001Good evening. It's 6:01 p.m. We will call to order a regular meeting of the board of education. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, first we have some guests tonight from the RCS Community Library who are going to uh do a budget presentation for us and then we're going to meet the candidates for meet the candidates first. You're going to meet the candidates first. Okay. First, we're going to meet some library candidates and then we're going to hear a budget presentation. Hello, my name is Jessica Okconor. I've had the privilege of serving in the RCS Community Library Board for the past three years. This past year, I've
002had the honor of serving as vice president. Throughout that time, I've truly enjoyed working with such a dedicated and passionate community. Being a part of the library board has been one of the most rewarding roles I've had. It has been incredibly fulfilling to contribute to something that makes a real difference in people's lives. Our library is so much more than just a place to borrow books. It is a place where children develop a love for reading, where adults come to study, research, and acquire new skills, and where seniors find connection and stay engaged. It is a safe, welcoming environment for everyone. And to be a part of that, shaping that has been a true honor. With your continued support, I hope to keep contributing to this incredible community. Thank you. [Applause] minutes. So bear with
003me. Good evening. For those of you who don't know who I am, I'm Patricia Biscanti and both of my daughters and now my grandchildren have participated in the wonderful Rob and Read program at the library. I am running for a second term as trustee for the RCS Community Library. You may be why I'm running for a second term. Our RCS community library is the center of our community and meets the needs of all age groups and offering current reading material and programs for all ages. I hope many of you have visited the library recently for the hatching of baby chicks. As a trustee, I along with the other board members have been able to support our library director and have helped to make decisions regarding the maintenance of our building, supporting the budget process, and
004attracting patrons patrons to our services. If I am reelected, I will continue to provide support and advocate for programs and services that the library provides. Thank you. Hello, my name is Tiffany Moreno. Um, I was born and raised on the West Coast. My I moved out here in 2016. My husband and I bought our first home in Rava in 2000 excuse me, I moved out here in 2014. We bought our first home in 2016. Um, we now have a 2 and a halfyear-old daughter and living here in Rava. We have enjoyed these past years enjoying becoming part of the community. I am interested in getting more involved in the community and that is why I'm here running for the library board uh to get my whole family involved and to bring my daughter, you know,
005up in this community. Um and so I would like to use my education and my experiences um in order to help me prepare for this new position. Good evening. My name is Michelle Wagner. I've been a resident of the RCS district and town in New, excuse me, town of New Baltimore for 41 years. Um, we raised our three daughters here. Um, when my daughters were young, um, the library was very small and other than a summer reading program and trips to the library, there wasn't much going on. And because we lived in New Baltimore, there w um, New Baltimore didn't offer a summer recreation program. Um, and my kids were allowed to take swimming lessons at the Rava pool, but they weren't allowed to swim at the Ravina pool. Since then, things have changed for
006the better. Um, and I have been a patron of the library, but honestly, during COVID, I was so impressed with the way the library stepped up and provided Wi-Fi in the parking lot for kids who live out in the hollow and didn't have Wi-Fi. They put books in bags and put them out on the parking lot for people to read and they really did a good job. And since then I've become more involved in participating in programs like chair yoga for seniors. Um the fiber meetups group um all the stuff they have for kids and it's not just about strictly reading. Um Jill had um a Willy Wonka day where they made their own chocolates and they've had Lego things and it's so wonderful to see them building such a strong part of our community
007where everybody can come and everybody can participate. And for that reason um when I was approached about the possibility of running for the school board I said sure. Thank you. [Applause] It's pretty funny watching myself from last year. Okay. Hi everybody. Thank you for coming tonight and thank you for watching at home. I'm Lisa Newman. I'm the director of the RCS Community Library. I'm here to let you know I don't think I really need to say the library is an active place after all the lovely people who are running for the library board spoke so well about it. I can tell you that we are a very good return on investment of your tax dollars because it's a $3 return for every dollar spent. Okay. Yay. Yay me. As I frequently say, the modern library
008is in your back pocket if that's where you keep your cell phone. We currently offer two digital digital platforms and a library app, so you can always access our resources wherever you are. We also serve as a very economical small local printing center for individuals and businesses. A lot of the little restaurants in town come and print their menus at the library. U going to tell you three new services that we have really quick. Uh we had last October the library system added all access New York Times subscription. So you can access the New York Times with a code that you get at the library website from wherever you are with your device or your computer. Uh sure. Uh we are increasing our vox audio books which are dig book picture books and chapter books
009for kids that have digital audio. They're audio enabled. They have a little audio player and uh teachers love them for struggling readers. And we're finally lending out the fishing poles that the lovely GEC has provided for us. So you can if you want to take a little kid fishing, you can come to the library and check out a pole and keep it for two weeks and then bring it back to see if your kid is interested in fishing. Last year I said the circulation, room use, program attendance, community partnerships, we're all continuing to grow. Same this year, all the numbers are up. This summer we will also serve as an official cooling center registered with the New York State Health Department and Albany County. Now, the part you want me to talk about, the money.
