001even Al to flag United States of America and to the for it stands Nation indivisible and justice for all okay with us this evening we have Glen bobc trustee Jay Grover trustee Sher stefins trustee Jude our district clerk Dr Brian Graham superintendent I'm Ashley Dreer president Sue marsten vice president Joy L Mara trustee Danielle Bruno trustee Michael laua assistant superintendent of curriculum staff development and Human Resources Cheryl Cardone assistant superintendent of pupil Personnel Services and Dr Robert Merkel assistant superintendent for school business and finance just a couple of announcements if you could silence your cell phone please that would be greatly appreciated there's emergency exits directly behind me and directly in front of me in case we need to leave unexpectedly and if I could have a motion to approve the agenda for uh this
002evening March 25th please motion and a second all in favor I any objections any extensions motion carried 70 if I could have a motion to approve the minutes from March 11th please and the second all in favor I any objections any extensions motion carried 70 um we have a couple we have student ambassadors with with us well just one student ambassador from the high school with us this evening um if we could have an introduction please no on good evening my name is Zena massudi and I'm a senior here at the high school I would like to share some of the highlights of what has been happening at our school recently spring Sports have gone underway this is the first year that high school has offered a girls blackag football team and they recently took
003a trip to the Buffalo Bills Fieldhouse where the actual Bills team practices for their games while there they competed in scrimmages against other schools this was a really cool opportunity for them this upcoming Thursday we have the annual volleyball tournament the winners of each GM class will be competing against each other for a spot in the championship against the faculty and staff team uh which is a nice way to end the week over the break the French students are traveling to France and Belgium to immerse themselves in the culture and we can't wait to hear their stories upon their return this past week consisted of our annual clash of the Vikings competition the week started off with blue and white day to show off some school spirit and a pie eating contest in each Lunch
004Period Tuesday consisted of Jersey Shore and Jersey day with a guest at milk competition during lunches red white and blue was worn on Wednesday and a trivia competition was held Thursday was roll out of bed day and during lunches we collected donations uh ofthing items that day happen every day pretty much special day a lot of people participated in that one um the competition of that day was fing that laundry and finally on Friday it was class color day with minute to Wi It games during lunches student council did an amazing job facilitating this opportunity for the students to come together and have fun The Clash competition was a hit with many students coming whether that be to cheer for their fellow teammates or just to participate the seniors won with the Juniors coming in
005second the sophomores third and the Freshman last this friendly competition was a great way to fundraise money and unite the students lastly on March 20th I received the Youth of the Year award through the National Exchange Club this award is based on academic extracurricular and volunteer accolades I was awarded with a $500 scholarship and myself and a student from staro were honored at a breakfast in which each of our guidance counselors made a speech vouching for our character and achievements we then also had to make a speech answering the question how has the increasing emphasis on diversity and inclusion impacted American Youth with this information the committee will choose one person to continue on to the next level of competition which takes place in Penn State congratulations screen oh wow congratulations we're very very proud
006of thank you so much right next piece of good news we have our unified bowling teami Bowlers here come on up and our coach Lissa could you give us a little intro and talk about the season sure we had a great season we always do um I brought a couple of them with me this is Savannah Kowski um this is Fiona Jos t Martin and my bu Ken Lano um we had a great season they had a lot of fun I'm going to let them talk too um this is our fifth year in UniFi bowling we have basketball well underway um play hard it gives them an opportunity they're great Bowlers they're now professional bowlers which is great um but I'm going to let them talk a little bit about what their favorite favorite thing
007is your favorite what's your favorite thing about if I go on having fun with friends yeah hanging out with friends right yeah F what about you as a senior graduating participating this was my first year doing Unified sports um I've gone to like all of their games the last couple years but it was awesome to be able to participate in this side of the community it's awesome I spend a lot of time in the life skills classroom anyway so might as well extend it so it was a great time um I'm awful at bowling but they were super nice she almost got kicked off a cof just kid come on favorite part about Mother's te year Le probably seeing the friendships that they make throughout the years and seeing them when we play that team
008with them what's your favorite thing about bowling tell everybody what's on your ball what's what's on your bowling ball though favorite his favorite um Marvel character is Hulk so he has a Hulk bowling ball which is pretty cool right right yeah it's a big green thing it rolls it down watch it just a little bit unless I see Savannah's holding something yes so this year we were able to get um third place um in um our section um we participate in a culminating activity at the end of the season which is held at Airport Lanes chaga and there's roughly I believe there's about 56 teams um across uh Western New York that participate in Unified sports in bowling and we were able to get uh third place in section six so thank Savannah I'd like
009to have you come to the microphone if you'd be so kind I believe you and some of your uh high school peers Elijah and Haley won athlete of the Year through the Niagara athletic pal or the Niagara pal League can you just tell the Board of Education what that night night was like uh I believe there was a dinner and a special ceremony it was a dinner and it was nice everybody was nice and I had my coach with me that's great yeah what did you get from there get a bowling and basketball award yes congratulations very special event nice for you to be there with your peers and being honored as an athlete in our school district so congratulations thank you great well done take [Applause] a can our board come up and join
010her get ready gotta three two one turn the house any parents that are here want to take picture right we good all [Applause] right and now we would like to recognize Kaylee farcus a uh Veronica Conor Middle School 7eventh grader who has made the USA 12u All-American Northeast region one team for softball and um she is as a seventh grader I guess we would say killing it awesome can um yeah we have Kaye come up Kaye yeah tell us a little bit about your journey your mom and dad can come up so Kaye I understand seventh crater right and this is a a wonderful huner just tell us a little bit about it how how is it that you have been identified as a future Allstar in the sport and how did you get connected
011to this um so my the my friends that I play with they're older than me so I kind of like got the idea from them and my coaches so you basically like try out for a team and there's like a 100 kids at the try out and they pick 15 I think and you basically like do all like like hitting and all that and then you go up and the coach select 15 of you and then you're from one region so like you kind of play a bunch of different reasons at the Oklahoma College and like a different college coach comes every year so last year I think the Oklahoma coach came and it was pretty cool sounds wonderful um yeah sorry I got people whispering in my ear Kaye what what did your favorite
012position in the field and have you also tried out for our varsity team I'm trying out for the or J yes GB I'm playing GB this year congratulations and thank you and then I think my favorite position is either short or Pier oh sure very good very good do you know anybody on the board do you have any uh connections with anybody the Board of Education Joy awesome and Jo you have anything to add just that we're really proud of you and we're super excited for you to play out in Oklahoma in August so she's been working really hard and I can't remember what age Angel did she start she was young probably yeah that she started playing softball so to be recognized as one of how many in the Northeast 15 in the entire
013Northeast yeah and yeah out of all the girls only 36s Mr was very is it okay we get a group picture with the boys you this is great get ready here we are three two thank you so much [Music] congratulations okay we did not have anyone sign up for the public comment session agenda items only so that brings us to curriculum and instruction with Mr lauia thank you good evening everyone um just have three informational presentations on the briefer side tonight um we're going to go just a little out of order I'm going to start with our Academy presentation with Harvey good evening Dr Graham Board of Education and District administrators thank you for allowing us to share information with you about a pilot project that our high school team has been working on um
014which we're hoping to implement in the coming year we are calling it our blue crew Academy here we go so the origin of this project was really in relation to a variety of gaps that our teachers have been observing over the past couple years we've engaging in a lot of conversation even right before Co had began um and we noticed some areas that our students really could use some additional development on to help them be more successful as students in our high school some of these areas include study skills time management Stress Management um information about life After High School test taking skills and general soft skills as well and this past fall uh we engaged in a lot more discussion about it and we surveyed parents and found essentially parents are seeing the exact
015same things and sharing ing the exact same concerns with us as well when we then went ahead and surveyed our students because we wanted to make sure we got some voice from everybody involved we found that they essentially were sharing the exact same observations and concerns about areas that they felt they needed um initially we began this conversation as a goal to develop something specifically for freshmen but what we found was notably our upper classmen shared a lot of concerns about what they feel their needs are as well so it kind of evolved into something a little bit bigger over time uh we had a lot of students who are enrolled in our AP program and just upper classman and general doing Advanced coursework that said I also am in need of study skills and
016test taking strategies and how do I manage stress it really wasn't isolated to just that transitional school year um so as we went through and kind of began developing our ideas about the program we had some conversation with our advisory Council um that Dr Graham is involved with as well uh we had a lot of discussion about what they might be interested in what this might look like and our team of teachers adults decided to develop a pilot program that we would ultimately like to implement in the coming fall how many students say participated in that surve so we had about it was a decent amount we had about 80 to 90 students who responded to the survey and then we have about another 20 of students who are involved in our uh advisory Council
017so we had a fair number students who responded again a lot of them were our upper uh classmen that responded we had a handful of freshmen but a lot of them were the upper classman and many of them were in our Advanced programs yeah so using this information we worked with a team of 17 teachers this year as well as Jamie and I to kind of work together over the past six months we met about every other week after school we also built out a few full days of work together to really develop and conceptualize what should this look like um we identify the topics that we want to cover in the first year we also have started some work on the materials and activities we would like to include I really really proud of
018the work that we have done and just the number of people involved we actually had about another 10 teachers who wanted to be involved and just couldn't build the time into their after school schedule the child care and so forth um but I'm going to turn it over this is really a teacher-driven project working with our kids so I'm going to turn it over to when we're in specialed teachers Kelly Marcus and our English teacher Amelia so they can tell you just a little bit more about our goals the plan and the process that we're kind of embedding into our program for next year how do I do this I just click no wrong okay technology is not my thing um okay so the purpose um Hillary talked a little bit more about that too
019but it's again creating an opportunity for all students to develop a strong relationship with an adult in the building um I know that we have some kids that have already developed strong relationships with our faculty but this would literally Encompass all students so that everyone would have someone to feel like they could go to um for a variety of reasons um it would also create an opportunity for small group um student interactions that are not academic content specific to Foster student to student relationship building um groups would be heterogeneously picked so it would be a mixture of of our advanced placement students and um life skids Life kid students um life skills students um regions track students all all sorts of people would be in one group at one time which is really um kind
