RCSD BOE Meeting 11/10/21

0016 15 p.m [Music] from the united states of america and the city republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all for anybody who would like to speak okay our first order of businesses have proven minutes at a regular meeting from october 28 2021. it's a movement under people operations on page salary should read 43 pro rated sorry three 43 nine hundred and sixty seven okay on page 10 item nine we can see the mentors uh it's glen cooney and tell us david they are cold mentors uh and then there is one additional business item uh from people operations to me last night for the creation of a english new language teacher and an administrative um an interim principle for early childhood programs uh those items are in

002front of you an additional sheet that would require um the endless vote to add to the agenda they were both discussed last night of people operations and asked want to make a resolution yeah there's 12 right now good evening everybody got quite a few things to talk about this evening first of all um thank you couple national um the other weeks uh get to spend several days working with superintendents uh literally from i think almost all 50 states although i don't think i met anybody from alaska hawaii but um for the first time one of the conferences i got to do a lot of work with folks from the midwest the dakotas montana idaho a very different way of schooling out there i was interested to learn that some districts still have one-room schoolhouses and

003with one student in registration uh which is very interesting but different way but i did learn quite a bit uh one of the things i spoke with mr nash about was i learned some things that schools are doing in the midwest related to board relations and district administration relations and some different things that uh we're going to try and work on with you all here just to continue to make sure that we're having good dialogue a good understanding of the district operations and trying to minimize confusion that can happen through email so uh some good topics from there i also had a great chance to meet and learn quite a bit about uh attendance improving attendance some strategies that districts are using uh nationwide to improve attendance some programs they're using to help track tenants

004a little better than what we use with school tool uh here in new york and um there's another program uh that kind of ties into the evaluation of the goals that we approved the other week that's related to staff retention and staff exiting surveys kind of uh getting keeping a pulse on your staff so there's some good opportunities out there some met some great superintendents some i already knew i had a chance to learn more about what they do so i look forward to continue to talk about some of those things that we're hoping to bring here to rome that might not quite be in new york state so thank you all for that opportunity a couple of things you just want to update on winter sports are uh about to get undergo just so

005you're aware the tri valley league athletic directors met today uh as i mentioned in the previous board meeting the number one topic of discussion for them was the limiting of audience members at uh athletic events for the winter season um without going into the details i feel that what the i don't know where it came from i don't know if it was from superintendents or from the athletic director uh i know i was not consulted part of the discussion starting i feel that the restrictions that they were trying to put in place are greater than what we were under last year uh so i'm not happy to report that the resolution to limit the audience participation to two uh two spectators per home athlete only did pass the athletic director's council by a vote of

006six uh six uh positive one negative two abstentions uh rome was an abstention and that's because i directed mr stanboy to inform them that whatever they vote on we're not going to do it we're going to do what we feel is best for our student athletes in our community that will probably bring some negative like to us from some other folks utica way but just so you're aware uh we will continue to work with what we feel is in the best interest of our students and our families uh and and that kind of there's nothing that says that there has to be uniformity we don't have uniformity with our musical performances with all these districts we don't do we haven't done so for uh fall sports so just so if you have a heads up

007i don't know where that's going to go but rome is one of uh two districts abstained and there's a third district that voted no i i believe that the other district that i've stayed with us will also be joining indy we're going to do what's best for us um but there might be a little bit of turmoil coming our way related to that let me sports playing the tv uh there are nine schools i don't know [Music] uh we have basketball uh girls and boys we have volleyball girls wrestling um hockey's kind of its own thing but they would all fall on that so that means whatever rome decides will apply at home visiting schools correct any school any so basically our families will not be able to attend visiting contests unless it's at one

008of the other schools and it's going to kind of be their own thing so but we can control our own destiny that's the that's the most negative i have for tonight uh just a quick couple of quick updates if you didn't see this week the um sealab literacy program at rfa was awarded a civil silver medal uh that's simply for the work they've done for the first couple of years essentially what it does is just bring some more prominence to that um that seal if you are able to get that on your diploma if you're a student we are uh and also we plan on in two years being upgraded to a gold eligibility for that so it simply means that our students are excelling uh the the process is very lengthy it's also very

009uh challenging for a student essentially what it means is the student is graduating from rfa being fluent in two languages uh and so i would have that i've had the privilege of sitting in on the student presentations over the past two years and it's just really fun i can't understand anything that they're saying in their presentation to listen to and it's amazing to see what uh kids can do uh really when it's always been true but it's always fun to see what they can do when they put their minds to it so uh thank you to the the team of uh enl teachers at rfa that kind of kicked that off jen diperno is our director who's really directly responsible for helping to make sure that they've met all the nice regulations and things with

010that so thank you to her um and uh the director or the the teacher that oversees that program they're all kind of involved but the teacher that does the most work with that it's like so i thank her for all her work it's not an easy thing to do to make sure we're meeting all the regs and dotting all the eyes and cross on t so thank you to them and congratulations to the students that have done that on the heels of that chris brewer and his team are working on the civic readiness seal for high school seniors graduating seniors rome is one of 100 about 100 districts in the state that have been awarded the opportunity to pilot this program for this year so he's meeting with the committee on an ongoing basis just

011kind of figuring out how we're going to go about it there are a lot of variables at play but we're hoping that come june we'll be able to graduate some kids with the first ever civic readiness seal on their diploma so we'll keep you updated as that goes through some positive news you saw in your updates that the three through eight assessment stand uh assessment scores were released recently uh there are some great progress happening at three through eight in our ela specifically uh some grade levels have as much as 200 growth from three years ago the last time they really offered the test so uh it's good to see students performing math is a little bit of a different story and we we think that when you talk up until now we've talked about

012learning loss due to clovid related to the time being out and it appears that some teachers were already hinting that there was less learning loss in the la than math i think these scores kind of show that that ela is maybe even stronger than it was prior to coving and math is falling behind a little bit it's most probably direct related to the independence that students needed during colgate to learn there's a lot more reading involved during covenant for students to learn things and math is a skill where you really do need a lot more support a little bit more practice uh and without someone right there with you that you can ask questions do all the time math is something that can can come tougher to people so so work to do with math

013but it's positive growth and yelling um and thank you to our teachers at the 38 level and well k2 as a form for k2 that wouldn't have gotten to the 38 so thank you to our our staff for uh what they do yeah shout out to the uh the juniors that took the ela 100 passing and that too thank you next scores uh last year's junior class or not just the junior transplants and they are 100 of the rfi students that took the ela regions passed so that's always a great thing to see that you 100 success rate um also positive news for the district you'll see coming out uh the next few days and i think amanda might talk about this a little bit tonight but we are participating in a social emotional learning

