001Okay, it is six o'clock, so we're going to call the meeting to order. And if everybody could please stand and join in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do we have a need for an executive session? Okay. Um, we are going to hear um discussion on specific personnel. May I have a motion? So move. Thank you, Chris. And a second. Second. Thank you, Tiana. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay, we will be back as quickly as possible. Um session at 607 correspondence. We have none. Um policy discussion. We have none. Which brings us to policies for first reading. Um approve the update
002and title change of policy 7141 from homeless children/ students to McKini Vento liaison for students in temporary housing for the first reading. May I have a motion? So move. Thank you Chris. And a second. Second. Molly, um I gave you paper copies in case you would prefer that. Um just because we really didn't get a chance to go through the what has become our process of having a discussion first. Um I sent you an email. The reason that we're moving I actually had this in a list of policies that we I I have like ready to go to um to get updated, but we had a title one review and we one of the things they cited is that this needed to be updated ASAP and for us to get through the review they need
003to know that it's in process. So that's why it's coming right to first reading. Um we read through it. Um I sent you a little bit more information. And thank you, Aubrey, for your comments. That sort of made me think I should probably give you a little more context to it. Um, this is um federal law uh that New York State um then interprets as that as does happen um education um law in this country. Um there's language in there that there was a suggestion of changing. It's it's what's listed in the King Vento. Um it is and I as I said in the email um in nor in order to fall under the provisions of McKini Vento it doesn't really mean that you're not living in a home. Um so besides that not being
004a great term to begin with it's also inaccurate. Thank you. Um so um it's in the policy because that's the provisions as outlined in the law. And then and then there were also questions about the um the process there which is it's really convoluted but I can tell you it's it's verbatim what the state has as their uh uh resolution process and and having gone through things like that before that's when the liaison and and I we contact our attorneys because they would then get involved in negotiating because it really goes before the commissioner. So, um, any other thoughts? I had one thing. Okay. Sorry, I'm losing my voice. Um, it was more it was it wasn't anything big. It's just on page three. There's two acronyms that aren't spelled out. Okay. Oh, LDS is
005twothirds of the way down the page. And so, that wasn't said what it was. And I should have started up. Um, stack isn't either STAC. Okay, that's a good point. I looked at it real quick and I thought Southern Tier Athletic Conference. I then I knew what it was. Yeah, I mean, yeah, but that's just where my mom went. I just thought that those and that's all I had. Okay, that's good. Thank you. I just had spacing issues like the top McKin Vto title is too close to the top and then there was a spacing issue on page three, but I can always let Stacy look at my documents. Okay. Um, I was kind of curious. There's a spacing issue on page five, too. Um, why isn't ed 2 law mentioned in the new law
006in this one? Yeah. Look, I think that that is it just because they're only using everything. Yeah. Know. Okay. Ed law. Yeah. Um, because I knew they mentioned Furpa and all that stuff. So, I was kind of curious. Um, and for the board, I have been through this. Um, my grandson had we had to claim the McKini Vinto when my grandson came and I knew when uh Joanne had sent out definitions. I'm like somebody from the board asked about the term homelessness and of course my grandson was never homeless but he had lost his mother. He had no home. So I came to the school and asked Joanne can I use this to get him into school and it he did fit the criteria and to explanation he understood he wasn't homeless. But I do
007understand how the verbiage and the content can be a little disheartening at times and it is quite a a effort that go they go through and um the school district did extremely well for my grandson and he did a great job here. I think the only things I found were spacing and stuff and I'm sure that Chris found them all so she can pass them on. Did anybody on the board have any further questions about what this covers or entails or you have anything else? Okay. All those in favor of approving this for first reading. I Any opposed? Any abstain? Policies for second reading. Um, title one, parent and family engagement. May I have a motion? Thank you, Chris. A second. Was that you, Aubrey? Yeah. Okay. So, I had given you paper copies before.
008I'm giving you paper copies now just of the updated versions. So, you can have that. I already have one out. Stacey also did put in the board. Yep. So, thank you for the feedback on this. Um, I did make it this the um changes that we discussed. I don't know if you had a chance to look through it and how it reads with legal guardians in in the various places. Sometimes I had to tweak the language to, you know, make it make sense, but it's always good to have another set of eyes on it. Um, I thought it looked good and I've changed it. Originally, it had said parent and family engagement, and I've I just changed in in the text in the it's all legal guardian and family members, and the title of the
009whole is family because that's just the most inclusive. Yeah. No, I thought it it read much better. Y much better. That's really not. Yeah. And I just had a spacing issue on like this third second third third page. But I do have a question. So one of the things that I noticed and I don't know I'm just a little bit of a web tech whatever you know what it is. I notice on some of these policies we have this dark line at the top and then some of the policies we don't and some of the policies the title sitting on the blue box and the other policies it's not. Just can we decide are we gonna use a line or not use a line and just be consistent. I don't care if you have the
010line because I think it's a pain trying to get rid of them. But if you don't use a line, just put a space. Just a space. I Yeah, like on this one there's there's no space. Right. Right. Yeah. But I'm with Chris on that. Makes sense just for consistency purposes. And it just makes it pleasantly to look at. Makes it look like we know what we're doing. Right. Yeah. And on this one, Joanne, um the homeless, like the bar should go all the way over like it does on on this one. Y, you know, that's more just just being consistent. Just have the bar um always need the same bar used. Yeah. Well, Stacey came with before finalizing to post it that she can tidy up those things. But it is I mean, so and
011I figured that, but I just wanted I say no line. I don't think we need a line. I say no line. It line. I'm going to tell you why. No line. I already know why. Screen readers don't like extra stuff in a document. And if we're being inclusive to all people, screen readers would rather you not use extra stuff. This old man likes to see lines. But you're not deaf and don't need a screen reader. I know that, but I'm still I'm still differently abled. Um, but I agree that we need to make sure that the header on all of our policies are consistent because some of them are big, some are small, right? And then the the back one is is just that um the comparability that's a required policy that just says that,
012you know, we're going to make sure that we have comparable services in all the building. Y what we're deciding on line? No line. Yeah. Okay. So, let's vote on the title one parent and family engagement. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. And the programs and projects funded by title one number 8250 which is on the back of this one. May I have a motion for that one, please? So, thank you, Tiana. And a second. Second. Thank you, Aubrey. Um, I don't think I saw anything in this one. Did anybody else see anything in this? Just the the titles and stuff. Just cleaning up the sort of stuff. That's all. Yeah. Any further questions from the board? Anything from you? Okay. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Computer
013network policy for removal number 8360. May have a motion. Was that you, Molly? Thank you. And a second. Second. Thank you, Benny. Um, this one. So, this is part there's a, you know, a pack of them. This is the first one we were acting on. So, we uh in February, we discussed it. In March, we looked at them more closely. And then, um, so the just to remind you, the computer network policy that we had was from 2004. And so in you know when it comes to technology that's a long time. So it definitely needed to be updated. Yeah. And uh what's considered best practice now is to not just have one network policy is to have an acceptable use for students acceptable use for personnel. So that's what we're moving to. And then we
014also had this policy that was for our web page policy which also had really archaic language in it. And so we're removing that but we're adding the use of email and personnel. remember we had some a pretty significant conversation around that. Um and so when we get to that we'll talk about the changes that were made there. But so it all kind of goes together. Okay. Any questions about removing 8360? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Um approve 8360.1 webpage policy for removal. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Chris. And a second. Second. Thank you, Tom. Oh, Thomas. Oh, Thomas. I like that. Oh, Thomas. Um, again, this is one that we had already discussed about removing. It's moving forward with new and better. So, any questions on this
015one? Underlines need to be removed. No, we're getting rid of this question. Oh, this is what we're getting rid of. Okay. Yeah, right. That little thing. Yeah, we're not just getting rid of the underlines. We're getting rid of the whole thing. It indicates I hate them. Okay. I I did have trouble with figuring these three out, but that's good. Okay. Can we get rid of the policy and leave them on? Benny. Okay. See my list. My list. I was like, "Okay, I got to order these policies." So wait, who was it who said to me on the way back from executive session that we need all need a little bit of levity? Yeah, that was because of not licking the sink in the You guys know we weren't licking the sink. On that note, all
016those in favor of removing 8360.1 webpage policy, I I Any opposed? Any abstain? Now we're at 641. Yep. Now we're at 6411. Accessible use um personnel. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Chris. And a second. Tom, we're waiting for you, Bob. Second. Thank you, Aubrey. My name's on there. Watson. Tom, you could always knock three times on the table top of Okay. I have one question. When you're ready, hurry on. not acceptable use. Yes, we are. What's your question? Um, do we use Google Classroom anymore? So, I was a little like similar staff are prohibited from using cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Office 360, Sky Drive. So, I know that our Microsoft Office has 3685 and we can use that. And if I'm in a classroom, I can use
017Google Drive. So, do we need clarity here? Confidential or private data is not supposed to be in in the drive. Well, I I know that, but Well, I guess it's what you consider confidential private data. Student grades, teachers keep student grade books in there. They keep assignments. They keep their class assignments, but there might be grades and stuff like that in an Excel spreadsheet. I guess it's to be defined. I guess what is what are we determining is confidential information? I mean, I get what it should be and what it is. I mean, I'm running into this all the time at the college. So, can a teacher keep students grades in Google Drive? Is that going to be okay? Or their one drive? I know that in the PLC they share scores with students and
018what they're doing with their assessments and stuff like that. So, where they usually say where they usually are. So I mean I put them into school tools. So if they have them in either Seessaw or Google Classroom, it should only be temporary. Would not be a place to store that personal information really. They archive them so that they've got their classes and assignments and those types of things. But we only accept grades in school tool. So that's I understand that. I also don't understand that there's some private information there. I think that you're probably what it should say is you know it should not be it should not be in your personal Google Drive. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, your personal Office 365, right? So I mean it should only district sanctioned. That's what
019I was thinking is we just needed a little clarity there because I mean I do keep you know I upload my students C numbers and they don't consider them confidential because they're not a social security number but still they're confidential. So I ran into this this week so I just really highlighted on it. So we just need to add that it should be district sanctioned and nonperson. Right. Right. Okay. And then it would eliminate the confusion. Yeah, I think. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's the only question I had on this besides spacing. Otherwise, I'm good. Okay. Anybody else? I So, I I just have a question. Like I I took some things out of here because they were like it said I mean I had some like web pages as examples, which doesn't really
020matter because it's just eg, but still it makes the policy just look outdated. Yeah. Um, things that are not even in existence anymore. So, I'm wondering, do we need to have those examples in there at all? You mean like web blogs, social networks, online forms? You list out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn X, Instagram, Snapchat. Some of the things I because there were old ones in there that I removed. They could be all owned by the same company shortly, too. So, right. I mean, they get outdated quickly. So I don't know if you need to have examples as long as because the point is um social media generally available to the district community which do not fall within the district electronic technology network right like again it's kind of like unless it's sanctioned by the district. That's
021pretty explanatory. I think so. I think so. What do you think Tom? Uh, I think people like to see examples though. I mean, then they know what they can use and what they can't use or what's because otherwise they'll be like, "What are you talking about? I don't understand." Yeah. Yeah. And I'm not saying people wouldn't know, but it just helps to direct. Some people don't understand what those are. I agree. What would constitute a social media network and what would Okay. All right. That's fine. X seemed not needed, but that's up to me. That's not up to me. It says Twitter and X. So it says Twitter, LinkedIn, then it has X. So probably most people don't know what X is, but anyhow, it's fine. Okay. Would you ever put in a policy? This
022probably sounds too informal. I mean would you ever say um if there's a question about it staff will contact superintendent whoever you know or clarity I mean we do that in training you tell people that but it doesn't doesn't belong in a policy basic rule of thumb is if you're not sure don't use it exactly yeah And I know they're trained on confidential files, but I ran into the oddest thing today. I mean, this week they had requested students to get an Adobe signature on a file to get access to have a grant. Well, my system found that to be a confidential file because it was Adobe electronic signed. I could not do anything with it and I needed to send it to a grant organization. And that's why when I read this, I'm like,
023"Okay, we got to figure out what we can do here." So, I like to change. Okay. Anything else? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any of um policy number 6412, use of email in the district personnel for second reading. May I have a motion? Thank you, Tiana. And a second. Thank you, Benny. We have anything for parents in there. Just parents and guardians on the first page, Joan. Yeah. Um, actually on the first page, I found the second paragraph. Maybe if we move one of the sentences, it might be less confusing because it it goes from according to district's email services and then it goes personal emails and then it says further district email account should not be used as individual primary personal emails. I didn't know if just it jumped a little bit
