001of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Can I have a a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of March 2nd, 2026? So move. >> Okay. Moved by Jen. Can I get a second? >> Second by Jonathan. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion's carried. Uh is there any additions or deletions to the agenda? >> No additional business. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Board recognition, achievements, and honors. First, I would like to give um an shout out for Jacob Sone from RFA. He set a new school record for our boys weight throw. He threw 63 feet 4 in and he beat the old record by 1 and a half ft.
002So, congratulations to Jacob. That is very exciting. And I also wanted to speak about building visits. the board last Thursday. Um, some of us we made the trip to around the district to see some of our schools and what was going on. So, we went to RFA. Uh, we went to KFTF here to see the prek program and then we ended up at Ridge Mills to observe that. So, would you like to make any comments? was there. >> I wanted to say how proud I am to be part of this school district. When I went to the buildings at every single level, uh the kids were actively engaged. When we walked into one of the classrooms at RFA, um Miss Onsom, the students were happy to see you. There was one student who kind of
003gasped a little bit and she's like, "That's our superintendent." So, she was very proud to see you enter the room and uh the difference that you are making in these lives of these young individuals here at Kluff to see how excited these little ones were to welcome us and uh show us around. They were not shy one bit. And then even at um Ridge Mills to see kids give their presentations and how proud they were with um what they had put together for their learning. It was it was nice to see and it's nice to see the excitement within the school district. >> Yes. Um I want to say a special thanks to the prek program. They were, it was so interesting to watch them. The little kids, they knew just what to do and
004they were just learning while they were playing. They were having fun, but you could tell they were getting a lot out of it. So, great program. It was great to experience the schools, see everybody and meet with the other board members actually bond more in the district. It was really actually really enjoyable um seeing the principal, seeing the teachers, how they interact with everybody and how the system works. So everybody seems to get along and making things work and you see a camaraderie that's not there most time most places but I saw it at the visit and just it was nice. I felt I said man I wish I had an opportunity to go back in time actually do this myself because being in some of the classrooms I found myself energized by what they
005were doing and I would love been a part of it. So it was a great day and I'm glad I actually did it. was certainly um enlightening because you get to not only see a special ed classroom we were in, we got to see we got to see the whole spectrum and we also got to listen to our administrators how they explain to us how they're reaching their goals for the school the pillars that we've established and I thought that was really it's something as a board we hear but to sit with principles one on- one and get the knowledge base and how they're statistically data driven and following this these things as a board member. It was really important because it helps us to understand how the policies and the new programs that have
006been put into place are really going to help our district move up. And I do have to say I the one thing I was really surprised about was when we went to Ridge Mills, the classrooms there's there's a lot of kids in the classroom. I admit to that. I think there was 23 I think in that classroom. I was amazed because they were all at different stations doing different things. But to have a group of kids in third grade go through and the room was really pretty quiet for what they were doing. They were talking. There was groups. I mean, they were reading a book together, some kids, and they were discussing what the book was. And then there was another group, as she said, they were doing their presentations on the whiteboard and explaining
007things. But I mean, they really were very engaged and it was really exciting to see and seeing them interacting with each other just really makes you understand how important all of that is and what it does for the social aspect of it all. And then to be in the high school and we were in an AP history class and just listening to those students talking about current affairs relating back to what had happened during World War II. It was really pretty for me. It was very enticing. And I went home and looked up a few things because there was some words I actually didn't even know what they actually meant. So, I think that's the exciting part of it. And I thank you very much for putting it all together for us. And we do
008have one more group that we're going to be doing to two more of the elementary schools, uh, one more elementary school and our middle school. So, we're all looking forward to that also. >> So, thank you very much. Can I add something? I mean, it's one thing when we sit here at the table, we talk about our strategic plan, the four-year strategic plan, and we mapped out this year what year one of the strategic plan would look like in addition to outcomes and data because data speaks. And that's what we're focusing on, but it's another for you to see it in action. So that you know just like on our mission statement where it talks about our words and action must align so that you are very clear these are not just words on paper.
009These are the things that are being lifted every single day in our schools. We're not there yet because sustainable change takes about 3 to 5 years. But what we are setting is the expectation and the foundation for the excellence that we know our kids deserve in this district. So, I'm just very pleased to hear that the same thing that we have been talking about at this table and what we put on paper, what you've approved is exactly what you're seeing when you're talking one-on-one, not only with the principles, but also with the students. You're seeing inquiry based learning. You're seeing active engagements. You're seeing that the students are beginning to take hold of their own education. That's what New York State wants cuz in order for them to master skills and to be prepared for
010the world out there, they need to be given those opportunities cuz they have something to say. You know, they told us that they have something to say just by putting together our mission, vision, and value statement last year. And so the power should be their hands with us guiding them, of course. Um, and so thank you for showing up. Thank you for seeing what you saw. And if you notice, every principal aligned everything that they're doing with our strategic pillars. >> Can I add something? No. Okay. >> Okay. Moving on to public comment. Um, normally we wait till the end, but we will go ahead and we have one speaker, so we'll let that go on. Michael Lumis. So, if you'd like to come up to the podium, the board, um, I'm here in regards
011to an email that was sent home last week. There was an incident at the school that had happened and I believe it's in violation of the student code of conduct just for simple um discriminatory and subject to harassment. Um whatever the incident may be, the whoever sent the email thought they were being vague on details, but it was as simple as the parents being able to ask their parents or the the parents being able to ask their students and get whatever details they possibly needed. Um, this is a newly adapted policy. I guess they're going to send home emails every time there's a fight at the school and it was just brought to our attention through this email only. I thought maybe it would be something you would discuss with the parents if that was
012something they were interested in getting emails with, not to mention what you're subjecting the actual student to themselves, especially when they have no behavioral background. That would be it. >> Had a follow-up conversation and you marked yes. So, we'll take care of that. >> Okay. Someone will be back in touch then. Okay. >> Um to our superintendent's report. Actually, I do not have a report. My report is going to be very very short. It's really um highlighting a few important educational recognition. Um in addition to my report, I always try to do that because we want to reflect our district commitment to inclusivity, awareness, and equitable opportunities for all students and staff. So, it is important when we are in March and April. I'm not I'm not close enough. >> Okay. So for the month
013of March, we want to honor women history, recognizing the achievements, leadership, and contribution of women throughout history and in our communities. It is also developmental disabilities awareness month um promoting understanding, respect, and inclusion um for individuals with developmental disabilities. It is also National Social Work Month and that's where we like to take the time to thank our school social workers for the vital role that they in supporting the well-being and social emotional well-being of all of our students and of course their families. It is also youth art month and music schools month celebrating the creativity, talent and dedication of our students and education in the arts. Looking towards April, there's a few things that's coming. You know, it was important because I received an email from a staff member who also has a child who's
014graduating this year who has been in our school since kindergarten. And she made a statement about making sure that we really recognize autism awareness and acceptance month, which is coming up in April. And the commitment that I told her is that we will do that because we are a district that wants to be inclusive of all. And so we appreciate the fact that she's letting us know early. So, we want you to know that April is autism awareness and acceptance month and the principles already some of them are already working on um you know activities to be able to celebrate that it is a time that we celebrate the strengths, talents and perspective of individuals on the autism spectrum. And so for a person who has been here for 21 years for her to have
015sent that email to say it's never been recognized said she wanted to make sure that we do that. That is what we're all about and we want to be inclusive of all people. So that is the end of the recognition part of my report. >> Thank you very much. And now we will move into our friends from Boseies are here tonight to present to us their capital budget. Hi everybody. I'll pause a minute as uh Matt and Lisa pass out the materials. Okay. So, thank you for having us again this year. I'm Scott Bleman, district superintendent of the Madison Onidabosce. And tonight I have with me Lisa Decker. She's the deputy superintendent for finance and operations and Matt Williams who's the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Uh tonight just have a couple of objectives.
