001Pledge of Allegiance and the Lane acknowledgement stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The Salamica City Central School District acknowledges the homeland of the Anandowaka, the people of the great hill, the Senica people on whose ancestral and modern-day land Salama 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 a goal of the Salamega City Central School District to recognize the history and make improvements that will benefit the next seven generations of indigenous students. Thank you. All right. Uh Carrie John, vice president of the board, filling in for President
002Terresa Ray, who cannot be here this evening. Uh so right now, we're going to look at the um approval of the agenda. Do we have any changes to the agenda? Yes, since it was published on uh Friday, we have four changes. We added a award contract uh for the capital project phase 3.5. We accepted a bid of the food truck for the mobile learning lab. We also added the estate of Donald Bchet resolution and there are uh added budget transfers as well. Okay. Uh can I get a motion to approve the agenda? Sound like Dale. Motion by Dale. Second by Brad. Any questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carries. So, we are going to jump right on to item number four, recognitions and presentations. And we have a presentation,
003Hazard Young AIA Associates strategic plan. All right. I'm going to introduce Monica and Karen uh who have started progress and the board worked with them just a short time ago on the district's uh fiveyear uh strategic plan. Thanks. I had to figure out what we were going to do. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Ber. Um, first of all, we uh Karen and I uh would like to thank Janet Co and Dr. Buler for um showing us such great hospitality. Um and we are really excited to be working with um board and with the community over the next few days for the strategic plan. Um we talk about uh the our plans as empowering impact and shaping the future through planning. um if we know where we're going, then we can all try to get there.
004So, we're um going to do our best to help facilitate a wonderful strategic planning process. Um so, what we did before uh the meeting today was we interviewed the board and thank you to all board members. We really appreciate your um willingness to share with us um all your thoughts about the about the district. Um and we also did um we they gave us some input on the process so far. So we'll be recounting that a little bit today. So the way we think of strategic planning is there's all these different um interests in a district and they can all come together in an inclusive forward thinking plan and that's what we hope to bring to the district that unity of purpose so that we have shared direction. Um we believe um effective strategic planning
005create create help to create a shared vision shared purpose agreed upon priorities and goals and then how to get there what those strategic um strategies and measures can be and that's really when everybody's moving in the same direction we do see impact. So my name is Monica Brown. I am I've been with HYA for seven years. I retired from superintendency in northern New Jersey back in 2017. and I've been working with HYA ever since. I'm also on staff at the University of Delaware where I work in a graduate college. So, it's a real it's a pleasure to be up in this part of the world, a beautiful part of New York State. Glad to be here. So, thank you all um for having us. We've already had a wonderful time meeting with the board and
006meeting with some administrators um over the phone and it's it's just wonderful to be here. Um I am a former board of education member and board president in New Jersey. Um and I really believe um strongly in public education and after I I decided to retire from the board. I always say because I was president during the pandemic and um our district it was a difficult time as everyone knows but we actually used HYA for both our strategic planning and our superintendent search and I had such a great experience. I wanted to continue helping boards of education and helping school districts find their next best leader, find their strategic vision, and really put plans into the future. As Monica said, it really helps everyone growing in the same direction. And sometimes some of the great
007things about coming out of a strategic plan is you could say no to things that you could say this is a great project, but you know what? That's not in our strategic plan, so I don't think we're going to touch this right now. And it kind of um takes rid of gets rid of some of the noise sometimes. So, um I love this work. I love working with Monica. Monica and I work really well together. It's been great. Um Dr. Fueler and Janet have been really helpful. So we're so happy to be here. Um actually went to school in Bingmpington. So I I know a little bit about this area, not this far up. And um as kind of Karen alluded to, um we recruited her right after she got she was off the board
