001become very quiet all of a sudden. Hello. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. Everybody all set? >> Yep. >> Good. All right. If we could uh reconvene to open session. The board has been in executive session since 6:00 um to discuss two tenure candidates uh legal issue of personnel matter um and then to uh perform a building conditions tour. Um if we could all please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We could have introductions and John I'll start on your end. John McFillips, Dave Hurst, >> Katherine Natto, >> Robert Ti, Nat, >> Holly Dylan, Jody Monroe, >> Yuan McN, >> John Walston, >> Lauren
002Graco, Clara Legayu, Rose. Um, and do we have any U pig or SUPA students here tonight? Welcome. Thanks for coming. Um, you guys need to stay until the meeting is over or nine o'clock, whichever one comes first. And just make sure you sign out on one of the signout sheets. It's up here before you leave so you get credit. Uh, first up on the agenda is our approval of minutes. It is recommended by the superintendent that the board of education approve the minutes from the September 17th, 2025 regular board meeting. >> Some move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That passes. Uh, item three, meeting reports. And first is our superintendence report. >> Thank you. Uh since our last meeting, I want to just highlight uh a
003few students. Uh we had a senior Lita Stark uh who joined other aspiring chefs who shared their culinary skills um at a fundraiser which supported the regional food bank of northeastern New York on Wednesday, September 24th. Uh we did put out some information about that. Hopefully a lot of people saw it. Uh Lita is a culinary arts and hospitality student at CAP region Boseis and she was one of only four students in the area who were selected to represent the program. So I'd like to uh thank Lita for her representation of Bethlehem and the student chefs at Capital Region Boseies and my understanding it was a great event. Also I'd like to uh recognize four high school seniors who have also who have been named to national merit scholarship. They're the semi- finalists uh for
004the class of 2026. They're among the highest scoring entrance from New York State uh recognized as part of the prestigious academic recognition and scholarship program uh which actually began in 1955. Uh they now have the opportunity to compete uh in the spring for approximately 6,930 National Merit Scholarships. Um so congratulations to Sophie Kobayashi, Kevin Lee, Kieran McN, and James Nbone. So great. >> Um and that is my report for this evening. >> Super. Any questions for Jody on those? >> Uh next is the board report. Um the first thing I wanted to mention is that the uh NISBA annual meeting is coming up. Um everybody should have gotten probably a couple of weeks ago, if not more, um a copy of the resolutions booklet um in their email. if you take a look through it,
005if there's anything that causes you concern or um you uh want to share some thoughts about uh with me, please feel free to shoot me an email. Um second, uh we're about at the time of year, usually in November is when we do some school visits if people are interested. Um so, um is that something that you guys are interested in doing? >> Sure. So maybe um maybe Britney could send out a uh I think last year maybe used a a Google form or something to gather some information on what schools people were interested in going to and >> um and some dates that might work, that kind of thing. >> Y >> um that would be great. >> Um and then lastly, I just wanted to thank Elmir for hosting us this evening. Um
006it's always nice to be here. Anybody have anything else they want to share? >> Uh I will Thanks for I will thank whoever it is. I think the PPA provided the food was excellent. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Next are our students. Um so Claire and Rose, I don't know if you guys want to I just want to recognize the pep rally. I thought it was a very welcome and cheering environment. a lot of students felt connected in our community and it was a good time to recognize the athletes and their hard work and I'm want to um congratulate all the participants who helped with the pep rally and I'm it's always a good time to um have that >> and I want to agree with all of Claire's praise and also when talking
007to some students definitely some there was some discontent within the student body about pep rally guidelines so I think to alleviate that next year um we should work on pushing the word out about why these measures are being put into place for safety and appropriateness reasons. So, I think just communication on that front next year would be a good addition. >> Okay. Thanks. Um, and do we do we have a middle school here? I don't think so. >> No. No. Okay. Um, and I do think we have some friends from Elmere who are here tonight. Is that right? Wonderful. Um, do you want to um are they all presenting later or now? >> Um, at the enrichment. >> During the enrichment opportunities. Okay, perfect. Um, with that then I will turn it over to our
