SCCSD Board of Education Meeting - September 23, 2025

001All right. Can we stand also school district acknowledges the homeland of the anandwaka the people of the great hill the senica people on whose ancestral and modern day land school district now stands and whose water we enjoy. We stand with all indigenous peoples in their resolve to remain connected to their land. While we cannot undo what has been done, it is the goal of the Santa Monica City Central School District to recognize the history and make improvements that will benefit the next seven generations of indigenous students. >> Right. All right. Uh, board president Teresa Ray is on the phone and unable to attend the meeting tonight. So, you all are stuck with me again. Um, so we'll start off with um approving the agenda. We haven't changed. >> We do. We have uh just a

002couple. Um, we added 4 C, which is a conference for Mrs. Beaver to attend Ignite Reading Convention. Um, under 7A, there were a couple personnel changes. Uh, we removed Tammy Davies, uh, confidential secretary, as she declined the offer after this, uh, was initially put out on Thursday. We removed the student teacher section, um, as she changed her major. And we added Margaret Tingley um, as confidential secretary to replace the Tam Davies who declined the audience. So, can I have a motion to approve the agenda? Motion by Dale. Second. Who's that? Second by Ted. Are there any questions? All in favor? >> Any opposed? Any extended? Both are carried. >> Okay. Uh, communications. Uh, do we have any public communication or title six parent advisory committee? >> Uh, Mr. Miller um acknowledged that he was not

003able to attend tonight and that he did not have any updates for the title six or >> no public. >> All right, moving right along. Central office message. >> Who's go first? >> I'll go first. Uh we're off to a great start of the school year. September is flying by. Um we had an amazing start. We had our first round with Exact Path, our new testing diagnostics across the district in grades K through 10. great success with that. Um we're really happy with the reports that we're getting from the platform. We're able to really take the diagnostic results and drill deep into our students needs. We're going over those with grade level teams um and admin meetings as well. And we're also celebrating our successes while identifying areas of need. On September 15th, we celebrated

004international day. So our students were recognized for their individuality and making their mark on the world. And if you haven't had a chance to look on Facebook, Dr. be able to read you the story if you're not familiar with it. >> Great. >> Uh September 16th, we recognize our tech department and September 18th, we recognize our security department. And I just want to say thank you. Those are two departments that sometimes get overlooked, but they are essential to the work that we do. So, thank you to them. Keep up the great work everybody. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Um I got a couple things actually. Um we had a great um CJS program over the summer. We had 17 students um be able to work in different areas of the district and we'll be

005um applying for that again. Uh Sandy Brothers, our grants administrator will be presenting on that um in in upcoming uh board agenda. Uh cafeteria, we received a fresh fruit and vegetable program. So, pre-K to six get um either fresh fruits or vegetables twice a week as an afternoon snack. So, we received 43,800 in order to do that. Um we had a super successful summer program. We served 6,130 meals in the in the 20 four days that we were open. Um so, it's about 256 meals a day, which is very very cool. Lunchtime saw a 38% increase over last year. and breakfast was brand new. So, we served 2588 meals for breakfast. Um, with the lunch prospect saw the largest increase with a 73% increase in high school and center that increased um 20%. And as

006you saw um Rich had his uh buildings all span for opening days and as Mark had indicated, transportation didn't lose anybody. So, school started off great. >> That's it. And one little last tidbit is our food truck is being wrapped. >> Stay tuned. >> That's all. >> Send pictures. >> Jan, do you have anything for us? >> I do not. Thank you for asking. All right. >> So, let's see here. Who do I want to call? Who wasn't here last time? Who missed the There you go. You're first tonight, Janet. I always like to take an opportunity, especially early in the school year, to thank all of our departments. Um, it is always chaotic and hectic early on, but this this year, I've been very proud to be a part of some of our our

007events. Obviously, most of them are athletic events, but they're they're moving through with these. And transportation, we've been on point for most of our most of our trips. and and just those little details for an athletic director mean a lot. So, I appreciate everybody, including, you know, the board here who who helped provide us with a beautiful facility that is now open and we're getting great um response for for our soccer events and things that are going on back there, including tennis where we're still recruiting for more tennis players. We have beautiful courts out there, but everything's coming together well and that's just a real sense of pride for us. So, I appreciate that. And um the other thing it's just it's hard to believe that we're already through homecoming week and that we're already

008we're moving we're moving quickly. It's hard to hard to believe. In terms of athletics, we started on the 18th of August. So it already feels like we're moving forward. So homecoming week this week, we've got a lot of activities going on. We're trying to promote school spirit by getting our teams to go to different um different teams events, swim and volleyball, soccer and things like that. So across the board, uh pretty good start. Great weather. So other than class, so everything's been good. >> Awesome. >> Thank you, sir. Who else wasn't here last night? >> Mr. Haley, what do you got for us? >> Well, we we had a good start so far. Uh we have a new cook that's in the high school Sonica kitchen. She was a food service helper. She's been doing

009a great job. Got a really good team now. Um we're still one short. We should be getting but we should be filling that position um this week with a new employee starting tomorrow actually. Um so we're excited about that. Garden is wrapping up. Bernanks did a great job this summer with our garden program. If you haven't you haven't seen it yet by the corner my skates. >> So yeah, just thanks again was out there watering a lot this summer. I filled in for him a couple times when he was there. Today he's not here. I was digging the compost. That's a lot of work. So good. >> More than that. Yeah, we're >> How many meals have you served so far? >> Oh, jeez. That's a lot. >> Um, I don't know off the end,

010but I should use that. >> Oh, I was ask Karen had a number for some. >> All right. Who else wasn't at the last board meeting? All right. Well, let's what's going on in the world of transportation started off really well. Um, we have a great staff down there and they do a phenomenal job every day and we're grateful that they're there to help us get through what we need to get through. We're diligently looking for more employees. I have a few that I spoke to that are probably going to come on board and start with one with the training program. The other is a shuttle driver. We're gaining ground, but we lose just as much gain. How many positions do we have for bus drivers? Uh, well, let's see. We have 25 in district

011runs and we have out of district is van runs small bus runs. If I can get it right top exact same or short drivers. We have one young lady that uh was expecting and she's way early and she's now at the hospital. So she's out and the gentleman is we have another gentleman his wife had a baby pays off. So even shorter but uh staff is stepping up and making it happen. >> Yeah. So, we started the year a few short, >> a few short, at least four. Um, if the district needs to get to a one start time, we're probably nine short for both both areas prospecting here. If they want to dismiss and start at the same time, we need Yeah. >> Thank you, >> Carrie. To answer your question to John, through

012the 17th of September, they served 16,265 meals. already. >> All right. Thank you for that. >> Yeah. All right. Who else was at last meeting? Where are you? >> All right. What do you got for us? >> You know, I just like Karen said my staff in this meeting, I just want to give a thumbs up or thank you to all of them. They they I haven't been able to get them together and I can tell them they did a great job this summer. They super job. Everything that was done, taken care of. Always I love them when the hallway shine. I don't want to make them slippery, but I want them to shine, you know. Um we got tons of things going on with the project construction. I don't know if you guys heard

013much about Martin told you, but you know, getting things ready there. Things are coming together a little bit. I hope very soon. You know, we see some real final drawings and things like that. I like that prospect's going to be a little bit of a challenge, I think, still, but it's coming together well. A new bus garage. I can't wait. I don't know. We get that yet. We're still We still waiting for the land. >> Oh, we're close. >> Very, very, very close. >> That um we just purchased a a new uh blower this week. It's a driveable blower that we use for the track, for park, for leaves, and it's almost like something you see in NASCAR. Okay. And it and my guys tell me it does a wonderful job. I haven't even been