008to to work with us. Lori Kimbell, she is our lead um for all strategic plans for HYA. So we like to make sure the board knows who she is, too. um in case you have any questions. So as we said, we really are looking forward to helping you build available influence in fact student outcomes and it really makes a difference when everybody is growing in the same direction and everyone um is looking towards the future and really the future of the students and that is where you see student outcomes um being achieved. Um the research is clear as we said student growth um you have focused curriculum effective instruction and a culture for learning including effective operations and all three of those things really come out to student growth. So a little bit about our
009four-phase process um that hya uses. So phase one is organizational readiness. Um we've already been through that phase. We are ready. you or your district is ready and wanting to go through the process, which is always a huge step. Um, just taking that first jump. Phase two is the inclusive engagement process. So, that's why we're really here is really to get to know your community, um, and really understand. It's so important for us being in the community physically, um, talking to as many people as we can to really understand what the community is like so we can help facilitate the process. Um phase three is when we really get down to looking at the data um with a smaller um strategic focus group and that's when we review your mission, your vision um and then
010come up with some large objectives for the future. Um and then phase four is just the implementation phase of this all and that will happen here. Yes. And that will happen here. Um so phase one as I mentioned this is the organizational readiness. um the introductory meeting we had with your superintendent, the schoolboard update which we just gave. Um we have a communications toolkit which really helps with all of your communications. We share that um with Janet and your admin team. So that helps with we have templates and everything to send out invitations and if you want to do any PR work um regarding those strategic planning because you really want your whole community to know that you're undergoing this process. Hopefully, they'll be involved at some point, but you just want that message out
011there that the community knows. Um, finalizing the timeline, which is what we're doing tonight, as well as the engagement plan is what we're here to engage the community with. So, I'm sorry for people in the back who might not be able to see this, but this is the um engagement timeline that we went over with the board prior to the meeting. Um, April 8th was highlighted because that's today. and we were here to um work with the board um prior to meeting with you all to get their input on on the timeline. Looks like we're moving forward as planned. Um so tomorrow and Thursday we'll be doing focus groups. We hope many of you are involved in focus groups. So we get to meet you in person. We ask all the focus groups the same
012questions and then we do a qualitative data exercise by pulling all of the answers to each of the questions and finding the themes within those answers. We then present those themes to the um steering committee um and we'll be doing that on May 19th and 20th and that's when the strategic goals are decided upon the vision, the mission um and then hopefully um to get approved by the board so that you all can move forward together. So that will be on May 19th and 20th. Another date I want to make um sure you're aware of is April 25th. That's the day the survey closes. Um there is a survey that even if you can't come to a focus group meeting, everybody in your community can participate in a virtual um in a survey online survey
013and that is most likely already on your website. Janet is is is giving me the Yes. So it's it's already there, but it also probably went out in the invitations to the different focus groups, too. So that'll be open until April 25th. So if you know people who uh maybe wanted to come to a focus group but couldn't um please encourage them to take our survey and so that their voices can be heard throughout the process. Um so that's so we're we're actually at the end of phase one tonight starting into phase two because we finished all of the interviews. We're going to start the focus groups tomorrow. The survey we will um we take um we have to thank the um assistant superintendent here too. They've given us a lot of data already. We'll
014combine that with the data we collect from the survey, from the focus groups, and from the interviews. We'll present that all back to um the strategic plan steering committee. Um which should include a diversity of thought from all these different groups and probably more that we're going to be meeting with. Um, and it's on phase three that we really start to once all that data is collected, we spend half a day working with the committee just to review the data so that they have a great mindset of how the community and all the different groups are feeling before they start to set the goals for the next five years. So, we'll do a data workshop. Oh, we went ahead. Oh, yeah. One more. Sorry, one more. Sorry, I wasn't nodding fast enough. Not her fault.
