001wear hats well he had his hat on for the pool picture but I asked him I want said we want to see your face that's a teacher me yes I'm going to have to get a bottle of water out I forgot my water bottle Ben's double over there making thirsty [Music] hydrate what thought of asking now have you foot at the Kitty right and then bigger one at the end I got it's very warm in there reminds me when you're excuse me I even went back and checked my other text I just want adult jump in yes we we did try toce Robert to go in didn't work no he refused just last two [Music] sign um I don't think there's any yeah there is a short one I think oh wait a minute oh
002this is this is the minutes from last time and I read them yeah I was I couldn't find them second I asked D for them she had posted them and I just refreshed my page and I was all set oh so it should be out here okay thank that's when you start suspecting that somebody substituted decaf on you oh no I don't drink coffee but I sometimes yeah oh too I absolutely love the smell of fresh ground coffee I cannot stand the taste so many people say that that they like the smell but they won't drink it and you would think that I even would like mocha because I love chocolate is this date right it says contact us before October 28 that was the initial thing that back in September I've heard so many
003people say that okay did they get their 15 shs they get okay we're going to start our meeting um at 6:02 PM 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 liberty and justice for all okay first up this evening is the FFA presentation name sure just tell us who you are name's Dam Mar Agriculture and Technology teacher student friendly some thank you right there thank you so last time I was here um I introduced this idea of FFA to you guys and you guys wanted to here some more information so we've collected some more information and we'll start some of these slides I'm going to go
004through kind of quickly because some of the vision statements and things like that we can read on on your own um but overall the National FFA the vision statement is to grow the next generation of leaders who will change the world um very devoted to that I think through teaching and through this after school activity we can manage to do this at a high great um the National FFA mission statement is FFA makes positive difference in the lives of students by developing the potential for Premier leadership um professional growth or personal growth I'm sorry and Career Success Through agricultural education so what is FFA that was one question that um last time I was given um when I was here in the last year um it is an extra particular student ran Organization for those
005interested in Agricultural and Leadership possibilities um it's one of the three components of the agriculture education thing I want to say it's it's kind of like a event diagram that's what I put a link on here to access but we won't worry about that today it's what I integrate into my classroom teachings um in the three- tier bubble system you have FFA at the top and the side you have the the inclass education and then on the other side you have what's called SAE and that is um supervised agricultural experiences so outside of the classroom for students to be able to hands on and work in the greenhouse and things like that um so FFA stands for Future Farmers of America the letters have been changed however so in in 1986 I didn't put this
006or I didn't put it in 1988 it was changed to just the National FFA organization because it doesn't just mean Farmers um it welcomes members to Aspire who Aspire as teachers doctors Sciences business so many other things um I know in our FFA chapter we have 15 members and say five or six of them want to be veterinarians so that fits perfectly for what we're doing um what is FFA all about so to go through this it's developing potential um for leadership is the biggest be and E way how can a student strive to be a leader how can they go out into the community and make a difference um through personal growth Career Success making a positive difference in lives of others dress neatly and appropriately for the occasion um we'll get into that
007a little bit of What official dress looks like for f okay uh respect the rights of others and their property be courteous and honest bear with others communication is a huge part of FFA learning how to speak publicly um and just make sense when you're talking um demonstrating good sportsmanship winning modest in winning and then generous in defeat so accepting that maybe you could do better but always driving to be better others to um make myself or yeah to make people aware of FFA programs and activities and to be AC the participants so like this opportunity I I did actually have six students who signed up to come with me tonight um a lot of them got sick unfortunately so they were not able to make it but for them to be able to see
008this sort of presentation and be out and about in the public I think it's it's very key um conduct and value the supervised agriculture experience so that's the SAE portion to really strive and to be a part of something more than just what's classroom learning um and then enhancing skills through agriculture like you know one thing that I had a conversation with these students and we have State Convention coming up in me is that we are not going to be the best we're just starting out we're not looking to try to be the best but if we get this under our SHO that get to establish this and next year we can come back stronger and that's what's more important here um appreciating and promoting diversity and within our organization I think that's that's key
009we gota always appreciate it all right so the motto for FFA is learning to do doing to learn earning to live and living to serve and this just this is right off the website I actually put but we're excited they you guys if you want to visit.org um this is the overall model motto for the nation so our goals I took the national goals the Statewide goals and then I made our own District goals so one big thing that I want to start out with is building a community within aity I think that having the structure in our schools to be able to then outstretch to pull those community members in is 100% key um and I put we can change the world one route at a time um plan to focus on active engagement
010within our community reaching out to uh when help is needed and being strong advocates for for everyone um for example we went to the craft beir on Saturday at the L fire company had some great conversations with people walking around um I know we did sell some products so we did pretty well and honestly as that that sort of community engagement I and little back story I lived in Whitney Point for about five years now um I've never been as closely connected to the community as I am each day it seems to do so that opportunity for me got for me to connect with different parents different people around the community I had people coming up to me say house so awesome you know this is something we haven't seen in a while um actually
011I think three or four people came up to me saying I haven't seen this since the 80s so it's really cool to hear that and to be able to um make plans to make it bigger make it make it again so leadership opportunities this is something that I can have on my own presentation on um Justin leadership and what opportunities that this involves I I was an FFA member in high school and U going through that was the biggest takeaway that I could ever you know take from that situation from being in F so our officers are getting a chance to lead the individual groups that we have um we do have president vice president secretary treasurer and repor and they're developing leaderships with our group but not only that but we're also trying to
012develop leaderships in the hallways of the class like of the school itself um I think being advocates for the things that I mentioned before the 11 uh what is FFA all about being that person in school not just in FFA is um through individual their competitions we can learn how to take charge our projects and find solutions to realistic situations so one thing that we had when we were um doing this stuff for the crack faers we we I had a lot of students who were interested in building these wood projects and then I had some students who were like I'm not ready for the saw yet so doing this like making a poster for us to put on our table and just to like bring this awareness to our group is part of this
013leadership you take um take students who may me don't feel comfortable yet and they find a solution to help us out Community opportunities um we're looking to we're looking for opportunities to help our community in any way we can so right now as a group we meet twice a week um Wednesdays and Thursdays and I can say that out of every act teacher or FFA adviser that I've met with this year they say that they do not need that much and I do this for two reasons one is because we're so new we have to learn this stuff before States and the other one is to build our community within the community like we have to make the Friendship group become a f um so we're we're spending all this time together and it's awesome
014and Thursday actually was one of our uh food pantries at the TR um should I say her first Heather she's gonna stop in and talk to us about the food pantry at TR and how we can help out um to get the word out uh it's not on here but we do have our newsletters that go out every um we haven't established a timeline for our newsletters but we did release a newsletter for our craft and that we had a section of that we said hey community members come on out we have this there's so much food at the C that isn't being um utilized I guess is a good term to put it and I think if we can help the word get out and can really change the commity um agriculture cleanout projects
015that's another idea just to throw out I think moving forward this is something like community service is huge in FFA and I'll talk about that in a little bit um landscape designing processes that goes with the agricultural cleanout my thought process is like when ball comes around and we all have leavs on our yards and stuff we can offer this you know community service to go out and help people um and then any other leadership opportunities that come up and like I mentioned before I am every every single day I'm taking a step into this community and I'm finding more and more people who have reached out to me about this stuff and I I would see that our fall would be pretty booked up all right so now we're going to bounce around to
016fundraising um so far we did the Wood Creations that that was we made some different projects out of wood share some of those um we made tables baskets posters KS coat racks and where you get the for those projects we got them from donated pallets from the school so right out behind the TR I asked the maintenance crew to bring them in and tore them down and started using them so this is that brings up a great point is my fundraising is a lot different than what the regular like crispy creamy sales would be um get a little bit crazy when it comes to this stuff because I also have those connections that I mentioned last meeting with the couple funeral homes and some um wedding planning opportunities to bring in flowers that we can
017recreate and exp rements to sell within our district um wreath making is something that I plan to do next year around the Christmas time um that later strawberry sales that's like your mainstream one that I had thought and then worm sales was very interesting so at the TR um me and two other teachers got together we went to a PD event they offered us worm totes um so we have our own permaculture we were just talking about having Wily worms at our um children event that's coming up so they're growing they're very small right now but I do see in the in the early summertime being able to actually sell small packets of forms to Fishers to fishing people Fanatics around our area I think it brings a lot of awareness to our school um
018Unique Style all right camp O and field trips so I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on Camp o camp O stands for Camp atachi um it is a it's a summer camp offered for FFA students in the summertime that's it's it's up by Fort Drum broken New York and it is something where we could book out a week we could book out two days it's just something for them to go and build that family relationship with each other and be a part of something that's more just just a regular school classroom Vibes and see field trips so I plan to not only integrate this with the FFA but also in my classroom too um I've already taken one field trip to the New York State Farm Show for example and there I
019almost think that the students I had more fun than the students at some point so I'm going to pass this around this is something that I gathered there um so what you're looking at is uh if everybody knows what that is filters for dairy production so those are samples for filters um and this is just one example of opportunities that I'm going to be giving out to students as in my classroom and in with the FFA um for the FFA I would like to offer a trip to Cornell to see the vet science programs there maybe even get to see a live surgery or something like it'd be really cool to to outstretch with that uh State Convention that's what's coming up relatively quickly it's May 7th through the 9th it's a three-day event and
020this year is the 100th anniversary so I've been pushing and pushing to get this stuff up and going and practicing in in our FFA meetings so that we can have the opportunity to comp compete with this um and it's not just a competition but it's also an overnight couple overnight stays it's um they offer a lot of things from community service things that we can apply for we can do tree planting up there for example and uh different Showmanship opportunities with other um advisers other chapters around the state there's also a fun night DJ really fun um so upcoming goals for this year F to Fork is a whole another presentation that's today uh State Convention in May campi hopefully in the summer and other fun trips to help grow um one other fun trip
021that I plan on starting up here very soon is a maple trip for the F vacants of my classroom could possibly fre you get to see a local um Maple operation near us that way that they can dive into what it looks like outside of the classroom all right official dress so during competitions FFA members are required to wear these outfits um I haven't told any of my FFA members yet and they have to keep it a surprise still but jackets are on their way possibly before State and they will be here before States that's the only thing that I guarantee them um and everything else it's it's out its way um and back to that real quick the portion that I mentioned about about dressing clean and things like that I think it's one
022of the greatest things that I ever was introduced to in high school just being able to like dress up and look good was one of like look in the mirror for a little while like it look flashy all right so our goals for the next year's is the biggest thing is I want to get ready for districts next and this is in January so we have plenty of time to worry about this but District competitions it's in January substates is actually this upcoming weekend um for for other districts and while we're on this slide I might as well talk about the competitions and how it kind of works out so a State Convention it's it's I think remember last me I mentioned the CDE which is LD leadership versus career building career of the CDs
023starts in districts so they'll compete in what's called Career Development um educational activities where they will get up and do individual speeches about agriculture issues um and that will then be judged move on to substates they continue they'll go all the way up to Nationals um that's the individual portion this this uh the other side of the leadership the ldes that starts at State Convention so it's more of a group of four group of two um they will be preparing their presentations or their activities that they're doing some examples are like v vetex um Flor culture aquaculture uh Agronomy tool ID there's there's a ton of them um and then yeah wreath making that's a big one for me we did that in high school and it was just so fun all right this is
