001Okay, we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. Could we all stand for the pledge? I pledge allegiance 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. Okay. Could I have a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of March 24th, 2025? Moved by Kirsten. Second. Second by Nadia. All in favor? I. Motions carried. Uh, superintendent, are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? No additions, no deletions. Okay. Board recognition. Jen, I was able to attend an art show that the art club had and it was absolutely amazing the talent that all these kids in our district have. It's it's quite impressive. Um I love our arts program. I love how they
002can to um use their talent to the best of their ability. So, and I would also like to recognize um the varsity softball coach Emily Cowell. Um she is amazing. I went to a and she was on it when it came down to this is what we expect. This is um what you know our athletic department expects from our students. Uh, I've never experienced a parent meeting like that where she outlined what um each parent should should do from when to speak to your coach and the correct chain of command. So, good job there and good job at um, you know, being informative. I think she's setting a really good example for athletic department like to comment on the Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, first of all, thank you for the art and musical people who are
003here. Didn't even know you were going to be here, but I made sure that I wanted to give an overall message. I've been here for 10 months and I really want to take a moment to celebrate the incredible artistic, musical, and academic talent of our students across the Rome City School District. The brilliance of our students is something we can all take pride in and it shines brightly at every level from our youngest learners to our graduating seniors. For example, on March 27th and 28th, the students at Denty wowed audiences with their phenomenal performance of James and the Giant Peach Tree. Peach, sorry, showcasing not only their creativity, but also their commitment to the arts. Last week, our high school students lit up the stage with a 3-day run of Foot Loose, impressing everyone with
004their energy, passion, and remarkable talent. On Wednesday, April 9th, several board members, our board clerk, and I had the opportunity of attending the annual Boseis budget meeting where dinner was thoughtfully prepared and served by students in the culinary program. Many of those students are our own and we could not have been proud more prouder sorry their professionalism skill and pride in their work were truly impressive and in addition their teacher Mr. Marshon is related to one of our principles. Then on April 11, we celebrated the graduation of our fifth grade students from the DARE program that came back at Bridge Mills. It was a proud and inspiring moment, one that reflects the strong character education and support our students receive every day. These are just a few highlights. They happen every month among countless examples
005of how our students continue to excel. I'm deeply proud of the talent, determination, and heart that radiates across our district. Our students, our staff members are truly exceptional, and it is an honor to witness their growth and success. Let's continue to support and uplift them. The students are our future and they are nothing short of extraordinary. And I am very proud to be the superintendent of Rome City Schools. [Music] I just like to add to that. Uh, my family was able to go to James and the Giant Peach at um, Stra and absolutely a wonderful job. Um, I see James here in the in the crowd. Great job. I just want to say keep it up. You know, I can I can tell the tale. I went a couple years ago to Finding Nemo and
006just to see the progression of the whole crew. Um it's it's really great to see and my kids love it and my son's in kindergarten and he's still singing the songs from that show which is great and um I wasn't able to make Foot Loose but my um my family got to go and they they love that as well. So I think it's great for the community like the superintendent said like so much um hard work goes into that but it is appreciated. So keep it up. Yeah. Uh public comment on agenda items. Thank you. Okay. First first up we would have Maria Kernan. No, Mary. Mary, I'm sorry. Um no, I I I just want to say I'm the art the head of the art department of our district and we're 27 years strong.
