001We are live. >> Good evening everybody. I'd like to uh call the regular meeting to order. And if I could ask everybody to stand for the flag salute. >> 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. >> Okay. Thank you everybody for that. Um, I will make a motion to accept tonight's agenda with one change. I'm going to move the community open forum down below D1. Um, can I get a motion or can I get a second? >> I'll second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? Okay. So, on to D1 board recognition. Hello. Does that work? >> Yes, it's green. Yeah. >> All right. >> There you go. >> Hello everyone.
002My name is Tiffany Bergman. I'm the new art department coordinator. I want to personally thank each board member that is present and the student representatives for the time they put into supporting our school events, our students, and the school district. We value your genuine kindness to everyone around. I hope that you accept a token of appreciation from all of our students, and I'm going to call them forward to present some artwork to you. So, we have first we have from Central Square Middle School, we have an eighth grade student, Charlotte Brockman, presenting her artwork to Kenneth Sherman. [Applause] You have that. Okay. So, he's getting that That's the original print. So, I'm not Do you want them to come around? Okay. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. >> From AA Cole Elementary School, we have Payton
003Taft, a fifth grade student, presenting art to Casey my Here we go. Is this one yours? >> Okay. All right. That looks good. Oh my goodness. Good. From Burton Elementary School, I have Elellanar Pennock presenting artwork to Ryan Lucas. Here we go. So, this is just so you could see it. >> Yep. Go ahead. >> Do you want to put it hold it in the picture? Okay. From Hastings Mallerie Elementary School, I have Wesley Edwards, a fifth grade student, presenting work to Brian Mather. [Applause] [Laughter] matches. Do you want to go get a picture? Thank you. Next, I have from Millard Hawk Elementary School, Broen Thompson, a fifth grade student, presenting work to David Tacman. [Applause] Cool snowman from Paul Vmore High School. I have Ava Lewis, a 10th grade student, presenting photo to Lori
004Wood. >> Hi. All right. For the transportation center, I have Nico. Oh my goodness. I did not practice this one. Is it Coraluk? >> Coraluk. Coraluk. Sorry about that. Presenting to Christy Fishman. So pretty. Presenting for the maintenance center. I have Maline Wakeakeman, a 12th grade student, presenting to Allison Douglas. [Applause] >> Is that Oh, I think she's supposed to give that. >> I have a 10th grade student, Josephina Pulis, presenting to Stephen Patch, the board president. [Applause] And I did not want to forget the endless hours it might seem for these high school girls to volunteer their time. I have made some cards um with my photograph on it for Evangelene Plutoa and Emma Rubar, our student representatives. So that concludes the um board of ed appreciation and Again, thank you everybody so much
005and hopefully you enjoy looking at some artwork. >> Thank you to the students and the parents. Thank you everybody >> and and congratulations on on your first uh presentation. Uh I know we had somebody in the crowd looking all right. But thank you so much. >> Awesome job. >> Oh, intermission cookies. >> Yeah. >> Oh, we have cookies. Perfect. All right. I would like to invite everybody um to have some cookies and some refreshments. >> Kids, eat as many as you want. >> Yeah. Hey, downhill. >> Yeah. It's beautiful. I love it. I mean, if it didn't I was just there. I thought really 10 years. No, you'll never You have other people. So to come out [Music] Okay. No matter what she was um last week. >> Mr. My brother in my heart. like
006in front of us. I walked into Grace likes to sing. She's not embarrassed. But she'll be embarrassed. She's got to be with the horse. She knows once she gets [Music] I saw they made a lot of stuff. >> The front of just all the way up. Okay, we could we'll come back to the meeting. >> Evangeline Phillips is actually like an expert with those scores and the numbers. Anytime you guys are really curious, she she'd sit with you. Okay. So, parents, you're more than welcome to stay. >> I wouldn't recommend it, but you're more than welcome. Um, now we're going to go on to community open forum. We have a small presentation that's going to be done for us. >> Yep. >> What do we want to do? Yeah, Tom's >> skipping. Are we going
007next or >> No, you're you're not next. I >> I think we were going to go with the kids and then we He switched at the beginning. >> Sorry. >> Hello, board of representatives for the education. I don't know how to speak. Um I'm Avery Ford, the student director of our play this year. Contrary to previous years, we aren't doing the h like one act plays. We are doing a full play this year. It is a radio show. You some of you may have heard of it. It is titled War of the Worlds and it is a radio play where not normally. We do have Pantoime. We added some stuff, but normally people go up to a microphone and speak and stand there. But you know, we changed things. Some of the things I do
008as student director of this play is I help coordinate the students and work alongside um our two directors, Mrs. Gulo and Mr. Burton. And here with me today are some of the other uh directors. I will introduce you to C. Gibbs, our stage manager. >> Hi. Um I'm C. Gibbs. I'm stage manager. I believe this is my second year stage manager. And this is my first year being crew student director. And my job has changed a lot because typically I'm backstage running a lot of things, bringing props on and off. And this year we have onstage sound effects that um I've had to figure out what instruments make the best sound. Sometimes it's not even instruments and it's just some cans and I'm on stage the entire time. My own little sound effects table. It's