008first presentation for this evening which is about our elementary enrichment opportunities. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you everyone for being here tonight. We're really excited to talk to you about the elementary enrichment program, not just here at Ellir, but at all of the elementary schools. As you can see, this there's a lot of enthusiasm about the um enrichment programs that we have here that we're very lucky to have here. Um I have with me a bunch of my fifth grade friends who are going to share with you some information about what enrichment looks like at the elementary schools. um the benefits that it brings to us, how it's funded, and share some highlights uh from their experience about the enrichment program. So, enrichment is not just a nice extra add-on. It really goes
009along beautifully with all of the district goals, academics, character, community, and wellness. As you'll see in some of the things that the kids are about to talk talk to you about tonight, >> I ask I ask you what's your favorite memory were from elementary school. You may talk about teachers or maybe even that multiplication test that you aced. The chances are a special event such as a guest speaker or a field trip would come to mind. So what kind of opportunities do BC elementary students have? There are basically two types of enrichment offered on site here at school and off-site experiences both near and far. For on-site enrichment, special guests are brought to school to share their expertise with the students. Guests like authors, environmentalists, and creators are learning museums or of traveling museums or
010regular visitors. Occasionally we load onto buses and travel for educational experience in our community or further away. You will hear more about these opportunities in a few moments. Enri enrichment is important to Bethlehem because it lets students be hands-on and still get fun educational core memories. It lets students learn while having fun and wanting to do more of it. I think it is important to have field trips because it lets students be excited to come to school at and at the same time they learn. At field day we have people usually come and that is a fun educational core memory. That is why I think enrichment is important to Beth. Not every not every family can bring their kids to museums or other places to learn from experts. When we have special guests or go
011somewhere together, it gives every student a common experience to talk about and to write about. So, of course, these programs come with a cost. Um, we're very fortunate though to have these funded both by the Bethlehem School District which gives about $9 per student and our generous PTAs and PTOs also helped to sponsor these. There are several grants that we've been really lucky to participate in. New York State grant is it's called Kids Connect and that has that's a big chunk of change that helps to sponsor some large field trips. And then we have some local agencies that also help to sponsor these um special things that we do as well. The Bethlehem Music Association helps to fund some of our special things like our garden program and also um the Bethlehem Music Association, Bethlehem
012Garden Club and Bethlehem Music Association. One of the um field trips that we're going to be taking soon is sponsored by the Bethlehem Music Association. We love having special guests visit school so we can learn from the experts and even meet famous people. Once or twice a year, an author will come talk with us about the writing process, where they get their inspiration and more. Some of my favorites have been Peter Brown, author of The Wild Robot, and Adam Gidwitz, author of the Unicorn Rescue Society. Other visitors include local scientist Greg Steele, who is a family visitor at BC elementary schools, bringing handson learning at incent and wild life act. [Music] Additionally, we have learned we have learned about what's what is like to live with a disability and how these doesn't need to hold
013people back from reaching their goals. Traveling traveling museums bring artifacts to school, giving us the opportunity to h to handle items such as toys that children long ago played with and compare these to with the toys of today. Speakers like these teach us more than just the content they share. They also demonstrate courage and confidence in presenting. This has been inspired me as I start my career as a musician. I have even already performed here for the whole school. I hope you'll see my names in light someday. >> Amazing. >> On very special occasions, we board a bus and travel to places near and far. One of my recent favorite favorites was our trip to maybe farms where we were able to actually see how things were made and things that look like in colonial