015I was going on mine. Um so we'll be doing the data workshop um and we'll also provide the board with some in um with some update at that point too so they know what's happening and the deliverables from that phase will be the actual plan for the strategic uh the actual wording for the strategic plan. um portrait of about of a graduate which means the vision what do we see as um all graduates uh have the mission the core values the priorities and objectives so that'll be phase three and then um once once the board approves the um has some time to digest the plan and then approves that then Dr. Buler and his team will move forward with the implementation. Um, keep going. One more. Sorry. So, um, just to kind of show the
016parts of the process. Um, the strategic uh, plan steering committee will be working on the shared vision, the mission and core values, the priorities and objectives. Then the board comes in and may make some adjustments but will then hopefully approve. Then it becomes the board steps back and the um team the administrative team and the teachers and even the students are working together to achieve um with some oversight on the boards. Yeah. So um what we're doing along the way, we're meeting with your administrative team bi-weekly. We um u make sure that we're continuing to move forward on the process. Okay. Uh we do um some post plan check-ins so we can help if we once we get to know you sometimes we can help you as you're trying to make adjustments along the way
017and do that and we very much appreciate the board input. Thank you. So they've already given us the input on the plan from before. So we are done. Any questions from anybody have any questions? Great job. Thank you. Great. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. And you Yeah, you're all set. Thank you. You've had a long day with your journey from Delaware already. So, yes. All right. Okay. Let's uh move on. Uh item number five, communications, public communications and title six advisory committee. We did get a communication from Mr. Miller that he was unable to make tonight, but we'll be at the 22nd meeting where he will have an update. Awesome. Okay. No. All right. Well, let's move on to the central office. Okay. I'm just
018going to keep it short and sweet tonight. Thank you very much. Um, I just want to thank everybody for their hard work and spring is approaching even though it doesn't feel like it today, but we just keep pushing through. I wish everyone a safe spring break so we come back ready to push through the fourth quarter started today. So, I'm a push. Awesome. Oh, who do we have in the audience tonight? Oh, Kim, you wanna share a little with us? Sure. Um, so we just to kind of end what Nikki was just saying, we are getting ready for spring break, but still working hard up to that point. Um, we our kiddos are anxious for I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but we are getting new swings over break. So, um, just
019a couple of swings. Um, but it'll be added on to our uh, two year old playground because they don't have access to swings right now. So, um, they couldn't enjoy the playground today, but they are excited for after break. They will have some new swings out there. Um, in the meantime, our third graders, we are still paperbased for New York State testing, but they are getting prepared for testing. Um, because when we come back to break, we will we will get into that. Um, wrapping up quarter three, getting ready for quarter four. And, um, yeah, lots of lots of good stuff. It's a busy busy building, but we'll have another reading challenge over the break. And Okay, remind me again when does the quarter end? It was last week, was it? Last Friday. Okay, awesome.
020So, we are in quarter 4. Yeah. Awesome. Mr. Bartosk, what do you got for us? So, the start of spring sports is always a busy time around here. Thank you to maintenance, custodial, security, and our coaches for getting us rolling. Um, especially with weather and opening up of vets and our other facilities, utilizing multiple schools. This is always a busy time, been fairly chaotic, but it's been it's been rather smooth other than today when we had to postpone a bunch of games for weather that was supposed to be much worse. So, apologize. It looks nice out there. Still cold and windy. We uh we made the decision yesterday, but um we have a couple dates coming up. The the track the first official track home event is scheduled for April 28th. We'd like to do
021a ribbon cutting on that date, 3:30 just to kind of christen the place. Uh we won't have everything 100%. Just still trying to work on the landing area for discus, but that is that's going to be due to mother nature, I believe. Um, and then our first softball game on April 30. So, that's exciting. I get to see it out my window every day and it's just a busy time and I our athletes and our coaches and our community are anxious to get out there. So, um, it's really coming together and just uh wish everyone a good spring break and enjoy the time. Awesome. All right. Well, we got both of our teammates here from Senica Intermediate. Who wants to start? So, I would like to tell you about our CEO celebration that we're having