007Um but I just want to give a shout out for You just save the date on May 29th. That is our going to be our big district art expo. It's been held what 4, this is fourth year running at RFA. So, it's going to be at RFA in the gym pending approval. Um, from 4:30 to 5:30. So, it's going to be a bigger location, tons of artwork. I hope to see you all there. The invitations will be coming out soon. Probably right after break you'll get your invitations. So, I hope everybody can come to it. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. it. Always good to have dates ahead of time. So, thank you. And Joe Mrangela. Okay. All right. Uh, good evening. Uh, I'm a board member in the town of Lee and over the years, uh,
008residents have raised some concerns over the traffic problems at Stokes Elementary School. Uh technically this is not a town problem because the road is a state highway and the problem is on Rome city school district property both of which the town has no jurisdiction over. However, the town of Lee board takes concerns of its residents seriously. Years ago we were able to get the speed limit reduced from 55 mph to 45. We recently tried to get it reduced to 35 mph but were denied. January of this year, I drafted a letter to New York State DOT about installing a flashing 35 mph school zone signs that would operate during peak times. I was able to get support from Anida County legislator Steve Deaggio and Senator Joe Griffo. The senator's office added a supporting letter and
009hand carried it to both hand carried both to New York State DOT. The DOT has responded and will do a traffic study, an accident history study, and personally observe traffic during peak hours. I did reach out to the superintendent of schools a few weeks ago for support, but I've yet to receive a response, which brings me here tonight. Uh, a couple of items I'd like the board to consider addressing. Uh, one, to determine why so many students don't use provided busing and how this could be remedied. Uh, two, could the parking area be extended south along Turn Road to the cemetery? Uh, this would have little impact impact on the playground area. And three, it was recently brought to my attention that years ago there was a flashing sign and the school district had it
010removed, not New York State DOT. Why was this? Uh, please consider what I've spoken of tonight as it has direct effect on our students, residents, and motorist safety. Thank you. [Music] It's me again. Thanks, Carl. Some important April dates and district updates uh for the community. Uh New York State testing for Rome City School District started this week. Um we started with the ELA at the elementary level and we're very pleased. I know that the community may have heard of um some testing issues last week, but we are very pleased to say that we have not experienced that. The good news is that a lot of districts are on vacation this week and so it was good that we started and all of the problems have been resolved and the principles have reported that they
011had a smooth 3-day testing. So, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, would you like to add anything to that? Um, I I would just like to add that, you know, uh, I would just like to add the the piece that, uh, we all know that we've been campaigning and doing a positive, uh, PR for all the families in our community to uh, embrace the importance of testing and we had our students doing those videos. And um it is very early, but I'm very hopeful and extremely excited because the uh absences that we had this week were minimal and we had the fewest optouts that we have had in our history so far. Um so it is the first two days of testing with ELA and then we have math when we come back. So I'm
012very hopeful that we're going to be very close to the expected 95% participation rate that the state expects and the students are very very excited. Um, in several of the buildings there's positive messages on their cubbies and on their um on their student belongings to continue to encourage them and they're doing positive messages in the morning and at the close of testing and the students are really excited and very proud of the work that they're doing. So that's what I would like to add. Thank you. Thank you. And as a reminder, tomorrow is our annual emergency go home drill that is across um our district and also with Mon uh Mobosis. Students will be dismissed 15 minutes early tomorrow as part of our required emergency preparedness procedure. We know that all of the principles have
013communicated that to parents and since it's coming up tomorrow, we wanted to send a reminder of that. In addition, we invite you to join us at various locations across the district and community to learn more about the 2526 uh school budget. Your participation matters. We started that conversation today with community leaders and we will be in several locations in district and also in the community. So, please, if you would like to hear more about the budget or understand our process, we invite you because we're trying to be very transparent uh and making sure that you are aware of where your tax dollars are going, which is towards instructing our students of this district. We are not currently so in terms of special permission, um I I got to speak a little bit about that. When
014I came into the district, the first thing I did is sat with many multiple stakeholders and constituents about some of the things that are of strength of our district and areas that requires like immediate attention and space issue, space constraints at the elementary level was the number one issue. I've heard it at coffee chats. I continue to hear that at at um uh different uh conversations that I have had and in addition visiting buildings um I see the issue um at play on a regular basis and for that reason myself and the team we have collected various data points we are trying to synthesize those data points to determine the best course of action as a community you all know that we have some long-term vision in terms of being able to repair renovate or