014able to see that yet. I came yesterday on I was off and today I didn't get over it. But today, Derek said it just amazing what that thing does. And I'd like you guys to see that sometime. I have to get it out here and let you see. But it's pretty pretty awesome. So it just it blows everything. Just cleans it right off. The needles and whatever else. But it's it's a drive self-propelled. It's self-propelled. But looks like something you see in NASCAR almost >> picturing jet engine. >> Yeah. It's very much like that. It looks like just a big colar 26 Colar motor, but it sounds and looks just like that. >> Yeah, but other than that, no, we're just going, you know, great guns with everything. So, I'm really proud of my staff,

015which is good. >> Awesome. All right, let's hear from the principles. Who wants to go first? >> Jump in. >> Hey, there you go. >> Uh, update. So, since the first bell ring, students have just been outstanding. Um I think everyone was a little on edge with the new phone policy in uh law through New York State. Our students have for the most part been live staff has done a great job of keeping students aware of it and the communication is out there. So parents are tuned in. Please make sure your students remember to put their phones in the lockers. Been doing a great job so far. Um as stated it's spirit week. The student body has just been phenomenal in celebrating spirit week. um from the various days. When you leave here, you'll see

016some of the hallways being decorated. That's incredible. Um proud to announce that several of our juniors and seniors been accepted into a county government internship programs once a week on Wednesdays where they get to dabble and get some experience as to what the happenings within our county government. Um and that was a big part of of sourcing kudos out to Miss McGar and Miss Beaver for helping find that funding and make that happen for our students is in true warrior fashion. Um academically I'll touch on two areas off to a strong start. Uh students not being one of the areas but in general have been in class on time and following expectations talk daily about making an impact on their education investing in what we offer here. science department diving into nextgen standards and exploring

017ways to help students, you know, deepen their learning. I'm just going to take a minute. Uh we have a staff later on the agenda, but I think just when you bring this positive atmosphere and attitude to some should be recognized. We got an email earlier from Mrs. Kelly Gowski who's joining us next week. Um, if I can just read it quickly, I'd love to do that because it throws kudos to a lot of people needs to be done. >> By all means. >> Uh, each one of my secondary science collaborative learning community workshops kicks off with a round of teachers sharing successes and hopes. This past week, I asked for a volunteer to start us off and Robbie Frasier enthusiastically was the first teacher to raise his hand. Your spirit right there, come up. Uh,

018he was excited to share with the group that his students were fluent in the science practices. a significant portion the newest rendition of the New York State Science Learning Standards. Before we were all able to congratulate him, he wanted to be sure we understood this wasn't but his colleagues that taught the students before they entered his class. Jenna Hendricks, eighth grade science, and Emma Maxim, seventh grade science. I'm writing this message to you. So, she wrote it to Aat here um from her perspective, her current position to let us know that we have some excellent teachers in our science department doing great work, making each other proud, ambitious, and supporting one another. Um and this person's joining our team. Um I I'm just ecstatic about it. I think we're going to see some movement in

019science. We've been looking for it and uh it's it's going to be coming. So, stay tuned there. Um, our math department over the summer worked very hard to discuss opening up math labs, which is a continuation of the class to give students more practice time. They're up and running and um I'm also expecting to see some movement there, which is uh brings me smile on my face. So, we'll uh we'll we'll rest there and then just grateful to see what's up and coming for the school year. Very excited. So, thank you. >> All right. Awesome. Thank you. Who wants to go next? Principles. All right, Ed, you're up. Okay. Uh, a highlight that uh we can talk about that occurred recently was last week Thursday, we held our first title one meeting. It was an

020overview of title one. What ESSA and the ESSA it requirements and parent engagement. We did some training in power school power hub uh in schooly for the parents. Attendance was limited I have to say but we were in competition with the battle in and the center for answers. Uh we also had discussions on activities that will be taking place we have it until June. So every single month we will have a fun involvement activity that has training for the parents. We would like to involve as many students as possible because when we get students involved then their parents will show up. So we talked about having a poetry jam and math extravaganza. Our next event will be during open house which will be put on by our social studies team. Uh so the plan has

021an activity for the third Thursday of every month from 5 to 6:30. Uh very very soon you will see that part of that discussion was our parental involvement policy and the parent contact that are both requirements under that of legislation. So it will be posted to our website. The parents will be able to view give us some feedback once we have all that feedback feedback to you for adoption. Thank you. Who's next? >> Principles. >> It's hard to believe that we are getting into we're almostated with our fourth week of school. Um really just the first few weeks have been about opening school and making sure that we're really solid on our culture and routines and expectations. Um we started with the code of conduct assembly the very first week of school and we've made

022sure Mrs. brother and myself, we do our morning announcements every day, making sure to weave in um continuously weave in those routines and expectations as well as uh the character trait of the month. Make sure students recognize that. Um as Maver mentioned, we recently had dot day. So, as you're walking through Senic Intermediate, you'll begin to see our big dot take shape right outside the multi-purpose room on how students are going to make their mark on the world. Um, our school is full of student teachers and interns this semester, which is really awesome to see all the new up and cominging educators that are um joining joining the field. And it's awesome to have an amazing staff that received them with open arms who shares their knowledge. Um, and then we also have our EDP

023starting hopefully within the next week or so. Flyers should be going home this week. We have a awesome variety of extracurriculars, math exploration, power hour, coding, dungeons and dragons, pretty much you name it, there's something for everybody. Um, so we're looking forward to have students stay after for that. And um, we've also started our drama club. So, Into the Woods Junior will be our senica intermediate play this that's taking place in November. So, we're excited to see that. There's a huge turnout for audition. So, it's definitely growing every single year. Um, and finally, I just want to thank all the departments, Rich, your team for the amazing work in building human resources. Um, we've had an extra abundance of substitutes this year, which is always a struggle. So, it's been really nice to see some

024new faces in the building. >> And thank you to Mr. Hay here because the cafeteria is amazing. Um, we've been working really hard with the monitors and just tightening up the systems in the cafeteria. Um, we have an amazing salad bar now that everyone loves. Um, even the staff. So, thank you for that. Should come down and check it out for lunch sometime. Um, we also had just recently finished exact path test. I think I think uh the last meeting I explained what the exact path was, the diagnostic um assessment for all the subject areas and we began intervention groups this week. So, those are up and um rolling. We are also using a new assessment system called running records and we're giving it's just giving us more data to better support students reading development.

025Um another thing that we have coming up, we're developing a family and community community engagement committee. Um so we'll work together to plan all of our engagement events for the year including open house which is on October 9th there. >> Great. Thank you. Well, I'll go next. >> I was gonna say we only have two principles left. So, one before they mentioned a lot of the things. Um, I would say this is probably in five years since the smoothest start to the school year. Um, I think that's, you know, obviously a testament to our staff. Um, they show up every day with a a willingness to to work so hard and a dedication um to just do the best that we can do for our kids. Um, I think it's, you know, our kids show

026up every single day. They're eager. We I I know I've said this before, but it's, um, they try to run into the building because they're so excited to be there. Um, every once in a while, we get a few friends that need a little support, but um, but for the most part, they're happy to be there and, um, know that they're they're loved and we want to continue to grow their brains and, um, and keep them safe. Um but also I think to our our families um we have great partnerships with our families and um we continue to to strive to grow that and our leadership team. Um I think this is we're a very strong team. I think you know there's been a lot of presence in the in the building um and you

027know visibility we're in classroom staff are getting used to that we're increasing um just the presence in the building and people getting used to that. But it's, you know, from transportation to the hallways are squeaky clean by the end of the day. Sometimes it's but uh the maintenance crew is doing a great job. HR as well. It's been it's been a wonderful team effort. Um also I think we have some strong uh systems in place um and platforms. So SharePoint I can I know has been critical. Mrs. Route has worked diligently on SharePoint and making sure that everything is accessible for our staff so that they have what they need to do their best work with our kids. Um and also and I won't take your steal your thunder here but um we have Mrs.