014skills inventory uh study we are the only district in the country that's doing this uh we are one of several uh however due to covet the the uh individual conducting the study kind of backed out a little bit and we expressed some disappointment we were looking forward to working with our students and our families on getting a little bit more understanding of where they are with social emotional uh needs and learning uh and upon hearing that we were a little bit upset that we couldn't participate the uh the individual came back and said we would like to conduct the survey still in rome this is a they don't have any data from the northeast part of the country most of data comes from the southwest so we're going to get to move forward this is

015a great opportunity for us to get some information back on our students k-12 it's going to be a k-12 situation uh and our teachers will will complete basically a skills inventory on their perceptions of students social emotional well-being right now uh parents will also have the opportunity to complete a similar survey about their own child's uh their impression of their child social emotional uh and we're working with the um individuals to see if we can develop a student portion to self-report and so we can triangulate from a teacher's perspective the parents perspective and the kids perspective and learn more about what can we do to uh increase our social emotional support so i didn't mean to steal your thunder if you were playing talking about a little bit but it's one of those things when

016you're the only district in the country having the opportunity it says that you're doing things that you're outreaching and trying to help that maybe some others haven't looked into so and that's directly related to amanda and dana benzo have been our two point people working on that project so thank you ladies and gentlemen if you're out there listening a couple of quick announcements uh we are working with mohawk valley health systems to get some um kobe 19 vaccination clinics up and running for ages five to eleven really from ages five to whoever is not vaccinated as they want so we're currently just solidifying some dates and times in which they can come out and set up if you remember last year we did this a few times with mohawk valley health system for the ages

01712 and up uh we've had nothing but positive comments from the schools that worked with them and the families and students that went through that so we do hope to get that up i think i asked him if he can get a date in next week sometime simply because uh if if we can get uh kids going on round one sometime next week it should allow uh most kids to get vaccinated fully by mid-december uh right before the turn of the year but at the very least uh we will have some clinics up and running before the end of november for families ages 5-11 that are interested and maybe having trouble finding a clinic somewhere else uh quick reminder next tuesday night at denti is our community conversation related to our uh diversity equity and

018inclusion uh work that we're doing here in the district that's at venti elementary uh those start at 6 30. is that correct right christmas six six all right i like six o'clock it makes it easier everything's six o'clock so next week denti uh if you're interested in joining us uh general conversation about all of our thoughts related to the uh diversity equity inclusion on the heels of that on um november 29th at straus from six to eight pm uh ross haber and associates will be doing their first community presentation uh related to redistricting uh and the purpose of that will be to invite the community in to talk about what they would like to see in their schools uh how they would like to see something set up talk about their concerns their thoughts and

019uh for ross and his team to get some feedback present some ideas that will be monday uh november 29th at strauss um middle school six to eight p.m on new zealand it's an interactive event that's that's why it's going to require breakout sessions and round table conversations so with any any parents it's all parents and districts correct it's not school specific they thought about doing school specific ones and my recommendation to him was if you do school specific you start to you run the risk of hitting building against building and and and having one be over here so they opted for one big session with breakout groups before this like a couple times apparent square yeah it'll be out it'll be it'll be advertised uh significantly and they have their own their own marketing uh

020arm that they want to utilize with us as well last thing i'm going to mention uh the young lady might not even recognize it yet but or or know this yet but i'd like to let the community know that our own ilana akavisi has been nominated for a presidential scholarship award through the federal government she is one of uh i think it is 40 students 20 female 20 males statewide recommended to the commissioner of education to receive the recognition so congratulations you've done tremendous things so we're very honored to be able to put forward that recommendation for you um we hope you're selected but it is something that there's only 40 students statewide that are recommended every year directly to the commissioner's office um and i believe they select 10. congratulations thank you thank you

021after that nice long-winded it was a lot tonight so yeah well mostly good news yeah yeah it's all good news except for the winter sports thing which will eventually be good news for us and you know we'll be in the we'll be on the old television wptv we are opening up the meeting to public comment he wishes to speak and it's not already done so please fill out one of these cards this is an opportunity to speak to appear before the school board and express your views concerning agenda items and district affairs we ask that you limit your remarks to five minutes all public speakers are asked to refrain from making personal attacks for district employees and elected officials be advised that your comments do not enjoy the same privilege and immunity as statements made

022by members of the from board of education and defamatory or obscene statements are prohibited please note that unless specifically indicated on the agenda this time is not a question and answer period there is no exchange of conversation with the members of the board or executive staff however if your comments require a response every effort will be made to respond to your inquiries within a reasonable time frame thank you so our first speaker is jerriann schaderick do i stand up here do i have to go upstairs right there whatever you're most comfortable okay um so my name is jerrianne i've been a resident of this school district for 22 years um i have been homeschooling both my kids since 2007. i have been through seven school administrators for homeschooling i have graduated my eldest five and

023a half years ago and i just graduated my youngest last month although without the superintendent's letter this time which i'm very sad about um i'm here tonight because i would like to throw our support for mr and mrs moy and their um their need to get their ihip approved uh for this particular school year i do believe that what is being asked regarding the aids education for homeschoolers is not part of the new york state educational requirements and i would like the board to please consider their request as it does affect so many of us here in the district although my children are just about finished there are many that have just begun and um it's something i would like you to please consider thank you thank you next is jennifer brown so hi i'm

024jennifer brown i also homeschool and i'm primarily here in support um the this smaller session you all had just a half hour ago um i homeschool our eight-year-old daughter and my husband's final words to me were jennifer don't you dare say anything but anyway um my whole thing is that i've had zero issues but also i have an eight-year-old so i've been homeschooling for what three years i mean it's so whatever some of these folks are oh my goodness veterans of this decades involved it's amazing the knowledge sitting behind me amazing so um so i'm definitely the green one i just have the bigger mouse hence my husband's warning but being that i'm on a five minute time limit i guess my whole point is that i'm not fully comprehending why the law that's written

025for homeschooling it's very simple here's what you must do and the story i don't understand why that isn't just easy to understand for pretty much everybody if i can understand it anybody really can and i'm quite certain that everyone here is following that very well because we learn from each other and i'm just sad but you're one of the steering committee members of the big league group here in rome and um though people don't necessarily come to me to ask their questions the two other steering committee members oh wealth of knowledge so uh the eyes are getting dotted the t's are getting crossed i know on this end so i'm not fully comprehending why it's having to go to the higher levels and the monetary problems of lawyers that just doesn't make any logical sense

026to me so is it a fear oh i'm afraid i'm not getting my job done in government school and i want to keep my job i would get that a job's a job and pays the bills or is there someone that we're going to socket i mean i don't see anybody in rome being mean to homeschoolers that's illogical too that would be babysitting who wants to do that so i guess my whole comment is i don't understand how it ever got to the level of having lawyers involved with something so simple of here's the law this is what needs to be taught hey homeschoolers are you teaching it awesome okay fine that's my story thanks thank um you catherine cameron catherine yeah thank you yes i'm michelle catherwood i've been homeschooling in the wrong school