015add to to a particular building so that we can remove the constraints that we have. However, it's not going to happen overnight and therefore there are some things that need to change. The first thing that really needs to change is the fact that the board has a policy about special permission that is well written that is very well articulated and it clearly states that when we have space there are some things that they are giving us the latitude to to do. However, when we don't have space, that's where we need to take a pause. And at this time for the 2526 school year, what I'm asking the community to do is to pause for a moment before sending us any special permission request. We started receiving them. We have received at least five that I
016saw so far and it's for students who just registered for kindergarten where parents are asking to be able to just move from their attendance area to another school. So I would ask for the time being that we take a pause on that um until further notice until the team and I really take a look deeper at that data during the break to review it to make sure and then being able to come to this table and ask the board to take some particular action that may be required may or may not be required in order to at least alleviate some specific issues that are happening currently at the elementary level. And so please, it's not a no, it's please let's take a pause for now until further notice. In terms of strategic planning, we have
017a community design day that is scheduled for you at um first we had indicated that it was going to happen on May 10. Um but after review of the calendar we realized that on May 11 is Mother's Day and so it is best for us that we shifted the time frame. So now save the date Saturday May 17 2025. We talked about this is the last opportunity for the entire community. If you want to have a voice in terms of shaping the future of our district and where you want to see us, this is the time to participate. It is still going to take place at RFA. We will serve breakfast beginning at 8:00. We have uh we will start at exactly 8:30. Again, we're inviting you to be engaged. Some of you engaged through
018the survey. Others of you have participated in focus groups. Some folks are part of the steering committee that has been meeting now at least four to five times. And so now this is the last chance the community design day so that in June we can have the complete strategic planning document here to the board for them to adopt so that we can start doing our work this summer to flesh out on a year-to-year basis how do we meet those goals and priorities. So you are invited your voice matters. I've always said that. Come share your ideas and help design the next chapter of our district. And lastly, you know, I always talk about what's in April. There's a lot of educational observances and religious observances in April. And because we are a district that um
019really prides ourself on inclusivity and bringing people in and not calling them out, we want to make sure that you are aware. Natural Poetry Month, School Library Month, Math and Statistics Awareness, Autism just occurred, Financial Literacy, National Assistant Principles Week, Earth Day, Administrative Professional Days. Now, you know, administrative professionals are the most important people in the school district cuz they can tell you what's going on. And so, please remember to celebrate them as well as it's coming up on April 23rd before we go on break. If we can do that, that would be great. And of course, April is also a lot of religious observances. Ramadan, eat alfetier, uh, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Passover, whatever you celebrate, we want to celebrate with you because we are an inclusive school district. And that is the end
020of my report. If you have any questions, thank you very much. And we will move on to the student board member report. [Applause] RFA's advanced ceramics has visiting artists Lauren Nells coming tomorrow for their annual Rau Rau workshop. Students will fire pottery, then take them out of the kiln at 1,800° and expose them to combustial materials. It's happening 8 to 2 and visitors are welcome. As long as we're talking about art, the musical went so good and we had three performances. But sadly, it's over. But in much happier news, Rap City has one last show on May 4th at the Rome Capital Theater. Um, the eighth graders have been coming to tour the high school. We have a freshman and senior panel and we just give them tips and tell them about our experiences to
021hopefully help them. Uh there will be senior packets sent out tomorrow with all senior information about ball graduation, grad walk, and senior celebration. Um RFA senior science students participated in the Environ at the Udica Zoo today. RFA won first place overall uh sever over several participating schools, sorry. They will move forward onto state qualifiers. The first place team members are Aiden Winters, Rachel Catello, Carl Vanhusel, Kaden Secor, Molly Com Oh my gosh, and the sorry the club is ran by Brian Buchanan. Your year is going by really fast. Okay, we're moving on to the consent agenda. Can I have a resolution to accept the consent agenda? Moved. Second. Second by Nadia. I would like to recuse myself from this poll for personal. Okay. Okay. Kristen has removed herself. Um, so can I have a Oh,