024too much. I I don't know what you guys thought. I was thinking that it might according district email should be used for all district related emails including emails in which students are student using are involved district email should not be used as any as an individual's primary personal e email address and then it could be furthermore personal email account should not be used to conduct district related businesses. I just thought it might flow a little better if we mix move those two sentences. That's all. But it's not that big of a deal. Oh, whatever. You guys decide I've silenced the crowd. Holy cow. I don't have a preference either way. It's fine. Do you think for clarity purposes? I have a preference. I don't think most people are reading the policies. That's not good. No,
025I didn't mean that. Be honest. No, they're only reading it. I I meant if something comes up then they'll read it. If the information is there, Yeah. that's more important than some of the grammatical. I have to say I wasn't reading a lot of these policies before I only if they're applicable to what you're trying to figure out, right? We know what the yellow that you had in the policy, Joanne. Was that because you changed something there? There was a yellow highlight. So, yeah, I guess I guess we're we have to do this one first though, right? I thought that's one. Isn't that the one we're on? But no, we're on personnel. We're on personnel. Oh, it was in the order of 6411. Yeah, 6411. I just grabbed the wrong one. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm
026sorry. No, we didn't. No wonder I 6412. Okay. That's what I thought we were the district. So, that part that's highlighted in there is the part that we talked about last time that you thought was too strongly worded, right? Yeah. I thought it looked a lot better. sure about the I mean I don't I don't know what I felt strongly about the other changes. Yeah, it it doesn't matter to me. I mean I think it's about just the flow. Yeah, it was just the flow. Yeah, it was just the flow. You can look at it later if you think it looks better. It's fine. Um for the highlighted thing, I thought it looked a lot better. Um, the only thing I am still concerned about is if they have it as a backup to get
027into their system, if they have the dual identification and right, it just their use. Okay. I mean, most people use their phones. Okay. um as the as media. I mean, I'm not sure how fast K12 schools will go to it, but now we have to use our phone for dual authentication and we have to basically use face identification at college. It's crazy. I can't click on it. I have to hold it in front of my face for like five seconds. They won't let you do it anymore at Portland. No duos allowed. always no duos allowed. So, I'm fine with it. And and I would say that what you're saying is that they shouldn't have their personal email logged in and being continually used, right? I mean, as far as um you know, security, it's considered
028a risk, right? Absolutely. So, that's the biggest reason. But then we talked last time about we have to be reality based and people just have personal lives to manage also and sometimes you might have to do that. So if we forbid it, right? Right. That's probably not realistic. I put here eg password recovery purposes. I just put an example as why it might be used but that we don't have to. And then so it says here a standard confidentially notice will automatically be added to each email as determined by the district. We're going to do that automatically for everybody. So both is going to do it. Yeah. Okay. And that'll include ours. Correct. Yeah. I already have mine on. Okay. I just wasn't sure the best wording. So Okay. They're just waiting for the go
029when we pass this. Okay. Put it on. Put it on. Okay. I I would say that the highlighted statement is is fine to to limit it. Yeah. And if we see we have a problem, then we have to change it. Yep. That's why we look at policies all the time. Yep. So we note it, we can come back to it quicker. Okay. Um, and there was some spacing issues. I'll give it to you. Stay. All in favor of approving 6412 use of email in the district personnel. I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Policy 8361 acceptable use students. So, yeah. Sorry, I have these out of order in the packet. Um, second. All those in favor? I mean, excuse me, a motion. So, moved. I liked what you did first. Me, too. I'll second it. You'll
030second it. Thank you, Tiana. Okay. Sorry. Go ahead. All right. So, I still there's still some parents or or guardians in here. I didn't do the control F for this one. Um, so I'll change all those to legal guardians. So an agreement would read legal. Oh yeah, I see it's parents and guardians. Yeah. And there's just one bad paragraph indent on the second page. I didn't see anything other than Yeah, that anybody else on the board? They all read a lot better. Yep. Okay. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay, that brings us to our first opportunity for comments from the public. Um, each speaker will be limited to a maximum of three minutes and the entire public comment period to a maximum of 30 minutes. This may be waved by a
031majority vote of the board. The board requests that each speaker stand, state their name, residency, and topic of discussion. By law, the board will not permit any public statements regarding individual students or employees. Please be advised that while the board takes public comment very seriously, we are not allowed to comment or respond during the meeting as this is our opportunity to hear from our stakeholders. Items brought to the attention of the board will be taken under consideration for future responses or action or the proper staff member will get back to you at the appropriate time. Is there anybody who would like to speak at this time? And there is a second opportunity at the end of the meeting as well. Okay, moving on to commendations. The Whitney Point CA administrators, faculty, staff, volunteers, and all
032who made donations for making this year's CA family fund carnival so much fun. The carnival raised $4700 towards CA field trips and events. Is that like a record, right? It's pretty high. It's amazing. Yeah. So, packed. Tons of people involved with that. Thank you to everybody. Um, Mrs. Cook and the Whitney Point faculty uh basketball team and coaches for the competitive 2025 Mackie Memorial Faculty Game versus Green held on March 14th. Mrs. Stanley Lockheed Martin and Capernic Observatory for a fun-filled wonders of space family science night at the TR on April 9th. Mrs. Holly, Miss Berdick, faculty, staff, and the high school students um for a night of of dancing at this year's spring fling. That used to be the snowball, but if you move it out far enough, it becomes a spring fling. Mrs.
033Stanley, Mr. Zeliga, Mrs. Burns faculty, staff, and students for a successful annual TRA science fair held on March 20th and March 21st. That was packed, too. It was nobody's couldn't breathe and it was so fast. Um, Whitney Point CSD alum Dr. Steve Amendom for speaking at the Bosey's annual joint dinner held at the Whitney Point High School on March 26th. the Whitney Point National Honor Society students, community service students, art students, band students, and and select chorus students, and their teachers and adviserss playing major roles in making the Whitney Points hosting of the joint dinner uh a great success. And I'm going to read this list, which might be repetitive, but some students did a number of things. Um, Billy Lee, Lauren McIll, Payton Martin, Noah Miller, Khloe Mullen, Michelle Sabin, Hannah Summers, Olivia Summers,
034Natalie St. John Maline Tyler, Cecilia Kiss, Kaylee Nichols, Brooklyn Pratt, Brooke Lee, Kristen McMullen, Olivia McMulla, McCulla, Gabriel Smith, Asa Dy, Rain Ward, Addison Hubard, Poppy Mullen, Khloe Rodriguez, Valerie Rodriguez, Kandre Irish, Riley Burke, Alex Ellerson, Brianna Lee, Destiny Keller, Courtney Mureer, Malcolm Pomiteer, Babe Perham, Max Dasca, Uh Darcy Purdum, Casey Benedict, Kayn Daniels, Evelyn Snack, Payton Smith, Caleb Crystal, Joseph Marty, Leo Tiff, um and Haley Giamati, and Anakin Dean. I can't begin to tell you how incredible our students were that night. Like, of everything that happened. Everybody worked really hard, all of our staff and everything, but our kids really like were the stars of the show, you know. Absolutely. And I and I the next couple of days and anytime that I've seen uh you know, other superintendent, they commented on just the
035talent, the poise, um the welcoming uh I mean like they have none they none of them have ever done any of that before that night. Like they they learned how to how to be servers. They I mean they was like it was and they were just holding their heads high and they were it was it was really wonderful. And I have to tell you like I spent a a good chunk of time in the front foyer. So I was watching the kids as they would whisper to find out who it was who was walking towards the door so they could grab their name tags and greet them, hand them their name tags, um tell them, you know, where they should go next, offer to take their coats, all of that. Mhm. And I didn't see
036any of them. Sometimes you have a few students who are going to hang back and and be really shy. There wasn't a single one who was. And and they were they were serving the orurves. And that's not easy to do. No, it's not. Nope. And they were really really awesome. Yeah. And the talent like they they I mean so also how many people commented on that? They were just blown away by the performances. So, yeah, the hard work. Yeah. Yep. At the president's meeting last week, it was still being raved about. So, Yep. And the food was incredible. And the fact that we were able to include two local items, you know, the maple syrup from Kohl's and best cheesecake in the world I've ever had. Oh my god. Yeah, that was excellent. And then
037the pasta sauce from my Yeah, it was great. It was so cool. And I can I just say those that BOSI staff like that they from early in the morning all they never stopped. They worked like crazy. I mean you know it was just a really amazing amazing the flowers were beautiful. The flowers were beautiful. So Johnell came in and worked with the kids. They they it was so collaborative and so cool. They were so interested in how to design these floral arrangements. I mean, it was just like a like it's gonna get all weepy watching them. They were so into everything that he was saying and he was really excited that they were so interested. It was really cool. Those were the best centerpieces of anyone I've been to and I've been to a
038lot and that was made the bases too. That's what they met. They were it was it was great. Yeah, there were over the like the next week or so, I had students coming in who were talking about how much they enjoyed not just, you know, carrying centerpieces and putting them down, but the fact that they had a hand in making them and now understood how to do an arrangement and why you arrange things the way you do. So, yeah. So, there's just so many people to thank and it was it was really really wonderful. And I just want to say the yard guys doing the rock. I watched them do it. They did great, too. Yep. Yes. I mean, people worked very hard. It's hard in March to make everything look nice outside. So, wheelbarrowing
039the rock. Um, okay. So, Mr. Orzel of Orzel Flowers for teaching art students how to arrange flowers for the joint dinner meeting. Um Ayella's restaurant for donating pizzas to the CA and TR pizza parties awarded to the two grades who raised the most money for Griffin Guardians. That's really cool. CA student grant for being this year's M grant. Who won multip multiplication March Madness Master in the CA's annual math tournament? Mr. Miracle and TRA students. I don't know if you saw this of the CA Kids Can Build team for winning the 2025 structure design award with their rocket ship structure. The cans um all that went into that are are being donated to CHO. That was pretty amazing. It was cool. Um Whitney Point High School senior and varsity lacrosse player Satie Short for being
040named WICC's athlete of the week. I got to see that. Cool videos. Yeah. Um Mrs. Goligley, school safety coordinator for her role in earning the district's 2025 school safety excellence award. Titanium level, a recognition that is given to us by Udica National Insurance Company. I didn't realize they had a titanium level. We got it. Uh Whitney Point High School National Honor Society students for making lap uh blankets to donate to the residents at Will Point Nursing Home Facility. Um I don't know if you saw that too. That was lovely. was on social media. Those photos were amazing. They were amazed interacting with the residents. They were Yeah, I spent some time at Will Point this summer and um with people that live there and any visitors um who come and take time to listen to
041them and talk to them. I mean, it's just really really uh Mrs. Provop, the prek team, Dr. Woodall Sunni Courtland students, faculty, staff, students and their families and community members for a successful evening of celebration of the young child and actually all the agencies that came. I mean we you know our our prek partners and lots of other agencies came and were part of that and it was super well attended and very cute. And then also um to our art students right here in our art department uh sharing their art with us again. I love that. Mhm. Lots of great things happening. Yes, absolutely. We are very lucky that we have so many students who excel in so many ways and it's incredible that that we can make sure that they get the opportunities to
042do so. So, old business there is none. That brings us to the TRA presentation. Good evening. How's everybody? Good evening. I would just like to note I love Amanda's outfit. Maroon and gold. I just wanted to say that I missed the burn and gold. It's all right. Had to call it out. So, we're very excited to uh let you know about all the exciting things going on at the TR this year. Had the privilege of coming down there. It's a very vibrant place. Um here's a little road map of where we're going today. We going to share with you our smart goals that we revisit throughout the year with our building. A little bit about our PLC process at the TR, our brand new uh dedicated science teacher for fourth and fifth grade, a new
043initiative we're calling Eagle Excellence that we've implemented. We're going to talk a little bit about our guidance department and all the wonderful things they can do to support our students and families. Um, our Eagle Zone, which is our community schools partner. We have a sore committee that focuses on some PBIS initiatives and things to hopefully encourage students to come to school on a regular basis. And then we're going to finish up with a little slideshow and some testimonials from our students that we hope you enjoy. So, one of our smart goals is by June of 2025, we will increase the percentage of students meeting or exceeding proficiency on math and ELA assessments by implementing datadriven instructional strategies, providing targeted interventions, and enhancing professional development for teachers. So, some of the ways we tackled this goal,
044we have a win time for our fourth and fifth grade uh classrooms where it's a dedicated intervention and extension time focusing on those skills that that students need to build up to to reach grade level proficiency. Uh our sixth through 8th grade has something new called a success block this year. We do it about once or twice a month. Um, and the teachers decided to focus on some executive functioning skills, some some money skills, you know, teaching kids how to write cursive. You'd be surprised how many how many kids don't know how to write in cursive these days. So, just those skills that they're hopefully going to use in in their adult lives. Um, we're always reviewing un universal screening data at different points in the year to see how our students are doing and
045adjusting those interventions and extensions accordingly. And we are really happy that we have the support of the RISE grant for for literacy. We have a dedicated literacy interventionist who works with small groups of students on foundational skills. Um we also have a RISE coach that that we meet with frequently to discuss how we're doing with literacy. Um there's future goals to have a student literacy uh data team to really have dedicated time to look at data and adjust groups of of interventions accordingly. And we're also fortunate to have Val Prriscott uh supporting us, our our fourth and fifth grade teachers um on literacy. Uh we're currently piloting some some ELA curriculums and seeing what's the best fit for our fourth and fifth grade uh classrooms. And Val Bal's been a great resource going into classrooms
046coaching and working alongside our fourth and fifth grade teachers to support them in in ELA. Sorry. There we go. All right. Uh, another goal that we focus on, we will increase extension and enrichment experiences for students by utilizing community resources, increasing family support, and consistently scheduling intentional time for these learning opportunities. So, some of the ways we do that, we have Eagle Time, which is a wonderful enrichment time for our students. Teachers host fun activities that students sign up for, building that community, that culture of of connection. It's been wonderful. Uh the Rev theater group has come in with each grade level to to do writing exercises. They're coming this Thursday to to do an assembly for our sixth through 8th graders and they're going to use some writing pieces that our sixth through 8th
