001okay this morning foreign okay and then what should I do it tomorrow foreign 15 minutes okay foreign obviously they've been waiting yes foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you very much thank you I'm so sorry foreign but um no no because there's most of them are still playing some Glenn who'd accidentally wait until they're kind of wrapped up in the next few weeks okay so we should say congratulations all right I didn't hear them um sure you guys ready all right we can reconvene our meeting to open session the board has been in executive session since six o'clock to discuss three tenure candidates contractual matter and a litigation matter if we could stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
002for which it stands one nation undergrad able with liberty and justice for all introductions Dave Hurst from Austin Meredith moriotti Jody Monroe Holly dellenbaugh and Willow bear and Christine Beck are not able to be here tonight um we I'm guessing we have some pig students with us in the audience um thanks for joining us and your obligation is to stay here until nine o'clock or when the meeting ends whichever one comes first so if for some reason we hit nine o'clock we'll take a recess so that you guys can leave and I you probably need a signature from somebody we have sign out sheets or you can see any member of the board if they have sheets then they don't need to sign in we can just initial them all right so if you have
003a sheet that you need a signature just see a member of the board first up is our approval of minutes it is recommended by the superintendent that the Board of Education approved the minutes from the October 26 2022 regular board meeting any discussion all in favor aye any opposed any abstentions that passes next are meeting reports and purses our superintendent's report sure thank you I'd like to have John McPhillips talk a little bit about we changed our tax collection process I don't know if you remember we had some um issues in the past so John has an update to share with the board in regards to our tax collection status and how the process went overall yeah oh got the other one to the superintendent's point we had brought that process in the house this
004year special thanks to Michelle Curtis and Tom Morton in the business office for really handling a Lion's Share of tax receipts and payment processing associated with both the school tax levy as well as the library tax levy it's a lot of a lot of paperwork a lot of receipt processing and for all intents and purposes it was a great success we're using a new software application this year which was tracking all of the receipts we continued our relationship with Pioneer Bank two branches locally where tax residents could drop off their tax payments we went picked those tax payments up and then process them accordingly we did have a little bit of feedback for software developers to make a couple of adjustments that would provide a little bit better audit detail moving forward and all in
005all it was it was relatively successful but I wanted to highlight I was looking at the receipts as of November 1st just for some context the school taxes come out the school tax bills come out the residents have the opportunity to pay their school taxes penalty free up until September 30th or October 1st depending on where September 30th falls on the on the week if it's a weekend you can still we'll accept and record a payment as of October 1st penalty between the dates of October 1st and October 31st we're still happy to accept tax payments but there is a two percent penalty fee associated with those payments after October 31st the school district and the the business offices out of the tax collection process any additional tax payments after October 31st need to be
006turned over to the to Albany County purposes of collection one of the things I wanted to look at over the past three calendar years where does the town of Bethlehem the town of New Scotland and the School District as a whole stance so roughly pretty much on par I was looking at this more in terms of accessible cash flow as well as an overall economic indicator for for the town as we scroll a little bit more to the right you get a sort of total tally where roughly in terms of percent collected for the total Town of Bethlehem and town of New Scotland combined for the school tax levy we collected 97.7 percent of the overall tax levy there's roughly 2.3 percent that tax dollars that the district did not collect over September and October
007roughly two hundred and seventy thousand dollars was still outstanding compared to the prior year though that 1.6 million dollars in uncollected taxes along with 65 Parcels the district will turn over to Albany County for purposes of collection there is an agenda item on the board's agenda later on that provides the business office and the tax collector the authorization to submit those parcels and delinquent taxes to the county that does need to be submitted by November 15th under real property tax law that's why it's sort of in the agenda for this meeting to provide the Authority for the tax collection officer um to to submit that file overall the school district was ultimately made whole for purposes of any delinquent taxes there is a bit of a from a cash flow perspective the district is not
008made hold until honor about April 1st under real property tax law the county of Albany will make the district whole for any delinquent taxes not collected as of October 31st is that it thank you that's it thanks did anyone have any questions on that and the only other announcement I wanted to make was in regards to our safety form we held last night I just want to thank all of the staff who came out and were involved in not only putting that presentation together but being there to respond to questions we had a lot of questions submitted in advance of the Forum and then we had several questions submitted during the Forum we also had the Bethlehem police participate in the presentation and we had worked with Albany County Mental Health in advance to get