022we had a motion and all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Consent agenda passes. Moving on to finance regular meeting. Okay. Our action items. Resolution to approve the Bosey's administrative budget for 2526. Resolve. The Rome City School District approves the 2526 tenative administrative budget of the Madison United Board of Cooperative Educational Services in the amount of 7 thou 7,495,365 funded by 1,287 and expense by components plus 6,28059 and earn interest and other miscellaneous revenue and shall so allocate as a contingent expense its share of said administrative budget as appropriated in accordance with section 1950 of the New York State Education Law. The 2024 2025 administrative budget expense for all components was 1,240,840. The 2025 2026 administrative budget expense for all components is estimated at 1,287 36 for a chair charge change of 3.7%. I move the
023resolution. Okay. Second by Kirsten. Um all in favor. Any opposed? Motion's carried. Resolution. Oh, go ahead, Jen. Resolution for appointment of election inspectors assistant poll clerks. Resolved that the following individuals are appointed as election inspectors assistant poll clerks for the 10 school election districts which shall align with the city of Rome election wards be appointed for the Rome city school district board of education election budget vote to be held on Tuesday May 20th 2025 or on any legally authorized date thereafter and that they be paid for this service with the superintendent of schools or their design being authorized to fill any vacancies and make location assignments. The names are as shown on page 12 of the agenda. I move the resolution and I would like to recre excuse myself from this vote because I am
024working that day. So all in favor? Any oppose? Motion's carried. Resolution three, resolution to adopt the property tax report card for the 2025 2026 school year. Resolve that the board of education adopts the property tax report card for the 2025 2026 school year. I move the resolution. Okay. Second by Jen. All in favor? Motion's carried. Resolution to adopt the 2025 2026 budget. Whereas the board of education of the Rome City School District has developed a proposed budget for the operations of the school district for the 2025 2026 school year. And where is the total amount of the proposed budget developed for the 2526 school year is 160,533,458. And where is attached to the 2526 proposed budget is the school district's property tax report card for the 252026 school year. And whereas the budget hearing on
025the proposed budget is scheduled for May 12th, 2025. And whereas the annual meeting to vote upon the proposed budget is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board hereby approves the proposed budget developed for the 2526 school year in the amount of 160,533458 along with the property tax report card attached thereto and be it further resolved that the following proposition be placed before the voters on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025, shall the board of education of the Rome City School District be authorized to expend the amount 160,533,458 no sense as a general fund appropriation for the 2526 school year and to levy the necessary tax therefore upon the taxable property of the district. I move the resolution second by Jen. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion is carried. Resolution
026five, resolution to accept funds from Udica National Insurance Company. Whereas the Rome City School District has been awarded the school safety excellence award titanium level by Udica National Insurance Company for the fifth consecutive consecutive year. And where is the pre prestigious recognition reflects the district's ongoing commitment to maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all students and staff. And whereas as part of this award, the district has received a monetary contribution in the amount of $500 from Udica National Insurance Company. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Rome City School District hereby accepts the $500 award from Udica National Insurance Company with gratitude. And be it further resolved that the board extends its appreciation to the administration, staff, and all those involved in supporting school safety efforts that lead
027to this recognition. I move the resolution second by Nadia. All in favor? Motion's carried. And the finance committee's audit committee meeting, the next one will be May 15th, 2025 at 3:00. Um, the next finance committee meeting is June 5th at 3:30 p.m. We did hold a audit committee meeting last week on the 10th and we just reviewed the initial steps for our audit that will be occurring um by Dark Angelo and also an internal claims audit that we are having held which the results I believe will be available in May. um our finance committee meeting that we had on the 3rd of April, we discussed again the budget we went through and I would say that the finance committee really felt strongly that the budget was well prepared and very um transparent coming forward to
028us and really meets the academic rigor of what we have all described for ourselves as a going a goal for us all. Um, other than that, I think Do you have anything else, Nadia, Kelly? No. So, that finishes the finance committee report. We'll move on to educational programs action item resolution to adopt the 2526 school calendar. Resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the school calendar for the 2526 school year. I move the resolution. Second, seconded by Paula. All in favor? I. Motion's carried. Resolution to approve the RFA staff overnight field trip. Resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approves the RFA staff field trip to Virginia and Washington DC to depart on May 30th, 2025 and return