020of a neat concept and we're going to create an opportunity to address soft scale and information gaps that we see with our students in a consistent and recurring manner uh I know a relationship we'll be talking about that a little bit and providing opportunities to address College and Career Readiness skills um on a consistent and recurring basis also which is something that ident they identified um as a need so our goal is to have this once per month in the school year with the exception of June which is just too hairy with regent exams um and we're hoping to meet at Great level with uh sorry there we go there it is okay uh with two teacher blue crew leaders so we're hoping also to create teams of teachers who wouldn't necessarily work together all
021the time um so I would love you know I'm an English teacher I would love if I were prepared with a math teacher or an art teacher I would love to have um a new person and a new Dynamic to work with that the students hadn't seen before uh so it's about a 1 hour grade level appropriate seminar so we're going to have the same student schedule every month um it's going to run on an assembly schedule so it won't be cutting out you know the third period or something like that all of the classes will be shortened and it will add up to approximately 60 Minutes of U Miss time per class for the high school so um in September we're hoping to do some team building we're also going to do uh in
022school Basics uh how how you get around where everything is for the Freshman but also reintroducing things like accessing your grades in the parent portal things that we still see students having trouble with um and getting into the basic Google functions that the kids need to access October we're really going to be focusing on study skills because we find that curriculum is rolled out more so by then and kids start having tests and having papers due um and being able to manage their time and create a study space I feel like uh we all struggle to find a place to concentrate and so I think that's something that we're going to focus on with these students November we're going to be talking about resilience um and that's going to go along with our guest speaker
023that is coming in November and that's going to be the theme of our guest speaker coming uh December is Stress Management January is goal setting so kind of like a new year new goals new you it's also when our underclassmen would be scheduling so they'd be thinking about what they want their next year to look like whereas our seniors would be plotting what do they want the next year of their lives to look like so um we're going to try to vary how we approach this with the different grade levels uh in a way that's appropriate for seniors as opposed to FR Etc February we're going to be talking about building relationships and communication I know that we all have seen um students struggle with how to communicate especially with adults uh via email um
024how to approach someone so we're going to be talking about the soft skills there March we're going to be discuss ing digital citizenship which as you know is a lifelong issue that we all um cope with and our students struggle with growth mindset is going to be our strategy for April um how do you move on to be something greater in the following year may we're going to wrap up end of year celebration hopefully it'll be a nice day out we can do some outdoor activities um we're looking forward to that so our goal is to have the Freshman Crews be smaller we really see the problem um has grown out of this has grown out of the needs of our freshmen to be able to transition into the high school so we're hoping to
025create smaller groups for the freshmen whereas the upper classmen would have more of a regular class siiz um approach we're going to have guest speakers come for college and trades military for the seniors we know some of these topics won't be necessarily super appropriate for seniors and so we're building out things that are more appropriate and more needed for seniors to move on from high school especially the second half of the year um and uh the BCA development team will be conducting regular feedback surveys as we go we do acknowledge that this is a pilot program and we're interested in finding out how this is working for the students and how it's working for the faculty as well all right so some short-term goals um we're hoping that students will feel connected more connected with
026teachers and other students um we're hoping to build smaller communities and smaller connections students will improve communication skills and habits students will improve academic skills and habits and develop Universal skill sets that they have been lacking um and we're hoping that faculty members will have more opportunity to collaborate on common skills across content so that way we can address you know we can say okay we know that you went over how to communicate in our February blue Crew Please write an email to your faculty member if you need an extension if you if you write me because you needed an assignment extension remember what we went over here's how you write to an adult in an adult manner so we're hoping that the skills transfer across and that all teachers are aware of exactly what
027skills every student has for some of our long-term goals um we're talking again about the increased opportunity for number of student teacher connections like we've said a couple times already that that every student would have at least one adult to that they feel comfortable with and really if our crews have two adults which right now we think is feasible um that's two adults that they can go to for um a variety of things throughout the year not just on Blue crew Academy days um intrinsic motivation for students to challenge themselves and take academic risks improve DET tance rates desire to attend school we all know that people want to be where they feel wanted and we're hoping that this really connects with a lot of our students um and that will then in turn improve
028some attendance rates too again positive School climate and culture and improved graduation rates for all at risk students so we are asking for the support of the board in order to be able to implement and this program for students our goal is to continue to evolve this program as Kelly and Amelia shared we do plan on running this first year as a pilot to gather a lot of data we're going to be conducting surveys with our students we'll be conducting surveys with our parents and with our teachers so we can continue to develop this into what makes the most sense for our students um and to make sure that we are differentiating topics based on each grade level's different varying needs as already was discuss um in order for this to be well-managed and sustainable
029we are seeking a coordinator position site bin this would allow for a point person to be able to develop the surveys and to be able to gather that data and help us use that data as well as the continued development of the curriculum we have a handful of topics that we would like to cover this coming year those will need to continue to shift and evolve and change in time um and we're also seeking some additional funds to help with materials and supplies some of the basics like folders that we need to be able to put um lessons and materials in for our students but in addition we also are hoping that we can incentivize with monthly challenges that our students want to use the skills that we are teaching them um and lastly we're
030also seeking some assistance just with the lesson development and the materials and activities that will need to continue to be conducted over the summer in order to ensure that we're able to pull this program off next school year so thank you so much for allowing us to share this information with you tonight we'd be happy to field any questions if you have them yep okay no questions but I just did want to comment that I love it I think it's great and I love that it's feedback based right you're reaching out to the kids to see what what their needs are and you know to hear that they're asking for things that we take for granted like study skills and and and and just simple things like writing down assignments and using planners and we're
031admitting they need help with that is it's it's great that they're they're willing to share that and that we're trying to provide them with uh you know support in helping them guid them so I love it thank you so just one quick question sorry I love it myself I love that we were able to actually have 90 students respond right and respond that they did need help and things that they were having trouble with right we don't usually get responses like that so that's excellent that they were able to to reach out like that my question is we we have a 1hour ag that that seminar were there will be any work inside classrooms um just to follow up if we find I know it's a a pilot program but if we find that they
032need more than that one hour or whatever that seminar is think we might reiteration in the classrooms or um yeah that's the intention so the fact that all of our students will experience the same topic every month even though it will be differentiated based on grade level right it will allow our teachers to all be able to share the common language the common expectations that we're discussing and there will be commonalities for all students also that goal of having a monthly challenge the kids will be reminded by their teachers remember that we we address this topic here's your goal and how and and I think incentivizing it will help too but to Jay's Point our students are asking for this right when they're telling us hey I am in AP class but I still am
033not quite sure how to study and I really would like to learn how to manage my stress or manage my time um I think that in and of itself is really great for us to hear because it it's telling us our kids want this and and they really desire it right I just was wondering where yep we will continue to infuse it in the classroom our teachers will continue those conversations throughout the month specific to that topic and I'm sure it will um cycle back throughout the year too because every teacher will have experienced these conversations with our kids that's great thank you I love the topics too congratulations and just this is a tremendous you know work that the teachers have done after school and I hope it does continue in the summer I
034definitely am supportive of it and I love the topics that the students have brought to you and that you're implementing and I think it's great when students are working on you know study skills goal setting and all things that they need real life skills that they they need to have for you know college or beyond beyond high school so thank you thank you m k Harvey Mrs Marcus Mrs shint um we're going to have our next presentation Byer who is our coordinator e Island and she's going to share some of the awesome things going on over there and some of the umed how it's been used this past thanks thank you so much for taking um giving me the opportunity to share what's going on over at Eco Island and as uh Mike was mentioning
035before I'm the coordinator of e Island um I took on that role after I retired in June of 2022 and it's a great retirement job I love it I really do so what I wanted to do tonight was just give you a little Glimpse um most of the time I I do have some pictures here but most of the time I'm right in the middle of this you know like working on a center working with kids and then the kids will leave and I didn't take any pictures you know so but anyway um here's an example of um first grades um and also there's a third grade picture in there too uh we were learning about the fall and how the leaves change color and what is the science behind that about how the chlorophyll
036and the leaves actually uh dissipates it goes back into the tree and stores it in there in the winter time and so there's a little bit more than just an art project but yet it's nice to have some pieces for the children to take home and then they can see like on the little label on the corner of those pictures that they made that they created it'll say what the colors are and what the name of the chemical is that's in the leaf that is underneath the leaf um and it's there the whole time but you don't see it because the chlorophyll is hovering over it so very interesting things uh also in October uh the first grades came in uh two classes Mrs OK Conor and Mrs Stevenson and they did a fish themed
037centers uh what I love about these uh centers is that she also has her husband come in he takes the day off off or half a day uh he's a high school science teacher in penmore and he'll bring in a fish he'll purchase it from the market and actually open it up so that they can really see a true fish dissection yeah it's not for all the first grade classes and I made a center that I adapted that already had a fish skeleton in resin and fish parts that are all safe and not like gooey and and all of that but um what a great way to learn about the structures of their bodies and their adaptations so that they can survive and what makes them uniquely a fish um can't say enough about it
038and he went out in the morning and he caught a fish right in the pond we still have some rock bass or no I mean uh small mouth largemouth bass pardon me and he saved it safely and then he did put it back into the pond so the kids saw that too um in November um some of the third grade classes came in and we were uh they have in the past they've learned about turkeys I said well let's bump this up a little bit more and talk about the structures of birds what are their adaptations what makes them unique to being Birds the different kinds of feathers they have and the different functions that those serve and then I also was able to borrow um a turkey on loan from Bond Lake Park I
