BOE Meeting 3/17/25

001the March 17 2025 regular meeting of the Board of Education of Fel spr School District P would you leave us in the pledge of ALG IED Al to the flag of the United States of America to the for stands Nation God indivisible withy and justice for all so our mics are not working so we just need to speak up all right roll call ly board member lindsy Marino board member Mike door board member Heather Rock board member D Galler board member Matt Goodman board member Carl deash business administrator Nick gester superintendent Tracy Elman board member pel man District cler all right the Phelps Clifton Spring Central School District Board of Education meets to publicly conducted business in accordance with the law the public is invited to observe these proceedings but is not entitled to respond

002or disrupt them especially when such disturbances can run counter to the district's code of conduct and the welcoming Spirit of our district the public is reminded of the context of board meetings board members are volunteers audience members are visitors to school grounds and student and staff well-being is at the heart of board operations visitors are reminded of the courage it takes to speak up as members of our community and the importance of encouraging Civic and civil engagement the board strives to hear all Community Voices during its public meetings in a safe respectful and orderly manner the behavior that we expect of all students in our classrooms is also expected from visitors at board meetings in an effort to ensure the community members concerns are heard the board reminds speakers to address the board in a

003civil manner refrain from discussing specific Personnel or students limit outbursts and limit unnecessary noise the board encourages an atmosphere of respect and tolerance and strict adherence to its code of conduct and moving on to our agenda is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented so MO is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of the agenda as presented say I I I all those opposed motion all right on the consent agenda uh is there a to approve the consent agenda items a through I as presented so move sorry second second any discussion all those in favor of the consent agenda items as presented say I I all those oppos motion Carri on to presentations and music in our schools Mr good evening good to see everybody here I just want

004to say thank you to everybody in the audience and the board for having us tonight uh we've got our high school jazz band tonight planned for you it is music in our school's month uh through the month of through the month of March so we have a couple performances later next week for our regular concerts our jazz band place in this uh January and then we play at the end of the year it's a great grp guys and and folks here that we got um and we meet once a week uh they come and do everything they do music they do Sports uh just show hand real quick if you guys did sports sports try outs this week running I D's running from the triy outs this week uh during the musical over the weekend

005okay a couple folks in the musical there um so there's a lot that they do and I'm very grateful that they're here uh tonight and grateful every week for the support that we have for music it's really special thing that we've got um we're really enjoying our facilities over there with the latest Capital project it's been fantastic um we had all County here this past uh January and everybody was very jealous so it was very nice to have a really awesome space and support every day that you give them so thank you for that we're going to play two Tunes uh one of them is it's it's obviously music in our school's month but it's also marks happy St cathic today we didn't bring bag pipes so I apologize for that uh we're going to

006do probably the most opposite of Celtic music we're going to do Frankenstein by edar winner and then uh we're going to do a tune called cult duck time and it's just a funk tune so we're going to play those two Tunes we'll hear some improvisers and we'll go from there so thanks again take a con back [Music] one two one two ready nah [Music] oh aah [Music] on [Applause] [Music] head twice solos mat a Nat Le background on solos right and then and then build up drop two [Music] n [Music] n [Music] a [Music] oh a [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] a [Music] thank you to Mr great colle you hired the right guy High School job what a wonderful colleague he's been to work but I've been so blessed thank you unless

007it's a recognition during June absolutely absolutely who knows maybe we can twist coming back thank you that's a great way to start a meeting right um next is the winter athletic celebration good evening everybody uh pardon me I'm getting over I was a little sick and under the weather over the weekend so I'm just uh recovering from that so um this begining thank you for the board of education for having us here to recognize some of our winter athletes um this winter season was remark season here at Midlakes across cheerleading boys swimming girls and boys bowling girls and boys wrestling girls and boys basketball um Girling boys indoor track we had over 294 athletes participating in great through 12 here at Midlakes um 132 of those were Varsity athletes um we'd like to recognize that

008we have three teams that were honored as scholar athlete teams that's a girls indoor track team girls basketball and boys swimming um there's 45 individual scholar athlete honors um and as you can see how hard our students work to maintain a balance between the classroom and their Sports It's amazing so just give them a round of applause for that tonight we'd like we're here to celebrate the accomplishment of several of our winter athletes who competed at the highest level and achieve some Milestones this season um these student athletes have been leaders and showing the hard work and dedication has paid off um we'll start with indor track and field um we have Hayden Wells here tonight um she uh would recognize her for her outstanding performance in the P Vault this season Hayden captured a

009sectional title C clearing an impressive 9 ft 3 in on the P ball it's got to be one of the scariest events that I've seen people compete in so I give her accolades for taking that and making it look effortless um ha's commitment and mastering those skills have paid off with the sectional title and this is not her first sectional title so um just congratulations on a tremendous achievement like to Cate dominant performance in sectionals earning two sectional titles Aiden won the long jump and triple jump um with Incredible marks of 24 feet um one and4 in um the triple jump with a 50 ft and a and a half inch um these outstanding performances qualified a to compete in states in the long triple and he also qualified for the 55 meter and also

010was able to go on in Nationals um unfortunately he had a hamstring injury wasn't able to compete that state he tried to give it a go at Nationals and the long jump but has pulled out for the triple jump um and we look forward to continue to see what his success will be in the future so congratulations [Applause] a next up we have girls wrestling we have Abby harar here CL and Lizzy um this year marked a historic milestone for girls wrestling in New York state has become an official sanctioned Championship sport Abby um Clara and Lizzie made history by qualifying for the first ever sanctioned National Nisa girls wrestling state championship the dedication resilency have not only brought um recognition but also paid the future generations of the female wrestlers here at Midlakes um

011it has been a few years in the making under the emerging Sports umbrella in New York state and it's finally continued to Full Circle to be recognized as state championship competition um they were competed this year at the state championship and they went um one and two right so um but they fought really hard as sectionals they battled and worked their way and they earned that spot at the state meting so congratulations our next individual chief not lead here he had prior engagement with Big Brothers Big Sisters but that is Forge Garcia um boys wrestling he uh was had an incredible season on the mat he captured a sectional title at 170 lbs um and continued his postseason run by placing fors as super sectionals um wrestling in the sport demands Relentless dedication and mental

012toughness and torge success reflection of his hard work and perseverance in the classroom and also on the m so congratulations to torge Garcia don't I see eth um this year in my 19 years here as an athletic director I don't think we've sent this many people in one season to a state competition so it's it it was an amazing winner to say the least um Ethan broadman in the pool he made um waves this season by qualifying for the state meet in both the 100 freestyle and the 50 freestyle competing at the state level is a remarkable accomplishment um Ethan rers oned mid with pride finishing 34th in the3 and 37th in the 53 at ethic College I hope I didn't mix those up I believe that's the order that it was in as far

013as the places go um we are incredible and proud of Ethan and his dedication showcasing mids on that stage um and also coach Huber who was also recognized coach of the year in the finger LS so congratulations on the dedication and representing the B PR next we have our girls bowling team come we have Alexa Maris Olivia Emma Amanda that's Amanda Gaby Emily Ella all right and then Mr and Mr um we'd also like to celebrate ourstanding achievements of our team our mid L Bowl girls bowling team who won Class C sectional titles for carrying their place at the state tournament their hard work and their team spirit carried them all the way to third place finish at States this past weekend with their outstanding accomplishment as a team individually Olivia Miller um had a

014record setting performance at sectionals winning an individual sectional title and an incredibly high score her dominant domination showed by earning her um a spot at the section five comp comp composite team um and with that her score was within the top four in the state between boys and girls I'm not mistaken is that correct that's what I heard at the at the Rose bow so I just wanted to make sure that I'm sitting there so top four in the state not only amongst girls but also among point so that was just an outstanding performance like people were saying that she was like bowling like putting on CL that day so it was just amazing so it's a a greatest accomplishment for these young ladies and these coaches for their dedication so thank you for everything

015that you've done and congratulations these student athletes have demonstrated Sho sportsmanship and hard work and their success is reflection of their dedication and guidance of the coaches and their support of their families and their Community I want to thank everybody all the families and Community for their support this season for these kids they you know they deserve your support and we thank you for everything you done so congrat congrats to everyone all right we'll take a five minute snack break for anybody that's [Music] grabie e e e all right marot and Jeff you're oh sorry I [Music] was [Music] Marina I have the video CED up so whenever you would like me I just want to thank you again for us the opportunity to come and speak once more we we here to talk about

016Camp asagi by chance anyone ever heard ofy so Camp asachi is up in Krogan New York up in adic park it is an educational center that's run by New York EP Foundation it offers learning camps throughout the year but they are most known for their summer camp it's six weeks long they actually had it add a week because of the amount of interest and it's the unique thing about Campo is it's not just open to New York can I get can go New Hampshire ver not anyone who can travel there it's open to and you don't have to be an FFA number to 10 it's geared towards FFA that tends to be the majority of students who go just because you're not an F you can't ever experienced cball which is really unique a lot

017it's not inclusive um if you were to ask an F member who has been in a chapter that is established is not near one what's one of their favorite memories they're either going to say National conection or camp that seems to be the trend of talking to other FFA members from other chapters Penny and Marcus spitman and all across the state camp O there's something magical about it I've been lucky and Fortune enough in June they hold the teachers conference for all a educators through NY our teacher Association and I love it it's I don't get to do Camp stuff I'm in PD the whole time just hasn't gone yet I think uh you're in PD the whole time and you're learning which is also fun but there's just something magical about being at Campo

018and then I wish I could have gone as a student I didn't know that I had that opportunity when I was an F member and I wish I did because of the magic and what it can provide it's a weak out in nature it pushes you to meet others it um teaches you skills without you realizing what you're learning and a lot of it's are soft skills they leadership our confidence in ourselves and the friendships that a lot of members have spoken about taken away from their week at Camp I just I don't think you can put a value on that type of experience just because there's so much that you can get out of just one week and yes you're horseback riding you're hiking you're canoeing you're kaying you're swimming they have a high