022on Thursday. We will have over 50 families invited to come celebrate their students and their positive reward system that we have um at 1:00 all the families come in and teachers have identified students and written little blurbs about them. So, we will have them read aloud to the whole audience and celebrate all of the great accomplishments that our students have been achieving. Um, another thing that I've been having fun doing are making positive phone calls home for students essentially caught being good and following our chance expectations. So, um, the families have been very thrilled to receive some of those shout outs for their students and just positive things. Awesome. Um, okay. So, the start of the fourth quarter, it's hard to believe that we are here already. So, this is kind of an interesting time
023of year because you're living in two worlds. You're still trying to navigate dayto-day, but then also planning and preparing, master scheduling, all of those things for the next school year. Um, I'd like to congratulate our two morning teams that just congratulate the great accomplishment for our intermediate teams and also the high school team that's moving on to worlds. Um, we like to thank the student government team for their birthday celebration that they put on this past Friday and our guest appearance of the Lorax and to read our students. Um, and let's see, just like Miss Oak said, we're also gearing up for state testing. So, Senica intermediate students and all grades four to seven will be doing computer based testing this year. So, we're moving away from the paper based and we will begin that
024April 29th, that Tuesday after we come back to spring break. So, lots of stuff happening. All right. Can you go back to the Lorax? That's That's one of mine and lady's favorites. So, yes. That would be fun. That would be fun. Yes. Really cute. The kids came out and were able to listen to the Lorax read a story. Yeah. So, they had a lot of fun. Okay. That's awesome. All right, Mr. Cruz. Good evening. Good evening. Yeah. Uh at the high school uh we've been focused on performing staff observations and evaluations uh and using that as an opportunity uh to have conversations regarding what we do and how we do it and what we're planning moving forward and some things in the future. Um also before COVID the high school did have instituted a school
025improvement team. We are having discussions with our staff to implement a building share decision making team. Uh the endeavor is a means of a bottoms up communication and we would like to have teachers teacher assistant safety cafeteria most of the stakeholders in the building uh being part of this cleaning. Uh and we hope that we can develop an umbrella to establish subcommittees. It'll take some things off of the administrator's plate and put it in the hands of those that have hitting the ground line where where it was against the road and then they bring us to communication and start developing and making some serious changes establishing my phone. Saturday impact uh is uh underway uh for students who are at risk. teachers are making phone calls uh every Wednesday inviting the students to come in
026on Saturdays and just advising the families and uh we've had uh some success with that. Is that it? That's it. So, when did you start the Saturdays? Uh approximately three weeks ago. Three weeks ago. And we're getting students. Uh we had about 30 something students. Oh, that's awesome. Right. And we started out with seniors, but now we have included all of our grade levels. So, okay. Awesome. All right. Is that it from the high school? Yes. Okay. Derry, what do you got for us, sir? Uh, so we are, as we always are, planning for the future, right, with special education. Uh, working on finalizing our last few meetings for the year. Well, two meetings we still have to go through through end of May. Um, we have several meetings to go through and look at
027programming planning for kids for next year. Um, we also are engaged in a lot of data collection and reporting. As you know, this time of year, we're always reporting things back to the state. Um, going through different audits and such. Um, but I do want to want to give one positive and shout out to our related service providers. It's our speech therapists, our occupational therapists, physical therapists. Um, they there's this thing called a random moment in time study that requires snapshots at any point in any day um that they'll get emails saying what are you doing, who are you working with, how are you doing it, so on and so forth. We are, this is my fifth year in this role and we are still at 100% compliance every time the state sends an email
028to our staff. So, um, that's something I just I got email get emailed weekly and our staff does a great job with that. We know that we need the compliance. So, uh, yeah, just want to give a shout out to the folks about that. But yeah, we're still plugging away our programming in place for next year for the kids. Did like summer programming as well. So, uh, yeah, we're still full speed ahead. Very awesome. Marcy, what do you got for us? Um, right now we're working on updating the majority of our all built laptops and workstations around the district. Um, heavy emphasis on scheduling out our summer so that we have people here and we know where everybody is and what we're doing throughout the entire campus. Um, we're prepping for computer based testing, making
029sure that we have equipment ready for kids just trade in and out. It works really well. Um, we've done it a couple of times now. uh updating the process for requesting technology help along with managing our assets. Um we've got three texts in training right now learning all about the door system so that we can manage those. We don't have to reach out to another company to come in and fix doors when something muck. Um and uh we've got a couple of guys that are working with the construction crew setting up all the talk out on the fields right now. We're as Chad said, best part, the water's on. We only had one major one major leak. So, that was pretty good for the winter. It was pretty cold winter and thank goodness that we