039used to be a member over there and uh I have some friends uh hopefully I might be able to get one of my own but it was really nice to be able to get the kids to see up close what a real turkey looks like without you know we have turkeys around on Grand Island but you don't want to get too close so um in this next slide uh you're seeing our um some of the winter field trips um with the first second kindergarten class I mean and um they're learning about what animals do and how they adapt in the winter time and one of the centers that they were doing was to make some bird feeders and so they were using some safe butter called wow butter and then um spreading them on bagels
040and seeds and so on and they were learning about how animals survive in the winter and that some birds stay around all year long and then in these two centers uh the I do a story where I read stranger in the woods and it's a lovely photographic book about animals coming into the woods and they see a Snowman and they start eating food off of the Snowman and then you find out at the end of the story the children have been making it it's almost like an animal feeder and so then they replace the seeds they replace the carrot and the corn and and so on and the kids also have animal puppets to go with each animal in the story and so they get to act it out a little B and in the
041pond room there um Mrs Simone was reading a book about hibernation and the kids were learning uh about the animals that they can find that hibernate um in the pond room so we were adding that in there and then finally the kindergarten kids love doing it the teachers too um getting a chance to go outside even if it's cold out doesn't matter as long as it's not really coming down over our heads we were going out we also did a center about tracks so it was very exciting for them to see some deer tracks and some coyote tracks uh that were freshly made in the snow so that was a big deal um and this one is a different field trip um in January the first grade classes will come in and we study mammals
042and you'll see that I have some real animal skulls there and just by examining them closely and looking at some of their features you can tell whether an animal is a carnivore an herbivore or an omnivore that would anybody want to know how it is not it's not only their teeth um they will have grinding teeth in the back if they eat plants just like we do and they'll have the sharper teeth in the front uh for tearing so I explained to the kids that we are omnivores because we eat both plants and uh animals or meat but um there's also their eye placement the sockets um their eye sockets herbivores true herbivores will have their eyes a little bit more on the side of their head as a defense so that they're looking out
043for their predators so that's another thing and then at the end of that they get a chance to touch some real animal F so and there were quite a few there's at least 10 different ones for them to see and I usually just leave out the ones where they are native to Grand Island and that's what I'm focusing in on on these last these next two slides um the third grade classes will come in and fortunately for this one um we do one class at a time many of the other field trips are two classes at a time uh but going back a couple um they're dissecting owl pellets do you know what an owl pellet is yes oh good I know Alice actually came to um the trips that we had in February um
044but they were able to dissect and look at the bones that were left um in the owl pallet and be able to determine whether it was a rat or a mouse um whether it was a bird just by looking at the structures of the bones and the shapes of them and they had a sorting chart where they could put the bones on there and then take it home um we also last year in April the students from Mrs Carpenters high school art class came in she wanted to have them do um a watercolor art study where they could take a look at some of the animals there and um make their own creation so I I added a few snapshots and they're just stunning it's amazing what they can do and to have the ability
045to use Eco Island you know so that they can see some of these animals up close and even the bugs which you know was on the previous slide I mean we have real insects that are encased in resin and most people are like but you can hold this in your hand you can turn it around at all sides and you can see where their legs are connected to the the middle part of their body the thorax um without feeling any kind of thread or harm you know so it's really good for them um I I see that this looks very very small and this was a the final slide that I have here for you um was a slide that I showed at the beginning of the school year in August but that I added
046on um another line for this year's projections so this is a number of the trips that students have made to Eco Island in the school year and followed by the number of student visits this year we are projected to have 74 trips with over over 2,000 children coming to e Island this year and I'm personally estatic I'm just so excited so I'm hoping to continue to build on our our Grand Island kids because I think that we are so lucky to have a nature center and no other school district that I know of has this and we I really want to make sure that we take care of our kids first you know and get them to EXP experience thank you so thank you so much any questions from the board de what students is
047it based on Bas teachers it's really more about the interest and I can tell you that I have an open calendar I start out at the beginning of the year and I give the teachers a link to the calendar and that calendar I I can I can send you that link too I'd be happy to show you um it is a a Google doc and it's a live document in that I can update it at any time and I invite the teachers to pick out a date that isn't already Avail you know that is available to them and to get back to me and then we can fill out a field trip and what grade it is it it is not um there is not a require requirement they can go I mean I did
048have the art students from high school come as well it it's really available to the whole District but mostly it's being utilized by uh kindergarten to grade three now I would love to get more of the fourth grades and fifth grades in but I also see where there there the connections are a little bit not as strong as far as their what they are expected to teach in in um in the classroom and being able to transfer that to Eco Island where there is a lot a lot of direct correlations to learning about animals their structures their adaptations in the earlier grades but I I'm also trying to make myself available and amenable to creating any kind of an experience for the older kids as well and really a goal is I did get more
049third grade classes in this year um they're primarily from kabine but I have peeps over at Hugh Roo and I'm working on them too so I'd love to see them and I and I love seeing new parents too uh many times I've got anywhere from four to eight parents that'll come to a trip and the first question I ask is have you been here before if you not if you haven't let me show you around you know so yeah oh great great yes thank you so much I have a quick question do middle school or high school students ever do anything with the pond as far as like water testing or water sampling or have we done anything along those lives in my two short years that I've been here that has not happened but
050I welcome the opportunity I would love that and I know that there was something about food chains that they were talking about and the activities that we have the Hands-On activities are a little bit thin for the um old older kids but I would love to expand on that I'm very open to you know trying new things that would be a great summer curriculum project for a teacher you know with the pond so idea yes it's a great idea Cindy I just want to thank you um for the passion you bring to the work you're doing I know that your enthusiasm before this position was posted was that this was truly what we wanted to do but it brings me back to my is a science major in collecting insects and like be samples in
051mym room which um been a while as a as a as that science person that I was yeah I did the same thing yes this this makes me so happy that we're doing this with our elementary levels and what a resource it is to have on Grand Island such unique resources for our kids it is and thank you um I'm hoping to try to share that enthusiasm because I know that it's really difficult for teachers to plan a field trip and to be able to put all that my energy into organizing and who's doing what and where and what kind of centers can I use and everything so I I really try to put myself out there and saying I'll work with you and the calendar that I have um it says 2023 2024 Eco
052Island reservations calendar if you were to go on to that you would see that there is a link those are not just names of what people are going on which day they are links to their itinerary so you can see exactly what kind of trip they're taking what activities they're doing and that I'm trying to make that level of transparency so that another third grade can teacher can say hey my colleague's doing this oh this looks great I would like to do it too and it's about the sharing you know so to make it a little bit easier work smarter not harder thank you yeah thank you thank you [Applause] um I'm just going to introduce our administrative team for our elementary and middle schools who are going to give you a strategic Plan update
053so if you recall back in February the high school gave you a strategic Plan update for some of the academic and other goals that the board set back in the beginning of our strategic plan 5 years ago and to kind of give us a look on where we are how things have evolved through the co pandemic and where we stand today I think you're going to notice that some of the trends that were um shown in the high school presentation are going to reflect themselves very similarly in some of our elementary presentations and Middle School presentation so I'm going to turn it over to the team um who's put this presentation together collaboratively and I think they did a pretty sistic job of getting it all on there so thank you Mr lauia good evening
054Board of Education so we are going to be speaking on behalf of the middle school and the elementary buildings all came together to do the research and to come up with this presentation because we found out that a lot at the middle school and the elementary will fall underneath the same umbrellas so I'm going to speak to the first two slides that we have here that there's just going to be an update to where we have gone from our strategic plan so both at the elementary levels and the Middle School levels we have been updating our curriculum apps they have been sent to Mr lauria's office making sure that they're updated with the Ian statements and all the standards we've been working during PD days when available to continue to do The Curriculum maps at
055both levels uh We've also been working hard with the communication and the consistency across all grade levels so that's specific to the three Elementary buildings they're working very hard K of five to make sure that they're using the same academic vocabulary and terminology and the middle school has worked a lot with the high school with our monthly department chair meetings to make sure that we are going to be consistent from a 6 to 12 basis making sure that we are going to be be using once again the same vocabulary and consistent across the same grade levels uh We've also done a lot with training for district behavioral professionals so we've been CPI trained by all faculty and staff at the elementary buildings as well as the Middle School um teachers and faculty who have been
056working in the special classes that need the CPI training we have all implemented sensory rooms in our classroom and I know the Board of Education took a tour at the middle school and saw a couple of the sensory rooms that we have there that we are using on a regular basis and the district was kind enough also to allow us to share uh behavioral support Specialists so Mr finnen is wonderful he does a lot of work at the elementary buildings and he also comes over and works at the middle school building as well and then we're getting into what I think is probably the most important piece is that we're talking about this student social skills development and at the elementary level they're doing a lot with character education they're doing a lot with the
057lunch bunches and peer buddies and making making sure that all students are working and learning to be better students but also gaining some character education and at the middle school obviously we have the web program which is absolutely fantastic our teachers have done a wonderful job and I do applaud the high school what they put on tonight it looks like it's going to be a wonderful pilot and I'm super excited to see it carrying over into the high school because character education is crucial with all grade levels and I'm really excited about the program at the high school so now I'm going to hand it over to Mr antelli so I'll share a little bit information just about our reading progress really all this St is going to be just from the last 3 years
058um although the Strategic plan did start 5 years ago we no longer use the assessment program that was linked to the old strategic plan so it's hard to see if we reach those goals so we decided to do rather was show our growth in the last three years so postco to kind of show our current progress in reading and math over the last three years and use that information help us guide our goals for the next strategic plan you're going to see a lot of these charts and these colors these are a combination of data that we get from our data results when our kids take the I ready assessments as administrators in our building and also data we get when we meet with the I ready team twice a year as well when they
