001Okay. >> Oh, my son has All right, everybody. Let's call it to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. The Salamaica City Central School District acknowledges the homeland of the Anandovka, 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 Salamea City Central School District to recognize the history and make improvements that will benefit the next seven generations of indigenous students. All right. Uh, board president Teresa Ray couldn't make it tonight, so you guys need um,
002we look to approve the agenda. Dr. Do we have any changes to the agenda? >> There are two um, late additions of their personnel action 7A. We have added the appointment of Shannon Wolf, special education teacher, and the appointment of Kelly Grabowski for science teacher. Both of which I'll just make a note. We're desperately needed at this time of the year. And we apologize for the the late addition, but this is that time of the year where we're scrambling and we are very pleased to have these two people sending your approval. Okay. Awesome. All right. So, um, can I get a motion to approve the amended agenda? >> Motion Motion by Dale. >> Second by Tracy. Any questions? >> All in favor? >> Any oppose? Any sing? >> Okay. Motion carries. All right. So, item
003number three, we're on to communications. Uh, public communications. Yes, I believe Mr. Miller is out actually with the prospect working with the uh parents. All right, let's jump right into the central office again. >> All right, I just want to say welcome back everybody. It was so nice to have everybody back in the hallways today. We had an outstanding first starter staff today. It was a great day. Um, but this is a perfect setting to recognize our entire admin team. Part of the message I wanted to give today was just a huge thank you to our entire admin team. They did an outstanding job this summer. Extremely hardworking, lots of alignment, uh, just tons of planning and they are truly like a dynamic team and they are the foundation that we need for success to
004keep moving forward. So, I just want to recognize them and it ended up being perfect atmosphere to do so. Everyone's already preparing the notes, so we'll jump right in here. You want to go first? >> I'll go first. >> Um, just to echo, it's been an amazing summer working with the team. Um, just a couple highlights I think for me was diving into data, looking at data. Um, I'm an optimistic guy, so sometimes data is ugly, but we got to figure out a way how to use that to our advantage and make it look better than next year. And that's the goal. So, that's where I'm at. Um, not to steal any thunder from anyone. I'm sure you'll hear about it, but attending the attendance seminar, regional seminar, was very enlightening. It's just got the
005the gears grinding on what we can do to try and help improve attendance within the district, and I'm excited to get back. >> Awesome. All right. Who wants to go next? >> Not a lot new uh safety wise, just getting everything uh ready for the new school year. All the signs for fire drills and that kind of good stuff. So, just all safety. >> Awesome. Who's next? >> Me. Okay. >> Hey, go for it. >> All right. Yeah, we're 98%. And of course with teachers back, we got things happening. Change a few things here and there, but buildings and grounds and facilities, we're ready to go. Ready for that new season, new school season to start. >> All right. Give us a quick recap the summer. >> Oh, we just, you know, we did all
006the floors and pretty much whole building, you know, tore out everything, cleaned everything, put it back in, cleaned it again. You know, the floors were in between all that. Always. I think there's one at the high school left to do. Like I said, we're about 98% done with that. Um, that was a lot of it. We have construction everywhere. Um, still got more going on, trying to get those tennis courts finished up over there around that. I I wish to see more top soil, but that is going slow right now. But, uh, yeah, most of that's ready. Um, yeah, up here, we recoded the gym floor in there. I don't know if everybody looked at that. That floor is beautiful in there. And gym hair prospect. I like I like it when it's clean. looks
007really good like it is right now and just everything's moving right along. I guess there quick things I'm thinking of. So, yeah. >> Okay. Good. Awesome. >> Let's keep going. >> Oh, wait. Uh uh just for the folks online, sorry. Uh we had Lloyd uh went first. Uh Ray Haley went second, Richman Casio went third. Just for people online name and what you do and then give us a quick little uh vocal tag in Josie Hover on human resources. This summer we really focused on transitioning from paper time sheets to electronics. So the next two weeks are going to be our trial and see how that goes. Um while we thought we were going into a light hiring year this summer, there's always turnover and changes and working with each one of the building principles