009a lot of fun, but it is very contrary to popular to previous years. And there is still things going on behind the scenes that I'm also running. Um, this year we have a completely new thing that I will let Avery go back to introduce. >> So since we are doing more of the world, it is themed like a radio show and there's typically music in between the show and for this year we decided to include a new director with us. It is our music director. We have two this year, Eli Connor and Paul Newton, who unfortunately cannot be here with us. >> Hi, I'm Eli. Most of you know me. Um, yeah. So, the play this year is a radio show, right? And when you listen to the radio, oftentimes there's commercial breaks and there's
010music breaks. And so, during this show, we have interspersed commercial and music breaks. Commercial breaks that show off the different clubs and diverse groups that we have here. We have unified sports, we have DECA, we have the change, we have yearbook, right? We trying to show off different parts of our community in our play and in our drama club. And so I have been writing a score for us to play. It's a little six piece band um full of some of the people in drama club. It's a fully studentrun thing and we are playing live music for the whole show. Um and it's a lot of fun. It's awesome. We don't usually have a pit for the band, nevertheless, a completely studentr run one. And I I think that's basic that's my job this year
011and it's something I've never done before and it's a lot of fun. I'm really enjoying it. >> Eli, so you've really crushed it here at Paul Vmore. We've got some new board members, some student reps. Why don't share some of the accolades that you've had in recent years because that's just not only a testament to your hard work, but for your instructors as well. >> Um Syracuse Orchestra awarded me a musical leadership award last year. Um, I'm the first person in like 20 years and like the fourth person ever to go to the All Eastern Conference in Connecticut last year. Um, because I was ranked like top five in the state for um, voice. Um, I've been to conference, this is my second year going to conference all state. Um, and I was ranked this
012year as the top French horn player in the state and the somewhere in the top 25 for voice. They don't actually tell us. So, um, I'm going for voice again this year um, for the second year in a row. What else have I done? I'm just I'm always in the musicals. So, if you ever come to see the show or and the plays, always I'm always in drama club. I'm always singing. Um I play in I play in all of our bands and choirs here at the high school. I intern at the middle school. So, I teach music down there and up here I interned with Mrs. Mainville. I'm trying to think. Um that might be it. >> I think so. >> Five years. Great job. >> Oh, I was on the news last year
013and Mr. Mr. Kalabufo came to a concert and like put it on a projector and stuff. Um, and that was that was pretty cool, too. Um, yeah, that those are those are probably my all my accolades. >> Great job. >> Yeah, except you have to run through them before. >> But how's your math scores? >> Pardon? >> How's your math scores? >> You know, that's important. My response when they ask me to say, it's all good. >> No comment. >> There you go. Good answer. >> Great. Um, so yeah, come see the plays. Come enjoy the shows. They're a lot of fun this year. They're different. You're bound to have a good time. >> Okay. Thank you, Eli, for sharing with us your life story. >> It's okay. It's okay. So, that about wraps up
014about the places here. Uh, the dates we have for these shows are November 6th, 7th, and 8th, and they are $5 at the door. We hope to see you all there. And thank you so much for the support you've given us. >> Any questions? Any any questions? >> We're excited. >> All right. >> Thank you, Mrs. Gulo. You never really do leave. >> No. >> Okay. So now he's >> Is he waiting to be called up? Mr. Sweeney. >> Mr. Sweeney. >> There you go. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> We had a walk up song for you, but we couldn't. >> I was going to say no entrance music. My accolades don't even compare to what you just saw, so I'm not even going to bother. All right. Good evening, everybody. And uh thank you all
015for being here. Um we have our high school at Paul V. more counseling department that's going to be coming up in a second. But I I just want to start by saying it's pretty ironic and pretty cool that uh when I was here in June at the board of ed meeting when I was getting appointed, this presentation was going to be occurring at that time and I got a little sneak peek at what was going on just like curious of like, oh, hey, you know, what are they doing? What's going on? Uh what are some of the things they're involved in? And so what I can tell you is over the past three months now, it's been really awesome to see firsthand all of the different things that those who are standing behind me that's
016behind me have done and are continuously doing and um I know that they're going to share and highlight with all of you tonight. So, just uh for some quick introductions here, we have Caitlyn Kisac, who is our ninth grade counselor, Liz Sorbelloo, who is with grades 10 through 12 alphabet A throughD, Michelle Bergamo, who's with 10 through 12 E through L, Elena Wallace, also 10 through 12, LB through RH, and Timothy Wales, who is 10 through 12 RAR through Z. and then myself at the bottom there, uh, executive principal and director of counseling and pathways to success. So everything that they do and that they focus on is in alignment with these core values that go along with the mission statement to empower all students to excel in a changing world. And those core values