029on June 1st, 2025 under the coordination of Amanda Benoy. Move the resolution. Seconded by Jen. All in favor? Staff student is association something. This is the student council. Yeah. So yeah, they carry the name STAS but in other districts it's student council. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I'll get it for you. Sorry, I'm not sure. Do we continue? Was this all in favor? I motion's carried. Okay. Okay, Kelly. Action item number one, resolution to accept retirement 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. Miaak Kushman, food service helper, Rome Free Academy, effective 912025. Mary Carmel Dour, teacher assistant, Rome Free Academy, effective 952025. I move the resolution. Second by Nia. All in favor? Motion's carried. Action item
030number two, resolution to approve administrative leave that upon the recommendation of the superintendent schools that a permanent non-instructional employee be placed on a paid administrative leave retroactive to April 4th, 2025 and effective until April 16th, 2025. The superintendent is authorized to return the employee to active duty at her discretion. I move the resolution second. Second by Paula. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion's carried. Resolution number three to accept affiliation agreement that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the board of education hereby accepts the affiliation agreement between the school district and state university of New York pot stam. I move the resolution second by Nadia. All in favor? Motion secured. Action item number four, resolution to accept memorandum of agreement that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education
031hereby accepts the affiliation agreement between the school district and CEA clerical unit. I move the resolution. Second. Second by John. All in favor? I. Action item number five, resolution to accept retroactive pay. Whereas the Rome City School District Board of Education recognizes the importance of fair compensation for its employees. And whereas Dixie Enos Elementary teacher has provided valuable service to our district. And whereas an audit of payroll records indicates that Dixie Enos is entitled to retroactive pay for the fiscal years of 2015 through 2024 in the amount of $5,26 for an inaccurate calculation of credit hours. And whereas it is essential to ensure that Dixie Eno's salary is adjusted retroactively to the new salary rate of $69,936 effective July 1st, 2024, which includes master's degree. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Rome City
032School District Board of Education hereby approves the payment of $5,26 in retroactive pay to Dixie Enos for the prior fiscal years. And be it further resolved that the new salary rate for Dixie Enos be effective retroactively from July 1st, 2024 at the salary rate of $69,936. I move the resolution second. All in favor? All yes. Motion's carried policy. [Music] Action item number one, resolution to accept the first reading of policies. Resolves that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education hereby approved the first reading of the following policies as listed on page 17 of the agenda. I move to resolution. Second. Any discussion? I have a discussion about the policy number 4321 um07 um the language changing from his her to there. So at the last policy meeting I wasn't there
033so I'm not sure what the uh you want to changing the language from his and her to there it's inclusive of all individuals. Doesn't his and her include everybody? Well, it it does include everybody, but it's not um it's neutral. Neutral. Yeah. Thank you. Sorry. I disagree with that. But that's all I can say. Was that from was that in the first policy read the there? This is the first reading. Oh, this is this is the first reading. Okay. So, okay. So, uh where are we on our vote? So, if if you want to So, what you can do if there's no other discussion about the other policies, we can move that to second read. And if you want to take a look at it back the 4321 again, if you want that to be
034reviewed and to have a discussion at policy, we can review that and remove that and send it back to policy. So, that's how you can do that. You can separate the two. So, was that What was advised by was that changed like we changed that or was that what was the change advised by That's a very good question. In general um as you know our state education department is trying to keep everything genderneutral and so most of our um policies we try to write them to be very genderneutral. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. So we can go ahead. What you can do is go ahead and approve everything other than 432107. We will remove that. Okay. And then take and then vote to send. So can we I have a motion to remove 432107
035from the first rate. Can I just add something? So just moving forward whatever we vote upon with this then it should carry through to all of our policies. So I think that's really important because I don't want to go through this and miss something. So, we need to be consistent with this and all come together whether whatever is decided is what's decided and then move forward with with all of our policies. I think that's important. So, is that was that a recommendation or a requirement of the It's not a requirement, but it's just better to keep everything genderneutral, especially again in light of the fact that we're trying to be all-incclusive. Um, as you know, that is that is part of the state. um not a requirement, but that that is a goal to keep