019ropes course they doing all that fun stuff but they don't realize how much they have embedded into that to make you a better person and that's what I is we're growing our Future Leaders we're developing our personal success and it's just one more way that that accomplishes that so we couldn't bring any of our members because they have not been yet so we're hoping that this summer upon your approval that they are able to attend we actually have one member in the crowd who will be going um and to others that are interested and hoping that this is going to become a reality uh so instead of having my f play members here to speak to about their experience because we aren't at that point yet uh we have a little promo video that we

020would just like to show you [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so just hoping that you as a board see the value that we see and the potential that it could do for our students I don't Spotlight on sheach to stay watch me so I'm put on SPL uh it's something that they have been talking about and really really looking forward to we this year would be going up with M Whitman the our state is divided into districts and we're in District 8 and a lot of chapter will time to go with their District just to have something familiar when you're up at Camp is you there's no self service but you're what you have is what you have with you and that is it advisor we don't even have

021to go that's run by the F staff we can go ourselves and enjoy our piece of it but it's all run by the camp councilors and the Camp staff they tend to go as a district but the week that District 8 goes is the same as our County Fair so Marcus has decided they want to go week six which is we that we would like to go as AUST 3rd through 9th so we're looking they have offered to help us get there if we do a share they take us one way and we bring them back the other way that is a L relationship that I hope that is sustainable moving forward because there's a lot of events that we go to Amy Vander has been processing our Feld request and she said we have

022by far one the metal for the most field Tri request this year so it is nice to be able to to share that piece have any questions on Campo or so who's it open to uh as far as students do they already have to be part of you know FFA or is it open to all the students it is you don't have to be an number to it's 10 it's mostly a kids who go because you in order to register for summer camp it's through the advisers we at 8 A.M on February 7 every advisor in the state logged in and claimed stots in most of our districts for weight list you're lucky to got STS C and then uh they Camp sends you a code then we upon approval would then be able to

023give that code to the students to then register so they can't go on ASI's website every anybody can access ASI's website but nobody can actually register without a teacher so if you didn't have an F advisor who started that process it would have to be somebody else that showed interest and knew how to sign up ahead of time and get your HS for your spots right how many how many you have we had nine potential but three confirmed were our how how big is a weak camp for the whole place many students they have they have there's camping camping uh where your Pon there you go but they also have cabins so that it's a couple hundred it can't max out and they are separated by Z what's the duct so the anerotic duct race

024is a way to uh fundraise to help offset the cost it's $495 you st it to go they have to put down $100 deposit we not um to make sure their spot is held and then by a certain point in may we have to make sure that the full 495 is there and a lot of districts are R like us and so that's a for me that's a lot of money too so the duck grapes you can buy a gold duck for $10 or silver duck for 10 and a gold for 50 and it goes towards the cost of holding Camp hiring their counselors training their counselors buying the food everything that goes into what makes Camp run the great thing about that though is 50% of what is fundraised goes back to the chapter

025so I believe we have that on agenda too so if that is also approved then we would have our students go out and promote selling these ducks then on April 27th they release all the Ducks I've purchased in the asachi river and it's just a big celebration up there if you're there to attend to see I have never been but I he a lot of fun lot of but 50% of Whatever Gets raised is you identify what chapter you're you're buy a d for when you do it goes back to the chapter and the chapter can then either make an account with Campo and that money goes directly towards anything that they do at Campo or it can be written as a check to us and I just want to point out that one of

026the things that both of both our advisers did with the help of Marcus wman they realized that you can also go through bosies to pay the admission fee to camp O and as a result of that um if a district were to do a coer with bosies then bosis gives that District a certain portion of money back in a and so all they need to come up with is the difference so as a result it even further reduces the cost on the student or whether that be that's paid by the by the family or that's paid by the club who fund Rings them so they found some creative ways to further reduce their cost as [Music] well they done be even cheaper so do you think like do you think he'll get Clos to the

027nine eventually I think so Marcus Mary K with advisor at Whitman and C B at PM we're constantly no because we're brand new advisor trying to figure this all out and Mario saying she reserved 25 spots just without even 25 because they know they're at least they're going to fail it no matter what I think once we send students who can then about the value of it and to be able to share with parents the safety and things like that I think it will definitely increase it originally was only five weeks week long each time for the whole state and they had to add that six week just to accommodate the interest and by 803 I we have a whole group chat for all the district eight advisers and did you get spots did you

028get spots Mary and I are sitting there like maybe because it just it's it has become such a well-known camp and a camp that kids want to go to's you have to go once you're at C you have to go out I have to do this I was at conference to check in on my husband than live girl you have to go into town and it's a good several mile drive so they are isolated into nature what were some of the reasons why the other students didn't want to go this year just because they didn't know um what it would be like or are there other obstacles I think with one student really wants to go parents have said no due to current academic performance so that was what that was the consequence that they

029decided the others one I don't think understood what they were signing up for even though you know but I don't think it was quite processing what it entailed until I was okay I need to know I need I want to really that we aren't going to use and the other one I think the same thing really wanted to go but is also delling a lot at home is it we don't outwardly we don't want to make anybody feel or feel bad for asking for help so we're not pleas was right now in front of everybody but those that we know need help well that's why I was asking because we've been very fortunate and I was it's not related to yet but we've gotten s just to support the the community is very very supp

030us thank you you thank you for everything okay now thank you for for having us before um because before we get started I just reflecting listening to presentations today this in my opinion really what we're celebrating today and the things that we're talking about as a board and as a community at school it's very powerful we celebrated the Performing EVS music last weekend and this month we celebrated with student athletes both performance in their athletic events and their academics we just heard from a growing program that education is bigger than the walls in which we are in in the school setting opportunities outside that are unique and um giving kids those opportunities are extraordin very important we're going to talk about um academic interventions instruction and how we partner with the community as additional supports

031later on this evening you know car going to present the budget talks about fiscal responsibility um there some mixed topics with super um report it's really just a full meeting and I think just highlighting what schools are and should be about right all the so thank you for having us present and be just a small piece of the of the puzzle tonight um I would tell you that you know we've talked a lot about paying attention to our academic games we've talked a lot about consistency and construction and providing a strong foundation around tier one teaching and learning across our district mtss is really um I would say a robust Beast right like and and what it's intended to do is it's intended to capture and ensure that all kids are having success identifying where

032those kids are at where those students are at and putting things in place um to support that from tier one all the way through tier three and as Marvel and I were reflecting on tonight's presentation um please don't underestimate exactly how much has been gained by folks in the and Cly leadership Mar is extraordinary leadership in my opinion um building a robust multi systems of support is not easy and we are well on our way and so I just appreciate the board's time to allow us to brag a little bit about the work that's being done in our district on behalf of mar leadership but certainly everyone who touches the student everyone who gives a student positive behavior praise and hands them a ticket right we recognizing them in some way partnership we have with

033the community is really what makes us gr stronger thanks um I'm excited to be here tonight and to be honest as we were thinking over what the topics we would share and present to you would be tonight there's a lot of things that are happening and in motion so it became difficult at times to choose what those things to highlight were um so I appreciate the time and I'll try to do justice to all the positive things that we have going on here so Nick if you could Advance this slide please um Jeff gave a little bit of an overview about what multi-tiered systems of support look like when I describe um the role of an mtss coordinator in general um I would say that multi-tiered systems of support are about how we organize and

034allocate supports for students how we know what students need and how we know if what we're doing is working so in order to do that I just want to give you a little bit of a lingo check really quick um through the presentation you'll likely hear me mention tier one and tier two not so much tier three but I wanted to kind of anchor your understanding in that when I talk about tier one I'm talking about the things that we do for all of our students across the board um when I'm talking about tier two I'm talking about things that we do for some of our students so about 15 to 20% of our students when I talk about tier two I'm talking about that subset of our students so just to give you a

035little bit of a baseline here speaking of baseland um when we reflected upon what our progress has been this year it's it's it's really important to think about the foundation that we walked into with this year um and all of those things up there are things that we started our school year with or continued to work throughout the school year on um so obviously our midl stues are the anchor for everything that we do and you'll see those come up a couple times throughout our presentation here we've also um started off with a style of foundation and academics by the development of benchmark assessments which are common assessments um common meeting everybody in a grade level or um within a department do the same assessments to really find out where students are um continuing to

036work on curriculum mapping to continue to establish a guaranteed and viable curriculum and we also use a fast bridge is the program it's called but it's a universal screener for reading and math the other foundational pieces that we we had our our staff being trained in specific positive feedback which you'll hear come up again in this presentation um doing a good job documenting any Behavior needs the continuation of Eagle time and you'll hear about our student acknowledgement system as well um and this year reach switched to a new Universal social emotional screener um which has led to some gains and movement around small groups in tier two all of this to say and like if you can push spacebar all of this these pieces that are foundational for us have Ed us to really be

037more proactive this school year but also reactive in ways that we might not have been able to be before so I hope to highlight some of that for you this evening go ahead Nick we're going to talk about four areas of impact um in both buildings I'll talk about academics social emotional behavioral work attendance and Community this is again what we're going to talk about is not an exhaustive list of all the things that have happened this school year but some of the things that we think have made a really big impact so I'm going to jump right into how academics have looked shifted a little bit at our Elementary School this year um and start out by celebrating or shouting out our data days um programming so data days are a trimester Le occurrence

038where our interventionists so math and reading teachers meet with our general classroom teachers to discuss student progress and use the data that they've gotten from our screeners to move students in and out of academic supports so you'll see at the top um the that we have in reading and math we've released many students when I say released what that means is our intervention our work that we've done to build them up and fill some of their gaps has been so effective that they're able to not receive that intervention anymore so being able to move that many students is pretty impressive um we also had several switches so that might be a different switch in instructional focus it might be um maybe you had a tier three need which is a really high need and we

