June 11, 2025 Board Meeting

001Good evening everybody. It is 6:03 p.m. We will call to order a regular meeting of the board of education. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. This is a momentous occasion tonight, at least as far as board of education meetings go. Uh we have uh a celebration for our retirees, which we'll get to in a moment, but it is also Dr. Bailey's last meeting with us as superintendent of RCS. and we'd like to take a moment to recognize everything that he's done for us over the past 15 years in various different roles uh leading up to his current role as as superintendent of schools. Uh Dr. Bailey has been a stabilizing force for

002this district. Uh we've been through many changes uh many life-changing events and he's been with the district through all of those. Uh we have a few tokens of appreciation we'd like to share with you just very briefly that Ed has secreted in a bag over here. My money is always on now if there's a bag. So first we have an engraved uh award here for Dr. Bailey recognizing his 15 years of exemplary service. Thank you. And from a local bakery here, Sweet Te's Bakery, we have uh a set of cookies here. They're Raven logos. And celebrating 15 years on the year side. Thank you. Over here. It's like a Tony. So, next we will move right into the retiree recognition. On the agenda, we have um 6.25. To begin, I' I'd like a motion uh

003to accept 6.25 if somebody was so inclined to make one. Jackie, thank you. Second by Pete. All in favor? I I Dr. Bailey will read a little preamble and then we will break for cake. Mike and Ed, you want to come up and shake hands with folks? So, this is a little bit of a unique uh graduating class of our colleagues in that some of them retired in September and uh and throughout the course of the year. Not everybody is uh leaving us in June, but they may have already um retired and gone off in their own direction. So, I'm glad to see so many of our staff here and so many loved ones that came to share this um really relevant moment landmark in in East Folk's life. So, I want to read the

004certificate first. So whereas the education of this nation's children is a prime importance for the continuation of this nation and whereas the people of the Rava Queen and Selkerk Central School District are greatly indebted to all employees who daily give them themselves that our children might be so educated. Be it therefore resolved that the people assembled at this meeting express their appreciation for the service rendered to our children. this employee has given of themselves that our children might learn and we are most grateful. Therefore, we extend our best wishes for many happy and healthy years of retirement dated this day, June 2025. So, I'd like to welcome our first I won't say graduate, our first retiree, Sandy Aker. [Applause] Lisa Barbarino, [Applause] Linda Boom. [Applause] Carl first, [Applause] Aaron Leoo, [Applause] Janet Marcelino, [Applause] Diane

005Pride, [Applause] Arlene Schaer [Applause] Rich Badney, [Applause] Sher Silvano [Applause] Kermit Wamsley. [Applause] The last thing I'll say is u think of in this room literally hundreds of years of work in schools. This very well may be the first time these folks received a round of applause for the work they did. That's powerful. That requires at least one more round of applause. Please join us for some uh cake. It's in the back of the room here. Thank you. Okay, we're back on. Is there a motion to accept the minutes of the May 21st regular meeting and the June 5th special meeting competition? All right, Jenny's motion. Matt's second. All in favor? I All right. Business considerations. We have 61 through 624. Was that 3.4 we just did? It was 3.4 and 3.5. Yeah. Yep. What's

006that? I wasn't at the second. All right. Uh 61 through 624. Is there a motion for one or more? A motion for all 61 through 624. All right. Thanks, Jenny. Thanks Matt. Second. Any discussion? Matt. I don't I don't know all five, but I'll definitely get it for you guys. Uh last year was right around 35,000. So, and I will get you more details at the next meeting that we have. Yes. Okay. Anything else, Matt? Anybody else have anything? All in favor? I I I personnel considerations 71 through 719. Motion for one or more. Motion for all. Thanks, Jackie. Sorry. Second, Dan. Any discussion? All right. All in favor? I was going to say we had one retirement, but we had opportunity to acknowledge Aaron as part of the ceremony. Thank you. Okay. U Dr.

007Bailey, turn to you. I want to say thank you um especially to the individuals who made me welcome here 15 years ago, which um anytime you hire someone, you're taking a chance. So, I'm very grateful for that. And for those people who have made the work so meaningful um and memorable uh over the next 15 years and I wish Craig luck as he comes in and continues um on this journey and and creates his own. We've been talking a lot about um memoriam bless you Pete. Uh we had talked about plaques for the elementary school playgrounds. I just wanted to let you know that they had been ordered and uh they should be in by the fall. uh acknowledging the donations of our PTO and PTA and also um Maline R. Babcock who is currently

008in eighth grade. She was the brain behind our new cookie logo Maline's design. Um we're going to acknowledge her at the eighth grade moving up ceremony. It's a good time to do that as she heads over to high school. Um there'll be a plaque on the wall in the high school near the main gym that acknowledges, you know, her contribution really changing a 70 plus year tradition here. And I was going to suggest that perhaps the board have her come to a meeting in September and acknowledge her that way as well. It would be great for her to be acknowledged in front of her peers, but considering the magnitude of this change, uh be a nice thing to do for her. Give her a certificate and and more public uh accolades. And you probably recognize

009the last week of school is actually these last two weeks of school are absolutely packed with events. The um Edw Becker and Peter B uh moving up ceremonies are both at 10:00 the Monday and Tuesday of the last week and there'll be lots of instructions around where to park and how to navigate because we will still have middle schoolers and we have high schoolers testing during that time. We feel very capable getting people in and out. It worked well last year, although one of those days we had no high schoolers, which was helpful. And um middle school moving up six o'clock on Wednesday and all of you are welcome to attend that. If you'd like uh to sit at the front, you're please just let Denise and and Brian know. And um high school graduation

010six o'clock on Friday. I know Sue captured numbers and got you know who needs robes and stole and things but um I know I've spoken to a few of you individually who have family or close friends that you wanted to hand the diplomas to and um actually have two questions for you. One is uh people in the past, boards in the past have they're sitting in the second row on the stage behind the top 10 and at a point during the ceremony, the top 10 goes down and sits on the floor with their peers. Some boards have wanted to move to the front row for uh really it's the calling of all the names as they go across the stage. And um I think the a couple speeches they wanted to move to the front

011row and some have been very happy to stay in the second row. But I don't have a strong look a little silly. That's fine. I I don't feel strongly enough. I would be happy to stay move to those. We are handing certificates to a further back row. I'm sorry. What? It might be harder to move to correct hand handing the certificates if we're in the background. Okay. So that might be all right. So easier. Um I will the uh I will let you know where in the ceremony to do that. And the second thing is exactly what Mel's alluding to. Just step behind uh me and behind Ryan and just go right to the table because there's someone at the table handing them the cases for the diplomas. just step right in front of them

012and grab the case. And so you don't need to tell tell us like who uh because it's can be complicated, right? Just be there when you know it's coming and step right up gracefully. Go right back. Works out great. Seamless performance 15 years. Um and we'll continue that. Um and um the last thing I was just going to say checked on the SRO are going to be here during our summer programs throughout the entire uh entire summer. So that's a a blessing to us as we go through what are evolving programs and in a lot of construction and various spaces. But it'll be good to have them. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Jean. Um I wanted to um thank the board and the community for their flexibility in the June 5th uh PD day for

013elementary kids. Um well for teachers and the kids were at home. It was a really successful initial training around our new math curriculum. We got great feedback from the teachers. Um we are partnering with uh curriculum associates who are the producers of the curriculum and our trainers that we had will be working with us with our teachers again in September and then again in November and then again during our half days in the winterish. Um, and part of the plan that I had shared with you a couple meetings ago included some opportunities for parent presentations in the fall to have parents become familiar with this new program. Um, so be looking for those dates as well. Um, and some more of our training will also target our administrative team and our teaching assistants come September.

