August 26, 2025 - Board of Education Meeting

001Rob Price: Better not talk about them anymore. Oh, it's… tonight, at least 3 or 4 times before it logged in. Did everyone get into board docs? That was an issue earlier. Okay. I don't have the join meeting, I just have view agenda. Rob Price: This is not luggage. My job is all this stuff, man. Rob Price: So I have… I have, … I have both Zoom controls and board meeting controls, so I don't see any executive content when I'm running it this way. I'm in. Rob Price: I'm in… I just want to make sure… yup, I'm in public view. Rob Price: We're all ready to start when you are, Mike and… Correct. Rob Price: We also came to the plate boots? Rob Price: I pledge allegiance to the United States of America. Rob Price: to

002the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Rob Price: Excuse me. Rob Price: B1… Rob Price: May I have a motion to approve the minutes of the August 12, 2025 Board of Education meeting as presented? So moved. Rob Price: Second. Rob Price: Questions, comments, concerns? Rob Price: All those in favor? Aye. Rob Price: Opposed? Rob Price: Staying… Motion carries, 6-0. Rob Price: I have a motion to approve Victoria King as music teacher, effective September 1st, 2025. So moved. Second. Rob Price: Questions, comments, concerns? Rob Price: All those in favor? Aye. Rob Price: Opposed? Rob Price: Same, pushing the sixth year. Rob Price: Yep. Rob Price: Not here. She's not here? Okay. Congratulations. Welcome. Rob Price: I have a motion to approve Elizabeth Samba as E&L teacher, effective

003September 1st, 2025. So moved. Second. Rob Price: Questions, comments, concerns? Rob Price: All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Rob Price: Staying? Rob Price: Motion carries 6-0. Rob Price: Okay. Rob Price: Victoria just walked in. Oh, okay. I thought of, oh, right there behind her. Rob Price: Congratulations, congratulations. Rob Price: And presentation, Onondaga County Lead Testing Program for School-Aged Children. Yep, it's a pleasure to welcome Deb Lewis and Jessica here tonight. They're going to talk about the lead testing program, that are… that we're going to partner with, the county and with the Nedro Fire Department. Rob Price: And I'm going to turn it over to the two ladies to speak about it. I have your flyers up. I can put them on the screen. Rob Price: And you… they can see it as you're speaking about

004it. We also have flyers available if you'd like one for your own. Yep. Okay, I'm Doug Lewis, I'm the program director for the Lead Poison Prevention and Health Initiatives program in the Iowa County Health Department. Rob Price: One of the opportunities that we take a great deal of pleasure in is working with school districts to make sure that they're well prepared and students to come into the district with every bit of information that they can possibly get about that child's health and their developmental needs. Rob Price: Children who have been exposed to lead poisoning, or lead paint, can have developmental delays, learning, and behavioral issues that often go undiagnosed until later on in their academic career. Rob Price: One of the concerns that districts make is not knowing how many of those children in their

005district may be affected by that. Rob Price: New York State Department of Education and New York State Department of Health do not currently share that information. It is not a requirement for school entry. Should I be looking the other way? No, you're fine. I just realized the camera was behind us. It is not a requirement for school entry for a child to become enrolled in school, to have proof of blood testing. However, there is a health questionnaire. Rob Price: that New York State Department of Health puts out for incoming students that includes a question about that. Rob Price: So one of the things that we'd like to talk about with the district at some point is how they can be better informed about which children coming in may need some additional developmental screening throughout their

006early academic career. Rob Price: One of the things that we do know is that often the impact of bladder exposure does not show up until later on, when a child needs to be more independent in Rob Price: Their organizational skills, getting ready. Rob Price: paying attention, sitting still. And sometimes in early childhood younger kids, that's normal behavior for them to be fidgety and to move around a lot. Later on, academically, it may show up in difficulty with Rob Price: processing information and giving that information back may look like an auditory learning processing disorder and some other similar learning disabilities. So knowing ahead of time that children may need additional support and ongoing developmental screening helps a district prepare from a staffing perspective. Rob Price: Student support perspective, and help school nurses help families work through

007any potential need for a developmental assessment. Rob Price: So what we're hoping to do… Rob Price: is offer screening and testing for children in need of testing for all incoming pre-K students this year. Rob Price: We've done this successfully with the Syracuse School District. Rob Price: They've had more than 1,000 children enrolled, we tested more than 500 of those children, and fortunately found that many children coming into the district were not elevated on their test results. There's sort of a disconnect between when children are required to be tested at age 1 and 2, and when they actually entered the school. Rob Price: And kids get into a lot of things between 2 and 5, 6 years of age, right? So checking in at that point when they're entering school to see if they've had early

008testing, if they have not, offering it to check and see where they're at point of entry of school, helps provide you with a little bit more information and helps us intervene earlier. Rob Price: So we can explain in more detail how that will work if you're interested. Otherwise, I'd like to provide a little bit of information, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Rob Price: The event on the 22nd is a larger-scale community event. Rob Price: Being coordinated, by Legislator Peron, as well as in concert with the fire department and with the school district. This will be, more information on that will be forthcoming. Rob Price: But we will be offering testing on the day of the event. A lot of our preliminary registration for the event will take place prior to that time, with

009information on students coming to us for screening, and scheduling for day of event testing. Rob Price: hopefully we'll be here tomorrow to meet and brief with the families, and to do some pre-screening on that day. Is anyone interested in the choir themselves? Yeah, you can leave that information with us, that would… Rob Price: I have two questions. I imagine this will be something where people opt in or opt-out, choose to do so. Rob Price: And then if you identify a student who has elevated lead, do you work with the families to discover, like, the source of the lead, and if it's in the home and things like that? I know there's, like, the lead-free houses people can stay in and get mitigation. Any child that has an elevated test result, our program follows up with

010the family to do some additional screenings, some risk assessment to try to determine factors leading to their exposure. Rob Price: We work with the family to make sure the child has ongoing testing and receives the proper medical care, developmental assessments. Rob Price: This is… in New York State, any case management activity for a child over 5, which is the public health response level in New York, requires case management and environmental investigation. So we would do an inspection home to try to see if there was a paint hazard, or check for other environmental factors, like soy. Rob Price: And we continue to work with the family until the child's test result gets to a point where we can safely both that child's case with our office and everything that we found that's an environmental risk challenge

011to address. Rob Price: And then, just to add, on the residential side of things, I work closely with them, the director of lead operations at the County Exec's Office, but my primary role is to oversee all the lead initiative funding that we have, so a lot of that is residential, lead communication grants that you might hear about. So on that side of things, if we've identified a family. Rob Price: We've identified the source of where the lead hazards exist, we refer them to various programs that we have. I also added my card in there, so if you want more information on any of those resources, you can Rob Price: And temporary housing is one of the other things that you asked about, and actually that's often… we determine that on a case-by-case basis, based on

012what our assessment shows, what the family needs, what work may need to be done in the home, and whether they can be safely in the home. Rob Price: That's great, thank you. Rob Price: Jessica, nice meeting you. Nice meeting you in person. Anytime we can partner with the county to help out the broader community outside of education, we're excited for that. Appreciate the county's effort, and Rich McCarron's efforts to include us. Rob Price: Thank you, Jim. Thank you. Thank you. Rob Price: Okay, capital project update. Rob Price: We have, Mike DiPerno from CNS, Catherine Wolf from Ashton McGraw. Rob Price: Go ahead, let you… Mike, go ahead and start. Catherine, start your introductions. Do this all in a more orderly fashion. Rob Price: I'm, Kenneth Wolf from Edge McGraw Architects, one of the principals and

013a Learning Environment Planner. Rob Price: Michael Carter from CNS companies and the project manager. Rob Price: That mother's selling CNS. Rob Price: I'm Kristen Junker, I'm with Ashley Crop, and I'm a project manager. Rob Price: I'm Dan Donovan, I'm a project manager. Rob Price: So, thank you for giving us some time to give you a little bit of an update on the capital project as it's currently ongoing. The agenda that we have to go over, it's just… already introduced all of ourselves, but, wanting to take a step back and reframe what the goals were for the capital project. Rob Price: Give an overall update on the schedule and the budget, and then just the updates to where we're at with, Phase 1, and then the designs for Phase 2. Rob Price: So, we had started

014working with the district a couple years ago, and when we were creating the capital project, we had, a series of meetings with the district, the strategic partners, board members, and really began to articulate Rob Price: what should this project be about? That was kind of the foundation to the decision-making for creating the project scope, and that has carried forward throughout Rob Price: the conversations with the stakeholders, and then thinking for design. So, if you go onto that slide, those foundational pieces that we were looking at were Rob Price: Wanting to make sure that we had a nice Rob Price: balanced in what we are addressing. So, focusing on supporting teaching and learning, making sure that we're not only addressing the day-to-day Rob Price: of the learning environment, but also, catering to students who have specific