010Uh, the library board approved another tax cap compliant budget. We are having a 2.63% levy increase. We are applying for more grants. We are taking in that lovely printing money and we receive a few generous donations every year. These is about the expenses. We are decreasing the materials budget just slightly. We will sending spending less on physical items and more on digital items as reflects the borrowing that the patrons are doing. Digital borrowing is out of control and physical items are remaining steady. Oh, this slide. And every year I get to come and tell you about how something went bad at the library, but the bad with the good. We got a New York State construction grant and got to replace our one-third of our roof. The whole flat roof was replaced last year and
011it was all paid for by New York State construction grant. Wait, I missed that part. People got to talk about the people. Uh, as with all institutions, everybody knows the highest expense is staffing. Our insurance and New York State retirement are the things that are growing the biggest in the budget. We are doing what we can to control the costs. I went to a meeting today and signed the paperwork to join the Albany County Healthcare Cooperative. So the county is forming a healthcare consortium that municipalities, schools, and government agencies, taxing authorities can join if they are interested. And they claim they're going to contain costs. So I said we should be in on the ground floor of that. Okay, this the slides are far away. Uh lastly, operational expenses which we are also working to
012contain keeping them down. Does anybody have any questions? I love this part. Thanks so much. Board of Education. candidates. Uh there's five this year and I will call them up in the order in which they will appear on the ballot. So is Mr. Kelly Holler with us this evening? Okay. When he gets here, we'll give him an opportunity. Sorry, sir. Said he was coming. Okay. Well, I'm up next on the ballot, so I'll call myself. Good evening. I'm Mike Dio and I'd like to be reelected to the board of education alongside Ed Benedinady and Jenny Molino. I have three children in the district, one in high school and two who will be starting middle school next year. I've served on the board for the past three years, uh, the last two as president. I joined
013three years ago because I believe that RCS has so much potential and I continue to believe that today. We're fortunate to have a great district full of incredible people with strong community support behind us. But we can be even better. We cannot be complacent and we must work to be incrementally better every day. Over the past three years, we've laid the foundation for learn long-term progress at the board level. We've strengthened how the board operates, improved communication, supported our administrators, teachers, and staff, and prioritized transparency and responsiveness. As a board, we've built trust and credibility. We've worked through challenges collaboratively, and we always remain focused on what's best for our students and our staff. We've clarified our district vision and mission, defined goals, and have prepared for long-term change. As we look ahead to new
014leadership in the superintendent role, what we need right now is stability, continuity, and steady governance at the board level. That's why I'm running again. The foundation is in place. Now, it's time to follow through. I want to build upon what we've started and help bring positive results for students, families, and staff. I'm proud of the work we've done as a board, and I'm committed to continuing our work with consistency, collaboration, and a focus on what's best for the entire RCS community. I'd be honored to have your support. Thank you. All right, up next we have Ed Beninati. Good evening. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ed Beninati. I live and work in Selkerk. Uh I have two children. One is in high school and the other one will be in
015high school next year. I am running for reelection on the board of education uh along with Mike Dio and Jenny Molino. Three years ago, I ran on a platform consisting of students first, staff always, and taxpayers trusts. And I've worked and am still working to deliver on those core items every day. I've learned that serving on the board of education is as much a learning process as it is actually fulfilling the role and requires the ability to deal with constant change, uncertain circumstances, and sometimes the unknown. From an operational standpoint over the past three years, the board has experienced a a full change. All but one new member all but one member is new uh change board leadership and with the exception of one building I believe new building leadership as well there are many
016things I I could tell you that the board have done Mike uh commented a lot so I'll skip over that but I feel what's more important is to talk about the why am I running for reelection I'm running because I honestly believe that our school district has the ability to do great things I envision RCS as a place where everyone who passes through the doors, student, staff, community members, where they leave a better person when they came in. Communication, trust, and transparency are three components that must exist in order for the district to operate successfully. And while we have made progress towards our goal of providing an atmosphere surrounding open and honest communication, trust, and transparency, there's still much opportunity for improvement. And it is imperative that we find ways to do so. It's simply
017not okay to ask to say that we are improving. We must consistently work to improve and become better because our students, our staff, and our community deserve it. At the end of the day, our sole purpose is to serve the students. And every decision we make as a board and I make as a board member is grounded and rooted in that fact. We must provide the students with tools, opportunities, guidance, direction, and the resources to fulfill their own goals and make their own decisions. Everyone takes a different path, and it's our job to support and encourage students to pursue their endeavors and carve out their own way. Our staff is one of our most valuable assets, and I committed to continuing to support them in any way possible. We must find ways to seek out
018our staff for advice as they are the ones on the ground doing the work every day. There's a vast knowledge of untapped experience out there and we need to actively seek it out. As a board member, it's my job to ask tough questions, but fair questions. I think over the past years on many occasions, I've sat there and I've been known to ask, "What do you think?" or have you asked the teachers or staff for their input? Why? Because they are the ones in the classrooms and honestly in order for us to solve anything we have to know what the problem is that we're trying to solve and I am strong advocate for going directly to the source. Policies are one but one mechanism that the board utilizes to affect change. But again, we can
019pass policies all day long, but I'm focused on is understanding how that policies will actually be implemented in reality. How will a policy the board passes affect the students? How will affect the staff who are tasked with implementing and adhering to it? and taxpayers trust. With a potential change in state aid over the next few years, it's imperative that the district continues to establish metrics and review processes in addition to the ones that we currently have to measure what we are doing in all spax aspects of district operation. It's imperative that the taxpayers dollars are utilized in the most efficient and beneficial ways possible. And being a taxpayer myself, it is an aspect that I don't take lightly. So, in closing, I would be honored to continue to serve on the board of education, and
020I ask for your vote. Thank you. [Applause] Up next, David Kramer. Hello. So, my name is Dave Kramer. I'm a relative newcomer to this group compared to the past incumbents who have presented. So I thought today I'd talk a little bit about myself. Uh so I have a wonderful wife and three wonderful daughters. We live in the hamlet of Furbush and for an occupation I am a wildlife biologists nested with TEC. Um a lot of my work is moose, deer, and bear. And so you may ask, hm, that's very interesting. Can we talk about moose, deer, and bear? And I would say we can do it later but not right now. So I want to tell you how I got there. So it all started in third grade. I had a teacher, Mrs. Gmbi. And
021in third grade, I was a very active young boy, as some teachers may know what they've experienced. And she taught me that it's important to be active, but how to be in active in your own space. So the hardest thing for a third grade boy isn't math, isn't social studies, it's standing in line. And so she taught me that you can stand in line and you can snap your fingers, you can tap your foot, you can hum to yourself, but you can be active but in your own space. And I took that with me as I proceeded on. And then I had Mr. Arrow as a 10th grade chemistry teacher. I'm not a chemist, but Mr. Arrow was the sponsor for the teens Environ at the school I went to. Environ. I don't know if
022we have it here, but uh basically it's you do an annual countywide competition to learn about the environment. And every year we would study every night and we would lose. But Mr. O didn't stop. Every year he offered that sponsorship. we got to spend that time learning about what's the difference between a muskrat and a beaver skull. And so I took those lessons from Mr. Aaron and proceeded on and I got a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. And then I attended the University of Georgia and my adviser was Dr. Nate Nibbleink. And he taught me at that point it's not just academic prowess. It's not just knowledge. It's how you build up others around you. If you have a lab of co-workers of colleagues who you build up, they too will build up you.