016I'd like to talk to you a little bit about how Boseies works and then I want to talk to you about the three divisions of Boseies. The main divisions is the regional information center, the instructional division and then our support and operations uh division. And then uh we'll have Lisa walk you through the administrative budget. So pretty standard. I think we've done this in years past. And so bear with me and I'll and I'll begin. If you take a look at the spiralbound notebook to begin with and just open up to the first page, there's an organization chart that just shows how Boseis is put together. And as I said a few minutes ago, there's basically three divisions at Boseis. We have an instructional division and that's led by Matt Williams, finance and operations led
017by Lisa Decker. They're both here tonight. And then the third leg which makes us a little bit different than a school district is we have the regional information center and the executive director of that division is Heather Mahoney. She's not here tonight but so she's operates basically like another assistant superintendent. So I'm the district superintendent. I actually have a bifurcated role. There's a district superintendent role and then what they call the CEO of the Boseies. The CEO of the Boseies is very similar to a school superintendent. So I operate in that fashion. But the district superintendent role, I report to the commissioner. So basically at least once a month I'm in Albany with the commissioner. I come back. I talk to folks like Mrs. Ansalm about what the commissioner wants. Roll out sort of regional
018objectives. As you're aware, I do superintendent searches. There are a lot of sort of regional responsibilities that are a little bit different than a school superintendent. And that bifurcated role they did not come together at the same time. So Boseies has been around since 1948. uh not our Boseies but the concept of Boseies and the district superintendent job has been around since 1910 and so the district superintendent job predated the Boseies when Boseies was put together by the legislature they said who are we going to put this on they put on the district superintendent so here I am today so turning to the next page this kind of describes how Boseies works because we don't function like a school district so if you look at the page that says taxes I like to think of
019this as our revenue venue document. This is how we get revenue or actually more to the point not how we get revenue specifically taxes. Boseies does not have the power to levy tax. We don't collect tax money. And then the next line you can see it says state aid. We also do not get state aid. So although we've been lobbying and pushing the legislature to increase foundation aid, that's not aid that comes to Boseies. In fact, Bosey's aid does not come to Boseies. Bosey's aid goes to school districts. So we don't get aid from the state. Despite that, we have to adopt a a a balanced uh budget every year. And unlike a school district, we're not permitted to maintain a general fund balance. So any money that we bring in during the year that
020we do not expend goes back to school districts at the end of the year. So we have to maintain a balanced budget. We also have an audit requirement that's just like yours. So we have an external auditor, an internal auditor, and then at the bottom you can see staffing. So, our staffing is a little bit different than a school district because we we size up and we size down and we shift depending on demand because if school districts sign up for certain services, we have to beef up our service or if they decide that they want to participate less in a particular service, we staff down in that regard. So, you'll see our staffing is much more dynamic than a school district. So, turning to the next page, how do we know what to do
021at Boseies? Well, we're not permitted to do anything that we're not asked to do. So people will say Bosey's this, Bosey's that, Bosey's the other thing. We do what we're asked to do. In fact, it's more than one school district that has to ask. We can only do something if two or more school districts want us to do it because we're a colleive. You know, we're a collective. So you can see the first line, Boseis provides services when two or more school districts request it. And the way this works is by May 1st of every year, each school district decides how and what it wants to participate in. So by May 1st, someone you know, Miss Unsalm gathers her team and they make decisions about their Bosey's participation for the year and then you're sort
022of locked in uh for a year as a contract, but then next year you can make different decisions about your participation. We anticipate needs. So unlike a school district, we we actually bring the superintendent who are our component school district superintendent into the room and they look through our budgets each year beginning in the fall. So we lay out our program budgets and we go line by line exactly what the expenditures will be, what we think the costs are. They engage us in a dialogue about how many students, for example, they think they may want to send to a particular program. And as you know, they're economies of scale, right? So the more students that come in, a lot of times the price per pupil drops, but we make plans based on what superintendents anticipate
023they'll participate in. We put the budget numbers out and then school districts sign up by May 1st or they don't and then we staff accordingly for the following year. So I like to say we're market driven, right? Students don't just come to Boseies because they happen to live in the Boseies. They come because they want to be there. They come because it's cost-effective. So we respond to demand. We're cost effective. You know, we're cost market driven, but we don't have a profit incentive because the money is not retained by the Boseies. it goes back to school districts each year. So you've turned to the next page. So that's just a little bit about how Boseies works. And I think as I said a few minutes ago, I want to talk to you a little bit
024about the Rick. I'll have Matt talk to you about instruction. Lisa talk to you about finance. So the Rick's as I said earlier, it's one of the third one one of three divisions at the Boseies. Uh there are 37 Boseies across New York State. Almost all of the school districts outside of school outside of New York City uh are members of ABOS's. So of those 37 Boseies, 12 of them are Rick's regional information centers and we're one of those 12. So what that means is that our regional information center services not just the nine school districts within our Boseies or 10 if you count New York State School for the Deaf, which we do in some ways, uh but also the an additional 40 school districts. So there's 50 school districts in our area service
025area actually I believe 49 because we encompass three other Boseies. So it's Madison Onidita Boseies that the regional information center services Jefferson Lewis Boseies Herkimer Boseies and Onidita Herkimer Madison Boseies. So the next few pages in this document are just an overview of what the regional information center does for school districts in our region. And then if you turn to the document that says instructional programs by location. So for many many years now for as long as I've been at Boseies and that's 25 26 years there we have served probably between 40 and 45% of all juniors and seniors participate in Boseies. And when I say all juniors and seniors I mean from all nine school districts collectively. And with the commissioner's pathways initiative, in other words, to get kids hands-on learning opportunities, we've been
026trying to think through how we can get those opportunities more directly to kids. And so, what we've been doing basically is pushing some of our CTE programs and other programs out into school districts. Now, Rome doesn't experience this as much as some of our component districts, but as enrollments decline, buildings open up, and we we've been putting our program in those buildings. And so what you have in front of you is just a list of all of our programs and their locations. And you can see many of them are not located on the Madison Bosey's main campus in Verona. Many of them are actually in school districts or at community colleges. Sometimes they're at businesses because we really believe in integrating education, you know, into the workforce. And so this is just a quick overview.