014Um, the second update I had for you was around the code of conduct review committee that met. We originally scheduled two days um but we really felt after meeting for a day that we didn't need to have the second meeting. Um we reviewed discipline data up through May. Um talked about any issues that had arisen, what patterns we saw. Um and at that time there were no recommendations to change the current code of conduct, any of the language. Um at this time none of the um policies that are in the code have been updated. So there wasn't any need to do that at this point. but those can be changed as the as the um policies get updated. So, we're ready to move forward. I checked with our attorneys that because we aren't making any

015changes, there doesn't have to be a 30-day review. It can just stay up on the website as is. Um and then the last thing that I wanted to update you on is um when I did a presentation on the science of reading back in the winter um I had talked about as of September 1st we have to submit an att testation to the state education department that our P3 curriculum is aligned to the science of reading. Um so Kelly Dogette and Sarah Poulture and I went to a training around um how to approach that work uh through capital region Boseies. We have included some survey questions to teachers to get their feedback and we're going to be sitting down to do the bulk of that audit and um at a station work this summer. So

016that's well on its way. Um and I did want to take just a moment to acknowledge uh Tori Tori de Goff. I was going to say Victoria in case anyone thought of her that way. Uh Tori is um going to be leading us and as an elementary assistant principal. She's been a fantastic uh instructional leader and an advocate for kids um and working with teachers and students for the past two years that I've been here. So, thank you, Tori. Um and I also just briefly, I know everyone's giving you accolades, but I wanted to thank Brian for his guidance um in my first two years here leading with uh intelligence, sense of humor, which I always appreciate um and civility. So, thank you. And that's it. Thank you. Jesse. Um, tonight I just first wanted

017to start off with a little bit of um some information for everybody. So, you do have a kind of a handout in front of you. Uh, most people know, but just to review, uh, we are part of a consortium with some other other districts in the area. Uh, it's called Cashic, and what we do is we have, uh, health insurance and prescription drug coverage uh, through this consortium. Um the uh the health is run a little bit different than the the prescription. The health is more of a group. Um you know all the claims are in this group and then this weighted average who's risked and and and that's how it's all paid out through the group. Prescription we're on our own. So what I mean by that is we have we could have one

018one month we could have a million dollars worth of claims. Next month we could have $50 worth of claims. So it's we are truly a individual when it comes to paying for uh our prescription and and the needs of our our um our staff. Um what I wanted to bring to your attention is uh we have two sets of reserves in the cash uh one being the health insurance uh and one being the RX. Uh health insurance if you can see towards the bottom of the sheet has a reserve summary. Our health insurance is is pretty healthy. Um, this was built up um o a lot of it was built up over COVID. I actually called cash today and they gave me a little bit of history uh how it got so big. Um the

019recommendation for that is two months of of reserves to cover expenses. Uh right now the recommended reserve for that should be a little bit uh 1.4 million. So we are a little bit in excess of that. Um but the real main reason that I wanted to bring to your attention is the other side of things is prescription side of things. Um right now we are kind of we're running in a deficit on a monthly basis. Uh and what that means is we're eating into our reserve uh very quickly. Uh and that's just because our costs have really outweighed uh our premiums. Uh and the premiums are set at the beginning of the year by cashic. There's a whole calculation uh about um the risk and what's out there. Uh and there's been some ones and

020I think you've probably heard it everywhere that uh some specialty drugs have have come on board and some other drugs are out there now that a lot of people are using uh and that's costing us. So uh if you look at the top here we have the monthly premiums and uh manufacturer rebates are rebates that the cash it gets when we buy certain drugs. you can apply for it and they'll give us money back. So that's what the rebates are. Um, so our total average monthly expense for prescriptions so far this year has been right around um I mean I think I have that backwards. I apologize. It really should be monthly revenue on the top or the claims. Uh so that really is that 237 uh to that's the amount of money that we

021either be paying in premiums or we're getting back in rebates. Yeah, I apologize. That's a misprint right there. Uh and then the second part of that uh would be the claims that we're paying out. And uh Canada RX is a mail um it's a mailing uh program that we have where people have the ability to mail in and get prescription drugs that way. So it's it's the same thing. It's just a little bit different. Uh so you can see that our expenses are almost double what we're bringing in. So we we've been really eating at our fund balance uh in this cashic and um right now as of April uh we are at 115,000 in our reserve. Um so I get a I got a call from them saying hey we got we got a

022problem here. We're running out of money. Uh and I had a long conversation with them. Uh, and they did recommend that we move some of the money from that health reserve again, that $4 million you see there, over to the RX to cover some of that. Um, I just I didn't want to do this uh it was just a recommendation from them. I recommend that we do do this to cover it. Um, I don't need a board motion, but I didn't want to do it without relaying the information to you guys and get some input from where, you know, where I'm coming from. Um, I have one question. Absolutely. Make sure I'm reading this correctly. Yeah. So, in the healthcare fund, we have over $4 million and they recommend that we only have 1.4. That's

023the recommendation. They have allowed it because of COVID. Almost every district has blown that reserve. It's only a recommendation. Okay. Uh every district in Kashik is way above that and that's mostly due to to co and how much are they recommending that you move from the health to the they said a million dollars um again so that would drop that down to three million it's a little bit closer and we have there is plans in place for cashic to reduce that so it's not something where we're going to sit on that four millions and keep raising rates health insurance they do have a plan to utilize some of that fund balance so it it has less of effect on raising rates and that kind of stuff, but we're doing at a at a rate where

024it's not going to put us in a bad situation. Do we have discretion over these funds or do they may So me as a every year I get appointed or or someone in the district gets appointed to be a trustee for the uh Cashic and I was appointed a trustee last year for this. Um so I would be the one to be able to uh ask them to be able to move it one way or another. But again, I didn't want to do it. Yeah. all by myself. I wanted to bring it to your attention. Uh that that was what they're recommending to me. Um but I want to get some input obviously from you guys. I think that that plan makes sense. I guess my my question would be would moving 1 million be

025enough in your mind because that I mean based on the numbers that are here, if we moved 1 million over, we still have a lot on the health side and we're not meeting that recommended amount on the prescription side. I think right now it's something where we can always I can call them up and say, "Hey, I want to move another five." Okay. My only concern is I don't want to move too much out of the health, especially if it's controlling rate hikes. So, I don't want to really hurt the health that much. Okay. Um, does the amount in the health control the rate hikes? It helps if you have a better fund balance. You know, we can we can use some of that to counteract some of the rates and stuff. So, um, but

026yeah, again, the other option we do have is having what we call an additional billing. Is if we know we're going to have some excess funds at the end of the year, we can say, "Bill us another $500,000, we want it to go into our reserve." Um, I don't recommend that right now, but it is something in the future if if we start getting uh nervous, uh, we we have an option with that. So, so Jesse, what to answer ask my question. You answered part of it already, but we talked earlier. I just asked Jesse a question ahead of time because somebody a retiree had called and asked some questions. We we did you did tell me that for next year prescription premiums are going up 20%. Right. So that might help alleviate some of

027that gap because they're going up 20%. That's the reason, right? They looked at the historic they were off obviously, right? So that should help with that a little bit. I am I will say that we are working the consortium as a whole is working on ways to control and alleviate the price increases and that kind of stuff. A lot of it I've been reading a lot of this on some other areas on cashic as well. It's the a lot of the weight loss drugs. That's a big one. Yeah, we just we just did an MOA that will hope help uh hopefully control a little bit of the unusing using of that inappropriate talk at the state level even about what how much they'll cover and not cover. So that's it's definitely an issue for everybody.

