001Everyone stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, welcome everyone. Uh, we're going to start out with public be heard. Is there any today? >> No. All right, we're going to skip right up to our good news. >> I have a slide. Do you want it on the slides or you just want to read some? >> Uh, I'll just read a couple. >> Okay. >> I think we got a couple presentations tonight, so we'll make it a little bit quicker. All right. from JK Jordan Brand, JK assistant principal. Each Friday, we have been featuring two of our staff members on our video announcements. It's great for
002the students to get to know some of our unsung unsung heroes of JK such as food service workers and custodians, etc. Uh, Mrs. Wazalooki, our so school social worker, grateful every day to work with the student support team at JK. >> [snorts] >> We have Moren Nataro, Jackson school principal. Carrie Wilson, occupational therapist at Jackson, is a wealth of knowledge and takes time to support teachers and students. She gives interventions that create a supportive classroom environment and with a great picture. Do you have the one from Andrea Smith? Carla, >> it's on the next page. >> Do you have the picture? Yeah, she she attached a great picture with this one. >> [clears throat] >> Maybe not. Goodness. >> It's all right. I put you on the spot. >> It's all good. >> Yeah, that
003one there. Perfect. She's got a great picture attached here. Andrea Smith at Battavia Middle School. Batty middle school teachers and staff are raising awareness for breast cancer by wearing pink every Wednesday in October. As a breast cancer survivor, I sponsor October's dress down charity and send all donations to the Breast Cancer Center of Western New York. And there are plenty more on the site listed. So, please feel free to go on and take a look at them. >> Uh, next up, our board appreciation. >> We have some Yeah, just take that for me. Since since we're like recognizing you, I want to begin by thanking the board. Um, we have some special guests here. We have a special video for the board and October is board appreciation month. So, we thank our seven dedicated board
004members. We have some students here to recognize you as well with some very special gifts this year. I think I want to start I just want to recognize a couple things. Our clerical unit donated $50 to the United Way backpack program in honor of the board. So, we um thank them for that. And I'd like to begin with Mrs. Clander's fourth graders in the steam lab at JK has sent you a a digital thank you. So is our tech room at JK. So Mrs. show that for you please. Thank you. [singing] >> [singing] >> Why don't we have Mr. Cummings and his students here? They have a special gift that they have made for us. So, Mr. Cummings is our technology teacher in the middle school. First, go ahead and help yourself and just explain
005what they are and how you made them and what they mean. So, anybody that graduated from Betavia High School played on this gym floor. This has been recovered from the uh pre- capital project, I believe. >> So, um these two young men, introduce yourself, boys. I'm >> all I did was I cut these pieces down for them. I showed them how to use Adobe Illustrator. I showed them how to use the laser engraver. And then they took it from there. So, do you guys want to match the names and pass them out? Thank you. >> Good luck. >> Thank you. >> You guys did a great job on this. >> Nice job, guys. >> [applause] >> So sticking with the theme of technology, Mr. Borhees is here. He's our high school teacher and we invited
006him to engage in a similar project and they have some cool things for you as well. So Mr. Borhees, go ahead. >> Uh thank you. I'm not going to I'm not going to put anybody on the spot. There's no names on these. Uh but inside each one of the boxes, you'll find a water bottle. Uh a um a cup holder and a Bavia wrestling keychain. Uh these are all made on our laser engravers. Uh these guys help me with these. >> Let's show them the uh water bottle. Maybe the kids can explain how they made them on the engraver. >> Not to put you on a spot. >> All right. So on there's a carving on all of these and you just put it in. You have to adjust it just right in the graver
007so it doesn't burn through because this is very thin and all that. So when you put it in, as long as you put it in and you uh put through Adobe Illustrator >> through Adobe and you put it in, you technology program it stick engraver and it comes out with all of these. >> Yeah. for this cup how it has like a curved angle. We use a piece called the rotary for it and it just allows us to laser engrave on the on the surface since it's just a straight vertical laser. >> In the same machine on the laser engraver, we also used Adobe Illustrator to put the school's logo on it and we also used it to cut through the material entirely. [applause] Yeah. And uh I just want to as these guys pass
008these out, I just want to take a second to thank uh administration and the board. Um when I first started here four years ago, um we only had like two tech classes. So it would be possible for a student to be just a freshman and take robotics and the DDP class and then never see them again. Uh these are uh upper classmen. Gunner's taken most of my classes. Brook's taken most of my classes and Chase is a sophomore and he's starting to take uh those classes too. So we have like we have five new tech classes uh in total so they can like take a seat now. So it's really it's been great for me to be able to see them pass that freshman, sophomore year, see them in their junior and senior year. So
009thank you for letting me add courses to our course offerings on tech. Can I get a group real quick? [applause] >> Mr. Do you want to present those teachers now? >> Sure. There's some t-shirts from team Robert Morris. >> I'm just going to hold them up and you guys can find your sizes at the end. But we just wanted to sent you your t-shirt >> and then a fun thank you card as well. >> Thank you. >> I save the most boring gift for last, but I have certificates of of appreciation for each each board member. uh from MSBA uh says uh MSBA and BCSD recognizes our board for their dedicated leadership in public education and continuing service to the children of this town and school and city. School board recognition week October 13 to
01017 October 2025. So congratulations to all of you and thank you J. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Thank you very much. >> I could actually [snorts] service. Thank you. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Okay. So, thank you to our students and teachers for answering the call to show the appreciation to our board. I think it was a cool idea this year to do homemade gifts. So, thank you for the work also to show off your tech programs as well. So, well done as students and teachers. Thank you. >> Thank you everyone. Appreciate it. >> Enough about us. Let's move on to our presentations. And we have our senior trip presentation. We have the class of 2026 advisors. >> Yes. >> Hi, I'm Janine Scanio. I've seen you guys
011before. Usually it's for international trips, but this time it's uh for a local trip or within the state. >> Yep. And I'm Andy Sadam. We're both senior class advisors. >> So, um we let the students uh vote on which trip that they wanted and they chose that they wanted New York City and that's kind of their theme for the whole year. So, if you look outside of the um main office, uh they won the mural this year. They painted a New York City theme within the Big Apple and they're even going to use that for their prom theme is going to be New York City also. And so they wanted to go to New York City. So that's kind of our theme for the whole year is New York City. So this is a a
012travel this is like a an itinerary. Um we would be going on June 21st and 22nd. The 21st is on a Sunday. Um and the 22nd is a Monday. So, um, on the first day, we would be meeting here in the morning, driving to New York City, um, on coach buses, and then when we arrive in New York, they're going to have time in Time Square to go shopping and, see all the different things in Time Square, um, some time on their own, and then we're going to meet together for dinner at Margaritavville. Um, and then after that, we're going to walk to uh, theater for Broadway show. uh we have some options of which shows and we're going to be meeting with our class uh officers and uh getting their input on which show
013they would like to see. So there's a couple different ones that we'll be playing at that time. Um after the Broadway show, we'll be going um back on the coach bus to uh stay in Newark, New Jersey at a hotel there. And then if you want to hit that. So there is late night security that will be at the hotel to make sure all the kids are safe while we're there. Um then the next day we'll be having practice at the hotel and then we're going to go to the edge observation deck. Um and then go on the Staten Island Ferry around the Statue of Liberty and visit the 911 memorial. So um both of my daughters live in New York City like that. They graduated from college. They live there. They love New York.