027Our most recent uh use of a community facility was the North Broad Elementary School in Onida. When that school closed down, we rented it. It was filled almost immediately. Not with Bosey's kids, not with Rome kids, not with Camden kids, Anida, Madison kids, but all kids in our region are being serviced by that facility. So, what I'd like to do is turn this over to Matt Williams who will walk you through some of our instructional programs. Thanks. So, it's always a good thing for me when I get to start my day with Rome leaders and get to finish it with Rome leaders. So, thank you for thank you for having a full day with me for some of you. um for myself I am just thankful to be able to do this work and I
028want to try and hit a couple themes as we go through the spiral is one of these themes is just it's support and you know it's it's a bit of the theme that superintendent anam has talked about with Rome is you know Rome is home is very much we as aboseis are part of the family that it is Rome we are we are Rome an extension of Rome so just as we talk about some of these programs that we have very much is we are you and we're here to serve you Um, two sort of business things. First is I never thought it would happen, but the end of January, Micron broke ground up in Clay. Rome is part of the encatchment zone for Micron. Uh, not necessarily a quiz, but does anybody know what
029they've been doing since they broke ground? They're removing trees. There's 435 acres of trees. This becomes really important as we sort of look at the secondary program sheet. Does anyone know what we've been doing with Chobani since Chobani has started? They're a little further along, but anyone know what Chobani's been doing at the site here in Rome? removing trays. Right? So, part of the reason that I share this with you is if you look at the secondary program sheets, uh there's so many things to celebrate and it's this diversity of programs and students taking advantage of programs. So, there's two sheets, you know, one goes through the recipients of National Technical Honor Society. Uh the the other one just goes through the programs that your students are in. So, this is again one of those
030themes. and couple that just with uh this student spotlight sheet. And this is always great and just fun to be able to celebrate a number of students that are here in Rome. And these students represent the opportunities that you as a Rome boat are supporting and then you know we as a as a Boseis team or part of the family are supporting. So we just want to recognize all those pieces together. just so many things to be thankful of and just take the time to go through this data that the success that students are having in CTE programs uh and participation is just something that you as a community should be very proud of. If flip a couple pages, there's there's a a blank page just because of spacing. The next sheet, it has an
031MVCC and a Sunni Morrisville slide. And again, this is something that uh Rome as a community should celebrate. Some work that is a historical cons um that is occurring at the Sunni MVCC site here in Rome. Uh you have folks like Jen Perno and Dana Benzo have been very active in building uh Propel program. Uh Superintendent Nelm very much adopting PEK. These are things that exist that are very much um this great secondary uh opportunities for for students in this community. What is not here and you know great credit to the leadership in this room is the building of new programs that will be in conjunction with uh MVCC. In some ways I should let Superintendent Enselm take over the next, you know, 15 seconds of this presentation, but working with uh a number of
032partners to add a welding facility uh and then an electrical facility. So these are things that very much Rome is leading and again this supporting kind of collaboration is we as a Boseis community or you know we're supporting that work that needs to get done but again things that align with this diversity of economic opportunity in the region right as high-tech opportunities are coming but we need to make sure that we're balancing those with uh opportunities that exist right now. So we just wanted to share those with you. If you flip to uh it's CTE where education meets industry, we wanted to share with you a glimpse of the dual credits that go with new visions programs. Again, the theme here is what we are working towards are building different sets of opportunities for kids
033to be successful wherever it is they decide to enter their career. So, if a student gets a CTE industry credential and they decide to enter the workforce, that's something to celebrate. They're finding success. They're entering employment. vertical aligned programs like what we're trying to just represent here allow kids to get an associates degree and enter the workforce or get a balora degree and enter the workforce. And it's what we really want to push is kids having opportunities when they're ready to have those opportunities. So really that's that that theme in that slide that should be represented there. If you kind of want to see this all together, it's one of the supporting documents. It's this booklet right here. Um, just to kind of keep with the theme just briefly, if you flip to page 21,
034it's heavy equipment operations, right? It's the the Bose CTE program. What this shows you is um what some of those dual credits are that they'll pick up, some of the career opportunities that they'll have, um some of these vertical aligned opportunities with uh college articulation and industry industry connections. So, you know, this document is trying to capture many of these themes of uh aligning kids with where they're going to find success based on the the economic market of the area, this vertical alignment. So, there's a description for every one of our programs. And I think as board members, it's a value. Just don't do it all at once, but just familiarize yourself with the document just so you can be advocates of opportunities that exist in the region. Uh because there's just so many things
035to choose from uh for our young learners. So that's a great resource to have. Um just quickly uh if you look you keep flipping through that spiral notebook middle level programs that's OMville is the director. Uh we're looking at some you know alternative programs that increase wraparound services. These then are also a set of um special ed programming very much that are driven by student needs. Students are participating in these programs because they need to participate in these programs. So it's very much an individual conversation uh with district leadership and with Bosey's leadership in terms of finding good opportunities and good fits for students. Also under uh Mr. Moranville is um sort of some supervision and o oversight of that connectedity community schools resource that are taken advantage of. So just some some great opportunities
036and programs here. flipping the page. Similarly, elementary level programs, similar mindset, right? Students are participating in these programs because IEP um you know, wraparound service needs are are what is required of them. Uh the other thing that you should just be aware of that is supervised by Amanda Hopkins, the director there is itinerant staffing. if you know a behavior specialist or part of a social worker, those resources are available just to help flexibility in terms of responding to uh uh student need. And then lastly in the spiral notebook, it's Becky COP and staff and curriculum development. So if you think of it's sort of uh one large part of that is the the classic supports of teachers and their need and their growth uh in working in classrooms. So we've listed out for you all
037of these workshop opportunities so teachers can get you know assistance and support and everything from uh numeracy in terms of some of the new state briefs uh to the the science of reading that you see there. The other small part uh that is is represented it it's arts and education or exploratory enrichment that does some uh cost offsending to make those opportunities to available to your students. So you can see uh you know some work with the winter guard or the nutcracker. So those are just opportunities that are available under staff and curriculum development. Uh and then the last document uh before I turn things over to Mrs. Decker is it's this Bosey's consortium of continuing education. I'm sure there's someone on your board Sue that could tell you more about this. Um but in
