001right in the queue actually. Perfect. All rise for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, first up, the good news from the high school, Sherry Miller. I like to give a shout out to Mr. Vorhees and his tech classes for the artful addition to their hallway. so creative and well thought out. Take a walk down the music tech wing and check it out. You will be happy you did. Uh from the middle school, Addison Marino, the fifth and sixth grade English as a new language class filled and followed March Mammal March Mammal Madness brackets. They chose the winners from 64 animals hoping for a
002victory by either narwhal, puma, or polar bear. Along the way, they learned about habitats, traits, animal actions, and how to describe animals. From Robert Morris, Stacy Jones, a huge thank you to Mark for the beautiful landscaping outdoors and going above and beyond in making our school shine bright. Um, there's plenty more good news, so please, if you have the opportunity, get on uh get on there and take a look at it. Um, let's see here. Up next, I believe we have Mr. Smith who will be introducing our board of education candidates who will each have something to say. Thank you. So next Tuesday is board election day and pleasure vote we have two candidates running. The one incumbent Chz Ro uh let him speak first and then we have Dan Schmidt is running as well.
003So Chz speak for a couple minutes on why I want to serve and uh all that. So, I I I want to continue service just because um I am I'm for the kids again and um I've been learning a lot since I've been on this board and I think I add I added value being on the board. Um so, uh I I would like to continue um if that's possible. Um and uh thank you. Great. Thank you, Chase. And running for a term is Dan Schmidt. Dan's going to offer a few words as well. Dan, should I wear your mic? Sure. Okay. All right. Well, first thing I want to say is it's an honor to be here. Uh, you know, I think of uh a lot of who I am is because of the
004investment that people have made in my life over the years, you know, and and so a lot of who I am is is a direct result of of investment. and and so uh I want to thank uh Mr. John Maruchcci and Mr. Smith and all of you for allowing me to be here to speak for just a moment. I've got some things written down and I just want to share them with you. So for my wife and I, it started about 18 years ago. Uh our boys were three and five and uh we were coming from Bingmpington. I was a youth pastor for about 12 years. Had a heart to uh and still do uh invest into students. Uh but for us now we've got two little guys that are about to come into the
005school system. And so it mattered when it when it comes to who's going to be investing into our boys over the next 18 20 years. And so what we did uh before we were ever pastors here. I'm the pastor of the Assemblies of God Church here in town uh for 18 years. Uh we made an appointment with with Mr. Kesler and uh got a tour of the school. Spent about 20 minutes with him. uh asked him questions, got to meet some of the other teachers that were in the building, and it didn't take us long to realize, you know what, if if we have the opportunity, we're going to come here because uh because of this really the schools, right, and and the the community that um that we were about to engage in and
006and so um much of who gav just thinking about that, thinking about us coming and then us engaging into the school system, uh thinking about John Kennedy, the middle school, the high school, uh much of who Gavin and Garrett are are really a a direct result of of many people pouring into their lives. And I was thinking about it today, like how many people have invested into Gavin and Garrett, like starting from preK. Uh Gav Garrett started at pre-K. Gavinet started at at kindergarten. and and just thinking about the amount of people it was probably a low number was is probably 50, you know, maybe the high number would be 100. And so you think about all those interactions throughout their lifetime being so impressionable uh from f from teachers to coaches. I'm thinking about
007football, wrestling, basketball, baseball. That that was our influence. Art teachers and and going to the art shows, uh music teachers, grade level teachers from K to to 12. uh specialized teachers. Gavin, he had an issue uh with reading and so he was pulled out of the class and after a couple years he was exceeding the the the reading level that that he was uh supposed to be at. Um I asked Gavin uh or Garrett, you know, what who are some of the teachers that really stand out to you? Um he I mean coaches and teachers and he mentioned uh Coach Briggs, Coach Belts, uh Coach Rick Stewart, Coach Vorhees. Uh, I'm gonna pronounce some of these names wrong. Um, Mr. Witer. Am I saying that right? Okay. Thanks for the grace. Mr. Cabala. Um, there's
008one name on here I'm not going to attempt. Uh, but Mrs. Fix, I mean, there's so many that we really can't name them all. And so, when it comes to why I'm standing here, it it really comes down to investment. the community's poured into or excuse me, has partnered uh with Shannon and I for almost 20 years and and I feel like now it's my time to to give back. Uh when Garrett graduated, I thought, you know what, we were we're a wrestling family. Um and John, you're one of the and and John were two people that invested into Gavin and Garrett. And uh when we came here almost 20 years ago thinking about the idea of get now giving back. So our boys have graduated and now it's our turn to give back. So