028Yep. on the bottom part. Um and I'm fine with moving that out money. I think it still gives us four months at the health of the health and um that premium should help some of that issue so we don't have to worry about too much. But you I just I think I know the answer but I couldn't understand what you said that reserve and cashic is that the full cash reserve for everybody for that or is that just portion of it? That's just our portion. Yeah. Yep. Sure. Is this recommended under RX four months? They recommend you have four months of RX or is that for the health insurance too? The health insurance is 2 months. So So the four months is for the prescription. Yeah. Because of the volat volatility of it and and

029also how much we're on our own. Okay. With that and there's not as much coverage because everybody's Yeah. I'm saying J even if you pull that million out then we still have double what we need in health. So that's doesn't get us too far away. So right absolutely. So I think it's a like a delicate balance but uh I I feel at this point it is something just to make sure we're covered that it needs to happen. So could this money be moved? these reserves freely throughout. Yeah, with with my approval, but I I would definitely bring it to everybody's attention if I plan to. But we can monitor this throughout the year. There's not like a certain time period right where this needs to be done. Nope. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, if we're

030all good with that, then I'll tell them we're good and we can make the move. I'm good with that. I'm good with it. All right. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Thank you. Um, quickly, a couple other things. Uh, a couple updates. Uh we want to uh thank Seek who came in last week and did some work at AW Becker. Uh they did some staining, some repairs of the gazebo, built flower boxes, leveled the kickball, leveled the kickball field, uh installed malts, and planted trees. So, thank you very much for Seek for coming in doing that. Um we did have a uh water mane break at AW Becker on Friday during field day. Um thankfully we had enough where we didn't have to send anybody home. Uh but uh Bill and a lot of his crew and some

031contractors had to come in over the weekend uh to repair repair that water main break from um use of a fire um hydrant. So they uh they used it I guess the wrong way and they blew a line. Uh so we we had to do the repair for that. Uh so saying thank you for Bill for taking care of that over the weekend. Um, so we are still, um, let's see. I just I asked Bill to give me a couple updates. So, um, we are working on getting the the project, the $100,000 project, uh, for 2526 up and going. Uh, John Shy, our architect, is is finishing the final work and we'll be sending that up to SED for approval uh, relatively soon. Um, some uh, other capital project updates. Uh, as you can see,

032the sidewalk out here in the front of the high school is complete. I think it looks great. Uh, they are still, unfortunately, because of the weather. If it ever stops raining, maybe they can get it done. Uh, they are still working on the middle school, uh, I guess the connector on the left hand side if you're sitting at the high school. Still working on that uh, cement work there. Um, but we've been doing a better job with communication, letting letting families know what's happening uh, and where the safe drop off areas are. So hopefully hopefully um they feel a little bit more communicated in that sense. Um we'll still be installing new doors at the high school. Uh our GCS will be replacing some of the old doors and putting in new doors and following

033right behind that will be the new upgraded locks. Um the HVAC they're still doing demo and uh hoping I'm hearing that we will be getting in the unit ventilators very soon. So, uh, unit, uh, hopefully we can do those installations, uh, re relatively quickly and get those, especially those ones that need those AC units in them. Um, so Amy and the transportation department, uh, we are still working out of time for bus patrol to come in and add their new cameras. Uh it looks like it's going to be towards because of how busy it is at the end of the year, it might be more towards early summer before the summer schools really kick up. So be able to do some of those, but uh she's in contact with them. Uh she her and her

034department are very busy getting ready for summer runs. Uh she's also working on a plan with uh using some tablets to be more efficient with our our um maintenance for the buses. Uh that's a program I word. Um she's getting that up and running so we'll be more efficient, more better with our inventory, uh better cost savings and all all that stuff. Uh we do, it's great to hear, we do have two people that are training to be bus drivers, so that will be good. Uh we just hired a new mechanic uh who will also be trained to be a driver uh for this summer. So they're very busy. Um we did meet to get an update about our EV study tonight. Uh we do expect to get a report um from them uh about

035how many buses we would need and you you know how much utility power here very soon. So once we get a solid uh report, I'll definitely be reporting that out to you guys so you're aware where we are with that. Um other than that, again, I I'm gonna have to say something about Brian as well. He I know he's probably sick of hearing it. Um but you have been a great a leader, a great you know help. You've been awesome. You really have. You'll be missed. That's all you got. Any new business items? These will probably they'll probably end up under old business eventually. But these are some of the things I just noticed that have been building up in our emails. Some of this stuff um and just issues that we don't need to

036talk about every tonight. I just want to get them on there so we have them down on paper. Um the middle school uh bathroom vandalism issue, some of the issues that went on middle school bathroom vis. We can talk about it next time. What's going on with it? Um athletic banners the they're in the gym. Brian and I have had some discussions about is cognizant of it. Just we need to have a discussion about the banners that came down and what we're going to do with them and what's going to go up in place of that, where they are, what we're going to do with them. Uh there's that field modification request we still have. There was a request from somebody to modify some of our fields, turn softball into a combo baseball field. And

037um just a generic one because I want to be careful about this not to violate anything, but uh responses to parent complaints. Call it that like how we're going to handle some of these. We're getting a lot of stuff in on parent complaints. So what is our process going to be for making sure we we the board we the board. Yeah. And then and with the district involved too but what you know this it's just sometimes they sit out there and and it might be legitimate reasons but we just I just want to have that discussion as to how we should go about so that nobody feels they're being ignored or anything like that. Just wanted to make sure we knew who the Wii was. Yeah. I just want to identify the Wii because that's

038something. Yeah. Yes. For sure. And then I was trying to be careful with that. And then the other one I think is probably executive and that's the we had the hearings there's a civil rights case. So that's probably an executive issue but I don't think we need to put that on. Yeah. Um our attorney is planning on coming to the first meeting in July to read the board because we have we've had new members in over the span of this case. It's from 2023. Um and uh I go to no way back before that, right? Yeah. 2022. Okay. Scott Canel will be he's coming on the first meeting in July. Yeah. To to fill in the board and let them know what the progress is on the case cases. Okay. I think that's all of

039them. Let's just walk through this to see if there's anything that can be resolved tonight. Sure. So, the first one, let me just go bathroom vandalism. Something we had emails about, but I don't know if we ever heard any answers back unless I missed them. Yeah, I don't. Is there any regarding the vandalism issues bathrooms at middle school or Yeah. Yeah. Denise Capis um spoke with me, followed up. Um they uh they got their people in to remove the graffiti and and to uh take care of it. And at the same time, she and the assistant principal, uh Gity, uh went around to all the bathrooms and any of the common areas where graffiti might be um placed. and and um they noticed some things that needed to be taken care of. And and uh

040my my question in it was look, if these bathrooms are being cleaned and maintained on a regular basis, how is it possible that the people that are doing the cleaning and the what didn't see the graffiti, especially with the types of words that were being used and so forth. And as it turned out, it was kind of in a hidden place sort of, you know, it uh at any rate, they took care of it and they're going to stay on it, you know, by knowing that there's spots that that graffiti is being placed. They're going to stay on it and just just keep an eye and take care of it as it comes as it be, you know, as it as it arises. And I was satisfied with that answer. Um and I don't We

041also talked to uh I talked to Bill about it and he's going to have his staff if anything like that is seen when they're doing their cleaning right there bring it to the attention of of Bill or to the admin in that building so we take care of it quickly. Okay, that's excellent. Yeah, just let us you know when it's one of those things we get those emails on on certain issues and if you get a early solution just think we all should just think about if we hear the individual issues let us all know because otherwise we're thinking yeah nothing happens. Yeah. Yep. That's good. Um I forget what order I went in. Sorry. Number two, I didn't have them that way. I jumped around because some of them already had old business. Somebody

042decided the parent hearing was I think we already discussed we had to figure out how we just going to respond to those athletic banners I think will be discussion for the future like but we're trying to find out where they are like where they actually are right now. And then Brian did send to me um so the old banners that say Indians have been so they know what the banners are talking about the ones that say all the championship years and everything. There are some people out there in the community that say, "Hey, we didn't win this as Ravens." So, I think we are, if correct me if I'm wrong, but new ones have been ordered with Ravens. No. Okay. All right. No, the the plan is to replace them with the same exact um

043records and stats. Yeah. On banners that instead of right now they have the uh two indigenous heads in the corner and the word Indians on the bottom. And uh the question that we had Matt and another community member and I were having a uh conversation between three of us is could the other ones stay up and like the new ones go below them beginning like the history of the Ravens underneath it. Um and I I mailed that question to the the official mascot advisory is what it's called. Um, and they responded with language that's in the document that came out in 2023, which is yes, the purpose of this is not to negate people's acknowledgement of their history. The placement of such objects needs to be as such that a conversation can occur to give

044it context. In other words, leaving like the beautiful stone uh piece of granite that's at the entrance to the high school, that's not a good place to give an explanation as to why it's sitting there. But moving it inside as part of a mural or memorial with the history of the school relevant. They would agree to that. So the question what I asked them, I sent them a picture of the banner. Can we do that? And they sent back case law. They didn't send back like a I feel this way. My interpretation would be that on the wall of a of a gym in a open basketball game with visitors and home, that's not a place to explain why it says Indians did this. So, I'm I'm guessing that their indication is that that's not