014times which we had learned about at school. At other times, kids travel farther such as a trip Glenmont students took to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Traveling to U Albany for the education education day was my favorite trip of mine. We got to go to a college campus, make predictions, get bling, and have a great time. Hopefully this year we'll take a trip to the New England Science Center like the fifth graders here did last year. >> And a little bonus content that the kids wanted to share. Here at Bethlehem, we have before and after school enrichment programs that students can join with their friends. Elmere before school activities include Earth Savers where they grow fresh veggies. They also help the earth. Of course, the afterchool enrichment program or ASP was organized by
015PTAs. I participated in the knitting and the outdoor sports AP. All of the these enrichment programs let us grow our friendships, learn new skills, and have lots of fun. So, now you know a little bit more about the programs that are offered here at all the elementary schools. Um, the kids are offering to stay for any questions. >> Anyone has anything like >> anybody have questions for our presenters? You So, if there was something that doesn't exist that you guys would really like to do, what would it be? >> Um, like maybe we could have like movie nights or like come to school and have a movie night or all the school could come in the um gym and watch movie. I would like to have like one day out of the whole year where
016we can just dress just let not Halloween but like one day where like we really want to dress up as a character that we love in our books and uh it would be super fun. Any other questions? Well, first can I have a round of applause for all [Music] um and could you guys all come over here to see me for a second? I got a little prize for you. Thank you for coming. >> Thank you for coming. You guys did a great job. >> Thank you for coming. [Laughter] >> Thank you for coming. >> Thank you so much. What instrument do you use? to visit. And so pumpkin actually in our garden and this little character was created by our librarian's mother. >> Thank you guys. that. >> So, Nick, that's a really hard
017act to follow, I think. Um, but I'm going to turn the floor over to you for our second presentation this evening, uh, on the proposed 2025 capital project. So, I would like to share what I would like to spend one day here during the year. >> If you want to dress up as Elsa, you go right ahead. >> I'm sorry. >> Okay. So, good evening. Um, I'm here again to uh to discuss our proposed 2025 capital bond project and uh tonight will be a summary of everything that we've talked about and where we stand to date. So my first slide here is BCSD by the numbers. Um this is just to fill everyone in in. We have 4,127 students in grades K through 12. We have nine buildings um seven of which are school buildings,
018two uh one maintenance and one transportation building. just under 1 million square feet of of space within our buildings uh which contain 233 classrooms. We have 243 acres in total throughout all of our campuses. Um and just a reminder, we're in our oldest building which is Ellir that was built in 1927 and Eagle which is our newest building which was built in 2008. I don't trust technology. I have to look. Um So, some more numbers here. Um, our proposal or the proposal to the board before the board is uh 58.6 million as it sits today. It still comprises They're playing basketball. Um, it's still comprises of 137 elements. Um, the improve and the goal of this particular uh capital bond project is to improve teaching and learning spaces across the district. Um and again keeping
019in uh support of our core values of academics, character, community and wellness. Um the beauty of this project is it is budget neutral with no additional tax impacts for the best residents. The next slide is a uh proposed scope uh by project liability. So this is just pointing out um how much we're spending or I'm sorry the percentage of the 58.6 million that we're spending in each building. So, as you can see, uh transportation is the smallest have the smallest percentage being spent. The high school being the largest building is uh at 13.9 the middle school. Eagle 3.6 million 6.2% of the overall 6.876 9% 5 million drill is 11% at 6.7 million for grand totals of we round it up to 58.6 million but the number is 58545754 and this this slide also shows
020improvements was taking place at every school and every building within the district. >> I got my things confused here. This next slide looks similar to the last. This is broken out by category of what we're doing, what the percentage is of the total um and what it's comprised of. The top of this slide is cut off, but our biggest portion of this bond is for classroom renovations. That's what the big orange part of this pie is. 3% is windows and doors, 16.9% for our air conditioning efforts, um 7.2% You have boilers and hot water at two buildings need to be three buildings that need to be replaced just about 6%. And then life safety system 6.1% and miscellaneous uh that includes uh window screens, furniture etc is at 5.5%. Um again the goal is to