027district for about 10 years um and rome has been actually a great school district to work with um in all the in these 10 years roma is one of those school districts that takes the paperwork we send in reviews it and sends it back which is very to me means a lot the time we put into doing our paperwork knowing that it's being reviewed knowing that what we are you know what the regulations we are trying to follow is being acknowledged means it means a lot and it's it's it's very helpful for us there are some districts out there that i know don't review big work um families don't even know if the paperwork is even open i know ours is and i appreciate rome for their diligence in doing their part to follow the

028regulations um that being said the last couple years have been a little bit more stressful for a lot of our homeschool families um those of us who have been doing it for a while are starting to see questions about our paperwork why are we not including things that we've always included and have been doing it for many years um and the main thing i just wanted to share is that rome has been a very good school district to work with for homeschoolers and we do appreciate it and we hope that maybe these bumps we can get through and move forward and have a good relationship we have been having these at least 10 years for me many more for jerriann and some of our other families thank you thank you thank you um just let

029you folks know you know we are not going to be able to comment on the hearings so if you're looking for an answer we can't give you one tonight okay anybody else would like to speak i'm gonna fill out a paper [Music] i feel compelled to speak to just have you guys hear our hearts as one school family my family moved to rome in 2017-2018 during the utica district prior homeschooled there for a few years so i'm still my kids did go to school and now they're homeschooled so i have public school private school and homeschool all experienced now after my daughter is um a sophomore in high school so that moving to rome school district was easy at the beginning um everything like she said our paperwork was always acknowledged um really good communication

030with katrina everything was you know good and i'm the kind of person that stresses over every report i make sure that i go through all my kids work and like dotting eyes brought some teeth and i know most homeschool parents are the same way um so also our kids love living in rome which i didn't think they would i thought they'd be begging me to move back closer to their all their old friends and their roots but they actually really enjoyed the community my husband's a pastor here and so we've put roots down in rome for the last three or four years getting to know the community we actually worked in some of the schools um doing different giveaways and helping out with like this is christmas program and all that so i'd like to

031say that um our family has definitely definitely have a love for the city of rome we also pay a lot of money in our taxes um just to live on a little city planet we all know that um so just i wanna i just want my heart is that all of us can um be together with the board with you at all times and when these things happen that there's just always that you guys know from most of this community is that we are always trying to do our best and that there's usually not an issue on our end is that we're trying to you know trying we have some malice or some ill intent we're just trying to give our kids the best education possible and follow the law and the regulation and that

032is always our heart with the district and i just wanted to communicate that and hopefully that this can get resolved for this family because their sweet family and i know that they feel the same thing thank you so i'm a little intimidated i didn't realize the weekly schoolers would be here so i have something a little bit different um but one of my first concerns and this is minor and it's been six before um but i didn't see this meeting pushed out via other avenues besides facebook i don't feel facebook is a really great informational source for all parents um it really limits who gets the information i think it's important for parents to know that there's a board meeting happening so they can voice their concerns especially when the meetings aren't on a regular

033scheduled day so this one was a little bit different so i would really love to see that information pushed out for a parent square email any way that that could possibly be done to get more parents here um i know it probably makes your job easier when we're not here another thing that i had a question on was pop-up vaccinations which you answered that earlier um does the school district plan on promoting coven 19 vaccinations to minors within the school district would really love some information sent out to parents on how that is going to be done um just i have a kindergartener so i worry about how he will get that information and if he will get that information um and would really love to see the board or any board member take a

034proactive stance and fighting back against mandatory vaccines in our younger children um really feel like it should be apparent choice and we probably know that's coming down the pipeline in new york city um there are some boards fighting back and writing letters currently whether that be to administrators up in new york state wherever that may be or other associations that you are part of so i think that would really be a huge step forward between rome city school district and parents and coming together to putting our students first again it is a parent choice if you want to do it great if you don't breathe but it should be a parent choice so thank you thank you fellow cards for mrs apartments did we get a name [Music] then oh i'm sorry i'm sorry three

035minutes oh read it [Music] if you want to leave it's really okay i just have the one pager just took some notes on here and i'll kind of talk through some of the items and if there's questions i'm happy to answer if i don't have the answer right now i brought something to write down on i can email you an answer later on okay um i guess i'll just start at the top and go down that's all right um first i want to thank the board so much for creating more support staff positions for the district um bringing in new school social workers has really helped to enhance our department and it's really helping the students so doing that however historically in this district the school counselors at the especially the elementary level have been

036doing the job of both a social worker and a school counselor and um that's been a huge burden for this department because they're really trying to do both pieces and both pieces there's too much so now that we have um almost the full um almost all the vacancies filled for school social workers we really are delving deeply into trying to decipher okay what is the school counselor role and what should it look like what should a school social worker role look like so what i've done what we've done is we've had conversations and we've pulled information from the american school counseling association as well as the um school social worker association of new york state and we've looked at what their guidance is what are they putting out there as uh as an overarching entity

037for both of those professions is what their job should look like and we've been delving deeply into that with both departments and with the administrators and we've come um and we're gonna this is gonna be a year-long process and potentially even longer than that as we bring people on board and we try to get used to what this is looking like and getting used to personalities and feeling um how this is working with each building it may look a little different but generally speaking school counselors live in a tier one world for the most part so if you're looking at a multi-shared system tier one is a large pyramid tier one's the bottom and tier one is where all students are are receiving the service so school counselors have an expertise in career development career

038awareness and career choices that happens for every student school counselors are pushing into classrooms and teaching social emotional learning bullying prevention child safety that happens for every kid in every classroom and that's mostly where school counselors do the bulk of their work that's what the guidance is telling us is where they should be doing the bulk of their work is direct contact with students and in a large setting is appropriate for them school social workers are at the top of the pyramid they're dealing with the most intense needs that children are experiencing and so they are doing um really really um spending a lot of time with individual and small groups of students and their families and delving deeply into what exactly their mental health concerns are or whatever and then connecting those families and

039students with resources in the community and pulling all of that those pieces together then in the middle is where it kind of is blended and where the two professionals have to come together and they do things together at that tier two level so you're serving um all students at tier one where the school counselors are just your most needy maybe less than five percent of your students at this tier tier three and then tier two is about 15 ish percent of your students that need more than just the universal whatever one is getting but don't quite need this super high intensity um an example of a tier three service would be mandated counseling for an iep so a student with an identified disability that requires counseling services or psychological services whatever the label is that's

040something that would be tier three tier one i talked about you know classroom lessons things like that so we've been working on that a lot and having that on those conversations and that's been a topic for a lot of the meetings that i've been having with the department both the social worker department and the counseling department um the school counseling programs there's been some updates to the program um all of us have now that they have a little bit more time in their place we're really delving into career awareness at the k-6 level they really haven't done a whole lot of career awareness um activities at that level career awareness and career on exploration kind of hand is handled mostly at the secondary level historically in this district so uh the department over the summer