009I became a wrestling referee um thinking how can I give back to the community and it turns out that that scope goes beyond Betavia. But then the thought was how do I how do I invest my life and my experience and my leadership into my community? And so I approached John Maruchcci a few months back maybe eight months ago and said how what does this process look like? And so uh when it began I jumped in and and so here I am. So I'm all in and willing to take my leadership experience and pour into the district. Um I really don't I I honestly don't come with an agenda uh other than to invest into the community. Maybe if there was a thousand board candidates, you know, 998 would have an agenda. I just come
010with saying here I am. You know, you've got a great leadership team here. How can I be part of that? Uh so two boys, I'm almost done. Two boys recently graduated from Battavia High School and and now I have more time on my hands and I would like to make a significant impact in the community that that I live in by by serving. Um I come with a heart to invest. Um you know, I feel like if we win at the educational level, we win everywhere, right, in the community. If we can raise the bar there, then we're raising the bar of our community. Uh so my in my heart I'm dedicated to investing in the students helping them to create wins uh to support the teachers and and the administration thinking about how like
011how can we empower them uh to make a significant impact and then and al and also a desire to strengthen the the community because if we have if we have a strong school system then we have a strong community and I really feel like they go hand in hand because eventually they're going to be standing where I am and where or sitting where you are uh making really great investments uh because of the investments we made. Thank you for the opportunity to speak for a moment. Uh it really is an honor. Um thank you for letting me stand here as a candidate. Uh and if if I do get voted in, I will do my best to serve our community well. It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. All right, Mr.
012Smith, you're up again. Thank you. Budget hearing presentation by Superintendent Smith. So I want to begin by thanking the board for your work since January. We've been working on the budget since Jan. I want to thank Andy especially for his leadership and my Christian for their support as well. Pleased and proud to present the budget uh for the 2526 school year coming up. So we always begin with why we're here. Um this budget is designed to support our mission and vision of the school district as you have seen in every single presentation. So that has not changed. Also it's designed to fully support our strategic plan which has been in effect for the past three years. Uh those four those are four codes which you have around the school. You see them have that on
013all the documents all the newsletters. Uh the budget is designed to support all four of those. [Music] So I've done budget presentation since 2012. I always like to show a picture of a teeter totter and I always go back to when we were five or six or seven. The goal the cool kind of thing was kind of balance that teeter totter so it's even right. So I always look at the teeter towers as the the goal is to balance the needs of our students with the needs of our community and every budget we have is designed to get the teter tower to be nice and balanced and even supporting our students while also recognizing that the needs of our taxpayers and families homeowners and uh recognizing the board good fiscal stewards. So the key bud
014the key budget guidelines again we've seen this since January to meet all the mandates health and safety legal expectations fulfill all of our contractual obligations support all the programs prek through 12. You heard Dan speak about how his how his students did well here. So we want to make sure we have that same expectation moving moving forward. Um identifi identify look at alternative funding sources. a couple board members and visit our schools this year to see our seal program in action. Those were identified uh through alter alternative funding sources. Um we have developed a long-term financial plan. So that budget also supports that and also uh to keep in mind the tax levy uh which is which is uh 2.22 uh to only have a simple majority vote not a super majority. So some factors
015as you have seen health rates have increased to 12%. Um we continue to have a student out place in special education. We have eight retirees. We factored their cost in. We did a deep analysis to identify needs. Uh so there's some savings there. Um transportation contracts with special ed. We are cautious as you heard in past board workshops to be cautious with the federal grant. as Kevin has been speaking a bit of a um roller coaster in terms of trying to deal with the federal grant funding. So we built in some safety nets in case we should lose that. Um ERS um has gone up and we also to support our technology was almost a wash. We dropped sorry we dropped the postal service and brought a IT person in there as well. So that