015interests for different pathways. How can we honor that and celebrate that within the built environment? Rob Price: We also wanted to address some of the critical infrastructure needs, so that we can continue to evolve what we're doing here and make sure that all of these buildings are operational states to be in. Rob Price: And then, the last one is wanting to make sure that we are providing connections for the community. So, anything that we do, how could that potentially, radiate out beyond just the 9 to 4 hours of the school day, but what happens in the evening as well? Rob Price: So, those were the underpinnings for a lot of the conversations, and where we're currently at, if you look at that, schedule, that next slide, is we're currently in the process of, completing the

016structure for Phase 1. So, a lot of work has been done over the course of the past Rob Price: address those Phase 1 items, and I'll let, CNS speak more intelligently about construction, but we're looking at, construction towards the end of this zone. A lot of it should be wrapped up, so… Rob Price: Within the next month or so. Rob Price: For Phase 2, we're looking at still our construction documents, getting those prepared. We're going to be sending them to the state for review and approval in October. We're also going to be sending them out the bid around that time as well, so that we can be really Rob Price: In a good position for receiving bids, receiving numbers, and getting construction started next year. Rob Price: I've had any, like, break the bad. Rob

017Price: That'll give you a quick update on Phase 1, where we are, what construction's left to be done, where we are with that, and then add the cover of Phase 2, and the process for bidding, and our thought process for schedule. Rob Price: So, like Catherine said, we are starting to wind down with instruction. We are going to be ready to open up schools. Rob Price: Same with the high school. It is finishing up this week. The Boilers, work through, getting a two online after the heat season. Rob Price: through the territory. Rob Price: Bus garage is all set. Rob Price: Maybe it's complete. Rob Price: And up by the baseball field, Saad's gonna be… Rob Price: in a pretty hot summer, as everybody knows, but Massade's gonna be second week, so… Rob Price: Sorry,

018an action meeting for the baseball field, the softball field, and everything else for the field should be wrapped up this week. Rob Price: I sent out a car report, Friday, so I don't want to hear any questions about that, or anything like that. Rob Price: Not when I work in white. Rob Price: And so, our thought process for phase one was we wanted to work with Ash McGraw to make sure that we had some things that we could design quickly. Rob Price: get out of the street quickly and get a Phase 1 going and get some stuff done ahead of time. That's why he went, did some work at the baseball field, grouping, did tackle the, corridors of Wheeler. That was, a job that we could get done over the summertime. And, just making sure

019that we had stuff going out and things getting done. Rob Price: And then from there, larger portions of the project is Phase 2. There would be more design involvement there, so it needed more time for that. Rob Price: So with that, as they're heading to, SED in October, we wanted to be able to get out to bid at a favorable time, and get bids in our hands at a favorable time, because we're planning on starting work in early spring in, Rob Price: 2026. And, the reason we wanted to do that is, the earlier we can start construction, the more competitive, the more attractive it is for contractors to get their A teams going, and out of… out into construction, and get going from here. So we usually have very, very good success with that. Rob

020Price: To talk about budget, we can talk about Phase 1. Rob Price: pop that one slide. So right now, Phase 1, you can see there, that's where the budget is, and those are real dollars off of the bid numbers and work that we've done, and any possible change orders. I can say that the job has been very, very, Rob Price: teaching we run, in a sense, where right now we're at, like, a negative change order number. We have about $30,000 of allowance monies left that will probably not get spent, which we'll get back from the contractors and put it towards Phase 2 budget. So things are… things are moving well. Rob Price: As we go into Phase 2, we've been working closely with our estimation team, Natasha McGraw's team. What you see in the numbers

021there, those are all numbers of our, Rob Price: a construction drawing estimates, because the drawings are pretty close to construction phase right now. So with that, Rob Price: We're… that's where we are with the construction and start budgets at each building, all right? And if you go to the next slide, it basically gives you where we are with the project. So right now, you can see our estimates are at about $10 million, $7… Rob Price: 50, and with the Phase 1 added into it, and our incidentals, our construction contingency. Rob Price: But the project at about $16.3 million right now have $15,600, so we're a little bit over budget, but with that said, if you look at that big box at the top there, our estimates are holding a 5% design contingency, 5% Rob Price:

022bid contingency, and 4.8% escalation that goes into the bid point of 2026. So our estimate is very conservative right now. So we feel confident to be able to go out the street at a very favorable time, and with that in mind, we also put a couple of alternates in there that have Rob Price: We do have favorable bids, that there is a couple of alternates that we could choose from at that time. Rob Price: Any, any questions on the Phase 1 construction, or Phase 2 bid approach? Rob Price: What did that. Rob Price: Next, we will go on to some skill pilots. We want to walk you through what we have in the project for Phasing 1 and Phase 2. Rob Price: So, based on… At the Junior Senior High School, there is boiler replacement

023and roofing replacement. Rob Price: Wheeler Elementary Rehab Orr Wall Tylenz was mentioned. Rob Price: And then the bus garage, we've got everything replacement going on. Rob Price: Phase 2, what we're currently designing. Rob Price: For the high school, we have masonry restoration. It's actually going to be part of unit pricing in the bids, so there's no masonry scope in the actual drawings themselves, but should we get favorable bids, and we want to do masonry repairs, we can. Rob Price: We also indicated there are some electric panels that are beyond their useful life, so we've indicated 17 that need to be replaced. Rob Price: We've got the main distribution switchboard. That's definitely beyond useful life, and something that, for safety reasons and making sure your filter's running correctly, you want to replace that. Rob Price: Fire

024alarm detection and emergency lighting. Those are items that are by the state that we are adding, but there's only a few. Rob Price: And then the larger, architectural and mechanical plumbing soap that we're doing on a program basis, kitchen and serving line renovations. Rob Price: So I'm running through a list of things now, and then we'll show you some images. Rob Price: Phase 2, also continued on the next slide, is Baylor Elementary School. Rob Price: Sorry, Anthony. Rob Price: If you go backwards. Rob Price: Wheeler Elementary School, we have some minor group repair is something that we noted in our building conditions survey. There was some, there was some impact in the group, so we want to make sure to fix that. Rob Price: We are replacing the boiler, and a couple of the roads

025that are associated with that roof. Rob Price: We, again, are looking at adding some fire detection devices that are a field requirement, and a larger impact of the boiler, other than the boiler, is working on my kitchen and serving line, and I'll give you a little more information on that when we get to plans. Rob Price: Rockwell, we have some more masonry work that we're gonna have as the unit price contract. Rob Price: Some fluorine replacement at the bridge. It's beyond use of life, it's separating from the person want to take care of that now. Rob Price: We have noted a few things on the exterior that really should be taken care of now. There's an exterior door access under a roof, it's a foot door. Rob Price: And insulin. Rob Price: Not a… you

026don't really want a wood door like that. It's not gonna last very long, and it's a way we need to replace that. Rob Price: We have a canopy that we want to re-root and divert the drain so that it's safer in the wintertime for people. Rob Price: True. Rob Price: We have a boiler that we're going to replace. You'll note that we're replacing boilers, onions. Rob Price: And the larger program space, that is the main office rampage. We are reconfiguring it so that when… Rob Price: It's… it's a safety issue and, security, so the… we'll walk through the plan of that. Rob Price: And then the next slide is the pursuit. Rob Price: So we're taking a magic wand in your industrial arts company and re-envisioning the interior so that it works better, it's more

027effective, and a more efficient payout. Rob Price: And I'll… Rob Price: If you go to the next slide… Rob Price: So we have your existing industrial fire system. Rob Price: You can see the wood shop on the south end, all the way up to the park at the north end. You can do a fence. Rob Price: This is the magic wand that we're doing. One of the things… I know it's a bit small to see. What we're doing is we're creating further in the interior so that there's a communicating way for spaces to interact with each other, to the staff. Rob Price: If you look at the top, there's the wood and metal shop that are designed in the north. Rob Price: Three are in the center, and there's also a pilgrim. Rob Price: There's

028an ag shop down below. We've also… on the screen is an additional… which is a greenhouse, and then to the right of the ag shop, there's a… what we're calling a tech shop. It's technically… it's a shared classroom. Rob Price: spaces. And another thing of note is we've had two bathrooms that are accessed from the interior, so we've… Rob Price: Really helped build that, space that could be used. Rob Price: For those of you who don't know it, the Industrial Arts Building has a bathroom. It's only accessible by going outside, and then entering the bathroom from outside. It was originally part of the concession stand that was on that end of the building, or they have to go back to the main building, so… Rob Price: So I think the students and staff liked that.