039closed some of that Gap so now you're at a lower level of intervention you might still get it but you're at tier two um so what this really shows to me is that we are building upon the foundation that we have around knowing what our students need and knowing where they're at and making informed decisions about what they need and what next steps might be for them so that was a major positive when we wrapped up our dataday end of February we did that um I'm going to shift now to the secondary school this gets a little confusing because I shift between schools um but what we have going on at our secondary school is it's the first time I've seen this level of responsiveness around student need um so again we continue to look

040at what we have as our foundation so we have benchmark scores we have student grade scores and what we did was we had the opportunity to look at our students data and to say which of these students could we take our first sort of Step at being responsive with and could we move them into a structured study hall where they're able to receive some support even if it's just a smaller sort of less distracting environment but preferably maybe with an Ela teacher or with a math teacher who could help support them through that um we made as a um as a team at the secondary school they made the decision to try that out um and you can see some of the results from that we review this data about every 3 to four weeks

041and at last check seven out of the nine students who we had moved for ELA purposes were're responding their grades were higher um and after 3 weeks of the intervention typically we say we want 6 to 8 weeks of an intervention to see results but after only three weeks 55% of students who were moved they had their grades up and they were responding to that intervention so we're seeing that that's something that makes a difference for our kids so the next thought is how do we scale that up to make it more sustainable and to make more of our students be able to access that support um so again working on being more responsive to what we're seeing from our students I'm going to switch over to probably the indicator that I'm most excited about

042I think I don't know it's the one I'm most proud of but it's definitely the one I'm most excited about and just talk about some of the social emotional and behavioral things that we have going on at the elementary we continue to have our Eagle time which is a community building and instructional time for teaching character traits such as perseverance or honesty um what you see on the left is a picture of a student work from last year that says my favorite piece of this school year was going to the zoo and Eagle time so that was a first grader it's just exciting to see the way that they're processing the parts of their day and what we're also seeing is an impact of Eagle time is that our common language is spreading more not

043only can students Identify some of the character traits and use them fluidly in their conversation but they're also doing some reflecting so you'll see on the right hand side is a picture of um it's called the tree of choices and it's a way of thinking through um how to respond to strong emotions and how to have a positive out them on the right we continue to work through our Eagle ticket system um which is given anytime a student meets expectations they can receive an eagle ticket you do not have to go above and beyond to receive an eagle ticket there is um a significant research base that says that when you point out what somebody is doing correctly that Chang changes Behavior the fastest faster than like corrective like error correction faster than pointing out

044what they're doing wrong so Eagle tickets give us an opportunity to do that you can see with our numbers compared to this year and last year we're right about at the same place but what we're doing this year is because we have some data about where we're going what our D Eagle ticket data might look like we're able to plan more um I guess exciting celebrations and able to plan more proactive L around what we want to celebrate as a school so you'll see we recently had Wildlife rock stars come in last week um and they presented around several animals and the students had a chance to interact and ask questions um as a celebration for again showing our midlink values um we continue at the elementary um this year we have a new tier

045two intervention so remember tier two is for some students it's called Eagle connection you might have heard of checkin checkout um what this intervention is is um it's designed to give students increased structure in their day give them more opportunities to connect with an adult we currently have 34 students enrolled and 33 of those students are responding meaning that their trend line and their data is going up um and we've had 14 students graduate from Evil connection this year which is pretty exciting so when you can say to a child we realize you might needed some support at this point and we're ready to take the scaffolds off now that's something to celebrate um the picture there is of our Eagle connection check-in table first thing in the morning students come in and check with

046their Eagle connection coach so it starts off on a positive foot um on the right you'll see our emotion element challenge um our district team had a chance to look at some of our uh Behavior Trends and notice that our students had an increase in Hands-On behaviors so what can we do we know that we're seeing this increase what can we do to be more responsive about it so our hypothesis was if we teach students to identify their emotions um they'll be able to use appropriate coping strategies but in order to do that you have to be able to identify when you're having a hard time like you can't just say like throw a coping strategy at a kid take some deep breaths I don't even know how I'm feeling right now um so we

047created a challenge for classrooms to practice naming emotions and had this is one of those things where I think we wish we had a little bit more participation or a little bit more success but it was it was a good opportunity for us to be proactive um around what we noing for our students at the secondary school our Eagle acknowledgements which are our student acknowledgement um system at the high school continues to grow at an unprecedented rate you'll see the difference in Eagle Eagle acknowledgements from this year versus last year one of our building goals of the secondary school was to increase Eagle acknowledgements by 10% this year and we have done that already we did that like back in January so we're crushing it we've got a couple of competitions going on but I

048think what's important is that our students have written 292 of these acknowledgements and to me what that really shows again if I'm trying to get at what like what the purpose of all of this work is is that it's becoming part of our fabric of how we do things is pointing out the positives in others um and I think the biggest thing to point out here is that I save a folder on my I'm the one who sends out these Eagle acknowledgements virtually um but I save a folder for Anytime anybody respond response to those emails and I have over 101 emails back saying thank you I appreciate you putting this putting this out there about my son we're really proud of them all of these different things 101 responses so to me this is

049making an impact not just for our students and staff but also for families at the secondary school we tried out um small groups this year using the data that we have from our um Universal social emotional screener we identified some uh secondary students who would benefit from A coping skills group um and we took a shot at it and we're running a cing skills group right now with the secondary school which is not when I think about things going on in the region it's not always something that's been successful in other districts so to see it happening here we're hoping to scale that up a little bit um and we also have benefited from our restorative coach and Tom Mitchell who um has been instrumental in helping provide um re-entry plans for after a student

050is suspended providing some targeted academic support for our students and continuing to help build our classroom our school community in a positive way through our St board attendance so at the elementary school hold on let me take a deep because I feel like I'm throwing a lot at you right now um our attendance work has looked different at each building at the elementary school we have tailored our letter so that it points out um when a child might be approaching chronic absenteeism um and we send those out now to any family who's had any absence so that seems like a lot but really what it is meant to do is meant to increase Lins of communication between the school and fames um and to really kind of emphasize that we want to keep your child

051maybe in the tier one of absenteeism to the best of your ability go ahead and at the secondary school they had some success with some pretty cool interventions um they've started off by identifying students who um who were uh at high rates of absenteeism and as a PSO team which is our their um like counseling office they divided up the students they met with them had conversations um and told students if you can increase your attendance then you can be invited to a pizza party fif over 15 I was told the other day over 15 students were able to increase in improve their attendance rate and attendance through the party they didn't stop there more recently they looked at students with a negative rate of change in their attendance and they've been reaching out to

052speak with families to try and troubleshoot and work more more closely with families around getting students into school our community um when you think about all of the needs that our families and students have we have to think outside the box about how we're going to meet those needs because the school can't do everything we work with our Community Partners one of the things that was really helpful this year is we worked with the social workers to develop a single sign up form for families to indicate to give them the opportunity to self refer for specific support so instead of us going out and saying do you want this do you need this do you need this family self-reported um whether they needed holiday help food help um dental cleanings things like that um and

053because of that we were able to more efficiently allocate support so what we have on the right hand side is a feature about our family support center which is a program we work with through bosies it offers short-term goal-based family counseling for free for ni families it was an option to indicate a need on on that single sign up form but to me what's really impressive to look at is they do a precounseling and a postcounseling survey and if you look at the metric all the way on the far right for overw overall well-being on average families rated their overall well-being before that counseling at about a 5.88 after that 8 to 10 to 12 weeks of short-term glow based family counseling they upgraded themselves at about an 8.26 so there's lots of data there

054to show the impact of this work but when families need help we have a resource we can send them to that is it is effective um go ahead um we were able to streamline our Dental Care food distribution and holiday giving work too um over 24 students received an in school dental cleaning recently through our partnership with Mosaic Health uh for our holiday giving we were able to connect with 93 families and most recently for food delivery over February break over 60 families um and to me to tie that all together it's important to know like we want to continue to message around what we the postive work that we've been doing so we've worked on we've developed um five newsletters District drive so far this year that have gone out on parents Square just

055to update families about what we've done um whether it's we've earned enough um Eagle acknowledgements to have our popcorn party or here are some read alouds that are focused on honesty that if you have a student in primary school or primary grades they might be interested in learning about feelings through these books so again um um trying to interact with our um Community we've had over 50 interactions on parents Square so whether it's an appreciate or a comment it's just cool to see people kind of buying in and appreciating I guess the work that's been done goad so this slide is on here because um I may be the multi-tier systems of support coordinator but when you make this much change in such a short amount of time you you need to have voices from

056all over the place so you can see we start with different levels of teams on the bottom left we have some of our student Eagle ambassadors who help make some decisions around celebrations um who help with communication most recently they put together an expectations Matrix for our Wildlife rock stars time um this work cannot be done in isolation you have to work with different stakeholders things like that so just I think I think it's really important to just see the sheer number of names on here who have made an impact and it's certainly not exhaused I could talk and talk and talk and talk about mtss but um these are a couple of the topics that were in our presentation but they also might be things that you have questions on so at this point

057I just wanted to open it up to you to see if there's anything that I could clarify or Prov want more information I'm for you I have two things yeah is it possible to get those slides yeah okay yeah that'd be cool I'd like to be able to do that possible sure um the other thing I do see the table set up uh in the primary school in the door when they come in the morning um but you said they check in with your Eagle connection coach like tell me how that works like do they just seek them out when they need them or is is there an expectation that they're supposed to check in a certain amount of times or how do that so typically so you're talking about Eagle connection which is a

058new tier two mention this year um we these are students who um need more structure need more support more opportunities for check-in whether it's Behavior or because they have like a need for connection with another adult so any of our students on Eagle connection have a coach which is um an assigned adult to work with them um they go to their coach first thing in the morning and only some of them check in at that table that you saw in there some of them have uh coaches other elsewhere in the building but they check in have like a typical kind friendly greeting um and they've set a goal for the day so do you want to um work on being responsible do you want to work on what you're doing in ela they set a