016those were those factors this year. Key buzzer points maintain or enhance our current educational offerings extracurricular activities. I've said this last year could not imagine school without a football team without marching band without mock trial without the show all those things are the lifeblood of our school. So we want to have those pieces there as well. Our instructional resources and supports to our students services. Again I know Alison current visited a couple classrooms this past spring saw some of them in action. They were excited about that. So that's been wellreceived. Stay within the tax gap. You saw earlier to align with our strategic plan. And then also be careful with the possible loss of federal funding. So some stats there. Our current there's our current enrollment uh broken down by prek K12 58 and then
017912. Average class sizes um around 20 or so. And we do have the community eligible provision for lunches um next year. There's a student demographics picture that I love taking these on a radio station. So, there's my drama groom I took in the spring. Um, but there's our demographics of our student makeup. Here's our staffing broken down. Obviously, our largest amount of about just over just about more than half of our staff and native are teachers. So, I mentioned I mentioned this before. What are those pieces that are non-mandated? Obviously, I have a picture there of the tennis team. We don't have to have a tennis team in our school. Um, so those are the pieces that we're proud to have. Kindergarten actually is not is not mandated. EPK, uh, K12 art, K5 music, instrumental
018lessons, school plays and musicals, which can, as I said before, has been a big part of that. social workers. We have, as you've seen in past budgets, we haven't we have brought in social workers to the general fund, so we're less relying on grants. Our close-up Washington DC trip, girls football, there's more AP course at GCC, extracurriculars, u smaller class sizes, summer school security aids, SRO are not on there. Um, lots of offerings for our students that the budget will continue to support. So there's the proposed budget just over $63 million increase of about 5%. The corresponding tax levy is just over $20 million. The tax cap is 2.22. Uh and we're going to the cap of 2.22 and the CPI we're just under the CPI of 2.95. Again the tax cap, this is more
019or less of a um summary. It's been in fact about the last 12 13 years. It's commonly known as a 2% tax gap. It's never quite 2%. It's a formula for that. We arrived at 2.22 here in the table for our tax gap. There's a budget summary. There's the general fund budget of $63 million. Uh the budget increase of just over $3 million. Budget to budget increase is five 5% tax levy. And there's all the uh supporting numbers, the tax levy increase and the percentage gap. So again, we're going to the cap uh to secure revenue while again being, you know, being fiscally responsible and also maintaining our programming. Every year uh schools can engage in a capital outlay project because every year since I've been here, um it's about 89% aid ratio. So for
020every dollar we spend, we get 89 cents back. We have to show that. And what the B&G team, the building grounds team have identified is um is a HVAC at the high school and also a front sign board replacement at the high school as well. Anything else to add to that, Andy? Oh, they're just uh replacing some um outdated small air conditioning units that need to be replaced and then um the front sign board is getting upgraded to be um for better public communication. Another way to look at the budget, this is the revenue piece 2425 versus 2526 with three or four main sources. Our state aid um has increased by 7.52% from year to year budgeted versus proposed property taxes at 2.22%. Um Andy's made some adjustments to our fund balance and reserves in
021line with our with our financial plan. Um, other revenue can be rentals, sale, property, that type of thing. And their total revenue is $63 million right here, which of course matches the amount of budget, which what you want. So the budget advance the budget is balanced. Here are the appropriations. I always say every year the largest you want to see the largest in are the the largest well one of the largest in uh construction. transportation as you've seen there have gone up but second to that is instruction employment benefits have also gone up as well um but the we want the majority of our fund is built with instruction um in fund transfers Andy has explained that that has to do with the capital project can't give more detail on that Andy yeah in order
022in order to in order to stabilize our tax um tax cap calculation um we wanted to do a local contribution to our capital project which will do two things. It will defer any um debt, any uh interest borrowing that we would incur as a result of that capital project. So, we're lowering the amount we would borrow, but it also uh helps level our um exemption that's used during the tax cap calculation. So, that allows us to go up to that 2.22% for this year. And there's a there's an aster there explaining the transportation contract. We're engaged in a 5-year contract for transportation tax levy. Here's some historical background. The three-year average is about 1.883%. 5 years 1.3 8 years 1.47 and there's the dollar amount there, the corresponding dollar amounts over the last 18 years