023And that's how I got where I am today. But if you notice, I got there because of the teachers who helped me along the way. And I fully believe that excellent teachers produce excellent students. So I think it's the role of the board of education, the role of the administration to support teachers, to support staff because as we produce excellent teachers, we too will support excellent students. So that's my motivation here and I hope to get your vote and thank you. [Applause] Jenny Molino is up next. Good evening. My name is Jenny Molino. I currently have two children in the district. My daughter is in high school and my son is sadly in his last year at Becker. Although I am looking forward to middle school again. I appreciate the opportunity to share why I'm
024running for reelection um for the board of education alongside Mike Dio at Ed Betanati. My passion for education began at a young age when I would often force my younger brother into playing school, which trust me was not his favorite thing to do. I wanted to be a teacher for my whole life and I'm currently doing so as a special education preschool teacher. I love watching children discover, learn, and grow. I love looking back at where a student was in September and seeing the progress they've made. When my husband and I decided to buy a house, I was very happy to purchase an RCS. I'd heard wonderful things about the district and was very excited for the opportunity. Once we had children who were school age, I got to see firsthand the dedication, time, energy,
025and love my children and loved uh sorry, firsthand the dedication, time, and energy and love my children's teachers and school staff poured into them. I loved watching their growth and seeing all the amazing things they learned and the wonderful opportunities they had. I wanted to be able as I became involved with the school community through the PTA and PTSO, my desire to do more grew. I wanted to be able to help make decisions that allowed students and teachers of RCS to have and do what they needed in order to grow and flourish. I wanted to be able to help make decisions to invest in the future of the school district for many years to come. I wanted to ask thoughtful questions that allowed for the exchange of information between district leadership and the community. As
026a board member, I want the district to succeed. I want the students to learn and grow academically, physically, and socially. I want the teachers to have the support and supplies they need to do their job to the best of their ability. I want district administration to feel supported as they make difficult decisions about the best way to educate the students and lead the staff. I want the community to know what is going on throughout the district and feel that they have a voice and are heard. I want to ensure that the district is implementing sound policy that is consistently enforced with equity. I want to ensure the district uses its budget as tantiously as possible to maximize what can be done to support students success. I appreciate the trust the community has placed in me
027three years ago when I joined the board. It has been my honor to serve the school community. I have enjoyed being an active part of the shared decision-making process and helping move the district forward. I would be honored if you would vote for me to serve on another term as board of education member. Thank you. Thanks, Jenny. Okay, when we roll into the budget presentation and following the presentation, um there is a public hearing. So there'll be an opportunity for anybody who has any comments to come to the podium and share those comments with us. Uh good evening everybody. Um thank you Brian. Uh tonight we're going to have the final uh presentation around the 2526 uh budget. You're good. Hit the slide. Oh, there we go. All right. Now, I'm going to be talking
028about 2526 budget. And please, I'm going to go through this relatively quickly. Um, if there's any questions from anybody, please stop me. I'm more than happy to answer them. So, first off, the 2526 uh expense plan for next year uh will be uh 56,959,448. Uh that is an increase of a little bit over 2.3 million or 4.36% increase. Um majority of that is coming from increases in our contract obligations of right around a million dollars. Uh we did increase because of our grants falling off from our COVID grants. We did increase about 150,000 for our summer programs. Uh we also had did see some increase from our health insurance benefits of around uh 783,000. Um as you can see from the graph up here on the screen uh 77% of of the the expenses come
029out of program which is instructionals based on teachers and instructional needs for students. Uh capital is 15% uh that is more for building and grounds and our debt service and admin is all of uh you know building principles and secretaries and uh district office. So, our revenue for this year, uh, we will be going out a tax levy of, uh, 3, uh,.56%, uh, which is a little bit over, uh, $29 million. Um, our state aid, we did see a significant increase this year. Uh, and we're going to go out at right around estimate about $21 million. Uh, we did see, uh, $1.6 6 million in our largest aid uh our foundation aid which was great to see. Uh some of the other ones in our other revenues we our pilots will be at around 2.5
030million. Uh and we did uh decrease the use of our fund balance from 2.5 last year to 2.3. Um so what that means is we are we're less relying on uh fund balance or our savings to balance our budget. uh 51% of the uh budget is being paid by that tax levy or the local um by the local taxpayers. Uh 39% is state aid. Uh and then you have other at 4% and fund balance is right around there as well. Any questions on that? They just started passing uh bills today. Is As far as we know, the number that we saw last we used number. I'm actually hearing that that we could see a little bit of an increase even more than that. Okay. It's just you know you know how especially you I do
031I do uh know that what we're hearing what comes out are two different things but people are are c they're optimistic that we will be getting are we using the the uh legislative number or the governor's number? Well for foundation for foundation we're using the uh legislation number. Okay. And then I make adjustments to our expense driven aids based on what I believe we'll be spending this year. Okay. So I make adjustments that way. And again, just so everybody knows that we still don't actually know. Absolutely not. Nope. So the tax impact for that 3.56% le uh it's kind of hard to see up there, but um I put up a a graph in a couple different of my presentations this year. uh you're looking at right around about $70 increase for a $100,000 house
032uh per month. Um again, that's a little bit different depending on where what town you're in and what your assessed value is of your home. Uh these are very broad estimated numbers because we do not have final assessments until July or August. Yeah. Yes. Sorry, I said it is per year. I apologize. The per month is more like uh five or six dollars. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you, Ed. So, other than the budget, we do have a few other um items on the ballot this year. One being a security capital project uh for a little bit over $2 million. And what this capital project will be doing is put be putting in uh new security window films in all of our vestibules. Uh we're beginning some new uh additional electrifying door hardware. You can see
033a picture of them up there. Uh we're currently doing it right now in our in our $15 million project which is doing all of our instructional spaces. This project will finish off all the rest of them. Uh so everything will have these electric electrified doors which in case of emergency can be locked down right away immediately. Um it's definitely a safer thing for everybody in the building and our definitely for our students in the building. Uh we also will have panic uh hardware throughout the building. Uh and when when this button is pushed, there's an example up there. Um it will lock down the building completely and the authorities will be called immediately. And finally, we'll have um speakers that will be able to broadcast uh um we could do a like a phrase on
034there like lockdown or other things if so in in spaces where it's a little bit louder. Uh you might not be able to hear the announcements as well, you can also see them on the screens too. So again, we are upgrading our system to make it uh more safer for all of our staff and students. Um so this um project also includes the use of our capital reserve. Um we're asking for about 740,000 of that to be used and if we are allowed to use that because of the amount of state aid that we get uh there will be no tax impact to our taxpayers. Another thing that's going to be on the ballot um uh we're going to purchase three buses. Um we're going to do three uh what they call micro birds which
035is that yellow one on uh the left hand side there. Uh those we are we do a lot of out of district runs with few kids on it and currently right now we're using larger buses which is not the most cost way to doing it. So we are retiring some of our older bigger buses and we're going to replace them with these smaller more cost effective buses. Uh we also are going to be looking at a a Ford Transit EV uh which will be fully electric bus. Uh again, we will be using these for uh trips uh you know to private schools or or special ed uh schools that uh have very few kids on the on the run. Again, we're trying to find ways to lower our overall cost uh from our transportation department.