024uh this is the achievement part you know with community help with reliable communication upkeep of projects I think we can really really rock this representation so this is something I talk about in almost every single meeting they understand that they're representing not only just our FFA chapter but also the Wind Point School District um so I have set out a ton of regulations policies ground rules that when we leave the school district there is complete professionality until we have you know our time to relax and stuff um so being up and one thing being a new chapter this year we get to be recognized at the state level during State Convention um in front of the entire group so it would be close to 3,000 people uh me and some of our members will be
025able to go up in our nice official dress and just be recognized for being a new chapter the support slide I didn't really in here we're talking about a little bit but um I am asking for support just just being um just just join our team be a supporter U bring our blue and gold members to of maroon and gold New Heights in agriculture that we have not reached School District yet I think it's just I want to do this this is awesome and this is some history I was sent some community members actually sent this to me this was one of the last u pictures in one of the newspapers taken in 1966 of Whitney Point chapter so it was here before and it was all male participants pix pix in the picture now
026we have 15 members and I have 13 of them are are ladies so it's it's just awesome to see that we can transform this in a different way in a different aspect and this I also included the class of 67 little history for you and then AET so this is where the um the community service things comes into play so this was introduced in 2007 it's a program for EG programs to use not just FFA but also teachers I will be using this I have not gotten it set up yet but I'm working with another District to get that set up this is where hours for SAE hours will go into so there's adved agricultural hours they acrew these hours from 7th grade until 12th grade to be able to use or different scholarships that
027FFA offers um and not just FFA but also Cornell University a in the classroom offers different scholarships there's many different routes we can take here and this is also where we can put we'll put both SAE hours and we'll put community service hours so they can build and acrw these hours from 7th grade all the way through 12th to be able to get put it on the resume hey I spent you know 300 hours from seventh grade to 12th grade service that's pretty impressive um so professional development opportunities for me as an advisor I've been given the opportunity multiple different PD events um in the state this year but in the upcoming years I already have um different things that have come my way I get emails every single week from ha education New York
028State about different opportunities around the nation and so the most recent one that was sent to me um um is a week trip to Minnesota for the a in the classroom National presentation award ceremony and just to be able to utilize these things and to build um different connections around the nation I think is is really important moving forward with the program not just as FFA advisor but also as the educator that I am grants and funding right now we are Grant Rand personally Grant so fornal University offered me a $5,000 Grant to start this up at the beginning of the year in September um why not so that's what we're running off of and it's been working great it's something that I get every single year if I continue to apply for so it's
029it's not just a one-year thing um I am looking forward to continue to utilize this I think it's a great opportunity for us to to build um NY AE this is something that's offered to me I'm going to skip the slide though egg in the classroom so I actually have had a very close conversation with um the groom County Health Department recently and they have reached out to me for different grants for the classroom stuff um we actually we have a visit here on Thursday who will be coming in Miss Traver and she will be talking to us about the a in the classroom grants coming up and different opportunities for us to utilize with this program as well and then chapter dues I put it on here so to be a chapter we have
030to pay $200 a year and that's nothing compared to what we can fund raise so not worried about that that's it very nice thank you and I'm at least um my behalf if there's anything that specific that you I can do to help support you um please let me know I'm sure other board members feel the same but of course I don't speak for all of them but um you know I'd be happy to help you guys in any way I think this is great thank you what grades does this cover again so right now we're only seventh grade seventh grade what I teach y um that's actually something that's a great great question though because um the way that this works is FFA is something that's can be utilized all the way up through
03112th um it starts at 7th however for FFA members to stay in FFA they do have to be a part of some sort of agricultural education course in school so that could be anything from propes to in school agricultural classes had to be classroom classes or could any extracurricular oneedit one credit okay yeah on their their report cards got lots of online stuff nowadays yeah thank you thank you thank you very much [Music] I like this stuff got some pictures here will be included some of the old compared to po see where we were where we ended up here at the end of the project substantially complete all phases of project really in a stage now and close out documents not a huge update for the board here other than which is anom uh to
032the left there in the picture you can see the old uh and then obviously right there you see theol the next set of pictures down was the the old locker room picture doesn't really do a ton of justice but it's kind of see that they were small and footprint is probably double than it was which is nice uh same with the pool equipment room it was uh a small space and now we've got a nice big equip uh like I mentioned we're really in the punch list now getting corrected work completed uh close it out contracts with close out documents with is owner operated manuals trying to get final payments the contractor so we can get the final cost report submitted to SC uh total project hours for about 81,000 hours total on the project
033which was good no major upcoming deliveries um on enging yeah so in terms of the change management I mean you can see we collectively have little over a quarter million dollars that is still outstanding as Sean mentioned that is part of our path to financial close out with them so still some conversations to be had still got to work through um some change orders to get to Final close out um I mean in terms of engineering don't have any open rfis which would make sense given where we are submitt wise you can see really is down to 2% remaining on the Clos outle so we're making good Headway there uh punch list 70 70% complete so just about 100 items that are open um there's a good amount in both the CM and design teams
034Court to review uh which we will should bring those metrics up considerably um and then in contractor payments I mean you're going to see there pretty much 99 I mean overall we are 95.7 s but on contractor contracts about 98% paid out so see you can feel it we are getting close uh in terms of change orders there's one change order to the electrician ec6 team made up of four separate PCOS 32 34 35 and 37 the total dollar value of that change ERS 14,410 uh and to date we have issued over $1 million in change which I've got Commission on it's been a pleasure but we still couldn't to jump in the pool today huh we want pictures yep thank you very much I just wanted to add I know I mentioned it earlier
035I have an opportunity to go to a lot of schools in this area I go through them all the time and um I'm just always kind of amazed and shocked in a good way that how how nice our facilities are for work gone how how upgrades have been done how nicely they've been done um we have as nice or nicer of a district than any of the ones in the room tyoga districts I've been I mean without a doubt I just want to thank you thank you for your dedication professionalism and all that was done um I'll publicly because I publicly shamed I just want to say I hope that I nothing I said was personal I have a lot of respect for both of the gentlemen here um you're good people I don't say
036that to a lot of every you know everybody so thank you for dealing with uh some questions or comments but it's been a real pleasure very big pleasure very and I do appreciate very much that you included the before and after because you know I had been in the pool I knew what it looked like but having it visually right in front of you it's it's amazing the difference and um I'm glad that you did that yeah I know he's not here but my uncle was with the group that hired you and I know he'd be very proud with what you've done yep and you should mention that he also was involved in upkeep and things too and I'm sure that the behind the the storage room he probably be really I I don't want
037to speak for him but no but I I I think it's safe to say that that he would have loved that yeah yep I know we're talking about po right now but this is like the end of like a four-year process from b referend y to the pool being substantially complete I mean let's not forget we got at the Terry the third floor steam done got the turf field done the concession room facil bathroom there brand new playground two brand new St we rooms then this pool which is really I think we just came from there and it's amazing and our entrance ways we done both the entrance ways and that's that's what I meant everything this it's yeah that might be something interesting to include on the website is just a little Montage of
038before and afters of the high points of the project as it comes to an end to just remind people how things changed that's um because you can think that you remember in your head but until you actually see it side by side it makes a big difference yep thank you when's it not until fall girls team y it'll be fun but I did ask Joanne if we could use the pool during our summer Retreat since our Retreat consists of coming and sitting in the library for the day doing work you know maybe we can get a swiming incorporate some retreat in our Retreat yeah yeah absolutely but thank you all very much we appreciate all of your work we appreciate that you made an effort every month to come and do the presentations and keep
039us updated and um and by keeping us updated also keeping the community updated as well so um I really appreciate the format that you've used um and I know that we've all said that in the past that this is appreciate working with you guys apprciate we're not disappear if there's other you know work Robert get out but again just there something that we need something you need helpless some advice on resource by all means just said any any one of us happy to and there's always another project ahead Z's like yes they're the air conditioning most likely yeah yeah but long they're an arduous process y have a home thank you very much okay we do have the need for a very brief executive session um we will recess the public meeting at 6:39 to
040hear discussion on Personnel um may have a motion so moved thank you Chris and a second thank you Aubrey all those in favor any opposed any abstain okay we are going to reconvene at 6:45 correspondents there is none um policy discussion actually don't have new policy for discussion we will be discussing the policies just wanted that's what I figured a couple better to make sure so policies for first reading um approve policy 7661 Title One parental involvement policy updated to 7661 title one parent and family engagement for first reading may have a motion so move thank you Chris and a second thank you Aubrey all right so um you may remember from our last meeting that we had two policies which like many of them were very old um and our title one parent and
041family engagement policy is a required policy um but it needed to be updated and um then we also have um the um comparability of policy that needs to be updated both of them are required um for schools that receive Title One funding if you um we got some comments uh from Chris um did I don't see them in the board docs I mean I've got the email you sent me and I can get that I just didn't know okay yep do you want me to I can just go over what do you have them from what I said sent you I can find them yeah I just was I know I don't know if anybody else has paper ones with them or not so yeah M are sitting in my I'm not seeing them on
042in the board dock so yeah no I have them so Joan do you just want to give us a summation of what the changes were yep so um the the programs and and projects funded by title one as I said that was from 1995 um and um it all we needed to do was review it and update it and then we had some submitted um comments just I mean do you want to speak to it Chris what you wrote I'm looking for the sent email I sent to you here paper copy if you want oh I have it I'm sure I have it right here yeah I've got it right now I have it so which one well I can use the paper now to make it quicker for us sorry I mean I have
043them all right here so yeah this was the one I just I think I had so this was just needed bullets fixed right Joan yeah so that needed bullets fixed but that's all I had for those comments right and I think this needs to be correct I would like to just you know I don't know whether I mean it Title One calls it parents comparability what are you which one are you talking legal guardian they put parent in there and we had been moving away from parent SL legal guardian are you okay with leaving it that they do refer to parent and in in the requirements did I have a note on that one no I'm just asking I we had didn't really you didn't comment on it um in most policies we've moved away
044from that like so the you know the first bullet there says support for Parental involvement activities it would I mean I mean some it's it becomes awkward when you say legal guardian legal guardian legal guardian so I mean sometimes it's maybe more inclusive to say family involvement but I mean does it would it have to align with the title it that wouldn't be a problem to change that piece okay so we could I mean I I'm just wondering what you I mean we have lots of um kids who are being raised by you know not just guess I guess if it's awkward to use um Le Guardian the family development so replace wherever it's just if it says just parental or parent that replace that with family is okay with you what what were we
045using before we were saying legal guardian just legal guardian we just didn't put parent in there right I might it might be awkward but I still think it's probably more appropriate to okay and well it might not read that well but I mean unless there's a problem who's going to read it or once it comes up again we have to review it yeah because a legal guardian is a parent so all right so you want to change them all to legal guardian that's what we've done for the other ones I would say consistent right and then um then we have title one parent and family engagement and again this is um the language that eie one used the old one just said parent involvement that was the the old title one language and um that's
046[Music] 7661 so you can see a number of times it's written parent and family engagement and you can replace it with legal guardian but yeah that sounds a little FY to facilitate I mean you can see it says uh barriers to Great participation by parents and family members and other yeah collaboration parents failure if you use one one entity instead of two it changes the whole sentence so does this one need the legal Guardian here Joanne because you're talking about the first sense parents and other family members right so the spirit of this is that we build Partnerships with right and it isn't maybe necessarily only the legal guardian right the family but if you if you think about family in a broad sense that's pretty inclusive I just I mean like it we've had