009resources available for families we were hoping for a larger turnout although I think maybe the day after Halloween and it was a nice evening could have deterred people but it was recorded and it will be up on our YouTube channel probably sometime next week because we do have to do some captioning um and formatting with it but it will be available for people to watch so that's my report thanks thank you anybody have any questions for Jody uh next up is our board report first I just wanted to say thank you to the middle school for hosting us um we're happy to be here on our tour of schools I also wanted to say thank you to parents and staff at all our elementary schools and at the middle school for all of the Halloween
010fun and festivities that took place this past Friday all the reports I heard were that all the kids had a great time and were really excited to be back doing their Halloween fun um I also wanted to report out Christine and I attended the nisba conference this past Friday and Saturday and had an opportunity to attend a bunch of different educational seminars during those couple of days in particular on some of the ones that I went to there's one about First Amendment topics related to school boards and won a couple relating to some Equity experiences and Journeys that some other school districts have been on and one of the things that particularly stood out to me actually was the the keynote speaker uh this year was Marley Matlin who did a fabulous job um talking
011about her experience going through public school and the importance of Dei and access for all students and it was uh it was very inspiring so if anybody wants more details just reach out to me or Christine we can to tell you about some of those things that's all I have if anyone has anything else go ahead Catherine yeah I just wanted to jump in you know really think Jody the I I was at the um safety presentation last night the the panel discussion it was absolutely fantastic and we had um you know the staff who participated in the panel and who presented uh really had great responses to very thoughtful questions from the community so it was really great to see that engagement as well uh and then I also just wanted to mention we
012had a we had quite a number of Staff who attended to be on hand just to be there and talking with folks they took their Tuesday night to go out and and do that as well and I really want to thank them for that because it just added to the conversation and provided a lot more depth so thank you to everybody who put that together and who did such a great job thank you foreign I just wanted to Echo um Catherine's comments and also officially welcome um John John McPhillips is our new uh Chief Financial Officer we will miss uh Judy but if I wanted to say thank you and to her and we really are excited to work with you so welcome to your first official meeting anybody else all right um do we
013have anybody here from the high school student Senate um hi I'm Elizabeth Baldwin and some of our student Senate updates are that we just secured a donation in our backpack room from Stewart's and essentially we get 150 milk and egg cards each 150 and they give our families who get backpacks from it the opportunity to exchange the card for half a gallon of milk every other week and for the Egg card it is a carton of eggs every month and we also have secured a donation from the Bethlehem community fund to hopefully get cards for the rest of the year so we can keep this opportunity available for families in our community and additionally we would like to congratulate some of our Senators and the rest of the field hockey team on their first sectional
014title in their program's history and wish them luck on Sunday at Regional so thank you thanks how are you guys doing generally for supplies for the backpack program um we're doing great we have a very generous relationship with the Hannaford and over in Del Mar and they offer us a lot of um free food and pallets from them as well as other donations from the community okay okay great thank you thank you uh next on our agenda tonight is our presentation um and we have a presentation from Kristen Connor on building healthy relationships and sexual misconduct prevention hi good evening everyone um I'm Kristen Connor I'm the K-12 Council supervisor in the district and I would love to be able to present this tonight but actually Carly Young is the one who's going to steal
015the show I just have the great pleasure of introducing her so I wanted to First just say that we had hoped that Dr Klugman could have made it back in time to be here this evening as he is one of our biggest supporters in the counseling department so I will introduce Carlin just give you kind of an overview of what this presentation is about so Carla's been a middle school counselor I don't know if any of you recognize Mrs Young because she's been here for 18 years and so we've had the great pleasure of working together for the last seven and I would say over the time that she's been here the role of the counselor has really evolved and I have witnessed that as working with all of our counselors in this district and