014I've been to New York many times, but I've actually never been to the observation deck. So, I'm kind of excited to see that. Um, and this 911 memorial I have been to, but it's it's really well done and I think it's really important thing for the uh kids to go and see. So, that that's something we never forget. Um, and then they would we would drive back to Bavia and be back at 10:30 p.m. on that evening. Um, so the trip includes uh the motor coach, uh a tour manager staying at our hotel, uh security at the hotel, um breakfast, um this on Monday morning, um dinner on Sunday night, and then all admissions and the tips for the bus driver. You want to just get the last one? So, we have estimated costs for
015the trip, and it's really going to depend on how many students want to go. So, um depending on how many we get, the price changes a little bit. So, if we have more people, um, it'll be a little bit less. If less people sign up, it'll be a little bit more. And all of the fundraising that we've already done and that we will be doing more fundraising this year. We're putting that toward the prom because that's something that all of the students will be going to the prom most likely. So, we wanted most of our previous fundraising to go to that. The fundraising we're going to use for this trip is we're doing like a popcorn sale that they've done. um a lot of the other grades have. And this way kids can choose to
016do it or choose not to do it. And there are some kids who pay for their entire senior trip by selling enough popcorn to pay for their trip. Other kids are like, "I don't really want to sell any. I just want to pay the money. I got a job and I'm going to pay for it that way." And that's fine, too. So, whatever money each individual person um makes selling popcorn will go directly to their account and take off the price of that trip for them. So, do you guys have questions for us? How many uh chaperoons do we have going? >> Um it will depend on how many um students sign up. So um >> in the past I believe it's been the number was eight. >> Um I believe last year last trip.
017So I imagine comparable number based on how many students go. >> And I should have put that in in this and I didn't. And I know that the tour company did send us something saying like if you have this many um chaperones for this many students or this many. So it isn't um it's a little different from my international trips where you know like if this many people you get another chaperon this many you'll have another chaperon. This we could kind of choose how many chaperones we want but it will depend on how many teachers are interested in going and how many but we would definitely make sure we had enough chaperon so that it wasn't the kids aren't uh not being shapered. So, um, I can find that out for you because she did
018send us, but I don't remember the exact number for that. Sorry. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. >> Excellent. Thank you very much. >> All right. So, at this time, we need to have a motion and a vote to approve the senior trip. So moved >> by second by Mr. Schmidt. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I >> All right. I think they left before, but congratulations. Your signature has been approved. >> All right. Next up for presentation, we have Miss Bernese and for Robert Morris. I'll just, you know, pull you over. >> All right. Good evening. Thank you for having me um here to present on team Robert Morris this evening on your special night. So exciting. Um displayed here is team Robert Morris. And what you what's pictured in the picture
019are our UPK preschool teachers, our teacher aids. We have a related service team, our maintenance team, and we really have just been trying to live it takes a village, right? And many hands make light work and coming together. Um, our focus is really we're working to shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning as a learning community and that's from an emphasis on what was taught to an emphasis on to more of a fixation on what are our students truly learning. um also going from that coverage of content to how are our students demonstrating that proficiency. In addition to shifting our mindset, we are also working to create our early learning center when we bring over kindergarten in the fall of 2026. So, we're really working on coming together as a team
020and looking at our systems and processes to make that smooth transition. Um, in addition in adding kindergarten and looking at what is what do we really want this to look like with our youngest learners, how are we going to get there? We're going to utilize our strategic plan to guide us in keeping the main thing the main thing. And so what it currently looks like at Robert Morris um is we're really looking at that safe and orderly environment utilizing our safety teams. We're working closely with our constru the construction team around the capital project that we're in the middle of at Robert Morris. Um looking at some behavior supports that our kiddos might need and um some programs that we offer to help us do that work. Here you can see um some of our
021friends enjoying their first day on our new playground. Um and that just kind of keeps us going in that ultimate goal. So a big a big challenge that we face is around our construction. We had to move from one half of the building to the other half of the building for this year. And so we really had to look at the things that we can control versus the ones that we can't. Um because we're facing things like um traffic flow, parking, having access to certain parts of the building that we used to have that we don't have anymore. working with outside organizations that utilize the our building. And so making sure that we are communicating to all of those stakeholders, families, staff, the construction team, building and grounds, uh various departments. As you are aware,
022we also house the IT department, nutritional services, and the special education department. So the construction is a big challenge for us, but I'm really proud of our team because we're really facing we're we're coming together. we're being flexible and we're working with what we have. Um, here's an example of just a communication that went out to families around our student pickup and drop off and how we had to rethink what that looks like depending on the access to the building that we have. Um, our safety team has also started safety series to let our staff and students know that you are safe here. And it's just another way of setting those expectations around our safety drills to allow them to feel safe. We're also looking at how are we empowering our students. Uh here's an
023example of how we're empowering students to maximize their potential around cafeteria expectations. Um one of our challenges was that we did uh lose access to our cafeteria. So again, we had to come together as a team and look like, well, what is that going to look like for um us moving forward? So, how did we shift our gym space so that it becomes a cafeteria and gym space while also using that space to teach our kiddos what it's like to be in a cafeteria? Um, so you can see they're in the process of building monsters as a way to c as an incentive to follow those expectations of staying seated, learning how to talk with their friends and have those conversations at a appropriate volume, but also while keeping it clean and um, safe in
024the cafeteria as well. And for this current cycle, [clears throat] our first two classes to build their monsters will be the classes that get to be on the playground during our ribbon cutting. So again, just finding relevant rewards and exciting things to celebrate our our youngest learners while they re reach their maximum potential. It's also important for us at Robert Morris to make sure that everyone is feel feeling welcomed and valued. One of the programs that um really does this well for our for the ones that struggle the most because we do get kiddos that have never been to a program before. They've maybe just been home. Some come from daycare. Some have inter early intervention services. And Primary Project really helps some of those honeys that are kind of struggling on um like the
025edge. And so I do want to play just a couple minutes of this clip because they do a really nice job explaining what primary project is. And it wasn't until this year where I went to a two-day training that I had a strong understanding. And then I'll talk to you a little bit more about afterwards how I there's a connection to the work that happens in primary project and how can we how can that translate to other support staff in the building by sharing those skills and strategies. >> [music] >> All children face some degree of apprehension when it comes to going to school and that's normal. And every child handles these new experiences differently. Some may connect with their teachers more than their peers. Others may connect with their peers more than their teachers.