008on how we can utilize staff better, more efficiently. We did a lot of that. Um our SharePoint page is up and running. So we're moving more electronic forms which the staff wanted. So I'm excited to bring that Just keep plugging away. >> Quick question. Did you say you're going from paper to digital now? Cards. >> Wow. >> 21st century. >> 20th century. >> We're just digital, right? Well, there will be so many thought like time clocks and time systems that will work with the programming for payroll because being a school district, there's very specific laws and all different CBAs we have. >> So, finding something that would work with that is very challenging. >> Yeah. >> And we're always the pilot ones of that. We're always trying and suggesting things to them. >> Oh, all
009right. >> No. Um, envision. >> Okay. But there's only two or three in the state that you have to find something that's compatible. >> Have lots of different if then and this and that. Just putting it all together and programming it. >> Yeah. Have fun with it. >> Sheets. >> Not anymore. >> All right. Who want to go next? >> Hi, Ken. >> All right. >> Chris, chief of student supports and information. um to highlight a few different things. Registration is still going strong. We have uh as of an hour ago, 21 students over the past two days that have registered. So, we're getting those registrations completed and in as of about 10 minutes ago, our UPK here at Prospect is full and we have 10 students on a wait list right now. So, we're
010working on that as well. Um as far as I want to give a thank you and a shout out to Kim McClney and the wellness fair that went on on Friday. We had over 60 vendors, over 70 families, and over 150 people that were here. The feedback from the vendors, the agencies has been amazing. So, thank you to Kim and to uh both the safety and custodial staff and the students that were here. We had students helping out, carrying things in and out, and they were here for the entire day. And we couldn't have thanked Chad and the teams and the student workers working with Andy Brley more. They were wonderful. Uh Lloyd kind of talked a little bit about we had school districts here yesterday and Colin, thank you for the wonderful article. We
011appreciate that. Um about a countywide attendance and working together with different school districts across the county. So we had four school districts here yesterday. We have another three that want to come to our next meeting and it was just some great ideas, some great collaborations and actually we had schools calling us today saying we talked on the ride home and thought about ways that we can work together with you rather than being a silo. We want to come together as a county and work as a county. So, a lot of great things going on and thank you to Steve Brundage for putting that together and Sandy for helping him out with that too. >> So, who's going to provide us a summary on the meeting of the day? >> That would be Mr. Brundage. So
012that will be coming up soon. So Helen did a great job in the paper with a great summary, but uh Steve has all of that detailed information. >> Awesome. Looking forward to seeing that. >> Okay, who wants to go next? >> Welcome. Aaron Barry, I'm principal. Um it's hard to believe that summer is officially over and I can feel it in the weather as well. Um we're excited to have staff back tomorrow. where we have our fall senica intermediate faculty meeting where we get to talk about all the things and evolutions as Dr. Beer has been stating all summer. Um I'd like to thank Nikki for putting together some awesome professional development for all of us over the summer. Even though I'm going into year five, there's so many things that budgeting and procurement and
013all of those things that you just kind of do but you don't really know the ins and out of. And so that was really nice to be able to get some in-depth training from each of the departments. Um like going into this year with a much better understanding of a lot of systems and processes. Um we are still doing some last minute hiring. We had some interviews today. Hopefully getting all of that tightened up and we are excited to see the kids next week. Well really tomorrow but speak officially. >> Awesome. I think people met for being here tonight. This is so exciting. I wasn't Did you guys do this again last year? >> I wasn't here, >> but um with the baby, but uh thank you for being here. We're so excited. You went
014home. >> Um yeah, I think uh just a highlight as Nikki alluded. Um oh, sorry, I did not state my name. Uh Kim Oaks, elementary principal at Prospect, assistant principal here at >> Yep. So yeah, thank you for being here. Um it's like hosting a a huge party. Um so and there was a lot of, you know, big feelings from the adults today. You know, we're transitioning and trying to get classrooms ready. We had a lot of start of the year, um kickoff meetings and meeting with new teams, meeting with new staff. Um we're really excited. Thank you for your support. We have a lot of really dynamic new staff that we're excited to work with. They fit really well in and just really hit the ground running with our with our teams. Um, so