038some ways this is a it's almost just something that folks are not as aware as they should be in the region because this is a great opportunity for uh adults um or sort of young adults to re-engage with their education. You know sometimes people don't follow standard linear paths. This is a set of resources that allows folks to eng engage with new learning opportunities. If you flipped quickly to page five, you'll see again this theme of I've picked this heavy equipment theme. Uh it's young adult learners in uh the region can pick up an HVAC or a heavy equipment certification and re-engage with with the job market as they see fit. These are not taxpayer dollars that are paying for these programs, right? These are tuitionbased programs. uh and there's also some offsetting just in
039terms of uh grant opportunities but something again just to familiarize yourselves with uh just a great set of opportunities for students. Thank you Lisa. >> Yeah. >> I don't think a lot of people are aware that when our students leave our programs from high high school students when they leave our programs they take a technical test. just so everyone's aware of where the test comes from and how that's >> Yeah. So, it depends on the particular pathway, what the accrediting agency is. So, there's a number of different ones. Um, NOCDI is one of them that is nationally recognized, but it depends on what makes the most sense for that particular program. And what I would say to this is go back to this idea of vertical alignment. What these industry credentials do is give kids
040uh a transferable uh credential that they can walk into employment with or also transfer some of those dual credits associated with that right into MVCC. So very much just sort of stacking opportunities for students. Absolutely. So thank you. >> Thank you Dr. Williams. Uh the last section in the spiral notebook talks about management services. So these are more um behind the behind the scenes finance and operations supports that we offer to school districts. Um so these couple pages uh speak particularly to the partnerships that we have with Rome City School District. I work very closely with uh Miss Salam as well as Dr. Gonzalez and to some extent Dr. Carney as well. So you'll see that Rome uh participates uh with our labor relations and and legal service department. We employ a couple of attorneys
041and we always say, you know, please keep your school attorney. Everybody has their specialty, but there are some things that we can do at a discounted rate. Um, we specialize in education law. Um, help out with uh hearing officers and and contract uh law as well. Uh, Rome participates in participates in our salary and benefit survey. So that's a a service that um allows us to share data amongst uh districts to to kind of uh look at um moving forward with with negotiations. Um the next page talks about business office services. So uh Rome is a big participant in our cooperative bidding service. Uh we do some Medicaid reimbursement. Um doc Dr. Gonzalez represents the uh cons the Rome City School District on our health consortium board as well. Uh Rome is a big participant
042as well in in our public relations service. So uh we have Eugenio Marcerio and Taylor Manley uh here on site to uh help out with with public information. Um and then on the next page you'll see uh some transportation services. Although you uh contract for some transportation, you do have some buses as well as uh non DOT vehicles that that Bose these services as well. um in the next few pages just really um dig dig deeper into each of those services. Um so I'll just kind of uh flip forward um through those and bring you to um the first the administrative budget which will be the the blue paper. So I'll just walk you through our proposed administrative budget which is structured uh pretty similar to your own school district budget. So included in this
043administrative budget would be any of the salaries benefits um for uh central administrative staff as well as our business office staff. Um you'll see some line items for equipment, supplies, software, um interest charges in in the instance that we need to issue any rand. Um other expenses include um mileage meeting and workshops for any of the the staff members or or board members. Uh we have our line item for auditors as Scott mentioned earlier. Uh we also have an external audit, internal audit. Uh membership fees. So we are members of NISBA, Niscus, ASBO, Morazzda, Rural Schools Association. And last year uh as a region, we decided to join the statewide school finance consortium to leverage some u uh other resources to help us with um advocacy at the state level. Under contractual we have our
044actuarial study uh IRS compliance banking fees um the OLAS participation online application support as well as school boards institute we have a line item for legal fees and then also for our superintendent's regional meeting and staff development um postage and advertising for legal expenses. On the bottom of that page you'll see a section called internal charges. So just as uh schools participate in uh what we called callers, cooperative service agreements, we also pay uh our share of services such as labor relations, printing and communications, administrative technology support with the Rick to support our business office. Those direct expenses for 2526 you'll see on the bottom the current budget is 1,ion779288 and proposed for 2627 is 1,837469. And then if you look on the the uh back of that page um the different there Boseies uh
045for Boseies we have to show the uh uh obligation for all retirees from uh the entire Boseies. So, um, it's a little bit different than a school district is that all has to be included in our administrative budget. We have 296 retirees and we're anticipating 20 for next year. So, the total administrative budget currently is 7,495 365 and then with uh with the retirees for uh next year, the total budget comes to 8,28,676. Part C, you see the revenue sources. So this is where the money comes to offset those expenses. Up above we have some line items for interest earnings, indirect costs from grants, uh retirey drug subsidy. We also have collections in advance which is a a methodology that uh we came up with in conjunction with our superintendent and our external auditor years
046ago to set aside one year's worth of that retiree obligation. So you'll see that number matches uh the number up in part B. And then finally the local component district contribution is spread amongst the nine component districts. And you'll see down below uh the allocation. So that's based on Arwatada the resident weighted average daily attendance. So you'll see in 2526 the regional arwada is 13,824. Rome uh comprises 5,63 or 36.6%. Um Rome Arwatada for next year is going to 518. That reduces the percent share to 36.3. Uh the dollar share for Rome this year is 471472. Proposed for next year is 474180. The next column is the estimated aid ratio. So this is a ratio that's calculated by New York State Education Department that bases um bases this figure on your property value as a
047function of the number of students that you serve. So this year's um our W to aid ratio is 82.4%. And next year's 81. Uh the next column shows the estimated revenue that you would generate. So um Bosey's services uh that are Bosey's aid eligible generate revenue in the form of Bosey's aid. Um you'll notice that there the there's an increase in the revenue for Bosey's aid generated and that's because there was recently an update to the Bosey's aid formula. So historically since the early9s uh Bosey's salaries were capped at $30,000. So only the first $30,000 of salary was eligible to generate Bosey's aid, but that has been updated so that this year um 40,000 will be generated and for the next year uh 50,000 and looking out um they did change it to 60,000 for
048next for the upcoming year after that. So the estimated local share after Rome receives aid on those expenses this year is 212,748 and proposed for next year is 195,927. Is there any questions on the administrative budget or the allocation? Okay. So I'll just walk you through uh the next page which is our proposed uh capital and rent budget. We have a a committee of superintendent that evaluates the uh rental rates. So this is um rentals that we pay to schools to use space in schools. So for instance um CTE we have embedded programs in Canes and VBS. Uh special education classrooms we rent from VVS as well as Morrisville Eaton. Uh summer school that um rotates between Onidita and VBS in the summer. So, uh, our committee of superintendent looks at the, um, the rental