041met and they've adopted some lessons that they're going to be pushing in and delivering toward the end of the year in every single grade level k6 so all of those students will be getting a career awareness lesson and these lessons are from another state actually georgia reached out and we i had a conversation with them and their their state education department approved these lessons for the entire state so they really liked them um they were really rich and diverse um diversity and and they touched on a whole bunch of different topics it was just very interesting and they wanted to try them out and see how the students here are going to like them so we we're doing that this year we're exploring um a new tool to do career exploration and we're kind of

042looking at doing that at the seventh grade level um it's a new tool the naviance tool that we are using currently at the high school to apply to colleges has a career component but it's kind of clunky and it's not really something students are interested in it's really not um the front facing is not engaging and i've been hearing that for a while now so i've found this other option we've seen some demos and we're gonna take a look more deeper look at that for our seventh graders this year the images that i have on the um on the handout are from our second step program so we've been using second step since i came here it was purchased as a kit um does anyone not know what second step is there's no clue right

043probably not really yeah okay so um okay dr fontana probably knows she's probably a family of social emotional learning programs i'm reading notes because uh one of the counselors delivered this portion to our advisory council and she takes away better notes than me um and it's a tier one universal classroom based curriculum for teaching social emotional foundational skills for all students um we have this program in our preschool all the way through eighth grade they have eighth grade lessons available this year are with the closing of staley uh we had already purchased the license for sailing and if you purchase the license by school so we slid that up to the middle school and so the middle school counselors are using this license within the middle school setting uh as well so you're seeing that

044same language the same concepts going um pre-k all the way through eighth grade right now um they have uh let's see the curriculum is aligned with trauma-informed practices restorative practices multi-tiered systems rti pbis it's got um alignment all the standards that the counseling department the social worker department do all of their work from the castle standards all of that um they have pre-recorded webinars where they choose topics that topics include um creating a caring culture trauma-sensitive practices for remote learners it's really a huge piece of it is growth mindset building positive relationships and bullying prevention it's really a holistic approach to building supportive communities for every child through social emotional learning and they use a variety of different media activities interactive components and it really kind of just engages a lot of the you know

045learners at all levels and if you look at the images they've really done uh a nice like a complete revamping to ensure that there's different cultures and different backgrounds and different ethnicities represented within the um tools that they use so you'll see um pepito mateo and his um hamster pepito and they go on the adventures and they you know they're learning through the through the different media outlets but these are just some samples um and the nicest thing for for um i guess ease of use is that they're no longer boxed kits everything is digital so when we were for example when we were um remote it was really hard to take a dvd on your laptop it was really clunky and it was very hard for them to for the counselors to even project

046the videos this is all digital and it's taking all of that away so that's been a huge relief for everybody much more easy to access the tools in the classrooms um the school counseling department as a whole has really um taken on the district's initiative to focus on dei uh if you i want to thank ms reddick for attending the advisory council meeting last week we talked a lot about this and what the school counselor role is in relation to some topics under that umbrella there is um the american school counseling association does um have a whole series of professional development they have one right now that's free for school counselors called a dei specialist um and so i pushed out to the counselors and said you know it's free right now would anybody be

047interested in taking the class and then just coming together because it's self-paced and i'm not really good at self-paced i like to have like you know deadlines and stuff otherwise like something else is more important for me so just really for my own selfish reasons i said who else wants to do this so we can maybe meet bi-weekly and give ourselves like you know deadlines and we talk about it and i've had at least um so far i've had eight counselors out of the whole department reach out and said they were also interested so there's a group of us that are going to be doing that um all of the school counselors in each of the buildings come up with a goal that they're going to work toward throughout the year and the theme this

048year i it wasn't something that i directed them to do they just kind of fell into place and i think this has to do with conversations they've had with their building administration and the needs that they're seeing throughout the buildings but all of them are focusing on some kind of umbrella of diversity equity inclusion and really helping students get connected to the building so um bellamy and denty are really focusing on increasing staff capacity as it relates to social emotional learning mindfulness and having this staff kind of internalize and then utilize some of those skill sets with students um gans ridge joy and rfa they're really their goals under the umbrella focusing on feeling students feeling connected and empowered in their schools the preschool program stokes and strau they're looking at behavioral growth and looking

049at students behaviors and again supplementing these skills to improve behaviors um a little bit about the screener i won't delve too deeply into that since mr blake talked about it already but this is really going to give us a ton of data and help us to really um take a big like sky view of the program where are the skills that students are missing and how can we supplement what we're already doing to fill those gaps with what the overall students are and it's also going to be able to help us be able to identify certain specific students that are having struggles and help them you may be in small groups or individually get them connected with additional information and skill development um i took a snapshot of i know that there's been some maybe

050some questions about allocating the staff that have come in because most of the social work positions are district-wide floating positions which has actually been really beneficial now since daley has closed and our population we're still trying to kind of feel out where the biggest needs are um so i have the social work team and the buildings that they're assigned right now on the bottom i have the numbers uh total population in each building um how many students there are with mandated counseling how many school counselors are in that building and how many school social workers are in each building and there also is this little box here that talks about the recommended ratio and this is specifically for school counselors the recommended ratio from the american school conference association is 250 students to one counselor

051the national average 1920 school year was 424 to 1. the new york state average is 361-1 in 2019 and right now if you calculate just total student population versus total school counselors we have the average is 260 to one so we're real close and there was actually um a map that i found from 2015 they did a real deep dive into every single state and every single county um how many what the ratios were and um back in 2015-16 we were the lowest ratio all around us of all the counties all the school districts around us except for colin panton was like a little bit less of a ratio than we were um so i think as a whole we're doing really well with this type of support for students we're way above and beyond

052what other places are doing i can tell you i have friends that work in the utica district their elementary schools don't even have a school counselor assigned to them um that they just don't so we're really doing a great job as far as we can um that being said uh there's been a lot of um up people this year we're seeing a lot you know in and out back and forth on unknowns people um we talked about this that the advisory council mr reddick can probably speak listed a little bit um you know people lost their space you know a lot of those folks had now shared classrooms they have to share an office they're sitting closer than than i am to anybody here in an office all day um where they were used to

053being able to have their own office be able to kind of shut their door have their own space have their own organization now they have to share space with someone else and i think it's really taking a toll on folks just in general in the schools um and it's hard and we're doing the best we can and also counselors in general generally are helpers and so other folks go to them for help and so you're absorbing as a counselor absorbing all of the energy that the students are putting out but also that the staff are putting out intentionally but it's hard it's extra hard this year so i want to just um thank everybody for for giving us the extra help as a as a team um the the new folks that have come on