047grade students along with students around New York State have come up with. They do a really wonderful uh theater production. So that's coming up this week. We've been lucky to work with the group Sweethearts and Heroes this year. In fact, a gentleman came in this week to to run some circles, some community circles in our student success center. So, um, they've been a wonderful resource, and we hope to to keep that momentum going as we move forward with circles and and building connections and community and empathy among our student body. Joanne mentioned the kids can build initiative, which which just wrapped up uh the cow. We had a wonderful group of students from all grade levels that participated in that and built a an amazing rocket ship. So, that was great for the kids. Family
048science night just happened. It was a a wonderful time to have our families come in and and work alongside their children. Uh we had Capernic there. It was sponsored by Lucky Martin. So, really making those community connections. It was great to see. And coming in May, the physics bus is coming from Ithaca. And I've never seen the physics bus, but I hear it's it's amazing. So really looking forward to that. Visiting the TR. Nice. Uh we just started our our TR writing club. That's an afterchool club run by a couple of our teachers to to focus on increasing stamina with writing and just a a love of writing. Many field trips throughout the year. Um, SparkCC, we our eighth grade cohort went to Spark at BCC to um, get a hands-on feel for their future
049career opportunities. Lockheed Martin Engineering Day. We had some some kids go there. And our fifth grade is hoping to go to a BoseI CTE visitation day. That's career and technical education where they curate experiences in the CTE fields that students can look forward to when they enter 11th and 12th grade. Can I ask a quick question on that slide? I don't know. I know we can't do the Philadelphia trip anymore, which is makes me cry. Um, but have we thought, and just something to take back, um, maybe field trips that we could maybe go to the fort that's up in Udica or, you know, we have lots of New York things. Um, and I know the Pennsylvania trip and the uh is was exciting and it was a lot of money and we can't afford
050it anymore, but and I know funds are and the state is doing crazy things, but just something to think about because I I would love to see our students get to some of those historical sites and really do it hands-on. So, just something because Philadelphia was important to my children and it's very sad that we've had to let it go. Are we still going to like Coopertown or is that So we So everything comes back to transportation, right? So um like the Philly trip you had to we had a charter buses which now costs a fortune and um but we cannot like especially right now but we cannot spare a driver. So for a trip that's too far, right? So you know everybody who runs these field trips will tell you that we have to
051do within within between our runs. our trips need to be. So that's the problem that we're running into right now. Hopefully we'll get some extra drivers and maybe we can add some things in. So it would change everything for us really. Goes to DC which is yeah a wonderful historical experience. So we still have that but that's a huge expenditure and they fundra for years to get to do that. Okay. If you ever get to the point where you think we can start doing that um very long time ago. Andrea Stanley did a a summer program where they went on several field trips to somewhat local um significant historical sites like you said the the fourth that's in Udica one of the Eerie Canal Canal and things like that. So I'm sure she would remember
052and have some information on those locations to get things started if we ever get to that point. That's great. Thanks. All right. Uh so our professional learning communities, we have dedicated daily team meetings. Um on Tuesdays, our sixth through eighth grade departments meet to look at student data and analyzing student data to to drive instruction. So I just put an example of our our fifth grade team um you know looking at a piece of math data and one of their essential standards. They really have it nicely organized where students who who got it, students who might need a little more support, and students who didn't get it, those students you really need to intensively review with them and and really um hone in on on what's going on. Why aren't they getting that standard? So,
053that's just one of our exemplars that I thought I'd show you the format of that. All right. So, science Did you get my slides? Sorry, we we added a few link slides. No worries. I wanted to share. [Music] Oh, it's in. Yeah, it's probably Google Drive. while Stacy's pulling that up. This year we have a brand new dedicated fourth and fifth grade science teacher, Mrs. Stanley, who's done an amazing job. Um, our brand new third floor. So great. She she made some some uh collages of pictures and we just wanted to share those with Nice. I see them. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, nice. All right. So, here's some pictures from our fourth grade. We have the augmented reality sandbox, which is a huge hit for students. Um, at the top are some of the topics
054they've covered in fourth grade, soil, rocks, and landforms, environments, and energy begins after spring break. You can see how much fun the kids are having with those hands-on experiences. And it's just been wonderful. And, uh, Andrea did say it's interesting to mention that for their environments unit, they designed an experiment to test out the different environmental factors that impact meal worms. So each class got to choose one environmental factor to change for their set of 10 meal worms. And there was a control group of 10 that they monitored and compared their experimental group to. They tracked them over two months to see changes in growth and behaviors while watching them go through metamorphosis and become darkling beetles. So they're gathering their findings and they're going to use the data they collected and they're going to
055uh show their data to the fifth graders to to analyze. So Oh, I love it. a lot of exciting things going on in fourth grade. Here's some pictures from fifth grade where they have the required New York State investigations that they're doing, you know, prepping for that uh fifth grade science assessment. So, some of the topics, the earth and sun, mixtures and solutions and systems [Music] and yeah, great. That's great. We have a number of 3D printers that are being heavily utilized to make really amazing things as you can see. Um so in fourth and fifth grade students are using those used those printers for the science fair. Um there were animal research projects that Miss Homeak did and also they they incorporated the 3D printers into our rocket ship that we had a TRA
056and they made the oh the letters with the 3D printer. So that was really neat. So that's cool. That's no problem. You're doing great. All right. Um, so there's an Eagle Time Garden Club that we have. So they've done many cool things. Harvested pumpkins about the outdoor garden that we have. Um, used fruits and vegetables as stamps to make their own holiday wrapping paper, which is the background for this slide. That wrapping paper. um harvesting greens from we have these really awesome grow towers where they're harvesting lettuce. Just a lot of cool things going on with with the garden club for anything you guys harvest you eat or what what do you guys do? I think the kids eat them, right? The Okay, so you are they have Yeah. Okay. They make something cool out
057of it. They have brought like the the little um remember when they had us do the taste testing thing? So they put like a bunch of different ingredients in there and then asked like they made a smoothie out of it and asked us to try like which one might identify. Yeah. I like the blueberry one. The other one had too much kale in it would look better. But very nice. So they do they do like fun experiments but it's mostly the kids that are Okay. You have like mailorm one. And then wait, you did you missed that? It also goes to the pantry. That's very nice. Yes. If there's any extras, it goes to the pantry. We have a pantry and a fridge. Like we just got a fridge. Nice. I love that. Yes. Well
058noted. Okay. Um, so a couple enrichment activities that they did this year, uh, they went to see the movie Wild Robot at the beginning of the year. They all read the book and then went to see the movie. So that was a nice treat. Both engineering day, our science fair, which was packed as you can see that B middle bottom photo, um, family science night, and then of course the physics bus coming in May, which we're all excited about. So a lot of great things happening. So Eagle Excellence is a initiative we started to just spread positivity to families. So I made 24 phone calls last month uh just based on teacher feedback. Teachers nominate a student from their class every month that shows resilience, incredible effort, achievement in the classroom. And these are some
059of the responses I got from parents which there's been great feedback when I initially call parents. You feel that nervous anticipation. What did my kid do now? Tell me now what did my child do? But then you tell them you've just been nominated by your teacher and and it was just wonderful to to make those calls and make those positive connections with family. So we continue to do that every month to spread the the positivity. So that's that's been really nice. Great. All right. And I'm going to talk about our PPS um department. So our school counselors are Amanda Doolittle and Rebecca Clark. And then our school social worker is Heather Punishes. So they do tons to support the kids within our school. Um so we just want to shout them out a little bit.
060I'm just going to hit the highlights, but there's a newsletter they send home to parents every uh month to kind of just give them like an update, let them know the Eagle's covered. Um Heather Pudish runs that. That's what we were talking about the you know the fresh food in the pantry. Um, so she's there. You can see her every night. They're um, helping out with that. But they do all the college and career readiness. They they set up those field trips that we talked about with Spark and all those things. They they help with transitions. Um, level up day is something that we do in conjunction with the high school that started last year. Um, where our eighth graders go up and they do fun things. So, they work um, with both the guidance
061department up there and down here to kind of just, you know, get kids ready for the high school. um we meet with like a roundt discussion with the the guidance and with Miss Kish and um with our health office and we talk about student attendance and talk about how we can problem solve around some of what the students like what's what's leading them to not be here and trying to just figure out like what we could do to help support them better. So, we meet bi-weekly to just discuss like all the kids that we think need more support and then how can we help them with that. They also go in and do classroom presentations. Um, we do peer mediations just trying to get kids to like interact in a in a more socially appropriate
062way. Um, they do the Thanksgiving baskets, the drama club, the and the food bank work together to to put all that together. Um they also have our upper classmen like our eighth grade, seventh and eighth graders go in their eyab into our fourth and fifth grade classrooms and they mentor and hang out with our you know fourth and fifth graders and just teaching them like have a good mentor um and see some positive uh people that are a little older than them. And then um actually Miss Doolittle started the manners matter initiative. So she asked um teachers and staff to nominate kids for who are always showing positive manners. Um and then there were kids that were nominated more than once and she there were five of them last week that got nominated. So they're
063going to receive a certificate this week and um just like a little extra treat but just to show Yeah. And then they're going to she was going to like call home and just let the parents know that they had you know done an awesome job with the kiddos, too. That's amazing. Love that. Thanks. Um, Eagle Zone, Kristen Galucha and her intern Ally. Ally is in the picture there um during one of the lunch bunch. But the lunch bunch um is like a time when kids can get together and kind of interact in a socially, you know, appropriate way, making friends, um teaching social skills, helping them with goal setting and making vision boards. So, what Kristen said is that it's so nice to have those interns come in because then they see another positive role
064model that they get to interact with during the day. Um they also help um a lot with our schoolwide initiative. So for our attendance Olympics um Kristen Glush is the one who goes out into the community. She gets the donations from from people and then she's the one who kind of sets up the table during lunches and and helps the kids like put in what they would like to receive as a reward. So she's very instrumental in helping us get that. She also does a ton of home visits. She has the family cafe um that's just a safe space for parents and guardians to connect and engage. There's you know she helps with the food pantry as well and getting those uh resources distributed to the families, helps with the backpack program and then again
065just helping receive those community donations. Um she's also big into our um sore committee and so this is where some of those attendance Olympics and the best day ever. If you see that picture down at the bottom, um those are the Jeff Johnson has our science teacher in sixth grade has this like handlebar mustache. So during the best day ever, um we had face painting and those are all the kids that wanted to look just like Mr. Hson. So I love it. So the best day ever was something that came out of the work committee where we're just trying to build like the we want the kids to want to be here. So just just giving them more reasons to want to be here and to look forward to it. So, we already started putting
066like Kristen made the flyers Kristen Belushia where it's like come tomorrow or keep coming to school because you never know when it's going to be the best day ever. I'm trying to already start like amping them up for it. But we had fun things like we had a dunk tank where they got to dunk their teachers. They um we had a bounce house. We did the face painting. They had ice cream. So, just you know giving them another awesome memory to think about school, not just, you know, all that. Um we still do the attendance Olympics and then the student of the month assemblies um continue to grow fourth and fifth grade. Um we had a secret reader for part month um Miss Croft Driscoll came down dressed as the old lady. Um and what
067was that? It was a book about Valentine's Day. You know the the old lady who swallowed a fly? It was the Valentine's version because it was February and she dressed up and she read the book and then the all the classes had to guess and they all guessed it. They knew her. But um they ran out and all jumped over and hugged her and so happy that it was this craft disco. Oh, I love that. So they loved her and so she came and helped us out with that. Um we took on the CA's March Madness. Um a couple of our teachers started building that into there too. So we had our own like you know multiplication March Madness that we're going to celebrate at the student of the month on Thursday. just trying to
068tell kids like, you know, great job for all the academic things that you do. You're exhibiting respect or the character traits that we're looking for, that kind of thing. Just celebrating them. What was it that you announced last Thursday morning? And all I know is the kids were all excited because they announced these people that were going to win in each classes and there was a tie and they were going to have the March like, "Oh my goodness, they're really psyched for that." They are. Yeah. Love it. Right. So, the best day ever that happens throughout the school year. It's just one day. It is just one day. We don't tell the students. You don't know when it's going to be. So, it's You better be here. Highly confidential because you don't know. You don't
069know when it's going to be. And the answer, but you got all these other great things going on, too. Okay. But, I mean, 127 fewer absences. That's incredible. That is so we, you know, we're just just tracking it, trying to find new ways to get kids here. So, yeah. Um, this is our Julie Brochious created this. She's part of student council. She's a co-leader with Sam Driscoll. So, she put this together. We just thought like second annual um TR slideshow. Okay. like on the edge of something wonderful to face with me. I've got you. stars to turn. I'm going TV. It's I don't know where it works fine on the computer. So, it's working. It's just the sound isn't coming through it right. That's all. I might have to just look at the rest of