029Rob Price: Next slide. Rob Price: This is… Rob Price: a rendering of what we're doing to the industrial arts building. The colors that we're showing you are muted. It's based on the type of rendering that we're doing. Your Industrial Arts Building has a little more pop to the brick. Rob Price: Yeah, we're not changing the brick. We're not changing the brick. Rob Price: The, we are having 3 overhead doors to the program spaces. That allows for the spaces to really have some good access to the atmosphere. Rob Price: The greenhouse is on the right-hand side of your fence. Rob Price: Interior, this is what the corridor… this is a very generic view of the corridor when you really center. The classrooms, and then on the right, there's a display case straight ahead, you can go

030to the next… Rob Price: There's the quarter of the split… Rob Price: walk with me to the shop straight ahead of Brooklyn. Rob Price: The 3D bar space is a blow-up view showing the kiln on the bottom right. There's some wheels in the plate, and then we have a steering center in the top area with an overhead door so they can access. Rob Price: And then there's also… we heard there's a lot of need for… there's a… there's a good need for student… Rob Price: storage of their work. So we provided, on the right-hand side, a lot of cabinets for the student group. Rob Price: The image facing the teaching wall to the north, north side. Rob Price: Nice. Rob Price: This is facing the London corridor, the film room is in the corner, and

031one of the clay would be to the right. Nice. Rob Price: This is an image of the wooden mallet shop. Rob Price: The wood zone would be at the top. Rob Price: There will be a dust collection system on the exterior of that. The metal zone would be in the lower area, and then in the center is more of the glass, activity, seat construction zone with an overhead door right now. Rob Price: Here's an image looking… North… Rob Price: This is looking east and south, door-to-door in the center. Rob Price: Here's a straight shot to south, with the corner right here. Rob Price: And then this is the ag shop to the left. Rob Price: the classroom to the right, and the greenhouse edition below. There's direct connection from the greenhouse into the ad lab.

032Rob Price: Which works out really well, and then also direct access to the greenhouse to the exterior. And we've worked on right-sizing the greenhouse to the needs of the guests. Rob Price: Nice. Rob Price: Here's an image of the agricultural shop with the door that leads into the greenhouse. Rob Price: Thanks. Rob Price: will be a view of the ag lab, looking at Thanks. Rob Price: This is the classroom facing south, with the ad network. Rob Price: And then, this is the… the classroom again, and we've added the same Rob Price: On the north end, and then there's windows next to the adjoining property. Rob Price: Here's an exterior view of the greenhouse to get an idea of the size. Rob Price: Nice. Rob Price: And then the next building we'll look at is Rockwell

033Main Office. For those that Rob Price: Known building, you walk in, and it's a little… you gotta go through a few corridors, there's some spaces out to the right. So what we've done is we've taken that magic wand again and re-envisioned what the space looks like. Rob Price: So when you first walk in at the plan level on the right-hand side, you walk into the entry vestibule, and you'll be greeted by… it's basically like a teller window that you can take with secretaries. There'll be a tray, like, badge access, or ID access. Rob Price: They can bustle in. Rob Price: And into the lobby area, the Secretary of it. Rob Price: Down on the southern end of that open area's mailboxes for the faculty. Rob Price: And then the principal's office, the upper right. There's

034a conference between that and over. Rob Price: We are also looking at adding some windows, sorry, some windows to give more view. Rob Price: With the people that approach. Rob Price: That's… Next is the plan of cafeteria at the junior-senior high. Rob Price: What we're doing, if it's the capture, it's mainly the kitchen. Rob Price: We are re-envisioning a serving line to help with students getting to work quickly, so they have more than 8. So there'll be two serving lines, new equipment there. The kitchen, we're also renovating, so there's a dishwasher area. Rob Price: We are enlarging the, ocular phrase with new equipment for copying. Rob Price: And, reconfiguring that to make it easier for the staff and more efficient. Rob Price: Oops. Rob Price: And then… be alert. Rob Price: The kitchen needs a

035little more explanation. We have sort of different options that we're putting in the bid documents for the pillar. Rob Price: And that's so that we can be fiscally responsible and make sure that, Rob Price: we have good bid results. So, base VIN is a smaller impact where we take the existing wall section. Rob Price: And we look at, renovating the walk-in pillar, the precer, the storage room, and the equipment. Rob Price: So we make sure that that's the new working efficiently neat and effective, and it's all that we can find. Rob Price: With the alternate that we have project, which is the next slide, you can see it gets a little wider. That's because we take over the space that's between the corridor wall and the cafeteria, and we bump it out so that the

036wall lines up. Rob Price: And in this scene, the students would then enter the cafeteria Rob Price: to get the tooth serving up. There'll be an overhead door, the students will go, they can get their… so that… Rob Price: That space not only for the corridor, but where the students currently go and get their… that complete. Rob Price: That gets him proper, so we get to the margins, and… Rob Price: The pieces of equipment get a little larger because of that. The Florida freezer storage rooms are larger. Rob Price: And so this is a more costly item that we want to be able to see when bids come in, and what is that cost impact of the project? Rob Price: Nice. Rob Price: It is our last slide, so we're happy to take questions that

037you may have. Rob Price: Just one… just one piece with the kitchen remodels. Prior to being with the West Genesee Food Service, we were with Lafayette Food Service, and one of our goals was in remodeling the kitchens, was to be able to have, Rob Price: food service program that was on campus that we could, run our own program if we needed to. If we lost a food service partner right now, it would be pretty difficult for us to run our own food service, so… Rob Price: this was a major piece of this project, is these two kitchens. And we felt back when we started designing this, that this was an important piece, that if Onondaga Central needed to be independent and run their own food service program, this would set us up for that. Rob

038Price: We're in good shape here. Rob Price: Yup. Rob Price: Here, we're just… it's been renovated. Here, we're just limited in space. Rob Price: the, two of the walls back up into the earth, so there's no place to go unless we gig out. So, this, this kitchen is pretty much done. Would we like to make it bigger? Just prohibited in terms of cost-effectiveness right now. Rob Price: Just another comment back to the main office, here at Rockwell. That main office design will be very similar to the Wheeler design. You walk into the vestibule, you'll be able to see, the secretary sitting right at the front desk. Rob Price: They'll be able to buzz you into the office, or they'll be able to buzz you in to go into the building. Same type of setup, very

039similar. Better for security. Better for security. Rob Price: So… Rob Price: Eddie? The Industrial Arts Center, is that T1, T2, and T3? Yes, yep. As you know them by for room numbers for your schedule. Yep. Rob Price: So, on that industrial arts building, you're taking the metal shop and the wood shop, which is… Rob Price: Roughly 2,800 square feet. Rob Price: And you're gonna combine those two down to 1,500 square feet. Rob Price: Had the instructors for those classes been… Rob Price: brought into this? Yep, they were brought in from the get-go. There was, probably 3 or 4 meetings with the teachers. Rob Price: I think it was that many, Catherine, wasn't it? Yeah, so I appreciate that question. One of the things that we really strive for when we're doing any of this work

040is not to design in a vacuum, because if we were to come in and just propose a copy, because then we're gonna place the mark. Rob Price: And so the way in which we like to design projects is, a series of engagements, starting with a bigger, broader picture of what are the ultimate goals that we're trying to achieve. Rob Price: And then coming back with an understanding of what does that mean for spatial requirements, what does that mean for, like, the square footage, the adjacencies, the types of equipment that need to be put in? Rob Price: And using that information, we then evolve our floor plans, we then refine the recommendations, and then finally, the singular engagement ends when we get to consensus. Also, when we're able to present out those finishes and renderings. So,

041they have been included along the way. Rob Price: They have bought in the square footages that we're proposing that has been pushing and pulling, to make sure that it does meet the requirements that the educators have given us. Rob Price: And also, before we go out to bid, it's always wise to circle back around. A few months have gone by since we met with them last, and just to make sure that everyone is all on the same page and comfortable with what it is that we're putting on the tree. So it's, again, a critically important piece of the way in which you'll be engaged for design. Rob Price: Yeah, I'm just… I just have a concern when you put those two together, and that's… Rob Price: We're not talking pencils and notebooks that go in

042that kind of class, so… Rob Price: The ability to fit table saws and welders and everything else. Rob Price: It's a little different from a normal classroom. Yeah, and… Rob Price: Specifically with, like, the wood shop and having the wood machinery versus the metal, they have different ventilation requirements and different requirements that are needed, so bringing our, Rob Price: Our consultants into the conversation as well has allowed us to make sure that what we're recommending will, be beneficial for the students and the educators. Rob Price: Jason, one of the other things that we had talked about with the size of our school and the number of students, we would never have enough students to offer a welding class, but we were looking at making sure we had those introductory Rob Price: courses that's either built