059goal for the day and then they get a point sheet the point sheet is the least important piece of all of this but really what it does is it gives it's a physical prompt to give students and staff the reminder to have conversations about are you being respectful responsible independent and kind during this selected time of your day so you if you saw a sheet for a child you'd see the four columns for our values and then you'd see uh different parts of their day so the idea is that they see their coach they get ready for the day they go about their day and they have set um opportunities to check in and see how things are going with an adult and at the end of the day they check out with their coach

060so they'll go to wherever their coach is they'll talk about their day what can you do better tomorrow okay good lucky your baseball game sta like that's it and it's it's short interactions but we found them to be really powerful and I know that it's powerful because staff have told us and they're asking for more slots for students in ego connection we started about little small to be sustainable um but they're finding it's making a difference so did that answer your question absolutely okay yeah I need someone to check in with too me too I can pick somebody right in this anything else yeah um three two well actually three son the eag Ambassador for two years of Bud yay you said this has happened a lot in a short amount of time how long

061has it been since you started implenting so the work I've this is my third year at Midlakes um the work began before I started here they uh like they did some um sort of like beginning our first rounds of District teams or beginning conversations around student acknowledgements but I think the most valuable thing that was done by my predecessor was that they establish our mid L's values by reaching out to the community um so most of those foundations I showed you at the start of the the um presentation were were not fully flushed out in uh before I got here but the roots were planted so it became easier because of that so about three years okay it's fascinating the amount of layers of this and I got to ask was it like an organically

062grown thing or was there a template you guys started with from like a big thing tank or whatever yeah um the see on the top left it says Regional Roundtable meetings um there is a community of practice in the area around mtss um there's a guiding document that it's called the tiered Fidelity inventory but it's really just these are the components you have to have that are research based um and we look at that I would say every six I don't know we look at that every two months or so yeah um but that's a guiding document we use but what it looks like from District to district is very different so um like what we look like here is different from what new workk or from what Marcus women might look like yeah that's

063part of how it works it's individualized to your students yeah some program yeah and I think we've been pretty intentional about the decisions that we've made which has been really helpbook but it's not just like a throwing the baby out with the back water sort of thing we we've been really deliberate about the layers that we set first so and I will say coming into a district where you don't know anybody the the leadership among our teachers and our staff and our administrators like that is what has moved us the knowledge of of our staff and our community so that's been really impactful well thanks I know that was a long presentation but there's a lot to celebrate so thank you so much and appr thank you budget presentation thank you sir all right thank

064you everybody so once again today is our uh second budget presentation out of our three mandatory presentations I'll say this at the start of the budget presentation and I'll say this at the end uh after today we have one more budget presentation to go that is scheduled for April 23rd the Wednesday night of the Bose's Board of Education vote as well um at that point that is kind of the 11th Hour in terms of our budget planning so where we end up on April 23rd is essentially what the board is approving in terms of the overall overall budget for the 2526 school year this second presentation h in on that final number we're not there yet but we're getting very close because now we flushed out some numbers after meeting with directors and building principles

065so you're going to see some numbers in detail broken down by various aspects of budget code other numbers are still going to be pretty broad so as we talk about an agenda for tonight's meeting um you're going to see General support operations and maintenance and transportation and the healthc care history or benefits overall benefits you're going to see those broken down in in great detail those are essentially going to drive our expenditure increase how much more are we looking to spend in those categories um after after which we're going to look at proposed reductions in Staffing how do we tighten our belt how do we close the budget Gap through some reductions and Staffing and finally we're going to look at some the money we're bringing in so first we're going to talk about the

066increase in expenditures next we're going to talk about how much money is coming in and based on those two comparisons we're going to compare how much do we need to to increase our tax levy and to close our budget Gap and we're going to do it with the revenue we're going to do it with the use of reserves um and a tax levy of course um finally we're going to look at a budget analysis over the last five five to six years how does this budget compare to previous year's budgets and an approximate increase to Folks School tax pay before we wrap things up with budget propositions and our next steps between now and April 23d so so General support General support encompasses the Board of Education the office of the superintendent the business office

067the Central Business Office through wi fingerl bosies where we have our Treasurer accounts payable uh payroll um benefits uh you name it it talks about our legal services our insurance uh whether it's postage or printing all of those fall under uh General support as you look at in the far to right columns you'll we see the dollar increase in each category or the percentage increase sometimes the percentage increase might look large but but when you look at the dollar increase it might not be so much when you compare it to the overall size of General support but I'm going to start at the bottom the general support part of this budget is is we're proposing an increase in expenditures of $ 49,27763 the biggest drivers of this budget increase uh when I say drivers I'll

068actually take that back the biggest driver is the $ 28,8 120 in the finance portion of this budget so Finance once again is business office Central business office but it also incorporates our overall general liability insurance for the district only in the last two weeks did we find out that almost every District around us their insurance premiums are going up somewhere at the vicinity of50 to 20% so a little sh shy of $20,000 is just going up as a result of insurance premium increase now I don't mention this too much during budget presentations but there's only two companies to pick from in New York state if you're looking to get your school district insured one of them is UDA Insurance we've been members for over 50 years and the other one is nyser nyser has

069suffered a significant loss ratio over the last handful of years and so the districts that are insured with nicer actually saw midyear increases this current year and are seeing even greater than 15 to 20% increases for next year so we're actually with the company that is in better fiscal or financial shape udica National but once again their risk of liability is not just spread across New York State it's spread across the United States and North America and if you look at natural disasters across North America at some point everybody else has to pick up the burd as well for for their payouts or the money they're essentially paying out through claims so we have one Stable Company who we're already with and that company's projecting 15 to 20% and it's not we can't go shopping

070around because we're we're with one of two so so that is the biggest driver of this portion of the budgetary increase everything else additional Bose Services whether it's with shop postage mailing or for Eerie one Bose's policy Services you see um a healthy portion of the 4395 increase in the Board of Education line but once again that's to do with policy services not necessarily any other contractual obligations operation and maintenance overall increase to operation and maintenance is $1,149 or 3.45% increase what are the biggest drivers of that the first one is salary salar is trending once again we're in the middle of uh contractual negotiations with the employee EMP es Association that is our facilities transportation and our food service departments but also nurses so those are the four groups we currently still in negotiations

071with the 3.73% increase represents salary increases for that for the facilities portion of that unit contractual expenses $20,000 increase or 8.33% that $220,000 strictly is for some of the vendors that help support our infrastructure our building maintenance mechan can do regular maintenance but when an air conditioning unit or a pool pump dies and we need to get or when a major aboveground uh pump fails that sends water to this building and we go just to buy some of those parts those parts can be well uh close to4 to $5,000 sometimes for just pluming parts and so when we have when we call in a train company vendor to deal with the HVAC controls they're building us to the tune of some between $880 to $100 an hour and that's not getting any cheaper year overy

072year so the $20,000 represents increases in the event we need some of those specialized vendors to come to campus to address the needs of some of our older equipment and our older boilers or equipment in general utilities is seeing an increase of 25,000 utilities encompasses sewer water telephone natural gas and electricity the $25,000 increase is strictly for electricity we build we bid cooperatively through Wayne Finger Lakes bosis for electricity in our area and we have a company uh energy Cooperative that sends us a particular rate where we're locked in for the year but they made a midyear adjustment in terms of um dollar per kilowatt hour and that number has increased significantly where several districts are kind of panicking to what utility electricity bills could look like next year so $25,000 increases strictly for electricity

073um in terms of where our utility increases are overall from one year to the next any question so far Transportation Transportation the first number well overall increase $138,400 per. um biggest drivers in this increase number one is salaries we've been very open and honest in our contractual negotiations with the employees Association one of our biggest concerns is having a fully staffed transportation department and our admin cabinet hears it just about every week or every two weeks we want to hire new drivers and we want to retain our drivers and in order to do that we have to make sure our salary is competitive regionally or within one finger laks and so we want to be very aggressive of our salary increases that we offer this this specific group within the association but also blended into

074this is the extra trips that drivers have to make at the end of the day whether it's taking our FFA group somewhere or taking a sports team to an event or picking up students at the end of the elementary day for after school programming once again all to incentivize drivers to do those trips there's an extra trip rate that rate has to continue increasing year-over-year to once again keep us competitive but to also make drivers at the end of the end of their their day want to pick up some of these additional shifts because there's always a need to pick up some of these shifts as John Lombardi would tell you on any given season uh fall winter or spring um contractual expense increase $224,500 or 57% so our contractual amount within Transportation this year

075is $43,000 we've blown through that amount of money for contractional expenses that is our Centos or our uniforms or whether it's the company that takes away our used oil or whether it's a towing company that charges us a significant amount of money when a bus breaks down or whether it's the mechanic shop to fix a broken transmission which once again is in multiple thousands of dollars every time the bus breaks down we have two mechanics on site those mechanics are very talented at making sure the fluids are changed oil changes are done greasing Parts tire rotations breake jobs or some basic inspection but they are not pulling a transmission off a bus because that means one bus is stuck in a bay for weeks upon end and so we have if there's major repairs we

076have to send that to a shop so the 24,500 is strictly to deal with some of those big repairs or accidents or Towing to make sure we Encompass uh we account for those you'll also see $88,000 in insurance insurance is there's insurance bill is broken up into two parts one for the transportation department one for the rest of Campus so when I talked about a $20,000 increase for the rest of campus there's about an $88,000 increase for the bus colage and finally our Bose which represents our driver training program that is projected to increase about $6,000 so those are some of the breakdowns that result in the 13847 for increase overall the transportation Healthcare rate history um I'll say this at the start so that so that we can set the stage at no point