049rates for the upcoming year and determines those rates. We also have anticipated growth in programs. So, um, as Scott mentioned, um, when we opened North Broad, it was quickly filled. And so, um, we see that there's a potential opportunity to rent more space potentially in VVS next year. So, we've included additional spaces in our rental budget. The second piece of the budget is facilities projects. So we um you know consistently update our our facilities through capital projects similar to to how your district does as well. Um in 2526 the total rent and capital budget is 1,842639 estimated for 2627 is 1,8858. And then again on the bottom you'll see that same allocation based on our water. Um so Rome again has a 36.6% 6% share of the region this year translating into a dollar share
050of 674861 for this year. Applying the uh Bosey's aid ratio results in estimated aid of 55686 for this year or an estimated local share of 118776. Um next year uh Rome share converts to uh 36.3%. dollar share to 684162. Uh applying the aid ratio uh receiving for aid and resulting in an estimated local share of 12991. Any questions on that budget? Then um we do have a just a couple of uh save the date cards. So we have an open house coming up. Um so that's so our open house is on Thursday. love to see you come and and tour the facilities. And then also save the date for our annual meeting, the Bosey's annual meeting is April 15th. Our culinary students do a great job um with with refreshments for that night. Um so
051we'll we're hoping to see you there. Thank you so much for having us. We appreciate your time tonight. >> Thank you. Well, as always, I wanted to say the collaboration and the admiration is very mutual. Um, individuals don't understand or us in New York State sometimes we take it for granted cuz not every school district has a Boseies. We have a Boseies where because of Boseies will be able to implement the portrait without any issues. And in addition, this Boseies that we are part of, we can dream it, they can make it happen because the two programs that Matt is talking about that we will be opening in the fall in collaboration with Camden School District, we just started talking about it like late December, early January. And together we made it happen with MVCC.
052So just very proud of the work that we do together. I'm proud to be a part of the Mobosis family and my team and I we're just so appreciative that you allow us to ask a lot of questions cuz in October we start meeting with Lisa. We go line by line and I ask every detail. I'm like what is this for? What are we paying for? How much it is? How many students are participating? So, thank you for being patient as we learn all of the processes. And um you know I know Georgia is going to talk about the um finance and that takes part. you will see, but the Bosei stuff that they just talked about here is also already included in our um budget for the year. So again, thank you for everything.
053>> Thank you. >> You're welcome to stay for the rest of our meeting if you so want. >> Moving on to our budget development, Dr. Gonzalez. Good evening. Um so tonight we're going to go over a rough draft of what is going to be the recommended budget for this next year. We do have a couple things that we're still um finalizing which includes the governor's run to know what kind of revenue we're going to finally you know have um at the end of this whole thing. Um, right now we're not expecting huge changes, but I went to an advocacy meeting last week um over in Albany and they are expecting to still um make some small changes with that budget. So, we're we're holding tight with that. And we also are finalizing some of our
054numbers with Boseies um just as we're finalizing some things with special education and some of our renaissance stuff. We want to make sure those numbers are pretty solid before we present the final budget to you um on April 1st. But tonight we're going to go over what is called a a rough draft of that recommended budget with all the final numbers and all those type of things. Um pretty much ready to go for us. So similarly to what I presented last year, um just a quick budget overview. Um our budget for this year for the 2526 year is approximately 160 million. We're expecting foundation aid as of the last governor's run of approximately 4.8 million. Um if we go out at the 2.89% which has been my recommendation which is the tax levby cap um
055it'd be just over a million dollars and then we have other revenues um that we typically have this year we're looking at approximately $416,000 of an increase in those revenues. Um so when you combine all of those things um and reduce some of the fund balance that we um currently have been rolling each year. We started off um two years ago with roughly $12 million from fund balance. This year it was $9 million. Um now we're going down to just over 8 million. We want to continue to reduce the fund balance that we're having to borrow from each year and put aside for the following year because we know that we're going to have some of those funds that we have to put into reserves um to help with some of our capital projects. Um,
056so we're looking at an overall budget approximately of $165 million going into the 2627 school year. Um, I've listed there the expense >> Barb Georgia, the budget or the revenue. >> It it's both, right? So we balance our revenue with our budget with the expense side. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure that's clear. >> Yeah. Um so on the expense side we have approximately um 160 million again that we had for expenses and these are the additions of what we're going to see as increases going into the 2627 year. Um we're expecting benefits to increase by about 800,000. We have um some contractual expenses. Um you know uh utilities are going up, the electric is going up, fuel costs are going up. So we are expecting um the cost here at the district
057to also go up. The interfund transfers for capital again we are expecting to move forward with some digital signs. Um we did for the 2526 year we are going to continue that next year. Um so overall just the base budget is approximately 164 million. And then there's been specific proposals that have been provided to us this year for staffing uh maintenance building uh vehicles, the 266 passenger buses, um and some things with athletics, our safety, and our facilities of approximately $980,000. Again, those are all studentbased things that we're trying to improve either curriculum or athletics or safety. And so the overall um proposal for the budget would be 165 billion. So you can see how the revenue side and the expenditure side balance. This is just a quick overview. Um our overall revenue and budget
058um would increase by approximately 3%. If we move forward with the 2.89 89 uh tax levy. This is just a quick year-over-year comparison, which is the 2526 to the 2627 budget showing where we would be expecting most of our increases for payroll, equipment, contractual supplies. Um again, Boseies is a big proponent for us. Um some of that is just their normal increases. We also have a couple other um programs that we're looking at purchasing or or buying into, so to speak. Um so overall we are putting a lot more into our um our overall debt service Bosey's programs and you'll see some of the largest is payroll which are all contractual type costs that are uh negotiated through our union uh contracts. I also wanted you to see what the expenses look like just from
059an overall perspective um in terms of percentage. So, no surprise that payroll um is approximately 38% um just over 37% of our overall budget. Um our benefits are another 29%. So again, between benefits and payroll, we're close to 60% of our overall budget. Some of the other things that um are high costs are boseies, which is right around 12 13%. Um, and again, this is pretty typical across the board at any school district, um, regardless of where you were to go. Um, overall, there's not some, you know, huge changes or anything like that. They're pretty typical of a school district our size. The only thing that, um, we've really looked at differently this year was our supplies and some of our contractual costs and making sure that, again, we had those in alignment. We went