021renovate the outdated classrooms especially at the elementary level which is our number one priority. Next slide shows our funding sources. Um our business G finance finance business official um you know advanced planning for this bond uh using our state aid and careful scheduling bond payments result that's budget neutral to our to our taxers. Um this is how it's broken down. Our estimated building a would be 41.9 million. Our 2022 capital reserves would be about 16.6 million and in total all sources is 58.6 million. And this just shows where the majority of it comes from. This next So this next slide shows um you know my building what we're doing as far as classrooms. Um I don't think you want me to read all of this. However, it's there for your viewing pleasure. Uh Elmir built
0221927. We're doing 13 classrooms. Um and the library media center. And this is renovations. This is not the air conditioning. That'll be on a further slide. Um middle school built 1932. We're doing three art classrooms. Uh the pit area and athletics and um relocation of the music space and and uh improvements. The the middle school improvements were a focus of the 21 and 23 capital projects. Uh next is Slingerlands built in 1940. We're we plan on doing six elementary classrooms, the cafeteria, the kitchen, as well as uh exterior envelope and we'll we'll get to that again in f in the future slide. Um, next is the high school. Uh, built in 1952 with several additions. Um, we're we're the classrooms are where we're focusing is technology and, uh, family and consumer science or fax classrooms
023to be renovated and our auto shop and our wood shop uh, upgrades. Um, that includes uh, additionally the art room kilm um, room that is currently in disrepair. Uh, next is Hammer Grill, built in 1954. Uh, has 15 elementary classrooms that are uh are slated to be fully renovated. Uh, the gymnasium and the cafeteria as well. And then, um, we plan on doing the gym floor, the gymnasium floor, and painting it and removing those 19 54 colors that are still there. At Bmont, built 1957, there's 11 elementary classrooms and that includes the hallways. And at Eagle, we don't have any classroom uh rent full renovations planned because they're not in need. However, there is some classroom work to repair some damage from uh previous uh water that we handled in the 2016 bond. Um up
024here it's cut off but um 34% of the total project would be used to renovate outdated instructional spaces which is the key to that. >> Um these are just some photos and we're moni modernizing the mid-century classrooms. You know we want to re renovate the outdated elementary classrooms. Um these are just u snapshots. It shows the uh the that we were talking about at the last board meeting. Show some of the uh cubbies that are installed inside the classrooms, what our storage issues are within the classrooms and the updated window uh treatments and the casework in there. Um the the construction timeline for the classroom renovations will be finalized after state education department approves the project and we start our bidding with the contractors. Um again, I want to remind everyone that we have limited
025swing space and in some buildings we may it may require us to temporarily relocate some of the elementary students to either within a location within the building or to another school building. Um any of these relocation plans um we're we will do our best to uh minimize the disruptions to the extent possible. Um, so we're going to use all of our uh brain power and our skills to try to prevent any major disruption. However, um there's no possible way to do this volume of classrooms without having some form of disruption. We would like to make it as painless as possible. This next slide shows u what we're doing with AC. Um this time I really won't read them all. I said I wasn't last time, but um we talked about uh the key to this
026slide again, it's cut off up at the top. Uh 17% of that total uh 58.6 million is for cooling the hotspots in each school building. And what we determined through this process is that we're going to do the common spaces in all of the buildings. The common spaces would include library media centers, cafeterias, and gymnasiums. And then those buildings such as will and the high school and the middle school will have the second floor classrooms air conditioned with in this proposal. Um this is a quick slide u kind of showing why why we think we should air condition and why we think it's important. Um, this is a uh cooling degree day is what we what everyone uses to determine your energy needs for a building and how much air conditioning you would need. And
027if you look, these are our what I've referred to as our shoulder months in the past. So, as you can see, May and June and then in the fall, September, and October. The key to this whole slide is if you look at this blue line that goes across in May for the last 30 years about 15 cooling degree days are normal. So everything above that line is considered abnormal. So we've had these higher temperatures in May, in June, in September and in October. Okay? And some of them are kind of really high. So that that shows these charts and this was gathered from Naerta's website and it it just shows you how our shoulder months were kind of we're cooler longer and warmer sooner. Does that make sense? Is there any questions on that slide?
