still have the Carnegie unit, um, for graduation, and we still have the older units, and we still wanted to try to, um, offer Um, so that's not a comprehensive, uh, program. At the, um, junior-senior high school for students. Um, one of the areas that we talked about, we talked about it in the last meeting, And we want her to come back with, you know, um, what it looks like, uh, for a projection of four science teachers, and we laid out, um, a sample of what a teacher's schedule will look like, obviously. We did assignments to teachers. laid it out with each teacher. This will be a full boat under the teacher's contract. Um, within that, and, um, what it looks like across the board with how 7th grade

059science is laid out with 3 teachers, Um, uh, being able to offer, um, uh, teacher teaching to forensics, approximately the class size is 15. Then we go to the next, um, row of three living environment, tree regions, Earth, and space. Hold on, sorry. Yep. Do you ever come in? Oh, oh, yes, my apologies. Sorry. So, into the second row, I was on your new space, um, and then 3 signs, 8, class size, how much chemistry, and then we drop down to, uh, world… 3 and 4 living environment, labs, and you can follow them across and not reach Experts science in space. polish physics, the polish chemistry lab, and I learned college chemistry regions lab. Um, based upon the orders that we anticipate for next year. Um, down to row 4 is, uh, to earth science,

060space science, then College Physics, housing, up to me. Well, Regents Chemistry class, um, down to the final, um… world voting lacrosse, the stupid AI-esque words in science. classes at AIS Science in narrative biology, or another AIS requirement for students who need help. Passing allegiance, we're passing force, and AIS assignments in chemistries as well, too. So that, that's what he looks like. One of the pieces was in this schedule is this year we have for, uh, college chemistry students. Yeah, 3 or 4 solid chemistry students by a college bike. Yeah, college bio? Uh, within this… within this budget proposal, uh, students for college, um, biology. Um, they would be able to take college biology, but it would have to be able to OCC. So, um, that's a big piece of that. Um, but we've also had

061conversations about class size. enrollment at the high school, and what is the number that we offer a class at, and we don't offer a class. is under 5, but this 500 to cut off, or a 6 and under, or 10 and under, Um, you know, something that, you know, if we were able to provide it, so we did. But as we get into these other slides, Um, when you do consider a lab and its associated black shirt or glass, or whatever. Do you consider that one prop? If it's like, living environment and living environment plant, that's one front. No, uh, so living environment, um, so the props there. So, if you're looking at I'm looking at all the teachers, just thinking about how many preps they each had, if you're considering a lab, like, a

062separate prep, even though it's the associated lab, with that class? No, that is not considered non-profit. Okay. And then with College Bio, is it just seniors who take it? Typically, yes. Okay, so they still have the option of physics and forensics. Correct. Sorry. Right now. Okay. Right. And we talked about with the drones, they said, that's not offered in the science department, is that offered in Arkansas? Let me listen to anything, Mr. Holder? Okay. Um, uh, just graduation occurrence, I mentioned, um, uh, you know, just about students are still earning their credits for graduation and this kind of spells out what students need. Um, and the potential elimination of forensics or the drone, um, technologies. Um, you know, Sebastian schedule is, um, a major jigsaw puzzle in itself, and the schedule really is critical, um,

063for the electives, uh, and, you know, it could be unattachable. Um, for some of them to be offered, whether it's based upon enrollment, or somebody it's based upon the master schedule. Um, and then support for students. One of the pieces we have looked at is, um, and this is where, uh, We looked at it and came up with biology lab-sized classes. AI was wrong, said it'd be 38. How many lab students can art labs accommodate? Are we talking biology lab? Yeah, like, like, in terms of lab seating. based on the lab seating, I would say no more than 12. Really, around the lab table, some of the current biology room. Um, we're… yeah. But that in my room, I have 24 students for running 8th grade science class or labs, so… It does vary. The

064space… It's not tremendous if someone by our side stories. It's why it's been burned or not. So, anytime you take a piece of the equation out of the master schedule, you reduce the teacher, Um, that, uh, creates a better understanding and reduces flexibility. Um, and we, you know, we talked about this, but just another piece of it. You know, um, Mr. Mumford brings up, uh, some good points about the retirement in the next 6 years. with no contingencies in biology. Um, we had talked about this last year, you were originally thinking of reducing the science position last year. Um, we were able to find a ministry teacher, which I thought was great. Um, so we went ahead and filled that position. Um… And then, uh, high competition to buy a few certified secured biology, chemistry,

065physics, They're all, you know, if we get, you know, if you got more than a couple people to apply, That's considered a good number. It reminded me, the chemistry teachers, not the certified in value. No, she will not do a service she is in the process of getting certified in neuroscience. Nurse science. And part of that request was knowing the potential to actual time, because… The science department can't… Um, 4 is the rock bottom number for teachers, um, and, you know, there's the advantages that we've talked about before with 5. Um, you know, and there's, you know, there's choices that have to be made. Um, so… science teacher workarounds, um, Tim, we want to do that? Sure, uh, so, um, what we… we would not be able to offer the, uh, 7 average environmental science

066course, and again, that course was, uh, specifically adjacent, uh, Mr. Borrow, who'll be hiring. I was a teacher of that, was into… into that, so he was the… driving force behind offering that. Um, you know, based off the numbers, we've run it, we have it run it on here, so they looked at enrollment, it's been down. Um, but if we needed to, if we were to find somebody to pick that horse back up, they would have to have a certification degree in biology. Um, we were eliminating, uh, drone tech, uh, because basically the forces. We were actually called the Forensics and drums. Um, just because different interests in kids, but that's their third science credit that is required for graduation. Um, but based off of, uh, contractual constraints, we would only be able to offer

067one of the two. We would be able to possibly offer drone technology outside of the science area. However, that would be contingent on Um, a teacher of interest and student interest, as well as the teacher's ability to, um, the teacher would take that, would lose something out. So, if we moved it into another area, they're already teaching a full course, so I'm gonna have to eliminate something and see what… how that would fall on the mastery schedule. Um, we can offer Onondag Community College for College Bio with college now program. Uh, the downside to that is, uh, students are off campus for roughly 4 periods. Um, and the college, the way college classes work, is it's usually a Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Thursday outlook, so the other days that they weren't up at OCC, uh, they

068wouldn't be able to have a high school or a classes because we run out of 5-day schedule, they're on a 2-day schedule, so they would end up having to take another course order, have the option to take another course up there, whether it be government or economics on the Monday, Tuesday, and by on, uh… Thursday, Tuesday and Thursday, or something along those. How many students… we have 3 students currently enrolled in the College Now program on college campus. We have two currently enrolled, uh, for this semester at 061 and another. Yeah, so a total of 3 of you are now on campus. Yep. So, you know, one of the pieces that, you know, in transparency, a student going to OCC their junior, their senior year, Um, to take college courses is very similar to When

069we ask a student who's interested in the trades to go to, um, BOCES CTV program, And we provide transportation, um, for the students back and forth. We've had a number of kids over the years take a class at OCC, but I think this is our first year, Mr. Mumford, with numbers of action on campus. Yeah, we've had a couple years where there have been one, um, but it's… I think we've had two prior summer acheres, we've had two about that. So, there is… there is options out there, um, so it doesn't completely eliminate it. Um, Cassid eliminated on our campus? Absolutely. And then, uh, so the average class size has been increased from 17 to 19 in biology. Um, and the average… and where that number for 28 that Mr. Price was mentioning. is if