026and others may not connect with either one of them, which is all okay. But one of the most important things to do is to recognize and address these adjustment difficulties because [music] once you do that, you significantly increase your chances for your child to be successful. Primary project uses evidence-based techniques to build resiliency in children and to [music] navigate their social and emotional landscape. My hopes for my children as they enter school is that they honestly just enjoy school. They have fun. [music] They are making lots of friends in an environment that's safe [music] and supportive. You know, school is such a great opportunity for them to learn more about themselves and and [music] others around them and and also be a kid. Children approach the school year very differently. Some children might approach it
027with a lot of enthusiasm and excitement for the year ahead and other children it takes them a bit more time to connect [music] to the school setting and to adjust to all the changes that are going on in the school. >> In primary project, kids will [music] come into the playroom. If they play out something that's bothering them, they gain some mastery. [music] They can try on new ways of being. If I am a kid who feels isolated, like I don't have any friends or maybe I feel anxious, I can play out maybe a confident person in the playroom. Maybe I can show you my hearts. Maybe I can play out in a way that is much more powerful. As I try on new ways of being in the playroom, kids will [music] often try
028on those new ways of being in the real world. Play is the foundation of learning, the foundation of creativity, self-exression, constructive problem solving. Children use play to make the world meaningful. >> Play is a child's language, toys are their words. And >> so just that ending quote, uh, play is a child's language and toys are their words is something that we're really honing in on and really looking at our language in the classroom with students during the learning centers. And I'll talk more about learning centers as it relates to our work with the office of early learning. But what you also see on here is a behav is our documentation of some behavior scenarios that we face at Robert Morris outside of the regular classroom management system. And again, just showing you as a team
029how we're working together to kind of take a closer look at that and what support students need the interventions that we have that we want to put in place and for allow us to kind of look at that data and see what is working or where a student might need more support. At the upper levels, you'll hear it as like a a discipline referral, but mostly at at Robert Morris, it's really documentation and figuring out what are those interventions again that we have access to or what are we not using to really support that student as they um continue their education or really start their education career and figure out, you know, what does that look like in the classroom and throughout our building. Um as you walk through our halls, you'll hear a lot
030of that work in like the choices that we make. So, we really focus on red choices or green choices and we really just want to focus on those green choices and just bringing it back to safety. So, in a lot of the conversations, if you were to read through our intervention document, it's really bringing the kiddos back to a conversation around safety and why why we're looking at a green choice versus a red choice. All right. So, through all the work that we're doing, that second part of that strategic plan, that collaborative culture culture is really something that we're trying to keep at the forefront. Um, at Robert Morris, um, we're really looking at preschool and UPK, which can be a little bit different in their programs, but again, how can we collaborate together to
031maximize each of their potential and to take a look at our instruction and make sure it is the most effective. So again, what does that look like? We started climate checks this year. Um, and so climate checks are just our way as a staff to look at what are those frustrations that we're having or challenges that we're facing and keep a pulse on them and looking at, okay, what can we do to make it better based on the things that we can control. And so you can see from September through October, you know, we are we we definitely have seen a decrease. Um, but two of the biggest challenges at least we started with was the bathrooms. So switching from one side of the building to the other side of the building, our UPK classes
032lost access to the bathrooms in the room. But that's part of our capital project. We are putting bathrooms in all rooms. So as you can imagine, that was a little bit of a challenge to start the year [clears throat] because now you have classes that had access in their rooms but now have to leave to go and use the ones in the hallway. um and just making adjustments to what that looks like as a classroom and the procedures and how you want to manage that as a classroom team between the teacher and the aid. Um but also looking at as a staff how can we be flexible to support those classes. So for instance like if it's like at the beginning it was taking classes a little bit longer to go through the bathrooms. So,
033what are who are some other people we have around that can kind of jump in and help so that the aid can get back into the classroom? Because we want really want to watch our ratios in the CL at this level as well as you want to make sure that you have all those supports in all of those spaces. Um, another challenge with that too is we we're seeing more kiddos coming into preschool, not potty trained, but the nice part about that is it really showed us how we are partnering with families to get them potty trained faster. And so that was a nice celebration that we had in the past couple weeks. You know, initially we might not have seen it that way, but we really are partnering with parents to kind of like
034push the kiddos to um to get potty trained faster and the social interactions around with their peers has really helped with that. Um, another challenge that we're continuing to work on is our committee on preschool special education referral process. And then what does that look like in how we're um doing student placement and helping staff understand the process and the timeline, the types of data that we need to collect um and then making sure that transitions when they do need to happen are smooth. Um in addition to working with all of the stakeholders involved in that process. So, we're continuing to work on that as we move forward at Robert Morris. Here you'll see is is a a copy of our quality assurance protocol report. You might hear it as a QAP. Um, and this
035is how this is our our report that we collaborate with the New York State Education Department Office of Early Learning. And it's used to assess and improve our program. It evaluates aspects like staff's ability, curriculum, alignment, family engagement, student outcomes to ensure high quality instruction. When you look at this report, you'll see the different sections that the report covers. And then at the then we get a rating on the rating level side. And so if you look at the ratings of acceptable compliance, you'll see some limited compliance. Um that's really our focus moving into moving throughout this year coming out of last year. So we're really looking at our learning centers, our curriculum instruction, our professional learning pro and progress monitoring of our CBO. That's our centerbased organization which you know as the Y. So
036we have two UPK classes at the Y. And so I work closely with the director there and making sure that we are meeting regularly and going over this report on both sides and then documenting how we are making improvements. This they come we have our liaison who comes once a year and she walks through both sites um and then we go through this report with her and then go from there. So we're just partner and progress monitor along the way. So if you take a look at some of the compliant limited compliances we are at for learning centers, we'll talk about some corrective action. So when we look what I mean by learning when we look at our um space in our classrooms for learning centers, we're utilizing the early childhood and environmental rating scale
037also known as ech. So we're really looking at the learning environment and looking at how is it broken up? Does it make Is it clear to students? Are there too many resources? Do we need to lessen the resources? Are the resources immersive to the the unit that the students are learning? Um, and are they accessible? And so, as a team, we started to use this this year and we're kind of getting familiar with it and then looking at our learning environments. One example of how that would look, if you can imagine if you had a shelf and the shelf fits eight bins closed of resources. Um, it's nice, it's organized, but it's more for organization versus now imagine that same bookshelf and you take those bins off and you're looking at your unit and you're
038like, "Oh, we kind of only are going to use these three bins and we're going to keep them open and clear for kids to pull out of." So less of a storage space and more of a space for students to access during that center time. Um and that's a little tricky because we are very fortunate and we have lots of resources and so coming together as a team and determine it and to determine you know what is necessary at the time and what's not but then also figuring out other storage options within the building. These are just some of the conversations that we're facing around learning centers as well as making sure that they are immersive into that that theme and unit of study. So, we did adopt a new curriculum this year. It's called
039Three Cheers for PreK, which we're really excited about. Um, in some cases, you'll see at a preschool level. Sometimes you'll see like a kindergarten curriculum trying to like force it way to be preschool. This was made specifically for preschool students. Um, and so we've adopted their readiness report and worked with um, our team worked with our literacy coach at Jackson to clean this up and make it more parent friendly language so that they understand exactly what we're sending home as we assess students and show parents where they're where they're at. So the our report looks a little bit different this year than you might have seen last year where we were looking at the number of letters or or numbers or how high a student can count out of 20. So again a little bit