077when that graph goes down from one year to the next is that actually represent a decrease in healthcare all that means is the percentage you see is the percentage it increased from the previous year so if I take 2122 school year for example the following year Healthcare increased 21.9% the next year an additional 12% the year after that an additional 9.5 and next year an additional 14.3 if you take that compounding effect of 21.9 followed by another 12 another 9.5 and another 14.3 you can be rest assured that Healthcare is nearly nearly doubled in the last four years and hence in the last budget presentation I talked about the high deductible plan our base plan for our district when you look at a family High deductible plan premium plus the health care savings account and

078add those $2 up the cheap plan that we have across campus that cheap Plan cost Allin $28,000 I wouldn't call that a cheap plan anymore but it's the cheaper of the three plans we offer there are cheaper plans that that the fingerlakes area school health plan offers we haven't approached our bargaining units with that because it was only until about four or five years ago that we actually just introduced the high deductible but once again that has now become a rich plan right the next few slides talk about the rate increases to the teachers retirement system and the employees retirement system the first thing I'd like to point out unlike Healthcare which the graph represents the increase from the previous year this represents the school district contribution based on the previous year's salary so if

079I pick a spot for example we're in 2425 when I look at the graph up above for 2425 it says mid lakes's contribution is 10.3% of the previous year salary so once the previous year is come and gone the teacher retirement system says this you have to contribute this percent of last year's overall salaries similarly down below this year we have to contribute 15.2% of combined last year's salary for all non-teaching staff there's just one problem when you look to the graph on the right hand side these are our actual payments for 2122 through 2425 you'll notice the ERS or employees retirement system payments go from 484000 2223 439,000 390,000 and this year we received the billing just before December of $669,000 that is the actual bill I'm going to go to the next slide

080for a second because I want to show you the very first number under the state Employee Retirement we budgeted $583,500 and now I'm going to go back if you'll bear with me we budgeted 583 the bill was $669 I promise you before year end you're going to see a budget transfer of the remaining $80,000 while we fell short there's just another problem though they also send us an estimated bill for next year the estimated bill for next year is 785,000 somewhere to the tomb it's estimated because they end the year the year goes from almost like in April 1st to March 31st so if March 31st hasn't come and gone yet they still have to tally up all the salaries plus the overtime and then they're going to apply a percentage increase and tell us

081what we owe next year so just on one line of benefits our increase has to be $21,400 450 just on the state employees retirement system line factor and teachers retirement system an additional 60,000 Social Security when salaries go up the amount you contribute in Social Security goes up an additional 35,000 and then finally Healthcare two slides ago I showed you the 14.3% that factors to 37 9,000 when you add up all those numbers overall benefits in our district in our budget are going up $675,000 or 675,000 nearly 60% of the overall budget increase I said this to a few other folks over last week all those numbers on that screen are officially out of our control because we receive a bill for how much we owe in the employees retirement system we receive a bill

082for teachers retirement you receive a bill for Social Security you receive a bill for health care workers compensation on employment insurance so none of that is in our control and that's what we're projecting an increase a quick question yes sir look at these numbers again I'm assuming for the state employment retirement you budgeted that much money even though was the slide before said the previous year was 390 they gave you an estimate that it was going up to 580 they gave us an estimate that it was going up significantly right so they releas an estimate but once again when you start planning your budget and you start locking in numbers um your doing it while not knowing what the final number is going to be do they often miss by $80,000 it's not a it's

083not a honestly it's not a miss and this is the sad part because within each percentage uh there are tier four employees tier five employees and tier six employees within each of those percentages except what they don't tell you the percentage the 15.2% is a blended percentage so for a tier four employee it could mean 15% for a tier five it could mean 16 and for a tier six it could mean 18.2 so it's incredibly hard to calculate based on each tier how much each employee makes and try to factor that and projected to the dollar so you're always trying to add a little more based on any overtime or any additional hours employees work but that right there blew us out of the water that was that was sticker shock so and an even

084worse sticker shock for the following year of what could be great question so the first four I just broke down for you General support operation maintenance transportation and overall benefits once again I'll say overall benefits 675,000 is approximately 58% of the budgetary increase this year so there's three things I haven't discussed in great detail special education Athletics and everything else Under the Sun every teacher salary every textbook increase every material Supply increase or our students going to the bosis oet program we just put that under everything else other services and general education special education is actually going down the overall budget by $90,000 once again that's a testament to students changing placement going from a high cost private placement to a public placement program or students graduating or once again us keeping more of our

085students in house instead of sending them to out of District placements that's a test to the work done of the special education office that's causing a $90,000 savings a much needed savings Athletics there's some increases in coaching salaries but the bulk of that is officials and officials set their rate they tell us what we owe them and we're just happy to have qualified officials at our events that's driving the increase in athletics some I qualified I'm not going to touch that one um but then there's everything else there's general education and other services but once again all our teacher salary increases all our other Association increases Bose increases for other programs like our occupational Ed or our fingle a technical and career center uh that adds up to about $390,900 so the overall budgetary increases

086in expenditures is 1,243 802 675 of that is benefits so at this point I'm going to turn it over to Nick to talk about um some proposed reductions and Staffing all right so over the last couple years um with the sunsetting of federal funds with um less fate and Foundation Aid you know districts in the region have been um it it's become necessary to have conversations about reductions in sta so we spoke as an admin team full admin team about the best approach there and this is you know a couple years uh ongoing of conversations and you know some of our Central questions were essentially this um do we need to fill this position upon a staff member's retirement right we agreed as a group that we would at the very least ask that question

087every time we had a staff member do we need to fill this position and to go a little bit deeper in that it's we leaving this position unfilled have a negative impact on our students and our ability to program and teach our students right will it have a negative impact on our school community and some of the positions um let's take music for example Joe Godfrey was here tonight he's retiring we need that that that music teacher next year so some of those questions uh are answered pretty quickly other ones take a lot of inspection uh require us to look at our enrollment data require us to look at our average class size across a grade level or the number of classes or sections we're going to offer at the secondary school so through that

088process this year we've been able to identify four positions that we feel uh in a very confident way that we can leave unfilled with having a minimal impact on our student population and Min minimal impact on the district so all four of those positions are actually um uh leaving positions unfilled through attrition it's called um and you know when faced with retaining these positions and perhaps running um with class sizes one or two students smaller than uh we would have if we eliminated the position we would be put into a place where we hire most likely a younger teacher and then be possibly put in a position in the future where that teacher ends up being the lowest person on the totem p and we have to cut a position and then we're saying goodbye

089to somebody um that perhaps we shouldn't have hired in the first place because we should have taken advantage of of eliminating a position through attrition so um these positions here all retirees uh and and really it is the preferred way to uh right size is to do it proactively instead of reactively um um so Carl if you want to talk a little bit about the savings that this is going to happen in the district that would be wonderful so so what you see as a as a salary savings that's the current salary of these individuals and if you recall me presenting a long range financial plan uh during the January meeting when you take these salaries and continue to apply the contractual increases that number continues to grow when you take the benefits that these

090folks take up and apply a 14.3% increase for next year that number continues to grow so once again by by um not replacing these positions that's just the overall Savings of 410,000 that if we had to add 410,000 more to our expenditures for next year now we've got an even bigger budget Gap to close and that's what some of our neighboring districts are facing sadly retirement is not enough we've got two districts um one to the east of us one to the south of us where yes they're saving through retirement but then they're also cutting staff and there's no other way for them to close their budget we luckily are not in that position so when we talk about how do we close our budget gaps or where do we get our money from one

091of the places we can actually use buy auditory standards to close our budget Gap as our as our reserves and year after year we use a portion of our reserves to help close our budgetary gaps last year we used $740,000 to close that budget gap between expenditures and revenue what is the total dollar amount in our reserves as of July 1st 2024 and this was part of my Reserve plan as well 10,666 1020 so last year we used about seven just under 7% of that money this year we're proposing to add or use an additional $69,000 that $69,000 that we're talking about using additional from reserves we're going to take from the ERS or employees retirement Reserve want to guess why ERS remember those ERS payments that we talked about going up by $201,000 we're

092going to take from the employees retirement system reserve an additional $69,000 to close the budget Gap so we're using once again 7% of our overall reserves but that $ 800,000 I just said 7% of overall reserves but that's less than 2% of our overall budget and that's the number Auditors like to hear when an auditor asks a school district how much of your overall budget is in reserves if it's 2% or less they give you the green light once you start Crossing 2% or getting closer to four or 5% they start to worry if that's a sustainable model year overy year so we're still within the acceptable limits at least that the Auditors recommend and and I would add to that our Moody's rating is A1 yes which means we get the best borrow um

093rates when we borrow money um and in addition to that our fiscal stress uh the state puts out or you'll you might have to go into a little more detail with that Carl but each district um receives a rating in terms of fiscal stress and our district is not under fiscal stress and the the preservation of these reserves and making sure that we're using them judiciously are um an important piece of retaining both of those standings so we can continue to get the the best value out of any dollar that we had well said Thank you so I just talked about the additional $ 69,780 $787 from reserves so that's the third the third one down so let me talk about the other places we're anticipating additional Revenue the first one is state aid uh

094Governor hokel proposed a minimum of 2% increase to Foundation aid for every Public School across the St state that 2% represents that dollar amount of 41435 the next one rental of real property or bosies we are getting ready to negoti uh to agree to a new 10-year lease for uh the Bose portion or the middle Lakes Educational Center that takes up a healthy portion of our campus in that new 10-year lease we're projecting an increase of Revenue of 377 $1,000 every year for the next 10 years and once again that has come at a very good time because the budgets are getting Tighter and so any additional source of Revenue helps us as we look to the future we already talked about reserves finally payments in Li of taxes a new solar farm coming into