016what Carla's done is she's taken a lot of the experience that she's had and she's read as you'll see all of her publication all the Publications and the journals and the resources that she's accumulated and she shares her knowledge with the students based on need and she shares it with her colleagues and so we learn a lot from Carla because she creates lessons as you'll see tonight not only here for the middle school but she does it also up at the high school and at the elementary level and so she's really helping our comprehensive counseling program grow and evolve with time and so some of you may recognize her from being up at the high school last year in health classes and some of you may have recognized her as being your counselor so I
017was with great pleasure that I get to introduce Carla and have her talk about this really important topic not only that it impacts here at the middle school but also at the high school as well thank you very much Kristen and thank you to the board thank you for having me I know that you're very busy you have a lot of things to discuss I really appreciate you giving me some of your time so that I can talk about the work that we've been doing the building healthy relationships and sexual misconduct prevention we're developing curriculum and we've been implementing a lot of that over the past year and thank you to the students I'm happy to see so many students here because a lot of this really started from student comments and student feedback so
018we listen to you it might not always seem that way but we do listen to you and and we appreciate all your feedback what I'm going to be talking about tonight is not our full comprehensive School counseling plan just a piece of it just the pieces that relate to the healthy relationships and the sexual misconduct prevention um so like I said it's it this really started from student comments students reaching out and saying we want to talk more about this and so as I was hearing these comments um I started to do some research on my own and one of the first places that I looked was to Dr Lisa hinkelman uh and she is the author of girls without limits she's also the founder of an agency a research agency called rocks which is
019ruling our experience and what they do is evidence-based programming research professional development she works a lot with ASCA which is the American School counseling Association which I'm a member of so anytime something can come up or we're hearing from our students that's some place that we can go to we can go to the American School counseling Association where do we go to who are the experts so I attended a lot of Dr henkelman's trainings write her books participated and all of that um and here is just a snapshot a very small snapshot of some of the information that we were able to pull up so it was in 2017 that Dr henkelman did some research she's updating the research this year um but based on what the Bethlehem students were telling us um we wanted
020to take a look at some some data across the country and what was going on um so some of the statistics that that she pulled up was that 50 of fifth grade girls report that boys are disrespectful to females this figure Rises to 80 percent by the time they enter high school and upward of 90 percent of females report being sexually harassed by the time they graduate um I'll say I'm not totally surprised by these numbers um but alarmed by them and uh as a school counselor I think that this just those statistics show us that we just need to be having more conversations more understanding more open dialogue I did a little bit more research and started looking into Dr zalum's work and Dr zazloom it was a health teacher for many years then
021was a school administrator she was a Dei specialist all out in California and she wrote a book so she did a lot of research and wrote a book uh sex teens and everything in between and some of her statistics from that book are up there too um girls between the ages of 12 and 14 are at highest risk of sexual harassment so as a primarily middle school counselor I was eye-opening for me she also talked a lot about students in college and the sexual harassment and sexual assault that happens in colleges and so I started like diving into that a little bit and watching some documentaries and um I was kind of getting fired up about like why aren't the colleges doing more and what do we need to do and um and then something
022very eye-opening happened where uh they started talking about the red zone and the red zone is the freshman year of college September October and November and they call it the Red Zone because that is when the largest number of sexual harassment and sexual assaults take place um so again I'm thinking what can the colleges do what can the colleges do and then I think well these are our kids you know we've just sent you out into the world into college what can we do to better prepare you so that you don't become a victim of or a perpetrator of sexual assault or sexual misconduct uh so in addition to doing some research I wanted to talk to The Experts so we took two days uh where we um kind of camped out in d122 I
023had Brittany Conklin with me who was an intern at the time at the high school she's now the eagle counselor uh and we sat with kids and just had open dialogue we had about 75 students stop in and they could just let us know what they wanted to know more about so I did have some students coming in saying that they wanted to talk about skipping lunch that they wanted to talk about advanced classes the amount of homework but I will tell you most of the comments were about we want to talk about relationships we want to talk about boundaries we want to have these discussions with adults and with each other so there's those are just some of the comments up there we do have a document that that we can share that Brittany