045supposed to be there. If we found other places to put it, like in a memorial for here's our history for 70 plus years, it'd be fine. Yeah. Um and the plan was to as with all the things is to um take them and donate them at the board say it's okay to dispose of them give them to our our sports association and allow them to figure out what they would you know like to do with them. I'll send that language to everybody so you can read it and then we can have discussion at another time you know once but so I'm sorry just to the somebody contact me a former board member and parent contacted me and I voted to Brian and then we had the sports association uh golf tournament this weekend so it

046rained very hard if you didn't see that so we had a lot of time sitting around inside and it became a big topic of conversation and just some people's feeling is like well we won those as Indians we didn't win those as Ravens so to go back to my question the new ones coming up not going to say Ravens. It's just like RCS or blank or Well, that could be a compromise, too. Yeah, but they haven't been ordered yet is my point. No. Okay. So, that's we can have that discussion because if it just says RCS, you did win it as RCS. So, it might not be better not to put them up there as Ravens and it could be RCS forever then and we did win them as RCS and the new ones will

047be RCS versus trying to get into fight over Indians versus Raven. That's a good That's a good idea. Yeah. My question was that I thought that some of these things like the um granite piece out there would go into some kind of like historical or memorial type area that the school maintains for that. Is that what we're hoping to still be able to do with some of those things? Not necessarily all the banners because I'm not sure that that would all fit. I just don't want to not give them their due, but maybe like a digital display for those or something. That's it's just the issue people were just, you know, again, they're just sensitive to Absolutely. We won this as Indians and I was on that team and and then they came down and

048sort of nobody knew like somebody just noticed they came down and was like where are they and then nobody quite knew where they were at first. I understand now that they're we have with Bill in the M area. So I found that out today too. Yeah, that appeases some some of the the and I agree that RCS on them makes sense because moving forward because we were then right. Right. You know, one piece of the regulation that would be confusing to folks is it's not requiring that we remove trophies from the case. Um and that's when if I were left to try and differentiate between the two, someone very easily could construed that banner is a trophy that um acknowledges victory. uh and uh why can they be in the case but not be on

049the wall? That's just going to help to muddy the waters a little bit. I I think of it, you know, and there's the other way of thinking of it is this trophy, I won this sectional two event on such and such a date. And um the banners are a mix of things. It's sections, it's um you know, win best times, it's best scoring, it's best it's a lot of different things. It's not a trophy, it's a it's a list on the wall. So I I don't uh propose to be the genius that can read in between all those lines, but perhaps the political compromise is to RCS. So we're going to comes up. I'm sure it's there, too. But it also there was one that was put up this year just for everybody's edification. A

050big one for the football team and for retiring coaches which purposely made sure they kept the Indians off, but that came down too. They're worried about that. But we can have that conversation. Like I said, now we know where they are and what the situation is. Mhm. Okay. Leave it as old business eventually though, just we figure out what we can do with them. And then field modification was the other one. There was a request for field. I don't know if anything's happening with that. Um, so some similar to the proposal, the request around girls u flag football, flag football. I was going to say field hockey that that something different. Um a uh a couple coaches in the community who have coached for us as well who do Hudson Valley Little League asked if

051we would consider modifying one of our fields because there's a hole in the uh the age groups for little league the 10 11 12 11 12 13 they play on a different size field than a high schooler play on or traditional T-ball little league would play on. Uh they call it a 5070 which is distance between the home plate and pitchers mound distance between the bases. Uh and we don't have any fields like that in our community. So what is happening is children might be playing through teball and little league. They get to that terminal age and they go and play somewhere else because there isn't a place to authentically play it. And of course, everyone we all know is we we're parents when you disrupt that tra that path through a community program, they

052usually just stay. They don't choose to come back because they've made new new bonds and and new relationships and new traditions. Uh so and and what we're, you know, we're thinking of it as symbiotic. The kids who go through these programs are the ones who end up playing in our own programs. We willingly allow people to use our facilities. So we um they sent us a a long letter. We had a meeting with them, Jesse, Bill, myself, to talk through what that might look like. So, what it resulted in is we're having our architects, uh, Won and Hampson, look at how complex the work would be to alter the one softball field at Peter B because it has not been used for softball. Uh, we have our two fields behind the high school here. That's

053where our teams have been playing. So, we're we were wondering the cost of the alteration and whether it's possible because all of the drainage was designed specifically for that shaped field. Uh it would require cutting back some of the sod so that the baselines could be longer and a true baseball field it would mean grass on the infield too. And um you know they were interested in playing as soon as the summer and nobody's growing grass between now and August. And uh so what we said is you know the choice would be if this is anything we could progress with we've got to do a cost analysis see if it's something that's reasonable um have our engineers look at it um talk about the cost of grass and if there were going to be grass

054that usually means a season without play. I interrupt you. Yeah. Did that they did they ask for the grass? I know it's traditional they they did ask for it. They thought that would be that takes the softball ability away then because softball doesn't traditionally play on grass. They haven't played over there that's why. Yeah, I know. But you know, he had mentioned to me the first year he would forgo the grass, but I'm going to have to. Well, yeah. So, we're in an interesting position. I mean, it's not that interesting, but we have three softball fields right now, two baseball fields. If we made this transition, we would have three baseball fields and two softball fields. So, we're always in a little bit of a not perfect balance. Um, but I think it really comes

055down to what the cost is going to be. Uh, turf is quite expensive. Actually the sand mix for those fields is quite expensive too. It's very specialized so that it it keeps that it dries quickly and um and again the drainage trying to figure out what will happen. So I think we're we're working to try and come up with an answer in the next couple weeks and then it's something we bring back to the board again and discuss before any work is done because you it's um whether it could be done with existing because we have our own staff too. there's a chance that they might be able to do some of the work. Um, but if it requires contractors, we had to explain, which you know, you as if experienced board members know, anything

056you do that is through a school, state, municipality, totally different benchmark for the quality of employees, you're required to hire, the insurance, the bidding process. It's different than if you were just, you know, name a thing, a bakery, and you wanted to put a porch on the front of your building. So, a lot of challenges in there that could accelerate the cost. I mean, they did mention that they would be okay this year with the dirt, but eventually they would like it to see grass on there. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. But there is a cost associated obviously and I kind of reaffirmed because he had mentioned to me about they wanted to do the work. I'm like, we definitely wouldn't let it would definitely be our guys or somebody else. Um, how much how much money

057do we have in the um Hulcom or the LFAR account right now. Uh I don't know off the top of my head. That's 150,000 a year we get and that can only be used for exterior things like that. Correct. Beautififications. Beautififications, modifications. So how how much money I before we I don't know off the top of my head, but we did do a lot with the dugouts. the dugouts, but we had like 700 and something thousand if I'm You also have to remember we've been doing a lot of this stuff with with the mascot as well. Um, so I can definitely let you guys know how much we have in that. Okay. Yep. That might be a good spot for using renew. You know, we're going into the new year that in September or whenever

058the payment is that would renew itself. Or do we have any plans? Does Bill have any plans uh to use some of those funds? So I mean obviously if he has plans for them for uh lawn projects and things like that already. Yeah, we haven't discussed that. We're really waiting for future capital projects. We're really waiting for that uh that building condition survey which the architect comes in and just gives us everything that needs to be done and then we we talk about you know future needs. There's only certain things we can use that money for. Right. It's pretty it's pretty lenient. Yeah. It's it's not overly constrictive, but we that the purpose because this was a um you know, it's a settlement essentially for polluting. The idea is that you'll be used to remediate

059that. So, what are you doing outside your buildings? What are you doing to improve the what are people seeing when they come in? Um that's so but it is there's no police around it. You mean you can be flexible about how you spend that to add to the things that you add to new business. If we're talking about these types of things, I would at some point like to discuss if we can get scoreboards for soccer and baseball, softball out there on that back field. So, other schools that have it, it's really nice to go to a game and stuff. I don't want to be too whatever, but that is something I've been working on for about two and a half years trying to get some information. We haven't gotten very far, so Okay, that's