036This also includes uh we will be um upgrading our transportation department so it has a charging station for this um this vehicle. Uh we will be looking into grants. I'm currently in discussions with um NAERTA about uh possibly getting some uh grant money for this van. So I if if we were to get some grant money, we will not be asking for as much money that it says up there. So, any questions on there? Yep. So, when will we know whether we'll receive the grant funding? And how does that play into the bus proposition? So, the proposition right here is just asking to be able to uh go out and get um get debt for this. So, bond out this stuff. So if say I've able to figure out, hey, I I know I can
037get $25,000 grant for this, then I only go out with 25 less than that. Okay. So this is just giving up. This is up to Exactly. Yep. So this is just giving the public I need to get approval from the public to go up to this amount. All right. Yep. Thanks. Yep. So the other thing is we we met the eligible candidates tonight. Uh there is three open seats. Uh finally I always like to talk about I hope it never comes but uh what happens if the budget is defeated. Um so if it does get defeated uh there is a a revote that happens in June. So, we will come back and either we can put back the same budget we want or we can make adjustments to it and come back in June and
038go for a revote. If the revote is then shot down, then we automatically go to a contingent budget. Uh, and there's some things that with a contingent budget that that need to come out. So, first off, there will be no tax levy increase. It would be the same as last year. Uh there will be no equipment purchases. Public use of a building by outside groups and organizations must be charged a fee to cover all expense related to the issues. Non-instructional employees not in collective bargaining cannot get raises. Uh and no rental of office equipment. Um these are just some of the many things that come come out. The board of education is ultimately the ones that make the decision on what is uh can be in this contingent budget. By law, these items cannot be
039in the budget, but ultimately the board of education would be the ones that considered what what is in the budget. So, sure, office equipment. It's it's in the law. But does that mean that the copers that are currently being used would no longer be available? That would be an interesting one because we do lease them through a a Bosei. So that would be one that we would have to discuss. Yeah. So but it wouldn't be an automatic now. No, that would be something I have to look at because is it is it a lease? Is it a rental? Is it a because that would teachers ability to Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. There's a lot of that that we hope we don't have to get into this. Okay. But if we do um we will obviously give
040you all the information that you need. Okay. And again with the this is a true what if scenario. Yeah. This is absolutely a true Yeah. I just want to clarify that the the board has approved the proposed budget that is going out for vote and we do um ask that the community support the budget which we believe is a good solid budget which is why we carefully considered it and approved it and and it's going out for vote uh later this month. So just just a point of clarification, there's no insinuation here that anyone on the board is interested in a defeat. Uh we fully support this budget and hope the community does as well. Thank you, Mike. Sorry, I just one other question on the the whatifs that I hope we will not come
041to. Um but in the public use of building by outside groups that I assume includes community groups and potentially even our PTO's. Yeah. Unfortunately, yes. Okay. Um I just want to make sure that everyone understands like the full ramifications. Not a good place to be. That's all. Okay, perfect. I just wanted clarification. Thank you so much. Yep. Any other questions on that? Okay. Uh May 20th vote, please come out and vote. Uh again, if there's any questions uh from here on, I'm more than happy to answer anybody's questions. Uh give me a call, uh email me. I'm more than happy to answer anybody's questions. Thanks a lot. All right. Thanks, Jesse. Before we open up for any uh public comment as part of the public hearing period, I see that we have our fifth uh
042board of education candidate here with us, Mr. Kelly Hollner. If you'd like to, you can come up and you can introduce yourself. Not not a problem. Welcome. Can the people watching on YouTube see me? If this way, this way. Okay. Is this okay? Yeah. Um, my name is Matias Kelly, but um, most people call me Maddie. M A T Y. Um, I'm 19 years old. Um, I recently graduated high school. um Norday, Mr. Gibbons in Skenctity. Um before that, I was at St. Thomas in Delmare from kindergarten through 8th grade. Um I like the smaller class sizes um and the the environment was a little bit better for me based on my difficulties. But um so uh I go to Hudson Valley Community College. um entering my senior year in the fall. Um I serve
043as one of the presidents of its education club um on student senate uh the curriculum committee and the advisory committee on campus safety which I'm supposed to say is pursuant to education law 129A. Um locally here um I am a member of St. Patrick's in Rava um serving on its pastoral council um events committee um as a catechist for its children's liturgy and um a eukaristic minister. I'm also a member of the friends of the library um which is a new thing. Um so yes um enough with the background. So, so why I'm running? Um, I'm very passionate about education and I think it's especially in the younger years, it's a real opportunity to build them because, you know, they're at that time they're discovering who they are and the world around them. Um it
044it's very important to me that the children are giving the opportunity to learn the best way that they see as possible in their parents seeing. Um it helps their growth as a student and as a person when they're not in school. Um some things I you know specific things I'm passionate about. Um air conditioning is one of my bigger things. Um, the first week of senior year, it was ridiculously hot and no one could learn. Everyone was sweating. It was awful. Um, I believe that we have to the students have to be comfortable if they're going to learn. And comfortable comes in many ways. The chairs, the desks, and the heating and cooling systems. Um and so especially in the high school like central air, I think I would focus on um reading and math
045scores um encouraging to study at home more than minutes. I I used to study for like an hour, but that's because I was, you know, that kind of student. But um if every student was giving up like incentives to study, go home. If you study for longer than 30 minutes, you get reward. Things like that, little things like that can improve our schools. Um and the phones, um they have become a gigantic distraction, I think. Um I was a student. I have a phone. Not that I used it in class, but um I saw the effect it had on the teachers and it was a less than positive effect. Um they were annoyed obviously they did not appreciate it and it it it's become a huge distraction. um if if you know they had the
046pouches and they had all these things but you you really just have to take the phones away which is a harder stance but I think it's appropriate to help children learn and of course teachers to be able to do the things they do teach um I in fiscal um priorities Please um always have a transparency when you come to that. Um you have to have a responsible budget that covers everything you hope and then you can always have a budget over several years but you know you really have to think about everyone when making the budget. Um what else? Uh so several like funding student resources, teacher development, not only for educational purposes but for mental and physical health too. Um a lot of teachers I've talked to more in the private schools um I
047will admit um don't feel like they're hurt and I think it's a problem everywhere. So engaging our teachers, our students, our taxpayers, really administrators is really important if we're going to have a functional school district. Um, sorry I'm going too hard. Um, I'm committed to serving our community and working very hard with all stakeholders to achieve the goals that we all believe in. I personally believe that together we can make our schools even better and collaboratively we can strive to hold our schools to the highest standards all the while making sure everyone feels heard and supported. Um I would be honored to have your support and your vote. Thank you. Thanks Maddie. All right. Is anybody here this evening? uh for the purpose of the budget hearing who would like to address the board. Okay.