047a theme going with kind of moving to to legal guardian and and really they're the board's policies collaborate it's more than just the legal guardian like you said so maybe we should leave family I I think it should be with other family or community members maybe caregivers caregivers well I think it's more I think it's even broader right family and community members even right what's wrong with stakeholders make it really broad this is really specific to like everybody's who is involved with supporting a child so making sure that we're in communication that we have strong Partnerships that we respect um family members this is looking at the broader view I would say that this one is probably okay to use family whereas the other ones are talking specifically about who is in charge of the
048child that's not necessarily the family that is the legal guardian so this is a different context what do you think about the word parent it says parent and family repeatedly do this I would rather say all family well families in family includ parents I think that's a broad right yeah it's it's not a subset it's the fames under if parents under family so if you just use family then that would if we're trying to project a broader umbrella than family okay so I have a thought maybe in the first sentence we do we'll collaborate with family members but maybe after that one we could Define family members just at one time and then after that family members is used I complicated I'm just saying that are you ready to Define well I'm saying like example
049is legal Guardians parents grandparents like giving examples of it not defining it okay that's got I think that might just be a better flow of the conversation yeah try it yep and I like examples better than yeah examp yeah I meant I period e period I know it's not it's inclusive exclus yep again a broader umbrella of who and then after that just say family members and it would be that broader 10 yeah okay so the only other things I had with this one is I get why they're doing this colons semicolons but anyhow it just irritates me when it seems like it should be a sentence but I don't care about that um there was some spaces I deleted right and I changed the hanging in debt for you but that's all y e
050one than I think they owe you sometimes I have to fight with it when I get rid of any indents okay any other you got to know which Hill to die [Laughter] on let just revert back to intented paragraphs and so you get technical it just doesn't match too well that the only two we're doing any additional input from board members okay all those in favor of approving this for first reading I any opposed any abstain okay did we have to do that with the first one or was that because those two were together those two are together okay the next one is approve policy 8250 Title One parental involvement policy update for first reading motion second second she moved it Molly did thank you 825 programs and projects no 8250 oh okay sorry yep
051sorry okay so it's 82 50 programs and projects funded by Title One why am I not seeing a number like that oh there it is oh yeah the word is sped wrong right at the top right Title One compatibility comparability oh no it's spelled right it just doesn't like it I looked it up y and this 8250 that we're looking at right now yes yeah so I think Jo Jo and this was the one where that they were making the second part of the sentence a double bullet so it just needed to be fixed yeah that's all I found on that one any anything else from other board members okay all those in favor I I any opposed any abstain okay approve policy 8360 computer network policy for removal for first reading motion so moved
052thank you Chris second thank you Benny so we have this computer use policy which again is is very old and um The Proposal is to delete that policy and um the web page policy from 2003 which we don't have fre reain on our web page um and adopt an acceptable use for personnel an acceptable use for students and an use of email for personnel which um was recommended from that uh it audit that we had okay and these are the policies um from per one so right now we're just looking at 8361 right now yeah yep a360 is the one and that was from 2004 that's from the same policy which a lot has changed in the world of computers and yes the first one then well so do you have to I mean so
053I guess first you have to act on the removal of computer y policy the old4 policy okay all those in favor any opposed any abstain and then um removal of 83 60.1 web page policy right so removed thank you Tom second thank you Chris shall we just vote on that removal right now removals are easy all those in favor I any opposed any abstain okay so that brings us to approved policy 6411 acceptable use Personnel for first reading motion was that you Aubrey yeah thank you second thank you Benny okay Chris do you want to go over your which one is this is this is sta the acceptable use for personnel there number things on here 6411 6411 if it's I have no comments at this time to this policy written at the Top If
054that's the one we're looking at yeah except oh you just said formatting yeah it was just formatting yep did anybody else have anything other than formatting okay all those in favor I any opposed any abstain um policy number 6412 use of email in the district Personnel first reading motion thank you Molly second second thank you Aubrey okay you find it yep Oh this is the one that had Personnel written wrong at the top there's no l there's no L on it Y and it's also the one that has things like um it prohibits the accessing of personal email on school devices standard confidentiality notice which are things that we do not have instituted now but we that's what the the suggestion from eie one is right um I think there was some formatting things that
055you can look at yourself um I also suggested getting rid of the underlines since it's going to go on web again and then there was oh I capitalized the I and the T and information technology because you're making it an acronym so it needs to be it I sent all these with track changes to Joan yeah so I have all those changes I guess the content piece is the thing that we should um yeah it says this statement is so I'm on which page am I on does it have page numbers on it not really um so it's on the one two three fourth page it says the statement's a little odd can we discuss this Personnel email accounts or Services should not be accessed via the district computer system without authorization from a building
056principal or supervisor so I get what that statement is saying but I would be totally a person with my head in my sand head in the sand if I didn't think that we don't have teachers checking their Gmail or what happens if their Gmail is their backup password for their current you know email system so I I think this statements a little Antiquated to be realistic but I didn't know what everybody else thought I understand the point of it is that not accessing their personal email but like you said there times they're going to have to yeah backup passwords are done that way um we have a very very strong rule at Sunni courland everybody students teachers faculty have to use their Courtland email for all business work and every once in a while my
057red dragon closes out and somebody needs to get a hold of us and they'll email us from their Gmail and say I'm sorry I'm emailing you from my gmail but I have no other way to get a hold of you things like that so I would you recommend to replace that I'm just saying I I think the last statement without authorization for building principal a supervisor is probably not the best or without a a good need to do it I guess is what I'm saying without exhausting other possibilities something yeah something to that nature not just oh that's going to be tough I'm just doing this yeah right so two things I me so the reason that's on there is twofold um one is that it's considered safest right to not have people access and
058because they may have you know they could get access something that can get compromise our system secondly um it's taxpayer money that pays for our system or our devices and it's not intended for personal use right but on the other hand these are human beings that work for us who have children and families and and you know and they're not supposed to really use their school email for their personal use so like you said I mean to be realistic is this like and you said ear it's just the hill we want to die right May a softer statement along if you're not supposed to have phones right that's that's right we really asking people to not have their phones out you're going to make them use their personal thing most people use their phone I
059know this but yeah but then we're not nobody's supposed to have their phone out during the workday that's what I'm saying so that yeah it yeah sorry yeah and I'm sorry I'm most email systems are web- based anymore and if our teachers are taking their computer's home they probably are using Gmail on a web-based platform and they're doing it and I'm not gonna be the guard of email yes shann would like to say something yeah I just want to say um sometimes it's actually more of a problem for us though when they put in their personal email because most of the stuff run on our system needs that back end and so then if they log in with theirs then they're coming to me to ask me to clear their cash so that they can
060use it for themselves yeah no I'm not talking about logging I'm not talking about just being able to access it right yeah no no I get it because I'm always telling people clear their cast history I get you s and I you know I mean so the piece I said about security I mean there's lots of Protections in in place I mean I mean I'm should not been W because I don't want to say that something terrible will happen tomorrow and our system will get compromised but I mean there are lots of Protections in in place and people can't just download things onto their school devices there's um so yeah maybe a softer statement says that it should only be used in in emergency situations or things like that absolutely necessary absolutely necessary and okay
061so okay and then I can work on a sofware statement I can then send it out to you just and you can send it again feedback individually if you um and the other part was the confidentiality statement which we don't currently do I know and I actually I went in and put one right on my Whitney Point email copied and paste it and put it on yeah I mean first of all the work email should only be used for work and most things that are communicated via your work email or a lot of them may contain confidential information so if we're going to put it there then we should be asking our staff to do it is what I'm saying if we're going to have a policy that says people are supposed to have a
062confidentiality statement now at the college they have a template and they send it all out to us and say you need to get this into your signature closing so they they sort of force us to do we can do so and I think if we're g to have it in the policy we need to do it yeah okay we do that I think that was all I had on that one yeah besides format and perhaps board members need to have that template as well to and actually who was our fire what was our fireman Eric Eric he had it on his I remember any other input from the board okay all those in favor any opposed any abstains okay this is policy 8361 acceptable use students um for first reading may have a motion thank
063you Chris thank you Benny is student use right this one is shorter yes I only had one thing virtually just didn't make sense to me it says it is virtually impossible to completely prevent access to content just thinking the word nearly might be better than virtually because virtually to me seems like I should be in a virtual world nowadays or virtual access or something like that so it's just sort of the I thought nearly might be better it is nearly impossible just a thought kind of like the difference between pound sign and hashtag yeah yeah I mean it has a different meaning now right oh would always says the original well yes but I mean may not know virtually now to other people is something you do in you know space and glasses and stuff
064like that yeah yep point and then the only other thing with the parents and Guardians to change it there I had okay anything else for this one all those in favor I any opposed any abstain okay um we do not have any policies for second reading um we are about to convene into our first of two public comment periods 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 majority 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 and please be advised that while the board takes public comment very seriously we
065are 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 as we stated at the beginning there is a second opportunity at the end of the meeting as well at this time is there anybody who would like to speak might want to back up just a little you don't want to but you know there you go you look great I'm Alexa sis live in mayo I am the co-director of the girls wrestling here in Whitney Point with de Ballard I advocate and support for youth modified and varsity wrestlers for equal opportunity for our girls
066who fell in love with wrestling I'm here to ask for your consideration for a separate all girls wrestling team for the season 2526 while we grow girls wrestling here in Whitney Point there are some important factors to think about first we have to keep ourselves up to date with with what New York state is creating for these ladies they have plans as a sport continues to grow and needs change to separate the girls and boys and girls will be wrestling at freestyle instead of folk style they are working hard at trying to make these changes as smooth as possible for school schools coaches and all involved this year our team was considered a mixed competition team boys and girls practice together same room same coaching staff some all boys events some all girls events some
067together events and some du a normal schedule has six tournaments and eight du on it our girls uh were approved for three tournaments so if you if you went through our schedule you highlighted the boys and you highlighted the girls the girls have about half the opportunity of wrestling time as of right now for the Mixed competition this type of schedule does not promote equal opportunities for the girls to train in freestyle and with other girls and have equal that time there were 24 girls wrestling teams in the Championships this year section four alone went from seven teams seven all girls teams to 24 in one year so that means all around us in surrounding areas all most of the schools have separate girls teams and separate coaches they have been wrestling and training in
068freestyle 100% of the time and have coaches who have their undivided attention attention to injuries nutrition mindset and physical training a mixed competition team does not promote this kind of support and it is not sustainable for one coaching staff this definitely affected the girls on the team this year we would really like to see a full schedule whatever that might look like many of the schools around here got really created this year as we're growing girls wrestling in each school um they had Tri duels quad duels um what gron schedule was just tournaments no duels um and or no that was Gren yeah dren's turn dren schedule was a little bit um unique too merging schools ogck they did a lot of different things um to get the girls more mat time and opportunity for
069sure we are willing to help make this happen we obviously have a lot of support in our community our wrestling community and our families we have a bunch of wonderful support here tonight we can fundrais we can advocate for a separate coach we can help find a separate coach we can talk about what will work best for the girls and the school all while growing girls wrestling here at Whitney Point we would love to talk options with the athletic director and administrator and set up a meeting to do so all of this will help create a weling space where girls can confidently explore new challenges develop their skills and build lasting friendships through the empowering sport of wrestling thank you thank you my name is Amy hbr a resident of Whitney Point and Mom to