040more specific and [snorts] it also includes um the social emotional aspect of their learning and we are doing all of this through our professional learning communities. Last year we created PLC teams and we had designated times to meet. But what we discovered was is we really need to strengthen our guiding coalition. And so our guiding coalition is a group of teacher leaders that are really working to understand how they are going to unite and support our teams throughout the building. Um and that comes with our understanding and education first. Um, we have lots of resources including our district guiding coalition which I meet with them regularly and then that information helps support us at the building level. But really, we're really honing in and focusing on how do we really cultivate the roles within our
041teams so we can get those cycles that you guys were learning about earlier tonight up and running and consistent over time. But it all comes back to like our main shift is really focusing on student learning and making sure that all kids all kids learn. Um, and then strengthening that tier one instruction through our new curriculum so we can get to our process of intervention and what that might look like at the preschool level, which we're not there yet. So grounding us through all of this work is our instructional pro playbook from our our district as well as we started journal journaling this year as a professional practice for us and reflective practice. So what you see on there are our September and October reflective questions. Um but also again our playbook that just grounds
042us making sure that we are creating good relationships with students. We're teaching to an outcome. We're engaging learners. We're have effective questioning and we're checking for understanding and just remaining in that cycle and then having those conversations like how do we challenge kids to max maximize their potential? What does that really look like? But recent what is the recent I keep going back to what is the most recent evidence maybe that you displayed in the last day or week. Um, this week is a little this month we're looking at how do you show each student you believe in them while refraining them from judging or comparing them to their peers. We really want to make sure our students feel seen, feel heard, and are valued. And that takes purposeful practice. So, our focus um for
043each of our PLC's, we have three PLC teams running at Robert Morris. At the UPK level, again, we're looking at that learning environment and they are collaborating with preschool as well because their the learning environment affects the whole community. Um, again looking at are they immersive, accessible, but we're while we're also looking at content like letter names and counting up to 30, which is an increase from the 20 and that you've heard in the past. And that's really a push from our new curriculum as well. At the preschool level, we're really looking at those stages of play within the learning community, what to prepare our learners for that content learning. And then our related service team is really honing in on transitions throughout the school day from arrival through dismissal and just helping our our
044students with IEPs that struggle the most in those situations. Here are some just again some pictures of some recent evidence of what that looks like. We're really grounding our learning around literacy. You can see uh we got to attend our first field trip this year. We went to pulley, did some pumpkin picking. In some of those pictures, you'll see our outside play area. We lost our playroom and our playground and half of our gym. And so again, it's just showing like how are we able to come together and look at what we do have and make the most of it. And so, uh, teams of teachers really just took over that another area that of in the front of our building that we have and just made it a space to provide an opportunity for
045those gross motor skills in addition to um our sensory room and our gym. [snorts] Just some more sensory learning and grounding students um experiences in that in literacy. Finally, I again want to thank you for your dedication and hard work for helping us build a better tomorrow. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> All right. Any questions? >> I have a couple questions. This primary project, is that something that's incorporated into both the preschool classes and the UPK classes? >> Just the UPK classes. And so UPK teachers, they complete a profile online for each student. They go through a series of questions and then based on that data, depending on where the the kiddo falls is how then then they meet and pick which students meet the criteria to fit that program. But when we
046look at the language that the child associates use in those um interactions with the students that do get picked, there is a lot that can be transferred to the other teacher aids within the building that they can utilize during purposeful playtime. And it's really just kind of looking at the language that we use and how powerful it is in student learning. So, for example, if if we were playing and there was like a variety of toys on the floor and there was one set of like doctor like a doctor kit, we don't want to say like, oh, what are you going to be a doctor? It's really kind of like looking at our language like what is that? It could be whatever you want it to be. So looking at our language as adults who
047want to make meaning for kids and finding ways to scaffold their meaning by not taking over it. Does that make sense? So like not giving them labels, allowing them to choose what they want and then explore >> different parts of themselves, right? So like as you saw in the video for someone who's not so confident during play, they might play out somebody being confident. And through that work and that interaction, we're hoping we're we're seeing those skills transfer over to other areas. >> So, if you've incorporated more play in the UPK student day, um, and this is a new program that I assume got instituted in September. Um, what happened to the curriculum that the UPK teachers were using previous to this? I mean, does that push the curriculum? >> So, this is not a
048new program. Um, so primary projects been around for a few years now and you'll also see it in kindergarten and first grade at Jackson. Um, and it's not that we've added play. We're taking a closer look at our play and making sure that we're being intentional with that play as the teach the instructors in the room, right? How are we setting up the space to maximize that learning? But how are we looking closely at ourselves and how we're questioning or scaffolding and prompting kids along that they're learning without fully making that meaning during that allowing them the opportunity to take ownership of the meaning and their understanding of their world. And so previously before we adopted the program, our our teachers are using units that they've created over time. >> Yep. >> and so now
049with that that doesn't So now we're looking at So now this program allows us to kind of like mesh all of those things but in one. Um whereas previously we were you utilizing like foundations and Hagerty and Eureka math, >> this program, three tiers, has it all in there. It encompasses the SEAL portion, the literacy portion, and the math portion rather than using three or four different programs >> or state department of education for the hand and really told us we had to have one. It wasn't a choice. >> And this is all the UPK classrooms. >> Yeah. Mhm. UPK and some in half of preschool classrooms. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Depending on the level. Um some of our preschool classroom is learn using the Jasper play that continued over with parts
050of three chairs. >> Okay. >> Oh, I have one more question. Is this happening at the YMCA UPK2? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Nice job, Jessica. Thank you. >> Thank you. I appreciate you guys doing an excellent job. Sounds like you have a lot of obstacles each day with the project going on there and uh you and your staff have been tremendous. So, thank you very much for going on the fly adjusting when necessary. >> You're welcome. Yep. And yeah, I give them all the glory because they have really stepped up and just shown their flexible. They're being flexible and open to new things. So, thank you. And if there's any challenges or things that as well, you know, please don't hesitate to, you know, reach through Jason to get to us so
051we can uh assist you. >> I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Next up, we have Mr. Kevin McDonald who will be presenting the GB Boseis capital project proposal. >> Yes. Good evening everybody. >> You guys have been sitting here a little bit. You need to stretch a little while. I'm passing some stuff out. Um first as I as I do this, I don't think I have a copy for everybody, but I got most. Um dad certainly. So, first thank you for all you do for your service uh as volunteers to the school board. Student member, congratulations on your selection. First year of uh of the statemandated program. So, thank you for all you do and thank you for what you do. You obviously have a long night here tonight. Tonight's not going to be my
052normal 10 minutes now. I got a little bit more information for you uh about the capital projects, but something that I wanted to make sure I share because once I get talking, you know, I talk fast and I get passionate and I'll forget, but I want to commend Jason and this board on your leadership um regarding preschool special education. Certainly just ties into the presentation that you had. Um, you know, I've worked at GV Boseies now. It's my 13th year. Prior to that, I worked at Orleans Arabosis as an assistant superintendent. I had the unfortunate experience of having to close our special ed preschool program at OM Boseies. A lot of angry parents, a lot of angry districts. It wasn't about quality of program. It was about reimbursement rates. Um, and Jason recently led the
053region in a letter that went to some legislators to try and get some funding restored or reimbursements rate updated. And it's I think it's critical. uh I had to do a regionalization uh study and report to the department and this was absolutely one of my recommendations because some of the things that we're seeing of of young children kindergarten first second grade coming into our schools and the demand we've seen for Bosey's programs for those students I think some problem prevention is really in order and will help us down the line so just wanted to commend um Jason uh and his work on that so what I'm really here to talk to you about tonight is our Bosey's capital project um the last capital project was done by GD Boseies was between 2006 and 2008. That