023or so. Estimated full value tax rates. Um this assumes no change in assessed value. Uh the projected full full value tax increase is 349 per 1,000. And there's some sample stats there for home value $200,000 $69.50 increase $100,000 half that for the estimating these are estimated. We won't know that till probably August or so, right? Yeah. Uh two ballot propositions, the budget as I just walked you through and then we have our two two board members seats. Uh we have incumbent ch ro and then Dan Smith is running for his first term. And any questions or comments? Voting is next Tuesday from 11 to 8. Robert Morris and the high school depending on which side of Main Street you live on. Details are in the budget book or in the budget book being sent home
024and on the website. Uh but questions from the public or from the board on the budget to be voted on next Tuesday. Yeah. Good. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Miss Smith. Look like there's any public to be to be heard relating to uh to the budget. Um need a motion. So, I'm going to need a uh motion to close the public budget hearing and proceed with the regular meeting. Could I have a motion, please? So, move. Miss Lendy, could I have a second? Second. Miss Bowman. All in favor? I Any opposed? Okay. And I can see there's no public here to be heard. Next up, Jennese Valley Bosey's update from Mr. Kevin McDonald, the superintendent. Hi, good evening everybody. Nice to see everybody. You know, I I come to board meetings and year after
025year you see a lot of the same members. That that consistency is really nice to see. And um you know, as Jason was up here talking, I just want to commend them on a job well done on the budget presentation. But you know, when Jason came back home, I think you can correct me, Jason, because you'd know. I think he and Matt Calderon are the two most experienced superintendents that sit around the GB Boseis table uh currently and so wonderful to have Jason around that table because you know we have a very active list serve and when superintendents are throwing questions out there um Jason always has some perspective on different issues that he's faced both here in Battavian in his prior role at uh Lynenville. So we thank him for that leadership among our
026group. He's very well respected and and highly regarded among our colleagues and for that and I'm appreciative of his efforts. He's never afraid to pick up the phone and call and ask a question or have a conversation and hopefully we can help each other when when at all possible. So Jason, thank you for your leadership. Um for the board, I know that uh you got some of my handouts and we tried to get me Monday night's a popular night. I think nine of our districts meet on Monday night and so when I was on my tour uh when I don't know it came up at the February March meeting and Jason got to me um couldn't get here before the Bosey's budget vote. But I do want to thank you for your support and uh
027voting in favor of the Bosey's budget and for our board members. I don't want to spend a lot of time going over it, but I do know you have it in front of you. Um and as you can see, much like Jason did, I'd like to give a little perspective too, right? He went back over 15 years tax levy increase. Um our budget this year, our operations budget, which you have in front of you and that they're highlighted on the first page of 3.3 million is up 2.95%. Um, our lease rental, which is the money we pay districts when we lease space from our districts, is up 2.27%. Our capital budget is pretty much flat. I'm going to talk a little bit more about that, but the capital budget is related to a project that
028was done back between 06 and08. Um, that's our debt service that districts pay for. It was bonded through the dormatory authority of the state of New York. And so, it's it's very similar to a mortgage. And that's going to be running out here over the next couple of years. and I'm going to talk a little bit. We're in the process of planning another capital project for Boseies. And then you can see the total there at 6.2 million overall and a 2% increase. On the following page, I just like to give a 5-year average. Um, you know, it's it's been uh this is my 12th year, and it's been an interesting 12 years. When Jason listed all of the um non-mandated services, I flashed back to the GA years when I was superintendent at Reheart and
029we had to put every non-mandated thing up there and attach a number to it and say, you know, out of $2.6 million, what can we cut and what can we what can we save? And that was before the levy limit hit. So, we were able to kind of balance that with a 5% tax increase in addition to us making a lot of cuts. So, got a twitch when I saw him put all those up there because that was some scary times. But in light of that, we really try and manage our finances as tightly as we can. And as you can see, if you look at a 5-year average of all three cost centers, the capital has really been a savior for us. We refinanced that back in 2016. Saved it quite a bit of
030money. But you can see over the last 5 years and if you went out 10 years, it would be very similar, pretty close to zero when you look at all three cost centers. And I know operations are going to go up because that's salary and benefits and the things that even Jason mentioned in his thing, health insurance going up 12% this year. But just wanted you to see that over the course of five years, the net of all three cost centers is is just a tad above zero. And then the last page is actually the Boseies uh well the page with numbers on it is your Bosey's aid. It's all our Bosey's aid rates for all of our districts, but in Betavia you're getting 76 cents back on the dollar. Um is it a clean?