070Ken hbr a female wrestler for our Varsity wrestling team I'm here tonight to share my support as a parent on behalf of my daughter and all levels of girl wrestlers to request your support in creating an all girls varsity wrestling team for our 25 26 school year three years ago I never would have imagined that I'd be a mom of a wrestler sitting in gymnasium watching this for hours on hours on end uh let alone speaking in front of the Board of Education to share my passion and supporting the efforts of this Mission when my daughter asked if I could sign her up for the wrestling team came in 2024 I questioned her request but signed her up as she wanted to try something new that very first night she came home with a new
071spark of energy and by the end of the week she was feeling like part of the team while learning a completely new sport she felt supported by both athletes and coaching staff truly falling in love with the sport she wrestled folk style in mixed competition her first season we quickly learned that New York state had plans to create more opportunities for female wrestlers in the United States due to becoming the fastest growing sport nationally we were excited to see more opportunities for girl wrestlers as these changes were being made with these new changes it also meant learning a different wrestling style like anything in its infancy stages there are learning curves and growing pains with the many moving carts gr and growing this sport for GR wrestlers we had some challenges this season with the
072transition and Staffing communication gaps injuries sicknesses allocating equal practice time for two different styles of wrestling as a mixed team we felt the coaching staff was overbooked this season while while coaching all of these events and this left our girls feeling frustrated unprepared and to be very blunt unsupported I can only speak for myself and Colleen but she was starting to feel there were unequal opportunities for her as a ro wrestler in Whitney Point being that she's a very competitive athlete Colleen shared her frustrations and how discouraged she was she started Ed to see what other school districts look like with full girl teams the support they were getting from their coaches and from their school district all of this is inspiring and empowering to witness as a parent um but unfortunately this also led
073to feeling of defeat and an unfair gender equality perspective in conclusion I see the pure grit the mental toughness our female wrestlers have demonstrated their met with ch challenges excuse me just by simply showing been putting themselves out there in a world that still views girl wrestlers as different or hear the stereotypical gender beliefs that girls shoulding that it's voice part wrestling helps build character confidence leadership skills and it empowers young women our girls are role models for young athletes and proving that girls can wrestle and deserve to wrestle if they choose the vision of our district is to be a community of Excellence achieved through commitment to high performance morale and involvement Amy I'm sorry to interrupt was that the three minute yeah it went off with the other girl too but we let
074her finish right I just wanted to let the board know what I'm going we're going to let Amy finish tonight we simply ask for equal opportunities for our female athletes they deserve undivided time to practice freestyle daily in the wrestling room just like to boys and folk style they all deserve an equal amount of time to practice in order to feel safe prepared and confident to be a competitive student athlete we would like to request a separate girls coach to support this initiative Let's help grow girls wrestling together and support these Brave female athletes by creating fair and equal gender opportunities thank you for your time thank you thank you the Bell needs to be a little longer it's all time I heard oh it went off with the other one know I mean tonight
075yeah um dear Board of Education I'm here on behalf of our Emil Dedra Bard right okay just making sure because not all everybody knows um all our female wrestl here at w my district and more personally on behalf of my dog Piper first I want to emphasize that wrestling is not just a store it's a way of life it's has profoundly shaped shaped my mindset and instilled in me values like perseverance and positivity through my entire life building buildings on the sentiments of expressed by all these other ladies before me I would like to conclude with this important thought any successful program in our school district relies in four pillars the first pillar is our community and tonight we demonstrate that support shows that we have exceptional community that goes above and beyond for our
076GR bestlers the second pillar is families their unwavering support has been a major factor in the progress so far for our girls and we incredibly grateful for the involvement and love for both the wrestlers and the sport of wrestling the third pillar is our coaches these dedicated individuals support teach Embrace and encourage our athletes they challenge each wrestler to perform to the best and help them rise above their setbacks our fourth pillar of which we're looking for your support is the school please help us not F falter as it is crucial to the growth and success of our female athletes in our girls wrestling program here and we have two young athletes there thank you thank you can you guys all just say who you are just so we know Piper B pleas Eden good
077afternoon board my name is Piper I've been wrestling for two years which has significantly changed my life for the better these past two years have been the best years in my life I have made friends to wrestling and develop a strong relationship with my coaches and teammates I would like to share why I believe girls we should have a girls wrestling as I enter my seventh grade year of here at Winnie point and prepare to join the modified wrestling team I want to change my P I want a chance to practice freestyle constantly as that is the boys as that the girls style used in girls tournaments it's changed for me it's it's changing for me to wrestle with boys during practice because they focus on folk style for their season this situation makes it
078difficult for me and other girls on the team leav leaving us feeling unprepared for the girls tournaments I think I can speak all the girls when I say that we want the same opportunities as the boys we would love to have the a girls wrestling be many more girls would join if there was were a girls wrestling team as many feel uncomfortable wrestling boys and we're currently left with no opt other option right now I must seek practices elsewhere if I when I have to train in freestyle and I want to represent wiy Point as a girls wrestler many schools have flourished because of the added of girls wrestling teams as a girl entering seventh grade in my first modified season I would love to have the opportunity to be a part of the first
079girls wrestling team at wi point I hope many girls can have the same experience of this amazing opportunity to wrestle just like I did we would love we would greatly appreciate your support in helping us have this same opportunity that the boys team did and enjoy by establishing a girls wrestling team thank you for taking the time to listen oh yeah I'm colen hillbrand I've been a part of the win Point wrestling program for the past two years I started my freshman year and I wrestled this year my sophomore year last year I started out wrestling mostly guys because there either was no girls or we just didn't have any girl tournaments to go to so the girls I did wrestle were ones that were went to the boys tournaments and were luckily in my
080w class we did attend two all girls tournaments which was the Homer lady Legacy tournament and the New York Valley all girls tournaments which were both amazing tournaments with lots of great competition and I felt like I grew a lot in those tournaments now in my sophomore season I wrestled more girls but was still wrestling at boys tournaments just to get matches in we were only able to attend three girls tournaments even even even though I was in injured or sick for at least half the season I felt that only being able to go to three girls tournaments greatly impacted mine and the other girls confidence and time on the map along with feeling like we were missing out from seeing all these girls teams going and placing well at all girl tournaments and having
081both teams not just four girls those teams had 20 to 30 sometimes even more girls on them I want opportunities like that I want to be able to compete in more than three tournaments that don't have any boys in them I've talked to girls in this school and the number one reason that they don't want to wrestle is because they don't want to wrestle boys or wrestle around them which is completely understandable by staying co-ed we are hurting our chances and more girls going out to be on the team and I get that there needs to be interest from girls to have a girls team but right now girls aren't interested because they don't want to wrestle voice during my time wrestling I felt better mental health and physical health while doing wrestling physically I
082feel more strong independent feeling like I can figure things out on my own and mentally my mind is more clear and things just make more sense most likely because I feel like I can handle myself in hard situations now with this I would just like to say that I want opportunities that the guys have I want my own coaches my own tournament and I want to have even matches and not feel guilty coming off the mat after losing to a boy I want to fully wrestle girls and have even opportunities as a guys said that it's sometimes hard for girls and guys to connect on an athletic level just because how we think it's different and sometimes it's hard to feel supported by by Guy teammates just by how they go about things but if
083we had a full girls team it'd be better for everyone involved I would love to say I was one of the first girls in winning point to be on an all girls wrestling team I've had so many amazing memories on an all guys team I can only imagine how many better memories I make on an all girl te why wait for change to happen when change can happen now thank you thank you thank you ladies job nice job y next SL yes sir hello my name is Austin Rich Creek I am the varsity wrestling coach um as you see we have some girls that are in need of some opportunities um our team grew double in size this year as it did last year and girls wrestling as a whole across the nation has done
084the same thing each year doubling in size um as the girls stated it's very hard to work with the schedule restrictions that we were given um we were even given an opportunity in section four to opt into a dual schedule which was turned down um so having that opportunity to turn down was a big blow to the program and to any kind of startup to a program um I know the girls and myself are working very hard to try to recruit other ladies and again just as they said the same thing keeps being said we don't want to wrestle boys we don't want to wrestle boys um um and I would just love to see more opportunity for the girls and it's apparent that we need another coach um next year we'll have six to
085eight um and it and it needs to be a female because these girls have needs that sometimes us men don't understand I mean just biologically and and mentally and emotionally um you know we like they said with the boys even though we Tred to be as cohesive as poss possible there's times where girls feel things that us men don't or young men don't um and we we have some people lined up that would be interested if a position were to open and uh just moving forward we would just love your guys to support and to just service the girls better you know the boys they're they're used to this they get a season they they get all these things and and I know this is new and and the state made it entirely more difficult
086than it had to be by moving to Freestyle so abruptly seeing as that it's a completely different style of wrestling to coach and to learn from an athletes perspective um but yeah we're just our hands are kind of tied and um the resources that we do have um we had two paid coaches that were able to travel with the team and one volunteer who despite taking all the courses wasn't allowed to travel with the team um still not sure as to why that is but it did affect us because of trying to schedule all these tournaments and service these athletes and we only had two people that could go um so that made things difficult and you can't exactly pull from the boys who are it's an expectation to have a full season to try
087to service the girls I mean it having one foot in one foot out isn't and and stifling two different programs probably isn't really the right answer and like I said our hands were kind of tied and we're just looking for some support so I appreciate you guys' time thank you thank you thank you my name is Isabelle ke I am a resident of triangle and this is my third and final year on the wrestling team the last time I spoke to you guys I told you how I knew that a fully grows wrestling team may not be a possibility in the time that I would be wrestling but I wanted it to be something that would happen by the time I graduated and with this s to PR sty I you that is a big
088possibility I would also like to start with the coaching staff for the boys this year has been amazing that being able to have three coaches these boys have been able to have a coach at every mat when there are multiple of them up and I feel that in order for the girls to excel just as well then we need to have a separate coaching staff I also looked into the different um tournament schedules of other schools UI has eight girls they went to seven all girls tournaments and two all girls duels bigton has two girls they went to five tournaments and they have four coaches for the boys and girls teams Dron has four girls they went to six tournaments in one duel odimont tour tour has one girl I am very good friends with
089this girl and she's a senior like me she was able to go to Six tournaments and one door the combined team of BJ bgh perville s and Uno was able to do five tournaments and seven DS with 18 girls Oxford green which we have looked into merging with them but are currently unable to at this time had seven girls that went to five tournaments and seven DS in my experience of these past three three years I've had less and less mat time and I've also changed weight classes through my entire time here my first year I was in a lighter weight class than I am now and I was able to at almost every single time tournament the boys went to there was a girls bracket that I was able to wrestle but last year
090that happened a lot less and we did have the two all girls tournaments which was amazing but most of those girls were most of the other girls in the area had separate uh schedules this year the only guys tournament that I wrestled in was iac's and they found a girl that was two weight glasses later than me for me to be able to wrestle I chose this year to start wrestling Dives so that way I could have some that time I wrestled three guys I think and the the biggest reason is because I wanted to wrestle here on my home back for my senior night I'm very upset I thought that as I progress I would be able to have more opportunity and for my understanding I've had less I've uh for my understanding I
091don't want to point fingers but just for my understanding we were only allowed to have three Alor tournaments this year when there was multiple that Rich Creek really tried to get us to go to the Southern Tier Memorial Tournament had an all girls day the guys were able to go to the Friday one but the that was not one that we were allowed to put on our schedule I want these girls to have a better senior year than I did I want them to be able to succeed I don't want them to have to fight as hard as I did I'm going to stay a part of this program for as long as I can my goal is to be able to come and help coach once I'm in college and um there's an age