095the community the office of Real Property Tax Services has identified our firste payment increase of $23,000 so that's where the $223,000 is coming from and then lastly whatever Gap is left is made up using the tax link so as we look to the next slide what how much does that Gap represent on the left hand side of the screen is our proposed expenditures on the right hand side of the screen is our proposed Revenue in order to help expend expenditures match Revenue the tax levy increase that would be needed is $359,800 that dollar amount on the next slide represents a 2.2% increase to the tax level from the previous year if you recall I don't have this slide present tonight but I had it on the February presentation our tax levy limit is 5.15% as

096of today we're at 2.27% so as of the second budget presentation we're already less than half of the levy limit the goal is to whittle that number down even more if we can between now and April 23rd but I wanted to show share this slide because I also want to talk about the narrative it's something we've been talking about for the last couple years but sometimes the numbers the numbers show it a little better during Federal funding during the last few years there was Co stimulus funds Phelps Clifton Springs received a 50% allocation of foundation Aid towards full funding the next year it receed another 50% plus inflation Plus various CPI factors so if you look at the last esec specifically 23 24 our budget to budget increase was 99.44% that was the second year

097of the full funding of foundation a the year prior our budget to budget increase was 6.07 so as you look at this year where we are right now our budget to budget increase as of today is 2.7% we always talked the last couple years about when the funds dry up when districts are fully funded when State budgets start to tighten up how we're going to need to tighten the Bel and I feel like now where we are is in that phase of tightening the budget and tightening the belt a little bit and everything we've done during this budget cycle is in line with tightening the belt or closing the budgetary Gap because we only received 414,000 more in Foundation from last year to this year any questions about the numbers on the slide or historically

098where the numbers one one quick thing that slide may have to go back to it as it relates to attrition through retiring employees right yes sir youve talked in the past about declining enrollment AB I'm assuming that the class sizes are probably still relatively um low compared to Elementary School teachers so so I one of these um the I didn't want to get into talking about specific individuals but the one teacher is an AIS teacher which doesn't have any impact on class size whatsoever um and the elementary special education teacher um would be a pushing we have enough in our special education Staffing currently to cover those duties without um without Matt to even add one one step further as I sit down with the elementary school or we sit down with the elementary school

099year over year we look at class sizes average class sizes at different grade levels there are some grade levels where the average class size is 14 there may come a point where if we if a teacher leaves in that specifically in that cohort we may say now's a great opportunity to go from 14 to 17 students we always want to keep especially K through three we want to try very hard to keep that average class size under 20 but if we're at 14 and we can go to go to 17 and we can um save another position to a through attrition we're certainly going to try that but if it's not feasible we won't do it but every single time somebody leaves like Nick said we're going to be asking ourselves that question because any

100chance we get to take advantage of that we should yeah a question as well for the the family and consumer Sciences at the secondary level losing that position will impact that class's size at all or at least so the best answer there is um in the establishment of the a program The District prior to me did hire another CTE teacher for that grade level and that's why we had two a teachers so we were actually running um in a surplus in in that area so we're able to use this as an opportunity um both to not fill this position but to also redefine some of the course offerings um at at the secondary school to be more in line with our AG 2.27% so this slide is using last year's assessment data across our seven

101different municipalities so for a $100,000 home assessment what does 2.27% look like so it's broken down with three different categories we've got without star with star and enhanced star I'm going to by default I assume that most people have with star so I'm going to talk about the number in the middle per $100,000 with a 2.27% increase your projected tax bill would go up $40.95 once again per $100,000 so if it's a $200,000 assessment you double that number and you continue to multiply that number by whatever factor of 100,000 um but once again that is a projected tax bill increase for various folks homes spread across the seven different municipalities there's four propositions the community will be voting on um uh come May 20th three of them impact the school district we've got adopting the

102annual School uh District budget for the 2526 school year electing two members to the Board of Education authorizing the purchase of our our four buses plus our one sport utility vehicle we're going to be using our 2019 bus purchase Reserve that's mostly depleted and our new 2024 Transportation capital reserve that the voters approved last year so there's going to be a combination of those two reserves and that's why as one Reserve approaches depletion we go out and ask the community to appro to approve a new savings account or new reserve and then finally the last ballot proposition is for the two different libraries in the community we still have to get that number from the Phelps library and the cooken spron library at this point so that number I just left it off the screen

103so between today and April 23rd we're awaiting a finalized state budget but in the meantime we're also looking at our current programming and saying is there a way we can look for further efficiencies to bring that overall number down to bring that tax levy increase down closer to 2% where it's currently at 2.27% not knowing what the state budget it's going to look like maybe the state budget might be just a little bit more favorable we might get some additional funds we're not count on counting on it at this point but we have the luxury of waiting till April 23rd to make that determination and finally we'll be presenting that final budget where the where the final numbers are on April 23rd with the intent that the board will be approving it shortly after the

104presentation great questions tonight any folks have any additional questions to ask thank you very much everyone thank you apprciate it you all right on the superintendent report S I printed there it is all right all right in a little bit um we'll be doing a first read on some policies uh in the 7,000 sections uh like I said I tried to make that as efficient as possible we'll I'll review um those policies when it comes up um during the new business section of the agenda so back on March 6th we had our Midlakes Madness United way fundraiser um that was a collaboratively planned event um so we need to thank our students from Meo our students from National Honor Society at the high school um Chris maror Britney Sullivan Kyle Sanders Erin erson and of

105course Pam for the amount of work that went into planning that event um I threw down a challenge like I do each year of um if if a total of $2,500 is raised through the campaign this year the challenge is I will dress in the eagle mascot costume I will do trending Tik Tock dances live on stage during Eagle time in person uh for grades 7 through 12 uh we'll do a full eagle time forum and we would work out the uh Kinks of a live stream over to the elementary school so we can have I don't know about that May Rel it's go on the it'll at this point based on uh what was uh donated uh between the volleyball game and the basketball game is going to take a little bit of work

106with um uh folks uh doing some payroll deductions uh in order to meet the $2,500 Mark for the so I'll I'll update you at the end of April and we'll see where we fall I'm just thankful it doesn't involve blue Powder again pretty much I'll do anything within reason uh to avoid that all right um this past weekend uh was the the Midlakes theater experience staging of The Little Mermaid uh shows were Thursday Friday Saturday uh I was able to go on Friday it was really it was it was a hefty crowd which was nice to see um the students performed wonderfully on stage uh the stage crew and the lighting crew and the sound crew did a wonderful job so it was just a a great night to see our students uh put that

107on stage so congratulations to everybody um for a successful staging of little mermaid um this past Friday we had our superintendent's conference day and I you know a big shout out to the administrative team because we've moved to a model where it truly is a collaborative effort to put these superintendent conference stes together and our Focus has really been on the areas of growth that we've identified through our data in terms of uh instructional strategies for our teachers um data review protocols in order to make sure that we're adjusting properly in the classroom in order to make sure our mtss process is is leveraging the right data um to support our students uh behaviorally academic socially and emotionally so um I it's a huge accomplishment to put that together and it's the team um that

108does that work so I just want I want them to know that I do appreciate that and I do believe that it really does help us uh move the needle when it comes to student performance um academically here in the district so it's exciting um back on March 2nd through four the 4th I was able to attend the ncus conference um in Albany um just a handful of interesting updates the two most important sessions I attended um the first one was an executive update so uh the governor's uh secretary in education so it's not someone who's in the state Ed Department it is the governor's Secretary of Education who a Lea on to the state ad Department she was present and one of uh the governor's lead um lawyers so special counsel to the governor

109they were present to field questions from superintendents um the first section was um facilitated by some ncus individuals asking you know prescripted questions um and some of the most interesting pieces that came out of that um is is that our our state executive office is acknowledging um you know very clearly that if there is any withdrawing of federal funds due to changes at at our federal government level that our state is not in a position to backfill those funds with State Mony so um as we hear news of things that are happening with executive orders and withdrawing of funds uh we need to pay real close attention to the news and we need to pay real close attention to um what's actually going to happen so um that that could become a budgetary stressor however

110I'm I'm cautiously optimistic that that won't be a budgetary stressor uh at the very least for this budget season um another key update is you may have heard murmurings of a quote unquote Bell tobell smartphone ban um for New York State schools so the governor is pushing for a bell-to-bell ban and one of the most important questions asked was hey could you please define for us what bell to Bell means and in the mind of of the governor and what the proposed legislation would be is belto Bell would mean from the moment that kid kids walk into the building to the moment they leave in the afternoon that they should not have a cell phone in hand now there was a little bit of Sid stepping with that where um the secretary on education did

111mention that schools may be able to establish locations for students to use their phones during the day which might feel like oh they could use it during lunchtime so we're all superintendent waiting for clarification on what that means I think in terms of Board of Education um we will be asked to to adopt some form of policy so we may need to have some more policy update conversations uh we'll take a look at draft policies and we'll we'll um adopt a policy that makes sense specifically for the um another big topic of conversation is uh what we call the retiree income cap waiver so um just after covid just after the shutdowns which by the way it's five years by now if anyone has been thinking about that my children pointed that out to my

112wife and I the other day um but it's been five years and in the in the immediate aftermath of Co um they did uh the state government did um put a waiver in place that allowed um public employees to um receive their full pensions and go back to work full-time for full salary and benefits now that income cap waiver has been extended each year since then however there's not a lot of legislative support to continue that because it is viewed by uh the legislators as really a covid era emergency rule um so we're being told right now that it very well could be extended for another year possibly two but don't hold your breath for a long-term like blanket waiver in perpetuity um I think you know my my assessment is is the cap on

113income hasn't been increased in years and years and years you can tell by Carl's budget presentation that we have you know CPI increases inflation increases that are off the chart right um but the income cap hasn't changed at all so I could see some kind of Correction for an overall amount but I wouldn't see um a waver where someone can come back and make an exorbitant amount of money and collect their pension via long-term solution so we'll have to wait and see how that pans out um and then some interesting things on electric buses um the the governor did refer to um the electric bus initiative in a press conference within the last couple months as aspirational so now there is this sense that there could be some changes um coming with the electric bus