017that come from that are the categories you can see right here. The academic review and course selection process, college, career and future planning and then social emotional support which as you know in the last few years especially there's been such a um a paramount put on the support socially emotionally mental health will all of our students. I also wanted to share something with you and really celebrate and highlight something. These are the most up-to-date, the most recent graduation rates that we have um from our NICED uh database on their website. And you can see that as of the most recent information and data we have for our graduation rate, it hit 90% which it has not hit before. And not only has it hit 90%, but it's 4% points above the New York State graduation
018rate. So that right there um kudos to everybody and I know the counseling department has a huge huge role in that um to to get those percentages where they are right now. And to go even further than that, you can see down below the graduation rate for students with disabilities is up to 76% which just six years ago um going on to seven years 62%. So you're looking at a 14% jump over the course of that time. And again, this goes back to all the hard work, the dedication that um you know, all of our staff especially as well as our counseling staff um really put forth to best support our students and you know ensure that they are successful. >> And besides the counselors, I want to give a huge shout out to Chrissy
019Smith with that. She's come in. It's a lot of hard work that's come in >> to raise those special ed scores. >> It takes a village. Truly does. And and that's the the really the the focus of all of it is the collaboration, right? The collaboration across the board. all, you know, the counselors behind me, they're continuously collaborating with each other, um, with me, with all of our student support staff, all of our teachers, um, and as, if not more importantly, the students and their families, too. So, um, just kudos to all of that and everybody who's involved. So, at this point, I'm going to turn it over for some of the highlights. >> Hi, good evening. So, uh, we're going to go a little bit more in depth, uh, on the points that are
020up here, but I just want to kind of give you some frame of reference first before each of us, uh, present. So, completing um, the individual course selection planning by April break. During our course selection, we help students choose classes that are going to help to meet graduation requirements, of course, but we also want that balanced with what their student interests um and what their career goals are. Doing it by April break allows the administration to be able to work with the departments um the department chair people in order to create a master schedule that um hopefully reflects all the things that the students are most interested in. we enhance the post-secondary planning. Our life after PVM discussions kind of grow each year and they become um a little bit more refined each year. So
021I may be having a discussion with the student in 10th grade. that discussion is going to become more so um as we get into 11th grade and then really kind of targeting what life after PVM is like as they get into um 12th grade. We explore pathways and hopefully helping them to make the most informed decisions that they can make. When it comes to the FASA and financial aid, we know that one of the biggest barriers towards college is money. So we provide um financial aid presentations. Last year or excuse me last week during open house we had Sunni Asiggo who was here presented to parents of seniors about financial aid um and uh the FAFSA. And then lastly we um collaborate with the business department. So I think it was two weeks ago we
022had a college fair for the first time. Um, we've collaborated with career fairs in the past. So, my colleagues are going to highlight a little bit on those things. >> Hi. One of the other things that we've really been doing is facilitating the transition from the students coming from 8th grade in the middle school up to the high school. Uh last year I was able to get over with our school social workers and spend some time in the eighth grade um restorative circle time and just talk to the eighth graders, let them ask ask questions about the high school, ask questions about their classes, what to expect. They asked everything from um how many regent exams am I going to need to take to what do I have for lunch and can I really fit
023in a locker like silly things that they would ask. Um, so just being there as a person to talk to them and answer questions and let them know that coming to the high school isn't so scary. Um, I was able to do that last year was great. And we've already started working on and discussing our plans for the upcoming eighth graders and the parent night coming up this winter fall time um to start making the transition for the new upcoming eighth graders to get here next year. Uh, we also work with our student support team. So, I am constantly working with all of the counselors back here. We're always working together, but also the social workers and the school psychologists, the administrators. We're constantly communicating with each other, trying to best help support the students.