092gap between me and the high schoolers because I do understand that that's probably an issue but I do want to come back and help and I really want these girls to have better opportunities than I had and have ch chances for colen having being able to get a scholarship to go to college for wrestling where I've had one college look at me and that's because C gter works here so I thank you for your your time and I really hope you really consider a separate girls team because honestly that was my thank you thank Youk you we have anybody else this evening thank you very much all of you who took the time to speak up um we've heard you that brings us to commendations hey um last accomodations first um if you take a
093minute if you notice all the artwork on the Windows there um there's just incredible um incredible display CA and TR students faculty and staff are collecting spare change to donate to Griffin's Guardians Hope for Change campaign TR raised uh $1,920 and the ca raised $2,500 thank you to Tina Hall and Kristen SE and Courtney gon for coordinating the campaign uh Whitney Point PTA for sponsoring Park month and engaging students in increasing reading activity through a reading Mission board Mrs Ferguson the ca librarian for sponsoring daily parp month uh trivia for students in the cea Mrs Ferguson for coordinating and providing a free book for every student in the cea in honor of read Across America day Miss Dennison and Mr CLA for in the cea for putting together and offering an hourong Google Sheets formula
094workshop for their co-workers to help with streamlining uh student information and data with efficiency and I think we're do that at the math night in the region also uh CA physical education teachers M monano and Mr samsil first grade students and their families for a successful annual cea obstacle course showcase coach Rich Creek coach broer coach black and the following with you point wrestlers for qualifying to the section for boys D1 and D2 Wrestling Championships Justin card Kyle kitson Jonathan McCall and Gabriel Smith coach Rich Creek uh Rich Creek coach broer coach black and the following Whitney Point wrestles were qualifying for the section four girls Wrestling Championships Colleen hilbrand Isabelle Keel and Malcolm Pomer withney Point High School alum Christopher Han for the induction into the 2025 section for Hall of fame um that's
095quite he was quite wrestler and that it's quite fitting for tonight coach crley and the Whitney Point girls varsity basketball team for winning IAC North large Division and advancing to the IAC League championships coach Driscoll and Whitney Point uh girls junior varsity basketball team for winning IAC League large school championship coach Hayes and the following Whitney Point Varsity indoor track and field athletes for their advancements to the section four for State qualifier Championship Payton Martin 55 meter dash and 300 meter dash madin zir 300 meter dash Taran hit 600 meter run Conor jasa 1,00 meter run Addison feathers Taran hit mine Z and Payton Martin division two class Championship um I don't know what event that is division two class Championship okay Mr Jones Mrs Jones and M it's a really I think what I
096think it's a relay oh okay oh I thought that would make sense right okay thank you should I should have town was a little helpful here too yeah Mr I did a few of those yeah Mr Jones Mrs Jones Mrs poen the Whitney Point High School drama club volunteers administrators faculty and staff for a wonderful performance of Fiddler on the Roof the following high school art students who have artwork submitted in the 2025 emerging artist competition display is the Artisan Gallery at at the art arti and gallery from March 7th to March 29th Connor Hayes U won excellence in use of medium mine Zar won excellence in line and color Maggie brosen LLY couch Mia Davis Alex ellerson Brook feathers Riley Halliday Darcy pum Ellie rout Allison zbec Whitney Point and broom tyoga bosi student
097mason hall for recognition by student Spotlight for the career and Development Center and Whitney Point High School alum Alicia whitall for induction into the greater Bingington Sports Hall of Fame that's going to happen 28th okay a lot of great things happening um old business there is none that brings us to our budget presentation for the evening show well you know you've got this down Zack yeah all right um last Mee we talked about the current state of the budget as far as the state go and then all the S on federal level um this presentation is really going to focus on uh taxes um and again look at some of our neighboring data and kind of see where our first projection of expenses is at this moment in time so again uh what we like
098to do again we like to look at our neighbors see where other districts are at we like to see what their actual real tax rate is compared to again their neighbors and then also see what does that really mean how much of their budget is actually funded by school tax so this is a slide um I like this slide because I think it does a pretty good job uh of explaining uh where in the region when you point Falls and there's a lot of numbers on here over trying to do is say if every single um house was actually worth $100,000 what are you going to pay in school taxes if you live in these respective districts and what I say if it's really worth 100,000 that's where the assessed values come in and again
099they are really all over the place uh they're dated they need to be reassessed uh improvements that don't get added on right away and that's kind of what the equalization rate uh does was the state generated percentage it's trying to put the true value of a house in a certain Township um so when I look at this data I don't want to see again houses that are worth different amounts that's what we say by full True Value so I like the example of if you're going to buy a house today and it's going to be worth $100,000 this $100,000 house in CCO valy you be paying $2,387 in school tax uh that same $100,000 house you would buy a Windy Point it would cost you $1,535 in SC so again this slide I think is
100kind of Representative that we never want to be in the top end of this we don't want to have the highest tax rate um but you can see some of the neighboring districts that we're close to Windsor Nork Valley I think that's that's a good group to be around um that's for comparison U the few at the bottom um they all have their own issues tyoga few years ago um their tax rate is extremely low for that district and they were a financial trouble where they had to increase their tax levy a substantial amount to just bring it up to that 857 per thousand Deposit they have some weird tax uh Revenue sharing because they have a reservoir where New York City provides them a significant amount of money again to to siphon their water
101sources um so when I look at that again it's good uh What you point we have a relatively uh you know lower tax rate for our region but then you kind of want to wonder well how much of our school budget is funded by taxes and I think this one's kind of eye openening because we are at the bottom um so what that means is again of our overall $46 million school budget about 19% is funded by school tax where if you look at a district like best um their school budget it's higher but it's also 57% funded by the tax L and I I like the example of besto because I think we probably know why right like why is more school taxes in besto compris their budget it's because they have way more
102taxpaying entities right it's all the business it's the parkway it's the Walmart it's it's all the other stuff that is invest that's again why for their school budget you have a higher composition of school taxes so in comparison again I'm going to footp back here if you look at the sheet you know everyone thinks best probably pays the highest school taxes in the region that's not really true they just have more people more businesses paying School tax so their rate is you know $18 per a thousand um it's just an interesting comparison so again just kind of look at our neighbors that's where we're at we're in a decent place there again the other side of this 19% of our uh budgets funded by taxes well that means the other part is funded by mostly
103State uh state revenue so bring in that in a little bit here um this is a slide where we talk about our budget goals um these three goals uh were uh derived by the board several years ago we like to look at them and I think whenever we kind of get lost in all the craziness of politics and legislation and everything going on we can always come back to these three goals what are we trying to do here at the school with the school budget we're trying to maintain our focus on education we're trying to build a sustainable budget and I like to stress that we sustainable um you know we have these big swings in Revenue one way or the next we want to make sure that we're not just fluffing up with with
104all these activities and then the following year we're cutting right we want to make sure that we're we're building stuff smartly into our budget and we're sustaining it over time as it grows um and then again the last goal purpose of this presentation tonight is we want to develop a reasonable tax levy and I'm not saying a tax increase I'm just saying again in comparison with those previous slides what is a reasonable tax value for our district uh in comparison to our neighbors um it's tax ly limit calculation um it's a background uh this was instituted by New York State in 2011 there's a big push of escalating tax rates and um at the time the state came out with trying to you know take their attempt to control that um and they instituted I
105think people mostly remember it as a 2% tax cap but it's not really true it's it's not 2% um it's just one factor of these 11 other or 10 other steps in the form that so when we take points numbers uh slop it in here um again this is the New York state tax cap formula uh this basically tells us what our maximum allowable tax L increase can be um this upcoming year again just because it's it's calculate that doesn't mean that's what we go out with and that's what we've talked about before throughout the budget process we try to land on you know developing a reasonable tax levy increase so this is strictly the formula um our our current ER tax levy is $8.8 million here's the tax paay grow Factor again I don't
106make up any numbers this is derived strictly by the state they tell us um that number is 1.93% and then we take out basically any Capital Levy exclusions in short that's basically anytime we have a referendum that involves um like buses or capital projects or Capital outlay stuff um and what we try to do is kind of keep that local share relatively flat from year to year so um again we exclude that and this is where that uh the Sumer of the 2% tax cap that's where it that's where it's at um this form will not allow for more than a 2% Levy growth factor so it's that one factor in for and it's at its Max this year there's been years like during covid where it was almost zero right um so again spining
107this out there's our projected next year local share of capital tax levy and it tells us our maximum ly may be 9.1 million uh and just so happens to be a nice round 3% next year so again that's technically what we could go out with this year's budget and still being compliance with the tax levy um C all right more more numbers to compare to our region because again I think it's always uh beneficial so that number 3% um our BOS CBO they also help me out with some data they give me the tax lity limit calculation for all the other districts all there's 15 of them um including us and just like to know where everyone's at so I kind of plotted in this little bar graph and you can see so the lowest
108one um can go up for 23% so really they can only increase their tax lay by 23% or again they would need a super majority vote um again depending what district that is it may be a lot it may not be and I think the example goes back to like a district like vestel um 23% increase for festal might generate what 3% increase in the winning Point tax lity might be um so just to keep that perspective um again just our our formula it's putting us on a little bit of a higher end but you can kind of see at the bottom the bulk of districts they're between two and 3% so that's that's kind of what you're going to see regionally where where districts are going out this year Zach yeah so is there
109overlap at all because I see it's going two to three three to four like at the bottom there so which group are we including yeah like so are we part the N part of the two three to 4% so we're we're down here he put us in the bigger group you put us in the bigger group two Y and with the two right okay all right so I think this is a very impactful slide if you can understand this concept um I think it really goes a long way to understand why districts increase their tax levy um and really what's at stake so a few years ago um you know there's always a push keep taxes zero you guys got all this funding why are you increasing our taxes so we like to look at
110an example of what really does that mean over time so again closely I'm rounding numbers for Simplicity our starting tax levy is 8.9 million a 1% increase in our Levy equals $89,000 so again let say we're going out for a 2% increase in our tax levy for the next five years six years on um getting old so again what does that bring into the district if we go out for 2% uh this current year it give us an additional 178,000 Revenue again 2% on top of that it's an additional $181,000 in revenue and then as you can see it keeps going each year the additional amount onto our tax Lev limit or a tax levy base I'm sorry so at the end of that fiveyear period our tax levy uh base went from an 8.9
111million closer to a 9.8 million so that's really how you grow that tax base um now the example of okay I think this year we could maybe get away with a 0% increase I think the budget is looking okay I think we can do it let's do it and then you know maybe there's some pressure um we have a second year looking at it and you know maybe we get some additional state aid or something else goes our way we want to lock in for 0% again okay so that's the the the um again kind of the scenario we're looking at well then what happens where after the two years of a 0% increase the tax levy year three you bring that back in so again you kind of see the numbers go out 2%
1128.9 million but now we're two years behind and trying to catch that tax base up so what happens is as this plays out over the fiveyear period the district that increases their tax L by 2% each year you're going to have $9.8 million in your tax base that the district that after two years decided not to you only have a 9.4 million tax Loney base and what does that mean that means again we're looking at school budgets and what can we afford we actually are losing not just those two years we went out with a 0% increase but every year thereafter we're down that $381,500 I'm not saying three or two it's just something to take in consideration for why the percentage sometimes again there's push or this or that it's it's whole picture scenario
113you really got to see how do you make your budget fit that makes sense for the community um the state a the expenditures what are your goals to maintain education no sustainable budget um and and again maintain a a reasonable tax levy inrease B sorry um give me that little window up put um a lot of numbers on here this is basically a snapshot a summary of the School District budget from 20189 through projection for next year at at this point it's still early as we know um but you know I like data I like looking at the history of it you can kind of see some Trends um you you can see the average budget increase 4% 2.4 1.25 and then all of a sudden 0.12 right what happened around that time it was
114Co right uh 1.88 and then you kind of see the growth coming out of there you know we had all this Federal stimulus money flying around um there's a lot more programs enrichment things going on getting students back in the the classroom um so our budget grew slightly in 23 24 and then we had this monster jump on the sheet in last year this current year of a 12.41% that's why again I have to put the main reason for that jump It's a 7.99% in the budget but again that was due to this Capital project that we just f fin right so even though our uh budget expenditure side increased 8% for the project our Revenue we're getting state aid back on the prodct expenditures of around the same amount um when I say around