015we have, you know, some some nice offerings today and tomorrow for our staff to set them up for a successful school year. Um, but the collaboration really set the tone for the school year. So, um, it was nice to work with all the departments in the buildings and talk about some of those things like Erin was mentioning. Um, and then to kind of view the work through a different lens and just refine our practice and, um, be even better going into the school year. So, um, thank you for joining our picnic. Make sure you eat. Um, but it's it's wonderful to see the families here. So, you know, it's that kind of that lull in between summer program and the school year where we're doing a lot of things. Um, but it's wonderful to have
016have the kids back in the building. Some of them are a little apprehensive, but once Tuesday comes around, they'll be they'll be ready to go. So, yeah. >> Excited. No, I'm excited. The the weather is I I love winter, so I'm very excited for the weather to change. Really fun. Um, but yeah, seeing everyone out there, happy, excited for the year. It's going to be a great year. Um we spoke with a lot of different um teachers today, different teams to talk about safety for the first two days, their half days. So we need to be aware of transportation. So we want to make sure that that safety is key. Um so we met with a couple of people to make sure that that is going to go smoothly. Um just really excited for a
017new um kind of platform we're doing um for our schedule is common planning time. Um, so teachers and different teammates will be able to collaborate at different times throughout the the year. Um, so that will really kind of just like we did this summer with our team, our advent team, we want to do the same thing for our for our teachers so that everyone's all on the same page. So excited for uh gear and for my weather. >> Awesome. Thank you. Who's next? Chris Cruz. >> Good evening. My name is Ed Cruz. I'm assistant principal at Salam High School for Buddy Long. And this summer was very busy. It was fun, interesting, educational and uh I enjoyed it amongst some of the things smallest uh that Mr. Long and I have accomplished. Uh we prepared
018a title one activities for the entire year along with a budget. Uh Mr. Haley, Sandra Rumage, and Mrs. Alicia Long assisted with that. Uh we developed a data exploration workshop that our teachers will be engaged somehow with. We set academic and behavioral goals for the upcoming year. We've analyzed data from state attendance and discipline. We've interviewed and hired new teachers. We've attended leadership trainings and conferences at Zac Path branching minds UDL to mention a few. Uh we're going to be scheduling workshop. We've discussed some more chapter curriculum updates and some of our new initiatives for our teachers. We built the master schedule classes teachers and we're assigning our duties as of today. Uh we plan events like open house orientation. We talked about our testing windows and we updated the handles in the photo quite
019a bit. >> All right. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Who we missing? Oh, Marson. Um so if you guys when you're logged into your laptops and you bring up the web page page that will show up now is SharePoint and that is our internal website and all district information and news can be found there for all the buildings and all the departments. Um my department has worked heavily with the human resources to digitize a significant number of the forms that people are required to fill out uh throughout the year. um each building. This summer, one of the trainings that we did was getting the buildings up and running in there so that they're sharing out their news and their information uh through the buildings to get people actively engaged with it. But it is it's
020a warehouse of information and it will continue to grow and develop and um it's a I find it to be an excellent resource for us as adults. If you're looking for something or you want to know something's happening, there's a calendar in there and there's news events that pop up and show you what we're doing and when we're doing it. So, and aside from that, tech has just been I I give kudos to all the people in the office um that have been literally running around getting people set up um in in every classroom, in every office, in every building. Um even, you know, out on our fields, they've been out there working uh with the construction team, getting cameras up and running, getting PA systems outside going. They work with security, making sure that
021everything on the back end of that is working the right way. So, I got to give huge kudos to the the people in my office that um show up quietly. >> Awesome. >> Well, thank you. >> Anybody else? >> Alyssa Simon, assistant director of special education. Um so, I'm very excited for this school year. We have several new classrooms opening across the district. Um, we have a new 1211 at Prospect. We have a 151 in third grade. Um, we have a 4615 one over at Senica and as well as a STS spring. So, we spent a lot of time the admin team hiring some really amazing special education teachers this summer and we have several students coming back from GOI's placement. So, it's really exciting. I'm very excited to see all the new fun programming