028Route has worked out common planning time which she's going to speak to in just a minute. So we have that mechanism to make sure that we're keeping lines of communication open with staff throughout the year. Um so we're lifting a lot of those structures to you know support our staff and doing great work with kids. Um there's a lot of other things. Uh we are preparing for after school programming as well. Um so we will have junior warrior um enrichment programming uh working on a lot of foundational skills, exploratory skills. Um and then power hour as well where we're focusing on more of those discrete academic skills. So that'll start next week collaborating again with lots of departments and families and um I'll keep going. So I'm going to stop there but lots of great

029things. It's been a great start to the school year. >> Well, let me ask a question on that. How many different after school programs are going to be for what you call it? Junior Warrior. >> Junior Warrior. So that's where we have a club offering. So we have typically depends on enrollment, but we have at least five to seven offerings that students will choose what their first pick and then their second pick. So then depending on numbers, we finalize that and we run the clubs with the highest numbers. >> Um, girls on the run we have um so that has started as well. After school, Senica students join at Prospect for our girls on the run program. Um, and then we have our scouts program that will run two days a week as well. Um,

030so growing programming over at Prospect as well. So we have four days out of the five days that we have after school programming. Um, and always hoping to continue to grow that as well. >> All all the things. Look at look at everybody here. This is here. Um, I spoke last time about common planning. This is an initiative that we have at our at where we're meeting all departments. Um so all team all grade levels are meeting with specific departments special education we have um administration interventionists. So there's really a a common time for everyone to plan uh really meaningful conversations that have been impactful for student success. Um we have a buildingwide positive reinforcement uh this year that we're really excited about. We we got a trophy that we're handing out to all classrooms

031who are showing the character trait of the month. So, this is this respect and we've handed it out twice and the kids are so excited. Um Ethan Tad, I think your son Ethan won this week. I don't know if he told you. He They're going nuts. They want this trophy and it's been so much fun. We we pass it out every Friday and then they're on the announcements and they get to walk around the hall with the trophy. It's been really fun. Um I'm gonna end there, but yeah, lots of fun. >> That's awesome. >> Yeah. >> D comment on that. >> No, there was no comment when you go home. >> And to add to that real quick, so one thing, so Senica mentioned their morning announcements. We try to do video announcements every

032morning where we're modeling that for kids and they really are uh taking the challenge very serious. So, you know, we're modeling how to walk down the hallway and what respect looks like in the cafeteria and all those different spaces. So, they're showing it. >> Yeah. They're super excited about >> That's awesome. Would you say this was the smoothest start in five years? you said >> since I >> just real quick what so when are we when are we going to kick off construction over there? >> Great question. So um phase one and phase two uh which are going to run concurrently are currently in the planning or schematic uh design right now. In fact, our architect was there at Prospect to meet with their staff this afternoon to show explain the overall process what some

033of show some of the diagrams of what we have right now. Um we anticipate receiving approval from the state around April uh next April and then that'll go out to bid and then and we anticipate construction will start uh next summer. So um the design piece and the approval piece is pro, you know, like with any project, it's all the stuff that happens behind the scenes. Um a school project is just significantly more elaborate because uh we have to get the state's approval and sometimes things get held up there. But uh we anticipate the project for prospect going from 2026 to 2028 and the same thing for the transportation. So, we have a lot of time to plan for next year. You're right. Thank you. All right, Marcy. We have consistently answered 200 health desk

034tickets each week since school started. And in fact, >> plus Yeah, I know, right? Plus the door that probably gets knocked on as much as health desk comes in. There's somebody knocking on the door or the phone is ringing. Um, it's been exceptionally busy this year. It's been good. It's been very good. But yeah, busy helping everybody setting everything up, put programs in place, people to utilize electronically. >> SharePoint's coming along nicely. Everybody's engaged with it. Um I email has dramatically decreased. So if you don't see emails anymore, check SharePoint with everything that's on there. And it you should log in as soon as you open a web browser. It should take you right to SharePoint, which there's all kinds of information. I'm exhausted. Very tired. >> I have a question though on on the

035website. >> So under the staff directory, the the staff emails don't show up anymore. >> Oh. On the school website or on >> No, no, no. On the school website. >> Okay. So, there's a reason for that because it leads it um allows outside agencies, good or bad, to contact us. And um I'm not going to say that's always a positive thing. It's um really and truly suggested that we don't have our emails visible outside because if somebody wants to get a hold of us in the staff directory, they just say if they click on the email piece, it sends us email through that piece of it. Um which provides us a layer of protection. So I can say example um we had fake Chad running around for a couple of seasons. So during uh

036appointments of all of our sports staff um somebody would go in and read board docs which is available to anybody anywhere and we're legally bound to provide that. They would go in, grab board docs, go through board docs, collect all the names of people that had been appointed to various sporting um pieces and then they created a fake Chad email and they pulled their email addresses off the website, emailed people within district and said, "Hey, you got five minutes for a meeting? Give me a call." Um, and put a fake phone number in. That was one of them. Texted them, whatever. Like there's a whole slew of different things. And we literally spent like three days running around the building each time we did appointments for sports. So that was one example. >> You sure

037it was fake chain? >> It wasn't requesting half. >> No. >> It's all a learning curve on it. How we're protecting people inside the district. And it's very evident when those emails come in that it's from it's says from Thrillshare. I usually get a screenshot of it going, "Is this safe?" And I'm like, "Do you know this person that is emailing you?" So just creating that that sense of security for us to know who's contacting us um and how they're contacting us. And a lot of times that is family um you know community members looking for information from us or for me it's salespeople. Sales people contact me a lot through throat. So that you know it just puts a little extra buffer in there for me to stop and take a breath before I

038hit respond to them. >> So security. >> Okay. >> Yeah. All right. >> Yeah. >> Well, thank you. Oh, we're trying. I still can't stop people from clicking on weird stuff or you know, but we're trying. >> Yeah, watch Chad emails from Chad. >> Delete. >> Yeah, we do now. Chad's filtered off. >> He said delete. But it's well the email and I I we use that one because it impacted so it probably impacted 60 people overall in district. So people can relate to that as being an event here. But when we teach them to hover over the name because it just showed up Chad Bartozic, but if you hovered over it, it was Chad Bartosic 1357gmail.com and it said Chad is not emailing you from his personal email. So >> now do you guys

039like have your staff trained to report or report that or if like fishing or whatever? >> Yes. Yeah. There there's a training each year. Um we offer about an hourong training uh at the beginning of each year that gives them that as one of the pieces to report fishing. My best suggestion honestly delete it. >> Delete it if you don't know what it is. And I share with people I'm like you want to watch me because I just go through and I just did that little trash can. If I don't know you and I don't feel like doing that today, it's trash. Okay. Like, it's just not gonna stay in my inbox. And I know Dr. Beer saves every email he's ever gotten. I'm surprised he doesn't have like a little photo album of a

040seat mail, but my my inbox literally has zero unread because if I'm not going to read it, I delete it. >> So, >> and she puts out testing fishing. >> Yeah. All right. So, we all get these, you know, sample, you know, whatever it looks like. Oh, this looks great. But it's always too good to be true. So, you know, it's a test. And if you respond to it what, two times? >> Yes. You get you get extra training. >> Yes. So, if you fail their test, you have to give them more training. Right. So, that's good to know. I I'm good. I report everything. >> There was one that was really good. I'm like, "Oh my gosh." >> Did they all go directly to you? Who do those? I actually have a program that