070we were to offer college bio. Um, we would have to increase the lab sizes from 18 to 28. That's where that number came from. Um, if we were to offer college bios here based off of the contractual constraints. Obviously, we would not, we would eliminate College Bio, which would bring that number back down to 19. Uh, in a lab period. Um, so that's where that… a lot of clarity. on that slide. Um, it also eliminates this, uh, flexibility in scheduling for regions and non-regions for science, uh, space and neuroscience, uh, because that, Again, would only allow for 4 singletons, uh, to be scheduled ahead in time, so, um, with one or two of those being Earth Science Regents, and then one Honor Science Regions, uh, the flexibility would have to be solid in there, and

071we wouldn't have the flexibility to offer an additional earth science non-regions class. Because the, uh, teacher will be teaching 7th grade. Tim, how can I have a question on that? Sure. Just for clarity, how… so, we would own the only be able to offer one non-regency for science and space? the asset of 2. In fact, okay, perfect. Thank you, yeah. And that hampers us a little bit with the students who are going to ROCES, uh, for morning and afternoon classes, if they were to take those for Science Digital classes. Um, and then we would have, uh, to add an AI science, uh, adding courses to other schedules, which would eliminate the AIS file certified level. So, the certified file teacher that we would have left, Uh, this would be a full schedule. The six courses

072would not be able to teach AI in S-Bio. It would have to… AIIS bio would have to be done with the other teachers out of certification. Can you go back to the projected science teacher class one? It's scheduled… works like a scheduler? Yeah. Yeah. So, Teacher C couldn't teach two sections of Side 7, and then that AIS Science could still be AIS Bio for Teacher A? So, this is H2 7s. And I said, yeah, I mean, I… we could do that, but no, just 2 science 7s, that would give them, if you scroll down, how many bosses would that be? I think it's five and a half steps, so that would make that stopping by. She's at 7. So, and take AIS Science and move it over. Well, United could still be AIS BioBio-certified teacher,

073because Teacher A is already teaching living environment slash Maya? We could do that, um, but the class sizes for AIS Science are much lower, um, so we would end up having to increase bus sizes, um, with the regular classes. So, if you're saying, take the Sign 7 and move it over. Um… Teacher C would have a higher… or slow to know the students. When you talk about the three sciences they have to take, the options are living environment, which we're calling biology, same thing. Earth and Space Science. Visits. Correct. It's college chemistry. And, for instance, so there's a lot of options to fill free. Yes, so they have to fill out… they have to have 3 science racks, so yes. And that means you could have non-regions to regions, it doesn't have to be. You

074might have to have one region, uh… credit to… for our readership. Have the Earth and Space Science is the only one we offer a non-regions option of. Uh, we used to offer up until this past year, but we were limited in BioBeat, which is a 9-week, right? Uh, but they hadn't take biomed, it was over 2 years. So, if it's truly kind of like… Uh… I'm trying to think. bio over 2 years, so it was kind of looking at non-region, but at the end of their freshman year, it was non-regions biom. They didn't take the bio-regions at the end of that, at the end of the second year of the tractor Regions, because they hadn't had that credit. From your understanding. No question about, um… just college courses are general… And they typically were taught

075here by our teachers, There's no cost to the student. Except for, like, uh, soup. Correct. SUNYSF was a boss as well. Okay. Um, but yes, that is correct. TC3 and OCC do not charge, uh, the students. And that's if the instructor is one of our teachers here. Correct. Right? Now, what… what's gonna happen is one of our students There are multiple students go to… So if OCC, it takes College Biology, so… What are the costs associated with the product? So, the college ends up, uh, billing us back for the supplies, uh, so the books and anything that they would end up billing us back for that, so we would have to pay, but it's minimal. Uh, boss, but there's… there is a cost associated. The instructor is a process, there's an agreement between the school

076district and OCC that there's, um, There's no tuition costs. So it's just like… The instructor was one of ours, in a sense. Well, actually… Right. So, in a way, it's actually better, because we're not paying instructors. Right? Within the MOA, like Mr. Robert said, we have an MOA with community college. Within that, it spells out the… The fees for supplies and stuff like that, and how the, you know, in terms of… The teacher is a professor, a teacher is an OCC employee, and it's part of their whole group of credit program. Um… It's, you know, like, we had to put 3 students this year. Um, which is the largest, and there's other… there's other school districts Some of them, you know, double our size. They're sending the bus… OCC, I've been together with kids who

077go up for half a day. Like, they send kids to Boxes for a CTP platform. And there's kids graduating with associates' degrees. and ran in the other machines. We haven't actually reached that value yet. These are also a summer commitment to do that. Um, to graduate from high school and get, uh, associate's degree. I'm just wondering… And the OCC rented the road. Why aren't we taking advantage of this? A lot of its student interest. Um, the majority of his student interests. A lot of the students want to stay behind families. They like our atmosphere. If they're going up there for a bio, and it's, like, this huge chunk of time, For example, they could presumably take other classes there. Yeah, that's why it's not just thinking, you go up there for a morning, and you

078take, like, three classes rate their own, if your schedule… if that works out. you know, like an example, we talked about this, it's related, but it's unrelated, and to me, I think it's related, is we haven't been participating Um, and sending kids to the student school, which is $25,000 a year. Last year was the first year, and when we looked at last year's budget, And we were making reductions, and staff drew attrition, I think, was 8 decisions. So don't we have to send money to them? Yeah, we have to send money to them. for the bang for the buck, in my opinion, is students taking either college classes with our teachers in our This is for parents and students taking dual credit classes here are going to succeed. It's… it's cost nothing. No, that's fine.

079And it's a good discussion, I just, you know, um, I want to make sure we're covering things in detail. Um, you know, make sure we're answering people's questions. Um, and being transparent about the budget. Um, you know, we're getting right now into water retention teacher schedule will look like next year, in terms of detailing. The last slide, uh, just summarizes, really, what we talked about. Um, don't really need to go over again unless you want me to, but it's really just consuming information summarized again, final life acceptance. Any questions for myself or Mr. Mumford and Mr. Sharpston? Ms. Smith was well? Dr. Scott, Eric. Well, you know, do a comment for this? just thinking a lot to think of. Thank you. Um, okay. Uh, financial reports, uh, motion… to accept the following financial reports as

080presented. Questions have? Probably favored? I agree. proposed standard. Goshen carries strides here. Superintendent's report. Uh, enrollment projections, I have some documents in here for you to look at as well, too. Um, and it pretty much covered everything in the two presentations. your old histories, what I sent you guys, um… Uh, around March 10th, and that just goes through the grade grouping, uh, just changes in student distribution. We've got there. Um, and then, uh, are updated enrollment charge, as Gail said, seems to fluctuate, and you'll see, I think the other one had 710 students, this one had 711. We still have Berkeley exchanges. Um, uh… And then, um… There are 700 presentation slides I put on that. from, uh, the safety awards presentation. Um, yesterday we received the Platinum Award for Universal National Insurance and a