043into a course, into one of our ag tech classes, where they could get their hands on a welder, get their hands on small engines, and then, then they can enroll into a BOCES CTE program if they want to go in deeper into Rob Price: automotives, or they want to go deeper into welding, or the building trades, that we have that piece to start sparking their interest in 7th and 8th grade, and even opportunities for them to participate later on in high school, too. Rob Price: Yeah, I guess as long as there's enough room and the instructors that teach the classes within that space are in agreement with it. Rob Price: So we're not hearing two years down the road that, well, this is a disaster, because I can't fit a welder in here, I can't

044put a table saw in here. Rob Price: I'd rather do it now when we can change it. I think one of the tricky pieces, when we were started early in the discussion process was just that point, is that I had, you know, questions about how's that metal shop? Rob Price: Woodshop and that flexible area and the wood zone all gonna fit with kind of, like, learning stations, within that space. Rob Price: Anything else from our team? Rob Price: Thank you. Rob Price: It's negative, I think. Rob Price: Sure. Rob Price: Hey, may I have a motion to approve one additional cell phone for grounds facilities use? Rob Price: So moved. Rob Price: Second. Rob Price: business. Rob Price: … make sure I'm on the right one, okay, and … Comments? Questions? Concerns? Rob Price: All

045those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Stayed. Rob Price: Harry's 6-0. Rob Price: Hey, discussion… Prohibition of backpacks and bags during class transitions. Rob Price: This was just… we had talked about this at the last meeting, and one of the pieces that we had talked a little bit, Rob Price: online, through the Facilities Committee, and, Maxwell Brown was here last week. Rob Price: Abby's here this week. Thank you, Abby. You guys are tag-teaming meetings. Maxwell spoke last week about his concerns as a student, and went over your concerns, very well, and you can now speak to those if you would like. Rob Price: One of the pieces that we were looking at with this policy, as it's just a proposal, is bringing it back up as old business. Rob Price: … Rob Price: Not to speak for

046Jamie and for Noel, but one of the pieces that we were looking at is Mr. Mumford's going to bring this back to the principal's Cabinet, as well as our, student, board members. Rob Price: To meet with the Principal's Cabinet and talk about this, and not have this on as a proposal for September as a new policy. Rob Price: But share this… share with the student body with what our concerns are for the reasons not to allow backpacks, and what are the cons, in this. And just, you know, try to include the students in this, in an informative way with our student board members and our principal's cabinet. Rob Price: Debbie? … Rob Price: I'm allowed a quick demonstration. I brought things that students would have to carry open-handed if they were not allowed backpacks, if

047I may. Sure, sure. Rob Price: I feel that. Rob Price: First. Rob Price: Something that also came up was I have a relative who is a teacher at Wolcott County High School, and their school also has a no-backpack policy. However, they are allowed things like drawstring bags. Yup. Which I think might be a good middle ground, potentially. Rob Price: So, just looking at my aunt's schedule. Rob Price: 4 out of my 5 academic classes are requiring a 2-inch binder. Right. Rob Price: this big, and it's not considering the things that I will have to put in it, like other papers. … Rob Price: pencil case, which technically, looking over the policy, and it says only allowing a clear couch for a wallet and carry-on medical items, this wouldn't be allowed either, so students would be

048carrying Rob Price: pencils, highlighters, scissors, like, a ruler. Some classes require, like… I forgot what they're called. Rob Price: a compass, which has a sharp end. If a student wants to trip, that could be a potential hazard. Scissors as well. … Rob Price: Chromebooks? Rob Price: … This is something that very much concerned me. I trip all the time. Rob Price: … Rob Price: Damages are a worry, and whether that falls back onto the school or onto parents to pay for those damages after how many times, that could be a concern, because fixing electronics is expensive. Rob Price: for that. … And… Rob Price: While I haven't looked into this policy a lot, self-carrying medication and a clear pouch could be considered a violation of HIPAA. Rob Price: Which may be something that we need

049to think about. Also, I personally would not like… like, we… I have a form for, like, ibuprofen in my inhaler. Rob Price: I wouldn't… I'm not too keen on displaying that to other students. May, at a given time, think it may be funny to go and take… take someone's inhaler, or open up their ibuprofen bottle, and either dump it, or… Rob Price: I think it's a good idea to take more than they should without potential things. Rob Price: You said your, cous… you had a cousin at Walca? My Aunt Ellen, my dad's sister, is a teacher at Walcott County High School, and they have… Is that in down south? It's up toward… it's, like, 30 minutes from Oswego. Oh, okay. Ontario. Yep. I know where you are now. Yeah. Yep. So they've had one, I

050think, for a couple years now, mainly with the idea of Rob Price: Safety in mind, school shootings, drug dealings, and all that. Rob Price: … Rob Price: But they, as I said, are allowed a form of backpack. So, it's not a backpack, but, like, a small drawstring bag, so students are actually able to carry the things that they need for every class. Rob Price: without potential safety hazards or, damages and such. Rob Price: That was just something I thought about. Oh, students also carry a water bottle, and I know quite a few people that carry around an abnormally large water bottle. Rob Price: carrying that on top of their personal items could become very difficult. It's our fault, we put in the water stations. I was just gonna say, we put in all the water

051bottle filling stations, too. Yeah. That was all. Thank you for your time. No, that was very good, thank you. Thank you for sharing. Rob Price: Oh. Rob Price: I think we had changed the wording not to be a clear. Rob Price: Bag as well, just because we were concerned about privacy issues. So we had taken out the clear. Rob Price: … Stipulation. But yeah, with medications, that you wouldn't necessarily want to. Rob Price: And I think one of the powerful pieces is, in my opinion, is with the policy, and now having a student representative on the board. Rob Price: we can get direct feedback for the board to make informed decisions on those policies, you know. And, you know, gets, you know, like what you shared about the water bottles is a great one. What

052you shared about, you know, if someone's, has permission to carry medication, an inhaler or something. Rob Price: Those are… those all things should be private. Rob Price: Yep. Rob Price: Great points. Rob Price: More discussion? Yeah, more discussion. What I would recommend to the board is, we get… we will get, school started. Rob Price: let, the principal's Council and our student board members, meet in September. We look at revisiting this in the beginning of October, is my right, in the October meeting, if that's, Rob Price: Good with the board. Rob Price: I'm good with it. Another brief thing to consider might be extending the passing period in between Rob Price: Classes, I know. Rob Price: We have spoken very briefly about that. Rob Price: Especially during passing period. Now, if this does get implemented, people

053will be going to the lockers much more, which isn't a bad thing. … Rob Price: But hallways will be crowded, and in 3 minutes. Rob Price: I… at least I tried… I would rather slow down than run into people, which may make me late to class. Another thing I considered was Rob Price: somebody, like, let's say somebody gets injured during sports season and they're on crutches. It will take them longer to get to their locker Rob Price: And also, I don't know how they're going to carry their things if both hands are on crutches, but I understand that in those situations, like, exceptions may be made. I would hope. Rob Price: So… Rob Price: 3 minutes, while I think maybe something that could happen, and I wouldn't mind taking my own time out of my

054day to do this, is Rob Price: start on the farthest point of the school, and walk at an average pace to the farthest locker to see how long it would take for somebody to get from that class to the locker and back to a class in a similar position, to see how long passing period should be. Like, if you're going from the industrial arts building all the way down to… Like, all the way to, … Rob Price: This is James, so Mr. Stewarts, yep. Rob Price: Thank you. Great. Thank you. Rob Price: Okay, let's see… comments and concerns from the audience. This is for discussion about, length of time and… Rob Price: Number of times the public can, speak to the board, so it's up for discussion with the board. Rob Price: We're at 2

055minutes right now. Rob Price: It's been 2 minutes, I don't know how long it's been that, but we thought it was brought, you know, to our attention that we should talk about it, so that's what we're here. Rob Price: At this time to do. Rob Price: Was… the timing was when to do it, as well? Rob Price: Not just when, but maybe allow it to happen not just once during the board meeting, but maybe twice. Rob Price: I've been doing some reading up on this, and it is definitely up to the board's discretion about Rob Price: do you have a public comment period right before you vote, for instance? So if there's anything, like, on the agenda. Rob Price: That anyone wants to comment about from the public, you have a time to speak. And

056then… Rob Price: At the end of the meeting, before we announce when our next meetings are, there's a time to address the board about any topic. Rob Price: So that could be a potential, … Rob Price: idea, maybe we leave it at 1. It's also up to the board's discretion to not have any time. Rob Price: Just so everyone is aware, according to, education law, which, obviously, we don't want to do that, right? Mike, from a historical purpose? Rob Price: The board moved it to earlier in the agenda. Rob Price: a year ago in August. A year ago in August. Because… because we were just… because we allowed administrators to leave, so we wanted the questions to be asked before consensus. That came from a suggestion from a community member as well, to the board