024was able to take notes and keep track of of what the students were talking about another important piece of this puzzle is Aaron's law so Aaron's law was passed August 2019 in New York state and it is a law that requires public schools to talk to students K grades K-8 about prevention about sexual abuse exploitation you may have not heard of Aaron's law many people haven't and you can see the Times Union article I passed with very little Fanfare and not too long after it passed was March 2020. so there were a few other things going on in March 2020 that maybe Aaron's law took a back seat to but I think that it's important that we we address Aaron's law and that we continue those conversations all right so in looking at all this
025I wanted to look at it two different ways direct service to our students but then also indirect service to the adults in the students lives because that's how we're going to make the the most impact is when we can talk to everybody right so first I'll talk a little bit about the direct service that we provided last year we read maybe he just likes you with fifth and sixth graders with some action-based research so we our action-based research was actually at ellsmere and it was the most fun ever so I would go over once to twice a week and read with the ellsmere students and then we had lessons and the lessons are listed up there where we could have these conversations to support the book what are boundaries what are our connections what does
026a middle school counselor do you can see some pictures up there too I couldn't get in every day which I really wanted to because elsemere was so much fun um but because I couldn't get in there every day the Middle School staff was amazing in recording themselves reading chapters of the book so we tied this into the transition time so right before the fifth graders came up to the Middle School to visit they had seen recordings of their principles reading to them their future math teacher reading to them their English teachers they're counselors so they felt like they knew the staff a little bit before they even ever entered the building plus which was a lot of fun was they would give me updates on who did the best job reading the chapters when I
027would show up and they would critique them on who did the best which was awesome so we did that in fifth grade we also read this book with all of the sixth graders and just trying to figure out what was the most appropriate age level for it I think it was successful in both grade levels we've decided to move forward with sixth grade though so we're going to continue to read this book in sixth grade starting in probably April or May this year all right also in sixth grade we have the beautiful me Workshop this is not something new this is something we've been doing for about 10 years uh it was Kim Panera one of the high school social workers she had attended this program in at Siena College and um so she brought
028it here to Bethlehem so we've been running this for about 10 years we do it in small groups and it's usually about a two and a half hour Workshop we talk about self-awareness self-reflection self-care rules and self-help right now we have 14 trained staff so that we have a variety of staff that can implement this program in seventh grade last year we collaborated with the Albany County Crime Victims and Sexual Violence Center they came to our family and consumer classes and they started in November finished up around January and talked about the topics you can see up there healthy and unhealthy relationships abusive relationships consent empathy boundaries and bystander intervention in eighth grade and we're just finishing up the 8th grade lessons this week we're pushing in with the health teachers the counselors and social
029workers are going into the health classes and talking about crossing the line Internet safety warning signs and red flags and non-negotiables of relationships and how to identify those this year we're spending more time on the safety planning element of it and so today we were writing safety plans with 8th graders um helping them to really make it more specific using the word actually instead of I will talk to a trusted adult who will you actually talk to who is that person I'll get out of the situation where are you actually going to go and doing those follow-up questions with them grades nine and ten so we're trying to get a full scope and sequence with the building healthy relationships in grades 9 and 10 last year we offered a rocks program this is the program
030that was developed by Dr hinkelman that I talked about earlier this is a 20-week program we offered at Ninth period to ninth and 10th grade female students and covered those topics the managing stress pressure relationships we ended on physical self-defense um which a lot of the girls really liked so we got it was myself and Jessica van wormer who ran the program last year this time I'm doing it with Cara Kowalski from the high school um and so we got trained in physical self-defense and then were able to train the students which was a lot of fun and here's some of the feedback that we had from the students and there is for anyone who has access to the presentation there is a link on the bottom of this where you can get the actual
031survey results of the students that went through the program foreign after that so I'm seeing a lot of familiar faces so some of the students here participated in a couple of lessons where we pushed into the high school health classes so this would probably be 10th through 12th graders that we had participating in these lessons the first day we went in and we talked about warning signs and red flags of relationships uh they watched some videos heard some scenarios got actual red flags that they could wave when they saw warning signs in a relationship we talked as they were watching the video and waving the flags we're talking about coercion manipulation peer pressure I have to say I was very impressed with the high school students they knew when and how to use refusal skills