022we're doing this year. >> All right. Thank you. Who do we miss? Anybody? >> I haven't spoke yet. I mean, I second everything that everyone has said. We've worked extremely hard this summer. Just really busy collaborating, aligning our goals, making sure that everything that we're doing is with intention and purpose. >> Um, we are set. We have our schedules ready. We're getting new students by the minute. we're, you know, making best decisions on where they would fit and what, you know, what things that they need to have coming in, especially with IEPs. Um, so we're we're really excited. We have our staff meeting tomorrow. We'll share all of the information for two and a half hours with our staff and then we have um a lot of individual sessions that the teachers can pop into
023for extra work. So, they'll be excited to get that roll. >> Awesome. Nothing. Levi. >> Well, Levi, I can share with him. He's actually supporting our staff tomorrow with the new power hub system. So, it's a new platform that we're using to share information with. >> All right. Awesome. What do you got for us? >> Not until you pay my salary. >> All right. So, be quiet. All right. Um, I think that was everybody. Let's see where we at now. Board message. So, let's kick it off with start. >> I will start. I just want to welcome everybody back, both staff and students. I know it's been a short summer, but um think this way. It's a fresh start for for everybody for both students and staff. Uh staff have new new faces to look
024at and students with a fresh start every year. Um, it was exciting to see all all the kids attending camps and all the staff in PD over the summer. So, let's let's just have fun this year. Awesome. Great. I want to mention the production of Chicago and say good luck to all sports and programs and good luck to all the students. Awesome. >> Yes. Welcome back to all the staff and students. Um I'm sure everybody's excited about that. Um wishing you all a great year. Um and I I know sports are kicking off there's a soccer game on Fridayed Christian I first off thank you all for the incredible updates tonight. It's um as always, you guys continue to blow blow away my expectation. You guys do a phenomenal job. Um and all the summer
025programming, professional development, collaboration, and everything you guys are doing um as a board member, but also a parent of a of children that go to this district. I'm very proud to say that and I'm honored done all the work you guys do. um wrote down the word optimistic and Dale just mentioned a fresh start and I think every year as we enter the the school year it's a those two things you know I'm optimistic for another great um year of of of academics and athletics and everything else in between and um yeah that we can continue to um elevate the district and um yeah just shout out to all you guys and the incredible work you do and yeah I'm just very humbled and grateful. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, thank
026everybody. Thank you all for being here tonight. Thank you all for everything you've done over the summer. Thank all of our staff who might have been off and today was the first day of back. Thank you guys. You know, coming back after being off for the summer, today might have been the toughest day for a lot of folks, but hopefully things went well and there was a lot of smiling faces out there. Um did see a lot of happy looking kids as I walked in tonight. So that's that's a good sign. Um but yeah, it's here. You know, I already officially announced that on my Facebook page the other day that summer was over. So that's that's school starts. It's here. Excited for another year. Um I'm always excited for school regardless of what time
027of year. But this is always that fresh start. You know, I like what you said about it's it's a optimistic fresh start. So looking forward to a great year. Looking forward to more updates from all of you. And thank you all for just sharing a little snippet of what you guys do. I know just that little couple minutes that you talk doesn't really encompass everything because there's so much that happens in this district. We all know it. We all recognize it. But it's nice to just hear that little bit that you share with us. You know, it's funny. We were joking. I was asking these guys, "Do you want a long meeting tonight or do you want a short meeting tonight?" And as I said that, I look out there and I see I saw
028somebody writing some notes down. And I think everyone realizes every time we run a meeting, I'm going to there's a chance I'm going to ask you guys to say a few things. So, I I appreciate you guys sharing with us. You know, we don't always get to hear that. and it's even less often that we even get to interact with a lot of you. But everything you guys have to say is valuable for us. You know, we value everything you guys do and we appreciate everything you guys do. So, thank you again. And with that, Dr. Beer, just a couple quick acknowledgements. Um Dr. Dudak talked a bit about uh the health and wellness fair and the attendance um summit that occurred yesterday. I just wanted to thank her and her team. uh Steve Brundage,