057to consider that. Right. And then… Rob Price: And I'm just… and it's a board decision, I'm just… historically for the board members, … Rob Price: You know? Right. No, I think that was a… Here and then that may not remember that we had act… that you had actually changed it about a year ago. About a year ago. And moved it earlier in the agenda. Yeah. Rob Price: Which I think was good, because it made sense, just to clarify for people who weren't here before. We often let the administrators leave after they give their presentation, so if you do the questions after that, then there's nobody here to answer it, necessarily. So that's why we moved it up before consensus. Rob Price: I know last meeting, we kind of talked about maybe splitting the difference. We're

058at 2 minutes now, 4 minutes was suggested, maybe trying 3 minutes. Rob Price: That's what I did. I'm all for transparency, so if we do it twice in a meeting, once at the beginning, once at the end. Rob Price: we don't have a lot of people coming here to speak. I mean, obviously, something's going on. I don't agree with having, … Rob Price: Time limit, but that's just my opinion on it. Rob Price: Yeah, it's… it's standard to have a time limit. Rob Price: I've read up on it myself, and it's actually average time. It's between 2 and 4 minutes, actually, so it's up to our discretion, you know, and it… Rob Price: To me, I think having more time is probably good, because I think 2 minutes is very short. I feel like when

059people are up there and talking, it's… Rob Price: They're… they're definitely rushed, and they're trying to… they're speaking very fast, … Rob Price: So, I'm in favor of doing more minutes, … Rob Price: And if there's more that someone needs to say, they can always put it in writing. Rob Price: So, and I'm also good with having Rob Price: twice in a meeting, you know? I don't have a problem with it. Historically, we've looked at it. Not a lot of people have actually Rob Price: spoke at 4 over the years, so… So, if we did a second one, like, tonight, you would put it after new business and before the future board meetings, and then up it to 4. Rob Price: Yep. Rob Price: It's fine. Rob Price: That's something… It's a suggestion. Rob Price:

060That's fine. Rob Price: Are there any downsides? Rob Price: Thinking of Abby's presentation, that was… Excellent, and that was… Rob Price: more than 2 minutes, I'm sure. I should have timed it. That would have been perfect. No, no, just to know how long, but you did excellent. So would we leave the current comment period where it is, the agenda, and then just add one, or would we move it earlier? Because you said something about before we vote on anything, would we want to have a comment? Well, it is before we vote on, like, all the consensus items. Right. Rob Price: We… we put in, like, recommendations for… Rob Price: when we hire people at the very beginning to… Oh, yep, yep. That's the only thing that separates out. So, yeah, the other time for seeking…

061we would leave… Rob Price: The one where it is, and then we would just add another one at the end. Rob Price: If anyone wanted to speak about General. Rob Price: Anything. Rob Price: We vote on this. Rob Price: I don't think we need to, do we? Kind of like a straw vote. I don't see anybody who's saying they're against it. I'm for twice in the four minutes, if you want to try that. I'm okay with that. Me too. Alright, we'll make the change. Next meeting. Rob Price: And just decided. Rob Price: Don. Sounds good. Rob Price: And so, just for clarification, you want the, speaking of the board where it is now, leave that one there, and then add one to… Rob Price: the end? Yeah, right before… Rob Price: Right before upcoming meetings

062and trainings. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that would be in case anything comes up in consensus or new business that people want to comment on. Rob Price: Or, yeah, or if there's anything that's not agenda-related that they want to address, they can. Sounds good. And then, you can make both 4 minutes, it's fine. Okay. I think it makes it easier on people to speak. Rob Price: Right. Well, it's not like we have a thousand people speaking every day. Right. Rob Price: If we end up having that, maybe we'll have to come back. Rob Price: Yeah. Cool. Alright. I just wanted to get clarification, so we'll, set the agenda up for the next meeting. Rob Price: Okay. Sounds good. Rob Price: Good. Rob Price: Thank you. Rob Price: All right, financial reports. Rob Price: Motion to accept

063the following financial reports. Junior-senior High School, Student Activities Accounts for July 2025, Rob Price: Wheeler Elementary School Activities Accounts for July 2025, Treasurer's Report for July 2025, warrants July 2025, Appropriations Status Report. Rob Price: Year to date. Rob Price: So moved. Rob Price: Second. Rob Price: Questions, comments, concerns? Rob Price: All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Rob Price: 360. Rob Price: Superintendent's report. Rob Price: Yeah, opening of school. School's a week away. Staff will be coming in a week from today. Students will be coming in on the 3rd, K through 12, and then UPK will start on the 4th. Rob Price: As, our construction team reported out, and our architects, all the buildings are going to be ready to open. There's going to be some punch list items, in the building. Rob Price: There's gonna

064be some tech strip in the Wheeler 3rd and 4th grade wing that's not in yet. so that's not gonna be done. There's some… it's in the… embedded within the tile. Rob Price: But all else, we're ready to go as, they would port it out. Rob Price: The car reports attached for your information. I won't go over that unless you have questions. Rob Price: Staffing, … Rob Price: This is, probably the first year we started without all of our instructional staff with a TA. I offered a position to someone on Friday, and they declined. Rob Price: The market out there is very competitive right now. Rob Price: And … Rob Price: That's something we're faced with right now, and there's not a lot of people. Just like other industries, this is the first year that we've

065seen it as, as competitive as it was this year. We didn't notice it as much in previous years, but this year, we really noticed it, like other districts had been reporting. Rob Price: Our school nursing position is, remains open. We're in the process of filling that, and, a lunch monitor position at Rockwell. Rob Price: Mrs. Kilmore is working on that. We sent an advertisement out on Parent Squared, and had some feedback from potential parents that are interested in pretty much monitor positions, so… Rob Price: … Rob Price: Just, as announcement, Student Board of Education member virtual training will be September 17th. Maxwell and Abigail and I will sit through the training in the morning on that day. so we'll, let you know what that… when that training happens, and, … Rob Price: you know, how

066it goes. So… Rob Price: Kind of a conversation that came up at the last board meeting that I put on my talking points is the use of internet and cellular-enabled devices during the school day. I threw the policy in there. We have adopted the policy already. Rob Price: And, one of the things that came back from, two… two parents, some feedback. Rob Price: Is, working on some language, so… Rob Price: For, your access, there's some policy suggestion in there. We already have the policy in place, which we've already met the obligation of the law. We've communicated out to, families. Rob Price: We'll be talk… I'll be talking about it with staff in terms of the operational and the process of it within the schools on opening day. And we've also sent out, information on Parent

067Squared. Rob Price: About parents transitioning their kids, off of their screens so much, and some research that was, we gathered from different locations. Rob Price: And then I received another, piece of information today that I just threw in the board agenda with a link, from John Hopkins, some backgrounds and ports and resources for more information. Rob Price: Because I think it was, Maxwell who spoke on this, I think Abby as well, about how they see their peers that are addicted to their phone during the school day. Rob Price: And how this transition from the summer Rob Price: to school without their phones, it's going to be challenging for some kids. Rob Price: And when I say challenging, it'll be mentally challenging. Rob Price: It's gonna be difficult for a lot of kids. And it may

068be difficult for parents, too, so… Rob Price: But we're ready for it from the standpoint of our policy and our communications, and our staff will be ready. Rob Price: As well. So, any questions on that? We just, we made those changes to the policy, and they're there in executive content, but are we going to send those out? Rob Price: We would have… what we would do is we'd bring that back to the board. Okay. And we would ask for… to update the policy. Okay. And then, do the… and update the policy from there. Rob Price: Yeah, it was just clarification and addressing some concerns. We kicked back and forth language… a little bit of language back and forth, and wordsmithing it to, make sure it was the message that the policy committee would like to

069share with the board. Rob Price: And then, that's just an updating the policy, it's not a whole reworking of it. Okay. Rob Price: this isn't just a New York State thing, either. I… I read that it must be the year to do it, because 17 states are… Oh, wow. Rob Price: 17? 17. I knew there were… I didn't know the number, I knew there was a lot. …are doing it this year. There are a lot of, … I've been seeing, like, social media posts from teachers, because, you know, we're late to go back to school, so a lot of the, you know, Midwest, they're already back in. Rob Price: And a lot of the teachers are reporting very positive things about… Rob Price: I think that it started in August. It started in August. Yeah.