028Next slide is uh showing um basically our infrastructure we're calling safe sound up the standard. Um 45% of the total cost includes preventive maintenance and safety upgrades at all schools. Um, something I refer to as envelope that deals with our roofs and our windows. Every school building will have uh upgrades and I'll touch on a few. Ellir, the heating system is planned on being replaced here and a new fire alarm system. Um, and our bathrooms and doors. We have some some doors that are outdated that uh very soon, when I say very soon, in the next several years will not applicable to our safety standards. Uh middle school, uh again, roofing, new fire alarm system. Um we do have a small boiler that we use in the summer so that we can shut the three
029large boilers off. That small boiler is due for replacement. It's beyond a useful life. Um and then for our shop classes, our wood shop classes, our dust collection systems are no longer up to code and can't be refurbish refurbished without making them up to code. So, we plan on addressing that as well as some of the bathrooms. Um at Slingerland Slingerlands again we have a selective roofing. Um again the boilers are are functioning properly. It's not an emergency. However we want to increase our efficiency so that we can lower our utility bills. Uh again new fire alarm system and bathroom upgrades for the student bathrooms at the high school. Again roofing. We have some areas that are in dire need of roofs. uh they're out of their warranty. Um paving completing the rest of the
030paving that we couldn't complete in the 2021 bond, which includes the bus uh drop off area and the faculty parking lot. Uh as well as bathroom renovations and our public address system um headend upgrade in Hammer. The infrastructure would include new fire alarm system, some door repair and replacements, uh repairs to the skylight that's on the addition and uh the gym and stage floor that I had mentioned earlier, uh refinishing and and painting of the gymnasium uh to make it more acoustically sound and uh the lighting to improve the lighting. At Glenmont, uh in the 2021 model, we did the fire alarm correction, the boiler system. So, we're up to snot there. However, we need to do a fire alarm system there um to bring it up to uh new codes for those that suffer
031from hearing loss. That's the premise behind doing all of our fire alarms. Um to bring them up to uh I I don't want to say co but bring them up to the standards that we require because we do have folks that work within the district uh faculty, staff and visitors and students that do suffer from hearing loss. Um we also are going to uh take care of the skylight, same same skylight, same addition at Glenmont. And then at Eagle, uh, Eagle is slated for a new roof and to have the parking lot parking lot repaired. And again, this is 45% of that total 58.6 million. If folks would care to read this again, this is each one of our scope elements broken down and listed, and it to shows you the total dollar amount at
032each building, and that coincides with the graph that we showed earlier. Does anybody have any questions on the elementary buildings? >> Okay. And next slide is the same for our secondary which is middle school and high school. And we also uh to save the number of slides we we added transportation and so again this breaks it down by the dollar amount at each building and a list of all the scope elements. So when we add up the uh elementaryaries and the secondaries and all the rest of our buildings, they have those 137 elements. So that is a review of where we are today. So the next steps would be that the board must approve a ballot referendum resolution. Um I think we're missing a couple slides. >> After Okay, I'm sorry. Um we made some
033changes just before. So, um October 8th and then October 17th, we put out our 45day public notice for the uh public vote, which would occur on December 2nd. Uh November 7th, we'd send a newsletter to all households within the district. Uh no, November 19th at the regularly scheduled board of education meeting, we would have that as our public meeting. So, if the public had questions, concerns, or comments, they could bring them forward to the board. And then on the 21st, we would send out another reminder to all the households. And then finally, the public vote would be on Tuesday, December 2nd at Bethlehem High School in gym A from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. And this is the proposition language. Um we we displayed this slide uh last uh meeting as well. Does anybody have