041is set up um as part of our training program and it all all the fishing goes there and I can go through and look and see what's in there and there have been some significant threats. >> Um the threats I automatically take and send to Eerie 1 so that they can use them as examples of you know things that are out there and are a danger to you know the districts and so but he has come running down to my office. You almost got me. He's very excited that he discovered it. I'm like, so good. >> That explains why the rest of us don't get emails answered. >> That's right. >> Spam alert. That's right. >> Changing my email address. >> What about on So, while we're on that subject, though, what about student email

042accounts? Um, so our K7, uh, K6, K6 are not allowed to send or receive email outside the district. So they're kind of in their own little bubble. Um, and they don't use it very much. Um, 7 through 12, we don't do they're they should be receiving it as part of a computer class, like that internet safety piece. And I do believe um, that that is part of their typing class. I do believe there's a course that they do as part of curriculum that covers some of that. I wish we did more honestly. I wish our kids came out of, you know, came into our high school with full ability to type and understanding cyber security, but it is an extra layer. Um, and kids are a little bit more savvy than we are as adults.

043They really are. I my I talk to kids all the time and they're like, "You realize that was AI, right?" Like they talk to me like, "I have no clue." And I'm like, "I know it was AI, but it was pretty good." Like, but they do. they they will they will I don't click on that kind of stuff. Um so they and honestly I don't think our kids are online as much as we I mean they're online online but they're not in email as much as we think they are. Um I would I would love it if we engaged a little bit more in that because that is a life skill >> and it's never going away. I say that it'll go away too. >> I think so. >> Going away. >> No, it's not.

044It's it's a it's a staple. We're working our way into all of that funness. >> Well, thank you. >> What do you got for us? >> Um we continue um over the course of last year, we've been working with it on our SharePoint and creating a form flow system. So, it sets up flows. Um, we really stopped taking paper for appointments and such and working out with it. But I don't know if he seems to be liking it. The print could be a little bit bigger. We're all other than that it seems I'm liking it. My staff is liking it just to stop like when we have a last minute like the personnel changes. We're just, you know, clicking it through and Dr. Taylor can see it and what's I'm going to run this over

045real quick or scan this emailing to it. So that has been helpful. Um learning it was a little bit of a curve but we're all liking it. Um we just started working with ER1 this week. They're changing the platform that we're using for external applicants thankfully because this what we currently use is pretty clunky and we get a lot of complaints for it. So we're starting to switch that over. Um and the post requirements and working >> right now we're on applicant tracker spring. Um we asked to do it the beginning of July. >> Are you asking about >> Yeah. Yeah. Share point or >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. That's where they all close. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah, there's a there's a tab at the top say department on SharePoint and it's

046you should go see it. It's pretty select human resources one. >> Keep up with you guys. Keep evolving. >> We do. We have last time I talked about the time. So all the forms of your campus screening day, you want to change your direct deposit. All that can be done on SharePoint which helps a lot with things moving faster for us. very fascinating. >> Yep. >> All right. Well, thank you. >> What do we got left? >> What do you got for us? We recently finished negotiations with the SAS unions and that cont. And then next up on union negotiations will be in the union starting in October and then sometime after that the CSU union. >> That's it. That's all I wanted to share. Would you like me to share? >> That wasn't even

047a word. >> Marcy took 15. >> There it is. >> All right. Everything we put over there though. >> Very well. Okay. Well, thank you. >> So, from our office, I'll take the PPSR. So, I'll let it look like the CSV. Okay. >> Um registration, we actually are at our highest registration that we have had. I explained the data daily. And as of today, we are at 1440 students for this year. So, that is a phenomenal increase in number. And that's a testament to everyone. Like I wanted said already, the help of all the support staff, the help of the families, the help of the support staff, especially at SAC working with our family there in the spring, getting everyone registered and in. We had all the students registered and all addresses updated for transportation

048in power school by the second week of school, which is a first. Normally, we're still working on moving into October. So, it was a great year this year. For UPK, we're down to four on the wait list. So, we have our classes. is I think we have two spots open that we're getting ready to fill right now. Um, and it has been wonderful this year. We're looking at improvements and how we can use SharePoint to help that future for next year. So, registration, that part is great. Our new clerk that's on the board agenda is wonderful. I want to give a shout out after all the years and different positions that we've had. It was a great process. This year, we had over 20 applicants go through the process for this one position. So, it

049was a wonderful process with the CF office with pre-screeners, first interviews, second interviews, and final interviews with activities for them to do. So, we're excited to have Maggie join us for attendance. Mr. Bundage is not here tonight, but this again data wise over the past three years, we took a look at our first 10 days of data for chronic absenteeism, and we are down significantly in all of our buildings. Uh that is an att testament to Steve working with the counselors, the social workers, the support staff, the liaison, the principles, the nurses and the clerks. We within the first week had tackled any students that had missed three or more days and it has been continual since then. So those numbers continue to go down and we're excited to see what they look like after

050the first month, second month and so on. Steve is starting to work on contracts with some of our students for different grade levels and we're looking at other ways to pull in some new services through powers school. They did open up some new things that we can utilize and Steve is getting trained on that right now. As far as data, level one, which all of you don't realize what different levels we work in, but level one is the middle level. That's the level that we wait to open in September because that's where we get the really exciting pictures and graphs from Bose seeds regarding our testing from the year before that opened up about a week and a half ago with some great graphs. So, I've been working with the coaches with the principles um

051with some of the support staff on that and pulling that information and getting it in the hands of Nikki so she can share it with everyone at upcoming meetings and just some of the reports and the way we can hopefully have a positive impact on our students not only in our three through eight testing and readings. We're taking it all the way back down to kindergarten. I'm excited for folks. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> All right. Then from the special education office, um all our new additional special classes are up and running at Prospect and Senica. Um Mr. Pesy and myself are continuing to provide supports to teachers and staff, both students, most classrooms. Um we are going to be starting professional development on transitional planning at high school for the teachers up there. um

052preparing students for life after high school. Um continuing to support the building administration on um instructional behavioral social emotional p procedures for both gened and special education students. And then we are currently working with the special education instructional coach Bonnie Wagner from BOSI um providing some co-eing for our teachers both Jed and special education teachers across the district. Our coaches will be going with Mr. Currency this Thursday to do um some more training. So when Bonnie leaves off, they can continue to support this. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Rer has a presentation for us. >> Sorry. Excuse me. >> All right. Did we catch everybody? >> All right. Chad, I see you taking notes up there. Do you have more for us? >> All right. football. >> Well, Kristen mentioned tackling students. Is are they

053using proper form when they're doing the tackling? >> We have. We went over that technique. We want to make sure we're safe both sides, but >> we have a great support staff within our hallway. So, on those days that are stressful, I can say that moving all back in together in the wing has been wonderful. So, thank you for allowing us to do that because it's nice to smile and laugh. >> How was this? >> I got a question on that actually real quick, too. So, I I had a conversation with uh one of a couple of the coaches actually at the youth level um uh Brian and Sean about um the the plays in which they run I think it's pistol formation if I understand correctly. Is it true that like some of the

054plays they're starting to implement at a younger age is kind of correlates to what you guys are doing at a JV or modified JV and varsity level. So when they get to those levels, they're >> more understanding of the plays and hopefully by then, you know, have it kind of dialed in. >> Yeah. Connecting the youth programs to the varsity programs, it's important all sports and all, >> you know, phases of our >> I just thought that was cool that they when they told me that that they made that correlation, I'm like that's that's good then. So these kids are essentially learning, you know, high, you know, um, potent offenses and defenses that have been obviously proven successful these last handful of years and even before that. So that made me happy to hear that,