060I support. I've been asking certain people for a long time. Which ones? Huh? I would love some sign or some Oh, sorry. I don't know what direction. Yeah, I can tell. But on the soccer and softball and baseball fields, having scoreboards would be Yeah, the sports associate is has offered and has been working trying to work for some time now to get a permanent one at Peter B for the baseball and a portable one at um back here that would do both softball and soccer portable. So, we can have that, you know, we can talk about that more. That's on the other issue. I just not I'm not against change. I want to just go back one sorry for a minute uh to that modification just so everybody knows I'm not against it. I was

061actually the softball varsity coach when that was happening and the first year we were supposed to play on it. There were problems with the field so we couldn't the one at Peter B. Yeah. It was there were drainage issues. It would we you literally couldn't get on the field. It was quicksand so we couldn't play there the first year. Then I was the coach anymore. Then we something changed in the in the program and we were able to redo these fields because initially it was going to take longer and it didn't. So now those three teams are actually happy on those fields. So, I don't believe this because the idea was that both varsity for uh softball and baseball would go down to Peter B and would be able to travel together and transportation. Nobody's

062going to go down there now, especially not modified. It's not easy for the modified kids. The high school kids could have driven. So, I'm not against it is my two cents. So, I'm not a sports person. Does softball and baseball both play on that diamond out there? Back here, that's all soft. There's two softball fields. So, the high school Peter B is where they play baseball. Yes, correct. Vars nonj or modified JV where they play they might be playing over here they play back there's another field they have a baseball field stadium way out of the track it's way back it's almost how it's almost a farmer John it's almost a farmer there forever yeah that that's the original one that's been there can let me just go back I'd also love some signage to

063those fields for people that come to play here it would be amazing to know where you're going because sometimes when I go to other schools and they have signs that tell you where to go it's so plans also for on the website to be able to put like a map over saying this is the JV field, this is the softball, you know what I mean? I would love all districts to do that. I'm not just saying this because I've also gone to somewhere I drive around I'm like right hopefully I see someone in a uniform that I recognize. Can I back up on those scoreboards because I know I've thought to you about that and I have no idea. But if it's really been two years, it shouldn't take two years. No. To to go

064through a process if if um a sports association is even ask even maybe you can contribute to pay for some of it. They want to pay or offering it. I understand the district wants to have a process to go through, but it shouldn't be something that takes a year or two years to go through and figure out with architects if it's possible and if the sports association is willing to pay for it and O andM sees and if there's any issues and workarounds. I mean, these are things that we're trying to do for our organization and our sports. It it shouldn't take that long on the back end and the bureaucratic end to go through. So maybe speed up that process or come up with a better process. I just wrote down as part of

065the discussion um there's no reason that as part of the building condition survey the architect can't consider those things. Then you have two you have two options in that. First you're getting the price point the the uh capacity of doing it. You get the price point and then that you get the decision of is this something you want to include in a capital project or are there other funding sources? That's the absolute best way to roll it in like um the um like the the uh turf field um which in by 2027 will be about 10 years. That's supposed to be the life expectancy. Um we're we are sure that we made sure that the building condition survey identified that as something that has to be included for the next five years to work at

066that speed and the track. So, it's easy to add those two things in and then you got a very formal way of um it's convenient for right now, very formal way of doing that. The other thing I wrote in here is a sidewalk to that JV field because that has been a hindrance since the first day I came here where people don't know how to get there, not seen it, but then you've got to traverse Hill andale and through the over the track and back of the fence and it isn't very inviting. So, you know, yes, it like just a massive amount of fields and I don't know that they have signage either. I don't know how people that play them. I mean, that's a side note. If you stand in one spot, you can

067almost see every single field at the back of the building. Like, it's huge. It's a massive crazy. It's way bigger than when I went to school there. We have nicer dugouts. I've never seen a dugouts. I don't even know where they play baseball. Yeah. I assume most of the fields I pass are lacrosse or field hockey. on that proposed field modification. Would that be something that requires any outside approval by SEDD or any other entity outside district? It would be at that price point. No. Okay. So, that's something we can depending on what we want to do. If we just want to expand it with with uh you know what we have to add more dirt to make it bigger. I mean that I think that would be minimal. I think it cost the dirt

068and then our guys could probably even do it. Uh the adding the turf, it will take more time and energy. Um again, like like Dr. Bailey said, I definitely want to run it by our architect before we did anything because there is drainage under there and we wanted to make sure that doesn't get we don't mess something up and we have to dig it all up and fix it somehow. So I I know Bill's reached out to him already. So we'll we'll get you an answer on that. But yeah, I I think if it's just the dirt and I'm not sure about the mound. I know there was build up and even the grass, you can't just put seed down, right? You got Yeah. So, there's a couple things that we're we're trying to get

069some answers for and then we can definitely get some more info. Sorry. What age group is this capturing? Like what age group would need these modifications? 11. Yeah. 11 and 12. 11. Okay. What was your fourth item? Well, I have a policy one, but I want to save it for policy. A policy. Oh, we can do it in this one, I guess. So, the other one was that was No, no, not No, I think the other one was an executive session. Yeah, the other session, but no, I did have one for uh it's a policy related, but it's not one of the ones on the list. I had sent us all cell phone. You had five items though. Yeah, this is the one. I was going to save it to the policy part, but I'll

070give it to you now. You listed five items before that you wanted to track going forward. Yeah. You said one was one's an exact one, right? Okay. What was the other one? It's possible. We did We did a banner field modification. Banners field modification. Um the middle school locker room and the and the civil rights cases and the emails that Okay. All right. So, we got everything. Yes. Okay. All right. Do you want this policy under new business? Hold on. Is it Is it on one of the policies that's on the agenda? No, it's new new policy. Can I just She brought up the um flag football in that conversation. Is there any update on that? Uh Jen met with not David, what was his name? Bill. Bill. Bill uh met with Bill to discuss

071the um we could do this coming year and in the following year. And I think they had some tentative plans about how to do it. I think I'm I'm I'll be careful now because it was right after Bill talked. Um there was some discussion about being able to field the team in collaboration with a neighboring school because there aren't like we're in that we're in that unusual part of the capital district where we can just as easily join people south of us as we can those that are north um in order to field the team. Um the cost I think Jen found out from the section what the approximate cost was. Um, I'm not going to say it because I want to misquote it. U, but there there were some figures on that. We can

072certainly do a report out in July on on Okay, great. Thanks. Sorry, Matt. It's okay. No, I'm dominating a little bit today. And I do apologize and we have a long discussion of policy too when we get to policy because unfortunately a lot we have a lot of policies that are due July one, you know, or very soon. So, we have to sort of get through them. Um, but I had sent you guys to the board uh policy 5645. It's a required policy. I believe the date on that one is August 1st. So, we have a little bit of time on that. So, that's good. So, but that is the cell phone policy and I wanted to open it up. There's two things. I actually noticed something else today which I had missed. Um, not

073only do we need to talk about it and decide what we want it to look like in our district, but um, it does require um, stakeholder input. So, they talked about the, you know, the different units and different people. So, I don't know if we want to do a uh, it's going to have to be soon. I know it's the end of the year. It's a horrible time. Um, but I don't know that I can wait till all the summer, but maybe initially in the next week or two, we could put together a meeting. Even if it has to be a Zoom meet, meeting, whatever. If it has to be evening whatever we have to do in my mind I was thinking bring you know uh teachers the administrators units teacher unit either their heads

074or representatives teachers administrators TAS on& and M transportation and if I miss anybody let me know but those are the three major stakeholder groups I think in the you know the employees and then you have your transportation because that's going to be potentially on the bus what we're going to do on the buses with them and all and then on and because I don't know just what we're going to have I just think they're important because where we're going to store stuff and all. Yeah. Whichever. Yeah. And whoever you think. But I do think it needs to happen in these last two weeks, unfortunately, because once summer comes, it's bad. And and it could be a one-time shot just where everybody, in my mind, rather than solve the whole problem in the first shot, it

075be everybody can come together and just say, "Here's where we see the pitfalls. Here are the pitfalls we see with this, the potential problems, and here are some maybe solutions because I'm sure people have thought about it somewhat." Mhm. And then once you're done, I just want to have us look at it tonight and go through it for a few minutes and say, "Here's what we think because a lot of things we have to make decisions on. Are we going to use pouches or not pouches, you know, are we going to when are we not going to have it have it?" So, I think we need to look it up. Yeah. I unfortunately he's not here tonight, but can I strongly suggest that we s start with Ryan Funk who put a lot of work