070We're actually talking in person. Why didn't we do this? Oh, just for a little optimism. Rob Price: I think it's gonna be great. Seen some good feedback. So, one of the pieces that, I'd like to add is the information that we've been sending out on Parent Squared is done with our PR service, through City Bose, and Naomi and her team are here tonight. Where are you, Naomi? Rob Price: They have something to present us. It'll take just a couple minutes. It's a happy thing. Had to follow the cell phone abandon spread. Rob Price: So, I'm Naomi, I run this CPR service that services around 28 school districts throughout central New York. This is Heather, my right-hand woman, who over, the districts in Onondaga and Ithaca areas. And this is Dan Bloomfield, graphic design specialist, who

071makes all the, Onondaga stuff look really pretty. Rob Price: So, we spent a lot of time this year, looking at the Anondaga newsletter, which has a lot of historical roots as a publication on a regular quarterly basis, and really kind of revamping it to fit the brand, and also making sure that it was really inclusive of all students at all grade levels. Rob Price: So the National School Public Relations Association does a, communications contest every year, and, the publication section has three tiers of awards. The first is Rob Price: An award of excellence, then, an award of merit, and then an honorable mention. So we submitted three editions of a publication, school publication, to, this category. So we submitted the fall, the budget. Rob Price: and the spring newsletter, I believe, of Onondaga, and, received

072an A Board of Excellence in a national loan. So, when this happens, they mail us these lovely certificates, and we present them to you, and then if we can get a picture with the, superintendent and board president, we send that back to Ensprous. Rob Price: Can I add something then? So, this doesn't happen, this doesn't happen without the staff in the buildings. Rob Price: Because the staff in the buildings, in terms of capturing moments and sending stuff to my secretary, or sending it to Naomi. Rob Price: this stuff doesn't happen, and that level of communication that we're getting out there doesn't happen without a team. Without the principals, the secretaries, the teachers. Rob Price: all… they make this all possible, because there's not any one person who has the time to run around and gather

073all this stuff, so this is a kudos to our team. Absolutely true. That really made it happen. Rob Price: So… Congratulations. Yep, you want to get a quick picture, Mike? Rob Price: Good night. Rob Price: Are you in the picture? I guess so. Me and Dan? Here, Mr. President. Rob Price: Yeah, or inside you. Rob Price: Assurance level. Rob Price: That's somewhere. Should I take it again? Your eyes were closed. Rob Price: That's all I heard. Rob Price: Okay. Rob Price: Unless there's other questions, or… Any questions? Rob Price: I imagine you're presenting for Joe, though, huh? Yeah, business office? Joe attached his reports for an iClass. I don't need to read it unless you want me to. That's… Rob Price: one thing to think about, I'm sure an iClass will probably continue to, outpace

074the banks, … Rob Price: Return on investment and everything, but… Rob Price: the Fed is gonna start to continue to lower interest rates now, so it's just something for us to be aware of. We're… we have, two different organizations that we can invest with now. Rob Price: And we'll keep an eye on that in terms of what return we're getting and where the best place is to keep that money. And also keep it accessible, because if you remember, we have money in there from our reserves and from our general fund. Rob Price: and then the interest goes back from… if it's taken from a reserve, the interest goes back into that reserve, and then if it's from the general fund, it goes back into the general fund. And that's the nice thing about this, is

075you're not penalized for taking money out Rob Price: You know, as we put money… as we get state aid in, and we get tax dollars in, we put that in there, we generate… and that generates revenue, we take that money out as we pay our bills. Rob Price: True. Rob Price: Thank you. Yep. Rob Price: Maintenance. Jane. Rob Price: Muted. Rob Price: The maintenance is, busy on work order. That continues to get her starting to show up. That type of thing. Also, the next one here, congrats for the work in the last few days, I've put maintenance. Rob Price: Moved 122 yards of the playground mulch for both the playgrounds for the last two days, so it's quite a bit. You know, so the playgrounds are all set, kids, right? All set new mulch have

076been, … Rob Price: It's stalled, and, put grounds, to work on. Rob Price: It's beautiful for right now, ready for school to stop, for our staff to show back up. Rob Price: bulging. Rob Price: that will be rolling over the next couple days, that type of stuff gets around, right? Plus, still, buying fields, you know, sports have started, right? So we're busy with that right now, so all that good stuff. Rob Price: Also, you know, custodial staff's done a great job this summer. Rob Price: construction going on in between both buildings, have the staff leave Wheeler over to the high school to help, have staff from the high school come back over to Wheeler to help, you know, following behind construction staff. Rob Price: All pillows are pretty much ready right now. As you can

077see, this poor uniform right now, they just get another tagging. You know, it really is. That's what it's about, bringing it back. Rob Price: So, most schools are pretty much ready right now, 100%. I'm high school. Wheeler's about 90 right now for a self-construction boat in the small den. Rob Price: Make sure you get out of there and go later on Friday, we'll have a crew in there, and poor ready. But otherwise, I'm right behind, claps and go ready. So, you know, I just want to say thank you, my crew. It's not to get out of here, okay? Yes, I hope. Rob Price: Wow. That's important not there. Rob Price: You know, so… That's all I got. I think I didn't have any questions. Rob Price: Congratulations. Rob Price: Thank you. Rob Price: Transportation. Maps.

078Rob Price: Alright, so buses are ready to go, they've all been undercoated. Rob Price: drivers coming in, depending on your schedule. All buses have been washed, all been pre-tripped with all the tools. They are ready to go for a day class on Wednesday. Rob Price: I want to thank Catherine. At the high school, she sent out all of the costing information. It was required to call parents. She did have a great, … Rob Price: After the first day, we only got about a dozen phone calls for corrections, so it was a great day today. Rob Price: So, we're off to smooth there. Things are really kind of getting underway. Tomorrow, we're gonna be down here at Rockwell. Rob Price: parents can ride the bus with it, so it'll be fun. She'll give you more on

079that one. Rob Price: Thursday, we're gonna be over at the high school new hire to give them the district, traumatized about how much country we got. Rob Price: That'll be good. Athletics are already underway. Rob Price: Athletics folks are off and running. Rob Price: … Rob asked me to touch on two different things. First one was… Rob Price: you know, still dealing with electric costs. Sorry about the grants. So, first go-around. Rob Price: Once we publish both, the bus is gonna put it down. So I give a call to Jeremy Johnson on the New York bus. He says those grants are still out there, that same grant. Another application to it, same grant by ASERDA. … Rob Price: Joe submitted our forms August 1st, funded for granted 10, so there's really no more movement. Rob

080Price: On it, and he says it really also pumped out. Rob Price: voter approval. Rob Price: Obama is, per se, they're not a ballot, but being presented, and so it's interest in disagreements. Try as you make more conservative. Rob Price: Saints? Rob Price: Second topic, if you wanted me to touch on, was Imperial Mobility. Rob Price: stop on camera, send the bus, they're still planning in mid-September. They take care of all the equipment, they take care of all the installs, everything's ready to go. … Rob Price: All the violations are all automatically reported by your mobility cameras. It automatically downloads and sets the ability that you can view. Rob Price: They determined it's legit, they said law enforcement, their viewing, they determined it's legit, they said, biodegraduals Rob Price: of the findings. I guess the

081question came up, what happens if something happens? So, what happens… Rob Price: When they break on their own, it's a technical issue, it's all pure mobility. They dispatch technicians, they replace them. Rob Price: Make sure they're working and they're reporting. Rob Price: We asked about when we buy a new buses, how does that… Rob Price: happened. They've been in there and moved off the buses were getting rid of other buses have been forgotten, so that's how… Asked about if we have cameras that can add to an accident or something. Rob Price: Out of the natural realm. Rob Price: Their official response is they were going to look into it, and right now they thought it might be some affirmative insurance claim reimbursement, so I'm not sure. Rob Price: I would assume there could possibly replace

082it, but it's not as expensive yet. That's what you and I were thinking, Matt. But, insurance can't be reimbursable. Rob Price: Other than that, we'll be ready to go for, West Endel Terrison. Rob Price: Was there a deadline last year for that grant? Rob Price: for the electric buses, is it the same grant that's open? I don't know if they still have money left over. Rob Price: first go wrong. Rob Price: It's not another go-around. The first go-around they had, they were handing out about 3 buses to the, Rob Price: where districts are already classified. Right. But he says that that brand is still there. Rob Price: Apply for it again. Rob Price: If you're… wanted to go through trying to get the grants. Rob Price: I believe the la- the last grant cycle, and

083they… since then, I believe they've changed the cycle to align with the school budget votes, but the last grant cycle had a series of grants that you had to accept the grant before a given time. Rob Price: Right. And it didn't coincide with our vote May last year. Rob Price: Right, because I remember… Rob Price: Last board meeting, we were talking about this, and this… this is… Jason, this was one of the reasons why we went out in December, and we didn't align it Rob Price: Budget. Rob Price: Right. And we were trying to make New York State happy, and get money at the same time to save taxpayers money. That's why we went out at a different time. But now we're thinking… Right. Rob Price: Right. And then every August until they tell us