059come in from the data that they've collected and they analyze and give to us really what you're looking at is green is good yellow's in the middle red is below uh so you see the same colors throughout green is going to be on grade level or above grade level so that's where you want your kids to be at the end of the year yellow is going to be one grade level below red is going to be two or more grade levels below or at risk for like a tier three intervention so that's kind what the colors you're going to see those are going to stay consistent throughout all the slides um if you look at I don't know if you guys have a paper copy for you as well but just for example if you
060look at like 2022 2023 the triangles next to where the green says 84% to the right of it it says from 17% with that 17% is the September percent that were on grade level so in that particular year it was 177% at the beginning of the year and 84 at the end of the year so that kind of let you show the growth even though it's not on the triangle it does show you the growth as well so the first slide here would be for sidway over the last 3 years so again what we're looking for as building administrators is that the percentage of the triangle that's green is obviously growing that's what we we want to see that more kids are on a grade level at the end of the classroom so your first
061three slides for reading are going to be specific to grade levels so is that for is that for all the components of reading okay so all the different components that are individually assessed yep so this is specifically reading out not math is this measured against like a National Database or what is this yes these are not this is on grade level we do have the data against National New York State and a nor as well which I will show you guys also so we have both I think I think I just want to mention too that they are renormalizing this data this current year just you no to back out uh if you go to the next slide you're going to be able to look at kekab Bin's data which again reading data so which
062has stayed consistent over the last three years I think it's also important to note that we are currently uh convening A literacy committee K to5 and doing a lot of work to look at the curriculums we offer and decide what direction we're going to head in next year just with all the changes and philosophy so obviously great that we stayed consistent and moved up um in the elementary schools and middle schools but still looking at new things to add to our teachers tool boxes as well the next slide would be dth Road and then finally the fourth one with these similar charts will be the middle school as well so again a lot of the star data comparisons was looking around 60% to 65% proficiency was their measure we don't know how that correlates to
063I ready but being that we are hanging in that postco is a good starting point I think to look at the next five years to kind of grow from there this next comes from our I ready team so this is data that's brought to us and this is going to show you KDA collectively the growth made the 2003 to 2024 school year from September just to the winter so it's good to note there is you want to be at about 50% in the green the halfway point of the year that means you're in Pace to be at 100 by the end of the year um so if you're looking at us K to 8 23 to 24 we are hanging right around that 50% on grade little at the midpoint of the school year so
064obviously you have the whole year to get there this is showing where we're at just at the halfway point so we do a halfway point collection and then obviously the end of the year collection so the first charts you saw were all full year data this would be a half year data for 2023 2024 we yes so does this include all of our enroll students this yes all of all of them that that that is K to8 right there kabine does that include our students in our a11s or is this just okay everybody okay so I just want to look we look at here um triangles here right 13% at Kress was at 5% and then bcms you know those numbers 202 21 25% as as we go through why why do those numbers change
065so much while we're sitting at 12 and 13% coming out ofine so then how does that drop the I mean is there any logic to that is there any correlation to that it's just for 13 is if there a level of reading changes I don't know the reason what I can tell you is it does stay consistent to the National Trends and the New York State Trends okay it's 10% but that is a big reason we do have the literacy committee up and specifically looking right now at 3 five and that Gap and looking to better prepare kids for middle school and then support them for middle school so it's I mean the data agrees with what we're spending our time and resources and really looking at as a curriculum team no I I I
066understand that to see 10% CH I just they have thank you it's also a little misleading if you look at like the sidway data specifically because a kindergarten can't be two grade levels below right right so there isn't going to be red in kindergarten so you have to also understand that the Gap is able to grow as children get older because there is more availability to fall behind more grade levels over time if that makesense right right I get it you got the luy they say I cheat um what this is is a breakdown where did you go you go back so this is the same data from the last slide just broken out by grade level so your fall data compared to your winter data 2023 to 2024 so this current school year you
067can look at the growth between where students came in the beginning of school year to where they are in about Jan middle of January this year so again it's not final end of the year data it's one data point could be so Jay this is against your Norms so this would be looking at the district K to 8 on the right and then on the left side you're looking at National Norms nationally year to date and New York State year today and what Mike was alluding to earlier is the most recent National Norms is 2018 2019 and why that's significant is that is preo and if you look to the right of that both the national norms and the New York State Norms have not caught up to where students were preco so really the
068good news on this slide is Grand Island is surpassed the the norm used preco um IR already is going to update their Norms next year to more current and they're going to be lower we know that so which is fine but what's nice is that we are ahead of where at least the nation was preco so that's a that's a big win for us as a district and then the next one is going to be grade levels against those same Norms so you're going to see the national Norm the national year to date and the district and the New York State year to date so again you're able to look at individual grade levels and where we are performing so far this year compared to those norms and the current nation and the current New
069York State schools that use already okay we're going to Shi yours over to math a lot of what Mr just said I'll be repeating because it's kind of the same idea we have the three triangles for each building and you're going to notice for each of the slides um there's a general trajectory of an increase for every uh for the last three years for our math in our math department um and I'd like to say that the reason because of the reason for that is because we have had at least three years in our with our I math program it's allowing us to support this growth we're seeing in math across all of our buildings you're going to notice and Def we can move on to the next slides here every slide you'll see green
070increasing red decreasing that's what we want to see you want to see the the uh green going up every single of course school year so kabine is going up HTH is going up as well um same um idea as the reading so we're doing really well with that and again we are working hard on using our I ready math program to support our teachers over the past three years we've been speaking to the 's um representative and the I representatives to really uh look at data and use that to drive our instruction we're focusing on how we can use the tools within the program to Pro to provide interventions both inside of the tier one classroom as well as our tier 2 and tier three with our support providers which is integral to making sure
071that we close that Gap uh more and more throughout the school years I know we're focused on put giving our students the intervention is inside of the classroom so we're not identifying so early in their uh end of careers um this the teachers are a lot more comfortable now they were of course being the program when we started using it there's a lot to sit through with the program but I think um it's it's showing because I think there's great growth this uh slide along just like the reading was the reading slide we're seeing great growth in the fall to winter already and uh Dr move on to the next slide there and it's showing the uh growth by grade level the national Norm again like Mr an said was 1819 school year but as
072you can see we're still on par and we've made growth in math for in every grade level um can you go one more slide as you'll see here we are doing uh we're just on part of national Norm of course it's 1819 school year and uh we're compared to the National and the new New York State year to date we're doing very well um oh the the Norms are going to be I think what we're going to need to do after the Norms have have been released which they have released for next school year we're going to need to identify how we're going to change our thresholds to identify students who need tier 2 and tier three interventions which is going to be key for us because we as Mr said they are going to
073be we're going to have lower scores our percentile ranks are going to go lower or will be lower for our students because our national Norms have been are going to be lower than they are now due to of course of post post pandemic um but I think in general math has made a great growth and I think it's in largely the support of the because of the I ready program we've had least for your time any questions with me can I just jump in right there just to make the comparison between high school middle school and Elementary now we have seen some of these similar Trends we've seist progress in math I mean I can't it's not all perfect but we have seen that that steady growth in math we have implemented a new Elementary
074program which seems to be working we've also seen some growth in our state assessment scores and 3 through a math scores um Ela at at the high school level we mentioned some concern that our Ela scor we not seeing that steady growth we're seeing kind of the same Trend not seeing it being terrible we're just not seeing the growth and we've spent entire two years is probably now talking about bla and where to go with our reading program so we will be continuing to have more information on that in the end but I just want to that I have a quick two-part question too does this program give you specific skills that students are um not successful with so just break down by math skill and then the second part so that question would be
075what do we do when students don't know it or haven't mastered a specific skill so do they know it and then when they don't what what do we do so we definitely have the ability inside of our programs to drill down specific skills and standards that our students are weaken which is what we are all pring in our buildings the next step is the interventions the tier one interventions so we're focusing on what do teachers do inside the classroom to address the students who are deficient in whatever skill or or standard and I I know that we talk a lot about say small grp construction as one of those interventions we trying and find ways to get in front of students in a small group setting to diagnose and intervene earlier on um so we're
076catching those students earlier on so we're not identifying them in tier two or tier three later on in your school years I'll just add sorry there's also a my yeah there's also a my path as well that is a individualized um instructional program that students do independently and that adapts to their ability level as they answer those questions so if the students are doing really well answer the questions correctly the ceiling goes higher and higher if they're doing poorly if they answer incorrectly it stes at a different level that's where we get all data is where we can pinpoint exactly where they fall inside of that my path so there's an individualize instruction built into the program that will look at say hey we're missing these skills these topics and they will build up those
077independent practice time so that when they're doing independent practice in those so hopefully that will it makes it individualized a lot ofev orev right well that's where we can diagnose and we hopefully will um identify those kids early on um and hopefully construction so I I have a quick question so is this data driven from like uh test day like one given day we have Windows we have diagnostic Windows every um three times a year there's like two weeks we provide teachers two week time period where they have to have their Diagnostics done and inside that two we time period they have um they have to get their math I already test on and they have to do their um read diagnostic within two weeks so it's essentially two tests within two weeks for every
078kid once the beginning of the school year once in January and once in June May or June so it's three times a year so it's there they're three times a year they're really hit well I went two different tests so it's a snippet in time it is a snippet in time yes so my question is Billy comes in he doesn't care right especially so I guess I'm talking to the middle schools right like the change so is are those test scores I will call them I know they don't they don't matter are they looked at at the actual grades that the kids are getting like if he come if if a student comes in and just flubs it right do you look to see how he's actually doing CL compared to to what he did