048Then we will move on from the budget hearing and we will begin the regular meeting agenda this evening. So Sue, are there any uh recent additions or deletions to the agenda? Okay. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the April 23rd meeting? Jenny, you were scratching. So that counts as your hand. Second Pete. All in favor? I. Okay. Moving right into business considerations. We have 61 through 69. I'm going to pause that. Actually, uh before we go into business considerations, I'm going to ask for a motion to enter into executive session to discuss matters pertaining to the employment of a particular person. Motion by Melanie. Second by Jackie. All in favor? I Okay, we're back on. We are in business considerations. We have 61 through 69. Is there a motion for one or
049more? Motion for all, Matt. Second, Dan. Uh before we go into any discussion, I would just like to first note that we do have a donation on here from the uh Peter B PTO for uh funding to support a buddy bench. And I'm going to ask the question. I think I know what it is, but what is a buddy bench and how's it going to be used at Peter B? Does anybody know? It is a metal park bench. And uh usually has an inscription in the back that says something like friends or friendship or I don't think it says buddy. Uh Becker has one. Becker has one out in the playground. Peter B now has one as well. Okay. Yep. That's just a metal park bench. That's what I thought. So somebody's right. Somebody's sitting
050there then somebody else comes along and pairs up and then got that's a rule. You have to have to. I thought you meant physically. You meant operationally. Sorry. So, thank you very much to the PTO for that donation. Uh, any questions or discussion on the business considerations? Yeah, just very quick question. It just says revis. The first one was lacking some of the the new law because the law had been adjusted since the original contract and it was omitted from this one. So they just added in a new regulation and they uh they did say um there's a possibility they can begin installation the first week in June. Anything else? 65. Um that contract is dated back to the beginning of the school year. Is there have we had a student in East Greenber Central
051School District the whole school year and we just were missing this contract? Are they just going into that? I would expect at this point in the school year that we would be getting ones for next school year more likely than this past one. This is for health services. So, if we had kids that went to private schools within the East Greenbush School District, right, East Greenbush will provide uh health services like health screenings and all that kind of for that those kids. We don't do this agreement till they give us the count. So, they'll say the count was from this day to the end of this year and then that's when we get it. So, that's why it's uh dated back to the beginning of the year. Okay. I just feel like the other ones
052that we've had for these kinds of situations, we get at the beginning of the school year because at this point, I mean, this is due by the end of the school year, but we're in May in a school year starting in September. Yeah. Again, this year, the new school year. This is how they usually do it. Okay. I'm just at the mercy of Bush. Okay. Understood. If that's all it is, that's fine. That's all I had. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? All in favor? I personnel considerations we have 71 through 759. We will set aside 7.2 for the moment. Is there a motion for one or more excluding 7.2? Thanks, Jenny. Second, Jackie. Uh there are bear with me a moment here. Three retirements to note on here. Uh we have uh Did you say
053something? Okay. Yep. Three retirements. Mr. Proan, the automotive mechanic at the bus garage. Miss Solano, bus monitor at the bus garage and Miss Barbarino, uh, English as a second language teacher at the high school. So, congratulations to our retirees. Anybody have anything else, questions, discussion? Just a question. Honestly, similar to my last one, there's a couple of these that are backdated. Uh, do we have reasons as why um there's two that are backdated to March? Is there a reason we didn't get these sooner? I'm sorry. I can identify. Uh 7.11 is backdated to 324 and 7.13 is backdated to 37. 7.11 um Kermit retired. Jen stepped in right away, but we had to go through the post posting process. So, we backdated that one. And I'm sorry, what was the other number? Uh three or
054sorry, 7.13. uh that um we um we've had a staff member who's been ill and hasn't been able to come to work. So, we've had a combination of substitute teachers and one of our own staff who was has a certification in this area to help substitute uh during this unknown period of time. So, backdated because she was doing the work as a stop gap. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? All in favor? I a motion for 7.2. Melanie second. Jenny. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Mike. Extension. Mike Coin. All right, Dr. Bale, turn to you. Hello. At your table, you have a updated an updated version of the board of education calendar for next year. The highlights are if you look in April there we had to make some adjustments
055in April because OC's only recently announced when their budget vote would be so we moved the meetings accordingly. So regular meeting on the 15th OC's budget vote on the 29th I'm assuming the meetings were where were they before Sue? They were actually in the week like this year it was April 23rd. So, I just thought it would stay within the same week. Understood. Oh, right. Yes. We were estimating where the budget vote was. Now, it's in the correct spot. Um, June 10th because Gan wants that for some reason. Well, first let's go to December. Sorry. December, moving to the 10th is because uh as you all know, December is the premium concert season. it's very difficult to fit all of the concerts in and try and avoid evening athletic events. So, by moving it back
056to the meeting back to the 10th, it leaves enough wiggle room for the music department to get their performances done. Um, and in communicating with um the music department and we started building the calendar of events, we had two dates in June for Matt's request of having two meetings. It is a really challenging time of year again to try between um honor, you know, awards ceremonies, music concerts, um sporting celebrations that having two meetings and trying to coordinate around them was quite challenging. So, um we were hoping that we could the board would consider having just one meeting in June. Yeah. And this is not up for a vote this evening. This is for discussion and we would bring it back to the board. or whatever you decided on, we'd bring it back for the
057meeting on the 21st. So, thoughts or input on those proposed changes? I guess to me the June one, we could always call a special board meeting if we had to. So, it's not like it's, you know, pertinent and school will be ending on the 26th next year. So, conference is one of the weeks, right? I think it's the 23rd and 20 that that 20 area. So, but same thing if something should come up, especially I always think employee considerations are always a concern, but we could always have a special meeting. did also I think it was last year we made a motion and approved that if an instance like that comes up they can start working and be preapproved and we can approve them at the next meeting. Okay. So that's not like we would
058have no I think right you're right that is part of the reorg meeting right to have that. Any other thoughts? Okay, great. I got an opportunity to go see the middle school play middle school musical last weekend and former music person when every child opens their mouth and music falls out. It is a beautiful thing because that doesn't always happen at middle school. Uh but fantastic. Uh my hats off to Miss Diaz, Miss Kobelar, all the people who lend it lent a hand with that. And as as with many things in the community, there are people who consistently uh donate their time as well to make sure that goes just as planned. So many of you saw it. I it was just remarkably entertaining and impressive and I can't wait to see all those kiddos