024Um, we contribute monthly to the PVM high school newsletter. Each month, we add a little blurb about the counseling department, what we're doing, what's going on, what we're going to be doing. is a great way to just make sure that everybody's aware of all the things that we can do and also the ways that they can reach out to us. And we are collaborative members of the MTSS process. MTSS is multi-tered systems of support. So basically working on all of the ways that we can support students academically, socially, emotionally with their attendance, behavior, and how we can support each other and work together to help them to do their best in high school. [Music] arrow. >> All right. Hi everyone. Um, this is just a little snapshot of the newsletters that we send out to
025families and students to kick off our course selection process. Um the newsletters contain information on general graduation requirements, courses that we offer, career exploration, military information, just to name a few things. Um as part of the process, we meet with students individually to talk about courses for for their following year. Also to just discuss their future plans. Um, we definitely are trying to um help students make thoughtful choices about the courses that they're going to take and connect it to really what they want to do beyond high school. Basically, this this slide kind of speaks for itself. Um our highlight is that we work with departments to talk about different courses that would be interesting for to bring to our students. So there's collaboration there with the other departments. These are new courses that we
026offered for this year. Thank you. So last year and also last week we had um FAFSA information nights where Sunni Asiggo came in presented to parents about the FAFSA process and then also stay to help parents complete the FAFSA if they needed it. Last year, families completed over 125 FAFSA applications, which was a rise of 21% compared to the same time the previous year. So, I just wanted to highlight a couple things that um we've done with collaboration of our career center. I have to say being a new school counselor here, it's been amazing to have a career center to collaborate with. They already have all of the community contacts. Um students are familiar with where they're located right back here. And they come here frequently um for job shadowing, internships, and other opportunities. So
027last year, last spring was my first time doing the career fair, but it was our second annual career fair. And as you can see by the photos, a lot of students engaged talking to employers, local employers looking to hire our graduates. And this included things like summer internships, if they are going to college, internships they could possibly do in college, summer jobs, and actual jobs for after graduation without a college pathway. So just straight out of high school looking um at our graduates to hire them. So um a lot of different employers participate. I think we had 28 local employers participate as well as some panel discussions talking about specific career pathways under an umbrella of you know health care emergency services um etc. So that I think that's been really successful and we look
028to continue that moving forward. New this fall was our very first college fair. We are looking to change the format of colleges coming in to speak to our students because what the career center was finding is they have representatives come in but not enough students to really make it worth everybody's time. So instead of offering, you know, at 10:30 there's going to be a rep from Sunni Weiggo, we decided to do a a more of a open format right here in the cafeteria table set up. Again, almost 30 colleges participated locally and regionally with a wide variety of types of colleges, including some trade programs. So, we're really trying to target and hit students in multiple different pathways through that collaborative process with our career center. Um, as you can see from the photos, we
029had some great great discussions and we are um, at least the 10 through 12 counselors currently in the process of meeting with all of our seniors to review their post-secary plans and what they're they're thinking about doing and helping them through that that process. >> And so, just a couple things I want to highlight too. U, I know that the turnout last week was incredible. the amount of colleges that we had here, um the amount of students that were, you know, wallto-wall, but then there was also presentations going on in the auditorium as well. Um and that just is is one avenue, right? One pathway. And there's so many things that are offered over the course of the year um to best fit what that students or what those students interests are. And the other
030thing I really wanted to highlight is I know um you saw the slide about the electives and the fact that um we have high enrollment in um most of our elective courses but also um at max capacity for almost all of our specifically technology and art which is so exciting but also the new courses that you saw that are new this year. And what excites me is we have new courses and they're based off of student interests, right? what students are interested in, what they're hoping to to really study and be involved with. But then I think to the future, and I think, you know, when I say future, it's not that distant future, what's coming to, you know, our community, right, to to our Syracuse community, but specifically it's going to be really close
031right here at Central Square and all the opportunities that are going to come with Micron coming to the area. And so with that in mind, being mindful of opportunities of courses that could potentially be offered that will open up avenues, which I always said this when I worked with technology for a number of years. I would talk to students and say there's going to be jobs, there's going to be careers out there that don't exist right now and they didn't exist five years ago and who knows what's going to happen in the future. But by getting ahead and seeing what's coming to the area, I think that's so exciting. And I think again working with students, gauging their interest, their input, but also the trends in the career fields that we're seeing um is just