034any questions on the problem? >> Again, the highlighted sections are the more um mechanical components of the proposition highlighting the maximum cost of the project not to uh exceed $60 million. Uh the offsetting use of the 22 capital reserve of roughly $16.6 million. the ability for the district, should the board so choose, to use additional operating funds to offset any needed debt service that may be issued either through short-term or long-term uh debt issuance, but a not to exceed amount of roughly $43.4 million in long-term debt um that will be used to offset the overall cost of the project. And in record time, do you have any questions? >> Any questions for you? >> I just want to thank Nick and and your team, right? My students would tell you I'm not an easy grader
035or something, but I thought this has been a genuinely exemplary set of presentations took me from being a cynic to being on board, right? Built a whole bunch of understanding and explanation and consensus. and I nominate you for, you know, the district special presentation award, which I I just made up, but no, genuinely, it's been it's been really good. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Colin's got a pin for you. A pin. >> I've been here eight years. I never got a pen. >> Okay. Jody has to buy you coffee every week this week. >> Now, I got to give Nick a pin. >> Yeah, Nick, you deserve a pin. >> Yeah. >> If it comes under budget, Nick, we'll we'll get you. >> Um, anybody else have questions? >> I don't I'll second that,
036though. I I thought that um just the process throughout has been has been good in terms of explaining it. I think the public has now been informed. Um the questions that you've gotten have been answered and uh thank you >> Catherine. I mean, one thing that I do want I want to echo my colleagues thanks here and one thing that I do really want to um continue the conversation about is I support I support installing cooling systems to make, you know, to make uh life more comfortable and more livable for our students and faculty and staff who all are part of the building. And as we move forward, I want to make sure we're continuing very serious conversations about the operations protocol to make sure that we are being as efficient as we possibly can
037because I know we're very focused, rightfully so, on the upfront cost of installing these. However, given the trends in energy costs and the what the the way this is playing out, my fear is if we are not incredibly careful and intentional about how, where, and when those cooling systems are used, it's going to become very expensive very quickly. So, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Understood. >> Thank you. >> Other questions? a a question that might be a little bit better for for Jod or for John really than for Nick. Um the public outreach and uh the the slide that uh walked through the different mailings that we're going to do. I really appreciate that. I'm just wondering if anybody could speak to any additional um social or other opportunities that we're going to try
038to pursue because I know one of the things that was a big part of community conversation in the last several years is that these are offcycle votes. These are not happening in November. This is on a Tuesday in December. Um, and I want to make sure that the community is is as that that the school district is doing everything we can to make sure that this is on everybody's calendar. >> So, I mean, we'll do obviously our website is updated. It has the entire scope. It has the presentations. Um, the purpose of doing the postcards and the newsletter is that those are hard copy that goes to every household. Um people often we can put as much information on out through parent square which does have community um information in there but we feel like
039with this because it is offcycle that the hard copies that go to people's homes hopefully will um you know hope people will pay attention to it. We have had a lot of um other votes in December in the past and we've had generally good turnouts. Not typically as high as the May vote but we still have a pretty decent turnout. So, we'll do what we can. >> Thank you. >> Y just one other point regarding the communication, Jody. I do think it is important to make sure that everyone is fully informed about the potential disruptions to the classrooms because of the construction. So, I would just ask to make sure that our communications are >> um clear about that so so no one feels um >> Sure. >> that they didn't know about. >> Right.