081$500 rebate check. I think this is our 11th to 12th year, uh, community safety standards. within the self-audit, you do that in your gear, um, which then gives us, um, uh, a small, very nice rebate. And, um, kudos to Joe and Shane. Estonia staff, immediate staff in the buildings. Um, this is an extensive, uh, self-auded to do, and it's also, um, you know, making sure that things, uh, buildings are insane. Um, for the… for the, um, employees in the acumen, so… Uh, thank you, uh, everyone, for all the work to help us meet this. safety and board recognition, and, you know, so small or nice, uh, If you have any questions. Another staffing report. Um, if you have no questions on the safety award, The next one is a repeat and generated from the… spreadsheets,

082uh, and just has the staffing pieces, but one of the questions that was, um, asked for was, what does each building look like? Um, for the staffing, and then, um, that's the bottom one, Joe. I think it's the enrollment class size. Definitely. And number 319. Um, that one has… is where the spreadsheet came from that fills in some of our other ones. But then when you get down into it, we broke it down by building. And it has all of the staffing, and we did not put brains in here. wanted to see, uh, what's there within the custodial, within the custodial and maintenance department. Um, there is a report available, but that has to be encountered right now that has, you know, square footage. of, uh, how much space each of our custodians are responsible

083for. The number of fingers that the district, uh, owns, roughly around 40. And then, um, we did not break it down into how many acres we mow, or how to build that piece, but We're approximately 40 acres in the district. Um, so it's really taking a deep dive. And allowing the board to take a deep dive into, um, where our staffing is. Um, I used to build in, I… won't relate to you unless you happen to. And each of the pages, um… And then you can see the high school is in there, too. Um, as well as the elementary school, and, um, then we look at our, um, Uh, out of district programs come to slide 5. with Autumn Tech, Autumn Collision, and the students enrolled in that, and then we look at listing the

084other Lucynamos programs. alternatives in education, SCAR's homebound instruction, virtual learning, Second Values Academy, um, yearly, uh, spread our students across. I have a mental health teacher needs. Um, good. And then transportation, has it broken down by, um, driver, monitors, supervisor? Uh, this world named two, uh, dried facilities written in the 19th Browns, and then finally, the district office. Um, uh, including me, then that was administrator, um, the director of student services, and the Special Education. It is all there. All of our employees. If we missed one, we didn't do it intentionally. So, um… But, uh, between, uh, principals… Um, Job, uh… Lisa White, my secretary, a lot of hands have been in this to help us put this stuff together in a short period of time, um, to, you know, we're… budget process, we look

085at this stuff anyways, um, but just to give you a sense of… some new information, and something that you requested. That's all I have pending questions. Iron Fortin Shores, the districts are under 196,000 of interest in my class 90, which is from the general fund. I've looked for just 4 years of age, just so we have that for reference. At this time last year, it was 111, so… We were, um, fix the rates last year at the sound rate, 4.6, now we're down to 3.8, and we have, you know, less, so less in reserves, lower interest rate, just… the nightclass rates and Benagon for the last years. Yeah, for about 5. That's all I got. Make it… So, the capital projects are well over it. I am building, um… The more we write it along,

086floors off almost halfway through, and work on the back area right now. They did pull our footer today, actually, for a new entrance wall. We're creating a wall on the main entrance there, so that was towards bed, but everything's running pretty smooth up there. Um, thank you to everybody for our fire inspections. We've got new fire inspections of, uh, last week. Uh, everything went well. Any, uh, impliances, um, that you had, it pretty much took care of that day for minor things. Um, they've passed us a little bit close to a window to try to get in from emergency myself. with race and right away. Uh, so that went well. Uh, those reports that we also looked at SCPB, so we can get our certificates, uh, by April 1st. Um… all the things that are

087going on in our world, and maybe it's, uh, today's here, if… Uh, fix the plan, uh, when you fix the brand heat exchanger over at Wheeler, so… A hurricanes back up and running. Thank you for, uh, you know, bearing with us on that. Uh, so that was done today. Um, next week, we got a lot going on. It's where we get a lot of stuff done, you know, and uh, everybody's having to go over this. Uh, there's been some heat cleaning going on. Um… And seeing as we need to do their annual testing, fire testing, all that good stuff, so a lot going on. Also, national variable beyond site to do some work on our gas lines. Uh, over here at the high school, so that, that'd be, uh, going on next week also. Um…

088So, uh, as you guys can see, too, if you were driving at this point, our group was taken down, uh, the old pup house out front. That was something I was supposed to be done in the capital project. We took that out, doing that in-house. Um, so that's going well today. March here, I'll take that, hopefully, and uh… You know, well, that's where we're at with that, but um… You know, grass is still good, uh, we got one guy right now, uh, the positions out there, if we close them, we extended their position date on that, close date on that. Due to, um, we wanted to make sure there was enough time out there in the letters not going out. It's an arduous letter at actually also. So we decided to expand that a little

089bit there. Um, right now we have, uh, good feedback on it. got some, uh, authentication, so I'm in touch with that. Um, but otherwise, with the grounds, you know, it's, uh… He's going around this cute little eye and everything right now, starting, um… no snow, cloud damage, there's plenty of it, of it. Of course, right, every year, but uh, I don't want to jump into it too soon, though, you know, because we don't know what's gonna happen next week yet, you know? And, uh, for, um… Thank you again for, uh, helping our building, Serene as she's going on, taking care of all the events. That's where we're at, and questions. Thank you. Thank you, Bruce. So, a little further on the agenda, you've got the acknowledgement for Retirement of Data Animals. Yeah, it's accomplished, right?

090With the mention. Thank you, Dan. Um, lifestyle president in the community that ran over the current safety firearm went there and tried to work. taking care of the farms all at them, uh, taking care of over 20 years with us. Parliament. in September looking at the account. Uh, athletics for sure, for starting transport, that. Um, our big sheriff's still, as I mentioned last week, is the staffing. Um, they're properly covered. We're getting everybody where they need to be on time, and you're working out well. I definitely want to… thank my staff again for their responsibility. In fact, this happened, and uh… since then, it was nice enough to show up tight on and pick out him and show. some of the flexibility that takes place. Um, so we had our training on Friday to kind

091of pick Denny interested, if he'd be interested in driving a difference growing. normal run is one of the shorter ones in the district. Uh, if I agree, I decided that I'd like to drive that one, so I can tag the obstacle a bit quicker, so… Dave Road, morning run for one driver. He had, uh… four BOCES placements out of district are also a true growth in school district out there tomorrow morning. I was at a different driver for the afternoon, he had one Bose, 3 parochial schools could tend to. And he got back, and this morning I heard him acknowledge that it recovered 160 miles yesterday, never got past barriers to penalty. So, that's how those two groups work. Um… By letting me drive my brutose, letting me drive his route, I was back in

092the office, okay? So I appreciate that. And to honor his commitment, I gave a second running in this morning to make his day of the blind that outcome of itself. That standard flexibility you have, like, I definitely appreciate his flexibility and everybody in the department. That was pretty seamless, but I don't have anything at concerns. I'll just come over here to my back tractor, I helped. Um, so I just have one follow-up from our last, um, our last board update. We had our first conversation with Liberty Resources about a mental health clinic. Um, we collected preliminary information, and we'll have a follow-up meeting in May. Um, if we can enter a partnership with somebody to have an in-house clinic, um, it would be for the 26-27 school year. So, I'm excited for our next meeting,