029Kim McLaren, those three individuals really put two pretty spectacular events together. Um and there has already been a tremendous amount of positive feedback. So I wanted to thank them. Um Kim McLaren as well. I think I might have overlooked her initially, but she was absolutely instrumental in the health of all. Um, also Sandy Bundage, uh, with her student workers that, uh, helped over the summer, it was absolutely wonderful to see our students work in a role paralleling our employees and they were absolutely professional and they were incredibly helpful. There wasn't a time that I went by that they were sitting around on their phone like everywhere else you seem to go and they're supposed to be working. um or and I would go up and say, "Hey, listen, you know, if you guys had a
030chance, can you go help this person?" They were out out and providing significant assistance. Uh they took some of the time last week to help teachers set their classrooms up. Uh Mr. Bertosic is currently coaching, but he worked with many of the varsity athletes to have the athletes available this afternoon as teachers were setting their rooms up to provide assistance to them because, you know, as Mr. Francy said, everything comes out, the rooms are cleaned, but teachers have a certain way they want the room, and it takes a relatively significant amount of time to put that back. So having some students available to move boxes around books and a bookshelf here and there uh hopefully made their job a little bit easier and that's going to be something that was new for us this year
031but we're going to continue that every year moving forward so that it's make that transition back a little easier. This morning we had our um essentially welcome back and our kickoff to the 2526 seems like can't believe we're talking about 2026 already uh school year. We acknowledge several individuals who did a great job. I just wanted to once again um mention our transportation department under Roger Ball and the mechanics. This was the second year in a row that um they passed with 100% the DOT inspections. Uh meaning all of our vehicles were 100% in line with expectations and had 0% downtime. So, that's a pretty significant um accolade and recognition of the work that uh he does and his mechanic team does as well. I also wanted to note John Haley, if you everybody has
032to get down to the kitchen tonight and get some food. Um Tiffany, who is the cook here, has been working on chicken tenders made from scratch, her own recipe. They're crispy on the outside, soft and tender, juicy on the inside. It's putting Chick-fil-A to a uh a test here. So, they are absolutely phenomenal. I just wanted to thank them. And then I also wanted to just acknowledge Mrs. Beaver. Um after we got done this morning, uh everything in our office was quiet. And I was thinking I was a little nervous because it's really never quiet down in the district office area. And I'm thinking to myself, why is it so quiet? And it really is because of the work that she did and everyone that you see in front of you that when you have
033hundreds of staff members coming back and we don't have a problem, right? That just speaks to the amount of organization and preparedness that was put in place and the work that happened all summer long. Um, so I want to acknowledge the work that Mr. Beaver and her team did and everybody out here. Today went exceptionally smooth. Um, and there have been years where on days like today, the first day back, there's, you know, rooms aren't ready. This didn't get ordered. We're missing this. Who's teaching this? We're still struggling to get this done. Today was 180 degrees. It was exceptionally wellrun. Um, and I just want to express my gratitude to everyone. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Quick question. You you kind of touched on the sports and then Rich did it too. Um, tennis
034courts. >> Yes. >> Are they going to be ready for practicing? I don't know. >> Okay. Ready? Something about top soil, but the courts themselves are ready. >> If you run the outside courts are ready. Yeah. >> Have an outside bathroom just there by the tennis courts. It's ready to go, too. >> Yeah. Everything is ready to go. It doesn't doesn't have the finishing touches. The the last layer of top soil isn't down and it's not seated yet, but um or function. >> Awesome. >> Hey, add one more point to you talked about data just like I'm thinking of something I was talking about earlier too. It's just like on our athletics. So, I'm glad that you guys are diving into the data and working on with like doing these trainings and different things with
035attendance and the correlation and you know and I talk on the optimistic part of my board message tonight and I'm just really curious and excited to to hopefully continue to increase that uh the the GPA and the grades throughout um you know the district. So, I just thought of that when you were talking about the data and stuff. I'm glad that you guys want to take turn. >> Yeah, we got time. [Music] >> Oh, I will. I'll I'll take care. Hey, just real quick, I just wanted to, you know, thank my colleagues and our our admin team. We had a retreat a couple weeks ago and we spent a good five, six hours worth of conversation and communication to talk about what we can do better at this district. Um, you know, we talked about