032they were able to identify when we watched certain videos and talked about different scenarios they were able to identify manipulation coercion and absolutely like they would not do nope they would never get involved in coercion or manipulation never ever ever and I believe them and they believed themselves the next day we went in and I do see some familiar faces we divided the class in half half went out into the hallway and half stayed in the classroom the half that stayed in the classroom got their choice of a full-size candy bar the half that was out in the hallway didn't get anything and their task was to come in and convince the students in the classroom to hand over their candy so it was very it was a low stake situation it's candy right um
033but what we saw was how quickly some students were sliding into manipulation coercion peer pressure we saw a little black male there was all different things so it was it was in good fun I would say that there was also a lot of laughing um but it was practicing our refusal skills in a low stake situation and seeing how easily when we think we deserve something how easily we can become the person who's using manipulation and coercion in addition to that as part of the lesson they were given and we actually gave these to eighth graders today each student was given a pocket guide the template for this pocket guide was provided by a program called not a number love 146 and this was a training that I took part in last October so they
034provide the template and then we're able to choose what numbers we put into this resource guide so this resource guide includes National hotlines and it also includes local resources so our high school health classes were given this resource guide last year and all of our eighth graders were given it today or will be given the guide tomorrow and it's part of the safety planning lesson who will you call where will you go find some numbers in this resource guide that can help you so in addition to those Direct Services we want to provide indirect services to the adults in our students lives so last school year for the conference day um which the day before school we presented to the social workers counselors and psychologists of the district I presented at a building level staff
035meeting last year ran a beautiful knee training so that we can get more staff trained in beautiful me so that we can reach more students we also did a Bou presentation for parents so that we can get this information out to parents as well I mentioned aska the American School counseling Association our counseling department are also members of niska and so I'll be I attended the conference last year and I'll be attending again this year to present and also collaborate with other counselors we're lucky this year it happens to be in Albany so that will be convenient and easy we're also doing a lot of collaboration with Niskayuna and gilderland right now just talking with those counselors what are they doing what are they seeing how can we support each other as counselors in addition
036to that we have a counseling library for our staff and a counseling book club and so these are some of the books and the resources that we have available to teachers here in the building so they can sign these books out and then come and talk to us about their thoughts their questions and then I had one teacher come to me Kristen Burns I don't know if any of you had her eighth grade social studies she said you should really start a book club with some of these books so last year we had a book club for under pressure and this year we have a book club for girls without limits both of these books say that it's to help female students I'm telling you they're really for anybody Under Pressure specifically talks about like
037Stress Management things we can handle big deals little deals things like that girls Without Limits gets into a lot of social media types of things too so we're having we ran under pressure last year girls Without Limits this year so again I am this is not the whole counseling comprehensive plan this slide is mostly just my thoughts and hopes for the upcoming year and and plans um updating the eighth grade lessons we we did that this past week and we spent a lot more time like I said on the safety planning and I do think that that has gone well and we've been able to give the kids some concrete resources I've been working with Ryan St John to implement develop and Implement a be strong be wise healthy relationship program and that is based
038on a program by Amy Carpenter and she has Five Lessons step by step on you know some of the lessons are defining the problem building your herd which is about protecting each other managing healthy relationships safety planning is a big piece of that uh she has some some quizzes and things that you can take to figure out are you more likely to freeze or fight or flee a situation and then how you can tailor your safety plan based on that personality trait of yours um we also want to continue the beautiful me empowerment program the goal is to offer it to all sixth grade girls the girls can certainly opt out but our goal is that we have as many attend as possible we want to develop and Implement additional sixth grade empowerment programs that