030got most of it cleared. Thanks. Ger building down here is bathrooms are on. We just we got them on. So, that's coming in. Um, we did, oh, we're starting demolition tomorrow inside the uh old high school office area there. Starting removing the ceiling. My guys are removing the ceiling and all the grid and lights and everything there. We're doing that. We'll start that tomorrow. And we got a lot of the mowing. Actually mowing is Ed started mowing already at that over there at the softball field. He already mowed that, rolled it and mold it. So mowed and so he'll be we'll be working on the rest of that browns as soon as we can get on. They're pretty wet still as you can everybody knows. But oh yeah, a lot of that going on right
031now. So, a lot of outside. Awesome. Anybody have any questions for anyone? Oh, wait a minute. Who we got on here? Kristen, I see Kristen, do you have anything for us? Yes, I do. Hello, everybody. Um, first and foremost, I want to say thank you to Kim McCclar and Brianna Zerat for the wonderful job they did coordinating Smile Day at Highark Stadium. It was a phenomenal day with the students. The students were amazing warriors and really represented Salamanca. So proud of them and they had such a great time. If you have a chance and you're in Senica and can talk to the students, please go and see them and ask them how their day was. Um, we also want to shout out to all the families that have completed their UPK and kindergarten registration packets
032for next year. Aaron R, our central registister, went over to SAC and to River Street and help the families there. We currently have 30 packets complete and our UPK lottery will be on April 23rd. So, please, if you're hearing this, please make sure to get your applications in for UPK. Um, we're continuing on with our data for the year and our attendance meetings at each of the buildings are going strong. Thank you to the principles and to the teams of teachers that have been meeting with Mr. Brundage and the families to try and help support the students get back on track and finish off the stu school year strong. Thank you. Michael, do you have anything for us? Oh, he's not paying attention or he didn't think it. Yeah. All right, we'll come back and
033pick pick think pick think pick think pick think pick think pick think pick of something to say for us all right well let's move on then um board of education message and we'll start with Dale tonight very good might be nice and short sweet so I I just can't believe it's fourth quarter already yeah you know with the school year you're going um I just want to you know let everybody know that that you know those that are going away for for a break these Please drive safely, get there, you know, have fun and please be safe at at your destination. That's all I have. Thank you. I want to give a shout out to everyone involved with the production of Mamia. Was it a couple weeks ago? Took his family down. It's very enjoyable.
034Just hope everyone has an enjoyable next week. All right. Thank you, Tracy. Um, want to give a shout out to all of the um, students and everybody about Monia. Um, I had planned on making it but didn't quite make it but I would like to say in mind um, competition I believe we come. So congratulations to all those um, guys and looking forward to spring break myself even though school right? So, I want everybody to enjoy their break and be safe that students and staff as well. Very good. All right. Yeah. No, that's uh some good stuff. It's hard to follow everybody. I tell you what, it was a really rewarding um day and a great afternoon. I was able to um my colleagues here, fellow board members to attend that uh the the presentation
035or the meeting with the the strategic planning. I thought that was really uh great and beneficial um being I think one of my first times really diving in and doing one of those um since being on the board I can recall anyway. Um it was just really uh great conversation and um you know and then even just conversating with some of my colleagues today at work. Um, you know, we had a visit here, I think a week or two ago with our uh indigenous youth council there, the American Youth Council, and uh they we all just couldn't be more proud of this district and the school and the facilities and even just today them talking about this district and this school, these schools, our schools, um, competing and and and being nicer and better than
036some private schools in their eyes. That's what they were saying. So, um, all the hard work that everybody's doing, all of you guys, it's really paying off. People are noticing. I know it could be hard at times. You know, it's not a easy job that each one of you guys do, but, uh, you know, everyone sees it, you know, and I want to thank you guys very much. Um, on a personal level, I I have a third grader who's really taken great strides lately with the with the reading and everything over there, um, what he's doing. And so with the extra work that we're putting in and all the programming and extra work that everyone's doing at all at Prospect and and um that's really been a huge help for us and for my family.