084we have to stop doing it, we have to report to the state on our due diligence of presenting electric buses to our community. And one of the interesting pieces Rob Price: is, and something that I sort of sent out, they didn't have on there as a reason, for not having electric buses is voter denial. Right. Rob Price: So, I was like, that's who decides that regardless, is the voters decide whether we purchase buses. Right. So, it'll be interesting as they, you know, this evolves and what the state does and doesn't do. Rob Price: But we've met our obligation for this year. We already had submitted the report in August. I certified that, with information from Matt and Joe, and we're going to move forward with, next year. Rob Price: So, can we apply for the

085grant and go out in May with our regular budget vote with the electric buses to make New York State happy? Rob Price: So, reach out to therapy again. Rob Price: have conversations about it until… What the timelines are. Rob Price: I was assuming this grant is done, so I thought I'm curious, like, I don't know. Rob Price: So, we'll find out. Criteria is to apply for it. Rob Price: Timelines attached to it. Okay. Rob Price: So once we find out, then we'll have to make a decision as a board. With or without grant money. Right. Whether there's a grant, whether there is a grant… We gotta do it regardless. Yes. Rob Price: Okay. Every time, huh? Every year. Right now, as far as I understand, Jamie, we have to present the electric buses every time

086until the legislation changes. Okay. Right. So… It's mandated, we have to. Rob Price: Whether it's gas, diesel, or, like, down-the-road hydrogen? Yeah, right. Rob Price: Okay. Rob Price: Just curious, what agency… reviews our stop arm cameras that… So, your mobility is the… Rob Price: Software buzzed when we were reviewing it. Rob Price: the installment companies, the REI technology. Rob Price: Bureau of mobility is the primary, right? It's the software. Rob Price: monitors software knows the first one. You'd love many fractions. Rob Price: If any government is viable, then please send it along. Rob Price: And that… is that… Do you know about this, Darren? When it goes to law enforcement, does it… Rob Price: I can have a look at, sure. So, the, Bureau Mobility got the contract with Onondaga County. Rob Price: So they're

087the ones who are going to be issuing the, … I'm going to call them the citation. They're going to be issuing the citations out, I believe, if I recall, it's a $250 fine. Yep. And they're going to be collecting the fine, and those fines that aren't collected. Rob Price: Then we'll be turned over, if someone's refusing to pay. Rob Price: I believe those are turned over then to the county or the towns to go after the people. Rob Price: So, and then Vera Mobility, I think it's a 60-40 split between the Bureau of Mobility and the county. Rob Price: So… Rob Price: But I can get an update from the county on the program and the details if anything's changed since we first presented on this, I don't know, a few months ago. There'll be

088a lot of information, real quick, how this is working. Rob Price: Do you feel the wisdom in the process? Rob Price: Yes, I'm on the face of God. Rob Price: Liverpool? The pool is done, so they're all gonna be geared up first day of school, their hackers are gonna be downloaded at bed, so I imagine it'll be fishing real quick. Rob Price: One of the pieces that was talked about in the spring is a grace period for the first month of school. Rob Price: … And there was, … Rob Price: people that were proponents and opponents of it, because it's already a law, that it's against the law to pass a bus, why is there a grace period? Other counties have already done it, too. Like, it's already in effect in other counties. Rob Price:

089Right, other counties and other states, yeah. So, I don't know what the… I have not heard that… I've not heard anything on the news. Rob Price: about the Stop Arm Camera program. Rob Price: and whether there's going to be a grace period. That was just within discussion through emails and such. Rob Price: You answered my question. I wanted to make sure we weren't tasking more on our SROs, taking away from other stuff. Rob Price: We'll keep you busy. Yeah. Great, thank you. Rob Price: Student Services. Rob Price: So that team, Rob and I had the opportunity to meet with Lisa from the Department of Mental Health Services. And so she talked to us about the services that they offer, and the ways that they work with school districts to support mental health. Rob Price: And

090so, she provided some information, we have some additional meeting points set up, so more information to come on that. But they have the opportunity to provide in-house physical health clinics and art in our district. Rob Price: And our students that have some mental health needs and need a higher level of mental health support with, a counselor could, they could work with the insurance or the family to make a long story around. Rob Price: and support our students who need some counseling services, so then it detracts less from the school day, it's kind of like an in-and-out service, it's private, it's confidential, and so they talk about the requirement that the school district would need to support that. It is only for OCS students and families. They would not have a Rob Price: neighboring districts or

091things like that. There are quite a few, of the districts in our area, who are able to, participate in things. So, more information will be pending, Rob and I. Rob Price: The other piece is that we held our consult teacher-directed co-teach training today. We met at the high school. We had really good participation, and we focused on, scholarship assigned instruction, the quality of the effective team, and then we kind of included our day with time for our team to work together, and talk about planning, and talk about supporting our students. Rob Price: In preparation for the start of the school year, so that we have a good foundation for the structural practices. Rob Price: big questions. Rob Price: Cool. Rob Price: Parkwell? Rob Price: Good evening, everybody. I want to second what she said, and

092then great thank you to our custodial staff. They've worked really, really diligently this summer to get everything ready. Everything looks fantastic. Things were ready earlier than we anticipated. Teachers have been able to get in to start preparing to get everything ready. Rob Price: I also want to thank all of the teachers, almost everybody. Rob Price: Everybody has been in to start setting up their classroom. Rob Price: you know, take something that everybody already knows that you're not going to need to come in and out of their classrooms, but they, are… make sure that it's perfect, and not just for the first day of school, but we do have our, created absolutely perfect. Rob Price: school event tomorrow, so classrooms are ready to receive students tomorrow, so that kids can come in, and see what their

093cubbies are, see where their seats are, drop off their school supplies so that the little ones don't have to take all of their school supplies with them on the first day of class. Rob Price: So we are really looking forward to greeting everybody tomorrow. That's from 11 to 1. Rob Price: It's a bit of a drop-in type of structure, so from 11 to 12, the building will be open. We're welcoming anyone between that time. You can come at 11.30, you can come at 11.15, you can stay the whole hour. And then you can make your way outside. Rob Price: We'll have popsicles, you can see who's in your class, with your classmates on the playground, and at noon, that's gonna be the bus for us, so that practice bus ride for any students who are

094new riders to us with their hands. So, those bus rides are gonna… Rob Price: We'll start at you, so we're looking forward to seeing everyone, and just getting… loving the kids. It's a great day. I think that I've kind of seen this many times in high school. Staff always look forward to graduations, their big time is shining here at Rockwell the first day of school, so they're all excited. Rob Price: We had a new family for you patient last night here at Rockwell. We had a couple families come in who are brand new to the district, who have not had students come through Rockwell before. We were able to share all the ins and outs of our procedures and, hopefully calm any nerves and get everybody. Rob Price: We do have backpacks that were donated

095by Costco that we're going to be able to be giving away tomorrow as well, for anyone who's still in need of some school supplies, and we're going to be able to be sending a lot of those down to Wheeler and other people as well. Rob Price: Thanks. Rob Price: And, want to note that our pre-K orientation is on September 3rd, so it is not the first day of school for Pre-K. September 4th is the first day of school for Pre-K, and we have the orientation for them with their parents. Rob Price: I like to reiterate that to make them to get at least one preschooler on the bus that day, and there's no school for them, then… Rob Price: But, we are ready for them for that orientation. The reason that we've got is because

096it is so difficult on the first day of pre-K throughout your… to go into the classroom and leave your parent outside, so we'd like for their first experience to just… Rob Price: embrace that, let their parents come in, let them explore a little bit what their parents there. Their parents also need that full hand helpful sometimes, and then the second day, they know what they're Rob Price: And, lastly for the first day of school achievements that we're excited about is implementing a little bit of a change for breakfast distribution. We are going… I've been working with, Joe and I have been working with heavily to make sure that we have… we're going to be doing it wrong. Rob Price: A grab-and-go as they come in, so as it's on the bus, and as they're dropped

097off the door here, they're going to be grabbing some pre-packaged Rob Price: big package bag, big bag lunches, to prevent them from having to come downstairs, shop up their stuff, go through the lunch line, get their bag, and come back up. So you save 10-15 minutes of instructional time, and I'm also, Rob Price: Utilize our, staff in a more instructionally focused way before needs, rather than supervising. Rob Price: So, I'm sure there will be a little bit of thrown into learning the routine, but we're… Rob Price: So, in the mornings. Rob Price: Any happy questions. Rob Price: Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Rob Price: below, … Feeler, about, I would say, 89%. Rob Price: We're going through right now with the custodians and everything. I've been going through the past couple days to

098think there is a back work or something. Rob Price: And things that aren't there are safe for students and parents come Thursday. That's our beautiful Welcome Back Walk Group. So we've been going through and just making sure, the hallways are cleaner, not being still protruding, nothing protruding. So that's been good. It's been awesome. Like Shane said, they've been going through a room, and we're also taking this opportunity this summer. Rob Price: To start consolidating and getting rid of some things to make, more room for, projects in the future, get rid of, some things that have been cluttering some rooms. So they've been really flexible and, open to that. The only thing that's scheduled for Miral, like I said, is Thursday. Welcome back. Rob Price: the walkthrough for third grade, families. Next week, I'll have, more…