054project was $39.9 million. Prior to that, 97ish was the merger of uh Jennese Boseies and Wyoming County Boseies. Okay. And or Livingston. And my assistant Jennifer who's been at the organ in the organization for close to 40 years doesn't remember another one prior to 06 07. Okay. So, it's been a while and as a school district, I think you know, you're regularly trying to do these to update your facilities to stay kind of up to speed with with technology. So, um we're approaching that time again, 20 years out from the last project where, you know, roofs are no longer warrantied, mechanicals are getting to end of life. Um, and we really need to begin to update our facilities. Talked to you a little bit about this when I was here in May. Um, but now
055I'm going to go over a little bit more detail. So, you have I just want you to know as I stand before you today that that blueprint that you have was updated as of like noon today because we had a meeting with our architects and it's not complete. Um, we had a meeting with our uh we have an advisory committee of superintendent. They advised us to see if we couldn't get some more work done and I'll talk a little bit about that. So, let me get my glasses on. As you look at, is there an extra blueprint I could steal from you guys? Thanks, man. Thank you. If you look at this first blueprint, this is the Betavia campus. Obviously, most, if not all of your kids go to the Betavia campus. I'm going to
056try and explain this to you as quickly as possible, but I don't want to go too fast. If you've got questions, please ask. Um, probably the two most significant things, the diesel maintenance facility, which is number one, which is an addition that'll be off the back of the building. Right now we rent space for this uh from Freightlininer who's kind of behind our campus right there in the throughway. When they built that facility, they built a classroom there for us and they use it for training in the evenings and we have one bay and that's just beginning to cause challenges in terms of students and student work. Um right now it's limiting the number of students we can take in the program because we just can't have 30 kids working in one bay on on
057on equipment. So we're looking to add a three bay diesel facility. The other thing that we'll do, um, it certainly won't happen in my career, um, I don't know about my lifetime, but if we do actually have full-size electric buses, we'll have an opportunity for at least a storage facility. We don't own u many buses. We lease a couple of buses that we'll be able to use that facility for, too. So, that's in addition. That's number one. I'm just going down this list. Number two, mechanical upgrades. All those little pink squares, rectangles you see, those are all rooftop units um that are end that are approaching end of life. And if they're not at end of life, they're at end of warranty. We're going to try and do as much of that work as we
058can. When you look at all of this greenish blue color, okay, here and here, those are all that's roof replacement that's required. When we had our roof scanned and found uh moisture penetrating some of the roof, um that's roof that needs to be replacing. Again, last time that was done. This is probably two years out, okay, when we talk about timeline from actual work happening. So by 2027, that roof will be just about 20, if not 21 years old from the last time that it was done. Um, number four, masonary lentil repair. Number five, cooler freezer replacement in our culinary arts program. Uh, number six, an entrance canopy. Number seven, another big piece, auto mechanic upgrades. If you've ever been to the auto mechanics program over there, it's a terrible instructional space. uh there is
059a classroom, but when you get into the lab space, it's really three classrooms broken up by walls. And for a teacher and an aid to really try and observe and to monitor and to work with a number of students in that program, um the walls are fire rated. So, what we're looking to do is maybe um either garage doors that can go up that are fire rated or do some clear walls where the instructor can see through. We've also got kind of a car storage facility along with our gas pumps on the side that need to be renovated, cleaned up, um, and just look a little bit more appealing from the outside. So, we've got that going on, too. The other piece that's not mentioned on here is in our metal trades classrooms. We're looking
060at upgrading the bathrooms, locker rooms, and the ventilation in the metal trades area. That includes machine shop and welding primarily. Um, that's kind of up at number seven where it doesn't really say it, but number seven up top there is where uh you'll see that happen. What you don't see in this piece is probably the one thing I wanted done the most, and that's the parking lot. You guys know most of your kids just walk across you across the the sidewalk, and that's nice. There's a sidewalk, but if you ever pull in that parking lot, it's just one big lot. There's some arrows painted on the on the on the asphalt, but once there's anything over top of those arrows, it's kind of all for one and one for all. So, we're going to renovate
061that. Um, it'll come out a little bit closer to State Street, but there'll be a clear bus lane, a clear bus drop off divided by some landscaping. Uh, there'll be a big bus drop off where the buses don't have to ever back up, just turn left and go. There'll be a separate area for the smaller bus drop offs and student drop off. And then there'll be a raised sidewalk that goes is the crosswalk. So it's clear that it's a crosswalk right now. If you go there at dismissal time or drop off, kids, adults walking between buses, it just isn't super safe. So, uh, redoing that parking lot is key for us as well. Um, so that's like a fivem minute overview of Battavia. Any questions, comments, concerns about that? This isn't final. Again, we're working
062through it, but we're getting pretty close to at least what we want to do to get to a point for a referendum, which I will talk about. This is our May Center campus down in Mount Morris. The next page, um, what you will see being done here, uh, number one in the back of the building is an expansion of metal trades. We constantly have a waiting list for that program, uh, an expansion of that and not only a demand for the program by kids, but a demand for their labor by our industry and economic development partners. Creation of a new program called Powers Sports. again um especially down at at the May Center that's near Kenishious Lake, we always get calls about, hey, anybody knows how to fix boat motors or do this or do
063that? Um so a program that, you know, four-wheelers, um boats, jet skis, UTVs, uh all of those types of things will move some of the small engine curriculum out of conservation and into this program. It's possible we'll start power sports sooner, but we also have in mind the other thing that we've done. If you've been across the street at Betavia and seen our electromechanical program uh with Richie Monroe, basically these are students that are learning how to um program and fix the robots that run everything like an Amazon facility. Um that's become extremely uh popular with students and young adults in the summer, but also industry partners are clamoring for folks. So, we just wrote a grant for about $750,000 in equipment that if we get that grant, we're going to open that same program
064down south at the May Center. So, that space could become that depending upon what happens with with that grant. The other thing you'll see, I'm going to skip to number five. Uh you'll see an addition of classrooms. You say, "Geez, we need an addition of classrooms." And I think where where this comes in is for our special ed alt population. Um, when we try and open up a classroom for students with special needs, it's really hard to just go open up a classroom in a school district as a standalone classroom. Often times those kids need wraparound related services, OTP, speech, counseling, all of that. when they're out there in an isolated and administrative support. When they're out there isolated, um it really becomes inefficient in terms of our scheduling of our related service folks because
065they're spending more time in the car than they are servicing students. So, for instance, this year uh we opened up a new uh K12 classroom for special education. Um we're able to put that in our Mount Morris Central School District location with five other classrooms with teachers with administrative support. But to expand any further, we literally don't have a space to do it. We'll have to We can rent from a district. Um we have some districts that have space, but again, if I could open up five classrooms at once, that would be doable, but starting off with singletons, which is usually the way that it happens, um it's a challenge. I think something else that'll be food for thought down the road um is do we continue to operate two distinctly separate alted programs or
066do we talk about maybe running one alad program but that's nothing that'll happen immediately and we won't have that space for a couple of years either but um I think it's smart thinking as we go down the road other than that when you look at the May center same thing pink rectangles and squares are all rooftop units the green area toward the back number three is the actual roof. Um where you see number two and number eight, that's our cause area, cosmetology area where we have about 115 students in that program. Um talking about a redo of the cause area there. And I'll talk when I get into the finances a little bit about a redo of the cause area here at the Bavia Center as well. Um, and then some of the similar things,
067entrance canopies, which aren't a lot of money, but sometimes when I go to our campuses, other than big letters that say main entrance, if you go over to Betavia, there's three sets of double doors, right? Which one do you go in? I know it says main entrance, but something that just makes it a little bit more um a little bit more inviting, a little bit more obvious. And as you also probably know, many of your kids who walk over, if they get there early, they get crowded into this little vestibule over there. I think we can expand that vestibule a little bit for safety and security as well and have more room for kids who are waiting to enter the building either before school or before our second session. Talking fast. Any questions about that?