059move to the high school and do the same thing with all those high school skills. Yes, they were. High school play is very real. I think we were commenting on Jenny and I sat together and I'll tell you what, I can't wait for the next four years of high school plays. They should do Shrek again next year. That's Oh my god, it's wonderful. They got the rolls down. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. That's it. Oh. Um, so I wanted to uh first say that we are we still have room in our prek classroom. So if families haven't registered, they should. Um, and the same for kindergarten. Um, I'm really encouraging families. Um, we have some screening dates coming up and we'll also have them again in September. But please, please, please take the time
060to register your your child for school. PreK screening dates are uh May 12th and 14th at Peterb and May 13th and 15th at AW Becker. Um, and those invitations would have gone out to um families from the school. Kindergarten screening is May 19th and 21st at Peterb and May 27th and 29th at AW Becker. Um, I also just wanted to make note of the special education community resources fair that was on the 29th. There was double the amount of people that came last year. We had a lot of vendors. It was it was a very joyful experience, I guess, is the best way to explain it. I when I came down the hall, there was a lot of you, it sounded like it was a big crowd in here. Um, and it's just a really
061nice for me. It was important to see because um there are a lot of community resources for families uh around special education that are hard and complicated to navigate. Um so to be able to meet people and make a connection with those agencies was I think a really great opportunity for families. Um I also saw the middle school production and I laughed out loud quite a bit. Um, and I just also wanted to bring your attention under theformational items is a copy of the athletic code of conduct. And what we did was um, we added in some of the internal processes that we fleshed out during those meetings. So, if you want to take a look at that, um, we wanted to have give you time to read through them. It looks a little bit
062awkward because we they're going to be linked in eventually, but we wanted to draw attention. So you'll see they are um like 5A, 5B, 5C and for families at home too if they want to take a look at that. Um it's under theformational items on in the board agenda 8.1. Um and then my last thing that I wanted to point out oh and that reminded me about the regular code of conduct. So we're going to need to do a quick review of that once the board policies are updated. We'll link those in. Um, and we'll have just one meeting to review some district-wide data tenatively on February, I'm sorry, February, May 28th. It'll be a virtual meeting for that because we can share um screenshots of some data together and discuss. So, I'll send out
063uh invites to the folks that were on that committee last year. And if there's anyone else who's interested, please reach out to me. Um and then finally, our next and last board of ed committee um curriculum and instruction committee meets on May 15th, next week, 4:00 to 5:00. Here there's going to be a presentation from the special ed um and student support services office, updates on outcomes from the audit, action steps that have taken and planning for uh next year. So I have one question, too. Yes. Do we have an update because we're kind of running out of time on the pro on where we are with the student board member for being elected for to serve. I don't have an update for you. We have a meeting with the high school administration next week.
064So I hope to have a a clearer Well, the my concern is because they have to be elected by the end of this year. Correct. Is I mean and school's out when's the last day of school and high school? Early June. 16th is the last day of regular classes. Okay. they when we were in the process of building uh how the policy and the plan they simultaneously were figuring out how it would be applied. So, okay, they're ready to actualize it, you know, and ensure that we get the deadline. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. On the athletic code of conduct, so there are some revisions that are new. Is there a document that shows the what's changed since the prior version? Um, you know what I could do? We don't need it right now obviously, but
065something that we could obtain before we this goes for it is if it's if it's easy. I I didn't highlighted it. What it is is anything that has a letter after the page number are additions. So, it's all the internal process documents. Um, for example, let me scan through this. Well, we should have it in the Google Drive, correct? Oh, yes. And it's in the committee notes also in the committee. So, we can we can get it. Okay. Oh, do we have a version that shows what the changes are? The version that's linked in here has all the additional processes. He was wondering if there were any language changes in the original Oh, no. In the actual code itself, no. So, just the addition of processes. This is process for academic eligibility, quitting a team,
066and thought there was a third, but um Oh, discipline discipline. So, the only revisions to the document start on page four, the process for student dismissal and everything that follows from there. Uh well, you'll So, if you go to p it's actually page after page four, after page four, there's page five and then after that 5A, 5B. Oh, so anything that has a letter after I know I I thought it was going to be easier. I should have just printed you copies of it. So the first five pages there's no revisions against the existing policy. That is correct. Okay. 6A 6b. I mean to the committee's point, parents who are looking for an explanation of how things will be brought to bear if something happens, having those forms made makes it much more self-evident. So,
067it was just be able to talk about uh then when there's if there if there unfortunately has to be accountability, everyone knows what the process is. It's not a surprise. Okay. I appreciate the work they did, but there's some things in there that I'm totally still against. So, okay. So, does this is this on the policy committee agenda then or hasn't come to it? Yeah. No, but I guess we want to look at her to the code of conduct separate from the policy It'll eventually go to policy because but it's but the code of conduct is not policy. It actually is because the board approved it as a policy last year. It's not in the manual in the the it's not in it wasn't in our current policy manual but it came here. We approved
068it as a policy. It actually never got added I don't think but it would need to be because it was approved by the board. So there's a okay there's a board policy that speaks well it came to the board as a policy went to the policy committee. It came to board as policy for approval. So my understanding is it's approved by the board as a policy. It's a policy. We we actually we brought it to the policy committee because it was the best seated committee to address it because it was so integrally linked with some of the existing policy. Your question about whether codes of conduct are traditionally like policy 16.45 45. I think what happens is board policy refers to the code of conduct and it's required to have the hearing the 30-day notice
069to the public and then a public hearing around it. I don't rec I don't recall and the board approved it but I don't recall it being like policy like a numbered policy. No, we didn't add it as a number, but the concern was since we coincided that policy was coincided with the district code of conduct, the disciplinaries follow one through four. So if there's a discipline in one in the athletic code of conduct, it's going to coordinate to a discipline within actually our our own code of conduct and under our own policy. So, um I still think it would have to go to policy and come back for for board approval to make changes to it because that's the way we handled it the first time, right? The the code of conduct itself, the real
070that's how we handled it the first time. So whether you want to call it a policy or not, I still think it has to come back for approval at the board level. If there's revisions, I think we would need would we not need to reopen the 30-day period? Probably. So, right. And we'll bring it up at our next meeting. We'll look at it. Okay. So, I would like everybody else to do the same. Please take a look before our next meeting and let us know if you have any issues. You know, went through there were three or four different meetings. So, everybody knows there was a committee that looked at a bunch of changes and I think this came out of that. Okay. But I know Ed and I couldn't make the last meeting. Then