037Um and we're having our fourth we're having our my first daughter here in in a few more weeks. So everyone be enjoying spring break. I'll just be adding a new addition to my family. So another one for Kim over there in a few years here. Yeah. Yep. Exa Exactly. I'm very excited about that. I got a lot of uh talking to Carrie to uh pick his brain on a lot of different things, but uh no, it's all it's all good stuff, man. And I'm just again just proud to be a warrior and this is been a great day. And thank you all very much. I don't know anything about raising girls. So, all right. Uh as always, thank you all to all of our staff, everybody. You know, we we don't make the wheels go
038around without you guys. appreciate everything you do every single day. All the time you put in and the dedication and commitment to the kids of our community, all of our kids. So, thank you guys. I mean it. Fourth quarter, here we are. Let's buckle down. Let's finish the year strong. We've heard we've heard a lot tonight from, you know, a lot of people in the room, a lot of different subjects. It's all good stuff. And everything that we're doing is to make this a better place, a better school for all the kids. So, again, I can't thank you guys enough for everything you do. all of you here, all my colleagues, everything that we're doing. Sometimes it's a thank you, but we're still here doing it. So, we appreciate it. Uh, spring sports in full
039swing. Everyone's excited about that. We're just hoping for better weather. Hopefully, we come back from the break and all the all the snowbirds will bring back some sun for us and some warmth. Spring sports is pretty important to a lot of people, especially our seniors. A lot of the seniors, what it means for them is that's their last season of high school sports. So there's extra meaning when it comes to the spring sports here in the school district. And I think a lot of people don't think about that until it's actually there, but trust me, it means a lot to all of them. So even the support that you give to our student athletes, that's appreciated. Um Brad hit it first. Mia, that was it was an awesome show. I made it over there. It's
040I I like going to those shows. They're the the kids work so hard. They do such a great job. And honestly, it's like I couldn't be prouder of everybody who's there. You know, it was it was a great production. I look forward to them every single year. You know, I I love seeing the little kids when they do the production, but I also love seeing the the high school kids when they do theirs. It's good stuff. If you haven't made it to any of them, you better get there next fall because you miss out on a really good show. Uh Ombers, congratulations. You know, good luck to them moving on. Um I think that's it for me. Off to Dr. Beer. Well, I think everything, well, not everything, but an awful lot of what I
041was going to say was has been shared. I stopped over uh to see Miss Plur today to congratulate her on moving to Worlds. Uh so, that'll be exciting. They'll be competing. I think they've got about three weeks before they go to East Lancing, Michigan to compete in Worlds. So, that'll that's a terrific accomplishment for them. I also wanted to thank the high school student government for um assisting or really sort of organizing the uh birthday celebration. Uh and it was really sort of a learning opportunity at Senica. Uh I've been working with them periodically and they the Lorax they asked me to be the Lorax. I don't know if you heard that. So I did. Yes. So that so that was me. Um, apparently I was difficult to recognize and I wanted to draw attention
042to um, one of our educators at the high school and this is what makes our educators special and very good at what they do. I was walking in my Lorax outfit um from the district office over toward Senica and the halls were clear except for uh particular teacher and she was walking down the hall and she we passed each other and then she turned around and started talking to me and she said, "Hey, listen. Do you have a moment? I have a student who would love to meet you." And I said, "Sure." So, we're walking and she said, um, you know, my name's Heather Donor and I work with students uh that have special needs in one of our classrooms and I have a student and I'm like, Heather, it's Mark Wheeler. It's it's me.
043That's awesome. And she was like, "Oh my goodness." And she wanted me to go down, which I did. And I sat and talked with one of her students. But there aren't many places where a teacher will go out of their way to make a professional moment for a student that she works with. And I just wanted to acknowledge that because those are things that go out of their way. She's probably on her way. You know, she might have a couple moments between periods or whatnot. And she gave that up to come back and make things a little bit better for another student on that particular day. So, we got our picture taken together and it was sent to his mom. And those are the little moments here that really make Salamanca a special place. And
044it's because of the special teachers that we have here. So, I just wanted to acknowledge her and say thanks to the student council for that putting that on and to teachers like Heather Donor who uh really make the students lives a little bit better each day by the little things they do. Thank you. Awesome. That's it. Oh, that was it. That was it, believe it or not. Yeah, I was I was buckled in for No, no, that was just a quick one. All right. Well, thank you for that. That's awesome. That's why we're here. That's awesome. Anybody else have anything? Good. Good. Okay. All right. So, we are going to move on now to item number six, the consent agenda. Um, can I get a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda? Motion by Christian. Second.