079on those the program if it the program will realize I'll say identify students for for lack of heavy clicking okay so they're clicking clicking clicking they're not really taking the time they will call those students the rush rush they'll put a rush flag on them so we can identify those and make them of course but they might not necessarily be rush they may just not is what I'm saying so you know somebody who so somebody who is an excellent math student could come in and be like LAX a daisy right and you know not give us all and not score what you could score not necessarily happen to CLI you done 5 minutes because then he time right is there any correlation given in that case I do have Inc right no I'm not asking
080for an incentive what I'm saying is do you look to say okay so so it's my son he comes in he blows it right and now you're trying to drill down to find out what what his issue was and really he had a bad day and we understand that and we all know so I'm just wondering if there's any and I'm not saying was my I'm just saying in that is there any look back to what we're actually doing in the past we consider everything and we know it's one point in time we much like any other assessments um and we'll consider other things that will help us figure out where to go from there so back to the Happy clicking or the you know La go child maybe that doesn't really care about this
081assessment is there any incentive to get them to care to do well in the test so we know that we're actually measuring their best per performance so we know that they really don't know what's being shown on the test and they really do I mean obviously if they get it right it's probably more than just lock if it's classroom teachers do have incentives within their in their classrooms there's not a schoolwide one I would say that I have in my building um uh but I know classroom teachers have like they have the students know what their their their goal they create goals for students and so the students are trying to reach those goals they're trying to help them Reach that goal for the diagnostic so they drive it inside the classroom with those specific
082kinds of um incentives and Max I think to excuse me if a child was just you know happy clicking or just moving too quickly um sometimes this data leads to the the possibility of academic intervention services so the the intrinsic motivator there if you know your stuff show us so that it's not skewing the data so that you have to get pulled out or tier two or tier three three interventions yeah so and lastly I I would add that our principles get a document from me because we have created an early warning system in forast 5 analytics and that includes I ready math and Ela it includes uh grade level uh scores you know their actual sumita of report card grades attendance Behavior or it's all combined so when our principles can sit and Lead
083their academic intervention teams and their child study team they can they have a broad uh take you know a 30,000 foot view of what happened in the previous year and then they make professional decisions and who really needs academic intervention well and some K they're just not good it's testing they're just I mean it's it's proven it's known right it's you know some some kids that are I mean SATs acts right it's it's known that's why I was just wondering if there's any book back you know your students that's why I was just asking the question there isn't really as administrators but I can tell you that multiple times I had a teacher walk in and go Johnny just finished his ey writing do match Che right it's really so this data isn't really what
084we're using every day this is much more macro data to share with you guys what we're looking at is individual classroom data individual student data groupings of students for interventions based on the specific reading or mass skill they deficient to group them together this is share with you what we're looking at actually as names attached to with teachers and students not really a grade level or a school we also no I understand that I also personally I look at growth as well because we can drill down and see how much student has grown and if their growth is typical or stretch which they call those two things that's another factor in what we might do for interventions um so that's just another key okay hi everyone I'm going to go over the next group of
085slides um where we look at some of the New York State assessment data for ELA and math for grades 3 through 8 over the past 3 years the format of the assessment was different each year um so in 20121 students were only assessed using session one of the test and in 2022 when we came back from covid they were assessed in sessions 1 and two and then in 2023 it changed again to align with the Next Generation state standards for Math and EA you can go to the next slide Dr gr um and then this just gives information um broken down in regards to the percent of test refusals for students in grade 3 through 8 each year and then it's also important to note that any student who was receiving remote instruction in 2021
086was not assessed and this is just looking at Ela but math is the same format when we go through um then you're going to see a a set of line graphs for kaby youth in the middle school and it represents the proficiency levels for students in grades 3 through 8 and both El and math again and then um any students who score three or four on those assessments are what is considered to be proficient by the state so that is kabine for ELA and then we have HTH Ela and the middle school and then on the next slide um you see where Grand Island ranks and County and all New York state in grades 3 through 8 for ELA and math assessments so if you flip through the next group Dr gr then we have
087our math as well and I know you have an in front of you so I don't know if you have any questions about that Dr pach do you want to throw a little uh thanks to to one of your teachers who goes to the state and helps yes Cy the M area yes she goes and she helps write questions for New York state for our students to be assessed so she does awesome work with that right and then I'm going to turn it over to Adam to wrap it up on what's next for us uh so what's next the middle school and the Elementary School got together and we came up with some ideas and some goals that we'd like to put forth to the next strategic plan that we're speaking to and one of
088them is the that they've already been in the process of implementing a comprehensive literacy program to improve the reading and the writing skills in K uh through grades 3 through 5 also to review the science resources in New York state standards and how they've adjusted in the new assessment needs that we're doing because now we are a CVT as well for the Science assessment uh the stem program the robotics integration review of the curriculum MTH we're going to continue to do that we're going to also promote diversity equity and inclusion in the school Community continue to support students social and emotional needs and we're doing that at every single level and a big push for both levels is going to be the incentive that we have for the attendance to educate middle school students but
089also the elementary schools the significance of coming to school and the importance of doing that I know at the middle school level we are really uh taking a hard stance with attendance making sure students are coming to school and that we are going to be openly communicating with families if they're not and um yeah that's it you've seen some of these posters through throughout the midd school to your attendance manners posters I appreciate that yeah Mrs Fox um adjusted it they came from another district and she kind of modeled it to do for uh vcms so we've been putting it up and also through our attendance meeting sharing with families and trying to educate the importance of of coming to school or more so communicating with us for reasoning if they're having difficulties coming I
090just want to add that the first goal um that was mentioned in the elementary implementing a comprehensive literacy program for reading um is something that we spent a lot of time on our literacy committee met just last week and has made a recommendation for a new reading program for grades 3 through five um I will be bringing that recommendation to you at our next board meeting with a little bit more information and also asking for us to consider it for our textbook approval process even though it's an overall program it's got digital features but it's the magnetic reading program for curriculum Associates and I want to say just how happy and proud I am that we have actually all as a committee is an elementary um P5 program coming to a consensus and I think
091everyone is very happy with the recation and I'll have more information to provide with you Ming forward thank you thank you does anyone have any questions okay um we're going to take a short five minute break and ask students to uh come on up and have a sign any sheets that need to be signed so you can be dismissed and then um if anyone needs to get up and stretch go ahead continue on personel instructional all right there is if I could yeah if I can have a motion to through P1 through P4 please for instructional and a second all in favor I any objections any extensions motion carries 70 and if I could have a motion to approve P1 through pn4 please motion and a second all in favor I any objections any extensions
092motion carries s zero and yeah we didy um under Finance um if I could have a motion to approve finance a a tops donation Mo and the second all in favor I any objections any exensions Dr Mar to review the um information items before the budget yes so uh I BC and D are informational uh B is the treasurer's report C is the revenue status report and then D is the check warrants for February then e is the third budget presentation is it okay if we just kind of clean up a few things maybe just go to special get motion for thank you second second all in favor I any objections any exensions car 70 thank you very much so uh today as the board probably has seen in its review there are just some
093minor changes to the previous budget presentation the big information that we're going to be waiting for of course is how the state uh adapts and is flexible with respect to the the executive bu as it was first drafted and all the pressure not only locally from senators and assembly people uh superintendents and teachers but uh throughout the entire state so uh we do know that the on house uh bill that combines the Senate and assembly requests back to the governor has requested a 3% additional uh additional percentage on Foundation aid from the previous year as the board knows and looking at the presentations were uh set to lose out at about 159,000 but if the governor accepts the Senate and assembly's uh draft uh budget that they're pushing for we could see up to 3%
094which be very pleased as well so so that with that missing information it is difficult sometimes to uh show you significant changes so um I do want to go back uh well so sometimes we have to look at different screens but uh Bob have you made any adjustments to the agenda or anything of that nature the only uh major material change was on um the Major Impact items um I did change uh some of the categories on those items I did share with the board uh those changes um but the the only number that really changed down there was for uh the the uh benefits for health insurance uh I did include a updated uh health insurance number and subtracted uh the portion that would be contributed by employees for the contract um so and
095we'll get to those right in the slides I just was curious as far as the agenda goes pretty much the same as last night sorry with respect to health insurance what's the cost that we pay for emplo health insurance at this point uh the plan is about $29,000 uh the employee spouse I believe is about 26,000 employee and children I want to say is around 22,000 and then the S plane I believe is about 10 or 11,000 for enrollment really no changes since you know the last time we were together um so you've seen these slides really nothing has changed I'm going to jump ahead to uh the uh presentation that teachers made at the last budget um session and I just want to show that uh this uh we will make some adjustments as
096it relates to projected uh enrollment at the uh middle school so you'll see that uh for this is current enrollment and then for next year you'll see that this will day and this portion of the slide will go away based on the board's feedback uh at the last uh budget session I went through that pretty quickly apologize is there any feedback comments from the board based on uh the presentation last time or that's correct that seem to be the the direction that the board wanted so um so this is a new slide that shows the board that based on the retirements that we showed you uh last session that we are recommending that we reduce one elementary teacher meaning that teacher has uh said that that teacher would retire so instead of hiring back another
097elementary teacher our recommendation is to reduce by attrition uh but however we definitely need the secondary Spanish we need the guid counselor at the high school and we meet the science teacher at uh the middle school any questions about this recommendation so uh this is the proposed budget um at the current state you'll see that uh it did go down slightly from last time based on those Healthcare uh adjustments that I spoke of um on the bottom there um there are some remaining requests that we still need to decide on those total about $244,500 um we'll get there in just a second and I will show you specifically what those requests um are still um the ones that are still there the elor uh executive budget recap has not changed um I did include a