055you know, from the pee-wee level, they're learning plays that these guys are doing, you know, and so by the time they're there, you know, they're successful. That was cool. Sorry to interject. >> No, I have a lot of respect for those guys down there and their support for the process. We don't get that in a lot of places. >> Yes. You got to have the buy in from everybody and it starts, you know, I mean, I coach flag, but I mean, we're not necessarily doing pistol, you know, formations, stuff like that. But it did surprise me and that made me happy to hear that um uh um that they're doing that at the PeeWee and >> That's great. >> Shotgun formations, you know, every when I played it was all under center, you know, so

056now these kids are doing shotgun and formations and different different spread out spread offenses and stuff. So, who do you um got this weekend as far as um the homecoming game? Who do you guys play? Walner, Casta Valley, Maple. >> Okay. So, takes three of them. Takes three of them to try to take us down, but it won't happen. >> We'll need a whole another board. Maybe you got >> Thanks, J. >> Christian, I got to add, I was at the flag football game on Saturday and I was in the press in the press box with Levon. I was laughing at you because you were trying to wrangle all the kids. >> Oh, yeah. They're playing in the water. All kinds of stuff like get over here. What's going on? And we're just ignoring. >>

057Yeah. Especially Especially Oh, yeah. Especially trying to wrangle, you know, uh well some Yeah. five and six year olds. And then ever since we've combined the the Warriors and the Savers, which is a whole another obviously conversation in itself, too, but that that doubles the number. So now you're looking at 30 plus kids that are five, six years old, seven years old. They're looking mom and dad in the stands and this and that. And well, like they do they do a great job. But yeah, it is a lot of work and I think that's why there's seven of us because we need more hands all hands on deck when it comes to >> we have two teams. >> Yeah, I know. Well, I think what so this has just happened I think what a couple

058years ago now, Chad, right? Because the numbers were uh you know starting to dwindle as far as the the participation goes. You know, I mean the Savers or Warriors, you know, did vary by year, I'm sure, but you know, anywhere from, I don't know, 15, you know, kids give or take per team. You know, some maybe one with 20 on their hot year, but I think, you know, convers a couple years ago there was conversation as far as combining them to make sure we had good numbers. But now that we have each each flag, QE midgets each have those numbers, that's another challenge in itself as far as playing time and and that's yeah, it's a it's a it's a good problem to have. You know, it's great to see that particular Warriors break from

059different teams. >> Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, possibly if the numbers keep increasing, I think there'll probably be another conversation here in the near future as far as, you know, some alternatives to make sure all the parents and the players are happy and getting playing time. It's yeah, learning. But yeah, again, all good problems, but you know, we got to figure out solutions. >> Awesome. Okay. Well, did we get through everyone? I think we got everybody. All right. So, we'll move on now. Uh we're going to move on to the board of education message. Uh we're going to start to my right here with Mr. D. >> All right. I just want to thank all the staff for rolling out a nice smooth year um for our students. I was half expecting uh

060more issues with the cell phone policies, but everything I've heard has been positive. So, so thank you very much. Um nice to see the students here again. You know, it's been it's been a few meetings since we've we've had any students here. So, welcome back. Um glad glad to see it finally rained last night. You know, it's been so dry. I've actually been uh enjoying that moment, but but there should keep things going next month. >> Those the fairways the fairways especially. So that's all I have. >> Thanks, Brad. I want to welcome everyone back and I also want to let Roy know that you know the the highlight of my day because I get to watch him dance every morning and I also want to take the time to briefly address the situations from

061last month that brought negative attention to the district because of my actions. I have since personally apologize and make I can assure you that this is not something that I take lightly. In addition, I want to apologize to my colleagues and to the district. I take my role as a board member seriously and to fully understand the expectations for code of conduct holding office. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me personally and I'll be glad to have a conversation. >> Thank you. >> Oh, all right. Tan, you're up. >> The uh just wanted to welcome everybody back. last meeting I missed because uh I was getting a tour by my my kid for the prospect picnic. The uh it's kind of interesting that now that he's going to the

062first grade kindergarten, you know, he didn't want to go to it and we had to kind of drag him around to see everything. And then this year it's well, you know, let's go find your room. He's like, I don't even know where that's at. And then he takes us down and he's giving us the tour. So, good job on like, you know, getting the kids settled in each year and everything there. Um, and then just for the the way the school week goes, like we said, it's amazing that it's, you know, essentially four weeks into it. The weather's been beautiful. Um, everything seems to be fast-paced this year and but it seemed overall, at least in my household with my child and everybody I've talked to, things have gone off to a pretty smooth start.

063I mean, there's always some little hiccups, but they've always worked through it. Um, and just wanted to thank the staff and all that. I mean, as the kid learns at the beginning of the year, I would imagine it's the same on the staff where it's you keep coming back each year, but at the same time, that first day, you never know exactly what's going to happen. And then the second day and you get into, you know, everybody gets into a routine. So, I think we're there. Um, just keep having fun and getting the kids to learn. Thanks, >> Tracy. Um glad to hear that the school year has um started off to a great start for so many departments um and staff and kids um just everybody across the board. Um looking forward to a

064great year. Um I'm excited to check out the pickle ball courts >> and now that they're open and we'll be doing that soon. Um, I'm looking forward to attending all of the um, events that I can. And I think that's it. >> Thank you, Christian. >> Um, before I uh, well, I just had a question too because I was thinking about earlier we talk about programming and I I reflecting back to I think it was last year when Christian um, I walked in and he was doing the the archery and uh, you know, I was impressed by that. I want to say that was part of the programming that you guys were talking about last year, right? I just I wonder like what like I don't I'm obviously now a middle school parent so I'm

065adjusting to that as well. I'm wondering what the middle school like is there are we continuing that programming on or how do we make sure that those you know what I mean we keep following through with those those skill sets and things and programs we're learning I guess >> we do have our coming out >> nice yeah that that's good and that's kind of what I was going to talk about too is just it's great to again first and foremost it's good to see everyone tonight it's good to see the students here it's good to see my brother Carlton Cup here good to see you buddy thanks for coming um yeah I'm really proud you and um but I'm proud of the staff as well as all the collaborative efforts going on between each department.

066I mean, obviously, it takes all hands on deck to to keep things going the way it is and we're on the we're on the rise. Everyone knows everyone's always talking about our district, whether it's our facilities or our teachers or our staff or and our academics. We're doing a great job and it all because of you guys. So, I just can't thank you guys enough. Um what else was there? Oh. Um, on P school, who who oversees that? Is that is that Levi or mentioning it? Like as far as the updates on Power School, I was wondering about like when do we start to see uh like when will the grades and stuff like start to being put on there and then like how often do we re uh like the news feed? Because I'm

067just curious who oversees uh Power School there. >> Sure. >> So, Levi is probably our go-to point person. Um >> grades are going to be dependent upon teachers. uh of when those go in. Uh next month during our presentation board meeting, uh we're going to have a presentation on PowerHub. >> Um which is the student or the parent and student facing portion of P school. And there's been some pretty significant upgrades to that um including sort of an AI interface where you can just ask it what you want to know about your student and it'll give you basically a report card at that moment. >> That's good. So, it's pretty powerful and we're pretty excited about it. Um, and next month we'll be able to see that in full display here. >> I forgot you