115our building ratio is like roughly 98% so we're getting in roughly 98% back on those expenditures for the project um so again those are kind of like this outliers like to just explain a little bit too um but I think the good thing is uh at this point we're looking at a 4.8% increase next year why do I think that's a good thing because again I think everyone's pay attention to news trying to predict cost right now is a very very hard thing to do watch the stock market watch these tariffs watch inflation watch price of eggs whatever you want to look at no one's telling me I'm paying less for service next year I'll tell you that right now um everything's going up uh Foundation Aid and this is our our Saving Grace for
116our district this year we talked about it at the last board meeting Foundation Aid again our our district is 19 % funded by tax levy the bulk of our funding comes from state aid Foundation a big chunk of that um when we don't get a big increase or remains flat that's a problem for our district right we can't keep up with our Rising expenditures uh you can see 2324 again that after Co push of uh the state had extra funds we got a a very substantial increase to bring us back to where we were supposed to be with this form of the foundation Aid um relatively modest increase next year year and then again this year bam uh the governor really reworked the formula um this is what we're supposed to be getting per the
117formula based on our demographics our poverty counts and they're saying yep wining point you deserve 11.33% increase thank you very much I don't want to brag too much for Neighbors because there's neighbors around us that main only have 2% and you know they they look at us and say why you know I feel bad for them but I'm happy we're getting that 11% this year that's the that's the governor's yeah certainly not yet at the moment but you know it's I haven't heard any talk to the that's going to be less um but no the state budget is not final um you'd like to think you have it finalized by April 1 but you know that's not really April Fool's Day for sure there's still that crazy M with the federal level um even today
118coming in the board meeting we're getting alerts Department of Education when all was cut not cut um again we do get funding from the Department of Education they're not in our school budget but they're in Grant lines and if we lost that money it'd be real expensive that we put back into our budget to font so we'd have to look at that but again at the moment that increase of foundation AIDS amazing what would we get next year potentially who knows and that's why again School budgets are a fascinating thing because again you can literally go from year to year and not quite know what you're going to get um other state aid just as it says it's other state aid uh so it's really our reimbursements it's again that billing we went out for
119we pay debt on it but we get that back from state aid we get 90% back of our expend Transportation Aid uh we get B's Aid categorical Aid so all the some the other AIDS is 13.6 million other Revenue again everything else doesn't fit in those categories which is either again tax levy or um the state aid again there's get R from our uh contractor that services our buses we get interest earnings on our money we get um you know even the small amount of missions we get for games or whatever goes in that line uh there may be some Foster tuition Billings that we get with basically if um you know some child owners foster care in our district and they come to our district if we educate them I could build that District
120uh you know a tuition Bel I do that's where that money goes um and then appropriate fun BS um and you kind of see the history where it was um we were at a good spot where it was around 500 $1,000 again that's money that we're saying within our budget within um you know our reserves we can allocate towards meeting our budget for next year last year it went up a chunk of that again I like to explain the chunks uh we did have the opportunity to allocate 325,000 of our savings at last year to help fund that brand new uh CA playground which I think you know if anyone's been over there um I even drove by yesterday in the nice weather and after hour it was swamped kid run around I mean there
121was a good use of of that savings that otherwise would have been stuck in some Reserve with you know a lot of restrictions and trying to get it out in the future um so right now with the scenario again um you can see we're not budgeting for use of reserves which is great at this current school year we budgeted heavily um and what that really was was our ERS our retirement system expense uh for government employees and uh the teachers uh it's not their whole expense but it's a portion and why we did that was again so we could balance our budget last year um so what I'm saying is at this point in time we don't have to budget use of our reserves to balance our projected budget and our appropriate fund balance begin
122not quite back down that 500,000 but we felt comfortable with 750,000 and a big chunk of that is really because of that increase of the foundation in so again we're glad we got it um but what does it mean for future years again we don't really quite know um at this point again tax L down below you kind of see the increases over year again that's not the maximum allowable Levy limit that's just where the district the board decided to go out um so you know I I like looking at the average increase over that time it's 1.6% uh last year was one of the higher ones we did 2.95% again kind of get that out to the public it's not a 2% cap um again right now it's in the budget 3% I don't
123think we're going to have to go out with anything that that high uh we will have to figure out where we land at this point in time that's what it would look like any questions on this [Music] slide um I like pie charts our pie chart so again all of our Revenue that whatever was last here 48 million our $48 million in pie chart form and this is the first time since I've been here that Foundation Aid is now over 50% of our school budget um and what is foundation a get that's the the funds the state gives us for General operating uh cost so it it's really no strengths attached it's what's given us um the how we we meet our budget right and then again we have the other 28% for the reimbursables
124so our total St is 78% again we looked at the tax levy breakout it's 18.8% in that scenario with the 3% increase and then again just those little bit uh percentages of the other revenue and that small appropriate fundaments please note it's always my disclaimer the government's final budget is still unknown I think we have a good idea it's not going to go down um but it's it's not finalized and I think this is probably the thing I'm paying attention to the most the prospect of the loss of federal funding is still in and again for my office the district office Joan Our concern is the loss of title funds Department of Education funds and also um the reason we can offer free meals for our students is a big trunk of it is federal
125funding um so again when we talk about and hear about let's cut all school funding at the at the federal level concerns us right because if they don't fund it we got to figure out alter of uh sources so that's a big one right now which I've never had to actually put that line in there in previous budgets but uh it needs to be in there now um can I just add so a lot of the things that are funded so idea funds and title funds um pay for things that we're mandated to provide so it's not like we can just say we won't cut those things it would have they would have to put into the budget somehow thank you uh again there are so many legislative PR being discussed which could impact over
126funding levels as always we are being conservative our Revenue projections and using estimated projections this time for items still being developed the biggest one still not known as Bose's expenditures and there's a reason to it a big trunk of our BOS expenditures is special we related and a lot of those placements those meetings only to take place till April May so we can guess but in reality until we have further out data on some of these placements we just don't so I use placeholders and then again I I kind of hammer special department and they get mad at me all the time but eventually we'll get closer to where it needs to be for the budget next year what's next uh we look for additional efficiencies and reductions by ring expend lines you're going to
127scrutinize requestment services that means is we look at what we currently sign up for i b Shannon and Joan I say hey do we really need this next year and they Tom yes and then wait for the Governor's actual budget run see what happens and we cautiously plan for potential changes in the federal level and we continue our monthly meetings with the BOS CBO financial analysis team they're great they really work a lot of projections for us help us in our budget building process questions the B's expenditures that that didn't include U like New Visions and things you're talking more specifically about the special ed needs really all go are still being looked at um because again we're really making those um CTE costs are kind of determined off of last year's enrollment um but
128they've gone up a lot we have a lot of kids bo CT classes which a good thing um but there's other costs that are really um subscription based um a lot of our it our big budgets we get those numbers we could still have meetings and maybe try to um tone them down a bit but then where we're looking at well you know we have so much built in for uh toner you know do we need 15,000 next year may we can lower to 10 it's just those questions we have conversations that's the one example but it's for everything that we run through bosies which is around you know 78 million right I'm just saying um I was just thinking though that for special ed and then for the other the um you know the
129other bosies classes we have a general idea of what we've had what we looking at what our special ed population is that's because a lot of those that are that are attending bosis we might get new students but basically a lot of those students that are in stay in uh not always Tom and that's kind of the tricky World special at I mean Jo director for a while she probably talk more intelligently about it than me but uh those kids sometimes train classes frequently prr placements if they're not working out sometimes polies can't handle them they go to a private institution which could be more expensive oh no I I I know all of those too um I just meant though that that we have a general idea of how many are there and I
130mean there's there's a pretty good Assumption of what without moving in and out of District well and here's the kicker from Bose's end is we have to sign up and we want to make sure we have a guaranteed slot for our children next year right we don't want to over sign up because that's the problem where sometimes we have to get PID up front for that and that comes back to us B like the prior so there is some trip to it and I'll tell you it's good as we can budget and if we do everything as of today we could get a family come in next week and roll with three kids with special High needs they could cost $200,000 and we have very high rate of transiency like people move dist yeah there's
131a handful of districts I know and they're all the same and they're all in the same boat as we are and that's where all the trans yeah I know that's where they all go it kind of seems like the trend has been we're getting way more than going out our in the past few years but that's what I'm saying there's still a trend that we're getting way more no I don't mean it's good but I mean it's something that we're it we can see happening yeah again that's kind of where in the budgeting process we budget conservatively I'll have obviously some cushion there in case of that but you know the problem is if you don't budget for that and you get hit with that family then you're looking mid year like oh boy when
132am I come up this $200,000 to you know help help fun these cost and displacements no I'm not questioning I'm just I'm just trying to think and I know you've always done an excellent job of of you know looking at everything and doing things the right way I'm just thinking that some of that is somewhat relatively consistent we know our attendance too I mean we get our attendance numbers we get and I know people mve in and out but I mean there are some things are we can be close but it's not always I know in the elementary building the numbers have gone up tremendously this year for special needs students right yeah I mean well yeah and and not just everywhere lots of reasons for that but I saw a younger population very high
133in he yes students yeah thanks Zach I understand it it's only been eight years now gets it gets a little better I almost know a little bit of it I understand a little bit of that way okay that brings us to oh actually do we have any students here from government class okay why don't you guys really quickly fill out your sheets bring them up for us to sign because we're gonna let you go starts early in the morning yeah you guys have already been here two hours and we appreciate it but um any one of us can sign we got a lot more to do yeah we're not leaving anytime soon can ask older siblings this didn't used to happen anybody anybody can sign it um can you get a sheet and then send
134it to Stacy and she can send it to us or actually Stacy can signor um Mrs black can sign it for you tomorrow if you get one she's in the district office okay okay consent agenda may have a motion thank you Tom and a second thank you Molly all those in favor I any opposed any abstain appointments um Autumn singer um four-year probationary appointment as special education teacher in the special education your tenure area effective March 12th 2025 motion so moved thank you Chris the second thank you Benny any questions or comments to had been working in this role and working on getting her certification she's already certified in a different area she's do a great job and we're super happy that she now we can officially appoint her she was like a longterm that's
135how we had C okay she a CA she's in the high school oh she's in the high school okay any questions from the board all those in favor I any opposed any abstain allur Lane full-time teachers Aid effective March 12 2025 may have a motion to moved thank you Chris and a second thank you Aubrey questions or comments all those in favor any opposed any abstain and um a slew of responsibility Zachary oh wait a minute it doesn't say that oh it does say interm I'm sorry I have that title on my name now too interm yes may have a motion thank you Chris and a second thank you Benny any questions or comments I had to giggle a little because of the day that they're appointing you than Patty's day and you're a good
136St Patty's person you always yeah but at least you're not like the pest control officer a speci abatement officer could take that back okay all those in favor I any opposed any abstain resolution of the Board of Education of the Wy Point Central School District broom Shango courland and tyoga counties York further known as the district authorizing the submission of one proposition to be voted upon by the qualified voters of said District at the annual meeting thereof to be held on May 20th 2025 be resolved by this board of education of the Whitney Point Central School District brim Shenango Courtland and tyoga counties New York as follows section one at the annual meeting of the qualified voters of the Whitney Point Central School District broom Shenango Courtland and tyoga counties state of New York the
137district to be held on May 20th 2025 the following proposition shall be submitted to be voted upon in addition to the proposition seeking approval of the budget for the district's 2025 2026 fiscal year proposition number two acquisition of buses resolved that the Board of Education the board of the Whitney Point Central School District the district is hereby authorized and directed to purchase four new 71 passenger diesel buses at a cost not to exceed $84,700 416 of the education law and in anticipation of such tax shall the Board of Education be authorized to issue bonds or other obligations of the school district in the aggregate principal amount of up to $84,700 upon at such annual meeting which notice shall contain the full text of such proposition section three this resolution shall take effect immediately may I