068Last page is real simple. Just gives you a couple renderings of what that like that would be the the diesel bay facility over here in Bavia. You see the metal powers sports and then the classroom edition. It didn't give me the rendering of the parking lot. The other piece to this, which isn't a part of any of this, is the building where my office is in Leroy, 80 Mson Street. Um, we've been renting that since just after the merger. Uh, when the Boseies merged, it was um, Boseis sought a site that was more central to the new Boseies as opposed to keeping one of the district offices on both of the sites, the May Center and the Betavia Center. So, we've been renting that building for a number of years. Um, we're in negotiations with
069our landlord about the potential of either us buying it or if we don't buy it, whether or not she is interested in remaining a landlord or she's going to sell it. That creates a little bit of uneasiness because I don't know where else we would go. But I I you know, you never know who could have plans for something. Um, but it seems to me that we're we're pretty good tenants. Um, it's it's an adult occupied building. There's no students in the building. It's all our business office, uh, our school improvement department, um, and back office operations. So, the purchase of that building and potential that building is in need of some mechanical upgrades. Um, so that's part of the project, too, that that isn't in here. So, any thoughts or comments or questions just
070quickly on the drawings? All right, I'm not going to waste your time, but I did put some information. I think it's in the left hand side of your folder. I just gave you like here's some of the special ed enrollments. Okay, if you take a look at this sheet, some of your special education alsit uh students who participate in our programs, counseling services, vision services, some of those I also provided you with the number of career and tech kids. I share this with you because they're probably across the street and these these additions, these upgrades are going to impact those kids and to see that students from Bavia will benefit from the work that's going to be done uh on our buildings. And then there's this sheet which Andrew may be familiar with, which basically
071shows you just about every not just about every program he participated in with Boseies last year and the aid that it drove from that. Right. Again, just trying to show you um a little bit of the impact and a little bit of the use that Betavia has when it comes to the Boseies uh and our services, etc. Questions, comments, concerns. I'm moving fast. Okay. So, this was presented um and this is only half of it. This is only a third of what was presented in superintendent retreat in May. And then we did a presentation in Elicateville with interested business officials. This is a little bit of the economics and the mechanics behind the financing of a Bosey's capital project. So if you turn to page three, Bose is a little bit different than a school
072district. Um we can finance it in one of two ways. In the end, our component districts pay for it no matter how it's financed. On the left column you'll see an intermunicipal agreement. That is exactly what it is. An agreement between the Boseies and Betavia City School District to do a capital project for an amount of money. Um what this does is this allows Betavia City School District to pay for the project in any way they see fit. If Andrew's got a secret safe in the back of his office stuffed with cash and he wants to pay cash for it, you can do that. If he doesn't have that safe and he wants to finance it for 20 years and the board agrees, you can finance it for 20 years. If you want to finance
073it for four years, you get my point. You guys have control over the financing of that debt. Okay? That's intermunicipal agreement. The last bullet under that in bold, if new construction or additions is done as part of an intermunicipal agreement, Boseiswide vote has to happen of all 22 districts. the turnout of that vote. Yay and nay. If it if there's more yays than nays, the vote passes. It's not like 12 of 22 districts have to pass it. It's all the votes added up in all 22 districts. Okay. We are going to have to do a vote for this project because we're adding space. If we were just doing repairs and renovations, um, and we may buy real property if we bought Leroy. If we were just doing repairs and renovations, wouldn't necessarily have to have
074a whole entire vote. Here's the kicker with the air municipal agreement. Let's say Bavia loves the idea. They vote yes. And 21 districts vote yes, but one district doesn't love the idea and votes no. Nobody can do it. Everybody has to go through the dormatory authority of the state of New York, which is Dazzy, which is the other one. We're going to talk about that. My hope is as I go out and talk to boards, [snorts] the there's just to me a great deal of logic behind the intermunicipal agreement. But DASI is the dormatory authority of the state of New York. That's like us buying a mortgage and and charging you over 20 years, which is what we're currently doing. Okay. 2007, uh, didn't get agreement on an intermunicipal agreement. They did the vote. Vote
075passed. It was an intermissal agreement and it was a 20-year payment where every year in the Boseis capital and our administrative budget vote, there's the admin, the capital and the rental and the capital. That's what's been paid for over the last 20 years. Okay. Um, so the reason for the vote actually serves two purposes. Even if we do intermunicipal, we got to have a vote for new construction. But if intermunicipal doesn't get approved by every board and that vote passes, then we can go right to Dazzy and we don't have to take another step in the process. Questions, thoughts, comments there. Okay, next page. I kind of talked about that already. Um, again, as we get into this, do you guys use Bernie Donigan office? Do you use >> Municipal solutions. So, you'll talk with
076your fiscal adviserss and your attorney about >> Go ahead. Yeah. Hop in. >> So the board can choose which option, right? Is that accurate to apply? >> Well, the intermunicipal agreement, all 22 boards have to approve it. >> So if the Bavia board likes that idea and you approve it, that's great. I just got to make sure I get the other 21 to go along with it, too. That is certainly I think I can't speak for 22 superintendents, but I think the feeling around the table and conversations that we've had is it just gives districts more control over that. And remember, I'm gonna talk about it in a minute with when you spend that money with Boseies, you're getting an aid that offsets some of it, not all of it. Okay? >> Right. >> It's
077going to be for of the addition of space and the purchase of our property. So, we're going to have to do that. And our plan right now is we'll do it in all 22 districts. Um, and then we've got a we got a lot of work to do with that as we continue to work toward our timeline. We're hoping for a Marchish vote. Um but we got to get these numbers nailed down so we can start working with boards on language around intermunicipal agreements. So once we have a number then we can start talking about and you'll see here in a minute each district share and districts can start looking at it and saying okay this is how we think we ought to best handle it. Okay so page four we're good. Let's flip to
078page five. Uh estimated timeline for a vote. So finalized scope and cash flow. That's kind of where we're at right now. Um and we're at number two. So one and two are being done as we speak and then components to adopt an IMA. I think this will occur um late in 2025 into early 2026. And then you can see we have to adopt the necessary voter proposition resolutions and then a Bosey's wide vote hopefully in March. All right. If you flip to page six, this is based on a $40 million capital project. Back in 2006, we did a $40 million $39.9 million capital project. You know, a $39 million project in06 what that would probably extrapolate out to today. Um, I'm going to talk a little bit about a strategy to help with that, but
079I don't think I could come before 22 boards and start talking about 80 90 million dollar bill projects. Um, but we do want to make sure our facilities stay up to date. As you look at this this graph, and again, this is based on a $40 million capital project. We take our WA resident weighted average daily attendance. Um, to say it simple, your average daily attendance for every district. Obviously, Betavia is our biggest district. You are 10.53% of the total student population. Okay, you can see that two lines down. So based on that, your share, gross share of the Boseis capital project will be $4.213 million. Okay, questions. >> Does Andy have that in his back? >> Maybe not. >> Not that much. We'll talk about that as we go along. >> Um, next page.
080[cough] This is a payment schedule. Okay. And you're going to see a payment schedule here a little bit further along. When we when we developed this presentation, we use Perry CSD as an example, but this is determined by projected cash flow. For the purpose of this, we just said, "All right, let's let's say a district wants to make four payments to pay for this project." You can go and take a look at Betavia second line down total cost first payment column E FGH. Those would be your four payments. Okay? If you chose to do that, I'm going to ask you to turn to page eight with me. So now when you look at page eight, here's where we start talking about Bosey's aid. Okay? And if you look at column B, your Bosey's aid rate
081is 76%. So column B on page eight, you got your arwada um and then you come up with your Bosey's a rate at 76%. Now you look at 4.2 million, you're going to get 3 million8 on that. So your total local share is now $1.17 million. One difference when we talk about Bosey's capital expenditures, that aid flows in the year in which you spend it, right? So like our career in tech, when you pay for kids to go across the street, that aid flows a year later. So you'll get the aid on your career and tech kids that are in attendance right now next school year, right? On on capital expenditures, you get it in the year you expend it. All right? So, page nine is the page where I hope everybody looks at and