036everything neutral. And it's the same thing when you're writing policies about a superintendent. You don't know if it's going to be a his or her. You might just just leave it neutral with superintendent because it might be a her, it might be a him. And so the best way to we would recommend is to keep those pronouns neutral. to that point. I think we did something similar when we did the job posting for the superintendent position. There was language that specifically said him and we changed it. To Jeff's point, his her there. To me, it all means all people. So, I don't really see an issue either way. I think we need to just be consistent like Kelly said. Yeah. So, by removing this one policy from the first read, we can have a further
037discussion as a board down the road. So there um I need to have um a motion then to remove 432107 from the first read. So moved. Okay. Have a second. Okay. All in favor? I Okay. So 4321 will be removed. So now we need to have a motion. Let me just add to send back to policy for further discussion because in reviewing all of our policies, we've been staying gender neutral and so it has followed that consistency of practice that we've been doing even from the other policies. So, okay. So, all the other Yeah. have been gender neutral. The ones that you've approved before just is not. No, this one. This one is, but what she's saying is that she disagrees. She wants the his or her to be included. So, that's why it's going
038back to policy for further discussion. All other ones that have already been adopted this year is neutral with is gender neutral is with theirs. So we'll continue with that. But now we need a motion to go ahead and the other ones. Yeah. For everything else. Okay. So have a motion to approve all the first reads except 20 or 43 21.07. It's 007, right? Yeah. 07. Yeah. So moved. Uh second and is there a second? Thank you. Second. Um all in favor? Yeah. Thank you. I Okay, that one's carried. Okay, good. All right, let's go on to action item number two. 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
039as detailed on page 17 of the agenda. I move to resolution second second by John. Any discussion? Well, it goes back to what we just said is we're going to if we're approving them now, we're saying that the that the language So I I mean I don't know how that works, Sue, but all other ones that we've adopted this year has the date there. is the general neutral version of all the other policies that we've adopted this year to include these that we're trying to adopt. So everything that we've already approved as a board is gender neutral. I'm just looking through my policies real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Jeeoff, you're in your policy committee chair. I' I've heard that. Yeah. I mean I have to agree like we said it has to be across the board.
040You can't just change one, right? and not change the I mean that just to me would be and I my recommendation is the gender neutral right and at this point Paul I do see your point never but my point to that is within that said if we've already accepted and approved them before why are we going to go now we're going to have to go back and use all of them to look be the same which again I'm not saying you're wrong and I disagree with you we didn't do it then and if it's that way now and going forward and then we won't have to change anything. I can't imagine removing one to look at. Well, we just sent it back to the committee for them to look at it and then they will
041bring it back forward. So, at this we're going to have a discussion about that particular policy in light of the fact that a a board member brought up uh a a conversation. we're going to talk to about it holistically and in addition they will hear my recommendation because again we live in a state that is very inclusive. So the more that you can leave things gender, it still says the same thing. If you leave it gender neutral, it doesn't change the content, that's the focus. And so we need to have that conversation, add policy cuz that's where the conversation needs to happen. Of course, keep the rest of the board a breast and then we can come back and bring this back. And if everybody agrees that you know as we have been doing it,
042keep it consistent. We'll make sure we keep we give you that information doing your Friday weekly and then we come back and bring back this policy for first read. As far as the second read ones, we don't even know if any of them have that language right specifically stated in it because they're school admissions regulation, admission of resident students. So, you really don't know what terminology is listed within them. I do. Well, I know you do. So, yeah, you're looking at So, I looked at Yeah. So, I did. So, one of the 51 I think it's 5150 or 5151 had the the there and there. So, that was in there. The there. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, doesn't I guess Paula has the right to vote no, right? So, we could still move ahead
043with it and she could vote no. Correct. Right. So, it's not. Yeah. So, we'll go forward with the second read approval. So, we had a motion in a second. So, all in favor of the second read of policies listed. I Any opposed? Motion's carried. And our next uh policy meeting is April 30th at 4:15. Okay. Is there any committee report? Yeah. Is there anything you want to add to your committ? Yeah. All right. Moving on to miscellaneous business. Jen's going to read these. One resolution for renewal of participation in summer food service program FSSP resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, the board of education authorizes renewal of the district's participation in the summer food service program from June 30th, 2025 to August 22nd, 2025. I move the resolution second by Nadia.