045Second by Tracy. Are there any questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carried. All right. Item number seven, we have no old business. Item number eight, new business. We have item A, declare surplus, be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following obsolete and broken items be declared surplus and be disposed of accordingly be approved. Uh, item number one is a VCR. Item number two is a whiteboard. Item number three is a oven. Item number four is a TV. Um, do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Motion by Dale. Second by Brad. Any questions? I I have one actually. Sure. When does a VCR become a museum item? Yeah, we're getting there. All right. Exactly. But we still have a few around just in case we uh you know
046want to watch those driver ed videos that we watched uh 40 years ago. But yep, we're getting close. So we had a motion in a second. Uh all in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carries. All right. Item B. We dis declare surplus for vehicles. be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following vehicles be declared surplus and advertised at public sale to the highest bidder meeting specifications and be sold as is. Uh item number one, we have a van. Uh number two is a van. Number three is a car. Um can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Christian. Second. Second by Tracy. Any questions? All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carried. Okay. Item C is consolidated service unit CSU agreement. Be it resolved
047that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the final two pages of the 2022 through 2026 consolidated service unit collective bargaining agreement inadvertently omitted from the version presented and approved by the board of education on August 17, 2022 as negotiated in 2022. approved with the retroactive effective date of July 1, 2022, formally be recognized, approved, and be included as the final two pages and be part of the CSU 2022 through 2026 collective bargaining agreement retroactive to July 1st, 2022 be approved. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Motion by Tracy, second by Dale. Are there any questions? Mark, give us a quick rundown. Sure. So, um, our human resources department over the past year or two has really done a very good job of sort of finding things and cleaning up things. Their job is exceptionally
048meticulous with all sorts of processes, procedures, and things that need to be followed, approved. And as they were doing some of their audits and reviews, it was identified that the what was approved by the board um the contract uh last two pages were actually omitted. Um everything was put in place. There was no mystery or nothing's you know being um sort of slid through the process. So all everything on those pages was put in place. It was what was agreed upon. But when we uh had pulled it off of the agenda for one reason or another, we recognized that there were two two different versions and somehow the what was attached to the agenda was missing the last two pages. So this just goes back and corrects that error. There's been a few things that
049have popped up and there'll be a few more items on the board agenda just to clean things up and make sure everything is all the tees are crossed and the eyes are dotted. Okay, thank you. All right, we had a motion and a second. All in favor? I Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carried. Can I just jump in for one quick second? Absolutely. While she's here, I just want to acknowledge Josie from human resources, who is the one who picks up a lot of these items. Some of them go back years and years and years. Um, and we're working through how to fix some of those things that'll be coming up. But uh she is very particular about paperwork and how things get done. It is very much a credit and an asset to the
050district. Although there are times I think she drives me nuts over a lot of the things that we have to do. Uh but we're doing it the right way and we should be proud of that. We approve that, right J? Yes. All right. So now item D award contract capital project phase 3.5 be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent based on the bids received and recorded on April 2nd 2025 Turner Construction Company and Labella Associates have completed the scope review with the apparent low bidder. The bid is in accordance with the contract documents. It is therefore recommended to accept the bid and award the contract for the following lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Bid pack01 Hubert Construction General Trades for $390,000. Motion. Motion by Christian. Second. Second by Brad. Are there any questions?
051Mark, give us a quick run. Sure. Um, actually we're kind of excited about this. So 3.5 is a result of uh coming in under budget for phase three. What the funds allow us to do is within the scope of the original phase 3 project to make improvements to the previous high school offices uh which are over here as well as what used to be um essentially the faculty room I guess or a kitchen area that is going to get turned into a nurses suite. Uh so the nurse for the high school will come down to a more centralized location uh to the high school itself and then the current or the previous high school office will turn into classroom space. So uh we can have some special classrooms in there. So once again uh because
052the project came in under cost this is a a feature or a project that we can add on and this will consume the remaining funds from project uh number three. Okay. Thank you. All right. We had a motion and a second. Uh all in favor I I. Any opposed? Any abstain? All right. Motion carried. Item E, accept bids food truck mobile learning lab. Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent based on the bids received and recorded on March 28, 2025, the board of education accepts the bid and award the contract the lowest responsive and responsible bidder from JB food trucks in the amount of $182,692 for a food truck mobile learning lab and the superintendent be authorized to sign any required documents be approved. Can I get a motion? Motion by Dale.