054board are phenomenal they're acclimating really well i've been touching this with them regularly um and everything for them um they're just super excited to help kids so um what questions do you have i think i went over pretty much everything hi hi i have a question oh please um you say that you know the students that are listed there are mandated counseling could you talk about how that mandating works so those are students with ieps and the part of their iep has have counseling written into it as part of their program but as i put on here counseling can look different so some students may have individual counseling um once a week or once every six-day cycle through elementary some students might have once a month some students might get their counseling services in a

055group setting so there might be you know multiple kids in a let's say four students in a group working on the same type of skills uh some students just are a consultant so they just kind of more if not informally but they're they're touching base with their with their social worker um or whoever the provider is um they're not having to have a formal 30-minute session or whatever um so it looks a little different but generally speaking those are like just the raw numbers i didn't want to throw too much data at you right now i mean i have a question about um at first i want to thank you for all you do we are fully aware of the toll that has taken on all of you as staff and our kids so thank

056you you have a tough job um help me resolve this is something i've mentioned before but i don't think to you to me when the kids get to seven through twelve particularly nine through twelve to me that school counselor is so consumed with um college and career readiness and academic planning um so even though the numbers seem like oh you have six counselors i feel like so much more of their day at rfa would be consumed with making kids schedules you know the phone calls i get from my own child's guidance counselor are you know here's your child's ranking can i get the letter for his recommendations you know is his schedule ready does he have enough credits and i feel like how do we free them up to offer mental health support if there

057is such a huge load on them for that academic planning because it's so unique there versus kasich so i would say that um are you talking just specifically at this seven through twelve levels well right because i feel like i feel like the role of a school counselor at that level is al is more towards that when they walk in every day that's what they're checking as a kid going to class is a kid passing or failing as a kid where i feel like our elementary counselors get to do a little more of the touchy feely how are you the social emotional learning all of that so are we providing enough support given what we know about kids mental health particularly i mean kids mental health rooms declining already pre-covered now we're trying to get

058kids back and kids are struggling and so now it's a double whammy right your counselors are like oh my gosh i have to make sure these kids are caught up and can graduate but hey how are they doing day by day so i guess i look at six and i look at 1.8 social workers and that seems like oh for 1500 students great but i know that those six school counselors are spending so much more of their day on academic needs so i think in general right at the elementary level like i've said there's not a lot of career development happening like career awareness happening it's really heavy on the social emotional learning anti-bullying safety type conversations with school counselors and at the secondary level it is more career focused um and that's just how

059that's just the nature of those conversations and really if you're doing it well by the time they get up there they learn those foundational skills from the elementary from k-8 they've got they've learned those skills from their counselor and so at the high school it's really more about advocacy and self-advocacy and reaching out and knowing what my resources are and then going and finding those resources so i think at the high school um if you remember we we um we did not continue our contract with safe schools and so there's that preventative piece that's not there and once that is ref you know once we if we've created a new position and we're talking about some of that tonight to to bring some of that support back so i think if you have more preventative

060work there if you have some more preventative options available you don't just need a school counselor now you have other options so one of the so specifically rfa i'm just gonna i pull out their their annual goal for this year um specifically their goal is um by the by sometime in june they could say june 24th um nine through twelfth grade students at rfa will have an increased awareness of the mental health resources available to them within the school and the community and so what they've done is they've assessed the students they did a survey they canvassed a subsection not every kid it's a little too hard you know to get all of them to take the survey but they did a subsection and um they found that only 25 of students that they that

061completed the survey did not know where to go so they're looking at closing that gap and bringing it higher so that even so 75 of kids know of at least one or two adults in the building that they can go to if they're struggling and they want to increase that from 75 up to at least 88 so they're doing a whole marketing campaign and they've talked more deeply about it um at the council about all the different ways that they're marketing all of the resources available to students um so it's not just the school counselors load that they have to carry there are other options right high school and there's other programs and there's other individuals so i think that at the high school that's the bigger thing is making them aware of what's available

062and how to get connected with what's available to them so that brings me to the next two questions which are um we had a great presentation early in the summer from a student and i know that you are an advocate of peer counseling yeah how can we as a board help you to get there and my follow-up questions and what other ways can we help you what else do you need to serve our kids in this very unusual climate um i've been meeting with that student um several times he and i've had many conversations after he presented here um and he's um he's doing some great stuff on his own um he's just he's just an inquiring mind like he's just one yeah that just likes to like learn new stuff and gather information and

063analyze it from this topic to that topic um i'm working on uh with mr lebaron and the team up there um we're working on implementing teen mental health first aid at the high school um there's been some technical issues with that the age of the organization that oversees it is not really readily available for technical assistance um but that's something that we're working on so when i get more information from them about how that can be rolled out that would be something that is exactly what you're saying it's peers learning about mental health and how to get if they how to recognize a peer is struggling and then how to get that fear connected with an adult that will get them the help that they need um i think just uh i would encourage you

064to reach out to the counselors and ask them what they need you know um i hear i hear conflicting answers when i ask that question right so i'll say what do you need and like we need more help and then i say okay well maybe you know we have a new social worker coming where is she gonna go we don't have any room for her where's she gonna stay with me so it's like you know um so if we can get a new elementary school that would be important we are on we're trying to i know well i can't do that you guys have to do that so that's what you can do that's what you can do get that focus and get that off the ground um honestly because that's i think i think

065that's a big struggle because people had to give up their space and um and they were they did our kids right on our kids i have a quick question yeah i just want to i want to drop back to the elementary piece of it and go back to the tears that you were talking about um so our social workers they've been around for how long not very long this year well we had some before this right yeah so courtney has been here for about five years this is her sixth year and then after that we had a middle school position open and i can't i think that was maybe four years ago three or four years ago okay well we're not talking about it we've got six social workers right the other ones just got

066so five new positions started this year okay so i guess my question is is prior to the social workers particularly in the elementary school you say we have these these tiers tier one is kind of a career oriented tier three is kind of high iep type kids and then you have the shade of gray in in the middle so prior to the social workers coming on the school counselors were kind of handling all three of these tiers correct yeah so in the elementary level because you you know it's not very career focused as far as what uh a school counselor is doing with kids that age as opposed to what tommy's talking about stroud rfa so now you've got the social workers in working with the counselors what exactly i mean how is it because

067obviously the counselors were i'm assuming qualified to handle those tier three kind of issues prior to a social worker coming and so would it how is it kind of divvied up now because i would assume that there's not a whole lot of tier one type stuff at the elementary level does that make sense am i making sense you are i'm gonna clarify for a quick second i would say that most school counselors were not qualified to handle tier three they did it out of necessity and that's how most school districts operate across the state that's not uncommon so they do the best of what they have but there's not a whole lot of specific training essentially tier three is trauma students experiencing trauma you're not taught like i think you said five percent right every

068student at an elevation level should be receiving tier one services every single kid in this building so and what does that look like for classroom construction going in doing classroom unit lessons on the second step like she's mentioning here um one thing that's changed dramatically that i i think a lot of people don't realize is that the past five ten years new york state has started implementing counseling standards which before and i think as you heard her talk about the the map of 2015 and the number of ratio the ratio you can see how despair it is and that's because most places never paid attention to it rome was well in front of this curve way before i even got here a man a guy here rome has been a a trailblazer in terms of