093and he'll give us more financial information, commitment information. So it was a positive thing overall. Any questions? Ginger, just to highlight, the biggest commitment that, um, so far in that is making sure we have an appropriate space for them. Um, from the financial endured nothing that we're responsible for from a financial standpoint, except for having a room with heat. Rights and 600 square feet, or something like that? Yeah. Can't remember, there's some… it's literally specific size. You know, not an office or in someone's office, you know. For privacy, of course, so, um… That would be a nice, uh, resource, um, uh… for our students to have, and our families to have great leaders out there. They did talk about an upfront cost for this one that was different from the other… the other clinic that

094we talked to, um, but they're finding out if it's payable, um, based on any of the posters that we have. So there's… there's nothing set in stone right now. So in our next meeting in May, that's when we're going to dig into more of the nitty-gritty pieces. And then figuring out if it's a feasible option for us. But we do think that we would have enough students that would be able to take advantage of that. We're spending time for when we move you to decide. So they… they would want to know, I think, soon after our May conversation, because they would look to hire over the summer, and then look to have somebody in place for the fall of the school year. Um, they handle their clinic hours a little bit different, so they follow

095the school calendar as opposed to the other clinic that does not, so they would only operate basically during school hours, so we wouldn't have to worry about staffing when… outside of school hours or over breaks, or things like that. Which I think is beneficial. Is that square footage number accurate? I think it depends a 10x10 room. It's like, it's not… it's not a very big thing. Yeah, no, it's not that. I think it was, like, a 10x10 room, so, like, they… they… Spatial speech is not important. I shouldn't do anything wrong with too much. Yeah, so, like, they're gonna give us all of the paperwork associated with their requirements. They're gathering that information ahead of the main meeting, and they'll send it to us so that we can review it prior to having another conversation.

096So, but it doesn't seem like a giant commitment, and I think it was feasible the last time. I don't remember that. download what they said about money. Thank you, thank you for reminding us. You're welcome. Any questions? I'm glad I didn't hear that when we were talking. It's a matter. Hey, good evening, everybody. So, just at this time of year, I like to give a pre-K update. We're still at 31 students who have registered or pre-registered at this point. And just a reminder that we have your current class set up with the two teachers and two TAs, we would cap at 36. We could add an additional TA to go up to 38 in one room, and even, I believe, with the expansion grant that we received, we'd do 40 with additional TA in the

097other room. As well. So, we… our technical registration deadline is May 1st. So, if we do go above that 36 number, depending on how we would like to proceed, if we go into a lottery, that would happen for anyone who registers prior to May 1st. If we do not have… fill up by May 1st, and someone registers after May 1st, they would… they would still have access to a seat until November is full, and then they could start a new list. So if anyone has any questions about that process, please let them know. Sorry, can you say that number that we're at right now? 31. And right now, with the current staffing that we have, we're… we have the capacity for 36. Um, Mrs. Featherstone's class did a reading challenge at the Syracuse Crunch that

098was super engaging, has been a wonderful ongoing project for students, and has opened the door for our second grade to be able to go to a practice tomorrow, so they're going to be taking a field trip to the Crunch to see the practice, so we thank her for that, for opening the doors for our students. They've been so excited with everything they've been learning about the sport, as well as all of the reading that they've done to get the incentives. that they've run, and it's been a very wonderful, multidisciplinary process… project, so thank you to Mrs. Featherstone. Our superintendent conference day that we had on Friday, we had, uh, started off with a great vertical exploration of the way that we're teaching rhetoric formation, um, which is something that we know from our letters training

099that is so linked not just to handwriting, um, but to learning to read as well. Um, so we have started our vertical process to talk about some of the strengths, some of the things that may have fallen through the cracks over the years as we have given in our attention, and we're going to be continuing those discussions and those learnings together. And we had a great productive, um, conversation as a whole staff. We also attended the, um, learning about the Education AI platform for EDU here at the high school, and we participated in a RevealMath training next to the buildings virtually. Just a reminder that the Spring Sing is on Friday, so it's during the morning program, and that PTO is going to be partnering with the Giving Bean to sell coffee before the event

100as a fundraiser, so that will be a nice Nice addition to our event. That's all presenting your questions. Wheeler. Um… Willard did participate in the PD Day as well, similar to, uh, Rockwell, uh, with the AI platform. Uh, and the RevealMath. The difference was, uh, Wheeler teachers went to the State Tech, uh, it was an initial overview presentation. The high school teachers wanted to earlier in the year, um, and as a result, uh, we're going to proceed with a free trial. first game of the year, all the teachers, um, have the free trials at the end of the year. A lot of positive feedback on that, so we'll see how that plays out with testing season coming up. Uh, big event this week is a, uh, Wheeler Music Festival taking place Thursday at 6.30. I

101was junior, senior high school, I was focused, uh, or showcase the 5th and 6th grade band. Uh, and 3 through 6 chorus, as well as the talent show. Uh, future dates, uh, you know, way out there, but… market your calendar, the spring concert will be, uh, 526, and the production of Willy Wonka. will be the 17th and the 18th of June. high school kids, with a lot of cameos to them. You can see, uh, club's currently going on, still intramural drama. Sam, character, and art. Any questions? I'd say May 26th, or… That's… I have it on the counter as May 26th right now. I have that we have to work. Alright. Thank you. Never question. Thank you. I just… Yes, thank you. Uh, just a couple updates. Uh, the Drama Club, obviously, we went out

102today, uh, we're looking forward to the show. Uh, that is April 10th through the 12th at 7pm, and they have a 2PM matinee show on Sunday. It's $7 for adults and $4 for students. Uh, as Pami and Eric both mentioned, on the 20th PB Day, the high school teachers work with departments, and then they worked with Think Tech and for EDU as well. Um, and there's a lot of positive feedback on that as well. Um, and then I just wanted to ask if you guys had any questions on the data and the information that I shared with the last board meeting, that I can answer. Any other questions? It was more on the enrollment itself to get revised. I have that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Pleasure. So I just did a quick update

103on participation numbers. We are now including modified up to 155 students as of today, participating in spring sports, modified through varsity. That is still the two weeks left of the sign-up period for Modified, um, so we're hoping that number goes even higher. Uh, just a reminder that modified signups are going to still be open for another 2 to 3 weeks, um, with the start date now finalized as April 8th, so that should be Wednesday. It's a little odd this year, uh, the modified spring sports are gonna be starting on Wednesday, April 8th. So, having any questions? That's all I got. Thank you. Alright. Board of Education member reaches. Thanks, everyone. I'll leave it short. Um, presentation. Thank you. I agree, I'll keep you short, but if anybody ever has, ideas to input on the budget

104or anything else. You got ideas where you want to save money? All our emails are on the website. Feel free to talk about it. Good. Yeah. And thank you. Alright. Next is a recommendation. Motion to accept the requirement that the ban narrow of Canada. A school bus driver affected September 13th. Because you can receive it. So moved. Well, really love Wave Retirement Planner after they got a chance to read it, but it's very interesting. We both know the deathtaker. Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Spencer. Okay, speaking to the gorge. We had four signed up, and we'll start with Erica Sharps. Good evening. Thanks for the time. My name is Travis team. I'm a teacher here at the Jr. Senior High School. And I'll be speaking in favor of keeping a