060through our proposals. We changed some of the codes, but overall we wanted to make sure that we stayed in um compliance or ready to be able to move forward with all the needs and resources that our students will need. Then I broke down the state revenue. A lot of this is the same information that I've been providing for the last several months, but I wanted to make sure you saw it another way and that our taxpayers could see it another way. Um overall um we have revenue of approximately 106 million from foundation aid, Bosey's aid. These are all the state aid uh revenues and then universal prek is a separate piece. It is considered part of state aid but it is broken out differently. Those are the numbers that the state provides us but they
061are enrollment based. And so I think it's important that we know that is the allotment that we're provided, but depending on what our enrollment is, we don't always receive that full aotment because of our space and and however many students actually enroll in the program. And then we have some of our other revenue comparisons um such as the real property taxes, star reimbursement, which is also part of that real property, but they're broken out slightly uh differently. um our pilots which we are expecting to increase because of Chabani and the agreements that we've set up with them and then we have miscellaneous revenue which includes our interest and some of our admission costs and some of those other things that we do collect. Um we've also started um charging for transportation for other um agencies
062that work with us that are using our student services uh student for student buses and then we are um invoicing them and then they are paying for some of those services. We also um next year are planning on starting to charge for rental of our properties um you know other organizations were to come in. We have not done that for the last several years, but we do have a cost associated with custodial staff and security and so forth. So there will be nominal fees included there. And so that comes through on the miscellaneous revenue side. And then like I had mentioned before, we are trying to reduce that appropriated fund balance a little bit each year. So that way those funds were actually putting into reserves and not having to use those in order to
063balance the budget the following year. So, the tax rate impact um based on 3.89%. I wanted to show what that looks like across the um five different townships that we currently have. >> You said 3.89. I want to make sure. >> Sorry, 2.89. >> Sorry. 2.89. Um so, I just wanted to show what that kind of looks like based on, you know, the five different townships. And again, this is really based on last year's numbers for equalization rates. So, this number could slightly change. Um, as you'll see, there's a couple townships that actually have a decrease. Um, and that's just because of how the equalization rates um, compare in those two areas. Um, overall, again, we're looking at taking a million dollars and splitting it between those um, five different townships. This is just a
064multi-year comparison of the tax levy. And if you look at the third column over, um, we've been pretty consistent at the 2.4 4 to 2.9 range pretty much for the last 5 years. Um so in staying with the tax cap, you know, I don't think that um we would had huge issues with being able to sustain our budget moving forward. Then we have the three-part budget. Um again, this just breaks down what that looks like in total. Um administration is approximately 7% of our overall budget. the capital side which includes the maintenance of our facilities. It includes anything to do with um the snow plowing, all those types of things. It also has to do with um some of the repair work that we do, our maintenance to any of our vehicles, includes some of
065our stuff with transportation depending on um what those things are. Um, but overall, as you can see, our program is really where the bulk of our um, funding goes and where it's a part of, which is approximately 81%. We do have two propositions that we're planning on putting on the ballot this year. one um you'll be looking to vote on tonight, which are the two diesel buses. Um and we are um estimating approximately 40 thou uh $400,000 um with about $150,000 each, but we want to have that extra little bit in there in case something happens because we don't know with fuel costs and all those kind of things if they will charge us more in order to get the vehicles here. So the overall propositions for 400,000, but we're giving it a little bit
066of room in case $150,000 is not the number that they come in at. They are 90% aided. So, you know, when you're spending 150 to $200,000 a piece, we do get most of that money back. And then the other would be the proposition for 2.89% um for a total um budget of 165 million. again unless the board um wants to go a different direction and then I can recalculate some of these numbers. These are some important dates as we move forward. Um on April 1st, we are looking to have the board approve the tax levy and we would be looking for the board to approve the final budget. Um I will have some numbers um to the board on the weekly reports that I send out between now and then and then I'll present one
067more time on that date for you to be able to finally approve that um evening. And then we also have our budget forums on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of April um at those three locations, both um I'm sorry, Lee Center, Jervis Library, and Gansza Gymnasium, where we'll present this budget um at each of those locations as well. I know that's a lot of information, but do you have any questions? >> Did you say we're voting on that today? The >> um the the bus proposition. Just the buses one. Just the buds. Yep. Thanks, Yep. And then the budget one we plan on April 1st. So if there's any questions or anything like that that you have between now and then, please let me know and you know we can go through that process. But
068anything else? Awesome. Thanks so much. >> We want to make sure we emphasize to the public. >> We want to make sure we emphasize that the forums are for the public. >> Absolutely. And so if the public want to learn more, obviously we are preparing a budget newsletter just like we did last year to break it down. Um but if the public want to learn more or ask questions, this is the opportunity. Correct. >> Correct. We also have to have a budget hearing um within the first 10 days of May. So um we will have that completed as well. May 11th. So we will have that meeting right before the board meeting that evening. Um is it 5:00, Sandy? the board meeting. >> Okay. So, we'll be um presenting the first couple of minutes of
069the board meeting at 5:30 on May 11th. >> Anything else? >> Very good. Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to our consent agenda, which covers page 2 through six. Can I have a motion to move the consent agenda? >> Okay. Moved by Jonathan. Second. Okay. Second by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Okay. Consent agendas passed. Moving on to finance action items. The resolution to approve a bus proposition be included in the May 19th, 2026 vote. Whereas the board of education has reviewed the need for two new 66 passenger diesel buses for the district. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education hereby approves the bus proposition for the purchase of two 66 passenger diesel buses not to exceed a cost of 420,000. And be it further resolved that the
070proposition be placed on the ballot for voter authorization at the upcoming school district election to be held on May 19th, 2026. Can I have a motion to move? >> Moved by Nadia. >> Seconded by Jen. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion's carried. Number two, board resolution to accept treasurers reports. Whereas the treasurer has prepared financial reports for the month of December 2025. And whereas the board of education has reviewed the treasures reports for December 2025. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education hereby accepts and approves the treasurer's report for the December 2025 months as presented. Can I get a motion to move? Move. Moved by Jen, seconded by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? Motion's carried. Resolution to accept a donation. Whereas the board of education is committed to enhancing