069making sure that their kids have counselors in their schools um so what you're what you're dealing with right now is a cross-section of people who are very veteran counselors for most of their career there were no real standards no real direction it was you're there you support kids you do what you got to do you mostly you're triaging every day right what family needs is this there wasn't classroom instruction there wasn't requirements all of those things are kind of new and um we're not like anywhere else you've got a subsection of counselors that are trying to adapt to a new environment that it probably for some doesn't feel comfortable because what you've probably done for 15 20 years you still have the skills to do it right you can't i would argue to say all

070of our counselors have the ability to do it trauma informed one-on-one triage with a parent family whatever otherwise they won't be school counselors that's why they do the job and especially if they've been doing it they've got experience right you learn to experience but there is a there are some new requirements that we have to do that were just not being done before because our counselors as you mentioned were covering all three of these tiers so and i don't think anyone at the table would disagree with this if you have to pick between doing a classroom lesson on in fourth grade for career development of any kind versus a family or a student in trauma you're probably going to choose to tell the teacher in the fourth grade i'm not going to be there today

071i got a situation in trauma and as we all know that happens unfortunately more often than we prefer so i don't know if that totally answered your question i want to make sure there's some things out there that have changed the role of a school counselor that we're we are fortunate that we have both counselors and social workers to be able to start doing that work it's just not easy and i think that's why she started with the work that the counselors and social workers are trying to do together to understand who can do what it's it's going to be bumpy for several years um until folks just understand a little bit more that no one's here to take anybody's work we all just need to work together and and do we tend to support

072kids so from the seo perspective isn't that something that required now like isn't that like a stated i mean just like we're now moving towards dei being you know the board of regents is looking at this and state that is looking at this as a foundational piece isn't the seo more like a required piece of how we instruct now at the elementary k-8 k-8 level yes that's where those classroom lessons come in they're covering that part of the requirements to make sure that students are receiving instruction social emotional career development all those pieces and then do our counselors involved in the buildings um with pbis yep i think each individual building eis looks different but the counselors are by and far sitting on those committees and having from our board perspectives in both programs and

073in policy you know we enact policy and dasa uh the dei policy um you know all require us to have some type of committees happening and then you also have pdis so we're always looking at um from a practicality of how many hours you all have in the day but also how much we have to budget for those services uh you know or that programming can we can we do our best um if they overlap does that make sense does it make sense to keep those things together so that we are um as you've always pointed out doing well horizontally and vertically right and and not um competing but working in concert so um that's important to know because i know we have been trying to get more consistent with having pbs and all the

074buildings as you mentioned we're going to be looking at restorative practices that's really the way we want to move and we are really wanting to look at everything through an equity lens so you know i think that's just an invaluable part of what the counselor does and and taps into so okay okay so if you're looking at this chart these three these middle schools here it's an enormous number of kids that are at the schools follow me 609 dentist 605 and then gans 431 and then you're moving along mandated counseling is 22 over at bellamy but then you keep going on and they only have one social worker um it seems like it would be an impossible task to touch every one of those kids even for a basic thing and i know for a

075fact how much trauma is happening over in the the dens in the in the bellamy area um is there any talk of moving somebody else over there is there any talk of um extra help maybe extra hands i mean 609 kids with mandated counseling for 22 of them and then only three people on the floor it seems like a lot well if you look at it though three is the most any school has except for the high school in the middle school well but that's also they have a nice mandate and i'll also tell you that um of those 22 most of them are getting group counseling i did um i didn't like i said i didn't want to bombard you with data but the majority of those students those 22 mandated counseling students are

076group counseling or consults and so those can be touched um all at once you know what i mean so you don't have to have individual meetings with 22 kids you're having a group meeting with three or four of them so they just it's much more manageable that way than to have individual meetings with every single student so when you do it like that do you have to go in and change it through their ieps they have them at their annual meetings yes they get it's adjusted at their um csc meetings right yep okay just seems like awfully big numbers for yeah such a small amount of people i completely agree and that's why they've had the two counselors and a full-time social worker this whole time that um that social worker's been there since the

077first day that's when we look at the number of our our average 260 one but to um to anna's point i mean at ridge mills the student to counselor ratio is 189 to 2. but at bellamy where we know we have a huge need it's 342. so i guess that's a question that we have to ask as a board is do we want to cap do we do we want to look at a ratio when we're budgeting for counseling staff and we're approving positions or or you're coming to us and saying this is where we need help we have to we need you know we need to have a better understanding of that right do we have a goal is that something we want as a board goal of how many counselors to students we

078feel is important for us to have um because i don't know that i mean the mandated number i don't know it's just keeping in mind that right now there's no social worker there but it's when they actually reached out to me um right now they're feeling like they're managing they're managing all of that was too close on people and there weren't two clothesline people there before staley was closed right so you know i i will tell you that you have to find a balance right right of um so you know it's i know it's not perfect there's no real answer and again the this is um this is like a year-long process we're reviewing this every two weeks going through and touching base with people and like where are your needs at where is your

079space where do you you know are you are you feeling better are you feeling good you need more so like we're having those conversations on an ongoing basis they're happening all the time is it possible that the need is going to shift and that staffing will shift as possible yeah important thing is that all the students needs are being taken care of so that's the important thing yeah and again we're having more now than other places have at all i mean you will not find another elementary school with three full-time support you know social worker and school counselors there you just won't no you won't find that anywhere look around any other district if you find one i would be shocked listen i'm all for being the leader that's that's not a bad thing for

080us to be it doesn't feel like it's a lot and and remember too i don't know if you've been in the buildings or not but at bellamy you've got both counselors the social worker and the community school site coordinator sharing a room but i was going to ask that for that about how does communities come into that because that is the next piece right they are the conduit to the outside services that you can kind of back you up here so i had um thought about including that but i feel like that's like a whole other presentation that you might want to have a different night with melissa royce and miranda nashua me to talk about how that whole program um has changed and evolved this year i could talk a whole night about that

081you know what i mean i think that would be really important for all of us because i think those are questions we've had as well i know they would love to come and talk about it [Music] okay any other questions thank you thank you guys so much for being so supportive of the team i mean they they really um appreciate everything you're doing we need like 100 more of y'all i know they do um i know that there was one building that's asking for a heated tent so they could hold some groups outside where are the platforms there we go [Music] thank you have a good night [Music] he doesn't see enough thank you all [Music] yeah well i'll tell you what i was freaking out because i saw that person standing and i was