082goes, why would we do this? Page nine is if we had to go dazzy. All right. And if you want to just even look at Betavia, all of a sudden your share is 6.9 million. OC's aid is 5 million. Local share is just under two million. That doesn't get us one more brick, one more wire pole. All that is is fees associated with financing through Dazzy. My only experience with this is in 2016 we refinanced our current debt and I would be on the phone with Dan Growth and our attorneys and if there weren't 18 people on the other end of that line with Dazzy that were attorneys and financial planners and all these people um we saved about 1.6 6 million off of that bond and those bond payments, but it cost us almost
0831.2 million just to do that. So, we really there was a net savings of 2.8, but we spent 1.2 of it just going through the refinancing and paying for the refinancing, if you will. So, when you look at a Dazzy project, if you flip back to just even page eight, look at column D on page eight and look at column D on page nine, it's 26 million more dollars just to finance with GSM. So, I'm hoping when people see this that they think, why, you know, and again, it doesn't get us any more work. Bricks, mortar, nothing. It's just it's fees and services that go for paying for DAS. Okay. All right. We're going to blow right by page 10 and go to page 11. And this I've actually plugged in. It's it says Perry's
084example, but I've actually plugged in Bavia's numbers here. Okay? assuming as you see in the top left corner of this box a 76% aid rate. So you look there year one in year one probably 26 might be 2027 summer payment due for if if you did the four-year payment plan and remember you can Andy can work with these numbers he can say no we want to do it over five years six years doesn't matter your first payment of 1.579 million is made in the first year that says in July or whatever and it just before the end of that first year, you're going to get an aid payment for $1.2 million, right? So that aid comes back that year. Now look at your payment the next year, just over a million. Now 1.5 million just
085came out of the coffers somewhere, right? You got the aid. That aid covers your next payment, right? So the 1.2 comes in the next year, July, you make a million dollar payment. By the end of that year, follow it up to the next purple box. You're getting 800,000 of that back in that year. Everybody following me on this? And then you go to the 1.5 1.05 again up to the 88. Then you get to your last payment of 528,000 where you get 401,000 in aid. And of course now you've paid it off and there there's no expense, okay, left after that. So that's how you get to the net local share if that were a four-year plan. If Andy pulled the money out of a secret safe and had $4.2 $2 million and spend it
086in one year, you would get the eight on that $4.2 million in one year. But there are other I'm making it really simple and I'm not trying to his job isn't right. He needs to look at what capital projects are going on in Betavia and how is the cash flow happening in Betavia and how might this best benefit us. I think those are all important questions. It's not just the Boseies piece. We're a small piece of of your overall financial operation. Um, but in general, uh, that's how the Boseies can work. And then again, you can flip a few of the other pages. And again, it uses Perry. It uses a bond anticipation note as an example. Um, and then it also gets into um multi-year financing. You can see up to 20 years. If
087you wanted to do that, you could. Um, and so those are things you'll talk with your fiscal adviserss about how to get there. And I think the any questions on all of that? I am going way too fast, but I don't I also know you got a meeting to have after this. So I'll pause for a second. Questions? So when would this come to us to make that vote? So the vote on the IMA I would say probably within the next three months. I would hope what I don't know as I stand before you right now, John, is um you know the legal notice requirements before we put out like do I have to have all of those in before I put out the legal notices for the vote really doesn't impact the vote because
088the votes about the type of project it's going to be. Um, so I'm working with with our attorneys on some of those those timelines, but I would expect in the next three months and probably closer to three months than definitely closer to three than say um you guys are one meeting a month. >> Yeah, it'll probably be January. Okay, that's what I'm thinking. Okay, the last thing and I've shared this with Jason and all the superintendent before I just shared with you a sample resolution. from Lockport City School District. Um kind of a you don't want a funny story at this time, but I was away and my mother called me. She goes, "Kevin, I got this thing in the mail. She lives in Lockport and she goes, "Should I vote yes on this proposition?"
089I said, "Yeah, Mom. Vote yes on this proposition." Okay. But nice language in terms of you can the district is able to create a reserve fund, okay, to help pay for or offset the cost of a Boseis project. Um you need to speak with your attorneys on this. There was some conversation around the table that you may even be able to amend a capital reserve you have now. Um, but I'm not an attorney. I don't know that that well, so I would definitely defer you to your attorney. I know that resolution has been vetted by at least one law firm in Buffalo that has said, "Hey, looks good to me." But it is a strategy you can use. And when you think about that strategy, right? If you've got money in a reserve fund and
090you can pull that 1.5 million out of reserve fund and spend it, there's going to be an offsetting aid or revenue stream that's going to come in. So maybe it doesn't come out of general fund, it comes out of reserve. And then you talk about the offsetting aid that comes in as revenue in that year. So some things to talk about and some things to work through, but just an idea for you if it's something you think you want to do. Can you breathe now? >> Yeah, I told you I was going to talk fast questions. And if you guys are like I, you know, Jesus, he talked fast and bold us over and you asked Jason, bleed me, he can he can get to me any time. But >> so we have some time,
091right? So, you know, Andy and I have been in several workshops already on this. I've seen the detailed presentations. It's good project. Obviously, it's needed. I think but we have some time trying to figure out which option we want to go. >> You said they're recommending the most IA is the easiest eas. >> Yeah. I mean the reality is the Dazzy one in terms of easy. The Dazzy they just fund it. They divide everything. You know what? It's just like getting your mortgage right. Boom. They fund it. Divide it up and you pay for it for 20 years. But you know it depends on what your philosophy is. Some people say okay that's easy and it's if you divide that out by 20 years obviously the payment's going to be lower. Um, you're still going
092to get the aid on it. Um, but man, we're paying 66 million for $40 million worth of work. That's the part that, you know, drives me nuts, I guess, personally and professionally. But we got to get all 22 to agree to the to the IMA, and that's that's my goal as I go out to hopefully um encourage folks that that's that's the route to go. >> I imagine to put some options together, present to us in the next 30, 60 days for us to review. I come back. Probably going to do a like a regional meeting like this too in Jese County, Wyoming County, Livingston County. And again, just like I gave you here, once we have the final number, like right now, as of today, the project sits at about 42 million. Um I
093don't really see it going, you know, within a couple hundred,000 one way or the other on that one. We do have to make a decision on the Leroy building, so that could fluctuate it. Um but if we didn't buy it, it would probably fluctuate it down. So, right now, just so they go, you're leasing the bigger building right now. >> Yeah, we lease it. We're at about uh $483,000 a year is our lease on that building. About 33,000 ft. Um so, we got to work that out with our landlord and see if we can agree to uh an amendable price that works for both sides for for purchase. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> All right. Very much. You guys have a good night. Thanks for listening. If you have questions, get them
094to Jason. I'll I'll be sure to get back to you. Thank you. >> Sounds good. Thank you, sir. >> Yep. Thank you. >> All right, Eli. Big uh presentation to follow up after that one. >> You got this. They're gonna be way more interested in what you guys >> All right, Eli, you are up, sir. Um, first I'm going to start off with Make a Difference Day. Um, I enjoyed volunteering at the Holland Land Office Museum. Um, I mostly, you know, raked up the leaves and cleaned up the grounds a little bit, but I'm sure many other seniors enjoy doing what they volunteered for. Um, if you want to hear their opinions, there's a new episode of Bodevil Radio that includes uh interviews done not just just not only at the Holland Land Art Museum,
095but also where Mr. Kabalo was, uh, supervising um, uh, musicians of note. Um, it was this music the musicians of note induction ceremony was this past Thursday. Um, and I thought it went very well. Um, it's a great celebration that highlights the format of students and educators that have gone on and been successful musically. Um, uh, several of our fall sports are in postseason play. Boys and girls soccer have a sectional have sectional semi-final games. Um, volleyball hosts Brockport. Um, cross country has their section five championships in November. And then, uh, three students from Battavia will be representing Genese, Gymnastics, and sectionals November 1st. >> Excellent. I saw a lot of pictures of the uh, community day. That was excellent. You guys got out there. Um, a big part of the district is that community
096involvement. You guys did a phenomenal job. So, thank you guys very much. >> All right, Mr. Smith, he's passing the torch to you. >> I am. >> Did you steal any of your He did that's why they go first because I used to steal camp all time last year. So, so a couple things piggy backing on what Eli talked about that make a difference day. There are some some cool pictures. Potato cemetery land office. Eli knows I could not resist giving a lecture on on some history. So, I was ali element there uh with the with the with the students talking a little bit about Joseph Elica Mr. treses. There were some students at the bottom. We had some students at the Y the Davis Cemetery um YMCA. Where else were they? Several spots, but