099in the next quarter, I'll have more, information about clubs that are starting. The usual clubs will be starting back up with the second week of school. I already got some feedback around that. The, entry plan for, for Wheeler is gonna be the same as it's been in the past couple years. It's nothing to change, so the, the, Rob Price: bus group of drop off, Darren, we're gonna list things out in Barrett Square, just bring my parents, tines. Rob Price: Those things are available. Rob Price: So, there will be more to come out. Rob Price: Not bad. Other than that, I really don't have anything else to… Rob Price: Yeah, I didn't wrong, that's fine. Rob Price: Any questions? Rob Price: Thank you, everybody. Rob Price: The Wheeler Walkthrough, is that for just 3rd grade, or

100for every…? 3rd grade, okay. Rob Price: What's a dancing. Rob Price: 6 to 7, quick introduction at the, cafeteria, about 15 minutes, and the opportunity informancy. Rob Price: It might be able to close, really, to the small gym. Must be available. Playground's a tail set. Rob Price: Great. Rob Price: Thank you. Rob Price: Good evening. Rob Price: First, I'd just like to welcome Abby. Abby's a fantastic student. Rob Price: Rucky Patburg is a representative of the high school. Rob Price: It's helpful. Rob Price: Thank you for your time. Rob Price: Just a couple other updates, September 2nd, we have, our 7th grade orientation and locker night, that is 5 to 6, so we encourage everybody to come, especially the 7th graders for orientation, that would be very hopeful. Rob Price: with 7th graders could lead

101to some of their anxiety, coming into school. If, for some reason, you can't make NDR, Rob Price: The building does look great. We have new teacher orientation on Thursday, so it's always nice to see the new teachers, to help support that. Rob Price: quite a few contagious, so it's nice to have, welcome ideas, you know, different, Rob Price: strategies and set decisions, so… Okay, bye. Rob Price: Or I would. Rob Price: kind of help, our teachers successful. We have been, having our teachers throughout the last couple weeks been in the building. They're ready to go. Guidance has finished up the schedules. We've made some last-minute tweaks, because of schedule changes, today. So if we are ready to go. Always have some today. Rob Price: But for the most part, we're ready to open up. Rob

102Price: And then just on some good news, and this is a district-wide kind of news. We were, notified last week, U.S. News report that, the high school, has began to see one of the best high schools in the nation. Rob Price: So, it's a nice report that takes into consideration, quite a bit of factors, but basically college readiness, our exam scores. Rob Price: participation, graduation rate, attendance, etc. So it takes into, a bunch of factors, and then ranks us some other patients. Rob Price: Kudos to the teachers, the staff, the community, and students. Rob Price: Any questions? Rob Price: I had a quick question. I've somehow never come to Walker Night. Is that when they get their Chromebooks? No, they can. Okay. We do have the ability, yeah, but they'll get their Chromebooks. Rob Price:

103Oh, okay. Rob Price: Right? I don't… I don't know why I never… Rob Price: Hello, everybody. So just some upcoming dates. University Sports are a week into their season. As of now, they started last Monday. Yesterday was the start of modified football, and the rest of the modified sports will start on September 3rd. Rob Price: As of right now, the varsity participation numbers look pretty good. Football has 27 students registered, volleyball's at 10, girls soccer is at 14, cross-country's at 5. We actually sent 8 boys to the Lafayette OCS combination team this year, which is higher than normal. Rob Price: And Cheater has 12. So those numbers are pretty good, given the amount of sports we offer for such a small district. Rob Price: We've had scrimmages, so soccer, yes, girls soccer yesterday, went to

104Skinny Atlas for a scrimmage. Jv and varsity volleyball traveled to Casodobia today for a scrimmage, and football is hosting a three-team scrimmage on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at the stadium. Rob Price: So those are the scrimmages this week. The first games, Forever Fall Sports, Thursday, girls soccer is at LeBron, their first game. Volleyball on September 2nd, we'll be hosting Living Word Academy. Rob Price: Football and cheer will be traveling to Fort Byron on September 5th, and cross-country will be going to Mount Hartham on September 6th. Rob Price: We do have an upcoming overnight trip request that's later in the agenda for the cross-country team. They will be traveling… they would… they would be traveling to Manhattan College for the Manhattan Invitational to compete with many other schools across the state. Rob Price: The team

105would be leaving on Friday, October 10th at 10 a.m, roughly, and tentatively returning around 7pm on Saturday, October 11th. Rob Price: If I'm not mistaken, the itinerary has been shared. Rob Price: With everybody, I'm happy to answer any questions that may arise from that, and I can either do it after this, or when that even comes up. Rob Price: We do still have some open coaching positions that we will continue to advertise, and homecoming… so homecoming on September 19th, we have volleyball versus Bishop London on Friday the 19th at 4.30 and 6. Rob Price: We have boys soccer versus modern day on Friday the 19th at 5. We have girls soccer versus solid on Friday the 19th at 7. And then we have varsity football on Saturday the 20th at 1pm versus PM. Rob Price:

106That's all I have, is I have questions. Rob Price: Alrighty. Board of Education members? Rob Price: Routine. Rob Price: I don't know. Rob Price: Okay? Laura? Rob Price: Nothing. I got nothing. Just, you know, can't believe it's time for school already. So, thank you. Rob Price: I'll do it. Yeah, but I will. Rob Price: That's fair. Thank you. Rob Price: I have nothing. Okay. Rob Price: Me? Rob Price: Sorry for being late. Rob Price: Had to work. Aw. Thank you, everyone. I'm excited about the start of school. I did look up, there is no race period. September 3rd, they'll start doing fines for the stop arm can. Rob Price: City schools had a grace period back in May. So, here you look at. Thank you all for everything. Excited for a new school year. Rob

107Price: Senior year? I just want to thank Matt and Shane and all your crews for all the work over the summer. Rob Price: Things look good for starting next week. Rob Price: Happy? Rob Price: Do you have anything to add, Abby, or no? Rob Price: Said my picture. Rob Price: I don't have anything to add, so… Except, thank you. Rob Price: All right, speaking to the board… Second. Rob Price: Okay. Rob Price: Consensus items. Motion to approve consensus items as presented and or amended, so that would be… Rob Price: I-2 to I-11. So moved. Rob Price: Second. Rob Price: any… Anything that we want to talk about? Rob Price: In the consensus items, anything that we want to pull out? Rob Price: Okay. Rob Price: All those in favor? Rob Price: Aye. Rob Price: Opposed?

108Rob Price: Same. Rob Price: Motion carries, 6-0. Rob Price: Recommendation, approve capital project change. Rob Price: orders for the 2025-2026 capital project as presented. So moved. Rob Price: Second. Rob Price: Okay, questions, comments, concerns? Rob Price: What was that one? Rob Price: The capital project? Oh, change orders? Change orders. You did look at them, they're… Yeah. Rob Price: They're fine. Rob Price: All those in favor? Rob Price: Aye. Opposed? Rob Price: Same. Rob Price: Motion carries 6-0. Rob Price: Thank you, Jim. Rob Price: For your goals. Rob Price: Alright, K1, upcoming meetings and trainings… Rob Price: Audit Committee meeting from 5 to 6 at the district office, September 9th, 2025, before our board meeting at the junior high school cafeteria at 6 o'clock. Rob Price: On September 9th, and then our next meeting after that

109is right after Homecoming, September 23rd at 6 p.m. Rob Price: Also in the junior-senior high school cafeteria. Rob Price: Can I say one more thing before we go to exec? Rob Price: Sorry, I was just thinking about how you said if people have more to say, they can put it in writing, and I just think, especially because some people watch these later, just so people know, they can always… do they email you, Rob, if they have something they want to be read? Rob Price: they can email me and… or the district clerk, or the board. Okay. Just thinking about people who can't necessarily attend the meeting, if they want something read out loud, they can always email it to you, and it can be read during that Speaking to the board portion as well. Thank

110you for mentioning that. And what will… what… Rob Price: What I recommend is if someone emails something in, then that just goes in as part of the minutes to the meeting, if something comes in. That's how we've done it in the past. That way it's saved. It's saved, yep. That's a good idea. I like it. Rob Price: Alright, great. Rob Price: Motion to enter into executive session to discuss the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular person or corporation, or matters leading to the appointment, appointment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person or corporation. Rob Price: I have a motion. No. So moved. Thank you. Second. Rob Price: All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same. Motion carries 6-0. Rob Price: Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Have a good night.

111Rob Price: Oh, no.