001us today here April 28th, 2025 at district office and uh this is our regular scheduled meeting. So at this time I'm going to call the meeting to order and we will stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] All right. At this time, I will make a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of April 19th, 2025. Moved by Sue. Second. Second by Kelly. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Minutes are approved. Uh, Miss Unsum, any additions and deletions to the agenda? We do. We have three items on page two under consent human resources consent agenda item A. We would like to
002remove that second person WC on page 10 under additional business. So, we're going to have a human resources action item number five and the addition is addition of a retirement of that same individual that we removed from the first consent agenda item. So, WCanita Converse [Music] retirement on page 11 just a minor refinement to the resolution. The resolution stated that the DJ was for the junior prom. We want to change that to the senior ball on page 11 to reflect senior ball. All right. So, let's make it all official. Uh we will start with consent agenda. Uh item A. I'll make a motion to re remove that individual from the resignation section. Move it. Second. Moved by Sue. Second. Second by John. All in favor? I. Any opposed? So approved. And then we will walk
003ourselves uh to add her back on under uh page 10 of the agenda. It will be new action item number five. So I will move the or no I will make a motion to add action item number five to the agenda. So move moved by Sue. Second second by John. All in favor? Any opposed? So moved. And then the last one does not require a motion. So we are all good. Okay. Uh any public comment this evening? No public comment. Everyone's still basking from the sun. So, we will move on to our superintendent report. Thank you, President Canudi. My report is going to be brief. I am hoping that all received their budget newsletter. Did you see how beautiful it is? I was proud of it when I got mine in the mail. So, I'm
004hoping that the community was very proud and felt like it had enough information um so that you can also participate in the forums that are going to come up very soon. So, please, we encourage you to read the budget newsletter and if you have any questions, that's why we are going to start the budget forums. We wanted to make sure that you received the newsletter on time. And I know some people are asking, well, who's running for board seats? The reason why it's not in the budget newsletter is again we wanted to make sure we get the budget information in your hands and when we complete the process of eligibility we will definitely do a PR around that so that individuals will know who's running for a board seat and in addition meet the candidate
005night is scheduled for May 13 at 6:30 at Stra and it is in collaboration with the NAACP and the district cuz it is important that even when we have an outside organization that is helping to do the meet the candidate night that the district is still involved in the process because it is a board seat that is available. So we collaborated we have it all set the questions have been prepared and we have the individuals who will be leading that on May 13 at 6:30. So again it's an opportunity for the community to participate to ask questions. We like questions and um you know we always want to have the opportunity to be able to tell our story instead of other individuals telling our story for us. So please come out to the budget forums.
006We are sending out additional PR and reminders. Again I've asked the PR team to send out all of the dates for the different budget forums so that the community can remember that they are taking place and we would love to see participants there you know instead of one or two people. So please do come out and the board members will be there as well. That is the end of my report unless the board has any questions. Nope. All right, moving on to our student board member report. There's not much cuz we just came back from our lovely break, but um prom is started off giving out the permission sheets and those need to be filled out by a parent and the child to obtain a ticket. And then we have a surprise rap city show
007at the Capitol Theater for our last our real last show this time. But that's all we got for you today. How exciting. I love a surprise show. All right, moving on to our consent agenda. I'll make a resolution to accept consent agenda that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the consent agenda be accepted by the board of education. I move the resolution. Second by Paula. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Consent agenda passes and we move on to finance. On page seven, we have one action item. Resolution to accept the treasures report. Where is the treasurer's report of the Rome City School District has been presented to the board of education for the months of all of these are in 2024, July, August, September, October, and December. in January of 2025,
008November of 2024 was already approved on March 10th, 2025. And whereas the board of education has reviewed and discussed the contents of its reports. And whereas the treasur's report provides a detailed and accurate summary of the financial activities and status of the district for the specified period. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Rome City School District hereby accepts the treasures report for July 2024, August 2024, September 2024, October 2024, December 2024, and January 2025 as presented. I move the resolution. Second, second by Kelly. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Our next audit committee meeting is May 15th and at that time our outside auditors will be coming to present to us. Um they are our risk assessment auditors and they will be speaking to us
009about the potential risks associated with certain payroll items. Um that was what we had tasked them with a year ago. Um and finance committee meeting is set for June 5th, 2025 at 3:30m. And that concludes my report. All right. Uh educational programs action item number one, resolution to approve RFA Sunni ESF overnight field trip. Resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the RFA Sunni ESF field trip to the Sunni Courtland State Envir Envirrothon competition to depart on May 28th, 2025 and return on May 29th, 2025 under the coordination of Brian Buchanan. I move the resolution second by Paula. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Human resources action item number one. Resolution authorizing salary adjustment. Whereas Ruby Ped, I'm sorry if I mispronounced