040>> Yeah. And if we can continue to to have that either as part of the superintendent update or a follow- on presentation at an appropriate time >> to keep the conversation going here, uh that would be great, too. >> And we shared that at um President's Council. We had a meeting on Monday with President's Council, and we asked them to >> also help us get the word out about the vote, the project, and also that piece of it. So, we'll continue to update that group as well. Do you do you have any sense of when uh district administration will have a a sharable like plan? This is what will be happening with these classrooms when and on what schedule or anything. Do you have a sense of when that might come? >> I would probably
041defer to Mike or Drew on that. That would be after state at approves. >> Right. So, so maybe winter, maybe early spring. >> What we can promise is that we're going to be thinking about this throughout the entire process at every stage design. So when we say we're going to be working on it and coming back upates throughout the process where are we how is it priorities to do other things so I can't give an exact timeline it's going to be something that we're going to be ever perfecting as we move forward. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Clara Rose. Do you guys have any questions? >> I didn't have a question, but um I'd love to just piggyback on the praise of the others and I think it's a great project and I think it's
042really good that it's budget friendly for the taxpayers. I think people will appreciate that. >> I also want to echo um all the praise. I thought it was a very digestible pres presentation and I really appreciate you taking the time to give the presentation. Thank you very much, Nick. >> Before I would also like to say thank you to Jod, John, and Dave and the board of education for having us and and uh putting up with all this uh things that may not be uh simple and u asking the right questions so that we can convey our message to the public and to anybody that's listening here or out there. And obviously our project team, Brian Drew and and Mike Collins. And uh hopefully this gets approved by the public and uh we can proceed
043because this will be a really great project especially for our students. >> Great. And why don't you come over here for a second? [Applause] >> Wear that with [Laughter] Uh next on our agenda is our recognition of public comment on an agenda item. If we have and actually first the first thing under there we have two items tonight. Uh the first is the public hearing on our district-wide safety plans for 2025 2026. Uh so tonight we are holding the public hearing on our propo proposed revised district safety plans as required by education law. And at this time I invite any members of the public to speak who wish to offer up comments either for or against on the proposed plans. Um I ask uh that you please state your name prior to offering any remarks.
044Sure. It's not a public comment, but I would ask um >> I would ask the the right time Jody to just explain a little bit more clearly what this document is, what what function does it serve and sort of just generally the process um through which this document was was created and now is you know sort of offered to the public. >> Sure. Um, so the district-wide safety plan is something that has to be updated annually. Um, and there's a 30-day public comment period. So this was, if you recall about a month ago, a little over a month ago, you approved the draft plan. It was posted on the website. Information went out to the community that it was now posted for anyone's review. The district safety plan really is the guidance document as to
045what needs to be in place and that really kind of drives the building safety plans which are not public documents. So, the district safety plan is more about process, what's included, um things that we consider in our safety planning and our safety training. And the building safety plans are more specific to the specifics of every building, who's involved, and those all get submitted to state ed on an annual basis as well. The district safety plan is posted on the our website, which is why it's somewhat generic and there's not a lot of detail uh in those in this particular plan. >> Right. Yeah. So, this document is sort of the process, the umbrella document that allows the district and and you to to create the safety plans that then actually control the actions that might
046take place in in different scenarios. >> Correct. >> Yep. >> And and if I may, this if I'm understanding this correctly, it's really about who makes which decisions and in what order when we are confronted by a safety issue or an emergency. >> Exactly. >> Okay. Thank you. I seeing no additional comments, um I am going to close the public hearing on the proposed revised district safety plan. Uh and then next is our recognition of visitors. If we have any visitors who would like to address the board on an agenda item, now would be the time to come up to the microphone. Uh moving on to item six, action items. Um a finance action items. It is recommended by the superintendent that the board of education approve the following finance action items 1 through 7.
047>> So move. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? >> Just noting this includes passing the you know resolution to adopt that bond we just discussed. Right. >> And I'd like to uh thank the Bethlehem Music Association for their donation. >> Yeah. >> Um all in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That passes. B. Professional personnel action items. It is recommended by the superintendent that the board of education approve the following professional personnel action items 1 through 11. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? That carries. C. Support personnel action items. It is recommended by the superintendent that the board of education approve the following support staff action items 1 through 12. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Any abstensions?
048That carries. D. Other action items. It is recommended by the superintendent that the board of education approve the following action items one and two. >> So moved. >> Second. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? That carries. Item seven, recognition of public comment on a non-aggenda item. We have um any visitors who would like to address the board on a non-aggenda item. Now would be the time to come to the microphone. Item eight, uh, future meetings and events. Our next regularly scheduled board meeting is on Wednesday, October 22nd at Slingerlands Elementary School. Um, anticipating executive session at 6 and reconvening to open session at 700 p.m. And then our meeting after that on Wednesday, November 5th, uh, will be back at the high school. Um and again anticipating executive
049session at 6:00 and reconvening um to open session at 7:00. Uh seeing no need to go back into executive session. Uh could I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So move second. >> All in favor? I meeting adjourned.