071educational opportunities for all students. And whereas the district has received a donation in the amount of $50 from Robert and Barbara Hammond designated for the Bellamy Music Department. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education hereby accepts the donation of $50 for the Bellamy Bellamy Music Department and directs that the funds be utilized to support music program activities and related needs in accordance with district policies and procedures. And be it further resolved that the board of education extends its sincere appreciation to Robert and Barbara Hammond for their generosity and continued support of the district's music program. Can I get a motion to move? Move. >> Moved by Jen. >> Second by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion's carried. Number four, a resolution authorizing participation in Asiggo County Bosey's cooperative purchasing
072program. Where is a cooperative purchasing service is a plan of a number of public school districts in the asiggo county board of cooperative education services area in New York known as the center for instruction technology and innovation CITI to bid jointly for water testing and sampling services. And whereas Rome City School District is a participant is desirous of participating with asgo county board of cooperative educational services city and other boards of cooperative educational services and public schools districts in the joint bidding of the services mentioned above as authorized by general municipal law section 119-0 and whereas a participant wishes to appoint the asiggo county board of cooperative educational services city to advertise for bids accept bids, tabulate bids, and award bids on their behalf. Therefore, be it resolved, the participant hereby appoints Asiggo County Board
073of Cooperative Educational Services City to represent it in all matters re relating above and designates the Asiggo County Board of Cooperative Educational Services City designated newspaper as the legal publication for all cooperative purchasing bin notifi notifications. and be it further resolved. The participant authorizes a Swiggo County Board of Cooperative Educational Service of City to represent it in all matters leading up to the entering into a contract for the purchase of the above mentioned services. and be it further resolved, the participant agrees to assume its equitable share of the cost of the cooperative bidding, abide by majority decisions of the participating districts, abide by the award of the Asiggo County Board of Cooperative Educational Services City, and that after the bid award of the bid, it will conduct all negotiations directly with a successful bidder. Can
074I get a motion to move? >> Moved by Jonathan. >> Seconded by Jen. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Motion's carried. Number five, amended amendment to July 7th, 2025 resolution for designating depositories. Whereas at the reorganizational meeting held on July 7th, 2025, the board of education of the Rome City School District adopted a resolution designating the official depositories for district funds for the 2526 school year. And whereas the resolution identified the New York State Liquid Asset Fund, NILAF, as one of the designated depositories. And whereas the board of education has determined that the current designation should be the New York Cooperative Liquid Asset Security Systems, NClass. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education hereby amends the resolution adopted on July 7th, 2025 to replace New York State Liquid Asset Fund, NILAF, with
075New York Cooperative Liquid Asset Security Systems, NYLASS, as a designated depository for district funds for the 2526 schoolyard. Can I get a motion to move? >> So move. >> Moved by Paula. Second. >> Seconded by Nadia. And just to let everyone know, we had approved the NILAF and what happened was the name had changed and we didn't recognize that in July. So we just >> nightclass is the other way around nightclass. >> Nightclass, right? So we just had to have that authorization now. >> Okay. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> I motion's carried. Resolution authorizing participation in Madison and Knight of Boseis cooperative bidding program. Whereas it is the plan of the number of public school districts in the Madison and Knight of Boseies during the 2627 school year to bid jointly for the
076purchase of various types of computers and technology commodities the commodities and whereas the Rome City School District the school district is desirous of participating in the joint bidding of the commodities as authorized by general municipal law article 5G. And whereas this board of education has received and reviewed the cooperative bid procedures, the procedures governing its right and responsibilities, should it elect to participate in the joint bidding of commodities, and be it resolved that in accordance with cooperative bid procedures, the board of education agrees to award bid purchase item purchases according to the recommendation of the Boseies if such award is in the best interest of the school district. Can I get a motion to move? Moved by Nadia. Second. >> Seconded by Jonathan. Any discussion. All in favor? I. >> Motion's carried. We're having an
077audit committee meeting this Thursday at 2 p.m. here in this room. Um it is our risk assessment audit and it is covering internal controls over procurement and we did have a finance committee meeting last week. Um, we just went over more of the budget items. Basically, we looked at the expenditures for this year and where we might have seen some increases or changes that we hadn't anticipated. Um, one of them was our electricity costs which everyone is experiencing. So, we did discuss some of that. Um the other is we in our current treasures reports we do have to go back yet and change where the allocation of salaries are. It's got to be based on grants and we didn't have that information yet to change those. So we are looking into that at our next
078committee meeting which the date is to be decided. And that concludes finance for for educational programs. Action item number one, resolution to adopt the 2026 2027 school calendar. Resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the school calendar for the 2026 2027 school year. Can I get a motion to move the resolution? >> Moved by Nadia, >> second by Jonathan. Any discussion? >> Yes. We would just like to have Jen discuss why how the school calendar was formulated. >> Jen, just one thing um in particular, we had heard from the community and also from internal people about the number of half days and so I want to make sure the public hears that we have heard them and that there will be a reduction in terms of
079the number of half days. So um every year we have a calendar committee that is comprised of members of the RTA union as well as the RAA um and then directors and some principles that actually sit on that and we go through the calendar that we had this past year and then we go over the Bosey's calendar and what they're proposing and what was adopted. So our students do follow that because we have obviously the uh presentation tonight our kids we have several students that are over there. So one of the things that we did take into consideration um is that this school year with the um conferences this the superintendence days and also the contractual days that are built into the RTA uh union in June. There's two that are half days that they
080are allowed per contract without any um professional responsibilities in the afternoon. So they dismiss when the kids dismiss. There was 13 um half days that were in uh the calendar from this school year and we reduced that down um to the three half days that you see that are professional development which is a reduction from four. We took four out um instead of having those all built in the calendar the same as this year. We have conferences every year for um our dedicated half days. And what we did this current school year is we split them up so it wasn't a full week like it was in the past. The community did give feedback that having that entire week um where the four days were in uh consecutive in a row was difficult. So this
081year is the first year that we separated them out with the Fridays so that the family would know that one of those Fridays would be one of the ones that they would be uh signing up for and we maintain that because we had positive feedback that that was received quite well. So um and there you also see the four superintendence days. Those are our professional development days and those are also the ones that we actually count that actually count towards our student attendance with the instructional hours and um there's 182 student days that were built in with this current calendar. And so what that does for us is that gives us six emergency days to utilize towards weather or um high heat that we now have a regulation for. Any other particular questions with that?