068I I reached out to Mark separately. >> So, actually I was at I was at the Bills game. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Bills game this past week and I was we were sitting with my son sitting next to a kid that goes to a different district um out in the Lewon area. I don't know the exact school, but he was like showing my kid his grades and this and that and I'm like, "Dang, already you know," and it got me thinking. got me talking to you which had me dive back into the app and um I was actually at you know we had youth games over the weekend and uh I was getting all because Levi he has been a great help I will say that too. He got

069me all set up and stuff but I really finally dived into it or dove into it and got all set up with for my three kids and it does seem like it's going to be a great resource. Um, I did note that there was a couple parents I talked to that maybe had a little bit of just like guess you can call it like troubleshooting problems or maybe loading just some just things things weren't I don't know they were having a hard time logging in. Sure. >> But I did get some advice from a couple of them and actually one of which that helped me because I was having a hard time myself logging in. Um, and here I am texting Levi. He's up there trying to commentate the game and I'm like, "Hey, how

070do I how do I log in here?" But no, um it seems like a great service, um and uh or a great program and it's a great benefit and I'm excited to see all that it can do and and have live updates, you know, like you're saying. So I'm excited for that PowerPoint for that presentation next month. So I'm kind of all over the place, but yeah, that's uh yeah, it's good. So um think all I had really written down as far as just questions or comments. So >> thank you Carrie. Thank you Mark. Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. always coming prepared. Shoot from the hip. >> That's right. >> All right. Thank you everybody. Uh, as always, I want to thank our staff for everything you guys do getting us

071off to a great year. It's It's exciting. I'm always excited when we're back in school, back in session. It's awesome. Uh, my wife thinks otherwise sometimes, but she comes around. >> Yeah. So, thank you guys for everything you do. uh the positive attitudes and even tonight for all the feedback. You know, it's appreciated. I know sometimes it's just same thing, shoot it from the hip. Let's hear what you guys have to say, but we don't always get that. We don't always get to hear from you guys. So, I do appreciate it and I'm sure my colleagues appreciate it as well. Just that quick little glimpse and snapshot into your daily lives here. You know, you're taking care of our our most precious resources here. So, I think it's important that we hear from you guys.

072So, next time, let's try more than 30 seconds. Mike, let's try to manage 15 minutes. 35 seconds next month. >> 35 seconds. >> But yeah, thank you guys. >> We can't keep up with >> All right. All right. Thanks, guys. Um I do want to say I appreciate uh Brad Early's um comments tonight. Um that is that shows a little bit of fortitude. Uh it shows that he's an honorable person to publicly apologize for an incident. Some of you might not even know what it's about, but I thank you for doing that and I respect that. So, thank you, Grant. Um, another thing I just wanted to mention, it was kind of mentioned a little bit earlier. Somebody's like looking to fill a position. So, we had a discussion and we were talking about it

073and I'm sure all of you know, if you ever heard, you know, Janet's lean unless she's retiring. Um, and we're going to go through a process to fill her shoes, which is going to be a monumental task. Um, I said it last time, I'll say it again. We're going to miss you. You know, 10 just over 10 years ago, I was sworn in as a board member on my first term and Janet was there swearing me in 10 years ago. So, next year when we when we have new board members coming to swear in for the first time in just a little over a decade, it's going to be somebody new swearing them in. So, just letting you know that we appreciate everything you've done for us. >> Thank you. >> Um, couple other things.

074A lot of great conversation tonight. a lot of things just kind of pop up into mind. Um, you know, we talk about sports. Obviously, when you get back to school, that seems to be the focus, what what's going on with the fall sports program. What are the kids up to? You know, we heard a lot about what's going on in the buildings from the principles. You know, academics is always important. It's one of those things, you know, when you're a student athlete, you want to talk sports, you know, student that comes first. So, that's important. So everybody who's listening, you know, we do talk a lot about athletics. It's kind of that extra thing because we always assume that the student part is being taken care of. >> It goes unsaid, but we still expect

075it to be taken care of. And honestly, if we don't hear any problems, we assume everything's going well. So, it's kind of one of those things that we don't talk about too often, but it's there and we recognize it and we appreciate it. Um, sports, I'll even I'll even jump in on the conversation. Um, many of you know I run our club girls lacrosse program. I started O'Hill Storm Girls Lacrosse six years ago now. Um, we've had a great following and just these past two weekends we've taken um, our younger girls to two tournaments in a row. We went up to Niagara two weeks ago and then Sunday we're in Lancaster for tournaments. Um, it was it was great. It's getting those girls exposed to the game of lacrosse and hopefully they'll start to progress

076all the way through their high school career. To your point earlier, Christian talking about, you know, developing the youth programs to get to that varsity level. Well, we're fortunate. I mean, honestly, it's it's actually my fault. I started the program. Well, I also coach on the varsity side, so I have to do the same kind of programming. But it's not all just me. And that goes into what everybody else does here. A lot of people don't understand that, you know, even though you're a staff in the building and you're here, you know, supposed to be here through your school hours, we got a lot of staff who do a lot of extra things. And I give a lot of credit to my friend Jesse Moore. He's he's a teacher over in the middle school. He's

077been there for a few years, but he also volunteers for just about anything and everything he possibly can. And I appreciate that that he does that. I wasn't able to be at these tournaments for our girls lacrosse, but Jesse was here. Hands down. Every time I ever ask him, he's there. He's one of them teachers who just gives it his all. It's a volunteer thing. It's a club program and he's still there all day long at a tournament because it's for the kids. It's for the girls. But on the other side of it, he's also our head head lacrosse coach for the varsity program for the girls. So, it is it's building the system starting at a young age going all the way up to varsity. And I appreciate that that he does that. Another

078one you touched on archery. Well, Jesse's actually the archery coach, too. And he'll be starting that soon, too. And I'll say when I real quick, he he seemed to be a student favorite as well. So when I was Christian's teacher, he was he was he didn't get he didn't get Jesse, but he was really open and we went down there. It seemed like he all the students love him. So he's obviously doing something right. They all are. But >> yeah, he he has a great connection with the >> That's awesome. That's good to know that. I didn't know that. >> So again, it's a shout out to him. He's just one of the staff of many who go above and beyond and do everything for these kids without asking for anything in return. And that's

079awesome. Uh I even see it in my own house. My wife, she's she's always above and beyond. She's involved in a lot of different extracurriculars and it's all for the kids, you know. So there's there's a lot that we do, a lot of us we all do to stay involved and to help this district move forward and it doesn't go unnoticed. Those are just two specific people that are close to me that I see regularly who are going above and beyond, but there's so many more out there that do the same thing. So, if you're one of those folks, keep it up. It's appreciated. We appreciate you. That's all I had to make. >> You're one of those guys, kid. I just don't know how to stop. >> All right, Dr. Mueller. >> Well, a

080lot has been said. Um, just a couple updates. Uh, next, um, board meeting, we're going to have to shuffle down a little bit because we will be having a student board member who will be joining us. Uh, yes. So, that'll be Owen Kronic. um the sisters uh there we go in the uh audience today. So uh we had talked about this a couple years but really didn't get too much too many students who were sort of fired up or interested. Um but now there's actually a requirement uh this year. So uh we talked with the student government and they uh identified an individual who will be on our board. So we'll go through what the guidelines are for that. Make sure we're all on the same page with that. He'll have some training before he

081actually starts, but it'll be nice to have a a new face at the table. >> All right. So, we all get pushed on that way >> probably. Yeah. Um and then just a couple thank yous. >> We had um two relatively significant events uh that occurred over the past two weeks that consumed a significant amount of resources for our staff. Um, one of them uh was uh well they both dealt with students but one involved Ray Haley. Um he's not here because he's ill but I just wanted to acknowledge him. There's a whole team of folks who worked on that and the outcome uh was very favorable and um the parents are appreciative of where we ended up and things turned out exceptionally well with regard to that. Uh, and the other was one that