076into he he can be on it too as well, but it's this is districtwide, so we need to have all administrators. I understand. I'm saying he just did this week long and learned a lot from it and so he's probably gonna have the most practical input to start with and then if we could build it out from there. Yeah. I mean as many people as we need. That's what it sounds like. Ryan has a lot really great feedback, right? But but there should be but there's some things in here that I think the board has to have some input on as well. ahead of time like you know so these guys have direction are we going to do yonder pouches or not yonder or maybe we can let them do it but I just there's

077the the point of it is that the district has to also make a open up a channel of contact for parents to be able to contact their kids. Now, I don't know this, but I this was going back last year. Ryan had a um he held a um a committee meeting. I was in there. There was a couple other parents and some teachers. And what was relayed to us, and I don't know if it's factual or not, but what we're said is what Bethlehem did was they opened up their email because right now outside email, if you try to email into the school's email, your kids's email, they won't get it. weekend because it would be from district to district. But it's my understanding they somehow opened up their email channel so parents could email

078into their stu into their students emails on the Chromebook like hey I'm picking you up early or whatever and they were allowed to check on their Chromebook their emails at certain points in in the day. Um, that was one way of opening it up because we have to ma make I believe in that bill. There's got to be some type of I'll go over it. Yeah. Communication o opened up for parents to be able to contact their kids. Um, that may be an option. I don't know if we have to bring Bill in on that. But things like that we have to make decisions on. Then we're also going to have to talk about Apple watches because my daughter also has an Apple Watch. She doesn't I would feel very strongly she doesn't generally use

079it as that. She uses as a watch to but that's a So it's very clear, but then it's creates a big quagmire because then do you put the Apple Watch in the under bag too? Well, that's the whole point. That's that's so those are things we Is there room in the under bag for the Apple Watch? So that everybody knows like what's in the law I'm not trying to go down the rabbit hole. No, no, but it's a rabbit hole we have to go down. Right. So that in the law it it requires two categories are absolutely excluded. Um those which are not capable of connecting to the internet or uh enabling the user to access content at internet are excluded. Those which are supplied by the district for educational purposes are excluded. But anything

080that is capable of connecting um any smartphone, tablet, smartwatch or other device capable of connecting to the internet and enabling the user to access content on the internet is exclude is so then my daughter's watch wouldn't apply because it's not Wi-Fi enabled. If it's not if it's not you do not pay for her to have Wi-Fi on her. That would be something that we discuss. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's got that's what I'm saying. Policy. It's got to be all or nothing. Yeah. So, that's again, we don't have to answer it right now, but I want you to have these things in your mind. Maybe after we have that conversation with the group, then we're going to come back to us again because we had to decide what's in it. And so, what I

081get what I sent to everybody is NISBA's sample policy that's been updated since the law changed, but they still leaves a lot of questions for us. So it also goes on to say we have to address device storage options for uh parental contact that Ed was talking about and any we have to talk about allowable exceptions if you need one for health care translation family care uh certain educational purposes um and then like there are some kids that do use their phone for their diabetes right so I just heard a story the other day that uh school they I won't say the school sorry They wouldn't let a kid take it on the field trip and then the the principal had it in their office and it was going off. Oh my god. That the

082kid needed it and he couldn't get hold of the nurse on the field trip. This just happened in the last week. So these are all things we're going to learn as we go through is that we're going to have to say, "Oh, what do we do about that?" Um, so the So what do you guys think about those things? Plus, I mean, you could have parent kids with 504s and IEPs with do doctor's reasonings on why they should have it. Then the dilemma is, and I know I've talked to to you about this and I talked to Ted, is if whatever students are going to be allowed to have them, every employee in in in the building has to know who's allowed and who's not allowed. So, not just the teachers in the classroom, say

083if it's a 504, because when they get into the hallway, how are they going to know who's supposed to have it, who's not supposed to have it? So there's got to be some some way to disseminate that to all the teachers in in the building, not just so we just give student a special ID that says they can have them. Yeah. Well, that's that's there's got to be some way is what I'm So So these are all the things we got to get on there and these has to be um we also have to make a decision on let's say we go with pouches. What happens if they lose them? We have to have language on their responsibility. Tell you how it went for the high school. It went very very well and much better

084than anticipated. And Ryan's suggestion when it was before this all came out was that we have we start with a policy of they're in the backpacks and the contract of use if they are found out. and that we may have just say a small amount of yonder pouches and if you are caught with it one time, twice, whatever we decide, they have to fill out a contract use and the parent and sign it with the principal. And then if they they have to do it for a week and then if they're caught again they have to do it for a month and then a third time it's the whole year. But that way we're not putting a giant amount of yonder pouches out there to be destroyed, lost, fooled, whatever. We are trusting the kids

085until we can't trust them. What the They stay in the backpack, right? And they he said it went much better than he ever anticipated. I'm just thinking of the flip side of the yonder pouch. Now you're going to have to have an identification bad badge to recognize who's supposed to have their phone in a pouch. So it just No, that's a that So that would be dealt with just with the office. That wouldn't be a No. No. But if their student has their phone and it's in a pouch and they're supposed to well I think if you it's in the pouch you know that they have to put it there. I don't they don't have it in the pouch is what how you identify I mean that's going to be a if everybody had it

086it would be the exact same are they fooling it whatever putting junk phones in there. I'm just saying there are also on the flip side one or two students who are voluntarily handing in their phone every morning at the office because they don't want the temptation and this has taught them how to manage themselves. So we are actually teaching our kids some self-management skills in this whole thing. Yeah. And I hate to I don't want to rain on your parade but I I knew I was looking for it. I couldn't find it. uh one of their notes because Bisba gives us notes on the law and on device access and storage. It says, "When determining storage options for your district, keep in mind that the legislative intent is to restrict access by students devices for

087non-permitted reasons. It is our understanding that only using backpacks, bags would not be sufficient for this law. So, it wouldn't meet the law. Okay. So, the the are the things that hang on the back of the That would I think we're putting this backwards. Don't you think we should talk about the people that are doing this on a daily basis, have them go through this and then bring it to you guys with suggestions. Obviously, you guys would have the final say in it. But we're we're we're going back and forth and and Brian's the one in the thick of it and Denise is in the thick of it. They would definitely have some suggestions, I would think. And I think I think they should put opinions down on this and then then you guys talk

088about it. May I make a suggestion? Uh it's not uncommon when we do a survey for folks in the community, we don't just ask a question. We try and give a context. To Mel's point, the lessons that have been learned through the week without cell phones and every day when we they are dealing with cell phones in schools is that the survey is prefaced with here's what we have learned so far. Here's what we've learned that is successful and here are some of the areas we know are going to be of concern. and maybe some information about the law for someone who's crazy enough that wants to read the whole thing. Uh, and then allow people to contribute so they have a context because without context, you know, I mean, even though it has been

089in the news, look at some of the things that Matt has said tonight, I'm sure, is enlightening to people who are listening or to us, there's a lot of elements. It can't just be backpacks. I mean, that means that the schools are going to physically and and I would say you can't just put them in the back of the door because when you leave the room, you violated the law. you have it in your possession during the school day. So, it's a wide problem. So, um let's build it. I'll share it with you and you see like from the consumer end does this look like it will start to promote discussion that is informed and then um can act as a baseline for uh for what we do going forward. I agree on all the

090points. The board needs to make some hard decisions. We need input from the community stakeholders uh and from the people who've lived it every day. So when I talked about community stakeholders, I listed that group. I again as you look at it, you see more things you missed. It also includes parent groups and student groups. So you have to have parents and students at that meeting as well. Um I sent it to you guys. I know you probably have it anyway, but as you send it out, I would just ask that you when people read it, they focus on the shaded areas. So when we send you guys policy, a lot of times we take the shaded areas out, which is the NISB stuff, so to not complicate stuff. This one I asked and one

091other one we kept in there because I think it's important to see that. I think the heat one or maybe the student next official maybe the heat one we left it right. We'll get to that in a minute. But um we left that because I think that is relevant to help you see like in this case I would have thought backpacks too and that says nah. So just when you do get that group together just point out the shaded part because that's what they had to really look at. Yep. And and BLTs and PTO's and those kind of places will be best places. It is a quick it is a quick turnaround unfortunately but we could there's opportunities to do it. So I mean I don't think if we don't have it by July 1st