070it. Yeah, they can send it to us. I don't know if you're gonna hear it. So, no, you can send it to us. I'm sure we can. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great because they say, you know, they say some awesome things about, you know, what they like about the kids sometimes too. Should be blank. It's almost as high as it can be. We'll try it. But the sound is coming from Yeah, there instead of the Yeah, it's Yeah, it's coming out of here. It's not It's not going in correctly because of the video. Yeah. So, we'll share that with you. Okay, that'd be great. That'd be great. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Well, great. Great job, you guys. Nice to see all the progress. That's great. I love the video. It's cute. Okay, next
071up is our athletic presentation. I would like to complain about my childhood here, please. We did not do any of that. We had a relay at the end of the summer and that was it. We had recess and we were happy. All right. I just wanted to throw that out there. So, great job. Yeah, you weren't naughty enough. I had lots of fun. And now you're now you're in academics figure. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um just to remind everyone I'm Ruby Hayes the director of public health. Let me see if she has it in athletics. It's not uploaded. Stacy, you didn't have it is not share with you. I'm not seeing board docs. Okay. Okay. Hang on. I'll refresh. Hold on. And just as a reminder, Murphy's doing her presentation now because we had
072a group of very eloquent speakers here at our last meeting. Um, and I mentioned that maybe it would be a good idea to have him come and address. So, she's going to focus on she's going to talk a little bit broadly, but then she was going to kind of focus on what we discussed at the last meeting. I think Stacy and I are are Stephanie and I are both because there's not enough. Yeah, it's there. I just have to download it. There we go. I got it. Thank you, Tom. Thank you. So, as Joanne mentioned, I um usually make sure that I show you the entire scope of the department. Um but today, we'll hone in a little bit about um things that people wanted more information on. So, you know, overseeing athletics, um the
073health education, physical education, the health offices and wellness. And um this visual of the puzzle pieces, you know, really emphasize that the whole child that all of those pieces really help with student success. So many of those bright and shiny faces and happy students that you saw at the TRA um and past presentations at the CEA and high school, you know, that is part of um the intrical programs that are offered, you know, in the physical education department, in the athletics that the kids are participating in. um you know when the nurses and PPS staff and so forth take such good care of food services and making them well. So part of having a great um program is making sure that the students um really learn our essential standards. And so the physical education um
074teachers have been working all year long um in their PLC departments to be able to know what are the boulders of the concrete things that when students graduate that they are physically educated to be able to you know lead a life of physical activity um beyond the walls of um school. And so these standards um you know which have been in the 2000s um that have the state education department the teachers really focus on them. They're collecting data. They're having reflective questioning. Um they are uh rethinking then their instructional practices and they're trying um to get all students engaged um not only being active but also the cognitive and the affective domain of learning uh why they are doing what they're doing um when they're moving in health education. Uh we're crossing our fingers that
075the state education department within the next month is going to hire an associate. We haven't had an associate at the state education department since the early 90s. Um so currently we're under the national shape America um standards um that really focuses on skills like communication advocacy um you know decision making and using whatever health um content that may it be nutrition or um prevention or may it be um health and wellness that kids have the skills to be able to navigate the world um and take care of their health and uh their family and friends um within the standard s um that they again are talking about in their PLC um discussion. So I met with the health teachers um today and they're really thinking about you know how they can apply and have real
076life authentic learning experiences in the classroom so the students take it to the next level. the health offices. Um, you know, we are very very fortunate here at Winnie Point that we have um RNs and LPNs in the health offices um that have a large scope of work u may it be from provision of care to assessments to screenings um to administering medication to keeping close records to really uh communicating and collaborating with staff and families and sharing resources. And you know we have had um you know attention to emergencies and they are always u there may it be for busing or may it be in the walls of school or may it be after hours. Um and we're really lucky that they keep the students and the staff u very safe um in case
077um someone doesn't feel well. And then comprehensive school health and wellness. You know, it's all of these pieces that help um make the whole child u may it be social emotional, may it be employee wellness, um may it be community involvement, may it be our food services that we all work collectively um to make sure the students um just like Matt and Amanda said, feel happy and healthy to be able to school and have good attendance and be able to have um the focus on learning. um because when they have their needs met, they're better able to um attend to math and science, ELA, you know, social studies, and it really uh contributes to their success in graduation. So, we're really fortunate this year that we have a uh grant with the health department. They've
078been really active with our wellness committee meeting monthly. Um they came yesterday and they did focus groups with the high school students gathering input. They've been to all the staff and faculty. They have administrative surveys and so the goal is to use the grant money that they um have awarded to us to buy equipment, materials and supplies to have more active day. So all the input that the um principles have been sharing with you in their presentations, the kids really want to be up and engaged no matter what the content is and this grant will help us. Uh may it be um standing desk or may it be different furniture or may it be um equipment or may it be training um to help um make the classrooms as active as they are and still
079focus on the learning that they need um for that particular content. So I'm going to shift gears to athletics. Um does anybody have any questions uh so far? No, but I think community schools have been doing a great job. We're very very fortunate and they have been partnering also with Sunni Courtland uh for some active programs at the CEA um after school. So we've been really fortunate um to have lots of partnerships um that help students um you know see the value of wellness. So this particular flowchart um lots of times people when they think of athletics uh they only think of the athletic association but the uh state education department um they are the governing body first uh with the commissioner of education um that has and I'm going to show you some regulations
080and guidelines that we have to follow um when it comes to athletics and then that impacts the state education um department for the um athlet athletic association and then the athletic associations we are in section four which is our area um of New York um and then we are in the IA league and then from the leagues uh those have rules and guidance for each particular sport um schedules um you know from varsity junior varsity modified levels and it's really about um how to keep uh students um safe um when they're playing sports and to help that uh learning learning piece and so the state education department regulations. So these some of them are board policies because it um gives you the guidance and then from there um school districts uh navigate their own policy.
081So we have our athletic placement process. That's when seventh and eighth graders um have the ability to move up to junior varsity and varsity teams that you've all been a part of. coaching certifications, what it takes to become a coach, and I'll speak a little bit more specifically in a minute about that, mixed competition, um boys on girls team, girls on boys teams, um and how, uh it's really having access to um the interest and what sport they want to participate in. um regulations in regards to um being in compliance uh to physical education standards and that every student to make sure that they are well and safe that they have a physical exam um when they participate in sports so there's no medical conditions and reduce their risk of harm. So, one of the
082things that the state education department says um by the commissioner's regulations is that a student that plays sports has to be a bonafide student. So, the student has to be taking three core classes and physical education. Um so, sometimes people um have different schedules or they tend um different types of school that are not part of the educational system within New York. and they'll call districts and ask why their students can't play sports and it's because they have to be a bonafide um student and they have to um be in a certain age range uh within July 1st um and prior to being 19 years old. So they have duration of competition. So entering in seventh grade traditionally they have six consecutive years to be able to participate in their scholastic athletics and then um
083eighth grade five years and ninth grade four. So um in our state you know we start modify that's not the same across the country. Some states do not have seventh and eighth grade sports. Um so you know it's a real privilege to be able to have access to that because some um states or countries you know it's paytoplay and that's not the case in New York. So coaching certification you know a lot of people want to give up their time and they want to be involved in athletics. Um but for the coach's safety um the students uh learning and education and also for the district um all coaches have to have um certification. So the highly certified but New York uh qualifies is a physical education teacher. So anybody has their fizzed degree can coach
084any sport. Um then a coach um can be someone who is a teacher math, English, social studies. Um but then they have to have three coaching classes and then someone who does not have a New York State Department of Education certification. Um they are called a non-teer coach and they have to have a temporary coaching license. They have to have DASA. They have to have fingerprinting. They have to have um child abuse. They have to have SAFE. They have to have concussion management. They have to have first aid. They have to have CPR. It's quite an investment. um and they have to have their temporary license and then they have to renew that every year and then they have to take the three coaching classes within five years of starting their coach. And so some
085people want to volunteer and um there's a misunderstanding that people think volunteering means that they can just do it without those credentials and the state education department says it doesn't matter if you get paid or not paid, you still have to have your coaching uh license. And so that's why when you appoint people for a non-paid coach um they have gone through this process and it's again um for liability reasons. Does anybody have any questions? And they pay for those themselves. Correct. The school does not reimburse them. Okay. Because oftent times once they make that investment they will become you know employed um you know within the district or a neighboring um opportunity where they become the bonafide coach. Yep. And um I'm just gonna add to that that they this was mentioned they're not
086allowed to be alone with students, the coaches. The volunteer coach. Oh, the volunteer coaches. Oh, thank you for clarifying that because they're not employed the district. Makes sense. They're just here supporting the current. So sometimes you know Yes. Go ahead. The non the non-teer coaches can be. So if you are a non um teacher coach and you have all your credentials and we have uh employed you here then you can coach you know independently of somebody else. What's the employment piece? Yeah because you're now being overseen by the district. That's right. Um in all of our um you know trainings and capacity for reviews and so forth. Thank you. So, uh, the intercolastic athletics, you know, sports have really, you know, we were teasing about our own experience, uh, Tiana, when we were young and
087how exciting kids get to have all this great hands-on learning, you know, and when I can even date myself like sports were the only thing at your local level, but now kids are doing AAOU and they're doing club and they're doing travel and they're doing things, you know, in other states. and they're traveling uh you know across the country to play sports. Club sports have very different rules outside of school, but the focus of New York State public high school athletics is a competitive educational environment where they're really trying to learn about character and um you know, civility and citizenship and good sportsmanship. So sometimes, you know, people want to behave or to um be in arena that club sports do and that's not the appropriate setting um for public education. So these are the
088focuses and these are the mission of um school sports. So NISPA um which is what the acron uh stands for for the public high school athletic association. These are all the sports that they offer um that school districts can choose to um have an opportunity for their student athletes. The highlighted yellow ones are what Wendy Point currently offers. Uh, boys baseball, boys and girls basketball, girls cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, field hockey, girls, football, boys, golf boys, um, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls soccer, softball, swimming for girls, track and field boys and girls, indoor and outdoor, volleyball girls, uh, wrestling boys and girls, and we will attend to, um, your questions um, as Miss Ston said um, about uh, wrestling here in a moment. So currently we have 10 offerings for the
089boys for sports and 11 and wrestling would be 12. So when we talk about title nine, you know, we're trying to offer equitable um opportunities for both genders. So every year I try to share with you uh the data of how uh the grade levels are doing participating in sports also uh how each sport is engaged. So as you can see here, I'll just read you the numbers um so you have an idea. There is about uh 35% of the seventh graders in fall, 44 for 8th grade, uh 39 in 9th, 44 in 10th, uh 26 and 11th, and 34 in 12th. That's for fall sports. And you know, it's like my 28th year as the athletic director. And every year I think the numbers are going to be different. And quite honestly, they're very
090similar over that time for the grade levels. And I'm sorry, quick question. With the light gray, what is that number as opposed to the dark blue? I'm sorry. Thank you. That's a very good question, Tiana. The light color is the kids participating and the blue color is their graduation. Okay. At that time in the fall. So, approximately 109 students in seventh grade. Approximately 93. I see that. So, the blue is how many students are in that grade. winter sport. Do you have numbers for how many girls versus how many boys for each grade that are participating in sports? Well, broken down. Oh, yeah. It would have to be I would have to um look that up. I have it the numbers per sport, not per gender, right? So, what you I'm sorry, I didn't mean
091to interrupt you. So, what you're saying here is year over year, you haven't really seen much of a a change in the sports. It's about flat, if you will. Um it's not you know traditionally the 12th graders are about 30%. The seventh graders when they're first time playing sports about 50% of the grade you know 12th graders you know they start to get jobs they start to get invested in other extracurriculars like music and drama and become a little more focused. Um there's not the same level of clubs at the middle school and they have more clubs at the high school. So, you know, there's a little story or journey, but typically if I were to give you 10 years of data, it's pretty close by about 5% for each grade level. Um, so here