044All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion's carried. to resolution to elect member of the Boseis board. The Rome City School District Board of Education authorizes the clerk to submit and certify its ballot in the name of Sally Sherwood of the Camden Central School District to serve as a member of the Madison board of cooperative education services of the sole supervisory district of Madison and Onidita counties for the term of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028 for the seat currently held by Mrs. Sally Sherwood, Camden, New York. The ballot will be submitted to the district to the clerk of the Madison Boseies on April 17th, 2025. I move the resolution. Second by John. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion's carried. Three. Resolution to elect member of the Boseies board resolved. The Rome City School
045District Board of Education authorizes the clerk to submit and certify its ballot in the name of Dr. John Castello, senior of the Onidita City School to serve as a member of the Madison Board of Cooperative Education Services of the Sole Supervisory District of Madison and Onida counties for the term of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028 for the seat currently held by Dr. John Castello Senior, Onidita, New York. The ballot will be submitted to the clerk of the Madison Boseies on April 17th, 2025. I move the resolution second by Nadia. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion's carried for resolution to elect member of the Boseis board. Resolved. The Rome City School District authorizes the clerk to submit and certify its ballot in the name of Susan Carvelli of the Rome City School District
046to serve as member of the Madison board of cooperative education services of the sole supervisory district of Madison and Onidita counties for the term of July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 for the seat currently held by Mrs. Susan Carvelli, Rome, New York. The ballot will be submitted to the clerk of the Madisonis on April 17th, 2025. I move the resolution. Second. Seconded by Paula. I abstain from the vote. All in favor? One obstension. I abstain. Motion's car. Um the last one resolution to approve the terms for data privacy agreements whereas four Boseis Anadaga County Madison Boseies Albany Shenango Skenctity Saratoga Boseies Madison and United Boseis and Broom Tyogga Boseis have collaborated and enter into an article 5 general municipal law intermunicipal agreement for the purposes of improving vendor management and data security and privacy
047practices for school districts and/or Bosei statewide known as the Rick one risk operations center, the rock. Whereas the board of education of the Rome City School District through its affiliation with a locally based regional information center participates with the rock and desires for the 2024 2025 fiscal year to authorize the rock to enter into data privacy agreements and related exhibits DPAs with vendors and thirdparty contractors that include the requirements of in compliance with New York State Education Law Section 2D and part 121 regulations collectively ed law 2D related to student personally identifiable identifiable information PII and certain teacher and principal APR data. Whereas the rock also partners with NYED, the access for learning student data privacy consortium SDPC and the education cooperative TEC to negotiate and approve EDL law to DHD compliant DPAs. Whereas the
048DPAs are presented to school districts and/or BOSEIS for final execution and do not require the expenditure of funds beyond those budgeted. And be it resolved, board of education of the Rome City School District authorizes the attorneys designated by the rock to negotiate and approve of DPAs for software and/or technology resources. And be it further resolved, the Rome City School District Board of Education grants the Rock and his designated attorneys the authority to negotiate the terms and conditions of DPAs and take such actions so as to effectuate the purpose and intent of this resolution. Uh I move the resolution John. All in favor? I. Motion's carried. Discussion items. Upcoming events. We have the budget community forums on April 16th today with our community leaders. Uh May 5th at Lee Town Hall at 5:30. May 6th at
0495:30 at Bellamy Elementary School. May 7th at 5:30 at Jervis Public Library. May 8th at 5:30 at Connected Community Schools. May 9th 2025 6:00 to 7:30. We have a board focus group with the ILO group and miday 2025 we are going to have a meet the candidates night for individuals looking to be another member of our board. A date to be determined. May 17th from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. is strategic planning community design day that Nerlan spoke about previously. May 21st 5:00 p.m. tenure reception at the district office. In June 9th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. is a retirement dinner at the beaches and the art exhibit. The art expo at the art expo that we were just spoken to about. Yes. May 29th. Exactly. May 29th. Yep. We have no old business. And it is
050now anticipated that we will have a motion, which I will need to go into executive session to discuss collective negotiations. We will not be returning to open session after the meeting. Moved by Kirsten. Second. Seconded by John. All in favor? I. Motion's carried. Thank you everyone for having a good night. Not.