138have a motion don't mov thank you Chris second second thank you Molly any questions or comments all those in favor I any opposed any abstain be it resolved by the Board of Education of the Whitney Point Central School District BR Shenango courland and tyoga counties New York as follows section one a public hearing of the qualified voters of the whitning point Central School District counties of Brom scheno Courtland and tyoga New York the school district shall be held on May 6 2025 at the high school auditorium 10 kyel Road in Whitney Point New York at 6:00 p.m. for the presentation of the proposed budget for the following school year the budget will be available for review on May 7th 2025 and thereafter at the school district office excuse me section two the annual School District
139meeting and budget vote in and for the shall be held on May 20th 2025 at the high school cafeteria 10 kyel Road in Whitney Point New York at 1:00 p.m. and the poll shall be kept open for voting by voting machines between the hours of 1:00 p.m and 8:00 p.m. prevailing time and on said date the proposition herein set forth in the notice of said annual School District meeting and budget vote are described in exhibit a attached here to and hereby Incorporated here in by reference section three voting at said annual School District meeting and budget vote shall be conducted by the use of voting machines section four the clerk of said school district is hereby authorized and directed to cause a notice of annual School District meeting and budget vote and substantially the form
140attached here to as exhibit a to be published in newspaper having a general circulation in said District such publication to be made so that such notice shall appear in said newspaper each four times within the seven weeks next preceding such District meeting the first publication to be at least 45 days but preferably not more than 49 days before said meeting and to give such other notice as may be deemed desirable section five the school district clerk is hereby authorized to amend the notice of annual School District meeting and budget vote from time to time as in his or her discretion such Amendment may be required or desirable section six to the extent required by law the Board of Education shall appoint election Personnel to conduct said annual meeting pursuant to a separate resolution of this
141board of education section seven this resolution shall take effect immediately notice of annual School District meeting and budget vote Whitney Point Central School District central C Central School District broom Shango Court and tyoga counties New York notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of the Winnie Point Central School District broom Shenango courland tooga counties state of New York the school district will hold a public hearing on the budget of the qualified voters of the school district at the high school library 10 kyel Road Whitney Point New York on Tuesday May 6 2025 at 6 PM for the purpose of presenting the budget for the 2025 to 2026 school year notice is further given that a copy of the statement of the of money which will be required for school district purposes during the
1422025 26 school year the budget exclusive of public monies as well as a copy of any propositions to be presented at said annual School District meeting and budget vote may be obtained by any Resident in the school district during business hours between 7:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. at any school district building and the school district office during the 14 days before the annual School District meeting and budget vote except Saturday Sunday or holiday the statement should also be available at the school district's website and at all public libraries located within the school district a real property tax exemption report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the real property tax law will be annexed to any tentative preliminary budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form aart and shall be
143posted on School District bulletin boards maintained for Public Notices as well as on the school district's website notice is further given that the annual School District meeting and budget vote of the qualified voters of the Whitney Point Central School District Central School District counties of broom Shenango courland and tyoga New York will be held on Tuesday May 20th 2025 at the high school cafeteria 10 kyel Road Whitney Point New York between the hours of 1 p.m. and 8:00 P.M prevailing time when the polls will be open for the purpose of voting by voting machine upon the following propositions proposition number one shall the following resolution be adopted to wit resolve that the proposed budget of expenditures of the Whitney Point Central School District Central School District for the 22526 fiscal school year and the amount
144of to be determined and for the purposes shown in the statement of estimated expenditures adopted by the Board of Education of the school district B and the same hereby is approved and the amount thereof shall be raised by a levy of tax upon the taxable property of the school district after first deducting the monies available from New York state aid and other so sources as provided by law proposition number two shall the following resolution be adopted to it resolved that the Board of Education the board of the Whitney Point Central School District is hereby authorized and directed to purchase four new 71 passenger diesel buses at a cost not to exceed $84,700 and that such Su or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be raised by the levy of a tax upon the
145taxable property of the said school district and collected in annual installments provided by section 416 of the education law and an ant anticipation of such tax shall the Board of Education be authorized to issue bonds or other obligations of the school district in the aggregate principal amount of up to $84,700 candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education must be filed with the school district clerk between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. not later than April 21st 2025 at the district office High School building ten kyel Road Whitney Point New York 13862 candidates must be a citizen of the United States 18 years of age able to read and write a legal resident of the school district one year prior to the election not an employee of the Whitney Point
146Central School district and remain a qualified School District voter throughout the term of office the following vacancies are to be filled a three-year term ending June 30th 2028 presently held by Dr Christine whitall a three-year term ending June 30th 2028 presently held by Tiana moseman each petition must be directed to the school district clerk be signed by at least 25 qualified voters shall State the residence of each signer shall State the name and residence of each candidate and whether such candidates are nominated needed for full terms or for unexpired portions of such terms the candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared elected in accordance with education law section 2018 DB no person shall be nominated by petition from more than one specific office notice is further given that absentee ballots will be
147available for this annual School District meeting and budget vote applications for ab absentee ballots for the annual School District meeting and budget vote may be obtained at the office of the school district clerk ten cble Road Whitney Point C Whitney Point New York the application must be received by the school district clerk at least seven days prior to the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or the day before election if the ballot will be picked up personally by the voter absentee ballots must be received at the office of the school district clerk by no later than 5:00 pm prevailing time on the day of the annual School District meeting and budget vote May 20th 2025 a list of all persons to whom absenc B absentee ballot shall be have been
148issued will be available for inspection by qualified voters of the school district and the School District Clerk's office during regular business hour 7:45 A.M to 3:45 p.m. prevailing time until the day of the annual School District meeting and the budget vote and such list will also be posted at the polling place on the day of the annual School District meeting and the budget vote May 20th 2025 any qualified voter in the polling place May object to the voting of the ballot upon appropriate grounds for making his or her Challenge and the reason therefore known to the inspector of election before the close of the polls notice is also given that the military voters who are not currently registered May apply to register as qualified voters of the school district military voters May request an application
149to register as a qualified voter from the district clerk military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the district clerk newly than 5:00 p.m. on Monday May 7th 2025 in order for a military voter to be issued a military bot the school district must have received in the office of the school district clerk a valid ballot application no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 7th 2025 a military voter May designate a preference to receive a military voter res registration military ballot application or military ballot by mail fa simile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration ballot application or ballot such designation shall remain in effect until revoked or Changed by the mil military voter ballots for military voters shall be mailed or otherwise distributed no later than May
1507th 2025 please note that the change of date there dated March 11 2025 may have a motion all moved and a second thank you Aubrey I do have one thing did we have double words on this one I took okay and and I don't know if we don't need to change it this time but maybe next year the one where it says his or her maybe put there yep it's under bullet number it's under the item that says section five any other comments questions no song requests please do you have anything else Chris okay all those in favor I any opposed any abstain superintendent's update um so we have to decide what we're doing about a student number yep we have to start those wheels turning oh I was like did somebody do something wrong
151no kind like in some so we need to you know that's on our board goals too okay and so um you know many districts use the student council as as the person like if you become student council president then you become the board member um we could have an election we could have like create like a a voting thing for the kids in the high school to decide who's going to be the board rep it would be better to do it while they're in their junior year because we need to start the year right off right um I mean if you H we had some a little bit of conversation I mean obviously I mean I think that a number of people mentioned that we don't really just necessarily want to have the same voices
152and representing the body in all settings but how you know I know that some districts have considered like each year taking a representative from a different like group like but then if that's not the year that you happen to be and year help you as an individual student right so um I think more and more people are moving away from that idea what if we had it be very similar to how board members get elected they have to have a petition and they have to get so many student signatures on the petition and we have an election for them I don't think we should just assume that it's student council um it may end up being that way if they're the ones who are interested it's kind of like I was saying like so we
153could have like a special like an election yeah that's what I'm saying do that and we'd have to somehow like educate kids about the board bed and's their Comm and and what they can do s i just wondering how much interest there Point have you heard honestly well I mean if we do it like we did it with the Ford I mean there isn't always a lot of interest there either and that's even with right well a little how about um our students that are part of that group down at Bose um the new Visions the New Visions do just have one right now I mean they are they would be deciding that for next year now potentially and then so yeah but from them but again then you're you're always sort of that's the
154group of kids who gets to do everything should just be open if you want to run then have have an informational meeting right with a presentation of you know we would like to have a student representative and what the parameters are of what they will and won't be able to do we have to have a student we have to yeah well I and I know that but also but I still think we should present it as not only do we have to but we are we would like to and not just have it be phrased as the state says we have to do it so we're doing it no no right but I I'm just telling you that we kind of have to get the wheels moving here slipping away to be Junior at least
155yeah yeah I was going to say so participation in government that's not gonna no no say but that would be some something similar that I mean there's a lot of challenges because if they are an athlete yeah then they are gonna have conflicts if so what as I said school they I mean we have kids if they ride the bus some some of them are like getting on the bus at six o'clock in the morning to come here start school the next day but I some some District who've had a student member they don't have them stay like some sometimes they have different roles which we'll have to talk that'll be the second conversation we have some districts have them come and stay for the beginning part of the meeting and the kids do like
156a report out on what student issues are idea um and then they excuse them so they don't have to stick around too long some uh obviously they do have to be excused from any kind of confidential you know right and then have to go to ex sessions yeah um I personally would like to see possibly two students so Tim yeah they could so if students can alternate or they can be collaborative together and like this week this month I'll go next month maybe I'll go I don't know it just seems like it might not be so much stress on them being all by themselves I think um we have some discuss like the clerks had some discussion this past week um and I want to say one of them said that they used to rotate
157between maybe student counil some sort of group but that they had gotten feedback that that won't be allowed that it has to be just one single person gosh got a mic you can have one single person with another person there learning the ropes they don't maybe they're not that representative that year but they're learning the ropes well I can certainly we can ask those question so we were we've been waiting and waiting and there's supposed to be guidance forthcoming it has come yet guidance hasn't come yet there's too many other things going on so they just haven't done that but with the requirement does exist but I can try and clarify whether it can be a shared I don't I don't I think Stacy's right I think it's supposed to somewhat mimic what happens for
158but even if it's not shared could we have a junior what difference does it make yeah maybe we could have at least two people maybe a junior who's the representative and uh well actually it would be a senior she' be or she or he would be a senior and then a junior that would also be part of it learning the ropes to possibly take over the next year I don't know it but I I do strongly feel that we need to model it after how we are elected and I don't think that we should just say oh well the president of the student council is going to be our board rep because like you said that then were always pulling so I think the last time we talked though when we discussed an election the