092is what you can see per sport. Um, so, you know, I always try to remind it only takes um, you know, five athletes to have a cross country team, but it needs about 22 athletes to have a football team. So each sport is unique in regards to how many. Of course, we always want the most uh participation rates we can get for all sports. Um and some sports attract um more students than others. Um but we have, you know, a good uh representation in all sports. So that's for fall. And then winter, there's not the same uh menu of sports. You know, there are less sports. The highest number of sports are offered in the fall. Um and that's how the state really organizes um the offering. Sometimes it has to do with the weather
093and indoor sports and outdoor sports and gym availability. Um but here, you know, you're really looking at u basketball, uh wrestling, indoor track, and cheerleading. And again, that's your grade levels. The blue is the um graduating and the um light color is their grade level. So 51% of the seventh graders for winter, 43 for 8th, 28 for 9th grade, uh 24 for 10th grade, 22 uh for 11th grade, and uh 14 uh for uh 12th grade for winter sports. And these are uh the amount of students that participated in the winter sports offering. And some of the junior varsity teams, you know, sometimes we offer modified 7 8 9 and then varsity 10 11 12. But we have had better numbers um since co and some of the junior varsity teams which are typically ninth
094and tth graders um have returned. And so this is hot off the press. This is this this is spring. Um so there are 47% of seventh graders, 39% of eighth graders, 54% of 9th graders, 33% of 10th graders, 32% of 11th graders, and 24% of 12th graders playing spring sports. If you want to add the numbers next time you do the presentation, that'd be great. like on these charts like on the on the on the PowerPoint you can just add the numbers right there and I have I have the real numbers too if you need to see those and those are the about numbers that are students that are are participating in the various offerings uh for spring this year I'm just I'm changing everything to yellow so I can read mine guys Any questions
095about participation rates before I move on? So mixed competition. So we have had students of opposite gender participate on these sports. So in the past we've had males participate on the field hockey team. We've had males participate on girls volleyball. We've had uh currently last year and this year girls playing on boys baseball. um girls playing on boys golf and um girls on mixed competition for boys wrestling. Um the difference is as I get to explain a little bit more about wrestling, there's now specific opportunities just for girls. Um right now there are uh a golf for girls, but we only have the girls participate on the boys golf. So we do not participate in the golf season for girls. Um, you know, there is not currently in our section uh boys volleyball. Um, so,
096you know, the few boys that want to play girls have been on the girls team, but there's not a comparable season or um team in our area to play boys volleyball. So, that's how uh sometimes when kids have interest, that's how they end up on that um opposite team. Since we offer girls softball, why would we have they do it that they're not the same? They're not the same. Okay. So, I mean, I know in theory they're not, but to me they are. But okay. So, how about if we had a boys volleyball? Would we still allow girls to be on the boys volleyball volleyball and vice versa? Or volleyball and basketball would be equivalent. So, that would happen. So the intention is if there is a sport for boys or girls that they play
097on the sport of their gender. Is that typically just unless um you know unless the child expresses you know something different. Okay. So um one of the things that I have uh spoke about in the past but just to review that we formed about uh year and a half to two years ago um an athletic advisory council and that's when people wanted to come forward to consider a new sport because the public high school athletic association NISA has emerging sports. So you know girls wrestling is emerging uh girls flag football is emerging um you know so they have had some more offerings you know they have been entertaining in the future esports they've been entertaining um you know uh that's huge uh blank uh ultimate frisbee. So you know there are things that are non-traditional
098that could be something that becomes on the menu in the future. So when you think about adding it, these are some of the factors that you should really reflect upon. You know, um what's the growth and development of the students? Surveying the students, how is that new sport going to impact the current offerings? You know, what's the long range plan? You know, what's the numbers at the youth level? You know, at the modified varsity interest, you know, how do you balance the new team? Um you know, how many sports for girls and how many sports for boys? what's our financial resources? Do we have the transportation? We've talked a lot about busing and that's a real um challenge every day. You know, can we find the appropriate certified coaches? Uh do we have the event
099staff? You know, every night it's even a challenge to find scorekeepers and announcers and ticket takers. Um you know, and does the league have a schedule? So sometimes people want something, but there's not a schedule to put them in because we don't offer it. You know, there's Nordic skiing and that's part of an offering. And there's gymnastics, but there's no venue here to do those sports in our area where there is many aderandex or Nordic skiing. So, this also could this if somebody wants a sport that is not an emerging sport, but is a sport that we don't offer, like we tend, right? They would also go through this process, this process. Yeah. Yeah. So uh when taking that into consideration you know uh we looked at the timeline the student interest the long range
100plan um you know coaching budgetary so on and so forth. So we did just that. We uh you know took this very seriously and uh we had uh last spring um did a sports interest survey and asked the students um at the TRA and at the high school like these are the sports we currently do not have at Winnie Point. And from the kids that participated, you know, uh these are some of the numbers. Kids were very interested in badin and bowling. They were very interested in girls flag football. they were very interested in ice hockey. Um, so you know, girls wrestling is on there as well, but you can see there's other interest of things that we currently don't have on our menu that kids if we had it may sign up and participate
101on. So, here at the high school, uh, you know, badman was one that they were very interested in a good bowling and tennis rose to the top. Uh, girls flag football again. Um, skiing uh was a big interest um and ice hockey seems to be rising to the top um as well. And we have had parents and um students come forward to both uh the district office and the athletic office inquiring about the ones that have not had formal proposals for a new sport, but people have um asked about ice hockey, they've asked about bowling, they've asked about uh boys swimming, and they've asked about tennis. Those are the ones that have um risen to interest to have conversations and requests um in the last couple years. We used to have a tennis team. Yes.
102We used to have boys swimming. I was a coach. What happened? Lack of interest about 2007. We had really really terrible budgets. And that particular administration when I was a young athletic director, we had to cut programs and we had to cut assistant coaches and we had a contingent budget. So, some of those things just didn't make it make it um when we made those hard decisions. And and we used to let students not necessarily have skiing competition, but we used to take them to Greek Peak. Oh, I was I was in a ski club. Ski club. So, but it wasn't really was it was again we don't have buses, right? We paid for. Yeah, it was a club. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm going to speak um a little more specifically about uh wrestling now
103because uh that's um where um our young ladies uh did their nice presentation and um really expressed um their thoughts and feelings about uh that emerging sport. So, um in 2022 they announced um that it was an emerging sport. So, this has been moving very quickly. um in section 4 which is our area they had a combined event with boys and as Mrs. erys is here tonight supporting the athletic department. You know, she has experienced that uh when Grayson um had that opportunity. Um there currently has not been a uh schedule for girls wrestling um from the start until now. Um the IA, which is the league, they there's not a set schedule. So like as an athletic director, you'll go and they give you the basketball schedule and they'll give you the field hockey
104schedule. Um so because it's emerging, things are evolving and things are um developing and people are being creative. Um there has been tournaments, some that are only girls tournaments um that our uh female athletes have attended and some are mixed with boys where they'll have some um time on the mat for boys and sometimes uh on the mat for girls. And then in uh 2024 uh they had uh their first sectional ranking event and we hosted it on Martin Luther King a year ago here at Whitney Point and uh then they had what was called an invitational and then they had their state invitational for the second year. So this was um one academic year ago that this started um to develop and so as presented in the past um and the wrestling community has
105expressed you know that it's growing very quickly. So the qualifier opportunity um really what the state was doing was trying to make it a win-win. So, they were trying to understand that wrestling is unique, that you need a partner, and that uh you know, it's hard to be in the room if there's not enough uh of the same um gender to wrestle. So, they under the mixed competition rule allowed males and females to wrestle. Um so, if there were opportunities, they could choose. they could choose to either continue to wrestle with the boys or they could continue to uh only wrestle girls or they could continue to cross between the two. And that's so that they were getting ready for postseason and if they got to uh the end of the season invitationals for the
106girls or the championships for the boys that the um females could go which path that they felt more comfortable. And so in 2024 2025 this year, they made a proposal that came to the table very late this fall. Um, winter sports start in November and this proposal didn't come out until about October. Ridiculous. Um, so you know, everybody uh was trying to um stay a top and a rest and learn everything very quickly. Um and then we got word right before winter season started that they were going to modify um the USA junior rules um and with waiverss so that they could uh establish that it was freestyle. And so when they did that they had to determine they used a rubric at NISHA if there was enough athlete interest. They used a rubric to
107see if there was enough coaches that were even trained to do freestyle. And there was a shortage of officials at one point. They didn't know if they could have uh invitationals or championships. But, you know, the wrestling community rallied and and and the people who are uh very passionate about the sport, you know, really try to learn very quickly all of these things that they needed to do um across the state to um make this proposal come to life. So, in October, they adopted freestyle this fall. In uh January of 25, section 4 had their first freestyle state qualifier. So it no longer was an invitational. It's now a state qualifier. They had that at Waverly. And for the first time ever, they had a state girls championship and that was in Albany. So that
108was on one evening and then the boys wrestled their own state championship the very next day. So these are the uh minutes from the NISva wrestling. So again they felt that not the entire state had opportunities for just girls or just boys. So they still left the blended model and um it's called track wrestling. So on track wrestling there's a portal and uh you put the student athletes in the portal. So the girls um and boys are entered and then they can declare how they're going to earn their 22 points for postseason play. So, you know, again, the boys are doing folk style, the girls are doing freestyle, and then uh they can choose where they're going to accumulate their points and what championship avenue that they want to go in. So, you know, the
109state was being really open and and allowing um both opportunities as uh wrestling is growing. So, as I mentioned that, you know, schedules were very limiting. So, these are the 11 sections of the state. We are purple right in the middle. And section uh one only offered two tournaments for girls this winter. Uh section two, which is seven. Section three, which is neighboring us in the gray, only offered three. We only offer three and section four. Section five had six. And so you can see 10 um which some of them are way in Buffalo, some are way in Long Island. So, you know, it was challenging um especially if you're having transportation issues to get to some of these tournaments if they were at the corners or other end of the state. Um so again,
110as the sports grow, you'll see these tournament opportunities, you know, um be more in the future, but currently this was all that was on uh the track wrestling schedule to be able to choose from. So, excuse me. Um, section six. Yeah. A lot. Is that because of Buffalo? That's the Buffalo area. That just seems Buffalo and the Albany area seem to be um the two growing um parts of the state that you know there just needs to be more numbers of interest of participants and five is probably coming out of Buffalo into Rochester most likely. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. So again, for modified people sometimes when they think about sports, they're only thinking of the varsity level and you have to have your feeder program. So right now there is no modified tournaments,
111no uh schedule at the league level for girls. We are very lucky with uh Mr. Hartley being the coach that you know if there were girls from other schools when they went for modify they would try to do matchups so that they had that opportunity. Um there's still not a league schedule. Um we were given an email um by Mr. McKini who is the section 4 coordinator and state level uh chairman um that you know he asked there's a big list of the area um schools that had dual matches and I'll show you in a minute um those that felt they could offer this opportunities and those that said they weren't ready. So most schools still um had a combination of boys and girls together. So there are 71 schools in our section. So, not
112in the state, just in section 4 and only four um 17 had board approved uh female wrestling teams. There are other schools like ourselves that offer female wrestling, but they don't have a board approved team. So, to give an example, a neighboring school that's similar to us is Dryen. They have girls wrestler, but they don't have a bonafide uh board approved team. So, they still had opportunities for girls. Um there's currently no section 4 handbook for girls wrestling because it was happening so quickly. They were kind of figuring out as we go. There wasn't anything like there that you could hand a coach and say here are the guidelines and the expectations and um the rules. Um you know there again no formal schedule. Um and some have had enough to have dual matches and
113some only went to tournaments. So these are the schools in our area that had wrestling. Um so Tyogga, Waverly, Horseheads, Oniana, and Schmangle Forks when that um survey and the email came out said yes, they would be able to have dus. And then u the schools on the right like Horning and Graten and Windsor um and Oiggo, they weren't quite sure or they said they weren't ready yet. So, these are even board approved teams that weren't sure they could have like a match at their school. And so, some of that changed over time because I do believe Groten eventually uh got the ability to have a dual match at their um schedule, but initially, this is the information that we had. Um so, it was not many schools that could host um things. So, girls
114were going to tournaments instead. So one of the things that was mentioned during the uh presentation is how to be creative and these are the schools that merge for sports that had uh wrestling. So you can see Bingington and Satan uh they merge for boys and girls wrestling but they also merge for football. They also merge for bowling. Cander the same thing. It's there's there's wrestling in their merger, but they also do it for a variety of other sports with Spencer Benett and Deposit Hancock, you know, they really can't field teams. They're two small schools. They need to merge for almost their entire sports program. Green and Oxford who are, you know, right down the road. Um they too are very creative with the variety sports that they merge. Um Harper'sville, Banebridge, Sydney, and Unatiggo.