082We went from 13 half days down to um minus the four. So I think we have seven eight sorry eight >> nine. So wait I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes. So we have the four conference days. >> Um >> Yep. The four superintendent conference days. We have the two that are in June. So that's our six. And then we have three professional days. Professional development half days. That's nine. Um and then the one that we have is the last day of school is a half day. So that our students, our elementary students are would be the only ones that are in um attendance. So they get to go home half day. And that is a full uh attendance day for staff. Yeah, I think the general gist here is I wanted the public to understand they
083shared with us that you know there's too many elementary half days. We took a look at our contract obligations. We took a look at the total number of days that it we are required by state law to make sure that students are in attendance and we looked at superintendent conference days and we were able to reduce that. So whenever a family, parents, community brings something to our attention, although we can't get rid of all of them, but the reality is we heard you and you will see that this calendar has a reduction of that. >> Yes, that is the reduction. We ended up taking four off from this this school year in the process. >> Okay, we had a a motion and a second, right? So are any more discussion? All in favor? I. That
084motion's carried. Moving up. Go ahead, John. >> Moving on to human resources. Action item number one, resolution to accept retirement, resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The board of education hereby accepts with appreciation for your years of service through retirement of the following individuals. Lori Gilbert, Denty, uh, teacher assistant, effective date 62626 and date of hire was 21200. Billy Mays, RFA, physical education teacher, effective date 712026, date of hire 118195. Brian Buchanan, RFA, science teacher, effective date 712026. Date of hire 918204. Robin Lansy, John Joy, elementary teacher. Effective date 71206 date of hire 59 1994. Allison Beach, John Joy, elementary teacher, effective date 810, 2022, date of hire 91 1993. Thank you to all those for your years of service. Can I get a motion to uh move the resolution? >>
085Moved by Nadia. Second. >> Second by Jonathan. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Motion's carried. >> Okay. Policy action item number one, resolution to approve the second reading and adoption of policies. Resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the second reading and adoption of the following policies. Number 1741, homeschooled students. Number 8121.2, automated external defi. Number 8505, charging meals and other food items. Number 8520, free meal services. I move to resolution. >> All right. Second. Uh, any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes. Uh, next committee meeting is April 13th, 2026 at 4:45 at the district office on Dominic Street. >> We also have >> Oh, yes. >> Shoot. Yeah. What What was I supposed to say about forgot what?
086>> No, just to say that we had a policy committee meeting. We have lots of policies that are coming. We have them every month. So, it was just last week and we reviewed several and we have more coming down. Yep. For first read. >> Yep. and a miscellaneous business. Resolution to amend superintendent's conference approval. Resolved that the board of education hereby amends the approval of the following conference for the superintendent of schools. Nuranda Ensalm Women Leading Education Summit 2026 in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 30th to May 2nd, 2026. The cost is not to exceed $1,000 and there is no cost for the district for the registration or the hotel recommen accommodations. Can I have a mo motion to move? >> Moved by Paula. Can I have a second? Second. >> Second by Jonathan. Any discussion?
087All in favor? >> I. Motion's carried. Um, miscellaneous business resolution to appoint a poll clerk for purposes of casting and canvasing affidavit ballots. Where is a school district annual meeting and general election will be conducted on May 19th, 2026. And whereas the New York State education law contains procedures for reviewing and counting the ballots cast by affidavit ballots. And it is anticipated the district will be required to report data regarding affidavit ballots counted versus those rejected to the state. And whereas a district anticipates there may be affidavit ballots cast on May 19th, 2026 and wishes to plan for the review and count of those ballots consistent with the education law. Now therefore, it is resolved Sandra Russell Russell is appointed as the poll clerk for purposes of casting and canvasing the affidavit ballots. The pole
088clerk shall cast and canvas the affidavit ballots on Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. at the board of education meeting room, 409 Bell Road, Rome, New York. The district clerk is directed to send notice by first class mail at least 5 days prior to May 20th, 2026 to each candidate of the time and place set by the board for the casting and canvasing of the affidavit ballots. The pole clerk is directed to cast and canvas the ballots in accordance with the educational law, announce the result, and to provide any affidavit ballots cast and the results to the board of education. If any person's ballot is rejected, the district clerk is directed to notify the person in accordance with the education law. Can I get a motion to move? >> Move. Moved by Jen, seconded
089by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. That motion's carried. And Miss Russell, would you like to discuss the process >> packets? >> Yes. So, the time has come to uh have our packets ready for our candidates that would like to run for the board of education for the next school year. Um, so we will have three seats open this year. Our individual with the highest number of votes will serve a five-year term. The second and third highest votes will serve both for three-year terms. That is just for this particular year that we're doing the one five-year term. That is to even us back out so that since we went from nine members to seven members, it will even things out so we're not electing one person uh going forward in any given year.
090Packets can be picked up at the district office um right at 266 to 268 West Dominic Street. Um you can come anytime between 8:30 and 4:00. Um and I will have them ready and they are due back by 5:00 p.m. on April 29th. question. When someone comes to pick up the ballot, what do they have to bring identification or anything else with them? >> The packet or the ballot? >> The packet. Nope. They there there is a form that they will fill out just to let me know, give them give me some contact information in case we needed to contact them for anything. And then all of the information they need is in the packet. And if they have any questions after reviewing it, they can give us a call. >> Okay. Okay. had some
091information to provide to anyone who is wishing to pick up a pallet to run for the board. >> SBI group has put together how to be how to become a school board candidate and what to expect if elected. That's going to be a Zoom meeting tomorrow night. You register between 5:30 and 6:00 and it will actually start at 6:05. um highly suggest if you are interested to actually to register because uh what you learn just at the first day is interesting what you what's allowed what's not allowed what's to expect it does put a little weight onto what you're doing and what's expected of you but um that's it okay our upcoming events uh the SBI workshop which we just went through um the openhouse at polies which was mentioned ma March 19th from 5:30
092to 7:30 at 4937 Spring Road out in Verona. Uh the board professional development we're holding a meeting next Monday here at 5:30. >> No stout. Oh >> okay. It's a stout >> professional devel. Okay. Um board visits to our buildings which we still have. Please RSVP to Sandy. March 24th, 8 to 9:30 will be at Stra Middle School and 10 to 11:30 will be at Denty Elementary School. Um, as both mentioned, our annual meeting is April 15th out at their 4937 Spring Road. It's always a pretty good event. So, if you'd like to come, please sign up for that with Sandy. Also, um the ribbon cutting ceremony for our new baseball and softball fields will be on April 16th, at what time do we have a time set yet? >> 5:30. >> Yep. >> Okay.
093>> Yeah, I would think >> we'll post it. >> We will have it posted. >> It will be announced >> just so we have the date out there. Yeah, I was sending out invitation. >> Okay. Our community budget forums as mentioned, April 27th, Lee Town Hall, April 28th, Jervis Library. April 29th, Gansorg Auditorium. Um, again, hopefully some of the board members will be there also to explain to you. Um, meet the candidates night for those who do sign up and have their packets in will be May 12th. Um, and the school board election is May 19th. We're having a 10-year recognition at May 20th and a retirement recognition for our employees leaving us on June 9th. Does anyone have anything else they would like to add? Any board members? >> I just want to make
094sure people are aware that your professional development on March 23rd is not open to the public. It's just professional learning for you, >> for the board. Correct. >> All right. And if not, can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Moved by Paula. Have a second. >> Second by Jonathan. Any discussion? All in favor? Motion's carried. Thank you all for coming.