1057th grade science position and the biology freshman teaching position. At the high school. I believe we've talked a lot about electives. I'm going to focus on four classes that are not electives, that are covered by this position at this point. Uh, regardless of how early I arrive at the school, I can count on a few things. And also, Jason Morrow being in this room at least an hour before the buses roll. to craft and create science instruction, regardless of the fact he's been doing it for nearly 30 years. Uh, this speaks to a couple of things. One, he just has the overall goal of improving education for all of our students in the classroom. It's something that he brings to these consistently broad. Uh, that's a result of a teacher that is passionate in the

106subject. Jason is retiring. It doesn't care what I say. He is a fantastic teacher, I'm not suggesting we keep him. However, what he does is the exact thing that we need to maintain the integrity of the science department and the science program here at OCS, considering all the increased rigor that's expected of us. In order to hold a signed certification in New York State, you have to have a degree in teaching a specific content area of science. In Mr. Morris' case, that happens to be biology and living environment. That's putting him uniquely in a position to bring his expertise. As I said, passion and contagious enthusiasm for his subject matter that he's brought to 100% of all the students that have ever taken 7th, or have been enrolled in 7th grade. at OCS in the

107last 30 years. Um, and everyone's benefited from that. Many of your children and students that are not represented here, including people who else sit on our board. That daily consistent experience with grade-level and content specialist allows our student access to rigorous and differentiated instruction. The rigorous curriculum that is now present and required by the state has been upping the game. It requires even more stability from us as a department, and consistency. with experience in that department, losing that one person who is a specialist in that field compromises Sorry. Compromises the integrity of programs Obama signs. With the dramatic increase in state and national level of science standards, that would be, um, state at this point. I understand all the other considerations, but I do have to say that. The electives and college courses we've been

108able to offer have allowed our students more challenging material, Uh, greater enrichment, and of course, rigor, and opportunities they can take with them into a professional career or into a college career. In many cases, allowing our students to graduate up to two semesters early. So there is a savings there. for the families and students. Uh, in planning for the integrity of the future of science education on Daga, which we all feel is important, I believe, Uh, the enrollment trends statewide are not to be questions, they've been discussed quite a period. But over a 6-year period, There will be 4 retirements from the 5 teaching positions in the science department. John Miller and JC Morrow. Within 3 years, Barb Cruz, and 2 years, Steve Lewis ought to be the old man in the room. We were

109fortunate to have Stephanie team join us as a chemistry teacher, a very talented chemistry teacher, who is willing to become dual-certified, to maintain a little bit of flexibility in our scheduling program. Um, since she's able to undertake work in Earth-to-space science, and having that dual-certified science teacher will allow the district the flexibility it needs in offering a variety of courses within the hired staff positions. Uh, losing the teaching position is not a potential savings. I understand that we all feel we're more than dollar signs and a pulse. But, uh, losing that particular position is actually shortchanging an investment in our students. Thank you for your attentiveness. I appreciate the time. Hello, everyone. Uh, as we near the end of March, we're wrapping up both Youth Arts Month and Music in Our Schools Month, so I

110would like to start off by thanking the Board of Education and our administration for their continuing support of our Fine Arts Department. We recently celebrated our annual Night of the Arts at the high school, a tradition that I first started with the district back in 2014. We had an excellent turnout from the community last week, as everyone came out to celebrate the artistic and musical talents of our students. Mr. Meyer said that after the Night of the Arts concert, he received texts, emails, parent square messages, and in-person comments saying how great our Fine Arts Department is. Wheeler Elementary students came over to visit the art show as well last week, and they also enjoyed a performance from the senior high band. We have had a lot of great accomplishments so far this school year, with

111more still to come. coming up, we will have art students exhibiting work at Beaver Lake Nature Center, Baltimore Woods, The Everson Museum and the City BOCES Arts Gala. Ms. Beckman will also be leading a group of 25 ceramics students in the Feeds of Clay event in May, our third year participating since she has started working with us. Additionally, Ms. Beckman was a presenter last week at the Cultivating Creativity OCM Regional Conference, sharing information and lessons from our ceramics program here at OCS. Our ceramics students are very much looking forward to their new studio room when the tech building renovations are complete next year. Our students have also been excelling in our music program under the guidance of Mr. Meyer and Mrs. Ramos. With numerous students participating in all county, area, all-state, Ms. Masolos, the National

112FFA Band, and Allegro Youth Wind Ensemble. Our music teachers hold our students to a high standard and inspire them daily, and it shows in how the students perform on stage. Speaking of music, we look forward to everyone joining us for OCS Dramas production of the musical Cinderella this April. There are currently over 50 students participating in the production, both as performers and behind the scenes. Listing all of the current school year accomplishments from our wonderful articles that students would take some time. So I have prepared this document to share with each of you. To this day, we frequently hear back from former students about how much their participation in the arts has benefited them. We have had many students go on to pursue degrees and careers that are either directly related to fine arts, Or

113use the discipline and creative thinking skills that they developed in our art and music programs. Thank you for supporting our Fine Arts students and their creative endeavors, and I have a copy of this from each of you. Because if I were to go on and list all of these, I would be up there forever. That's what I have been doing. It's all good stuff. 9 through the glass. Thank you. I'd like to start, Mr. Sharp saying, um, opportunity is working on that. You're a gifted science teacher, and you're appreciated by us, so thank you. Um, I'd also like to say that we're losing another OCS legend when my friend Danny Annabo made it, and I thought this was kind of one of those stories about Dan. Um, first met him in 1972, and in 1972,

114Uh, it was the first time my kids from South Onondaga and Aborina met with kids from Netherland. Because in 1972, Rockwood was just an embrokins. And really, with South America and Nanorino Kits. And in 1972, when I was in second grade, that's when I met Diane. So, um… He comes from a great family, um, and he sat with me, uh, one in a million, and he's one of the people that helps make OCS what it is today. So… I'm gonna imagine. Last week, I asked a question about Um, posting the open work positions and communicating on the $100,000 sign we got done at Rockwell. Um, I haven't heard anything. Uh, love to see it up, because a lot of our residents are not on Paris Square. They're driving by the sign. It's just putting a

115visual up. Have you picked up a board packet, or would you like to attend a board meeting? Um… It's Harazette's usage to me. Lafayette did a great job this week. They've been posting on their social medias about board meetings, about, um, board packets. So, just an idea, just throwing it out there. Um, okay, but not AI. I'm just a teacher, I'm just a community member. And I don't know where those statistics were coming from to anybody that would like to sit down and talk to me about this, I would love to. Because I've been here the last 10 years, and I've got the numbers, along with children's pictures that I've taught in my classrooms. And I've never taught less than 17 kids. The years that we're, um, pulling out, pulling it out with the COVID

116year, that we had the 14 students, The following year, we had… the COVID year, we had 5 sections of secondary break, and we were capped off by the state. The following year, we had, um, researches, and… I was at, uh, 14 that year, okay, but it was… this was my last year. 17, 17, 14, 17. Then I just call them the two years before that COVID years. In 2000… 2019, we had retirement. We had faded out. We were losing training. Tracy last week, Jared Skraginski and Rand Broach. We made a conscious decision each year that instead of Um, losing that position, we would let it… we would lose it through attrition. So, I got the numbers, if anybody wants to see it. So, when I see the number that I ever taught, 11, 10 kids,