114uh mandate but we have been counseled to not expect anything to change until the and there was a reference of a 2-year waiver that districts could apply for and extend that deadline from 2027 to 2029 so again we'll have to wait and see what that looks like but these are things that um the the governor's um folks are now talking about a so don't don't uh expect any of it to happen that's just our best guess at this point and that's what um makes going up to the biscus conference so valuable this time of year because there's a lot of involvement from officials from state government and the state of department so um was time well spent all right um I want to update you just on a couple more things uh our pool project

115is underway I did let the board know through the communicator that once the uh Marite was uh essentially uh grinded off of the pool surface that there were some cracks that were discovered um Ryan and his team uh along with uh officials from Watchdog and the pool company modular are really trying to see which of these cracks are full-fledged cracks that are leading to any sort of uh leaking of the pool um and we're engaging with um a local contractor I believe out of water is that correct yeah a local uh contractor Out of Water L who specializes in concrete repairs both for skyscrapers and for pools um and they use an epoxy resin and they inject that into the cracks to to seal up the cracks so that would happen then they would resurface

116the pool and move on um we're on schedule at this point with the pool and there was enough uh leeway built into the calendar of the project that if we can get this contractor at the right price and at the right time that the uh project will remain on schedule but I'm going to fall just short of promising that because we don't know all of those loose ends yet but I wanted to make sure that the board knew exactly what was going on um and and another little piece is that um the filter room has been completely torn out and they're actually this week starting to install the new equipment in the filter room so that portion of the project is moving around so once we can address these cracks um that it'll be exciting

117because it'll be building back up as opposed to the demolition period so that's exciting um we have taken some baby steps with uh our campus forward 2024 uh project uh thanks to Carl for arranging some architecture and staff meetings this last week uh we were able to meet with key staff that are impacted by uh the weight room upgrade impacted by the music Wing upgrade here and impacted by the uh the wood shop upgrades and the colonary Arts classroom just to get their input on what how those spaces need to function in the future so and our our um Partners at Edge architecture can have that in mind as they go to that initial design work and propose a design that makes them most sense right off the bat so we're moving into the design

118phase and that's really exciting for our next Capital project all right and then there's just a handful of key items that I want to highlight that are on the new business portion of our agenda tonight um first there's a couple items related to our vote in May uh the public notice approval and the approval of our election inspectors so we're getting ready uh for our vote in May um there are fouras on the agenda and those uh M moas are one with the faculty Association one with the employees Association the administrators Association and the agent secretaries and they um outline that um employees in those units who are full-time um will be permitted for the following two years so it's a two-year pilot to have um their children if they live out of districts have

119their children um come to school here in Midlakes and we believe that um that is good for our school community and we believe that that could also be a fringe of benefit that will allow um folks who are thinking about coming and bringing their talents to Midlakes uh will think about because uh perhaps they want to move their child to Midlakes and having a job here can make that happen so we see it as a recruitment tool as well um thanks to the PCC we're gonna uh vote to accept a $1,000 donation to the auditorium um and the PCC is doing that because they use our Auditorium all the time and um they're thankful so we appreciate it it's nothing we ask for it's just something they do on their own valtion so thanks to

120uh Jamie uh over at the PCC and finally another baby step with um our campus board Project tonight on the agenda is our full agreement with Edge architecture to serve as our architect for our next Capital project so that does it for my updates here so I believe at this point we can move on with the agenda okay on to board discussion topics all right so the exal student board member um we had a discussion last time about this and I wanted to get people stots again um had other ideas or heard of other other ideas nothing not from county yet kind ofing by now we' have something from for County with other PD or just uh discussion about how other districts have done this so far um but nothing has come out yet so

121um what are your thoughts about how to say choose but think we all agreed last time we don't we don't want to be choosing but how the um student board member is chosen for representation I thought we were going to have the kids spress interest right like somebody had to announce that this was going to be an opportunity and then have like Administration based on I guess we have to choose what they academics or they interview them I'm not right so I think where we ended our discussion was maybe mimicking the process for a Schoolboard member to get an adult school board member to make it under the school board was I think that's kind where we landed is maybe having um them get signatures maybe 10 signatures um and run and have their peers

122vote um there are the law um has very specific um for the most part I think they pretty specific um rules about who the person who the person has to be as far as have to be essentially Junior um they have to be f um they have to be part St body at in our district for at least a year there there's some culations there but um I I don't know if we're still kind of thinking that or doing something where it pick somebody based on some criteria or it's still a good idea I guess my question would be it take some time well that's the thing they have to be elected by July 1 so we've already out adult packs right made available vote is in May I mean really they could vot they

123can pick up the packets within the next should four weeks five weeks and the vote is in May beginning of June and ju they could vote in June yeah second first or second could still I I don't I'm not necessarily for the admin picking it I'm more for the their peers picking their leader that's on yeah I I mean I I like that idea if the board's in agreement that we run a vote and basically emulate the process of of a board member vote Dan and I can work together put together a calendar timeline yeah be good to get that going I was going to ask anyways start that get of pest right right so do we have we have to do an official vote to prove that that's how we're going [Music] to that's

124a good question so I think we may have to but which we could do at the April meeting um but in the mean time we can get some of these details figured out like creating the timeline creating the the paperwork that students need to complete you know the signature form and whatever else um and and so that as soon asil 23rd when that comes and we approve that then we can officially start yeah if there's if there's an formal agreement here we can start the planning face I mean they have to speak to their peers we're not voting for that yeah I I would say they probably have to speak in front of their peers or something to so whether it's like an eagle time [Music] yeah now would they have to become policy so

125ultimately does there's a policy that that we have to adop as well and that's why I I think so we have a current policy um and there are other districts that have ex official um student members of the board um but prior to this change in in regulation and law um there were very specific things that had to happen in order for you to officially have an ex official member including um I'm forgetting what the detail is but essentially they said you don't have to do that anymore and because we don't have to do that anymore we can basically select a process that we see fit that fits Within orate specific things that we covered a few meetings ago right IA so it would be a minor tweak in that box so are we in

126agreement to at least get that process started then vote officially in April 23rd is it right 23rd yes Wednesday speak dat so if we need to vote officially we can vote officially on the 23rd if we determine we don't need an official vote then we can get things littleit quicker but um essentially yeah follow similar process to all right check that on off the list um for County SBA uh oh that's so the okay okay so does anyone have any questions so if you oops I uh if you go to new business item e and the for County elction b um any discussion around the officers that are um up for election um for the banking signatories or which bank we use IDE I I'm confident that Robin and Julie will do a fine job

127I think they're very involved and they have a good Vision as to where they would like to see for County go and and so I'm I'm excited about um I'm excited about this this direction that we're headed and the and the people that we have in in place so um can we when we get to the voting Point can we just do V for one yes for all four things that voting on and then um as a followup um if you have ideas if you have topics speakers you'd like to see um for County offer next year you can let me know now or um get a hold of me within the next two weeks so that we can get the information um back to for County so what topics or speakers would you like

128to hear about do you have any suggestions um for the spring education Conference next year um and then if we would be interested in facilitating a student presentation workshop at our spring Conference next year and what we would Li to present know maybe that present on the growth that they've seen in the last couple years um but if there's any other plots or ideas either Speak now or let me know in the next two weeks so that I can get all the information compiled and get it to Pam to S with our ballot any anybody have any thoughts right now okay all right so moving on committee reports um anything from legislative they actually moved it to the 22nd so we'll be meeting this com keeps we keep making progress you'll hear more about that

129bit um is there a meeting coming up for oh yeah really soon okay this week um also Friday this week is the 4 County spring confence um I think I board m going think both going um so we'll have some information bring back to that um any other committees that have met just met today yep just had some good discussions okay um with u Matt and Heather um but once again essentially the same information we presented but it just gave uh some relatively new board members a chance to digest some more information ask some more questions and just grow their understanding just right it's never too many questions when it comes to the budget stuff there's a ton and Carl do a great job at bringing it down to um understandable terms for me but

130I also heard it seven years too many for time a lot all right um anybody else have anything any other that I can all right public comment the Board of Education values the input of the midl community and welcomes public comment on any topic related to board work with the exception of matters pertaining to individual personnel and or students all public comments must include appropriate language and observe proper to form anyone making public comment must identify themselves by name and address the public comment period will be limited to a total of 30 minutes and one comment per person individual comments will be limited to two minutes the board does not respond to items presented or questions raised through public comment however the board may discuss topics with public comment at a later time or contact

131the individual who submitted the contact the comment no comments tonight thank you Marco okay um on to new business so if there are no objections I'd like to block items A and B notice of the annual meeting budget vote in election and the election inspectors is there a motion to approve items A and B as presented move is there is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of items A and B as presented say I I I all those opposed motion carried uh item C the long range financial plan so this went over this last meeting ago um are there uh any questions any discussion um there's another copy of it here I it's tonight uh is there a motion to approve the long range financial plan is presented is there a

132second second any discussion all those in favor of item c longrange financial plan as presented say I I all those motion 30 all right item D the 2025 26 District calendar it futuristic okay is there a motion to approve the district calendar as present there second second did you want to touch on any changes that happen so the there weren't any changes on this particular one it's just changes from schle we don't have super before later day oh correct which I covered last time yeah okay um so any any discussion about the calendar all right all those in favor of the 2025 26 District calendar as presented say I I all those opposed motion carried on to E the for County SBA official ballot so um can I get a motion to vote Yes for

133the four items on the ballot so move is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of voting yes for all four items for voting on the ballot say I I all those opposed motion car item F the 2025 Capital Improvement project agreement is there a motion to approve the agreement as presented is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of item F the 2025 Capital Improvement project agreement say I all those opposed Carri G the memorandum of agreement there's four of them mentioned earlier um is there a motion to approve the memorandum of agreements as presented is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of item G as presented say I I allos car H policy manual notification all right here we go that's right all