039are gender neutral so beautiful me is specifically for female students it was created by the Hands Family Foundation to honor their three daughters and so they have asked that we keep it to just a program for females but myself and China Smith have been having a lot of conversations about coming up with something that would be more gender neutral Guilderland School District Farnsworth Middle School is also working on something very similar so we're hoping to to communicate with them about that um I address Aaron's law right now our elementary schools are working with Aaron's law sometimes the teacher is doing it sometimes the counselor I would love to just see more collaboration ideally maybe an elementary health teacher that could go in and provide those consistent lessons across each one of the elementary buildings we
040would also like to add more rocks program so that was the 9th and 10th grade program that I talked about Carol Kowalski and I have already started this year's rocks program at the high school we have four staff members trained at the middle school to provide rocks the issue is funding right now rocks does have a fee for each student that goes through it so we're just waiting to hear back from the bou to see it looks like they're going to help us with some of that funding for the Middle School um continue to add book clubs they've been going well and we'd like to continue to do that and then continued collaboration with the seventh grade teachers have picked out some really good books for this year to talk about talk more about diversity
041equity and inclusion um so China Smith and I have been talking about pushing in for the ghost boys discussion the harbor me discussions and then to participate in niska again so that we can collaborate more with other counselors in the area and find out what they're doing any questions I have a couple um I I was I'm glad to see on there that you're working on developing a or hope to develop and Implement a program at the sixth grade level that's not gender specific because one of the questions I had was um you know the the programs at sixth grade and for the ninth and 10th graders are focused on on girls and you know are those accessible to our non-binary students who I think sometimes get left out yeah yeah absolutely and so that
042was one of the conversations that China and I were having is that we want something to be gender neutral um yeah I think um I think it's important on on all ends of it that we have these empowerment programs these healthy relationship programs across the board for all genders so yeah that is definitely something that we want to work on um I don't want to not have beautiful me because it only includes female students because I think that there's something powerful about that as well um but absolutely I hear that too yeah so you know I would encourage it maybe at the ninth and 10th grade level as well like or if there's a way so that's what we're trying to do yeah because there may be some non-binary students who would feel comfortable participating
043in absolutely yeah yeah so that's I'm hoping that that's where the be strong be wise curriculum comes in because as I talk with Ryan St John just looking at the scheduling and planning of that that wouldn't necessarily be something that we push into classes to do that would be something more like an after school program which is the way that rox's or the ninth period program which is the way that rocks is designed up there um and we do have a couple of counselors here too um Matt farnan and Andy lenher are working on um the real me program which is um for sixth grade boys which is talks about self-esteem character development those types of things as well and then I just kind of curious your thoughts on you know how you're working with
044this staff in the buildings to on responding to reports from students of sexual harassment or sexual assault because those are as a board member those are some concerns that I hear are that the that students report issues and they're not heard or responded to so I don't know if you could speak to that yeah so that was what we're trying to do with the um the presentations to the counselor social workers and psychologists that we did last year and then the staff meetings really talking to staff about how the most important thing is to listen um we are not at the investigators to listen and then know the right person that staff should report to right so whether it's their Title IX coordinator letting them know finding the school counselor finding the administrator and I
045think very well intentioned people try to investigate sometimes and they ask a lot of questions but in that moment when when a student is disclosing something listen support um and and provide that you know the resources of here's some people you can go to here's the counselors Title IX coordinator and administration Catherine to do a question thank you so much this is a fantastic presentation and um it's great and I just wanted to lift up what Holly was saying because some of the some of the same questions came to mind like I am I'm a huge proponent of gender specific programming and and like that and also making sure that that's that Equitable yeah that's Equitable that that and that is accessible for folks in how they identify um not just how they present right
046so um I'm delighted to hear that that's front of mind for you all as well because I think that that's something um that's really really important as we um as we as we talk about these things and I would love if you would speak to do you have are there conversations um among staff or what kind of conversations among staff um actually I've got a couple questions but there's one if when a student is how do you handle some like how how are we thinking about handling some of these sensitive cases where the uh person being harmed is is it from a marginalized background either because they're gender fluid trans because they're coming from someplace else like is that part of the conversation that you're having um a little bit and Dr Ellis has been