053Second. Second by Tracy. Any questions? [Music] Yeah, certainly. Um, this is really Karen McGara's um, project and I'm happy to talk about it, but I don't want to take it away from her. I'm not so sure she can actually talk through what she's on right now. Karen, do you want to talk about it? I'll take that as a go-ahhead for me. All right. Exciting. Um so the district received a um grant to purchase a uh mobile learning lab in the form of a food truck. So we're very excited about that. There's a relatively long lead time on this. I think it's about 30 weeks. So it's not like we're going to see this thing rolling up here in a day or two. Uh but there's going to be some work with uh some of our
054student leaders here, our food service department, and uh within short order, we will have a uh food truck and a learning lab essentially for our students. So that can go uh anywhere in the community or outside the community. So we know we have an outstanding food service department and now we can literally take it on the road. That's awesome. They're doing a great job. That's why I wanted to highlight that, you know, John and and Karen and everybody and the whole staff have done such a great job, you know, everything they're doing. Awesome. All right, we had uh Oh, any other questions? Any All right, we had a first, we had a second. All in favor? I any opposed? Any abstain? All right, motion carries. Okay. Uh we are on to item F, estate of
055Donald Basher and or two Salamanca City Central School District, 4187 Kilbuck Road, Grey Valley, New York. Be resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education acknowledges the non-refundable earnest money deposit of $20,000 to be paid by the Selmaker City Central School District to the estate of Donald Rashet, 4187 Kilbuk Road, Green Valley, New York, and other matters of business as outlined in a letter dated February 2nd, 2025 from Shast and Shouse LLP, Attorneys at Law, 380 Cleveland, Buffalo, New York, and authorizes a superintendent to execute any required documents to be approved. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Tracy. Second. Second by Dale. Are there any questions? All right. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Motion carries. And we are on to item G, budget transfers.
056Be it resolved that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education hereby approves the attached budget transfers to allocate funding to various accounts be approved. Can I get a motion? Motion by Christian. Second. Second by Brad. Any questions? I would, but Karen's not on. Yeah, sure. It's um that time of the year where we're closing out the 2425 budget. Uh so essentially all non-essential um spending has been uh has ended uh for that fiscal year. And what we're seeing here is now some of the cleanup. So, it's not that we're going over budget, but we're moving items from one budget line to another to cover expenses or to perhaps collapse some budget so that we can expend those funds on other areas. Uh if we are under our budget, then we can make
057purchases for next year uh and reduce the budget for next year. All right. Awesome. Any other questions? Okay. Uh we had a motion in a second. So, all in favor? I I Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carried. So now we are on to item number nine, personnel consent agenda. Uh item A, we have a long list here for personnel action. And then item B is our personnel consent agenda approval. We resolve that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education approve the personnel action items listed in public content of section 9, item A. Can I get a motion? Motion. Second. Motion by Tracy, second by second by Dale. Uh, any questions? All right. Um, all in favor? I I Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Motion carries. Uh, do we have any introductions of
058newly appointed staff? I don't believe we do. I just wanted to thank um Miss Oaks, Morte, Sputler, Mr. Long, and Mr. Vertoik uh for the work that they will be doing over the summer. Uh as I think some of them spoke about during their time uh during the round table or uh the summer planning has is well underway and the first phase of that is to get our coordinators established for summer schools and summer programs. So what you see are are the first appointments and then subsequent to that you'll start to see more people be uh appointed or recommended for appointment so that we can have our summer. Okay. Uh item 10 board information reports discussion. We have our enrollment numbers. We have our annual Boseies budget brochure. Our Boseies board member election. uh capital
059project phase four summary and then upcoming events which are we got spring break next week, voter registration day on the 22nd, our next BOE meeting on the 22nd. Um what is this? Keteragus school boards. Yep. Yep. That's dinner on the 24th. BOE meeting on May 13th. And the big one is our budget vote on May 20th. Uh, also including the capital improvement project 2025 can purchase a real property too. Uh, that's that's the big one to be at. May 23rd, 26, no school, and then May 27th, another BOE meeting. So with that, we are item 11, adjourn the meeting. Can I get a motion to adjourn? Motion by Dale, second by Brad. Any questions, discussion, anything? Uh, no. Actually, real quick, I I wanted to say that uh I I appreciate the administration and superintendent
060and everybody. Um, I know I've been reaching out a lot with uh uh just different uh requests, questions, any whatever it is u from the community members or myself. I appreciate you guys' timely responses to me and those inquiries and uh getting things addressed right away. So, thank you very much. That was We appreciate the input feedback. Yep. Thanks. Okay, so we had a motion in the second. Oh, wait. Are there any other questions? Any discussion? No. All right. All in favor to adjourn the meeting? I Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Motion carried. We are journ. Thank you everyone for coming on down. If you need anything signed, anyone at the table can sign it for you. Yeah, you got the same time.