115I'll show you in a minute how that works when that many teams merge. Um they only merge for girls wrestling and Walton's Downville again um Downsville is small and they really need Walton's to help them do their entire sports program. Yeah, I think those two schools are looking to merge totally now for like the academics everything. Yeah, they're doing a feasibility study. So when you do a merger again, it has to go to the board of education. There has to be data. There has to be paperwork signed. There's deadlines you have to meet. But when you are a certain size school, when you merge the number of schools like that four schools did for girls wrestling, you have to take a certain percent of your beds number. And sometimes like districts do not want to
116merge because you are a a class championship and you go to the state level, but then when you merge you bumps you up to the larger schools and then sometimes you don't have the same opportunity to be as competitive and have um you know a state title. So sometimes it's a great fit because it offers more opportunities and sometimes communities and traditions and districts um you know want to stay at similar size school um because of uh competition and traditions. So this is the data of uh wrestling um since uh 2020 to 2021. Um you know these uh are some of the co years as you can see the number of males that we've had in the wrestling program um and the number of females both for modified and varsity. So you know that helps
117when you're looking at um emerging sport and adding a new sport when you look at some of the data and the criteria points. Um this is some of the information that we use and then you know we certainly um could reach out to youth club and see what their numbers look like as well to inform um decisions. So this year uh we had two seventh grade female uh wrestlers, two eighth grade, one ninth grade, one 10th grade, one 11th grade, and one 12th grade. So the four uh girls would be on modified and the 9 through 12 were on varsity Murphy because it's an emerging sport um would these girls the modified level they would have to pass the selected classification to move up? Okay, thanks. So uh this is uh what the Whitney Point
118wrestling has done since 2023. Um, the district invested in um paying another assistant varsity coach. Um, the district invested in purchasing female wrestling uniforms. Uh, the district um attended and paid all entry fees to all wrestling tournaments, both males and females. Um, participated in some dual matches when available and the opposing team had female wrestling. We hosted the female wrestling ranking event in 2024 and we attended the section 4 invitational in 24 and 25. Can I just Yeah, I maybe you're going to say this, but so this and Miss knows this. we've already met, we've had a discussion, but when this whole when you started this um she went through that that committee's process and um given all the information that Murphy just shared with you, that committee felt that our goal was to give
119girls as many opportunities as possible. So before that time, we had, as many of you know, we had one coach who was our coach forever and a volunteer um coach who worked with him who so we really only had one paid coach for all of those years. And um so we decided to add a coach, a paid coach, so that the between them, they could attend to both the boys and the girls. And so whenever there were girls opportunities, they had the person power to take the girls where they needed to go and and to tend to the girls needs as because we had some inkling that maybe that they were going to change the style. We knew things were in flux. And so the intention was to do the best with what we knew
120and the and the lay of the land for the girls. And and I'll just pause to say that we also know that in our meeting it didn't really play out that way. And then what happened was the girls were left like feeling like they were an afterthought which was not the intention at all. So sorry I'll try to say so their opportunities were they looking at duels or tournaments? So the coaches would come just like they would for any sport and say, "Here are the tournaments that I'm interested in. Here are some duels I'm hearing about." But it was really hard because there's not there wasn't anything concrete scheduled, you know, so you had to kind of have your ear to what was going on or other groups that were doing it. Um but when
121a coach comes to you then then I pay the entry fee you know um coordinate the bus you know uh contact the other school districts. Um but that was happening for both boys and girls. Um the coaches may have chosen a certain number of tournaments or a certain number of matches but whatever they asked for they were allowed to attend. and that so that you heard that the impression was that somehow the district wasn't allowing the girls to participate in in opportunities. That's not how it worked and that was not the intention. Right. So, you know, and one more. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. And then tournaments, those are only section four tournaments. They're not allowed to No, it's not that they aren't allowed. I mean, but some of them were three, four hours. How do
122I know that? That's why I was asking that I mean it there might be available but there there's no way it's realistic to we did attend the Homer female tournament which that's not in our section but that's close enough by that they could drive to Homer. Okay. Yeah. So I just want to clarify something. Um because of what we heard in the conversation, um I sort of felt like we hired two coaches, but one coach didn't stay designated to the female wrestlers as we had hoped. Would I be saying that clearly? Yeah. The vision was that they would be able to attend to the team together and then split as they as it was appropriate. And that was and it's hard because you also have new people in those roles, right? And maybe some were
123not fully aware. I like because I don't want to blame I mean it is what it is, right? So I think that they already done. Right. Right. And they you heard advocacy for adding it but we had already done that. Right. And but they only know what's now. And so that I think, you know, to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, I think that they just didn't interpret it the way that we had intended because there was a changing of the guard and it wasn't really carried out or executed the way we anticipated. Is that fair to say for sure? Okay. Because I think that's fair to say. There was no male intent on anybody's. It just it just didn't No, I No, I do not think so. No. And you know, but although
124I will say the first year when we did have a veteran coach there, that coach was very much part of that and understood that that was the input and that's the reason we were adding the coach. But then there was this changing of the guard and suddenly you know things just change and people might what they want to think and um see it differently and but the you know the terrible thing like I said is that the girls were left feeling like they were. Right. But we can fix this. Yeah. Fix them all. Yes. I mean, but but it's still a tricky ground to figure out what's the best path forward, you know. So, so you know, if you explore um a different um process, if you have girls only wrestling, then they're only permitted
125so if you have a board approved girls team, then they're only permitted to share space with other girls and they're only permitted to drill with only girls. And so, you know, you have to um be creative as the girls mentioned to be able to find them competition to be able to practice and be prepared in order to go versus um integrate, you know, choosing to work with um male partners. Um so, the mixed competition, the girls had a voice and a choice. they could decide if they only wanted to be with girl partners or girl tournaments or girl duels or if they felt that they wanted to um be in the mix, they could. Um and how they accued their points and the state is allowing that to happen because as you mentioned earlier, if
126you're on the girls basketball team, the boys basketball team, you can't one day play in one, one day the other. But right now, because wrestling is still evolving and it's still growing and people are still learning, they have allowed you know this choice. Um and so again, this is how they accumulate the number of points they have to be able to qualify for the um sectional and postseason play and state tournament. So I just want to clarify again. So once they declare where they're going, they can't say, "I'm going to do a mixed tournament and then I'm going to Right now, right now, they still can because we're doing mixed breakfast. We have we only have one team in and they can choose if available to wrestle a girl or if available a boy at
127their weight class." And that's the reason that we made that choice thinking that it would gave them as many options as possible. Right. Okay. just like to make sure I'm right because I see mixed competition here, right? I just want to make sure even what what what Murphy said about so when you only have a few girls on the team and they have to practice separately, I mean it's hard then also to practice. So all of these things the committee really took into consideration and figured we thought this was the the path to give them as many options as possible. Then there's weight classes thrown into all of that as well that it's like it's like going into a store and ordering shirts and it's like right my shirt's not there. Well, on top of
128it all, the states threw in a big boom zinger. Um, girls are going to do freestyle now instead of regular wrestling. And now we have to have our guys not all of them know how to wrestle freestyle. So now you've got the whole bam bam very quickly. and it happened um you know without a lot of opportunities and training. Um but wanted to be the first state in the country to be able to do that. Um I'm going to interrupt you for just a minute since it's 5 after 8. If there are any students here, you can bring up to have your sheet signed and you can go home and do your homework and recognize how amazing the school district is with all of the sports we offer and the fun activities. I think takes
129full advantage of all of I played on monkey bars out back and hurt my chin and got stitches. I do and they don't happen anymore. Well, during this break, I went to Bingmpington. I went through the Bingmpington schools, and there are probably more sports opportunities here. Oh, absolutely. Than I did. Absolutely. See you. Yeah. Tomorrow. I'm sorry. I just I wanted to let her go. Uh so just to recap um you know so when the committee uh that went through the process and and made the recommendation at the time um you know obviously you've heard different feedback at the past board meeting but that gave as Julian had um expressed it gave the most opportunities available. It allowed us to have a head varsity coach. It allowed us to hire an assistant to support all
130wrestles and to choose between the two coaches who were traveling to the male opportunities and who was traveling to the female opportunities. So, as you guys were just celebrating, I mean, it's it's really proud to be um a golden eagle. I mean, these are just shots of our student athletes this year. And um I'm sure that you recognize a lot of these faces, but the fact that cheerleading is back in full force, the fact that the pool is open, and um you know, our swimmers are excited, um the beautiful new turf that we have, the you know, loud and proud graphics in the gym, the fact that kids can go uh for indoor track and run at local colleges. um you know that volleyball for the first time ever uh you know went to a
131sectional title championship you know so there is a lot a lot a lot of good things going on um in extracurricular activities here at our school district you know may be sports music art um drama you know we're very fortunate to um offer and these students that you see these faces I may think of Izzy like that girl's involved in everything like you know I just amazed what they can balance in their schedule and the academic rig rigor and the college opportunities that they're looking for. You know, we should all be really proud. So, thank you for asking questions throughout, but I can certainly answer any more questions. So, where does that leave us with the girls wrestling? So, you provided pros and cons. It all makes sense. So, where where does that leave us
132now? Well, I mean, we have to make some decisions. So, yeah. So, we could potentially have a girls team, but all of the caveats that we just talked about are true. Then they can only wrestle girls, right? So, and they only practice with girls if there's a girls team. So, you can't have both the teams. Right. Right. But we have I mean we So, instead of doing what we did, we would go back and and and split them and split it. Right. And so the instead of having two coaches that were for both, it'd be one coach for one and one coach for the other. Yeah. And Chris, do you have a question? No, I I I don't know if our growth is big enough for that yet, especially giving the students need opportunities for
133both right now. But I think managing the coach's responsibilities, well, that's for sure. Could be something that we could do. Um, I feel that that would be very important to allow this to grow a little bit more. Um, and I'm going to be honest with you, and I was I wasn't the only board member. I won't if the other board member wants to speak up about this, they can, but I was I was concerned when one of our when the coach mentioned that they didn't know how to support female athletes. And I was like, okay, we need to do training then. We need to make sure I was a female coach of a male swimming team. I understood how to support the athlete whether they were male or female. And I do and I was
134very concerned about that when that statement was said. So, I would like to see some training if we continue and make sure that we understand in any of our sports, not just wrestling, that it's not it's the athlete we're concerned about and we should be able to talk physical needs and things or find the appropriate person without making it such an oddity. I was a little bit I I agree with that statement. It it was rather uncomfortable. I found it as a female. I found it uncomfortable. It was it wasn't good to hear that, but also it was it was forced that you had to do what you could to give the opportunity. So, I'm not sticking up for anybody. Right. Right. Picture point fingers, but I mean that was pretty chaotic trying to prevent.
135I don't know. Personally, I'd rather take my time and do a great job and do something very quickly and do it poorly. I don't mean we did it poorly. I think the state did it very poorly. Yes. Trying to rush out and say we're going to be everything for everyone and they end up being pretty much nothing for everyone. We can do better here at WH. Well, I the only thing I'll say about that it did not have to unfold the way that it did. That you know that should not have happened. Like I said, we had the person power. Yeah. you know, for whatever reason, it wasn't seen as the priority and that can't continue. So, whatever path we take Oh, yeah. You know, that is not going to happen. And female, you got
136a female athletic director, right? And to have those young women stand up here and feel that way in our athletic program, I cannot tell you how upset I am about that. And I think a lot of the board felt that way, too. Absolutely. Are there uh trainings now for free set for the coach? So the they are slowly trying their best you know they have put out um like playday kind of like on certain times and they tried throughout last year to to do that too. Um and you know you just have to be accessible but it's just like any professional development you know you have to um partake in it you know and and all of us partake yeah you know you don't have to the only three mandated classes are the three coaching
137classes that you have to take it doesn't mean that we can't say it but we can we can freestyle are we required now that it's coming that we have to uh wrestle freestyle for if a student athlete chooses just the path of females. Okay, that's now the declared style of the state association has adopted freestyle for their uh state tournament. So um that if there ever is a real bonafide schedule, okay, of girls wrestling, that's the style of wrestling that they will see. today. Again, I know wrestling wrestling is over, right? Yeah, it's over. So, um I just want to make sure because wrestling seems like it goes the high school season, but the mix right now any of the girls that were in mixed, they could they could wrestle either freestyle or the other
138one. Folk. Yes. Folk, right? Folk style. So, it's very similar like girls and boys lacrosse. We both offer lacrosse program, but but they're a little different. The rules are different. are they different equipment, you know, but it's all the same thing with different um guidelines. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate But like Joanne said, going forward and we don't have to make these decisions tonight, right, Joanne? No, but I it could be it' be a conversation. We we could as a board say our coaches need to be able to coach both styles. Absolutely. We would and and support that. things like that I think would be important for us to do as we go forward if we're going and I would I would say not make an only girls team yet at least giving them the
139options while the state figures more things out that would be my personal opinion but I am positive that given the knowledge that we have now that it will be ensured that any female wrestlers do not feel like they were left behind. Good. We'll work on it. We will work on it. Happy to hear that. It's good to get everybody's view and how it happened, especially the the the female athletes that were here. Um because their view is their view and that's how their season went and that just that can't that can't be. But it it now no one know what was wrong and what could kind of maybe be fixed to make it a little better. But that still doesn't change the numbers of of other athletes in other schools. It doesn't change the tournaments.