047providing resources and trainings for all the counselors psychologists social workers um and so the last one we attended was about exactly that and it was great and and there was a lot of great discussion from staff too about how to handle things how to ask questions and make sure that we are Equitable yeah so thank you Dr Ellis thank you um and then just in what you're seeing from students and what's being reported or the questions they're coming forward with are there addition what what type of additional considerations are coming as students re-emerge into social life after covid that's a very big question I'm just wondering like is there anything that pops to mind is there anything that you all have had to adjust to to address to this time um well I don't know
048so much about adjusting but just continuing those conversations of boundaries and how to explain that um because we were for so long where we didn't really have to worry about physical boundaries because they were there whether we wanted them or not so just continuing to have those conversations and you know just even talking with Kristen earlier about what's going on in some of the kindergarten classes I think a lot of that is just you know getting used to being around people again for kids that weren't in school yeah that makes a lot of sense yeah um awesome I'll hold there and thank you very much anybody agree other questions okay thank you very much thank you I just want to also thank Carla because she was out last night and tonight but she has really
049spearheaded this work K-12 as was evidenced by her presentation so she's really done just tremendous work on her own because of her passion for these topics so I really thank and appreciate all the work she's done so thank you thank you and again I do really want to thank the students and so reach out to me if you have more comments now that you've seen it all together because you've all seen the kind of bits and pieces of it now that you've seen it all together you are the experts reach out to me and let me know what you need what you think what's going well what's not going well all right thank you thank you next on the agenda is our recognition of public comment on an agenda item if we have anybody in
050the audience who'd like to address the board on an agenda item now is the time to come up to the microphone item six action items a finance action items it is recommended by the superintendent at the Board of Education approve the following Finance action items one through two so moved second any discussion all in favor aye any opposed any abstentions that carries B Professional Personnel action items it is recommended by the superintendent that the Board of Education approve the following professional Personnel action items one through four don't move second any discussion all in favor aye any opposed any abstentions that carries C support Personnel action items it is recommended by the superintendent that the Board of Education approved the following support staff action items one through four so moved any discussion all in favor aye
051any opposed any abstentions that carries D other action items it is recommended by the superintendent that the Board of Education approved the following action items one through three so moved second any discussion all in favor aye any opposed any abstentions that carries um seven recognition of public comment on a non-agenda item if we leave anyone with us who would like to speak to the board on a non-agenda item now is the time to come to the microphone hi good evening um Gina Norfleet um from I'm in Glenmont I don't know if you guys need my address I just want to take this opportunity to thank uh Jody Monroe and all our panelists last night I attended the safety forum and um I just want to thank everyone for their time and everyone who came to
052attendance it was very informative and uh beneficial so thanks so much thank you eight future meetings and events um we have added there's at the request of um a board member a facilities committee meeting on Monday November 14th that will be at the high school and that's at Jody what time is that November 7th November oh November 7th sorry 30 right 5 30. yeah 5 30. yeah okay all right yeah yeah and I just wanted to I just want to clarify I I put in the request for the additional facilities meeting based on the conversation at our last board meeting where we were discussing the substantial changes to um to the bond uh as everything unrolls and as different cost estimates come in because the anticipated needs and anticipated changes are of such a magnitude
053and because it uh we only as board members received the information for some of the details of that at the last meeting just wanted to give an opportunity for the facilities committee to consider and weigh and really dig in on and discuss those changes uh before anything continued to move forward so thank you to the facilities committee um for to my board members fellow board members who sit on that for taking the time to do that I really appreciate it I know it's more time out of your your day and thank you thanks Catherine and then on November 16th that's our next regularly scheduled board meeting and that's at Hammer Grail elementary school and that will start at seven anticipating executive session at six and the meeting after that is on December 7th I can't
054believe it's gonna be December already um and again starting at seven anticipating executive session at six and that will be at Slingerlands um seeing no need to go back into executive session um could I have a motion to adjourn the meeting all in favor aye meeting adjourned