134right so I have to open this uh by telling you I made a slight error in my calculations in my last presentation for Section 7,000 I didn't realize that there were four rows in my spreadsheet that were not actual policies so I reported there were 79 policies in this group there are 75 okay um I noticed that the other day so remember there were 53 policies that were identical to our current policies and there are 22 policies that have differences or potential changes um and we're going to look at a handful of those policies tonight um these are the categories in section 7,000 we went over this last time so our focus in February were the 53 policies that are identical and we're just going to note that those policies were riew by the board

135and they will stay as is um for for tonight um there are 22 policies that have differences that are going to require a first read second read and adoption tonight we're going to do a first read on 12 policies a second read an adoption in April in April we'll have another seven policies in this group up for um a first read a second read in May an adoption in May and then there are actually three policies that we're going to retire out of this group all right so in order to keep myself organized for now versus April and moving forward any policy you see that is in Gray is a policy that we're not going to talk about tonight those are the ones that we're going to have a first read next month okay so

136I just wanted them to be here so you could see it and also it'll help me in creating my presentation for next time so um in our uh attendance section tonight we're going to look at the entitlement to attend age in residency that's policy 7130 education of students in temporary housing that's 7131 and then um we're going to glance over um our non-resident student um policy 7132 um because that's actually going to stay as is but we did not cover that last time so I wanted to make sure it was at least discussed tonight so um entitlement to attend um so there was a brief section in this policy it's essentially the same as our current policy there was a brief section that said that basically says hey don't forget that there are special rules

137for homeless students and then please refer to our policy on students in temporary housing all right so there's almost zero change there um for education of students and temporary housing uh this hasn't been looked at since 2012 and since since then there have been uh there's been a refinement in how we approach students in temporary housing so homeless Youth and uh students who qualifi for protections under the mckin vento act so uh it's just an expanded policy to ensure compliance with laws all right but it doesn't really change the intent or Spirit of the laws um in our non-resident student 7132 we are sticking with the policy that's currently on record um so that will be the last UC see of that so we'll call that a reviewed policy at this point okay now this

138slide has a lot of color on it so the again the ones that are in Gray are ones we're going to talk about next month the the ones in Black we're going to talk about tonight and the ones in red with strikethroughs are policies that we're going to plan to retire so let's talk about the retired policies first first we have a homegrown policy uh for makeup credit programs for high school students a homegrown policy on high school class Rank and grade point average and a homegrown policy on honor students that outlines uh essentially the cut points for honorable okay um those three policies are better handled as part of the student handbook um at the the um secondary school so we're going to retain our practices we don't plan on changing those practices they

139are long-standing practices when it comes to our valorian salutatorian top 10 and our cut points for Honor rooll everything will remain as is however we're just not going to retain a policy okay um and our makeup credit programs for high school students the language within the regulations for makeup credit programs for high school students is essentially verbatim to what we currently have in policy uh I reached out to the specialists at arie1 and they said feel free to retire that policy and just defa regulation so um that's what we're going to do and and try to simplify our policy manual just a little bit um okay so um provisions of interpreter Services uh uh to parents who are hearing impaired superficial changes it's a long-standing policy the changes in the policy do not impact our

140obligations and do not impact how we will will do business when it comes to um securing interpreter services for any parents who have hearing issues and qualify for those Services um student directory information so there were changes uh or there are changes in terms of the size of the list of directory information so the way that furpa or the federal education rights to Privacy Act is written um basically says if a student has confidential information like their grades their attendance their behavioral record that is not for public disclosure that is is their private record and there's a federal law that protects that it then goes on to say however schools May release specific information that does not violate people's privacy okay uh things like a student's name their grade level um address uh home address

141home phone number um and a whole laundry list of other things we will not we so the problem with the policy we currently have is the district has actually slowly uh elaborated the definition of directory information over the last 13 years and we have practices currently in place um that the old policy does not about all right that's about as plain as I can say the new policy from Erie one they they asked us questions about how we handle certain things do you do this do you do that do you do this in terms of disclosing things so a good example is is we disclose to the newspaper I'm our old students we're giving names we're giving grades so the newer policy better reflects our actual practices here in the district with an expanded definition

142of directory information and the caveat to all of this is is we don't release directory information um very much at all actually we release it strategically in very small Pockets um to very specific uh uh vendors if need be um but not in an arbitrary prous way so we'll expand the definition of that director information because it reflect um then uh student privacy parental uh access to information and administration of certain physical exams to minors so this policy is almost word for word the same except for one small section that deals with if a parent makes a request for curriculum resources so a parent could request to the district office hey I would like to see all curriculum resources for Regions physics right and it would be Our obligation under a certain amount of time

143to release that information to the parents our current policy indicates a time frame of 10 days the updated policy has a time frame of 30 days and I think that that's just uh in an effort to give districts a little bit more time in leeway amidst of busy um working calendar in order to um be able to provide that information uh without having it um without the the added pressure I suppose um and if it's a 10day window and it's Christmas break right that can really cause trouble so a 30-day window I think makes a lot more sense um on this end especially if we're managing so that's the only change in that policy away from from um the current policy uh in the student conduct section um we will talk about timeout and physical

144resing next time um today we're going to take a quick look at Alcohol Tobacco drugs and other substances so this policy does change um the old policy has a section for prevention um and intervention when it comes to substance abuse the new recommended policy from eie on bosis eliminates the um prevention and intervention piece and that's not to say we don't do it it's really more about um strategies and tactics on Intervention and prevention are constantly changing and the current policy has this specifically articulated thing that we're supposed to do whereas we've grown into a model where a lot of this happens through our pupil support office um and outside agencies so we don't want to be pigeon into one Cookie Cutter Way of um intervening and being preventative with with substances yep that all

145right um Student Activities we're going to take a look at Sports and the athletic program um and a new policy student voter registration and pre-registration will'll take a look at musical instruments and employment um of students of a minor age next meeting so Student Activities uh Sports and athletic program superficial changes the intent and and implementation of all of those pieces are uh identical so superficial changes everything essentially Remains the Same um student voter registration and pre-registration so this is a new policy it's required by uh Ed law section 5-57 um which is new and it it compels districts to engage engage students who can pre-register to vote uh we have to is essentially what it says so we're actually engaging in this practice right now it's embedded into the government curriculum um our government

146teachers um provide students with uh the documents necessary to pre-register to vote and then we actually seal up those envelopes and send them in on the students behalf um so we did have some discussions at the policy Comm level um uh regarding communication to parents that this has happened so I've had a conversation with Mr mcelin about um making sure that we're letting parents know hey your child is going to be registering to vote in our government class uh uh during this unit uh make sure you have a conversation with your child at home about uh registering to vote in political affiliation U because it's not our intent to um sway a child in any direction politic it's merely to offer them the opportunity to register to vote so they can have their voice heard

147um upon the time of their 18th birthday in the next elction so and that's what's in the uh yeah educational law so that's what we'll do um and then um in student welfare medication and personal care items uh students with life-threatening health conditions and then notification of sex offenders so um some changes here uh medication and personal care items so the old policy indicates that we will maintain a stockpile of elol um in the case that a child who requires a nebulizer treatment um in the case that their parent hasn't brought the nebulizer treatment or the the actual albuterol to school um the new policy eliminates that as a policy item um in that we aren't holding albuterol um for nebulizer treatments we do have a nebulizer available um but the policy doesn't compel us

148to maintain that stock F any longer um the new the policy does include um that we will have feminine hygiene products available in bathrooms uh for our female students um at no cost for the student those are the biggest changes there um students with life-threatening health conditions the spirit of the policy Remains the Same um however um we you know since 2012 there has been a relaxation on holding and administering life-saving medication even if it's for a person who had has an unknown allergy and it's a surprise and a student goes into anaphylaxis that um not only can a school nurse administer the epinephrine but anyone that nurse trains can administer the epinephrine whereas in the old days there was a more rigorous training that had to take place where someone to administer the EP

149so now that we've relaxed that and you know realized that you know it's not that hard honestly and under the right training from a nurse anybody could administer epine from to save someone's life and the same is true for uh noox hisone or narcant which can stop someone who is over OPI from from dying so um there was one section removed from the policy um and that section was the one that required the higher level of training to um administer the EP other other than that the policy is identical and then finally um the not notification of sex offenders uh the intent of the policy doesn't change and it's it's superficial changes it's still um inom upon us to do what's in that policy and the to change how we operate and then in our

150last section in the 7000s children with disabilities we'll talk about that next time so that does it those are all the policies that I just um went through um which we're going to constitute as a first read are there any questions on any of those policies and I know it's a lot and I know it's getting all right so that's what we're going to talk about next time and we'll go from there so thank you thank you so is there a motion to approve the policy reading modifications as presented is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of readings and modifications as presented say I I all those opposed motion Carri on to um items I through K if there's no um opposition I'd like to block items I to P donations

151items for disposal in there motion to approve items IQ K is presented is there a second any discussion all those in favor say I I all those opposed motion Carri all right on to Personnel there's um no objection I'd like to block items A and B the appointments and sub appointments there a motion to approve items A and B as presented is there a second any discussion all those in favor of items A and B as presented say I I all those opposed Mo carried item C is there a motion to approve item C the app for the 2024 schol year is presented second second any discussion all those in favor of item C the coaching appointments as presented say I I I all those opposed uh item d unpaid leave uh is there a

152motion to approve the unpaid leave as presented is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of item d as presented say I all those opposed motion Carri and the block items and F int to retire and res motions motion to approve items E and F presented is there a second second any discussion all those in favor of items e and f as presented say I all those opposed motion Carri on to adjournment is there a motion to adjourn the regular board meeting for the purpose of entering into executive to discuss matters relating to the employment discipline dismissal or removal of a particular person propos pending of current litigation and negotiation a second any discussion [Music] [Laughter] all