071once we have a policy that may be different from what's here, I think at that point we need to have that open for a 30-day right review. Yeah. But if you guys look at it please before the next policy meeting which is still over there which is Yeah, I think it's in two weeks 20th. No, it's not on the 20th because we have something else. It's on the 27th. Okay. So, we're sending it to policy committee. Is that correct? your policy. Just get let us know. Matt, are we going to be easily able to find it? Yeah. Yes. No, I mean I get this. I'm saying yes. It's in the policy that we adopted as a board last year. Yes. Because remember when we were sitting and there was this one and this one pile
072and that pile. Yes. Very good. We'll have it for you. Sorry. Can I ask one question, Jean? Um, for the prek, you said there's still room. Do how many spots do we know? Do you know? Um, sorry. I think Well, maybe two at Peterb and maybe five at AW Becker. Okay. Do you tend to see much happen over the summer or do you Yeah, I I fully anticipate they'll be full. Okay. All right. Thank you, Jean. Jesse, do you have anything? Uh I was hoping to talk about the state budget but obviously we don't have that. Uh Dr. Bailey did take uh did speak about the bus patrol and they are looking to do it in the first two weeks of June. Uh I also want to give an update uh on the Peter B
073playground uh that was brought up and uh the north side has been graded and seated um and they're waiting on the south side of it is way too wet after what happened the last three days. Uh but they will be grading that and uh seating that as well. So uh I I will have to say I am super impressed with the contractors that did that playground. There is no water on that playground at all. And all that rain we just had, there is zero water. So that is that is awesome. Um although I I also appreciate that the playground looks surprisingly dry because there's basically a moat around it uh this week. Um, so I just want to make sure it's not just the the side sort of in between the parking lot in there,
074but also right next to the path that kind of goes to it. So when Oh, you mean from the in the uh building and the playground, right? Yeah. There's a little path and right next to it there is a lake. So like if you try to go to that picnic table that's looks very inviting, you will walk in six inches of water. Okay. Um, so I just want to make sure that the whole the whole side of it was the other day. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I have a question. Is the prek playground fully usable at Becker now? I believe it is. I don't know for sure. I believe it is. It's been in there for a while. So, I would say yes. I thought there was something with like So, so I was there
075for drop off the other day and something with wood. It looked like the playground was fully usable, but the area around the playground is fenced off and dirt and is there some finishing work to be done? Uh, that's news to me. I'd have to follow up with Bill on that. Been like that for quite some time. I can follow up and revisit with you guys. Good. Absolutely. When I saw it and ask what's going on there, I thought there was some issue with something that needed to be put down. I know there I I know you're talking about the prek playground which is inside the the brand new playground closest to the parking lot. Yeah. That you would pass through at parent drop off. Correct. Yeah. I'll find out for you. Okay. And then I
076what is happening with the sidewalk over there? Um I I have to admit that I was personally quite frustrated when I came to school the other day to drop off my daughter and there was no information provided about the sudden appearance of it. And how does that tie in with the potential parking lot that we're doing? Like it it just appeared. I didn't remember this being part of it either. I mean it's great that we're getting new stuff there but was that part of the project? Yeah, it's part of the $15 million project. Yep. Was it intended to be done at this time? Yeah, just to because the time frame is so tight, um we are going to be doing a few um some work before the end of the school year. Uh there was
077a communication that was supposed to go out to families, but guess I'm hearing that it's not. It went out at 11:50 the day of. Oh. And I was informed that Well, that's late. Yeah. Should go out soon. to go to drop off and not be able to have a plan and then be sent something that is hard to interpret was a little bit frust. We did put two uh staff members out there to help the situation. True. They were not there the first day during the drop off. So I went to drop off my daughter as per normal as many parents probably did and all of a sudden the parking lot is closed off. Um the park the actual parking lot shouldn't be closed off either. I'm telling you on when whenever it was there
078whenever it appeared we could not go through that parking lot. Now you can that was remedied but uh I think I think my point is that communication needs to be more consistent. I will personally take care of the communication going forward for this to the community. first day they were removing it with a large um backho a large excavator and I think that was in the parking lot. So you're you're right it's closed off. So you're exactly right. And in all honesty that parking lot is already quite a already crammed a disaster in the morning with all of the buses, all of the parent drop off for the high school, all the parent drop off for the middle school. And generally it's very organized chaos but that made it frustrating. Y uh in the future
079go ahead. I would say part of the problem there is just in the last five years or so the the massive change in number of people who drop off so it was never built for that. So you're right it has to be looked at when we do the new parking lot thing because it was never we didn't have that years ago was never that many people. So yeah it's it's a problem now for sure. So Jesse they're just replacing all that walkway sidewalk. Yep. But they're going to be doing around the bus uh loop but I will make sure communication gets out early. They have to be back. Yeah, we have to do better on that. Will that tie into the rest of the parking lot issues as well? Okay. So, it's not it's all
080part of the same issue. That's all I have. All right. Thanks. Any new business items? Okay. Old business uh coverage student Ficio stop arms air conditioning is a challenge, right? Are we are we taking any steps at this point in anticipation of the changes coming in September? I mean, we're still kind of waiting on the guidance uh on what we need to do. We don't want to make any dra drastic changes till we know exactly what we need to do. Okay. So that department hasn't issued anything. Not that I've seen. Yeah. Okay. My high schoolers did come home and say that there was work going on on the HVAC on the second floor here. Well, we are still doing the univvents. Yeah. Right. Right. So, we're having new units, but they don't have AC. They
081don't have the coil in there yet for the AC. As a reminder, you said it was cooler. Yeah. As a reminder, psychosmatic. Good. You could tell them that if it was we'll just put a workman in every room and everyone will feel a little cooler. Yeah. Um the um the uh EPA regulations changed as to the the material that's inside air conditioners just at the strategically wrong time for us. So just the same thing as with uh uh diesel and gas buses and electric buses. The companies are required to manufacture a certain number of electric buses. So they stop manufacturing diesel and gas. The manufacturers of HVAC systems are required to stop manufacturing the ones with the old refrigerant. Yes. R4, R34, whatever it is, the old refrigerant, and they're required to put the new
082one in, which there's not the materials to do it. So, there's a little bit of a standstill, which is why we're so delayed in all this. Everybody who's doing a project in New York State is confronted with the same issue right now. So, it's everyone's doing their due diligence. It's just we're up against almost an unwill unwinable um contest with everyone else who's trying to do it. But I I'm we had a meeting with a team last week and I will say that our construction managers and the contractors are among the best that I've ever worked with. Very professional, know the job, what job needs to get done, and really creative about how they're going to do it. So I anticipate they're going to get it done. That's a good thing. Is is anybody at