092we're not female groups we won't be sanctioned I don't believe obviously but we want to get it rolling and why we have people still here in the next two weeks as the other thing is you always remember the board has the right to approve any policy and change it at the next meeting. Yeah. So know that if if you're forced to commit to something, you get do the best you can do, continue your evaluation, and then you know, yeah, the unfortunate part of this one is there's a whole ton of blanks. There's a lot of blanks to be filled in on this one. One, most of them there's like a little line or two. We just we had to make one little choice or none. This one is a lot. Thank you. allow them to

093use it though during the school day under certain circumstances. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. So, they have to be able to have potential access to it. We, you know, again, I I agree with Pete. I guess it's let's not do it now. But this whole things I want you guys to read it really how many implications are and how complicated it is. And I support the concept, but boy, there's a lot to They gave they gave us a blank slate and they're going to have 667 districts answer it 667 different ways. How many educators were involved in the writing of this regulation? Yeah. Zero. Zero. Zero. Especially if they didn't leave backpacks as an option. All right. That kind of cuts your That's my new business. That's your your business. No, I'm good. I told

094you it was a lot less to follow. Yeah. Now I got another second. Anybody else anything? Yeah. Quicker. Um I just wanted to go back briefly to um 8.1 and acknowledge the donation um from donor's choice. Mhm. I honestly don't know what flexible seating they're referring to in various snacks, but I still appreciate the donation just the same. All right. So, in old business, one item to talk about now, I think, is student exeicio. We had the election, we have the results. Yep. Um, we have a couple of members. We're going to serve in a capacity. Is that the plan? So, uh, next meeting at our reorganization meeting and the regular meeting after that, uh, they'll be sworn in at that point as board members and begin the process. Okay. It's exciting and and, uh,

095very daunting. Yeah. Yeah. So, we'll need uh, so what what is the what is the plan? What is the expectation for these two individuals attending meetings since we have two, we have a policy right on it that you can approve tonight. Yeah. Or what do we what do we need to do as far as practice, right? As far as reaching out to these individuals and letting them know what the expectations are and Yeah, I know we do. I mean, I think we talked before I think we would have talked about leadership, our board leadership reaching out to them. Correct. In this case, I thought that's what we discussed previously. Yeah, we need that you guys would reach out and tell them, hey, here's the meeting dates. Here's what we have. Yep. training I think is

096a good idea for them. NISBA has training for next official, but I don't know if we gonna have time for that. Both said they're putting something together this summer um for for that. But what she also said is she will be doing a training for the board this summer and even if that training is she told me is not in place, there's a there's a section of that where the those members would be relevant to to attend to do that. I think for the first meeting though, um, we should see where they're going to sit. If we have two board members who are willing, one each to take each one under their wing. That way they can at least know who they're going to sit next next to and if they have any questions throughout

097the meeting. We had them before. We put them physically. If you talk about physically, we put them at the end, but we can put them wherever. Well, they could be at the end, but if there was We only had one last time, too. We had that person. There is only one and one alternate. At least that's way will they be attending but but the first meeting they'll definitely both be attending. So um or is the intention with the alternate to have them they they could certainly if it's an alternate come to I guess every meeting if they wanted to as well they could yeah maybe sit in the back but they should come to the first meeting. Right. Right. So some districts with multiple high schools have multiple students on the board at all times.

098There's lots of ways. There are a couple things. Um the board wants the members to be here all summer, right? Want the summer meeting. Yes. Yes. Yes. And um whether or not you want them both here to alternate or you you leave it open and say you're both welcome all the time, but there needs to be one. We would like for one to be um that's my qu for expectations. Would we suggest that between the two student members they work at a schedule? So to ensure that at least one of them is always here knowing they're both always welcome, but there's always at least one here. Should we leave it to them to coordinate amongst themselves? I would. Okay. Yeah. I think it should be the the person that got the the top vote getter

099should be the one. If the alternate wants to come or if their person can't come, that's fine. Okay. But I don't that we should alternate them because that's not how we have the language in the in the in here. The duty of the alternate is to come in absence of the member. Okay. Right. That's really the duty of an alter. So then the message would be, you know, it's your responsibility to attend all meetings. If there's meetings that you can't attend, there's an alternate and you can arrange for the alternates to attend those meetings, which would give both options into policy. Y can go either way. Okay. And we've used a lot of pseudonyms, but uh congratulations to Owen Smith, who uh won the election, biggest vote getter, and Hikmani. Owen's in 11th grade. and

100uh Haiko Usmani who's a ninth grade. So we'll have a 10th and a 12th grader with you on the board. Yeah, it's great. So we'll reach out before that next meeting and share that information with them and uh they should both be here I think next meeting to be sworn in, right? Even the alternate would be sworn in as a as a board. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Uh anything else on old business anybody would like to cover tonight? All right. We do have a number of policies on first reading. Um, is there anything that we need to act on tonight? Yes. So, yep. Yep. Take over from me again, buddy. Give us whatever information you think we need to know about these policies. So, I had it all ready to go and beautiful and then

101it got to me again. So, so if you look at the policies that are in front of you, they all say first reading. I am going to ask us tonight to for four of them to go and pass them tonight and that would be 101 which is your gender neutral single occupusive bathroom. It's one we've had before. It just literally states if you haven't looked at it that we have gender neutral bathrooms. Um 110.2 which is the uh sexual harassment in the workplace. Um and we've looked at that before. We've talked about the area and everything. Uh 115 is is uh student harassment and bullying prevention and intervention. Also something we've had discussions about and made changes to and 1120 which is the uh it's a records school district records and how we maintain our

102records. Pretty they're all actually rather generic kind of ones 100. So those are those are four. Right. You want to do that first? 2245 this year. We approve it. I was going to do it first reading it. if he wants to change it, but if you think we're good, I'd rather do it that way. I don't I don't I Anybody have any problems with 2245 if you looked at it? That's the student board member policy. I don't as well do that tonight. All right. So, let me just make a motion because it's a motion, right? I'll make a motion to approve. I don't know how what the terminology is. What is it, Sue? Full approval instead of first reading. What do you call it? If you want to approve, we're going to advance from first

103reading to policy approval. Make a motion to approve those. All right. All right. So, I just make a motion to approve the rather than first reading for policies 101 110.2 115. Uh, yeah, let's just do the agenda number. Oh, sorry. Oh, jeez. Boy. Yeah. Sorry. All right. Somebody didn't put them in there in order. Um, so I'm going to move 13.2. Um, 13.3 13.4 4 13.6 13.7 and 13.8 to prove tonight. I'm making that motion. And the exeicio one and 2245. That's 138. 13. Yeah, you got it. Okay, we got a motion. I second. Second, Jackie. Any discussion on any of those? All in favor? I Okay, the three I'm going to suggest to be first readings then would be um and then we can open discussion if we need to because I'd like to

104uh 13.1 Mhm. I'm just trying to find it. Uh 13.5 13.9 and 13.9. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. So that's my motion on that one. Motion for 131. There's no motion needed. They're first reading, so we can we can we can talk about them. Okay, good. So, discussion-wise, as everybody knows, um again, I'm trying to keep track of my stuff here. 13 um 100 there's been an issue back and forth and back and forth with Sorry, that's number 13.5. Thank you. 13.5. So that one is uh the non-discrimination one and we've actually we're going to be bringing it back tonight with new language like an adjusted one. We already passed it. I think this is why we passed. No, we didn't do this one. Yeah, that's the other one. So this one is just a non-discrimination

105equality, but there's language in this one that references very specific federal language which there was a 2020 version and a 2024 version as the federal leadership has changed. Biden's administration put it in some language. Trump's administration has taken it out. We have some of the language in there. We were going back and forth with NISBA and just got an answer today from our lawyers. All right. So, we're going to still ask that first reading and then we're going to adjust it appropriately before we come back for a second reading because we now have to take some language out and add some stuff in there. And it's around the language on gender identity which is not no longer presently a federal language. Okay. Okay. Um 0111. That's the one I believe we were and that is