082involved our IT department and Marcy. And I wanted to just acknowledge that, you know, there are things that happen sometimes behind the scenes that um take a significant amount of time and energy to track down uh and it needs to be done timely. And between Ray Haley um with the one event and Marcy Brown leading the charge on the other one, both were resolved in a very positive and favorable way without disruption to the school day. Um, which is terrific. So, thank you to those two. >> All right, that's all I got. >> That's it. >> Oh, that wasn't long enough. >> No, you guys got to practice a little bit. >> We'll get more out. >> Well, you don't you don't hear from us. You got all these good people out here. >> I

083got I forgot one thing too I wanted to highlight too is that >> you can take Theresa's turn. >> Oh, yeah. Perfect. Good. This is a good one for her. Um on this coming up Friday, um September 26, the Senica Nation uh is hosting the Indigenous Youth Council led by Michelle Redeye and Jacob Hager to go over an introduction of how our government operates and the roles that it supports or the role that supports it. And there's a whole the agenda. It seems like they're going to be there from morning to the through the early afternoon. So, I'm excited about that. Um, to have the Indigenous Youth Council and members from the district come over to the to the nation and see a little bit about what we do, you know, what goes on behind

084the scenes in the nation and just some ins and out of that. So, I wanted to highlight that and so excited about that. >> Very good. >> You are truly leading the tour. >> Sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds good. >> Um, you know what? Actually, we're talking about events. Um, Chad, can you tell us a little bit about the creators Cup coming to Vets Park? >> Are you versed in that or no? >> I'm fairly wellversed on the times. I I don't have the specific schools. I don't know if they have them down yet. I know a couple of them. Mhm. >> Um, Saturday, October 11th from 1 to 5 will be a uh a clinic, I believe, open to the public >> using Best Park as a place for for our our students to

085come in and get coached up. That's the part. I don't know how many of the teams are going to be there for that. Then on Sunday should be a full slate of division one lacrosse at both facilities vets and the turf field starting at 11 and 1:30. You know the teams? >> Uh it's University Albany Sacred Heart think Michigan and the fourth one is I'm drawing a blank down >> Richmond. See Richmond already Richmond >> but four four college programs are coming to Sama to play some exhibition lacrosse for the community so that's going to be a pretty awesome eventuge >> looking at logistics but it's coming together be pretty cool >> be playing on our state-of-the-art brand new facilities that's it that's awesome >> we got to talk about something though I got an

086email from a parent from Michigan wonder about tailgating. So >> high school property. >> Tell them I have to go across the road. >> You got the big wheel over there in the parking lot. >> Yeah. >> Really? >> But I do believe we have a board meeting on the seventh week. There we go. >> It's coming up. It's going to come up quick. >> Yep. >> And our facilities. You know, I wonder about our turf too with Dan with that line of schools coming up. We'll have to put anything down. >> Yeah. I'm really being told about this. chat. >> Well, I mean, >> sorry. >> That's why we have these meetings. >> Everybody talk. >> It's good dialogue. Good to have conversation. >> Might have to find another set of nets, too. >>

087That's not lacrosse. That's not >> not sure. We got another new set for the back field. Oh, because we're going to be utilizing that field. Not this. Yeah, maybe just new nets. the the netting itself. Yeah, I'm gonna have to give some. That's why I need to talk. >> Hey, >> all right. >> Can I get a motion to adjourn? We We've discussed everything. >> All right. >> Anything else? Anybody? Anything else? >> Good conversation. >> Good report. >> Yeah. Kevin. >> All right, >> let's start the meeting. >> Karen said we got to start the meeting now. She's tapping her watch over. >> No, I just said the actual board meeting is like five minutes. >> Yeah. >> All right, let's get going. >> All right, item number four, consent agenda. We have our

088uh board of education meeting minutes from August 26th. We have our financial items, which Karen's going to go over into immense depth and tell us everything about them. >> Absolutely. And we have our travel conference and overnight trips where we have um the Cedar Point trip for what's what's the group for Cedar Point class of 26 trip to Cedar Point. We have uh AASL conference for Paulie Hansen. We have a college visit to pick Brad or uh Carolyn Peterson Kristenstein and 20 students. I don't think it's larger. Who was talking about not being able to see earlier? >> It's real large for you. The print the print on your one is real large. If that I zoomed it in uh we got a trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Travis Hold, Rebecca

089N students. We've got a conference. I think Dr. Beer was telling us about this at the beginning. Ignite reading convene 2025 for um Nicole Beaver. We have our NCTTE conference for Alexis Russer. And then we have um National Farm to Cafeteria conference um Mr. John Bailey. We have key senator Cheryl Johnson going to future of education technology conference in Orlando, Florida. And then we have Levi. Levi going to Power School University. >> There you go. >> Yep. And then we have our cse recommendations, our CPSE recommendations, and can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Second. >> Motion by Brad, second by Dale. Are there any questions? All in favor? >> Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carries. Item number five, old business. We have nothing. Item number six, new business. We have

090declared surplus. Uh, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following textbooks and items be declared surplus and be disposed of accordingly be approved. Um, 1 through 14. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the attached list of library books be declared surplus and be properly disposed of be approved. >> Motion by mail. Second. >> Second by Tracy. Are there any questions? All in favor? I'm sorry. What's >> What happened? >> I think I think what happened to clarify is the first part was textbooks. There was four of them. Then there was >> Oh, yeah. You're right. I'm sorry. Yep. I did read that wrong. So, declare surplus was one through four. And then be it resolved that upon the recommendation of superintendent the following items be declared surplus

091and be disposed of accordingly. And that was the one through 14. >> Yes. >> We're all good. >> But I didn't hear. Did you take the vote? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have our item B, transportation contract C5078. in public uh resolution of Salamaica City Central School Santa Jamaica City School District Board of Education approving contracts for special education student transportation services. Whereas the Salamaica City School District is responsible for providing a free appropriate public education for all students with disabilities, including providing transportation services as specified in their individualized education programs. And whereas a request for bid was issued and a competitive bidding process was conducted for specialized transportation services to meet the unique needs of special education students for the summer of 2025 including transportation for students requiring specific accommodations

092such as aids specialized equipment or specialized vehicles. And whereas the proposed contracts C5078 with Bosis, Karagus, Eligi, Uni, Wyomi have been reviewed by district administration and are found to be in the best interests of the district and the special education students. And whereas the contracts ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing student transportation and special education. Now, therefore, be resolved by the board of education of the Southern Monica City School District as follows. One, the board of education hereby approves the transportation contracts with Boseis, Kataragas, Alageney, Erie, Wyland, and for specialized transportation services for special education students for the summer 2025. Two, the superintendent or their design is authorized to finalize and execute the contracts and any related documents necessary to implement the transportation services. Three, the superintendent or

093then designate is further authorized to make minor adjustments to the contracts, including route assignments as necessary to ensure efficient and effective transportation of special education students subject to the terms of the bidden contracts. >> Motion motion by Christian. >> Second by Brad. Are there any questions? >> All right. All in favor? >> Any oppose? Any abstain? Hey, motion carries. All right. Item C, transportation contract C5086 and C5087. And I'm not going to read this one this time. Um, so this motion is to approve the contracts uh for Boseis. Um, oh wait, yes, Eligi, Wyoming again. Uh, can I get a motion? >> Motion. Motion by Dale. >> Second by Tag. Any questions? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carried. Item D, we are creating positions. Be it resolved that