032so so exciting to me. And again, it's a testament to you know everybody all the the counselors and everybody who supports the students and staff um and you know to all of you um for supporting for supporting us and supporting those opportunities for our students. So, >> so before the uh some board members may have some questions, I just want to say I'm happy to see like the evolution of high school counseling because when I was a student, graduated 1993 at West Tennessee, it was very common for the counselors then to and they did because I was in that school, they would say it's a failure if we can't have every kid go to a four-year college. That's we have maybe 40 45% of our kids go to a four-year college. So, um I I've
033always said if you look at the the opportunities for students, whether it's uh CTE programs, they used to have such a negative stigma years ago, they don't anymore. And they talk about Micron coming and technicians starting at $100,000. We don't have a single teacher that starts at $100,000, right? Um at the end of the day, it's it's multiple pathways. And so when we have that was an amazing college fair, but what I also want the board members to know is we've had many trades fairs here where students were just they lit up when they see welding just drive anywhere right now in our district. I think it's called Northern Welding. Right. Right here. Yeah. They're hiring every position. Right. So we finally have a situation where the demand is seriously there. And our job is
034is we're really excited. There's a lot of board members and behind the scenes with connections that they have with people at Micron and whatnot, but also with all of the local unions to see what type of, you know, partnership we can make with them to guarantee our students would have a landing a landing field somewhere within a field that they're passionate about. And so what I love about our counseling unit right now is they don't subscribe to just that one pathway of college because if we did that, we'd be letting down almost 60% of our students every year. >> And we have the military recruiters that come throughout the course of the year, too. I mean, there's so many, you know, work-based learning, all these great opportunities. I had a conversation just the other day
035with a student about um he was interested in going into being an electrician, and I said, "Oh, one of my good friends is an electrician." And I can tell you right now, they're doing pretty well. Uh so so it's it's the opportunities are are are endless and that's again what's just so exciting about not just now but looking forward. >> I I did have one question. >> Go ahead. >> With the career center, is it a requirement for the students at some point while they're in high school to go into the career center? Is it always optional? >> It's always been option. I mean they they work so hard. I mean, I I know um you know that the staff who's in there are always reaching out um various things that come up through the
036course of the year, opportunities, internships, information sessions. Um >> I'm just going to interrupt for one minute because he might not know this yet being so new, but the uh career experience course that the 10th graders take opposite their science lab, whether they're chemistry 10th graders or biology 10th graders, um there is a requirement that they have to do a um uh like a career uh Thank you. a career discussion. Um, so that does make the requirement. And if they don't get down here, the career uh center has a Canvas page. Um, so like some Enright boys might not have walked their bottom down here. So they had to go on the site, find one because everything's recorded and and taped. So they do at least have to get on the canvas page if they
037don't get down here during an advisement. >> That's great. and they've been utilizing parent square I know too of getting some things out to um you know raise awareness of things coming up and opportunities too. >> Well, I just wanted to publicly thank what you're doing because my son 11th grade has no clue what he wants to do with his future, but every day he comes home with a new idea and he's getting it from what you guys are putting out there. So, if you can get through to him, which I generally can't, you're doing something very good for all of our students. So, I do appreciate the efforts and I would say it's it's successful. It's working. Yeah. And I'll just say just a couple things. I've um and a couple of you might
038have heard this speech from me before um when you're getting hired, but to me the counseling department is the hub of the school. You are so important to how this whole schedules are built, kids are seen, careers are decided on. You guys are the hub of what goes on here. And I want to thank you for that effort. um it was important for you to come in and and present to the board. I think that it is um you know beneficial to everybody. Um I have three words of encouragement for you and it's pathways. Pathways pathways okay so the more I think from from the time the student enters into you know the central score school district and talking about their interest and about what they're going to do when they when they leave here
039I think it is key and that you know what what they're what they're interested in what they're studying what they're you know we want them to be an effective learner but what's the end goal and I and you you folks are the key to that whole thing and that, you know, if they're if they're really struggling with math for five or six years, they're not going to be an engineer, but they might be able to be a plumber, but they better know some math. And I think that, you know, it like like Tom had said that, you know, 40% of the kids are going to college, so it's the 60% of what are they going to do? And with Micron coming in and the meetings that I've attended, it's folks don't know what's coming. They
040really don't. And the opportunities >> are endless. It's not just Micron. It really isn't. It's it's construction. I It You know, I I was told by a m by a Micron rep, it's going to be 4,000 construction workers for four years just to build the first site. How you going to feed those people in Cisro? Right? So, it really comes down to but what I but what I would like to have is that the Central Square student body be front line >> to all of the opportunities and have it clear to whatever their pathway is. It and and it it all it starts with you guys really and I want to thank you for it and it's it's it's I look forward to it. I really do. >> Thanks for coming in. >> Thank you.