036finances, we talked about some of the new initiatives we're doing, but that's one of the things that's important for all of us is we have to we have to have those kind of discussions in order to help guide what this district or where this district is going. So, we had a great retreat. Um it was basically one evening and then the following morning. But we we've done that over over the years. You know, every now and then we'll go and do a retreat. But really a lot of it is so we can actually have a conversation and talk about a little bit more in depth about what's going on in the district and where can we help. I think that's the biggest piece of it all. How can we help? Where can we help? And
037without hearing that it's hard for us to even get this call for food shortly nearly getting ready to close out. Thank you. They have a motion to adjourn. [Music] All right. All right. Here. Number four, consent agenda. So be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent the consent agenda items of August 26, 2025, including PA, Board of Education regular meeting minutes of July 22nd, 2045 and B, Board of Education special meeting and retreat minutes of August 8th, 2025, and August 9th, 2045. and board of education special meeting minutes of August 12th, 2025 and financial items including the May 2025 treasures report and June 25 treasures report and cse recommendations for the period July 16 and 25 through August 2025 and direct all such necessary arrangements be made to implement those recommendations being reasonable and
038appropriate special services andor programs and CPS recommendations. for the period July 23 25 throughout 2025 and directs all such necessary arrangements to implement those recommendations being reasonable and appropriate special services and not ready to be approved by Christian by any questions all in favor I any oppose any motion carries okay so item five old business. We have nothing. Item six, new business. We have a donation. Uh Joel Goodman, Courtney appropriated. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent to sell City Central School District Board of Education accepts a onetime donation from the Joel Goodman Carney Inc. in the amount of $750 to be used for the girls varsity soccer team to enhance team bonding opportunities and purchase necessities that may not be feasible for all players such as equipment, gear or camps in a
039letter of appreciation be sent to be approved. Motion by Dale, second by Greg. Are there any questions? All in favor I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Okay, motion carries. Item B, declare surplus. Being resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following textbooks and materials be declared surplus and be disposed of accordingly be approved. Item number one, um, title decoding B1. Item number two, title decoding B2. Item number three, title test of early reading ability. Item four, title test of reading comprehension. Five is title spelling through morphographs. We'll have to get a definition on the order. Number seven, title test of written language and be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following items be declared surplus and be disposed of accordingly be approved. 48 student chairs tall green. Okay. And I get
040a motion >> motion by second by Christian. Are there any questions other than what? All in favor? >> I any opposed? Any obstain? All right. Motion carries. Right. Item C, we are creating positions. May resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent and as a result of changes within the district, the following position be created effective August 20th, 2025. One, security guard 12 months part-time up to 19 hours per week CSU. Two, security guard 12 months part-time up to 19 hours per week CSU. And be it resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent and as a result of changes within the district, the following position be created effective August 26, 2025. Uh teacher assistant one FTE in SDA motion by Daily. Second, second by Brad. Are there any questions? All in favor of any oppos
041change orders. Be it resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education hereby approves the following change orders. Change order phase 4 change order GC4 HK Services Incorporated for $1,411. uh phase four change order GC5 a services incorporated for $23,19 and a motion motion by Tracy second by Dale any questions >> these change orders were um implemented at the request of the district I know many times when we're working on capital projects we are always concerned about change orders especially ones that don't credit us money uh but uh I just want to acknowledge that both of these change orders were uh district requested. So sort of add-ons. One is for a change in the block for the dugout at the softball field. We preferred dive block instead of painted um which is what