106uh number 13.9. That's the one uh we fixed the language in. Edit asked for some additional grievance language or appeal language, excuse me, if somebody wanted to appeal a hearing. We added that language. So, we're bringing that back to you guys still in a first reading to make sure everybody's okay with it. Um but that's with an adjustment to the language. And then I didn't want to go past on this one because I want people to take a good look at this one, please, as well. And that's uh 13.5 no 13.1 13.1 and that's the extreme heat one. We had some discussions about it but not full discussions. This may I don't know another committee meeting or whatever. This one we have until August on also I believe or September whichever it is but this

107one is straight now. This is what happens when it gets too hot in the classrooms, right? What are we going to do? This is straight NISBA policy. this is their their um uh draft of it, you know, their legal version of it. But if we want if we don't like it, if we don't if we need to fill anything in, if we want to do something different between now and our next meeting, we want you guys to weigh in on that and anybody in the district to weigh in on it as well, you know, administration, on and m principles, whoever. But so this one we simply took their straight language and we didn't change anything but it may not be reflective of what we can do in our district and we didn't in our policy

108meeting we weren't going to make that decision like oh yeah at 885 every classroom is going down to the auditorium you know I think a lot of it looks pretty good the only one I I had a question for you guys on is number four is opening the classroom doors and windows like at Peter B the second floor windows I don't think open do they Yeah. What's that? Have to open. Yeah, there's Oh, I was going to say there's definitely some rooms upstairs that can because there's a window air unit. There's window air conditioners in some of them. Evacuate the school. So, that's a good point. Yeah, that that one definitely needs to be looked at. It's also worth noting it's kind of directly contrary to the school's safety laws around doors closed during those

109days which they mentioned in there in the in the sh they do bring it up on the last on page four there's two sentences that are have strikeouts through them are those items that we four are removing from the policy Correct. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. That's what we discussed in the policy meeting. Anything that you can see a strike through on there are things that we There are certain things we decided it's just we decided we we would want to remove. Yeah. You you do not just so people know that are out there in public. One of them talks about if the temperature that gets over 88 where exams are being administrated, you can evacuate them. You just can't do it. Like it happens sometimes when a fire alarm goes off. If you try to

110evacuate during exam, especially a regent exam, you have to maintain all the kids in one space. Nobody's allowed to speak or the results could be invalidated and we've had to do it a few times and it doesn't kids start talking about questions. You can't good luck coring 200 kids and not letting them talk. Yeah. Exactly. So, right. So, we thought that that Yeah, we thought that that was a subject that we can redis down the road if they address the regents as part of it because we don't want to cause any of our students to to have to go through that. If we know in particular it's going to be a particularly hot day, then we may have to look at do we use this space? This is often safe for uh special ed testing

111in here, but maybe everything's got to be moved in here or the auditorium or whatever. But we don't want to dump them in the middle of an exam, right? And that's why we left that next line right after that one being struck out is that we would try to find alternative spaces. We just don't want to say that we're going to cancel the exams um or evacuate because it could dis optional. These are optional paragraphs. One was consider planting trees, green roofs. I'm all for all that stuff. So it just says consider. So that was fine. But then um it says adjusting or adopting the school's calendar, right? We were against that as well because the region's exams are state schedule. You can't adopt your calendar around the region's exams, you know? So that tied

112back to that first one we said not so much and once you have baked your calendar, how you going to know that June 5th is going to be really really hot, right? So though those made no sense. You can't play the weather. They seem to be obvious ones to take out. Okay. So please, please, please, I know we're all busy, but these are important ones. So we need to look at that and the cell phone one. Administration needs to look at the heat and the cell phone one. Um, so active principles, what's realistic, not realistic on the heat and on the cell phones, get a committee together for the cell phone one and hopefully in early July or July meeting or first August meeting, we can resolve and pass these. Is this this is the

113recommended language? Correct. The blue is just like their kind of background on things. So the blue would be removed in the final version because so I'm just looking at the one that talks about remote learning on days when the outside blah blah blah you may hold classes remotely. Yeah. So that's another issue to content because if you're doing that then people who the elementary school kids don't bring home a Chromebook. My son's in fifth grade. He's never brought home a Chromebook. Right. So which I don't I don't I'm fine with that. But but they did during co he did during co but he hasn't brought it home for two years. So if we're going to do that then how do we remedy if a kid's left it at home? This kind of creates a big

114gray area too. Like my daughter brings it home every day. She's in high school. That's why it feels like building building and district level administration need to really flesh that out for what they believe and then tell us what that one is. I don't think we need to be solving that. And that that one in here just in case you didn't get through there. It says that we may hold them remotely or close school entirely. So the like the options are still there. We have to agree to purchase. Yeah. We have to make sure that we are able to actually do that. Yeah. So heat and cell phones, please take some time to redone. We'll say I did speak to Bill actually Bill spoke to Nem. I brought it up to need him and Bill

115followed through with it and they are going to help him review some of the hotter spots and identify where like in the first needs for different areas. So, he's going to be working with them and he's also contacted uh the company that uh takes temperatures for the uh rooms. Uh it's not as easy as pulling up individual rooms. So, they're dumping some of that information out and trying to put it in a report that's easier to read. Uh and then we'll do for reading the reports. Yeah. Yeah. Y again, the only thing I caution on that one and and and the law is unclear about I find it is, you know, it doesn't really say exactly where you're supposed to take the temperature from, but sometimes, you know, look, you're taking those temperatures from that

116back wall or sidewall on that computer thing, but over by the windows, it's 10 degrees warmer, 15 degrees warmer. And I think the language, if you recall, I don't know if you know, Brian, it's like, is it in one spot in the room or middle of the room? Is it middle of the room? Certain middle of the room at a certain height. It says a shaded location three feet above the floor near the center of the room. I couldn't remember what was. So, but it does give you a specific. It does. My point is that that data that he's collect is not from that area. But we're not using that data for this. We're identifying which areas are generally the hotter rooms that first put out a survey of teachers. He'll tell you I think

117you give more answers. 207. Yeah. Factually, high school 207 for sure. I think that's it for me right now. All right. Thanks, Matt. No problem. Just want to get you past the sunshine. All right. We do have a hearing a petition card here from Ted Smith. Oh, Ted, wake up. Good evening you guys. Uh just first congrats to all those retirees. It was quite something on retiree day to have this room full. It's not just me and Michelle over there. We have friends on some of these days. It was great to see these guys. It is quite a milestone. Dr. Bailey did a great job with the remarks mentioning it. It is it's a huge milestone and uh I feel like sometimes we don't acknowledge that those types of things enough. So, congrats to uh

118all the retirees, especially Lisa, Linda, Arlene, and Kermit from my unit and a fifth unnamed individual. Um I also just wanted to quickly uh publicly acknowledge Dr. Bailey's service to the district and on behalf of RCSTA thank him for the 15 years he spent with us. It's no secret that we haven't always seen eye to eye on every issue. Uh but I know that whether it be leading us through COVID or improving school safety infrastructure or transitioning us to the Ravens era that Dr. Bailey has always done what he believed to be in the best interests of our district. So we uh thank him for the work he did and wish him nothing but success and happiness as he turns the page and starts the next chapter. So thank you Brian. Thank you J. Um

119and lastly I just wanted to acknowledge most of you know this but I'm stepping aside as RCSDA president at the end of this month and Michelle King over there will be stepping into the role. Uh many of you know her as a resident of the district and a talented teacher at PBC and as a steady presence right here at board meetings. She's going to be great in the job and a pleasure for you all to work with. I'll still be very active in the association, but I wanted to take this opportunity to again thank you for all the work you do and uh for tolerating my presence at this mic for the past few years. It's been a pleasure. So, thank you. Thanks, Dad. All right. Among the upcoming activities, of course, graduation's coming up

120on the 27th. See you all there. And the reorg meeting uh July 9th followed by our next regular scheduled board meeting. Does anybody else have anything at this point? Okay. I am going to ask for a motion to enter into executive session to talk about matter pertaining to a particular individual that is confidential by law and also to discuss matters pertaining to collective bargaining negotiations. Motion Mike. Thank you. Second, Jenny. All in favor? I