140It doesn't change how many are going to go all girl team. And that's going to keep changing and we don't have a lot of control over that. So I think we have to focus on what we can fix. We have to make sure making the best for our our people to make sure that coaches, athletes, you know, seem everybody has a nice positive experience and to recognize that you know other students do have other interests. you know that you know the surveys show that we um as a department have to be mindful that we offer the current programs wrestling's emerging but we have had interests in other areas as well and and what can we with our student body actually support and still be competitive. Absolutely. I'd be out there for flag football in a
141second. Come on. I love that. That would be fun. Well, Murphy, excellent presentation. I appreciate the data that you provided too. Very helpful. Thank you so much for taking time to explain all of that to us. And please keep us posted as things progress because Yep. I'm surprised esport wasn't on that list. It was at one time and that got a little, you know, physical activity, not activity. Some state associations like Connecticut and New Hampshire. They're not just athletics. Some state associations have um debate and they have a drama and they have esports and so they are more encompassing to student activities not just student athletics. Yeah. So, but right now New York, you know, is a little bit more traditional and they don't um oversee other um extracurricular activities. But when I go to
142the national convention, it's really cool because sometimes when I meet my colleagues from Hawaii or Georgia or whatever, every state does it a little different. Yeah, Syracuse just put a brand new college thing for esports in. Holy cow. At this point, I'm going to make sure I move us on because we do have a lot more to cover tonight and I want to make sure that everything gets addressed. Um, regular. So, this brings us to one of our wonderful budget presentations. But tonight is fairly short, so it's kind of late. Um, obviously, it's very important. Um, we are next month is budget vote time. Um, so we've got some important things to talk about. As always, when we're uh crafting a budget, we're putting together a budget that focuses on education. um has an eye
143towards sustainability and develops a reasonable tax levy um within the applicable regulations. Those are always um uh guiding forces when we're developing um a budget. But unfortunately, it is uh today is tax day uh the 15th of April and we have no state budget um and there does not seem to be anything children. So, um, yeah, so there's there's been a lot of statements that have been made. Um, there seems to be issues, um, on policy that are are holding things up. Criminal justice related issues, um, mass transit funding, non-education issues. As you've known from our previous presentations, the governor puts out her initial budget. Um, and in that budget, there were some changes to the foundation aid calculation that were better than the what the governor had put out last year to start. And
144then last year, she started it in with a formula that hurt a lot of districts and then they sort of uh negotiate that back and forth and then we everybody ended up in a better situation. But she came right out of the gate with, you know, a proposal that changed some some things in the in the formulas that included replacing the three-year average and create reduced lunch, the three-year economically dis disadvantaged measures that pulls from different data sources, u replacing some of the other poverty poverty measure measures. But in the in the long and the short of it is that for us, we made out pretty well in her proposal. So that was really great news. We've talked about that at a couple of um meetings now. Um and we were very relieved. I will
145tell you that some other districts still are or did not make out in our area did not make out that well um even with these changes. Um so again that you know not that we ever wish anybody but it just makes gives us a little even more relief um when we saw those numbers. Uh the concern though as you probably are aware is that we there's so much else going on that we just don't know. And actually um in Albany, the governor and a number of people uh power brokers there have said that even when they come to agreement on a budget that they very well may need to have a budget, approve the budget, come back together, reconvene, and then change what they did because they'll have to reallocate money because they don't know
146what's going to be what how how the federal changes are going to impact the state. So, for example, if they're get fund they get funding streams to the federal government that fund other programs in New York and those that funding uh stream gets withdrawn, they're not going to just eliminate all of those programs if they're vital programs and that means they may need to take funds from. So, there's a ton up in the air plus the fact that obviously we you know we get a lot of state aid but we also fund many many things. This is actually LA the end of last year, but I if you looked at this year's funding streams, I mean there's title there's way more money in the titles. We have title two, title three that fund all sorts
147of things across our district. Um we have some of the things that you heard about tonight. Uh like you heard them mention the rise grant, those are federal flow flow through dollars, our stronger connections grant or federal flow through dollars through the state. Um community schools community well full service community schools that you know our team in the CA all of that was federal funding that ran through the state the the community schools in the um in the TRA Kristen that is uh federal dollars that flows through BEu that we're part of. So all of these things are have a huge impact on us. And for us, aside from those other special things that we get to do through grant dollars, there are core services like all of our interventionists that we have a lot
148of salaries in direct federal dollars. So, as you might imagine, that makes us nervous. Plus the fact that if the state then changes things also. So it's quite a way to try and make a budget. Mhm. Um, additionally, besides the just decide, you know, deciding that we're not going to fund this anymore or, you know, potentially, you know, there's some backing and forth thing we're seeing in the news between some states and the federal government. If that should happen in New York, um, that's one problem that we might have, but also all the things that are happening in the economy in addition also changes the revenues coming into the state. So it's you know there's a lot that we just don't know and you know people are predicting things but I don't know then you
149know the next day that changes and then suddenly the markets go up and so there's a it's just you know you hate to throw around unprecedented after pandemic when everybody was saying that all the time but it kind of is right now we this is really pretty extraordinary. So, our plan is to be as judicious as possible to work with what we know. Um, and that's our kind of plan A. Um, but then we, you know, mentally have to have some backup plan B, plan C, and I hope we don't have to go to plan C or or D. Um so assuming that you know our federal dollars are in intact or similar assuming that um we actually get what the governor originally proposed like we don't even know that part like because really they
150haven't come to agreement yet but um assuming that we get the dollars that that have been um forecast for us as we mentioned before we had 11.33 increase percent in our foundation aid. That that was great great news especially considering all those you know we talked about how we're we're a human being business here and so all you know salaries are continuing going up as the cost of living goes up then we have to pay people more money as uh minimum wage goes up then you have to pay people more money the cost of insurance um always goes up there's all sorts of factors that are forcing um our expenses to go up because we employ people almost entirely plus the fact that just things like electricity and you know all the other things cost
151money, price of buses, everything is getting more and more expensive. So um our the budget that we've put together you can see here is a 4.63 increase. It is funded through what we're hoping are is what we're going to get in foundation aid and then these other factors here where we draw on other revenues. These are projected also, right? Um and you know the use of some of our uh our fund balance. Our proposal is to go out for we our tax levy limit is 3% this year. You know how 2% our tax limit is not really it's a formula that that Zach explains every year. Um so our max would be 3%. Our proposal is to go out with with a 2.05% 05% increase of our tax levy. We This is not planning for
152scenario B or C or this is planning for um these funds coming to us as they said you know being as reasonable as we can at looking at the patterns of expenses that we've had the costs of you know some students that we have that are have grown and grown and grown. Um the if if all of this comes together then we would be okay. But I you know very frankly if if any of those things change though I mean I you know we could see a change. We could see a change a very dramatic series of changes. What's the highest we could go out for Zach? It's three. Okay. I just want to make sure it was three. Thought I heard that. Unless you go over and then you need a super majority. Then
153you need a super majority. So, I mean it is kind of I mean I mean this this budget works for us, right? So, we this this keeps us on track for all of the things that we're talking about, all the priorities we have in our district. It maintains everything. Um, and all we can do is plan with what we know, what we've been given. And so, that's that's what this proposal is happening. Stacy, can you have next please? You broke it. There we go. Okay. So, again, these are our changes. Again, our state aid uh uh the the change this again is thank you to the governor for saying that that this is what we would get. Um a significant increase in our state aid. Um other revenues, a smaller increase uh of $5,000. Again,
154um the tax levy increase of 2.05% gets us $182,000 in our district. And um the totals there would be I don't think this is right but when you find a mistake um but that is the increase in dollars that it would go up about 2 million to $151,000. So Joanne just I mean you I know you showed us uh a slide from last year 2,256 of what store are the federal funding? I mean yeah that's last year's numbers. Oh here go back. Who are you talking Chris? What are you looking at? The federal funding that she gave us like so what I'm going to tell you is that it's actually more than that. Okay. Less federal funding, we would be losing a lot a lot of programming and lot, you know, lots of Oh, yeah.
155Okay. Yeah. I mean, I I hate to say that, but all these nice things that they're sharing that that is a lot of that is funded and grants plus many not like core salaries, special ed salaries, um all the inter reading specialists. So, it's like a big Y is that cons all of those are federally funded or state funed? Yes. So the interventionists so people the people who provide extra support to students there's literacy intervention those are title one funds. Okay. Title one pays for that. Okay. Prek prek is state funded. I mean, so it's but the problem is that right we just talked about is something if the state revenues change they get in a crunch or they have to compensate for other programs that are are being defunded then they we could have
156impacts that way and I don't know when we will know that we are very lucky and I love the pie chart this usually comes when Zach presents where we're 76% statefederal funded I mean that really that picture says a thousand words right there we're very lucky And the 2.5% I mean or 2.05. Yeah. 2.05. I don't I I mean I hope our community understands that that is so low compared to the change of percentage of the cost of vape. It's reasonable and fair. I don't want to pay anything. Yeah. We always usually have the where we fall within our area and that's not we're still good. Yeah. Yeah. And it's lower than our increase from last year. Yeah. Yeah. I think you guys did a great job. Let's hope all the numbers come in accordingly.
157Yeah. Well, worst case, if they don't, everybody's going to be it. It's Yeah. No, it's right. It impacts everybody except for the wealthier districts. I mean, I mean, the economy hurts them, right? So, um but they're less federal and state funded, right, Joanne? Based on the charts we see. And that and again, you know, I know it's stating, you know, what we talk about all the time, but sometimes it's good to articulate it is that it is funded that way so that kids, no matter where you come from, could have a reasonably equitable experience and that's, you know, that's the reason that that that funding goes to districts who don't have as much wealth in their communities. Just got to do more praying. So here just again to accomplishing our budget goals again we focus
158on education a sustainable budget um developing a reasonable tax levy but maintaining as many of these enrichment opportunities uh to continue to provide needs and uh the the supports for our that our students need. Continue to do things like you just saw on all the slides tonight. The these steam events the career and technical opportunities. Again our goal is not just because this is all nice. this really our kids need to leave here and feel like they're on a level playing ground with people kids graduating from wherever. And so we do the fun, they're nice, they make us happy to see it, but it's it's it's vital to have those enriching experiences for our kids. Um continue to provide our students and community with facilities. I mean, all of taking care of our facilities uh
159continues to cost money. So, we have our $100,000 capital outlay projects to keep just improvements to make sure that our buildings are not falling apart. And, you know, even even our newer buildings take maintenance. You know, brick work always has to be attended to. Um, if you don't do it, it catches up with you and then you have a big problem in the end. So, uh, this is our proposal. Any other thoughts or questions? No. Excellent job as always and appreciative that you lay it out in such a way that's easy to understand. Yeah. Wish we had better news. That ain't you. Well, started with good news. That is Yes, that is true. That is true. I mean, in the years past, I know that we would be impacted and a lot of our neighbors
160weren't. So, it is nice. I'm not saying that I feel bad if they're worse off. We were worse off a lot of times than our neighbors are actually working in our favor this way. Yeah. And we were wise when we didn't go out with a zero when we could have and did a one and things like that. We've tried to help ourselves which is all part of maintaining a balanced sustainable budget. Yep. Okay. That brings us to budget approval. Be it resolved upon recommendation of the superintendent that the board of education of the Whitney Point Central School District approve the 2025 through 2026 school district budget in the sum of 48,651,344 with a 2.05% tax levy increase. May I please have a motion? So move. Second. Tiana and Chris. Any questions or comments? Just good
161job all of you. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Brings us to our property tax report card. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Tiana. Second. Thank you, Chris. Um, did anybody have any questions on that? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Brings us to the consent agenda. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Chris. And a second. Second. Thank you, Tiana. All those in favor. Any opposed? Any abstain? Retirement resignations. Um, first up, Kenneth Hand effective June 30th, 2025. Miss and a second. Second. Thank you, Chris. 25 or 30? 20. Yeah, he could stay longer. I would just like to say okay he um so remember what he had when we did our the beginning of the year. Couldn't remember if he had 25
162or 30 in. It's in his letter 27. Yeah. So he could stay longer. I I can't quite convince anybody though. So Ken um you know he's just you know a great guy who's got an interesting classroom. I I often tell him that, you know, when my daughter that he like she still will say he's one of her favorite teachers ever. Um the and I was just meeting with a um groups of kids in the TR last week. Um and his name kept coming up as somebody who like really makes it real. They like have debates. They talk about real things. It's they're very engaging. Um they feel like he's in it with them. So yeah. So, I mean, I'm happy for him because he's ready for a change. Um, sad that, you know, he's leaving.