117I don't know where that's from. I don't know what AI is telling you, but… This is… this is what we have. Um, I did some research. I just made a couple phone calls. Skinny Atlas has AIS. Um, in every grade level. One full-time person. Salve, K4. It was 3 MathIS AIS teachers, It was free reading, AIS teachers, and in 5-8, it wants to map the IS teachers and two reading AIS teachers. Now, I work full-time, so I don't have a lot of time for canvassing other districts, but this is just what I found out. Also of note, back in from 2021 to 2022, it rivaled every 3 AIS features. 2022 to 23.3, 2023-20 can work two and a half, then we, in 2024, dropped to two. This year, we're at 1. If you need AIS

118teachers to support, um, reading, Um, also, quick question. Pre-K, the salary lines. Um, we always had 4410 here. So, is… the question is, is our salary line inflated? Because we're now covering the costs of those staff, because it used to be 5 staff members in the 4410. Then we take on the pre-K. Do you see what I'm saying, Mr. Price? We take on the pre-K now, two sections, and then sometimes we had 3 TAX, and I got the numbers. So is that what's helping inflate those numbers, and is the SRO salaries in those salary numbers? The SROs are in the instructional salaries, but when you go back to the 4410 program, The 4410 program was funded through the… Right, funded through the state through the county. Right. And then, based on the number of special

119education students, We had to supply, um… 12 students, and, uh, typical students. Those five positions, in, um, preschool, If you remember these discussions, we always… we ended up changing how we were speaking about it, because it was upsetting people. When we would say that the 4410 program, we were… we would have 8 special education students, or 6, or 12, or 13, and it ranged from 4 or 5 is a low one year, uh, 13 is high, because that's all we can have. And those years, we were not at 12, where we were fully enrolled, The district was picking up the other portion of the cost of that program, and some years, we would have 3 or 4 OCS kids in it, when some years would have none. Um, so that, that goes back to those

120numbers in the pre-K. And when you follow that, um, enrollment sheet, if I can continue to talk, Frank, it seems fobled that enrollment sheet, It's on board agenda. Those numbers tie back in the school tool, what's tied back into the rosters that each of you have as a teacher, that ties into and New York State report card. Okay, but it's random, they're all NAs, that's the part I don't understand, like, why? Because when we… dropped the 4410 program, and we just brought in preschool. That's why we had to find some place to transition I was counting the numbers like we did when there was a 4410 program. We would count them if we had 12, You have 12 students who are there all day, and then we would have additional 12 if we had all

12112 in the morning of typicals, and then another 12 in the afternoon of typicals. So are you saying with the 31 and the 38 and the 43 are the combined numbers? Is that what you're saying? Those are the UPK numbers for the last 2 years. Yeah, I was gonna say, so now, but you're saying those numbers are correct. Okay, okay. But is… am I correct also in saying that when you're looking at the graph of salary figures, Prior to that year, we were counting in 5 salary members of our staff. In our budget? Well, in your numbers, as you're saying, um, when you're going up against 2018, 2019, and the increase since then, the hearing to. Are we comparing apples to apples, is what I'm asking. It's almost impossible to hear me out. That's what

122everyone here is because it's not… we're not running the same program, and the other piece is, is even back when we were running the program, Did any gift in any given year, and if we go back far enough… When I first arrived, he had a, um… a fund balance of money. It was left over from the preschool program when to charge the parents tuition. And then we eliminated that We use that money to concept. the expenses from it over is because the… the dollar amounts to what the program Um, we're not sustained by the dollar amount provided by the city. Okay, that's a fair answer. It's almost, it's almost in sight very well, that we probably should have grant a separate budget. Right. And I already did, but that budget got included into our numbers.

123Okay, okay, thank you, because I think that those numbers, there's a differential. And we had to make that transition in that spreadsheet at some point, And where we had to start saying, man, hey, and we've talked about different ways, like, And, you know, 10 more years down the road, and we only keep it in a 10-year span. That 4410 program will be so back in a spreadsheet. Right. You know, no, I don't revive on that. And then just my last, uh, comment is when you're looking at, coming back to 2016, 2017, maybe 8th grade, if you follow that cohort, That's true, that's, that's the Sophie Collin Dillon class, that's 82. But that's… you're using those numbers of that outlier in your averages, and I think that in true statistical inferences, that that should be pulled

124out, because you're talking to 82 kids who are in that class, and that's going into your AI numbers, and it's escalating, and it's raising your numbers, and it's not a true statistical inference, and… I'm just saying it for clarification. Right. And the last thing I have to say is… Well, it's like Mark Twain said about statistics. Right. Well, we both know that. But, you know, they may not. The other thing is, is at one point of the PowerPoint presentation today, you were saying that whose teacher was $89? Um, then you have a, um, we're not looking at these positions anymore with a full-time AIS teacher. The question is, is the person sitting in the audience? Do we have that budget at $75,000 hours? So does a teacher get $75,000, or does it get over 90

125days? There's not anybody in the ballpark at the time you're using a rough estimate back in the February presentation. We have to use that number a single time since this just is a recap. We could look down three rows. Salary and benefits were not inclusive of our… I understood that, but I think an asterisk towards that, because if you're sitting in the audience, Three slides before, you're seeing this new teacher is an 89,000. I've added to that. So if you went down even just one more, it shows, yeah, P times 3, the good that out, you go back to 18. So the last thing is, is everything, as I said here in the audience, I'm hearing thoughts about teachers, Um, since 2019, my question for the board is, I will take Mr. Bueno up on

126this, and I will email the party's questions. But, since 2019, I don't think we're ahead in this than we had it. How many secretaries have we added? How many SROs have we added? How many preschools positions have we added? And what is that overall cut… overall then? Those are some of my questions. You're very… Um, into teachers, and how much teachers are coming. We are the ones that help teach them how to read, how to graduate from science. There's gotta be revenues in this budget. Thank you for chime in. I appreciate it, thank you. Just questions? You're welcome. I apologize if the memo got meant to assign. the day after the board meeting, I went over and I spoke with Mr. Cooper and Mr. Mumford, and it went out right away, and I apologize for

127my oversight if I didn't get it out to Rockwell Department at the time, but if they go out here the day after the meeting. And we have to actually restart back at some, so I appreciate you, uh, pointing out that idea. Thank you. Mary Beth, just gotten the numbers of the classrooms to clarify. Um, when I shared those numbers, Those who are a student-to-teacher ratio, I never said to do in a classroom 11. No, but you had it up there with your AI slides of how many student per teacher ratio. Right. And I… and some of them, I'd have to go back and look, because I don't have the access, because it wasn't up before I… at 5 o'clock when I was looking, I couldn't see it. Usually I'd print it off, but some of

128those ratios look like H1, um, Mr. Farrell, she were having a teacher-to-student ratio, so that is that teacher-to-student and staff to student, so that includes TAs, AIS, and… So, is that also include our OTPT? Is that on staff? And, um… When you go to the same website, when you look at the spreadsheets that I put up there, And that staff to student ratio is calculated, um, by the number of TAs and teachers, AIS and special ed, not including The, um, uh, um, OTPT request. Okay, we need to draw those numbers in. Oh, no, I was just… Because I don't think it's appropriate to. No, I don't either. That's why I was like, I've never seen an 8 to 1… I've never seen it, so… And that… you know, that's just doing the math in terms