041[Applause] Okay. On to item E. Can I get a motion for item E in its entirety? >> A motion. I'll second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? Thank you very much. Um, on item FFI consent agenda, could I get a motion for that in its entirety? I'll motion. >> I'll second. >> Yeah, we'll have Casey motion. Christy second. Any discussion? >> Anybody here on the board in the yearbooks that are going to the historical society? >> I don't think so. I don't know. I missed my senior picture. So, my mother was disappointed in that. Um she had me tested a lot. the um all those in favor. Okay, on to item G, student board members report. Here we go. >> Well, we have a few things to talk about. There's been uh some things
042coming up lately. Student gov today had a meeting after school planning for the NYSCLSA trip. I couldn't attend, but I know that they were talking about uh who's going, all the planning that's going into it. So, that's really important to talk about, especially because it's coming up in November. And, uh, in addition to that, we also have theater kids are planning out their musical. Obviously, some of them just came in. Uh, they have on their Instagram page, they've been doing reveals each day of what plays are and aren't being uh, done. So, that's really exciting, just the buildup for that and getting everybody to go to that. Uh on Thursday, DECA is having their first meeting which is really great for our school because uh Paul Vimmore has one of the biggest chapters. So that's
043really exciting. It's really grown over the past few years and it's going to be good to get the information out to freshmen. I know just a few days ago some of the DECA officers went to the middle school and talked to all the middle schoolers about what DECA is about and why they should do it. So that's really good to keep growing our school's chapter. um the flock. They've had some meetings together and talk with everybody about implementing new rules and making sure that there's consequences for unsportsmanlike behavior. We want to make sure that our school is giving good positive representation and that we're welcoming to other schools that are coming in. And lastly, I'd just like to uh comment on some of the stuff that the counselors talked about. I personally, from a student
044perspective, I went to the uh career fair, which was a really great experience. uh the college experience can be really scary. So being able to talk to those admissions counselors face to face and realize that it's not really that scary to talk to them is really good and just to get that information that you can't really get online. So that was really helpful and I really hope that we do that again next year. Um I'd just like to add uh about the flock um that there are sadly some students that are you know just shrugging off any um staff member that is coming to them and you know saying these are the rules you need to follow them and I don't think they're fully grasping that you will get kicked out and um I think
045uh we would have to talk to Sea about making sure that we really do follow through on those consequences. is that this is something that is super serious cuz especially coming from a cheerleader and a sports player who has in fact heard bad comments from a flock. Um it can be hurtful. I've I've heard some awful things um be said to one of my cheerleaders that should not be said. Um and I think we really do need to put this through that this is serious. Um, on a happier note, um, for student government, we are working on Halloween spirit weeks that are welcome for all middle school and elementaryaries to join in. Um, we have won several football games, so we're doing good with that. Uh, cheerleading just had a competition this weekend. Um, they
046came in third, so really happy for our team. Um, Boseies has a event coming up. Uh we do many career fairs at Boseies. So um you know it gathers everybody through so hopefully you know we get some other perspectives to different programs in Boseies whether you're in cause and any other program. Um I've heard great things about the career fair. A lot of seniors really liked it you know especially with the presentations. Um it did help a lot with a lot of students who aren't as familiar with um BASPA and applying. Um I think the juniors also liked their presentation really well. You know, helped them you know navigate senior year, how to build their schedule and um you know already getting in touch with co different colleges to know what to do to be
047able to get themselves ready for applying. Um, we had open house happened. I think that went super well. We, um, handed out some flyers about Parent Square. Um, I think that went super well. And then we had the FASA meeting. I think that also went well. So, really, really proud of that. Um, yeah, think that wraps up all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any board members? Can I talk about cell phones? You're a board member. Sure. >> Well, how's how's the cell phone thing going for you guys? What do you what's the feedback on it? >> You don't you both don't have to speak at once. >> Um, I'm going to say in my perspective, a lot of students are getting a little mouthy with it. They're not they're they're starting to