031Every dollar you spend is 76 cents. It's not. Uh it does get a little bit more complex than that in some areas, but when it comes to your lease rental and when it comes to your capital project, that is 76% or 76 cents on the dollar current year. One of the budget victories, at least in in my opinion, and really it it doesn't it benefits Boseies in a way, but the money goes to districts is um career and technical education teachers. Their salary, the adable portion of their salary has been capped at $30,000 since I think the mid 80s. We've been working all the time I've been at DS to try and get the legislature to move this up. And finally this year, we we had some success and that's going to go up 10
032grand a year over the next three years. So by the end of these three years, the adable salary of a career tech teacher is going to be 60,000. So when you look at a district like Battavia that really supports career tech for their kids, um I think that's going to turn into some real money for you in terms of an increase in Bosey's aid down the road. It's 10 grand a year, so it's incremental. um but will certainly help all of our districts in terms of aid. And then finally, our board members who were up for re-election. They were all incumbents. Uh they all got re-elected thanks to you folks. Uh all 22 districts actually voted in favor of the budget and our board members. And you may know some of these folks here. Uh
033Norb, longtime Boseies board member. It's going to be his fourth term, 16 years on the Attica board, not currently on the Attica board. Roger Casti, uh it's probably this is probably his third term. Roger was a longtime member of the Warsaw Board of Education. Bob Decker uh this going to be his third term as well, longtime board member in Avon and Christy Kandle being current board vice president in Keshqua in her third term with us. So those are our board members as well. So any questions or thoughts on OC's budget or our board members? Um so a couple of things before we get into the celebration. I save the celebrations for the end uh that are going on. Um I mentioned the CTE aid. That's a great thing. Early College Coaster. Um we're one of
034three Boseies that got this up and running by the end of the school year. Um different districts handle it differently, but moving forward um if a school district chooses to pay tuition for students taking college courses, we're going to be able to generate Bosey's aid on that. Um GCC is is probably the most um frequent partner in this work in our region. Um, and we worked with Perry this year, this last semester, and they're g they spent about 20, I don't remember the number, maybe $24,000, and they're going to get about 75% of that back at aid next year. So, that's brand new. We just did it with two districts here at the end of this semester to make it work, getting that coaster approved. We're excited about that. I talked about the CTE aid.
035And then the last thing is capital project. Uh, the last time we did a capital project was 2006 through 2008. And I'm sure here in Betavia, you don't wait 20 some odd years before you do another capital project. That's been some of the challenges I think with ABOSES is that for us to do a capital project, we need the approval of all 22 districts. Um, we may have to do a public vote depending upon if we're going to actually build new space. And in the end, it's the districts that fund it, right? And so finding a way to do that and make it palatable is is our goal. So, actually, at the end of this week, we've got a retreat with superintendent. We've got um Bernie Downing's office coming to talk to all the superintendents
036about different manners in which it can be financed. There's really two major ways. And then we also have our architect one architects and engineers coming to talk to the superintendents about our building condition study. Been 10 years since our last one. So we've got some things we need to do that are of critical nature that we need to get done. We need some safety security upgrades. We need a couple of lab spaces. So, we're going to be talking to superintendents over uh at the end of the week this week and really start earnest in planning over the course of the next eight months and with uh with any luck, I'll be back here maybe over the spring months with our bond council talking to the board about different ways that might be finance. So, more
037to come on future capital project planning. Any questions on any of that? I know I'm talking fast. Lastly, just celebrate some successes. Um we appreciate the support and in special ed alternative ed and in our career and tech program and just wanted to share a few success stories with you that we we gave you in your packet. Um Miranda being uh very special been with Boseis for a number of years in our intensive therapeutic program. Um really blossomed into a wonderful young woman. She's a leader. She's going to graduate this year and we're excited in a couple of about a month to see her across the stage across the street at uh our Betavia Academy graduation. But really done a nice job. I'd like to share those successes with you. And then some of the
038other successes, National Technical Honor Society Technical Endorsement. This is a challenging time of year because they're just starting to find out if they're getting those awards. So, some of these are a year old and the new ones are just now being recognized. So, I apologize for that, but it's just the timing of when we recognize uh our students. National Technical Honor Society. Nice representation. Technical endorsement. When you look at portrait of a graduate and we look at moving New York State to one diploma, these are the types of things you're going to see. Technical endorsement, seal of civic readiness, those types of things will be seals on a diploma, which is a one diploma. So, uh, a lot of success of Bavia kids achieving that technical endorsement in which attendance, grades, um, and performance assessments
039is what allows them to get that technical endorsement. Um on the second page you see the uh Fingerlakes youth apprenticeship affectionately referred to as fly app. You know a lot of times probably you do in Betavia if a student gets a scholarship for a sport or gets recruited by a college and do a little thing they sit at the table and they put the hat on their head. This is where kids get recruited for internships or jobs. They put the hat of the company they're going to or the teacher of the company they're going to. We thought we'd celebrate that. Um and then you participate in our enrichment programs and just generally a supportive district with a lot of successes of the students coming to the Boseis programs. That's what I have for you tonight.