042was initially put in place and we had the funding to do so. And then for the rear building, there were several additions and enhancements um after bid that we requested such as an additional door, some additional murals on there. So those are all things that we had surplus funds for and requested um at our put in place at our request. Any other questions? All in favor? I any opposed? Any ab um we have a contract senate begins head start. May it resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the Senate Commission of Indians Head Start Agreement to provide 50K services for up to 18 and no less than nine children from the district at the Senica Arts and Learning Center. Oh, some guards and Learning Head Start Center with these children and families to
043also be enrolled in Head Start with all UTK and Head Start regulations to be followed effective the 2025 2026 school year and the superintendent be authorized to execute the agreement approved a year resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent Senica Nation of Indians head start collaborative agreement to reduce the duplication and enhance the efficiency of services while increasing program participation underd Underserved populations of eligible children be approved and the superintendent be authorized to execute the agreement. Any more? Okay. Motion by Greg, second by Christian. Any questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any obstain? All right. Okay. Next up, we have a consultant agreement with Gabriel Papa. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent and consultant agreement with Gabrielle Papa to provide guidance and assistance with the development of Native American
044curriculum and resources effective September 125 through August 3126 be approved and the superintendent be authorized to ask the agreement be approved. Motion motion by Dale second. >> Second by Tracy. Do we have any questions? All in favor? I >> Any opposed? Any obstain? Right. Motion here. I got a comment real quick. I seen them out there um at the summer picnic and talking about they had a a turtle shell and it was a from a 3D printer, I guess, and they were going to do some education. I mean, I don't know if there's a whole team out there, but they had he was sitting at the table. I thought that was really cool to bring up that the incorporation of the technology that we have nowadays these kids at a younger and younger age. um
045introducing culture into that as well. That was really cool. >> What kind of I thought it was a real Yes. I w up like a walked up and then she's like, "Yeah, that's 3D printed." I'm like, "What?" Yeah. Really accurate. Yeah. So you turn it over. I mean, you couldn't tell. Everything was >> pretty pretty accurate. Awesome. >> All right. We have item G, code of conduct 2025, 2026, and high school student handle. Be it resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent, the following community forums held on July 1525 and July 1725, the code of conduct for the 2526 school year be adopted and approved and be resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent, the high school student handbook for the 2526 school year be approved. adopted and approved. questions by second by Brad. Are
046there any questions? Any comments? Yes. >> On the code of conduct, can you show this is um we you did you present this? >> I I don't believe I was at that meeting. >> Okay. Yes. >> So, this was presented last month. Uh every year we review and update the code of conduct spec typically with the high school and um this is just uh our annual approval of that. Uh every there was a public forum for it. Actually I think there was two right >> there two public forums. We also had a public survey where we did get a lot of data from parents. Right. >> Um one of the big items that's a change across the state is the cell phone policy and how we handle that within the schools. Um, and a lot
047of a lot of the feedback from parents and teachers very positive in that cell phones need to stay in the lockers. >> Okay. Any other questions? All right. All in favor? >> I I Any opposed? Any obstain? Okay. Motion carries. All right. Item H, final budget transfer 2024 2025. Being resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education approves the tax year end budget transfer for 242 school year to reallocate available funding in the mind where funding is needed to balance be approved. Can I make a motion? Dale by Tracy. Any questions? >> Yeah. >> All right, Dr. Sure. So, this essentially is a rundown of the reconciliation of the 2425 fiscal year. So you'll see uh all of the transfers that occurred between each individual line in order to ensure that
048we comply with the state uh auditing requirements. Okay. Any other questions audit? >> Very good. >> Okay. All in favor? I I >> any opposed? Any exceed? All right. Motion carries. All right. Item I is our tax warrant for 2025 2026. Be resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education approves a tax warrant for the 2025 2026 school year in the amount of $250,000. Can I make a motion? Motion second by second by Christian. Are there any questions? What year is this? >> This for this year. >> No, no. How many How many years have we been at 250,000? >> Yeah. Seven, eight, seven or at least seven. >> Yeah. So, >> that's very >> what you are looking to vote on basically is because the school district is sort of spread