098slide uh so the finance and legislation team at U1 Bose's put together some historical um perspective on how they've decided on the budget so if you take a look at this um the executive budget are the green bars the assembly budget are the the uh one proposed by the assembly are the orange bars the ones proposed by the Senate are the uh light blue bars and then the actual uh budget that was adopted are the dark blue bars so you can see over time uh how those compare to each other um sometimes often the exe or the um the executiv is quite a bit lower than what the assembly in the Senate propos and uh the actual uh typically ends up being kind of somewhere in between those numbers so just to give you some
099uh historical perspective on what's happened over the last several years and uh viously this year is to be determined but you can see in the 20 uh the 2425 um area on the right the executive proposal is $825 million the um the assembly is 1.8 billion and the Senate is $2.47 billion so uh there is quite a quite a gap between the executive's proposal and their proposals um my guess is is you know it'll be somewhere slightly above the executive proposal hopefully that's what we're we're hoping to see uh the state aid proposal has not changed at this time um but we expect that the governor will enact her budget April 1st that's the deadline we will be on spring break and the chances uh last year her budget was delayed but we knew what
100we were going to get so we weren't concerned that it was delayed this year it is a concern and we hope that the governor enacts a budget uh that is representative of the Senate and assembly's endorsement uh so maybe when we come back from spring break we'll have some water information correct possibly uh the information we have right now is that it is kind of expected to be delayed past April 1st um they're just coming back to session this week and then and then they end session for um Easter and then they come back next week so uh at this time we're not necessarily expecting them to be done by April 1st but they are cognizant that we need to get our budgets going so you know they will be working very hard to St
101and across the state this is huge information half the states or half the districts have been uh impacted negatively based on the governor's first draft of her budget and uh the work going on behind the scenes to advocate for long for our students is significant and we do hope that the governor is listening to that so please be patient with us we may not have all the information for you until the next meeting which is April April 16th April 16th yes so I was going to bring it up later but uh the April 9th uh tenative meeting we probably won't have more information by then so we don't I don't think we need to to schedule that special meeting uh I think we go right to April 16th ready for that um um so just
102a minor change here the um basic budget some of all revenues decreased slightly based on those healthare numbers the major expenditures um I did as I I stated earlier I did recategorized some stuff I took a look at how things were categorized in the past and adjusted how I categorize things um to to better match that so we can get a better picture of the true year-over-year difference um some of the major adjustments were uh The Substitute I had some things categorized in that category that should have been categorized in the salary category um so that substitute number did not appear to go up quite quite as significantly as in the previous presentation um and then there was a few things in the other category that have been in other categories most notably uh there
103was uh several health care costs that were in the other category that should have been in the benefits category um so we move those up and then um as I stated the benefits category went up a bit to um to reflect the increase in uh healthare based on some more final numbers that we've received again you know we're still working on a lot of these numbers those numbers deal with the contracts things like that so um and then I subtracted off the employee contribution um all of the employes have some contribution that varies uh contract by contract um so the bottom line uh went down to 77 m168 but again these numbers that number does not include any potential contract settlements at this time we will have those numbers for April 16th as well um
104I did also provide uh based on board's question uh detailed um accounting of the other category um as well as answers to some questions that I have received is there any more questions on that or anything further explain to the board those questions I know I um I didn't get a chance to Che to so me I did include uh so the the package that I handed out at the beginning uh did address those questions so um the first uh 18 or 20 Pages here are the accounting of the other category line by line is requested and then so um I did include uh so if you get past that and you get to the sheet that says uh a1010 4002 that's the book Boe the Board of Education contract line um so I did
105give you a detail accounting of that line so most of that is used to pay the uh New York State School boards Association membership fee and the Erie County Association School Board fee um and then the miscellaneous line is used for um different uh Publications things like that um food for various events conference and travel line is is used for any conference and travel expenses that are incurred and then also the uh supply line and how that's used and then um there was a question about the unallocated Insurance contractual and so that is primarily our um our liability insurance to n sir that's uh that was almost $300,000 this year um and then we also have uh our student accident insurance through AG administrators um along with some other various costs in there but those
106are primarily the two biggest things that make up that category um there was a question about the unclassified contract that budget is $4,500 that has not been used in a couple of years the last time I did include a sheet there the last time that was used was in the 2021 school year and that was um uh had had an expense of [Music] $22,600 and correct' and you know there's some of those things there's the budget is a breathing thing right so we we try to find the best we can for everything you know but there's some things on occasion that don't get used a certain year and then another year will get used um then the next page is all of the miscellaneous categories that we asked for you can see the various miscellaneous
107categories that are used there uh the public info miscellaneous that one is about $4,000 so far about 2,000 that has been expended but a lot of times that's used to send out Publications from the board we'll probably use the other half of that we send out the um budget vote information uh to to all the district residents so I guess the the question I have with all the other other is is there any way be mitigated down any of these cost or have they been looked at where over the past couple years maybe it's x amount of dollars Which is less than you know what we're hoping for to kind of work towards balancing education yeah so that's a challenging question I would say so with most of the items in the other category most
108of them have not been an increased over the past s years and we all know the cost of everything has been inced the past several years so you know what they've been able to use those dollars for is shrunk more so uh to answer your question yes there's probably some areas we can find some savings but 250,000 would we would be taking I'm not saying the full yeah I'm not saying the full I'm just saying to help contribute toward that short you know if there's any way that we can look at this and see is there a way that some of this can be you know if it hasn't certain things I understand have to but are there other are there other items that maybe are lost and have been continuously lost over time but
109we're always charging more more something that has never been used or used in five years that maybe something El just to kind offset it so the kids are not in disant something that's administrative that's just kind of sitting in in a pool you know and I you know I can I can most certainly take a look at that um but also say that you know sometimes we need more in an area and you know sometimes we'll you know look at that lat year and say all right we over spent in this category so Mone this ceg know take later on in the year so we can most certainly take a look and um so what about the uh contractual cling versus the vehicle purchase cling how is that going to work are we is that
110both going be imp we have a fund allocated for contrac and then fund for alloc for purchase new lesses too right so is there can you just um better explain why f are be necessary for 2023 or I'm sorry for next year's budget yeah so you know that's where it gets challenging right so the contract busing is kind of a bandaid right now so but with the with the bus replacement plan you know buses last about 10 years that's our current replacement cycle so if we were to stop that replacement we're going to shoot ourselves in the fo down the road so that's where you're in the Catch 22 of trying to maintain the the current program it hopes that you know you get the STA to to get back where you don't need the
111Contra bu so you're almost kind of paying for it twice but it's hard to get around that right now because of the situation that we're in our hope is to get away busing to get back into program um so it's it's quite you know it's challenging and um you know we're going to look to um do a study and our transportation department and get some guidance on you know what the best way forward will be to come up with the long Solutions I have two questions so the first one is are we still looking at dep to1000 I I I took that second part and bear with me let me get question out for all of you out there so I see we're looking to do an equipment increase for all our now I understand
112um there's money in the budget on those lines I understand pricing is going up have we ever looked at or is it if you ever looked at doing that kind of like we did with the technology and equipment or our fitness center and putting it going through the buildings realizing their needs putting it on a plan 2year plan 5e plan 10e plan and really addressing the needs as a whole so that we can instead of increasing it every year maybe look to the needs make a plan and if it's a big expense putting it into a capital project I don't you know I mean we're looking here you know it's quite a bit of money that we're adding to an existing line item and I realize obviously the need for the equipment I mean there
113are desks here in the high school that I said in myself right so I I don't I'm not saying no but I'm just saying is that a different way we could look at it and have a plan for it you know I just you know I mean I mean that's a big no it's it's a great question so you know a couple thoughts on that you know in regards to Capital project none of those things would be so so uh we wouldn't we wouldn't get any building Aid on the capital project and you know so so part of the reason that I recomended the the increase in the equipment budget is because we we've had so little in there the past several years they haven't really do much and the need just keeps growing and
114GR so I I agree a long-term plan is is probably a great idea um and something that we most certainly be willing to do um but with the current way we current currently are the current uh budget levels for the schools they really can't do almost anything with that so at least this will given something small to at least be able to replace a couple tables a year or desks it's really not a ton I agree we should probably look planning yeah I was just trying I thought I was looking through this and of course it's very hard to what but you know I don't I don't know what's allocated per year I'm just wondering in um you know C that replaced the um tables and chairs in their cafeteria I think sway would like
115to leave us partially PAB a but I mean really if you you put together a plan with a better budget for that right instead of trying to throw you know $3,700 at it every year it's really what can they buy with $3,700 well that's kind of I can't buy a couch for my living right now you know they have 1500 a couple of those schools have 1500 you know Kine uh PE and sway all have $1,500 this year so I'm looking at this 2000-05 that says teaching equipment for 33,000 yeah so that's a district line that we use when there's emergencies to purchase okay for example we had to purchase some uh some gas ranges for High School this year thatch so we had some some emergencies advice because I thought in years past we
116have increased these equipment in the past so you're telling me that you only has $1,500 on your yes ma'am and uh they were decreased at some point I don't know if it was last year or the year before I can't recall but they were decreased at at some point in the recent past I still think going forward we need to Comm plan like a replacement plan like we did in the tech Wing um that we did for our fitness center I think I think then we could get a better handle on what is needed and set a plan right and then we're not that may be included in there be doing building condition surveys I'm not sure that equipment is included some of it will be a some of it might not be so I'd
117be Happ principl yeah I don't know I don't know if that would be helpful something you guys would be interested in but I I really think it would help us as a board and a district really get to handle and what is needed actual cost is and then we can make a 5e plan and I don't know what it would look like with the cost but I think it would really help us make a better Financial because those things are not aable it would probably be great for a capital Outlet project too I don't know how far out our Capital Outlet project I don't think we can do fure things like that I don't think we can but I do like the longterm idea I would say I walk by the middle school every day