040Questions, comments, anything I can answer? Question. No, we're good. Kevin, thank you very much for coming in. Thank you guys everything with us. Appreciate it. Take care. Have a good night. We'll see you later. Bye everybody. Right. Next up, Superintendent Smith again report steal a thunder. So Cam, you don't mind. Oh, no. No. Hey Cam, it's all you, man. Sorry, it's on this. I did not know. Um, all right. Good evening everyone. On behalf of AP students everywhere, I can say that I'm thrilled to finally be done with exams. um for me with my whole college board thing that happened. Um basically like they admitted to messing up their digital exam, but I'm kind of being forced to retake it right now, but I'm not going to get into it cuz I'm bitter about it.
041Anyway, um I like to thank Miss Garner, our AP coordinator, for being on top of this, as I just personally, as I just said, do not have the patience for it. Happy AP season, everybody. Um regardless, my AP teachers have prepared myself and my peers extremely well for these exams. So, thank you, Miss Traver, Miss uh Mr. Krauss, and Miss Antuji. We actually had a brief celebration in AP Lit. Uh, surprise Mr. Cross. I know he actually reads these. Uh, to segue into our AP into our public speaking unit. Um, as Mr. Smith touched on, mock trial won our blow tournament and was honored at the club last week. We fell short in regionals, but we hope that the team continues to grow strong and maybe take home the win next year. Regardless, this is
042a huge achievement. I'd like to thank Miss Traver and Miss Marino for putting in so much effort and dedication to this group of students. The cast and newsies attended Rochester Stars of Tomorrow event performing a mix of pink in New York and once and for all. Octavia was recognized for multiple achievements such as the dancing ensemble set design and more that I just cannot remember. Uh congratulations to all the cast and huge thank you to all the members of the production team pit and crew. National Honor Society and Health Academy are expected to help out blind school special Olympics coming up at Vandetta Stadium. More information can be found online regarding how to support this event. I can't believe I put this in here based on what you just told me, Mr. Smith but uh
043typically while submitting these reports Mr. Smith covers athletics. So I will abstain from athletic records for the sake of if they weren't covered parentheses my luck then records can be found online. As you're speaking Cam I checked off two things. So I'm glad I didn't see how you gave the chance. So um I actually have nothing to say on that other than senior season is coming up. So if you want to steal that back from me I will next month. Next month. All right. So, as Cam mentioned, uh, the stars of tomorrow occurred Friday night. We received a number of awards. I want to recognize Cam and his cast and crew mates for doing a great job at the show. Uh, I don't think Cam listed all the awards, but listen for now excellence in
044dancing, production crew, orchestra, production design, our sting, Gavin Trippy, and Gus Crawford received some recognition as well. I was at the lunch last week when the M cloud team received the Charles Aluso award. Um it was a great job that the team did. Can in my life previous life I was a mock trial adviser. So I can appreciate the pains that have to go through. That's a nice job. Officer Borquette also received a criminal justice award from Kanis last Thursday at the state banquet. So recognition to him and June 10th is our annual prom promise and demo uh which you're all welcome to come and watch. That's being coordinated by officer Borquette and his colleagues. Last week, a new event on the high school, Miss West and her team had a successful seal night where
045we had about 100 families show up open house. It was very well to see. There's some nice pictures on Facebook. So, I want to recognize uh her and her team. Mr. Metler was in was instrumental in that as well. We have several students from the high school and the middle school uh received recognition at the youth at the youth recognition award winners banquet a couple of weeks ago and want to recognize those students Xavier Williams my Emanuel St. Emanuel from the middle school and BHS Llysa Turner, Gracie Fix, and Laya Leela Emanuel were also recognized in 2025. Spring counselor season is underway. We have concerts this week and next week. I did attend the Tri Honor Society last week at the high school. We inducted some new members into the U music honor society. JK
046has launched their one book program, the mouse and the motorcycle. Feel free to read along with our students. We got lots of we got lots of appreciation weeks the last month or so. We had teacher appreciation, principal recognition on May 1st, bus drivers and school nurses is this week. So, thanks to all those staff members. And finally, this Saturday, one of our students, Bridget Nord, who I met last week at a BEA lunchon and her mom is receiving her associates degree from GCC May 17th at 1:00. um she's receiving it in entrepreneurial studies I believe and she's participating in the early college program. She was after the BBA lunch and breakfast last Friday. She gave a wonderful presentation with her classmates. So she's going to be a college graduate before she's a high school graduate