129of how they do it at state ed, and the question that I don't know with State Ed is, I don't know if they include speech and OT, um, and those categories when they do that, is when you look at on our state website, um, those numbers come up when you look at a building, it has a teacher-to-student ratio. And our numbers are pretty close to what the state's reporting, too. Okay, okay. It just wasn't… clear, as you were sitting here. It was like I was the atmosphere, so thank you for the clarification. No, that's good. I tried to explain this when I was going over this slide. But I also don't want it to come across that I was implying that you had 11 kids in the classroom. Right. That's because that wasn't… I wasn't

130picking out any one specific teacher. Um, the other slides will, you know, have it spelled out as it is currently, and not as it was a year ago, and then what it would look like next year. I'd like to make a comment on this, too. Vernary Beth… Along with your questions, when you email them, I challenge you. And anybody else that's listening to this… Especially those that are… educators, teachers, tell me where. to save democracy. I would love to hire 10 AIS teachers, maybe two more. And I'd love to hire 6 more science teachers tomorrow. If you can tell me how to get blood from a stone, We're gonna do it. Hang on, let me finish. You brought up solving. I think you already know that I have a team with Save, but in 3

131minutes of Googling, While you guys were going back and forth. Solve it has a 45-plus million dollar budget. We have a $27 million. Solve these tax levy. Just under 18 counties. Ours, a little over 11. Solving, $21.49 per thousand. cars, $30.33 per pound. Tell me where the money's gonna come from. Okay. Before we get into this constant back-and-forth garbage of, How many kids you have, how many kids you don't have, Don't make it be teachers, it can't be teachers, it has to be bus drivers, it has to be district office, it has to be this. Everybody. used to come together. And decide where it's gonna come from. And I'm going to put it out to the union, Especially the teachers union, the reps from all three buildings. Why don't y'all get together? Instead of playing

132against each other. get together and say, hey, this is where we think we can save some money. Can I just say something? Mr. Bryce, I mean this most respectfully. I speak because I'm a community member, and I'm towards the end of my career, okay? The thing is, is teachers report to Mr. Press. Mr. Price reports to the Board of Education. For teachers to come in here and give their opinion, is not the place. Mr. Price is the teacher's boss, He is the one that is advocating for what his teachers believe that He can't. I am an only outlier, and I've always had that, and I probably even work right here than he needs, but the idea is that is not… a relationship that our teachers' union, and I'm sticking up for all of them, we

133can't do that, because that is against our… well, Mr. Christ, you would have to… you would have to open the line of communication to do that, because it is not typically in unions incentive to come up to the Board of Education, because Mr. Price is our boss. And that's fine, but you can still communicate. I know you're not. I'm just… Part of the reason, part of the thing that I ran on just as a board member to get elected was communication. And if we're going to stick by this, well, I can't talk to you, because, God forbid, no, I can only talk to this one person. guess what? We're all going down. can take that over. So, I don't have any community order out. control over, let's say, like, union negotiations or anything. So what

134does it do? for someone to email me. it just gets information. You know, I guarantee half the teachers won't come here and talk, because they're afraid of getting something to kind of replicate or something. Which is BS. And illegal. Correct. You are, especially… I think that that is very untrue. Our lines of communication are always open, teachers are always welcome to come out of our meetings. We have public meetings, we all have emails, as they've said. I just am very open to that. I'm putting it out there because… Whatever happens, at the end of the day, there's 8 people that get blamed, good or a bedroom. 7 people on the board to the superintendent. Wherever they only need. Whether it's good or bad, they're the ones that get it. So, all those emails are public.

135It was imperative. Thank you. They're urgency. Okay, so my teacher's coming out, and I feel like everyone needs a stretch break, or just a new belt, or a spring gym, something, because… I can tell you, I'm not used to sitting this long, I'm sure, well, maybe you all are, but I know most of you are not, so, you know, here we are. Um, so good evening. My name is Dara Burns, and I'm here tonight as the AIS Department team leader. And the last board agenda, my team saw the enrollment document, and it appeared to suggest one consideration. Um, to replace some of the retirees was to move a Wheeler AIS provider into one of those cost responses. Um, so that one's a bit surprising, and, um, I thought this would make a great opportunity to

136just explain AIS to everyone. Um, and I know that budget decisions are always tough, but, um… Well, for the AIS. So, AIS stands for Academic Intervention Services. It's a general education service, although we provide interventions to students in special education. P&L students and the general population. Unlike special ed, all students are eligible to receive AIS with a provider. The district has worked hard with our MTSS plan, which can be found on the district's website. Our plan is grounded in the principles of equity, data-driven decision-making, and prevention, among others. All elementary students are given the Amesweb benchmark three times a week, 3 times a week. Woo, that would be a lot! Sorry! Clearly, I need the AIS. And we use the data to inform our groupings. So, we give the groupings, sorry, we give the benchmarks,

137then my AIS department pulls the students, and we get them more assessments, because the benchmark is one day. If it's one assessment, it does not make a student So we dig a little deeper, um, we don't take just that one snapshot, and we get to know the whole child. So, some students might be an AIS, For academics, others are in AIS because they need a small group setting for their social-emotional needs, um, and that comes with being with another trusted adult in the building. And in a small group. At Wheeler, we work with our principal and other staff members to create groups that will allow us to get the most bang for our buck. So that might be a student joining a group for 6 weeks to work on a skill. Um, they might be

138the only student in their classroom, so… grouping the students together means that we can take students from several classrooms and bring them together to work on whatever they need. Once they meet their goal, they can be dismissed from the group. This year, we're able to provide some Tier 1 support, as all three of the AIF providers at Wheeler push into classrooms for math instruction. We provide extra supports for the students who need it. And an extra 62, so total students at Wheeler have the benefit of two certified teachers during their core math instruction. With this co-teach model, all students are taught the same content, but classroom teachers are able to focus on extension activities that can push some of our students to critically think about topics, and it doesn't make our below average students feel

139insufficient. Conversely, we're able to make sure that our below-average students have enough hands-on and concrete practice with essential standards. I've been lucky enough to work with the same co-teacher for many years. And I've had a lot of your students come through, Um, one thing that I do when I'm in there is I sing, and many of them will say Mrs. Byrd, stop singing, but you know what? As they go on, they can take… they continue remembering those songs. That's something that they might knock at in a general ed classroom without a crazy AIS teacher with them. At Rockwall, we currently have 32 students in an ELA intervention with 1.5 interventionists. Wheeler has 28 students in an ELA intervention and 39 students. And that intervention with 3 interventionists. We each have a caseload of about 22

140students whom we service as part of a group each day. This year, 43% of newly enrolled students at Wheeler qualified for an intervention group. Last year, 45% I'm newly enrolled students at Wheeler qualified and were placed in an intervention. If one of our team members was to be placed somewhere else, That would mean 20 students would not receive an intervention. Our groups are meant to be small, so we cannot simply absorb someone else's group. Nor did the groups target the same skills that a student might need. Scheduling constraints are another reason why we cannot simply just cover all of the needs with two providers. This year, Rackwell was reduced to one AIS provider for a building of 165 students, although I did hear tonight that they are looking for, um, perhaps getting another one, which