118that furniture is very outdated very out talking about the lunch Middle School lunchroom yes yeah so I understand the need I just I think do absolutely it is you know Cs on the table it's very expensive to change out all those T but it' be good to look at it with some projected costs for sure any additional questions on theor imp to the budg overie so uh in the budget overview this accounts for all of the increases uh year-over-year um so we saw an increase of uh 3.83 M uh million doll and so if you go through these items uh they will all add up to that $3.82 million so in the Human Resources with uh compensation compensation changes again this does not include any collected uh any new collected bar bargaining settlements um but
119all of those categories for resources um B's budget we expect an increase increase in special education costs um for about 337,000 construction program school buildings uh we did ask for uh those increase is in equipment I will note that uh the high school equipment line there uh that was an increase of 32,500 um and and the equipment costs that I did ask for additionally were proportionate to the student population so the number of students there and kind of distributed that accordingly for the high school that 325 includes excuse me includes the $225,000 that was committed to the technology program under the Athletics budget uh it's a $177,000 increase 15,000 of that is for the fitness center commitment um so there's the equipment sub totals and then District wide supplies year-over-year went up about 18,000 9,000
120in confidence and travel uh and then contractual uh obligations increase about 824 110,000 total uh Support Services uh you see the the 400,000 in contractual Transportation there fuel increase of about 10,000 estimated operations and M maintenance 232 there for a total 44 7,000 Debt Service um are as we pay down our past debt the interest goes down significantly and the principal goes down as well so uh we'll see about $370,000 in savings there that does impact our tax cap so um that money that that comes off of there actually decreases the amount that we can um raise the tax ly in in the following year and then uh the transfer to Food Service uh you'll see a negative $85,000 year over-year that that's the uh that would be that food service transfer that is no
121longer going to happen um so it looks it's a negative because it's year over so last year we did the transfer this year we wouldn't that's what was in the budget so the total Appropriations increase would be that 3.4 million and then the revenues have not changed um so our total in uh Revenue increase would be about 700,000 leaving us a budget to budget gap of 2.7 million moving on to the new requests the remaining new requests here are what make up that $244,000 that was identified earlier um I highlighted the remaining requests there uh there's a request for a 1.0 science teacher at the high school um as we saw presented earlier uh there's a request for a seal or sorry blue crew Academy pilot coordinator and a seal of Civic Readiness coordinator and
122then uh a request for school front software to be used for onboarding Community adpen increase high school supplies and materials needed for the blue crew Academy pilot uh a resurfacing of the main gym floor for athletics and then um some cyber security uh packages through bosis um to enhance our our cyber security U package any questions about any of those items I'll just add that uh Mr laia myself Cheryl and Bob looked at the course requests for the high school today uh so we do see the need to continue to advocate for the science position we something new in last year's budget as well so yes ma'am gr yeah um so that in last year's budget it was to create a position for um the data privacy officer um and so uh how do I
123want to this um this is jump in a little bit and then you can help me out so we we were audited by the state education department and they identified areas of vulnerability for the district so not only did we hire somebody Crea in position but now we need to make sure that we are adding layers to protect us from outside attacks in the cyber world so I would assume uh that the uh besides this isn't increasing salary or anything for people these are tools that we can use to keep us safe against ransomware attacks and fishing attacks corre so um the so the first line there there's through bosies they offer two two or three different vendors they offer packages for detection response there's a managed detection response and then there's another type of
124detection response so when they detect uh hack hackers or cyber criminals you know trying to get into your system it there's a service to help you respond to those attacks deal with them to make sure your secur is up to date things like that so you know I'm sure you've seen in the news the amount of cyber attacks that are just going up and up and up and you know the reason why this is kind of surviv is to to help us you know we're a big district and you know got a lot of dollars people any other questions um so just uh talking about the capital outlay plan briefly um they did try to increase this from $100,000 last year to 250,000 that did not survive last year's budget the governor did not include
125that in her budget this year the house and assembly both uh included that in their budgets so um I Won't Say I'm super optimistic but lot of advocacy to increase $100,000 in a district like ours doesn't really even replace an entire proof you know so this is good it's good we hope that we get flexibility from the governor to increase it to the 250 yes sir so uh currently our uh Capital outlay project for this year and for next year is to install access controls at kabine um we just have the vendor in uh last week or the week before to go through and we walk the building with them to look at all the doors and make sure we have the proper Hardware identified for that so that'll be the plan for this year
126and for next year I I do want to remind the board that Angelo morelo and Sean Ryan have supported us in requests for example with the capital small Capital so if we need to go back to them I'm sure we will yes so uh with that being said we did finally get confirmation of funding uh within the last couple weeks from the dormatory authority of the state of New York that's where the Shan Ry money came in um I believe that was about 115,000 that money will be used to do the door hardware and S so uh by early next year we're hoping to have all three elementary schools completed with that uh Access Control Hardware um so the budget recap not a ton of changes here uh again the only real material change was
127to healthcare which brought the toal is down uh slightly so on the bottom of that you'll see the uh the budget to budget different without the request is about 2.7 million and then with those requests added back end is about just over 2.9 on that line on that the revenue line has the appropriate fund balance 6.7 million okay which is significantly higher than last year explain that in how that affects us yeah so uh that is the difference between the uh Revenue budget and the expense budget so um that has that did go down uh a little bit from the last presentation uh because of the change in healthare but um basically that is how you close the budget Gap you know with the appropriate difference which which affects us how so you know it
128would that that would be the amount if if we only realized the uh budgeted uh revenues and then we spent everything we we plan to spend on the expenses that would be the amount that we'd have to take from the fund balance to our fund balance would be going down result correct yes sir that questions on this uh this graph budget recap and fund balance on the next slide has not changed from last time that was the same as presented on March 11th uh tax cap is also the same from March 11 as well as slide 44 um the bus proposition number two I did update that budgeted amount on there to reflect 675,000 um we are uh hoping to purchase two large 65 passenger buses this year 142 passenger bus with a rear lift
129and then two Ford F350 4x4s for buildings and grounds um those buses as I stated earlier on our 10e replacement plan down from our last it did so the the budgeted uh number on the last presentation I believe was 775,000 so it down by $100,000 the same amount of last oh that's right so that's why I was confused as the the 675 is slightly higher than if you added those five vehicles up but that us a little bit room Ines inrease any other questions on the bus position do we have any that we once goes to auction believe to offset any of this or yes yes ma'am so any you know once they get past that 10 years uh usually you know we we kind of see where they're at but um you know then
130they do go on Auctions International we don't usually get a whole ton of money for them uh the small buses uh we do usually get a reasonable amount back the big buses we only usually get a couple by the time they get to 10 years old they've got a lot of wear and tear from weather and salt and and things like that so you know they're not there's not a huge market for them especially antipa um other questions on the vehicles there Jo and I are just looking at the Board of Education expenses um um and and we can send you an email on this but there's there's just some expenses that under miscellaneous um mag mag Frontier Publications for 700 bucks Tops Markets for 800 the travel expenses I mean we're looking to think
131that maybe can do our part It's not a lot of money looking at our travel expenses and our miscellaneous we could probably do our part to cut some um but we need to understand what some of this is before um I think J can answer a couple things we can put it in an email you know and then um's a lot of different interest of time yeah you guys I'm not I mean if you'd like to answer that time if you have that's great I just Emil couple we have that one the wnyy for $1,400 yeah so that was the uh the board retreat legal okay yeah I just if we just I mean one that told day to put on gotcha okay just just some things maybe you know I mean won't amount to
132much but certainly we can do our part absolutely um so um yeah we'll put together an email and put it out there for everybody to see and see what we can do thank you'll be something abolutely so then uh we uh as I mentioned earlier I don't think we'll need that atted the special meeting day I don't think we'll have enough information in time to really have much new but April 16th will be our last possible day to adopt the budget and you just never know yeah we don't need to necessarily take it out but you know I just not uh overly optimistic that we'll have more information at that time if we do we'll definitely communicate with the board bya email just to share any good news that may absolutely um and then the
133public hearing on May 13th and the vote on May 21st any other questions comments concerns about the budget I had a question about the um it's about six pages from the back the unclassified contract amount of $4500 that was a1989 400- 05 what did you say that was you score again it was still in the budget and not used it's in the the packet that you handed out are are you asking about what it was used for in 2021 to accommodate for program wise but I didn't catch what programs it was allotted for so this is uh are you asking about the uh 2324 page no I'm asking that's a single page or the [Music] 2021 single page 19 4005 yeah there's there's two pages for that there's one from the current year that says
1342324 on the top and then I I included one from 2021 that was the last time that that budget line was used um just to kind of show you the last time there so the last time it was used I believe it was used to cover um some special edit contractual costs um it hasn't been used last couple years so it's it's kind of a you know when you're doing a budget there's certain buckets Things fall into and then sometimes they don't fall into bucket and that's what the miscellaneous L typically used for so this can be used for things program wise that AR is it specific to special ed or anyr that particular line is not um I don't it's an unclassified line so it could really be used by by any programs so
135you know as I said the like towards the end of the year when when certain funds get used up we might use this to support the program um you know if R you know that that's kind of how our budget transfers happen so you know if we get to the end of the year and we see all right we're not going to need this this this year but you know we have a need over at this school for this and that transfer and it for something else thank you thank you so we took care of special education and is it okay if I just show a few slides and the superintend report make it quick right of course I understand completely so as the board knows we've been advocating with our representatives from the assembly
136and the Senate uh I was invited to a meeting at willville South with other superintendents in the New York State teachers union as well as uh members of the assembly and Senate and they announced their intent to do everything they can with their one house bill to raise uh additional funding and Foundation Aid by 3% doesn't mean that that's going to happen but that's what they've done listening to uh people advocating for change we already heard from our student I do want to make sure that the board understands that uh we are looking very carefully at the opportunity to install our own solar on our roofs and and some of our properties uh we're going to have a presentation Bob and I I think this Weekes Wednesday from U montante sber we do want to
137thank johnrick for making the introduction for us and uh we think there may be some incredible opportunities for our district to save in utility costs over the next 20 or 25 years we'll know more on Wednesday and then if we think it's worthy of uh board uh consideration we will bring uh them back to do a presentation ultimately we would have to RFP this uh for other companies to respond but right now we're we're intrigued by some of the information that they're sharing with us so we'll have more information at the next at the next board meeting for you I do want to make a reminder to our community that we need your help and making sure that uh people driving on our roads are not trying to pass stop school buses this was a