047on Saturday 17:00. So I sent an extra mom. We had a great visit and we can all be very proud of her. Cam, um I mean athletics, but I think we both kind of All right, that's all I have. Thanks. All right, let's see. All right. Uh we're we're uh consent grouping. I would need a uh motion to approve the grouping of consent items. Um can I have a motion please? Miss Lee, can I have a second? Second. Mr. Roll. All in favor? I The eyes have it. All right, let's see here. We're back in seven minutes. Um there new business. policy updates reviewed by the policy committee with request to wave a second reading. So that when we look what bar was here for that we looked at our facilities facilities use we essentially
048memorialize a practice whereas if you know we try to move our school that's priority um especially now with the weather so we kind of put that in in writing. Barb was part of that process. She has some questions about the dance studio on the weekend. So we recognize that. Um, anything else to add to that part? No, it's really just codifying a current practice that we have. Any questions on that? All right. Could I have a motion, please? So, move. I'll give Miss Miss Bowman that one. Can I have a second? Second, Mr. Regal. All in favor? I. Any [Music] opposed? All right. Number two, resolution for the RIC1 risk operations center to authorize ROC to negotiate data privacy agreements with vendors and third party contractors on behalf of Battavia City School District. Any questions?
049So, this is part of ADL law 2D to make sure we don't release any uh confidential information to any of our added for transportation forms. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's why we have to have that in place. So as we update transportation forms and information, we have to make sure that both sides of the district and the third party vendor are obligated to not release anything confidential. Okay. Any question? No. All right. Could I have a motion? Miss Lay, could I have a second? Second. Miss Anderson. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. All right. Let's see here. Next up would be discussion on other reports. The administrative reports for curriculum operations and business office. Those are all online. So, please at your leisure take a look at those. Um, anybody have any board goal updates
050they want to share with anybody? Nothing. Nothing at this time. All right. Any any board members have any comments? I really enjoyed my time at the middle school. I don't know if that was exactly It did it did meet a goal when I think about it. Um the interaction with the kids. Um watching the teachers teach, watching the enthusiasm of the kids and of the teachers. I wish I could pronounce her name correctly, but there is a math teacher there who has amazing enthusiasm. I was sitting there and I don't like math. Okay. I mean, so I really I really enjoyed that. It was It was a full morning. H What age was the math? Um I believe it was kind of a mix because they were special um kids, you know, it was it
051was a blend, I believe. And I it was totally enjoyable and it was nice to see the kids responding um well and it was nice to see the teachers enthusiasm at Mrs. Ms. Okay, I'm murdering it but she she was just her enthusiasm stood out to me out of everybody's thanks. Anything else? Well, on Karen's recommendation um to go to an SEAL uh session, I went to my school JK that I represent and saw Melissa Antonor's seal class and um was just coming into it was a fourth grade class I believe was there for two sessions and um they were she was teaching them um some ways to get through the state testing that had been postponed and they were going through it this next week. Breathing exercises and focusing exercises and I thought to
052myself, I really wished that I had had that when I was in grade school, you know, where you teach yourself how to calm down before a test and not be anxious and, you know, take your time and whatever. So, I appreciated uh learning about SEAL and uh Miss Mrs. Antidador is uh very engaged with her students and it was a really it was a really good lesson. Good. Anything else? Anybody? No. All right. Uh it's going to be a call for executive session. The board will not return to public session. Uh the call for executive session. Um we'll need a motion to move to session to discuss matters relating to the medical, financial, credit or employment history of a particular person or corporation or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal
053or removal of a particular person or corporation and collective negotiations. Could I have a motion? So move. Miss Lambbe, could I have a second? Second, Mr. Ro. All in favor? I