097I picked the cemetery and the hollow land office to visit and then at the YMCA there as well. So, that was well done. Thank you to Tracy Grover for her organization of that. It's a it's a big task and I did listen to the podcast. Eli [clears throat] about that and Eli did say on the podcast that was his first time ever inside the Han Land office, right? So, Glad to have done that for you guys. So, that was fun. Um, principles month, I want to recommend the five principles. Uh, they had some nice Facebook posts last week that received some very good comments. So, happy principles month uh to Mr. Kesler, Mrs. Croilius, uh, Dr. Cry, Miss West, and Mrs. Naro. I thank them for their leadership uh, not only this month, but all
098the months uh, during the school year. So, thank you to them. Uh the fall ball was held last a couple weeks ago. Uh there's some pictures there of the kids setting up thanks to our high school advisors and Miss West uh for this successful event uh a couple weeks ago. Uh this was kind of cool. I mentioned this last spring or so. We the school the middle school got got an award for a pure mediation training and that's coming to um realization. I stopped at the YMCA Friday afternoon where we had about maybe 30 middle school kids from grades five through eight, all backgrounds uh who applied to be part of the uh series that they're on days two and three right now and we brought in state trainers and the students were trained on
099peer mediation and it was not an easy task. I sat there for about an hour or so. Dr. Corey was there and there's the day three is happening on Tuesday. Molly, you want to add anything to that? That's really kind of cool. What's happening in middle school? >> They'll be ready to roll and um the te teachers that are with them will help in the process. They'll never do it alone, but they're earning learning some really good skills to help them in the real world and in school. >> So, that's really neat um to have happen at the middle school. Musicians of note, again, he last spoke about that. We had four inductees uh who were who were um inducted last Thursday night. Thank you to Miss Casease and the selection team for their work
100on that. We get several applications each year. So it was very nice event. Um some of them are music teachers. Mrs. Hamilton was actually my music teacher way back when and John Kennedy. Al San know that too. So I had her way back when. Uh her daughter was there. We had Dr. Reese is a percussion instructor at Brockport. Suzanne Leaden uh is a orchestra instructor in Glenn Falls. and Carol Haber has sung um has taught at the New England Conservatory. So sang some opera. So some very nice inductees that uh we had on Thursday night and our students performed as well um as part of the event in the workshop. I want to recognize John Kennedy, Mr. Kuster and his entire faculty and staff as part of our PLC process. John Kennedy was the first
101to be recognized this year for the promising practices. Essentially they met some criteria some fairly rigorous criteria uh to be recognized by solution trades a promising practice. Thank you to Karin who attended the celebration. You want to add anything to there? You were there. >> Um yeah it was really great. It was well um there was a lot of people there in attendance um just honor everyone in celebration. >> Jackson school is on their way next to be filling out the application as well. So that was a great recognition for our faculty and staff at JK. Uh, it's kind of a cool event. Uh, BNS football players, BHS football players were at Jackson a couple weeks ago. So, I love seeing the high school football players hanging out with the little kids and talking about
102green choices and red choices. Our soccer players are going to be there next week, I think, as well. This week as well to uh to do a similar type thing with our little kids over at Jackson and Glow with your hands. This was a couple weeks ago, but we have several students participate. I was not able to attend this year. It's held at the fairgrounds. a great way to expose our students to uh careers in the um in those types of fields. Manufacturing, animal science, it's a wonderful event. We have a similar one in March at GCC on medical careers. And as Kevin said in his presentation, I want to thank Alexander and K. We did invite Assemblyman Holly and Senator Brow to visit our Robert Morris preschool program about a month or so ago.
103That generated some letters that I wrote uh that I think was going to other board members advocating for better rate setting and better reimbursements for our instructors um related service instructors as well more. So you see our senator and assemblyman there and they got a tour of the program um and also you want to add to that as far as the visit itself. >> It was eye opening. >> Yes, >> especially in the prek >> Yeah. >> area. >> Yeah. and soccer and cross country. Some first. Our boys soccer team won their first division title um I think in their history. Um and [clears throat] the first sectional game last Friday night and won. And our cross country team also won the uh Monro County titles as well. Our girls girls soccer team and boy
104soccer boys soccer team are still alive. They have sectionals Tuesday, Wednesday. Football has their sectional game next Friday night. And of course, thank you to our school board. I want to end with that. And upcoming dates, we have a fall festival at Robert Morris. Lots of Halloween events at at John Kennedy on Friday as well. We have a chorus concert on November 6th. Our Veterans Day concert on the 10th of November. We'd love to have you all come to that. It's in the morning. I can get you some details on that. And then our drama club is having their their fall production. Um I have no idea what it's about, but it sounds interesting. Game of Tears. So, Eli, you know anything about that? Nothing. >> Any questions? >> What time is the November 10th
105one? >> Uh, I think it's at 9:00, but I'll double check. >> It's usually in the morning. >> Any any other questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. That was a whole load of presentations today. We need a motion to approve the grouping of consent items. >> So, why don't we do that? >> Um, I'm on that volunteer. So, >> you can abstain from the volunteer. >> He'll abstain from the volunteer. Okay. >> I also want to note that number nine on the consent contract that for the winter guard, we're going to postpone it till next month. We we're still trying to track out a couple schools. It is happening. We just want to hold off on that. So, that's been taken off the board agenda online, but still on the
106paper. So, we'll we'll get back to that next one. >> All right. Still want to make the motion, Barb. >> All right. So, we have a first by Barb. We have a second. >> Second by Mrs. Anderson. Any other discussion? All in favor? >> All right. That'll bring us down. We do not have any old business. So, that's going to bring us to new business. Uh, first up, we will need a motion to change our voting venue. And I just wanted to ask uh what what this change was and and why. >> Sure. Of course, the change, practically speaking, you've heard a lot about this tonight, is due to Robert Morris not being open for the boat. I think that is going to be open. It's not going to be accessible for the boat. So
107we're gonna recommend that when we went to John Kennedy. Uh that would only be for this year and Robert Morris just again it is open but however due to the work that's happening uh that room is not easily accessible. So we're going to make arrangements if you approve over at John Kennedy. Everything else will stay the same. So basically anyone that voted at Robert Morris will now go down the street. All right. Excellent. So do I have a motion for the change of voting venue? So >> we'll give it to Mrs. Lvey. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Roll. All in favor? >> I. >> Excellent. >> And right along with that is a motion to approve our voting times. The voting time frame will be 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for
108the hours of voting on Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. Do I have a motion? >> By Mrs. Bowman. Do I have a second? Mrs. Anderson, any discussion? >> Just to clarify one of the times now, which is >> they were 11 to 9, 11. We had very few um voters come from today. I knew that question. I thought you should ask question. >> I know. I got the spreadsheet. Good >> question. Yes. Shows right here. >> Yes. All kidding aside, you know, we have very few companions. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Next up is a motion for contract signature authorization for the 2023 BCSD reimagined capital project. This will be authorizing our superintendent to sign contracts on behalf of the district >> once they're approved or once the uh the bid once once
109the bid is awarded. >> The board still has to award the bid. >> It's just you sign on the bid. Right. >> Excellent. Uh do I have a motion? >> Mrs. Lay. Do I have a second by Mr. Schmidt? >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All right. And last for new business, we have the approved the 2026 2027 BCSD budget guidelines and budget calendar uh which is are listed on your agenda items there. Breaks everything down for the whole budget process. Uh do I have a motion? >> So moved >> by Mrs. Bennett. Do I have a second? by Mr. Roll. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. And now we have we do have uh our other administrative reports and curriculum on instruction in the business office.
110They are listed on the website or uh on the agenda for you to review. Uh do we have any board member comments or reports? No. All right. Pretty simple. All right. We do need to have a motion for a German to go into executive session. The executive session will be uh to the medical and financial credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation or matters leading to the appointment employment promotion demotion discipline suspension dismissal or removal of a particular person or corporation. Do I have a motion? >> So move >> by Mrs. B. Do I have a second? >> Second >> by Mrs. Bowman. All in favor? I >> and we will not be coming back to public session after. >> All right.