094upon the recommendation of the superintendent and as a result of changes within the district, the following positions be created effective September 1, 25 through June 30, 26. Number one, a step program liaison. Number two, a step program advisor. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Tracy. Second. >> Second by Christian. Are there any questions? You want to give a quick rundown? >> Sure. So these are two we um have been participating in the step program which is um to encourage students who are typically not represented in science and technology um to participate a little bit more. Uh we've been running that step program for decades. Um and we are fortunate to be recipients and capable of doing that uh again through a grant. And these two positions will allow us to have a liaison

095who typically interfaces with the college um and an adviser who works with the student executive school. Get a motion in a second. Right. >> Yes. Tracy and Christian. Okay. Any other questions, comments? All in favor? >> Any oppose? Right. >> All right. Item E, change orders and allowance dispersements. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education hereby approves the following change orders and allowance distributions. Change order phase 4 MC1 AW Ferrell and Sun incorporated uh deduct of $6,530 allowance distributions phase 4 P43 Alm Schaefer Electric Corp. for $3,114. And we get a motion. >> Motion by Grant. Second. >> Second by Ted. Any questions? >> Just wonder if you have Dr. give us an update on it. >> Sure. Uh the allowance distribution for Alman Schaefer Electric. Uh we have

096one of the rooms uh in the new edition. Um we're sort of going back and forth with the u mechanical company that designed and installed uh the heating cooling. It does not have sufficient heating particularly in winter. So this is to cover the cost of uh installation of the electric heater. And then am I correct in saying this is going to be picked up by the architect. That's not what this is the payout of the remaining allowance that they have contract >> for. Oh, I'm sorry. I was looking at your job. >> Yes. All shaper. That is where the heater is, >> right? And then is >> opening that up. Is that coming back to us? >> They're reducing their >> So, um it'll be a net cost of zero to us, but this is

097just how we're getting it done. >> Okay. >> Um and then the other is as she said a essentially unexpended funds that so that negative is good for us. Um so that's money coming back to us. It's always good. >> Yes. >> Thank you. like it. Okay, we had a first and a second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any obstain? >> Motion carried. >> All right, we're on to item F, the SAS contract, being resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent and following the SAS ratification of such proposal. Now therefore, be it resolved that the agreement between superintendent of schools of the Salamaica City Central School District and the city of Salama, New York, and the Selama Administrative and Supervisory Association for a new 5-year contract effective July 1,25 through June

09830, 2030 be approved to the extent required by law and that the superintendent of schools be hereby authorized and directed to execute SEM on behalf of the district be approved. >> Motion by Christian. Second. Second by Dale. Any questions? Dr. Beer, give us a rundown. >> Sure. So, this is the typical collective bargaining agreement um that usually runs for a three or five year time span. Um the school administrators are represented um not only school administrators, also supervisors are represented by this unit. Their contract expired in June on June 30th. And I wanted to just make it crystal clear and extend my appreciation and gratitude to the administrators association. Um there were some significant changes coming uh through our Boseies with regard to through our health consortium and I had anticipated that we would have

099been able to include those changes in this contract which is why and it's really the only reason that it got delayed. um because we wanted that to be a model moving forward. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the information in a consistent enough manner from the health consortium over where we're headed. Um so that delayed the process. Uh we have a uh language in the contract and in about a year once that gets hammered out, we'll revisit the health insurance portion for the SAS unit. But um this really is just an extension for the most part. A couple things were added um on both sides that we were looking for, but the entire process went very smoothly. It was not contentious. Sometimes when we look at a contract that doesn't get um settled prior to the uh

100end date, there's underlying causes. The only reason that this didn't happen is because we were hoping to come up with a model moving forward for the entire district. Um so I just wanted to extend my gratitude to the administrative association for their patience and to Mr. Finn for his assistance uh in leading the uh period. >> Thank you sir. Any other questions comment? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I I Any opposed? Any obstain? Motion carried. Okay. Item G, board of education goals 2025 2026. We resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, board of education goals for the 2526 school year as follows be adopted. Make students smarter. Improve student reading on grade level by 10% annually. Develop and implement personalized learning plans. Improve tier one instruction and MTSS. under improved attendance. Provide support

101for students and families with attendance concerns. Reduce chronic absence and at risk of chronic absence rates by 10% annually. And create a culture of trust. Implement the family engagement plan. Increase opportunities for staff and student leadership within the school district. And I get a motion. Motion. Motion >> by Tracy. Second. Second by Ray. Any questions, comment? [Music] >> No, I just like the uh increase opportunities for staff and student leadership and I thought it was good that we you know we're having the um student board member and I was going to ask I didn't quite get that name earlier. >> Uh Owen Cranic. >> Owen Cranic. >> Excited to work with all good. Thank you. >> Any comments? >> Uh you know these are basically the same goals that we've had for the past two

102years. Um, and I you talked about this at our forward retreat, I believe. And you know, it doesn't really get much more essential than making kids smarter, getting them here and having a grow culture of trust. uh our impact plans that are um built at the building levels um and department levels really dig into this and then with operational goals. But the board setting these particular goals and being consistent from year to year allows us to really be able to um evaluate where we are and set more specific uh achievable goals uh at a building and department level. And I think it's really enabling us to move forward in a positive direction. >> I agree. >> Might sound simple on the surface, but when you unpack it, there's a lot here. And I thank you

103all for doing everything you can to help us achieve these goals for this calendar year. >> Second. >> Anything else? Anybody? Okay. All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Any seen? Okay. Motion carried. >> All right. Item number seven, personnel consent agenda. We have the uh a personnel action with a long list of folks on the list. Um so can I get a motion to approve the personnel action item A? >> Motion. >> Second by T. Second by Christian. Uh any questions? Anything you want to highlight? >> No, I just wanted to mention, you know, several of the administrators when they spoke um acknowledge the work that HR puts in. And behind each one of these names that you see here are amount of paperwork and hours and hours of work uh that goes into

104not just the hiring but also um transportation uh appointments, substitutes um which has been uh you know something we've been lacking um but between Mr. Finn and Mrs. Hubard we've really be been able to increase the number of substitutes that we have. you see the volunteers, um the coaching appointments and mentoring appointments that are down below there as well. I just wanted to draw our attention because sometimes, well, sometimes maybe not in this case, we take pride in people coming back. Uh but we're going to have Mr. Morton, uh Rich Morton will be coming back. Yes. >> Nice. >> Uh and Mr. Seabird, Chris Seabird. So, our former athletic director and high school principal will be once again haunting the halls as uh security guards. So, what better way to stay connected to the kids

105and help with the community? So, uh I was joking, but we really are proud to see them come back. >> I was hoping you were going to highlight that. If you didn't, I was gonna >> two juggernauts returning to >> I know I >> Right. >> All right. Anything else? Anybody? >> Okay. We got first and second. Uh all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any obstain? Okay. Motion carried. Is there any introductions? >> Um, I don't see anyone. Well, I know there's no one here, but we will make sure we give them our uh traditional warrior welcome when they get here. >> So, item eight, we have our board information, reports, and discussion. Uh, we have capital project summary phase four summary. Uh we have uh our report on the health and wellness

106fair. We have our indigenous education committee meeting minutes. And we have upcoming events. Um where is it? Our next board of education meeting is on October 14th and then again on October 28th. So I'm sure everybody's excited for the next board meeting to come here and see all the action. So we expect to see you all here next time. Yep. And that's it. Take a motion to adjourn. Motion by Dale, second by Christian. >> Any comments, questions? Was a good meeting. I think a good meeting. >> I What's that? >> All in favor? >> Not to not adjourn. Is that what you said? >> I mean, might as well. >> All right. We have a motion to second. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Obtain and we are adjourned 657. Thank you all for

107coming. We'll see you next time.