082like it just freezes someone texted me and said we can still hear you even though we were frozen so i don't know oh no my son's teacher just asked me if i'd be the mom for the guinea pig over thanksgiving to be accepted by the board of education right [Applause] finance action item number one resolution to adopt budget calendar resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the 2022 2023 budget calendar be adopted by the board of education and move the resolution picks up change orders 2019 capital improvement project whereas the board of education of the rome city school district the board of education previously authorized this 2019 capital improvement project for the project and whereas during the course of the project certain changes to the work covered by various contracts have been

083determined by labelle associates dpc the project architect to be required and whereas the project architect and the involved contractor will prepare sign and submit for both change orders change order for the following work as listed there whereas the board of education has determined that it is in the best interest of the school district to approve the proposed changes and separate proposed change orders now therefore be it resolve this follows one the board of education approved the changes set out in this revolution two the board of education hereby authorizes the president of the board to sign the change orders on behalf of the board of education and take all actions necessary or convenient proceed under the contracts as amended by the change orders in connection with the project three the board of education hereby authorizes the

084superintendent of schools to sign the new york state education department required certification in connection with each change order take all the actions necessary or convenience to satisfy applicable change order certification and filing requirements four upon board of education approval this relationship take effect immediately i move the resolution where does this put this on on the overall budget because you've now had several change orders we sent that update with the update on friday the full budget was in there we're still several million shy of we're still playing at phase three yeah what's 20 million left all right i'm sure it was there was a lot this week okay is the electronic system that goes into the pool the patch and then it's all got to be wired under the pool deck so when we when we

085tore up the pool deck to start the bonding we found some rotted uh conduit that was metal and i asked them to replace the entire system because i wasn't comfortable with exposed wire under concrete [Music] no all in favor okay uh committee report we met on tuesday didn't uh i think we talked about some of the stuff that was on here um talking about the budget calendar which my next committee meeting will be tuesday november 9th no that was [Music] december 7th at 10 a.m [Music] working on the agenda i think peter had some ideas for that but just to reiterate you know what i said before and kind of a little bit of what you've been hearing tonight um we have i think facilities wise we have two major things that we should be

086tracking as a as a facilities subcommittee one is all the work that we're doing under the nh performance contracts and under the capital the existing capital project which you heard about the pool tonight there's there's a lot of things there and uh we you're seeing it piecemeal you're seeing an inform in terms of what's happening on a given week and peter uh usually addresses it in his weekly updates has a has an item on the capital project and and that's that's really good and i think i i personally have gotten more comfortable in terms of having an understanding of what's been accomplished and what is ongoing and the area that i think we're less informed about is the is the way forward in other words how are we going to solve the the lack of

087elementary classrooms that that amanda mentioned in her presentation or if you visited any schools recently which i happened to not i didn't visit the schools but i was near the schools i observed a morning session morning arrival at stoke school which is kind of close to where i live and you know they do a great job up there of handling eight buses and probably nearly a hundred vehicles all arriving with students somewhere between maybe 10 minutes to nine to 10 minutes after nine it's amazing how that happens but it's scary if you know turn road it's a high-speed road there are no there's not a light there there's nothing like you see in a lot of you know when school is in session 20 mile an hour speed you know none of that and people

088are entering and leaving that building in the same manner from in both directions and arriving in both directions it is really scary if they get if you're making a left-hand turn i'll enroll into that you're sitting out there like a you know sitting it is it is i'm on that road a lot and i tell you it is scary because it's just crazy these days and there's a lot of traffic in both directions and and that's not i think untypical but that's a configuration because that is on a very high speed road i was talking to karen the other night and she mentioned a similar situation at richmond ridge mills it's got a light there and it's like yeah 45 miles an hour yeah but it's very congested it's too closer to the road yes

089right and there's the point i'm making is there's a reason for people to be slowing up and stopping you that's not true in stokes those those if you're not going to the school you're barreling north or south and you're not thinking about there's there's nothing in that area you've already passed stewards if you're going south there's nothing there except the school and at those particular times of the day we should have what was i said that before you should have the flashing lights building it's got a lot of students in it and with our busting situation we probably have i don't know what's normal in terms of all right we have less buses yes we've encouraged people to now drive their kids and then we put them all in this position i can't even get

090there i couldn't believe i was trying to keep track of the number of private vehicles that were going in and out of there and that works for a time frame because it's one big open space in front of us there's no light here and here it's like [Music] future are we going to redistrict are we going to build a school what are we going to do because those problems are not going away without space i mean you heard from amanda over and over again i mean we've got pretty much all our space spoken for right now i would guess maybe there's a school someplace that doesn't have an issue like this but i think there's a couple that do and and it's it's it's not something we can ignore and i think the key to

091it is what peter mentioned earlier and we've got a redistricting study looking at things like where do our students live what is our busing problems i mean we know we got busing problems but where are they why why are you if we had a few more buses or a few more drivers all that problem go away probably not because we still got to get the kids from where they live to the schools maybe we could do a little more efficiently so that that for me that's number one i'd like to see anything we can do to get visibility i think would make a worthwhile uh discussion at facilities i mean the other things like you just got a little stairs report on on the change orders at rfa you know we can pretty much handle

092that as a you know in our regular meetings we can do it we can review it but we're not set up right now we don't have the contractual structure we sort of hear it in real time or after the fact what happened in various projects discussing facilities stop on social media you'll hear all about it you'll never go into your social media i was just going to bring that up because that's happening on the 29th but the facilities meeting is on the 16th should we have the first facilities meeting after he presents what i would hope we would look at at the facilities meetings are the things that peter is talking about potentially putting forth first because if you remember lisa says just since you and i have been on the board we have had

093presented to us variations of sports facilities variations of we know paul mentioned there were plans on correct for the entrances to the buildings to make them more secure and the parking areas so i think we should at least get a handle on what we thought we wanted to do and i think another important thing that i'm still an advocate of this building condition you know we kind of got blindsided by how much more rfa needed than we anticipated it needing so i think we have to be conscientious of that too of what what's coming i mean let's face it stokes is 15 years 15 years ago so i mean now it's time to start thinking about is something that are these buildings gonna need something so because i think in your time here paul that's

094something that you focus on in facilities is being more proactive and more maintenance oriented than reactive to well thankfully the district focused on it there were a lot of forcing functions like mentioned before like concerns about the roof loading back in the early 2000s but that drove us into a program where almost all of our buildings have been upgraded you know in many respects so so the buildings that haven't been in the ones that are doing that's sort of the good news i think part of this [Music] if you love data come to our meeting on december 6th because we're going to have a lot of it that's all folks i thought today action item number one uh resolution to appoint instructional personnel long-term substitute resolve that upon the recommendation to the school's board of