083this point putting out any recommendations for how to address the air conditioning bill come September? Not a one, not a single word, not a single word about measurement. Um how the common understanding of measurement, not a common understanding of who's going to close school and how that's going to count against your days and your hours and miraculously other things have slipped into the priority. But as soon as it gets 10 degrees and warmer, Mike, you're going to hear a lot more conversation about it, I'm sure. Okay. Yeah. On the last one, Mike, on the naming and dedication in case anybody missed it in your email, clerk star sent out a couple of uh sample policies for that. So, if you have any comments or issues or things you want to fast forward to policy committee
084again by the 27th because we want to look at that on the 27th as well. So, please take a look ahead of time, let us know. Okay. Uh, we have a policy and it's a policy and an exhibit to a policy up for adoption tonight. Uh, policy 111 and exhibit 111E, sexual harassment grievances under title 9. Is there a motion for 131 and 132? These are up for adoption tonight, correct? Okay. Yeah, I forget. Uh, is there a motion for adoption? For 13.1 and 13.2. Okay. Second, Mike. Any discussion? I have a discussion on policy 13.1. It's title n in the I I just looked through it, Matt. I didn't see it in there. Um the one thing that this has changed obviously, but when we were working on it, one of the things was
085all of all of our policies had different um um right terminology, right to appeal. And in in Title 9, there are one, two, three, four, only four things that are limited in grounds for appeal based on the statute. So when we were talking and doing it last year with Ryan, we were going to add in uh that the parents had a general right to appeal on top of those statuto reasons. Meaning that for example, right now if say a child something happened under Title 9 and it was found that Title 9 did not apply because we're back to 2020 and what applies to it. If it went to under one of our other policies under state law, well, the parents would be able to appeal no matter what. But if it fell under this, they
086wouldn't have that right. So I would say I would ask to amend 131 and add with add in and modify the policy right now that in addition to those limited items to appeal that the parents still have a general right to appeal anything under our current policy. I mean I don't know that we can amend it right now. We would need the specific language. sexual harassment grievances. Before we get to that, I just want to I was asking either Jackie or Jesse or Brian because I don't have my notes with me. I know we discussed this. Do you remember what we said on it? I know we talked about it. I can't remember what we actually what we said about it. talked to General about adding the appeal language to the policies and perhaps instead
087of adding it individually to every single policy that has an appeal option instead adding it more to the the intro kind of section of our policy handbook. I'm sorry the word I thought it was already there like the forward um it may sorry it's not coming to me right now. um but to ensure that it is clear what the appeal process is in general for any of our policies. So that you know it's clear that essentially any appeal process is going to go through basically the same thing. You have the right to appeal to your um building administrator to the superintendent to the board of education making sure that it's clear that they all follow those steps as opposed to restating the same thing in every single policy. My only question to that was with
088title N though the review policy is specific. It's the appeal policy that they have to go through is different than any general policy. So it's already specific and it specifically states if they go to read this and they don't read the beginning of the manual, it specifically states that the grounds for appeal are limited to the following. So that could still be very confusing if someone's just looking at the policy and not looking at the general thing on page one. So that was that's that's just the concern that I have. So do you have that last week you handed me um the policy which we didn't have on our website in regards to like when we put a policy out in a second reading. Do you have been already board approved? Yeah. Do you have
089that policy handy still or do you want to bring it back to the policy committee and hold off on the second reading? The reason I asked is I thought I had read in that policy that the policy could be amended at at the table. So that's why I was asking if we if we have it. It's not in our manual online so I can't I can't see it right now. I would agree to that should be there. from meeting. Yeah. I mean, we there's no there's nothing that requires us to act on this tonight. We could withdraw the motion and send it back. And that's for the very first one, the 111. That's the one. Yeah. But 111E is an exhibit to 111. So, I don't think that we would want to send forward the
090exhibit without the policy. So, I think we have to pull both. So whose motion was that and who seconded that? So it was um Mr. Miller and Mr. Coin. But don't forget we do have the still to remove the policy. So I want to uphold their I only did one because Yeah, we didn't move on. So you want to withdraw your motion? Hold on a second. Johnny does not know any Yeah, I guess at this point we just should do it. I guess I I I I'm nearly positive we had an answer to that. Um but I just again don't have my notes with me. So I'm not sure if we discussed that that specifically like what Ed is is bringing up to make sure that it's I think it was a meeting you weren't
091there. Oh, it's the one I missed. Yes, I gotcha. Okay. Well, then I got nothing. So So yeah, I will draw. You need to send me that exact language you want, but I'll find my notes on it, too. I have I'm just not here. Good. Okay. Motion withdrawn by Matt and Mike. For 133. Is it 13? Okay. 133. Motion. Second. Jackie. Any discussion? So that was do we have to poll? Yeah, but we can't we can't write it now. Just send it back to any discussion on 133. Okay. All in favor? I we have a hearing a petition form from Mr. Ted Smith. Welcome. Hi everyone. I'll keep it very brief. I just wanted to express on behalf of RCSTA the uh our appreciation of all the board candidates who have presented themselves and thrown
092their hats into the ring to serve the community. Um, many of us remember a time where it was very difficult to find responsible, level-headed, committed people to be a part of this body and um I sometimes have to pinch myself with how uh fortunate we are right now to have all of this interest. This I would extend to the library candidates as well. It was wonderful to see all of them. RCSA had an opportunity to meet with all five board candidates this week and in addition to the three current sitting members who are extraordinary. Uh it was so refreshing to meet both the other two candidates as well who um are committed members of this community and want to serve and it's just you know the world is upside down topsyturvy full of stress and
093pressures but I find it impossible not to be optimistic about our uh district going forward with all of this goodwill. Uh so again on behalf of our CSSEA, thanks for all of those candidates for showing up and for everybody who's going to vote in favor of the budget and for the candidates. Thanks very much. Thanks, Ted. All right, upcoming activities. The big one is May 20th budget vote. Our next meeting is the day after on May 21st. Anybody have anything else they'd like to mention? just mention it's teacher appreciation week. So, in return to your thank you, we also, you know, reciprocate that we we appreciate all our teachers and staff and administration for all the I know you guys get overlooked in this week, but we appreciate you guys too um in all of
094the work that you do every day. Uh you know, it really we can't state that enough. Um so, I just wanted to make sure we didn't miss out on that while we're here during teachers appreciation week. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Okay, I'm going to ask for a motion to enter back into executive session to dis to discuss matters pertaining to the employment of a particular individual. Eager Matt. Second, Jackie. All in favor? I and we will be taking no further action after executive.