141is fantastic. This past winter, 20 out of 47 kindergarten students flagged on our AIMS web math benchmark. They placed below the 30th percentile, which is one of the metrics we look at when policing students. 24 out of 53 first grade students also flagged as students in need of help. And 22 out of 51 students in second grade would also qualify for AIS. At Wheeler, we have 23 out of 62 3rd grade students. But in 4th grade, we only have 5 out of 56 students qualifying. In 5th grade, we have 7… 6 out of 71. And 2 out of 45, and I do have the days out for all of you, if you'd love to look for a lovely colored document in your spare time. Eliminating an AIS provider at Wheeler will reduce the number of

142students who are receiving a targeted intervention. 20 students will not get the academic support that they need. Classroom teachers will be asked to pick up the slack. And we know their place are already really full with demands. Ultimately, reducing AIS staff does not reduce the student need? The number of students who require academic support will remain the same. But we will have fewer resources available to provide that support. The need will continue to grow as students move on through the district and grow further behind. Previously shared data shows that while enrollment is declining elsewhere, The wheeler population is consistent. While it may seem like we can't afford to keep 3 AIS teachers at Wheeler, I believe we can't afford that tube. And I know, Mr. Bellino, what other option is there? But I'm asking you

143to please consider another option. That will not have an impact on such a great number of students. Thank you for your time and your shared commitment to our district and our students. Dara, can you send those… can you send that data in the email? I love data. I didn't… I didn't have a chance to… to your question? Sure. So, the… you said there was 22 students in UC in a day? Yes. And then, um, if you've reduced down by one teacher, What would we do with those other 22 kids? Or do we increase class sizes for AIS, but we're just not service them? That's a great question. So, you mean if we were to take an AIS provider, what would happen to that provider? Because it's a proposed right now. Sure. If you… you said

144there were 66? We have… So, tell me how this structure would look if there was an AAS provider for the 3rd and 4th grade, an AS provider for 56th grade, and they, um, each had 33 students. And you don't have to do this right now off the top of your head. Sure. What would that schedule look like for your day, going from 22 to 33 in a day? And, like, right now, your groups are 2 or 3 kids, per group? Um, mostly for… some groups are two, some groups are 5. Most of them are 5. So, on average, probably 3. So, and you don't have the answer now, but I'll… we'll talk later. Sure. If you would. Yeah. Is what that would look like with, um, an AIS at 4th through 5th grade, and then

145AIS at, um, 5th and 6th grade, and then we can talk about the Tier 1 intervention strategies and… For the classroom teachers that we've been working on. Um, and what we have in the MAC program and the reading programs, That helps the AIS students and helps their professor teaching. Thank you, love to. Each one… And so, to say it was… I have a motion inside H2 through H6. So moved. Second. Questions and comments? Aye. closed. Okay. motion increases. Are you one? I'll just read this, um… This is about our status on the superintendent search. Um, the board began this process by partnering with those in BOCES District Superintendent Catholic, to act as our search consultant, to ensure the search reflects the values of our district, we have completed the following. Intermediate interviews, we had completed

146confidential intermediate entity rounds. These sessions allow the board to vet candidates deeply on their experience and fit for unemployment Central School District. While maintaining their privacy in their current roles. Finalist rounds of the stakeholder engagement, which will be upcoming, um, towards the mineral shind of April. Once the field is narrowed to the top five of us, the search will transition to a more public-facing format with stakeholder panel. Finalists will participate in interviews with various stakeholder groups, Including faculty, staff, administrators, and community members. So, Dr. Cook is… will be working with Rob Price to, uh, create these panel, uh, these stakeholder panels. Um, if whoever is interested from the community Um, administrators, teachers, faculty, staff, please contact. Mr. Burst. looking ahead, the board remains on track to appoint a new superintendent well in advance of Mr.

147Price's departure in July of 2026. Ensuring a smooth leadership transition for our students and experiment. Recommendation… received. I have a motion to approve the notice of the annual meeting and prepositions as present. So, Luke? Second. Thanks, April following this one. Okay. Yeah, very good questions, comments? Uh, Michael, hi. adjacent leader, I'm Laurel Bennett. Daniel Brown, uh, can do it all rounds. Thank you. I have a motion to approve the appointment of the following worker for the May 19, 2026 district meeting for the purpose of the annual budget report. Questions, comments? Quickly, um, this is an update. We had, uh, Mr. Milano, who's done this for Star Wiggers for us, and then he let us know the day of the last meeting, he was no longer available for the month of May, so I went through

148our list. Amish grooms lived in Camilla, she seemed like she was the closest person that was at least able to get ahold of, um, so she's gonna help us out. I'm sorry, custodian machines, they can come in, they open up the machines, and then hopefully we don't back like we had to once with a Capital project open as soon as I went to 30th thing. Thank you. Thank you. questions, comments? All those in favor? Opposed. I have the motion to be very excited to come. J1. Promotion has created. 80% of captains. All those in favor? I was saying what she's carries fine. spiral. Fair enough. I just wanted to, uh, thank Darrell and Eric, uh, Eric Sharpeny, uh, for speaking today. Um, many, almost everything you shared with us and Jackie's. I was speaking more

149budget-wise, that it's gonna be a second one, Joe. Uh, don't want to share that. But, um, all of those things, I think I could say this in pretty good confidence, maybe not all of them, but I'm pretty sure you did. All of those things have come up during, um, discussions for the administrative teams. you know, talking about what the impact is on class size. When the end, that design AI has. Like, all of those things have been discussed. Um, in detail, and sometimes until, you know, We're all exhausted. You know, we finish up, our administrative meetings, and we tried to finish them up by 11 or 11.30. And there's been many times in the past, um, 2 months that when we get to 11.30 or 12, and we know they need to get back to

150their buildings, We feel like we have unfinished business. Um, the administrators have been taking this as serious as they ever have, um, when we've actually had to make cuts in 2014. Um, and I never want us to be in that, um, position again, where we're in fiscal stress. Your feedback is appreciated, and thank you. Um, and I'll meet with, um, individuals or groups. I've done that before. And you all see me around the building, and I can get around. Jackie, the Knight of the Arts and music in our, um, Schools Month, it was great, thank you. That was completely separate, Joe. Thank you. Okay, um, upcoming meetings and trainings, uh… Let's see… to bring their board meeting… On Tuesday, April 7th, here. Uh, this is the time of the year that we start… board meetings

151at 6.30. Uh, due to spring sport. Um, and then the next meeting after that is the OCES special meeting. Uh, which is, on Monday. Sorry, I have to repeat. April 20th, thank you. At 6.30 at Rockwell. And then after that, I believe it's May 5th, because that's the budget public hearing at 5.30, followed by the regular Board of Education meeting at 6.30. M1 here. And a motion. to enter an executive session for tenure review, and to discuss the medical financial credit or employment history, a very particular person or corporation or matters leading to the appointment. The appointment, solution, If emotional disciplines suspension, the expense will never be moved over a particular version of… Some of… Well, same birthday.