095education here by appointment following instructional personnel from substitute uh julie becker cornado occupational therapist vs 30 step 10 plus ms salary 56 95 are rated effective day 11 10 20 20 21 to 6 30 20 22 resolution second resolution to appoint non-instructional personnel provisional was all that upon the recommendation of superintendent of schools the board of education here by appoints following non-instructional personnel provisional uh geraldine q rfa uh physicians office specialist 10 month seven and a half hours per day salary is 23 541 prorated detective date november 29 2021 i remove the resolution in the discussion okay what is this it's cause i was looking at it is um non-instructional personal probationary so that upon the recommendations from schools the board of education here by points following non-instructional personnel probationary as listed in the agenda

096at page eight i move the resolution second second by mr sorry about that okay that's including that the change that that mr blake had mentioned on mr waldron that's correct any further discussion all right actually i'm four resolution to accept retirement that upon the recommendation of chief school of board of education hereby accepts with regret the retirement of the following individuals josephine and sarah school psychologist straus effective date march 1st 2022 resolution second second david of the super current schools board of education nearby points following winner coach uh coaching personnel matthew dominic growth monitoring basketball at a salary four thousand eight o'clock number 15 2021 through march 1 2020 extracurricular uh personnel uh as listed in the resolution at page nine i move the resolution second and then i'm mr bowie in the discussion recall

097seeing some of these names um to do some other for the positions during those events uh is this the implication of that or no so even as you see here brian is listed twice it just provides the opportunity to do either or they're not doing that at the same time but they can't do one or the other and and get paid legally without them okay i'm sorry about that though anybody anyone approached what can carry uh action 97 resolution and voluntarily transfer staff resolve it upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools of board of education here by involuntarily transfers the calling staff sabrina amato teacher assistant john joy and cheyenne paul teacher assistant from john joy club second by mrs any discussion [Music] all in favor say hi all right support specialist and move

098the resolution package monitoring in the javascript [Music] so now we get the position of the description approve the next step as we can post yep well i see that in the description you use irt function of iot to assist that yes which is okay it said facilitated which is probations that's what probation usually does well usually the people in our building they work together yes i know chris yes works with sarah very well yes so we hope to post these this week and bring uh candidates forward at the first december meeting for appointments here we should have grammatically correct documents leaving faith all favor say aye 2022 school year resolve that upon the recommendation of superior schools the board of education here by appointing following teacher mentors for the 2021-2022 school year as listed in

099the agenda at page 10. uh i moved the resolution my name is [Music] uh uh resolution to appoint coordinator for the after school program for 2021 2022 school year resolved that i found the recommendation of the superintendent of schools board of education here by appointed uh coordinator for the after school program for 2021 2020 school year as listed in the resolution [Music] because i just had a curious question because she's also responsible for doing the tutoring uh getting the paperwork for the kids that have been um suspended but that's where the difference is she knows what the rates are yeah so well i guess so i guess i'm wondering from our perspective of the overall budget for this because we are about to approve a couple of other additional items on average is this a

100a newer program or do we know on average what our sum total averages out to be or how many hours of dedicated time that is uh i can't tell you what it is i know that it's two hours a day i can tell you that the amount we spent on this type of work five years ago was well north of seven hundred thousand at least and now we're down closer to three i believe three hundred thousand a year i can't i i i think it's a very into the information but we we spend a lot less on the reorganization of the program than we once did well because we got rid of the tutorial center correct or yeah that was not there was issues with that i mean it's a very necessary service particularly but

101i just want to make sure that it's sustainable i would say it's easily sustainable yeah it's not enough have we not been providing this right now or the after school we just started we had to get transportation up and running to make sure and then we had to make sure we get kids home so now that we've got all the kinks worked out on the regular day transportation now we can get the after school transportation we're going to pull up an improvement discussion thank you all favorites today accident 11 resolution to a point tutor for the obstacle program for 2021 2022 school year resolved that upon the recommendation of superintendent school board of education hereby appoints the following tutors for the after school program for 2021 2022 school year as listed in the resolution on

102page 11. i move the resolution second second are these people going to be there every night or they're going to take turns like they're going to have different ships you know what i'm saying because i assume it's going to be monday through thursday okay resolution to appoint tutors for the after school program for 2021 2022 school year dissolve that upon the recommendation of supermarket schools board of education nearby points following tutors for the aft school program for 2021 2022 school year uh as listed in resolution [Music] people operations agenda second [Applause] david and inspection all in favor all right okay we got it okay so action item 13 resolution to create positions that upon the recommendation of superintendent schools the board of education hereby approves the creation of the following positions interim principal ecp and

103my teacher enl stokes davis [Music] school district records resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the schools the second reading and adoption of policy one one two zero school district records be accepted by the board of education i need the resolution second anonymous any discussion resolution to accept the second reading and adoption of policy 1100 public information program resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the second reading and adoption of policy 1100 public information program be accepted by the board of education i move the resolution any discussion on paper say hi item three resolution to accept the second reading and adoption of policy number one one three zero media relations resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools the second reading and adoption of policy one one three zero

104media relationship by the board of education i move the resolution and to keep our momentum going our next meeting will be this coming monday the 15th at 4 30 and i forwarded agenda items to patty today here i'm not sure if you saw my note on that of whether or not you wanted the two policies which the two the regulations the two sexual rights and policies are we ready to move forward did you have time to i haven't done any cross-referencing of my dogs in the tubes so let's hold on to those so don't include those padding on the agenda the zero thank you okay thank you davis living in miscellaneous business [Music] one more time um so just to talk about some things that we've been doing in the school right now we are

105doing our canned food drive um that's going to go until november 19th it's always been very successful and right now we have had a lot of donations so it's continuing to be successful this year is that going to the wrong restaurant we have discussed many options i don't know if you have a set plan of where we want to distribute them to yet but that's something we're probably going to talk in our next meeting our next staff meeting another thing we're doing for our community is um every year we do christmas cards for the nursing homes so that's something we're starting we do that through leo club and through stats and actually our club's doing it this year as well um picture retakes we had to push that back because our ids did not come

106in at a scheduled time they are in now we are distributing them through our lunch periods but picture retakes will be november 19th so you can go during our lunch periods because kids didn't know if they liked their pictures or not so we had to push back the date so there's that that is important and we have our um anticipated date for open mic night is going to be december 14th so that's something we finally got off the ground and we're excited to do it this year and that's what we have going on so far sas is going very good yes excellent thank you and congratulations again thank you that's me okay um any other business i have a question we have a couple of kids that go to church school in the mornings and

107they were holding off on approaching people for busting because they go in the morning and then the bus brings them to their school when can we figure that out i haven't heard anything about it well it hasn't happened so it usually happens it's just something that they've always done they have church school in the morning then the bus brings them till their elementary school and that's it and i know a lot of our hockey players do that and it's getting in the way of their practice night so they're having to pick one or the other i would say whoever's in charge of program should reach out to us is the first i've even heard of it yeah they did and they said it was because of blessing so we're waiting to work out the kinks

108with blessing but if we have a number yeah some kids are missing practice for him thank you okay i will entertain emotion going to executive session david the uh of individuals contract negotiations in legal matters all papers [Music] nice