010that, was hired by the Rome City School District as a PC specialist on December 4th, 2020 as a full-time employee. And whereas Miss Ped has been a dedicated employee serving within the non-negotiating clerical unit and has continued to provide valuable support services to the district since her hiring. And whereas upon the review of her salary history, it has been determined that discrepancies in salary payments occurred for the fiscal years of 2021 through 2024. And whereas the total amount owed to Miss Petty due to salary underpayment has been calculated as $21,855.34. And now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Rome City School District hereby authorizes and directs the superintendent and business office to process the retroactive compensation adjustment in the amount of $21,855.34 to Miss Ruby Ped to rectify the salary
011discrepancies and be it further resolved that effective July 1st, 2024, Ruby Peday's dest salary shall be adjusted to $41,730.80 80 cents reflecting her entitlement increases on base as stipulated in the CSCA clerical unit contract. I move the resolution second by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Action item number two, resolution authorizing salary adjustment. Whereas Darlene Plum was hired by the Rome City School District as a PC SE specialist on September 1st, 2018 as a full-time employee. And whereas Miss Plum has been a dedicated employee serving within the non-negotiating clerical unit has continued to provide valuable support services to the district since her hiring. And whereas upon her review of her salary history, it's been determined that discrepancies in salary payments occurred for the fiscal year of 2024. And whereas the
012amount owed to Miss Plum to due to a salary underpayment has been calculated as $877.24. And now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Rome City School District hereby authorizes and directs the superintendent and business office to process the retroactive compensation adjustment in the amount of $877.24 to Miss Darlene Plum to rectify the salary discrepancies. And be it further resolved that effective July 1st, 2024, Darlene Plum's new base salary shall be adjusted to $44,57320 reflecting her entitlement increases on a base as stipulated in the CSDA clerical unit contract. I move the resolution. Second by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Action item number three, resolution to accept memorandum of agreement. Resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent schools, the board of education hereby accepts the
013memorandum of agreement between the school district and Dr. Sean Carney and Dr. Georgia Gonzalez. I move the resolution. Second. Second by Sue. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Action item number four, resolution to approve tenure resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the tenure for the following individuals listed on page 10 of tonight's agenda. I move the resolution. Second by Paula. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Action item number five, resolution to accept retirement. Resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby accepts with appreciation for your years of service the retirement of the following individual. Wanita Converse, office specialist supported learning effective September 3rd, 2025. I move the resolution second. Second
014by Sue. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes and congratulations to Miss Converse. All right, back to policy. It's like the good old days. Uh, action item number one, resolution to accept 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 as listed on page 11 of tonight's agenda. I move the resolution. Second. Second by Sue. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. The next committee meeting is 4:30, which is this Wednesday. This Wednesday. Okay. At first 15. 4:15. Yep. At 4:15. Sorry. At first 15. I thought you meant 4:30 like the time. April 30th. Yes. This Wednesday at 4:15. It's tricky. 4:30. Very good. All right.
015So, April 30th, which is Wednesday at 4:15. All right. Moving on to miscellaneous business. Uh, action item number one, resolution to approve payment to personnel out of extracurricular activities fund for per district policy number 4602. Whereas personnel cannot be paid out of the extracurricular fund without specific authorization of the board of education per policy number 4602. Resolve that the extracurricular fund requested payment to Joseph Rosado Jr. for DJ services for the senior ball on June 7th, 2025. I move the resolution. Second. Second by John. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Resolution passes. Wow, look at this. 15 minutes cruising. All right. Uh upcoming discussion items. We have our upcoming events. So, as a reminder, uh the biggest uh forum coming up is around our budget discussions. On May 5th, 2025 at 5:30, we
016will be at Lee Town Hall. May 6th at 5:30 Bellamy Elementary School. May 7th, 5:30, Jervis Public Library. May 8th, connected community schools at 5:30. Uh May 9th, we have our board focus group with the ILO group. Uh this will be a virtual meeting from 6:00 to 7:30. So keep an eye out on your email for that link. Uh coming up after that, as uh Miss Anselm said, May 13th at 6:30, we will have meet the candidates night at Straw Middle School. Good luck to all the candidates. May 17th uh from 8:30 to 2:30 we will have our strategic planning community design day and that is at at straw at strawf RFA. Okay high school high school at RFA. Yes. Very good. Uh May 21st uh at 4 p.m. uh here at Dix office we
017will have our tenure reception to congratulate all those uh that have achieved tenure. And then June 9th at 5:30, we have our retirement dinner at the beaches. Lovely. It's gonna be a busy couple months. All right. Any other discussion items? I just wanted to say again, a lot of us signed up so that we have a board person at each one of these forums. So, I hope we can all make the ones we signed up for or let Sandy know if we can't. Just as a reminder. Okay. All right. We have no old business and no one has snuck by. So, I do not think we have any public comment on non-aggenda items. So at this time I will make a motion to go into executive session to discuss matters leading to the appointment, employment,
018promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal or removal of a particular person or corporation. So moved. Moved by Sue. Second. Second by John. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? We will not return to our openly scheduled session. So, thank you all for your brief attendance this evening.