163Yeah, it's nice to see he had so much of an impact on the students and still to this day, it's great. Yep. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Julie Lamarelia, literacy interventionist teacher effective June 30th, 2025. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Chris. the second. Second. Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions or comments? I'm glad everything worked out for Yep. Let me thank Julie. She's served in lots of roles and she's um she's got a passion for um really, you know, impacting students literacy and um she's getting to do that now and we thank her for all of her work. Yes. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Matthew Puyer, physical education teacher, effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? I have Tom and Tiana. The
164TTS. I don't think you'll have trouble refilling that position. Not with 135 physical education student teachers out in the field right there. With bodies maybe, but not personnel. I know that there's filling a position and there's replacing somebody. We can fill the position, but we may not ever be able to replace. I agree there. I agree 100%. You know what you meant first. So, yes, another person that I he wants no part. No, nothing could lure him to stay. Um, he's ready to go, which is very sad. Um, he will be greatly missed. Um, I really wish you know, yeah, congratulations on all the work he's done here. And it's just a very happy day when you can get those numbers to match up the way they're supposed to and you can pick your day.
165So, kudos to him. Congratulations. Y Wonderful. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Appointments. Donna Atkins, four-year probationary appointment as special education teacher in the special education teacher tenure era effective April 16, 2025. So second. Okay. Tiana and Chris, any questions or comments? Good to have her. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Lisa Stoofan, provisional personnel payroll benefits coordinator, senior account clerk, effective April 14th, 2025. May I have a motion? So, was that you, Molly? Yeah. Thank you. And a second. Second. Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Lisa Stoofan, district internal claims auditor, cash custodian of the expendable fund and custodian of non-expendable funds. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Chris. And a second. Second. Thank you,
166Benny. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? Carolyn Galanley. Sorry, I don't usually mess up her name that badly. School district central treasurer for the extra classroom activity account. May I have a motion? So moved. Second. Thank you, Tiana and Chris. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Be it resolved upon recommendation of the superintendent of the board of education of Whitty Point Central School District approve the Broom Tyogga Board of Cooperative Educational Services Administrative budget in the amount of $4,56,153. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Tiana. And a second. Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions or comments? How much is that up from last year, Zach? Do you know? Okay, thanks. No problem. It was in the presentation when they did it. Yeah, that's all right. I just
167know it's high. It is high. Eyes and pass. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? There are three three-year positions um for Bosey's board of trustees with the term ending June 30th, 2028. There are five nominees, Megan Gorski, Nicholas Matus, Michelle Noise, Sandra Rufo, and Christine Woodall. Um I would like to do the first nominee. I would like to move um that we nominate Christine Whittle. Yep. Definitely Sandy, too. Um could I have a second on that? I'm going out of order. Second. Thank you, Benny. I love all those in favor. I I for myself. Yes, you can vote away. Go ahead. Vote away. Chris, any any opposed? Any abstain? She does good. You do a good job, Chris. I'll second Tiana's Oh, yay. nominee for Sandy as a second nominee. Thank you.
168I know you're a fan of her as well. Okay. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? And a third nominee, Nick. Okay. Nicholas Matas. And do we have a second? I don't know him. I I can second it. Okay. Oh, no. He's very good. Yep. I agree. He's wonderful. He's rock solid. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? came to our day camp. A he must be a good person. The Wendy Point Central School District Board of Education casts a vote for the Bum Tayogga Board of Cooperative Educational Services board candidates as identified above. May I have a motion? So move. Thank you, Molly. And a second. Second. Thank you, Tiana. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Resolution for authorization to join group bid. Um, we would
169like to participate in the cooperative bidding for the following bids with other school districts in New York State. Grocery, which is once per school year, paper products twice per school year. Meat, cheese, and dairy every four months. Processing of USDA commodities once per school year. Milk products once per school year. Ice cream and other frozen desserts once per school year. Bread products once per school year. Chemical wares once per school year. Small wares once per school year. Geographical preference for fruit and vegetables once per school year. Breakfast bag meals once per school year. Vending drinks once per school year. Produce once per school year. Individually wrapped fresh fruit and vegetables once per school year. Be it further resolved that Annie Huda, senior director of food services, Broom Teaogabosis or designate be designated to receive and
170open set bids. And be it further resolved that the board of education of the Windy Point Central School District reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. May I have a motion? So moved. Chris and second. Thank you, Tiana. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Um, another Boseies resolution um will participate in the attached services during the 2025 to 2026 school year at the extent in indicated. The board of education agrees to pay Bum Tayogies the charges identified on the base contract according to the schedule as determined by Broom Tayogies. Also be it resolved that payments on supplemental contracts, excuse me, I apologize, will be implement implemented by the district in accordance with the Brun Teogosis requirement. May I have a motion? So move. Thank
171you, Tiana. Second. Second. Thank you, Benny. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? We had a bus use request from the Salvation Army um for use of a bus on July 28th and August 1st. We have a motion. So moved. Is that you, Molly? I'm sorry. I yawned at the same time so I couldn't quite hear who it was. I apologize. And the second. Second. Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions or comments? I had a question. Um it says they want to use the bus. Are they getting a driver as well or are they just going to use the bus? We provide the driver. Okay. I thought it was but it wasn't listed and I was concerned. Probably for insurance purposes, right? Well, that's what I was concerned and I
172wanted to ask because it doesn't say driver. I just wanted to clarify. They're following the policy on it which basically states they can bus and our driver drivers with it. All right. I just wanted to clarify. And I had one clarifying thing. I I know she said the 28th and the August 1st, but are they keeping it the whole time up there or driver goes up there, drops kids off, comes back and back up. Okay. Thanks. Any other questions? Nope. All those in favor? I Any opposed? Any abstain? Um the instructional calendar have it. We don't have it. Stacy, if you want to upload the instructional calendar, I don't have that in the board things either, but you can go ahead. I trust you guys. Yeah, I'm sure it's accurate. I don't have days. There's
173nothing too odd about it. Uh the same days off structure that we did uh this year. Um some people are happy, some people are not. It's two weeks in winter break again. two solid weeks off, which is again how the dates show up. Yeah. Are we not happy about that or Well, some people like it because they can go away for a long time. I think I've had enough time at home with my children. What they need to do is get a babysitter to school. I love it. Yeah. Oh, there it is. Okay. Okay. I'm also working here. Yeah. Thank you, Stacy. Um, may I have a motion? Still moved. Thank you, Tiana. I think it's and a second. Second. Thank you, Chris. I trust the people to put it together. Yep. All those in
174favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? Solar panel bid. Approve bid 24-25-12 purchased and install of solar panels at CA. This is to be awarded to my solar grid in the amount of $79,449. May I have a motion? So moved. Thank you, Tom. And a second. Second. Was that you, Benny? Thank you. Any questions or comments? I'm waiting to hear what Zach has to say. I'm I'm dying to know. I'm I'm itching. What are we going to save here, Zach? The timing would all make sense. Um, so we originally had uh solar panels on top of the Opool. Uh, they had to come down obviously for renovation. Yeah. Um, we were unsure if we were going to be able to put them back up. Um, but we had a study done. The panels themselves were about 15
175years old. You could put them back up, but uh, we had a couple consultants come in and they said, "For the cost, you're better off just buying brand new." We were waiting to see where we ended the project with for contingency dollars to see if we had enough in there to to do this work. Um, we did send this out to three or four solar companies. Um, but again, this way we're still using product dollars and again it's good to get those back on there, especially electricity inside. Is there another spot for the old ones or they absolutely? Uh, the company's actually going to take them away. Yeah. So, Zach, how much on do we have like a number of what we saved having I mean they were old on the old building anyway, but
176yeah, there's like a meter that can I don't have those numbers up. So, you know, over time this is definitely worth the spend. Oh, yeah. It basically it it comes right off of your your bill. So, right, you know, having those go I don't know how technology works, but basically instead of paying whatever it it reduces your overall bill. Okay. Yeah. And originally there was uh state incentives. Yeah. They first went out. So and you know running through the project we're going to get, you know, that 98% back on it. So pretty much So this is against the capital budget. Y that's awesome. Yep. Nice job, Zach. Thank you. I need solar energy right now. I would like some on my house and send it my way. Yeah. Okay. All those in favor? I. Any
177opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Um, be it resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent that the board of education of the Witty Point Central School District approve the establishment of the Gary Kohl's scholarship. I have a motion. Some moved. Thank you, Tiana. Second. Thank you, Chris. Any questions or comments? Yeah, I think it's nice. I I think maybe the comment I don't know if it's now, but he wants he wants to get with people to decide how it's going to be given distributed. Yeah, I saw that the donation letter. Right. Right. He came in twice and spoke with me and Mary the scholarship to the high school. We're going to have him up with the high school guidance counselors who were in charge of the scholarship committee. Um because we gave him a couple ideas. He
178just wants to talk about, you know, who this scholarship could go to. He's looking more for like not maybe the top of the class, but those people that, you know, really could use it. Yeah. Yeah. I like that idea. And we do have the new A thing going on, too. And he's very much been an environmentalist for us. So, we're super appreciative. Uh, he came in at first. I didn't know it was going to be like a one time thing and said, "Thanks. He's gonna try to do it as long as he can." Very generous of him. Yep. That and he donated maple syrup. So a little bit for he was discount. See I'm spoiled. I get all of my love. Nice. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? I guess the um and
179here we are with um we have to approve to accept the $10,000 donation to the Gary Cole Scholarship Fund. I have a notion. So moved. Thank you. And second. Thank you, Chris. Any questions or comments? Thank you. Yes. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Superintendent update. Okay. Um, this is just a reminder that the National Honor Society American Red Cross blood drive is not It's April 17th, right? Yeah. Um, and then do we have the flyer with the QR code? It's right. Yeah, it was on our All right. So, yeah, she just wanted us um to look for that. Nothing else from tonight. You let it go. Let it go. Sorry. Yeah, the post. It's right there. We don't need Okay, this brings us to our second opportunity for comments from the
180public. Please remember everything that were the guidelines from before remain in place for now. Is there anybody who would like to speak at this point? Board of Education comments. The Now Stacy didn't leave any space after board of education comments. Apparently she is implying that we should not have any comments. One comment. Just don't forget you have your evaluations to start doing. Yep. Got to get in there and get them done. What is the And the deadline is like a month from now, I think. You're just looking away. Yeah, I don't want to do it. Okay, I get just do it to the best of your ability and we'll go forward from there. Okay, see that's why she left it blank. Everybody's going to be sad when I quick comment when my voice um was
181a very nice presentation from the TR. Um but I also wanted to add um what a beautiful looking school. Yeah, I think the TR there's always problems that they find over there that they didn't know about, but boy to look at that school from outside. Yeah, I agree. That's got to be one of the most beautiful schools anywhere in this area. Nice to look at while you're eating ice cream. You see those pictures? Great job. Yes. Excellent from everyone who presented this evening. I'm just gonna pass these around so you can see these. But I want them back. Oh, what are they? I want them back. I got them free, but Boseies makes these things and we might be able to get some sometime. I'll pass them around so you can look at them. Can
182the board can the board order some? Nice. Nice. Very nice. Oh, thank you. Percy has connections. The Boseies made them free and me and Audrey got them the other day. Oh, well, aren't you guys special? She's got hers on her little laptop. We don't we don't get the special treatment. What do we have to do? No, because because Chris didn't bother to steal it. That was all they had. Actually, we got We allocate those. We actually are really cool, Chris. And then they had they had a raffle and I won a cutting board and Audrey won p cupcakes. Nice. I had the cupcake. Wait a minute. I noticed you didn't bring us any cupcakes either. My children devoured them. That sounded great. Very nice. Do we have the need for an executive session? I'm sorry.
183Okay. I will try and be very quick. Um, what are we going to hear discussion on? The tenure. Oh, it's the rest of our 10 years, right? Um, so we are going to adjourn public meeting at 8:54. Um, may I have a motion? So second I'm gonna do Chris and Chris. You're gonna miss Aaron. Yeah, I know. Coke. I'm bringing in five dozen donuts Thursday morning. Oh my god. Oh, you hit the trifecta tonight. I'm bringing in five dozen donuts to put in the faculty lounge for the Thank you. the students are getting done. Yes. Okay. So if you got a puppy pot to put with it, you can come to know that, right? Thank you for coming, Michelle. We're taking this in. Yes. Oh, are we standing in here? I'm sorry. is our teacher.