138post on Facebook you can see that this car on St point was trying to go around the bus the stop sign you can see the stop sign here is out and you can see it's kind of hard to see but that there's a little circle you can see a child's foot right so remember Stony Point on the way to Ransom there are Dash lines of the car could you know legally try to pass a vehicle but this bus was had the stop arm out and you can see that this was very dangerous we will have those bu cameras to so it wouldn't be that soon so here's some additional information for the board uh there have been some legal challenges in New York state the appell uh Court uh ruled against School Bus cameras uh
139this article is March 8th 2024 uh there is a lobbyist s ho who has been working with uh companies that offer the cameras for the bus for stop armor cameras I sent this article to S boy um by the way also there was another class action lawsuit in Hemstead against these cameras and uh Sam poy did respond to me that there's a bill in both houses that would help create a stronger law as it relates to school bus stop our cameras so more to come I I understand a lot of people in the community want this immediately but we can't uh do it yet we fully understand whether or not um these citations and the law will hold up so there is a New York state law around this but Sam and his team are
140trying to make it a stronger law I you know I just think it's important we talked about I think at the Joint School Board Town board me the school board's on board and so is the town board um and the law and what needs to be written actually has to come from our zwn board not from our school board so um I know Brian has been working with our supervisor on that and as soon as everything is confirmed and good to go our Our Town board is ready to act on that right so um the action actually has to come from our town board but as long as as full support from us we do have full support from them of course nothing happens fast we just have to wait unfortunate and local town government
141I'm sure they're concerned about some of the rulings across State against these Camp so so there's there's a couple pieces and layers of play but we think it's important we're very supportive as Sue said and as soon as we see the law has been tightened it'll make more economic sense to Mo forward okay um just these are just some slides some of our students had an opportunity in 11th grade to go to the college here at Buffalo convention C and we school counselors for initiating that and as the board knows uh two smoke shops on Grand Island uh were uh have been under scrutiny from uh the ER County Sheriff's Office and just as a reminder for our community uh there was an arrest made and it was identified that cannabis was being sold to
142miners in our community so we just want to continue to keep this on the radar for our community and that's you want to say anything about this um no I'll just a little just um we really have started to solidify the um the plans for the par show we're really excited about it we um are going to be we have our um we did get sponsor Certified Auto has stuck up to be a sponsor we have be looking to other local businesses for um sponsorship whether it be through finances or we are looking for some food donations um we are going to have a hot dog stand with some stuff so we did do sponsorship letters and stuff like that so we are going to be looking for some Community Support not only to show
143up and have a great time success stud thank you very much okay thank you um under Board of Education report Su um kidb we just touched on that did you have anything else for that no okay um Sherry districtwide Wellness committee report do we have any updates on the vending machines um so we've been diligently trying to contact Cy who doesn't seem to uh we return our call but uh you did share that contact with me so we will try to reach out to them so we want to make sure that there's no current contract in place with anybody uh and once we verify that we will ask them to come machines and then we will come to board with a recommendation of the new vendor and to approve the vendor a I have a
144quick question so does is Pepsi the vendor for both the py machines and the snack machines because in past um when I worked with vending machines there Pepsi did the Pepsi machines and then it was a SE vendor for snack machines they were not one the same so um to my knowledge Pepsi does all of the machines with the exception of one there is one machine that a different vendor is operating and contract that particular we found some Pepsi contracts that back to the 9s ear 2000s I haven't found anything uh in regards to that so um but to my knowledge everything is peps owned other than that one s Ma so all the beverage machines are just the snack machine not correct I I don't know if there's more snack machines so are you
145looking to swap out Pepsi Al together so there will be no Pepsi products on so I I guess um I guess I don't understand why we can't have vot right like did we did we take a PO take a surve surve they survey the kids and the kids want healthier choices all the kids because um I I just think we should do both yeah I can see healthy Cho in addition I I don't think we should do both and if did you share the survey results with us because I don't I don't know that we can make a decision not having those results but I can't see not having healthy and not healthy and leaving the choices up to the children right because um I can't see if my son was surveyed that he would
146not want to have a p machine if I can answer some I think we need to have both so I I think a lot of the major concern right now is that Pepsi is just not filling machines so not Pepsi coat I I think we have to have a balance of healthy and not healthy are because we we still have Casey's Cabana that has things too right and these aren't available during lunch and breakfast right they have chips and stuff I I would defer Administration yeah I I I just think that we can't take everything out that's not healthy right like if a kid wants to have a Coke after he's had practice for 3 hours he should be able to have a Coke or he can grab a vitamin water if he wants right
147that we still have to give our choices I believe the proposed vendor would have wouldn't necessarily be Pepsi would be a vending company that have so I'm saying perhaps it could be C but I think I think our our has our children should be able to make choices the proposed vend at this time um is not with a big company they're just a vending service um so they would have a variety of different variety we can when he brings it we can show what what variety they'll bring to make sure that you know they have more of a choice um but they did survey and the kids do want healthare choices and they Health choices but I think if we're going to make the change we should we should have both and not just all
148healthy choices right I think the one way we can meet and see exactly what the vendor offering and can obiously present yeah I mean there's many vendors out there that provide a ton of choices we could put RFP up there as well it's kind of mple vendors too when I worked in the hotel industry had multiple vors had multiple part of the vending machine part of the the benefit from them is a lot of times you get a certain percentage back that goes back to the program I part of it goes to the program um so we can most certainly it for different options and the bo I used to work with companies in the hotel industry so you can have more than one you have lots of multiple choices yeah I know the high
149school and middle school teachers could come together um and they really hadn't work with a specific company that they wanted um but yeah I'm sorry I just like to add there also maybe a cost differential like personally when I'm working at the gyming at the healthy option a lot more expensive so um also understanding the cost cost differential which may add to but you could circulate the survey results and actually and not only do I want to see the survey result but I want to know how large the study was how many people it was conducted and in what age groups were do we currently get profits uh donated back to our Athletics or anything like that from the vending machines and what is the rate of I'm not sure I want to say it's
150around 10% but the find contract that specifies that and I know that's part of the issue right because before when they were stocking machines regularly there was you know a good amount coming back to that program but now that they're not really stocking the machines on a regular basis not only you know is that option not there for our students and for our staff because some of these machines are in staff locations as well but so not only are they not getting what they need but we're also those programs are't benefiting from you know some of those profits that's snack machine J and not in like all the time anyway so I you know I just I just want to make sure if we're making there's there's choices for everyone and and and I agree
151with healthy choices I just think they we could have unhealthy choices as well I think there could be a balance I mean even in hospital waiting there's healthy choices and unhealthy choices right if you've ever sat for hours um cardiac ha they're there too so I just think we could really do it for both especially seeing they're not they're locked during lunchtime and breakfast time and right it's Cally SS so think we can do a balance we also have you have anything else for the wellness committee I just know at the last meeting they updated we looked at updating the policy um just to make sure that we're reflecting what it's saying it hasn't been updated in a few years so um I appreciate the efforts for that Al adding this all the services that
152is now offering which is a lot more when it comes to Wellness um to make sure that's included in the policy to reflect how much training we're doing for the teachers and um and on all Wellness levels right social emotional as well so I just appreciate all the efforts from the committee and updating that and making sure that benting students okay I did ask that Community ad be put on this agenda it didn't get on this agenda but I did email out the board so so if you check your email the community ad Report with the financials from the last meeting which was um which was our on the date of our last board meeting so if we could add it to April 16th yeah we'll add it to April 16th so that just so
153it's in the Board of Education report agenda but you do have the financial information from the last meeting in your email um and then C here is Bose's um Board of Education candidates for your review VI will be voting on those in April at the meeting then public Comon session General items not included in this agenda we did not did you guys get a chance to work with those candidates anybody any questions we need any more additional information on those well I mean if nobody had any questions vote today you wouldn't have to postpone it I just I didn't okay so yeah so April 16th that's just for your information then yep April 16th we can vote on the candidates um we'll do that at our next meeting so sorry about that that brings us
154to public Comon session General items not included in this agenda we did not have anyone sign up so we will move ahead to Committee of the whole items and information for the round table beginning with I'm sure um I just wanted to um at the next meeting um I I'll send an email out to request when we ask for agenda items but I wanted to give a heads up I was interested in talking again about you know brought this to the board's attention or I brought it up before um having a fund for students uh for activities I know that they can fund raise and things like that but I'm just wondering if requests come in um for something to be covered from parents I I just wanted to add it to uh the Board
155of Education discussion so that we can have an understanding of how um if a request comes in to cover an activity for a student how that's taken care of or if there's a fund where that happens or if it's a 100% fundraising so I will be adding that um as a discussion item and wanted to have people have time over the next few to gather the information for that so that we can look at um look at that um so that's it have a a wonderful Break um March 29th to April 8th and I hope everyone gets to enjoy the total clip and that's it I'm this morning we sent out an email to All Families staff uh our secondary students Community leaders parents of course on the screen just before you is uh some
156of the results we've already started to receive in something called B exchange uh from 7:36 a.m. to 11:30 we had 252 participants 89 different thoughts and 1,697 ratings as you can see here the number has changed from 252 to 376 participants sharing 157 thoughts and providing 4,000 uh ratings and what that looks like is if any board member or Community member administrator teacher staff member enters a thought it is then rated by the community within this thought exchange so you can see here that there were 30 ratings for this particular thought and that you can see a lot of five star ratings a lot of four star ratings so this is the work that we will be doing together um in May to examine all of this information you can see there's quite a bit
157here and there some really great ideas so we encourage our community to participate in the thought exchange and then take some time to uh to share your ratings based on the information that's here and this is all Anonymous so but again it's representative students Community leaders teachers fa the board administrators Etc thank you thank you if I can have a motion toour the regular Board of Education meeting and second all in favor I any objections at4 p.m thank you good night everyone