049over several different towns and municipalities. Um those are taxed at different rates. Uh so what we do is we follow that um equalization rate so that we have a consistent levy across all of the towns that we uh service. So the value doesn't change. It's still $250,000 which um I think most people would say safely is a good deal. Yeah. All right. Any other questions? >> All right. All in favor? I any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carries. All right. Item J is the resolution of the sell central school district enter New York adopted August 26, 2025 authorizing directing district clerk publishing summary form the bond resolution that was adopted on March 2025 or March 25, 2025 and approved by the district on May 20th, 2025. And I'm not ahead. So, um, can I
050get a motion? >> Second by second by Brad. Are there any questions? Dr. >> Yeah, I was I was reading to make sure I fully got this because I was waiting for you to ask me about it. So, we will recall that on May 20th, uh, we approved what we're calling our capital project 5. Um, the information regarding that was published on March 25th. So what this does now is uh basically acknowledges that a certain time period has passed. I believe it's 60 days and we are now capable of going out for bonds for the for that uh specific amount. And we will also be publishing um a summary uh because essentially there were 60 days for any individuals or organizations to raise issue uh if they had an issue. That time has passed. So
051we are ready to move forward with project capital project. All right. Awesome. Any questions? Any other questions? Okay. All in favor? I I any opposed? Any abstain? Right. Motion carried. So now we are on to item number seven, the personnel consent agenda. Uh a personnel action number one. Personnel action number two is extended probation and being resolved that upon recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education approved the personal action items listed in the public content of section 8. Item A and item B. Get a motion. >> Motion. Tracy. Second by Christian. Are there any questions? Well, I have a comment, not a question. I'm sorry to see you go. And you're at the top of the list. Janet, thank you for all of your service to the district. And in case anybody hasn't seen
052it, it's served uh retirement notice effective January 2nd, 2026. >> Thank you for your service to the district. >> All right. Any questions? [Music] Okay. All in favor? Any oppos? Can you see if I can be all >> right? Motion carries. Dr. Beer, I have some comments and introduction of maybe staff. >> Certainly. Um, one will likely get significantly more sentimental in December as we get closer to uh Janet's retirement, but um, yeah. So over the next uh couple months, I'll be working with the board to attempt to find a replacement for Janet. Um that would be nearly mission impossible. She's done an incredible job and a lot of hard work in making me look good. So then we know how hard that is. So uh I mean I knew it was coming. We could
053talk about it. But um congratulations I guess because you know it's important. Uh let's see. I don't does do any of our our building leaders have Oh, there's no one here. All right. >> No one is on and no one is here. So, we will make sure that when we see our newest warriors that we welcome to the family appropriately. Uh just one more again. Thank you, Janet. And I agree with you. Congratulations on retirement. It's all bittersweet. We're sorry to see you go, but the future holds for you. >> Thank you. >> Can I just make a comment? >> Absolutely. I I I will say I love my job, but I promised myself I was retiring at 62. I train I turned 63 last week and it was like You promised yourself >> I
054got to go see my little refill. >> Awesome. >> And my girls, you know. So, thank you. >> I appreciate the opportunity to actually be hired here. I really do. Yeah. Well, thank you. You made us all look good up here. >> Well, if you ever need any help, you know where I find you. >> All right. Uh the last item was our board information reports and discussion. Uh we had the transportation report. Uh we have our indigenous education meeting minutes of August 13th. And as far as upcoming events, um we already know we had a welcome back picnic here at today. Tomorrow, the welcome back picnic for secondary intermediate and the high school. Um, let's see what else is on there. August 28th, we have the prek kindergarten transition night. Uh, that'll be from
0555 to six right here at Prospect. Um, well, the big one isn't on here. Uh, first day back. >> Yeah, September 2nd. Can't wait. That's not on here, but that's that's a big day for everyone that everybody keeps paying attention to. Um September 10th we have our indigenous education meeting and then September 23rd we have our next board of education meeting that will be back over at the high school. And with that we are at item number nine adjournment. Does anybody want to >> motion? All right. Motion by Brad, second by Dale. Any comments, questions? >> All right. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any good 649? Thank you all for coming. Thanks everyone for listening. Awesome year. Double arm. They're a part of