159concern was potential popularity contest yeah um would it be another option to have them apply and then even like the teaching staff could kind of choose a qualified student somebody who's maybe interested in politics well the person who I mean they can encourage them yeah and they get any applicants you know but but that's not I guess I'm my feeling is that's not how a board member does it you know what I mean I mean so so what is the purpose of having the students so I guess that's pretty much what we need to narrow down stud right so student voice so that's probably more important than how they're how they get in if if they're representing the student body right so well except that okay so no knock against teachers teachers are going to
160recommend the students that they like and what if there's a student who isn't active in other groups but is interested in having a voice you know what I mean so I'm so you think that voting the students should I I think in the long run but how we get the candidates interested it can be you know a teacher recommends that they run run I think the biggest thing is that we need to have like an informational meeting for students to come to [Music] um I agree with that they've got to know what right they have to know what it what it all entails but so why don't we have an information meeting with students who might be interested in doing this and ask them how they think the process should work well right because if
161they need to speak for the student body I mean they're going to have to have something I it just it seems like we're just throwing this student out there and saying all right you need to come up with the the issues you want to present to the board right I mean that's a lot they're supposed to be talking they're supposed to be talking to their peers I foresee that it won't matter what the who the student is even if it's the most popular whatever group they're in those are the people that they're going to bring here and it won't be any different than we are because we don't represent everybody out there we represent different people that contact us so so I'm going to read you what the bill says so the bill requires that
162each student board member must be at least one of the following the student body president a student selected by the high school student government a student selected by the high school principal a student selected by the superintendant a student selected by majority vote of the school board but again there something has to happen before you select that student so like they apply and then you select or do you we need a pull of well hopefully there's po more than one I I don't I'm not trying to be I if you look at it because like that but I'm just saying that there's I know that the people that are in like New Visions and do Sports they already do a ton and they they might be willing to do this but then the conflicts might
163not allow it they have to be able to drive um and then in the winter it's crazy even getting here some days and after school I think we could let them go by Zoom there's no rule about that they're not voting voting member yeah yeah might or might not but I'm just saying it's still a lot of our active most active students are in in either drama or or um sports or it's going to be hard I think to because and when do those happen I know trying to go to those kid Sports it's hard to do it when this is going on why don't we start little why don't we do an information meeting for students and get it out there and see who shows up I think if we can give just a
164general idea of what we do an overview not not even meeting with any but just like this is kind of what we're going to do or what the board does this is we're looking for people if anybody's interested at least start from there and if you have to go more then you push more but I'm willing to come to a meeting me too so I'm just saying before even the meeting they have to kind of know so something has to be put out and then because and I'm sure that they get here time commitment that this could happen you know these kinds of things yeah best she can do is start okay Molly said she's beinging can't go wrong okay and then we have um so I and we're meeting tomorrow so I'll get a
165little more information about every everybody's scrambling trying to figure out what they're going to do if they don't already have it enough um but there's the um the school boards Association business meeting coming up on April April 9th April 9th um at 5 o' if both do you want you want them to let you know if they want to go yes I can't okay when do we have to have the RSVP and why they're going to do supper they do supper with all their board meetings I know that march1 yeah yeah I think I put it on my calendar already Stacy April 9th right April 9th at 500m um RSVP no I can I do that and yeah I can do it too I should do it anyhow especially if I get voted in and
166I'm gonna have to wait until we get closer to okay next way did you say it was 5:00 pm Stacy lessions and visit students St s five I kind of like not use on my vacation P School Board because I enjoy it calendar that's it for you okay that brings us to our second opportunity for comments from the public same guidelines for the first or same for the second is there anybody who would like to speak at this time okay um Bo of education comments um I have been asked by the mayor of Whitney Point to bring it to the school district's attention that um they are planning on having a block party this year the date has not been set as of yet um I there I believe they're shooting towards the end of
167June um but they are hoping that they might be able to get some participation from School groups um they're going to have people set up and you know you people can be vendors um whatever the other and they would really love to have some school groups participating in some way there will be a concert in the early evening not late at night um by Kobe Oakley um so a chunk of Main Street will be shut off and that of course is a free concert um I made the comment that I'll be able to hear it from my house then and the other thing it that um and this hasn't been decided but one thing that was tossed out as a possibility that given the size of the Main Street area and um parking that um
168they may approach the school um to see about collaborating and having um people Park um in school parking lots and possibly having like a bus shuttle people down to the Main Street area so that there is more available parking and and accessibility talk about alcohol problem in like I said it's just been thrown out um so if it's alcohol free it's way easier no I know I know yeah yeah okay so a date um again the year slipping away if you can get that um that is going to be decided soon um I will bring that up when I yeah his schedule must Beed right K yeah U well yes and no they they have there are a couple of dates that they're looking at um it can be a free um concert because he
169doesn't have to rent the fairgrounds right and that's that's where his big expenses come in um but I will bring it up with the mayor tomorrow night when I go to the Village can't conflict with graduation homecoming no it'll be like a it'll be a Saturday um but I will mention that you know careful of the dates um but mostly he wanted to be able to give the district a heads up that it was happening and um and like I said the mayor would really like to see I mean even if it ends up being in July that maybe there might be some groups who would like to participate in some way and um all of that and you know perhaps what can happen is that my because I agree with the the alcohol free
170um but perhaps being able to do the parking and shuttling during the daytime and then not at night for the concert but that can all be worked out they just wanted to give a heads up yeah so if you could just ask him like date is like because I know it seems like it's not that close but it no I agree I agree which is why he asked me to say something to late but that's Al that's great REM me not to be in town well they I mean it just be Main Street so they can't okay apparently it cost too much now to asked to shut down Route 11 even for like the fair parade and stuff they can't even now cross because it used to be that they would start over here at
171the school and then they would go over to the fairgrounds and now they can't even they're not even able to do it with the um to cross the street to get to the fairgrounds yeah I just pretend they're stopping and dunking donuts for a coffee like you do anyway cross the lanes is that it that's it okay I have one thing celebration of young children it's on your calendar in the back April 11th they might be needing readers I know Molly you read last year they might be needing readers for that um and the theme is uh outdoor education environment it's an outdoor activity I know that much Camp it's yeah camping out all that stuff so so yeah so they'll be getting a hold of people and they'll be getting a hold of you
172they did yeah so but they do like to have readers and it's a great night we have lots of fun and so if any the board members want to help out we'd love it and we got about 15 students and then I don't think it's on here for activities but isn't isn't the carnival coming up 29th 29th of April March it's not on our list here but the March 29th is the carnival um for the cea and they always can use help from 10:30 to 2 so any board members wanna I'll be coming with myside cl suit that I'm looking for someone I bet I can get a student to do that one for you wait an inflatable upside down clown yeah I've seen it was didn't you have it for the Halloween yes yes
173I remember yeah School purpose okay so I just wanted to make sure that and I already took care of the board the superv stuff so you guys are all set I just wanted to add that I'm in support of wrestling I know there's cost there's a cost well I mean it so there's a um athletic advisory committee and um we did have a presentation on that and the decision that was made for this year really was made to try and give girls as many opportunities as possible but it's a changing landscape of um as they spoke to the fact that they decided to you know yeah it's um and I I hate to speak too much uh without I think I was going to suggest to you that maybe you can ask murpy to present
174on that um and perhaps soon rather later and I'm not minimizing the impact that that's had on all of those girls but there's also other camps of people who would like us to have other things too so I mean you s of have to look at it all together right well we have to choose when unfortunately yeah when we do that maybe Murphy wouldn't mind giving us I think maybe she does this in her presentation maybe not um but you can we can ask for it like next meeting yeah like all the teams and what's the membership of the teams and what we're spending on them the kids so we could yeah that would be helpful Joanne thank and also I know that there are regulations as to how many of right yeah each thing
175like each yeah gender gender sports that we can have and so we have to look at the big picture but we can't make any decisions unless we have all of the information the girls tonight presented excellent information um I will say to you though that we added a coach see what happens is you add a coach and that just becomes the norm and it doesn't seem like that coach is really added because we want somebody to be able to attend to the girls and take them everywhere they want to go then when you have two coaches they still somehow became the boy coach and the girls were like really feel you know so I mean it um you yeah but but we need to have all sides all of all of the information make a
176better decision yep y y but I I I will say that the girls presented very well and gave us a lot of information I would say I think you know buzy would be a want to be a board member she could wasn't graduating well how about how about the one who's going to be a sophomore Jr yeah oh Colleen yeah yeah yeah well you know her dad's a brim County legislator there we go but they were you know all super well spoken it's great it's a great experience not that I want them to suffer or be uncomfortable or have to it's good for them to do that they have that experience to Advocate and you know I got college students can't speak as eloquently as they did boy six yeah yeah yeah no they were
177all very eloquent and and like I said gave us a huge wealth of information and we but we do need to look at all aspects so we need Murphy so also as a board member I mean you hear one side if she wanted to address any of their concerns y that they brought up specifically I I would like to hear yeah I not to put anybody on spot my understanding is that every I'm gonna say my understanding is that I what I was told was that every tournament that was presented by the coaches they went to but I think that part of that is because even though we added a coach it still felt like there wasn't enough people to no I get it and it's just there's the view of the coach there's the
178view of the girls there's the and so in between is is the reality of what happened and why but going forward tell you the intent was to try and give them as much opportunity so that they could they could wrestle in whatever World they wanted to but the the truth of the matter is the change in the sty style of wrestling was a bigy is huge different than no I get it but I mean still their perception I three tournaments was more than zero and I'm not trying to downplay anything that that was a good I mean to also try to find out what was done or why or where where was the ball Dro that maybe something could be done more yeah instead of no I think that definitely something need to done more
179and and there needs to be something different done moving forward and and even during the season again I I shouldn't really speak because I you know we should have Murphy yeah we can wait at the next meeting but I it's been a changing conversation as the year has gone on like the opportunities changed even during the season um and so it has to be it it has to be and we've talked about this it has to be continually assessed like how many kids we have and how you know you know what what are the opportunities and what's happening in the region and do we need to join with another team or you know I mean those are all things that we need to consider could present it then we would know but that's all I'm
180saying is it rather I'm not saying that this is a to then push it forward but it's to make the decision of what to do and part of the decision is we did a launch what worked what didn't work is this still not going to work is this going to work and I mean to me how do we need to move forward and where do we move from here well we know that you know they're not the only team that's had to adjust greatly over the last couple years I mean theirs was new but the swim team has had like you know only five or six players yeah used to have a boys team there used to be a strong boys team and a strong girls team and you know and then that a lot
181of the girls fell away because it wasn't there because the pool wasn't here but then they were supposed to have the schedule last year and then it got dropped down to like only five meets I think so yeah so they're not the only team in the district that has struggled for sure yeah but I'm sure that the the comment of an all girls team as opposed to a mixed team you would definitely see numbers go up yeah yeah I mean if that was or at least the the interest in joining would go up trying it out well to even consider it would go way up yeah that's what I no I get it I totally get it no I I girls a lot of credit for I wrestled in in those restrooms with all the
182boys it's of okay yest is there any anything else for Board of Education comments nothing yeah because I hate to say we have to have any yeah we do have to have an executive session and so we are going to recess the public meeting at 8:49 um to hear discussion on Personnel yes person um and after we are done with ex excutive session we will be um going back into public session and then closing the meeting there won't be any discussion in public after that point just so nobody feels like they have to hang around to hear more no you're welcome to if you want but it's just going to be sitting the hallway yeah um so I have a motion so move thank you Chris and a second thank you Molly all those in
183favor I any opposed any abstain and thank you everybody for coming this evening and enjoining in the fun thank you have a good night