001Go ahead. >> Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Call for an acceptance of the minutes of the October 28, 2025 meeting. >> So moved. Second. >> Seconded. Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? No one. Motion carries. Call for a a motion to accept the minutes of the November 4th special meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? No one. Motion carries. There is no one for public forum here this evening. Board reports. I have nothing. board membership. John, >> yeah, I just want to remind everybody tomorrow we're hosting the New York State Rural Schools
002Association forum uh in our uh junior senior high school auditorium from 6:00 till 7:30. Uh the Rural School Association President David Little will be here as one of our guest speakers along with our uh Boseis Olter County uh superintendent Jonah Shanka. and they'll be talking about issues that relate to uh our rural schools and um there's also a question answer session there. So I just like to invite anybody that wants to come down and support us tomorrow. We brought this here to Ellenville. I also want to thank our administrative team for working so hard on putting this together. It's the only there's 12 of these throughout the state and there's none on Long Island, New York City or we're the only one in the Hudson Valley region. So, we're the closest and it really is
003going to be an informative thing and I just like to invite everybody to come down and see what it's about. Thank you. >> Thank you. Other board members, Willie. >> Mr. President, I'd just like to extend our gratitude to the two uh cafeteria staff that stayed behind tonight to serve the board of education dinner and representing their um their fellow staff members so well. It was delicious. >> Thank you. >> Food was excellent and uh we really extend our appreciation today. Any any other board members? All right, our trustee representative is um off uh getting us some more stories, I think, Jack Henry. So, he'll be back at the next meeting. Uh Lisa Wilds. >> So, I want to thank the junior high um administrative team, especially Erica Fiero. Uh they put together a really
004successful Veterans Day um recognition and breakfast. It went really well. There were close to 100 people there. Um the veterans were really appreciative and it was a a great event a week ago this past Saturday. We are planning on making it an annual event and it's grown considerably. Kudos to the music department, Mr. Barton and the students that um worked really hard to prepare and sing um during the event, you know, for the uh those uh that were recognized. This past Sunday, we had the Noonday Club. Uh we opened our buildings up. The Noonday Club had the senior um holiday dinner here. It was great event. about 90 seniors came for and really thank the Noonday Club for all that they do for the community. It's a free event for seniors to come out to.
005The next board meeting on the resolutions, you'll see uh we will have the budget calendar for the 2627 school year. We're starting on working on getting all those numbers done. Um I sit on a legislative committee. uh the governor will have her executive budget out um no later than the uh January 20th. We're waiting to see what the impact of all of that is. So, more to come on that and that's all I have tonight. >> Thank you, Deputy Superintendent Kelly White. >> I just want to mention that coming up on Monday evening, the 24th, and actually on the afternoon, we have a workshop for parents on school tool. Um, the flyers went home with our elementary students, I believe, today. And there's also information posted on the website and on our Facebook page uh
006for registration. >> Thank you. Assistant Superintendent of Personnel Curriculum and Instruction Support, Scott Proash. >> I do not have any items for this evening. >> Thank you. I'm going to entertain a motion to modify the agenda to bring the table resolutions uh under nine uh to the floor right now under 9.1 and 9.2. too. >> Second >> and moved and seconded. Um the discussion here, ladies and gentlemen, is that these are allowances. They do not belong on the agenda. So I'm going to um ask that these uh motions um do not go any further. Uh so therefore um we will uh withdraw we will withdraw them from uh from the uh from the agenda. We have to vote that uh you will only vote that u that the allowances are are just that that they're
007allowances and do not belong actually on our agenda. >> Yes, we are. Yes, that's correct. So, all those in favor opposed? No one. Motion carries. I will now ask uh the board to entertain a motion for a consent agenda for the remainder of the agenda. >> Second >> discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? No one. Motion carries and I will remind the board uh that our next meeting will be a board retreat on December 4th and then a following meeting regular schedule meeting will be on December 16th. Is there any other business before the board? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed? No one. We're ajourned.