048be very disrespectful to staff members who politely ask them to put it away or to even even just put it in their backpack. You know, they're starting to get a little little mean, but otherwise I think we're doing pretty good with it. >> How is that feel? >> I mean, personally, from my perspective, I have a lot of study halls. Like, I have a first and second block study hall back toback and then adisement. So, it's like a lot of just doing nothing. But so far, I haven't seen too many students getting bad about it. Obviously, there's a kid that takes their phone out and the teacher sees and then they have to go put it away, which after that there's not really many problems, but I think it's just people are still trying to
049get into the routine of it. I think after a while it'll just be like second nature and I think kids will be okay with it at one point. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Um, since you brought up the Halloween costumes, I will go on the record to say that for uh for the cabinet members, this will be our greatest year wearing Halloween costumes. So, you're gonna you're going to love this. Including my man Dave Masonry over there. He's ready to go. Let's just I'm going to go on record saying that this is going to be awesome. So, that's the kids are going to have a lot of fun with this one. Um, three-game football win streak. That's great. Glad you brought that up. Central Square had 13 students accepted into the New York
050State Music um uh New York State School Music Association zone 4 area allstate ensembles. Andrew Lans, Madigan Murphy were chosen for the mixed chorus. Cameron Hasto, um Madison Helvy made the um treble chorus and Owen Butcher, Eli Connor who was here, Josie Georgees, Caitlyn Gilbert and Emma Gil, Mason Hunter, Braxton Nichols, Brianna Pacino, and Raven Wheeler made the symphonic band. The festival will take place on November 21 and November 22 at the Central Valley Academy in Illen, New York. The field band has finished fourth place in consecutive weeks um in the very competitive small schools one class. The band is within two points of first place within with three weeks left to go. So that's that's been fantastic. I've heard a lot of buzz about that. The home show is October 18. Very excited for
051that. and begins at 5:30 p.m. with the Red Hawks performance at 5:56 p.m. Um, Cadence Williams uh h has been named the Palladium Times Athlete of the Week and will be featured in their next publication. U myself and Steve Patch were at Syracuse University last night. Um it was the Board of Regents reception. We got to hear a lot of speeches. Um and people sometimes forget or don't know that the board of regions also is in charge of us post um secondary education as well and Syrac all the universities and whatnot colleges um but the main theme is the three words that Steve had said pathways pathways pathways the career workforce they talk about Micron and for us it's just literally six miles away and we talk about it but I don't think people really
052realize and they will I'm going to say in two three years people are really going to start to see how many students that are going to be in BoseCTE programs are going to come out and make phenomenal salaries doing things that they're really passionate about. We don't want to be reactionary. So, we're already starting and the table over there and some board members are playing a key role in working with the local unions because they are hurting right now for workforce and we have a workforce. We want to make sure that we're preparing them with the curriculums that they want our students to be able to be ready for and the new district superintendent Jeremy Belfield is 100% on board at city boseies to make sure that those students are prepared. It's really exciting because
053in in upstate New York in Swiggo County, we've been decimated. There was a time that we had two more houses at the middle school. We used to be almost 6,000 students strong instead of the 3500. we are going to get back to the 6,000 and then some. It's super exciting that that students won't have to move away, right? Um I think it might have been a board member that was telling me that they had a relative for alignment. Was it you? And the only jobs that were available were down south. That's not going to be the case. There are going to be so many jobs, whether it's HVAC, heavy construction, micron technicians. It's a super exciting time and we just want to make sure that we're prepared to for to prepare our students for that
054transition right into the workforce if that's what they so choose to do. Thank you. And that concludes my superintendent report. Okay. Thank you. I get a motion for item H in its entirety. A >> motion. Get a second. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? Okay. I am going to make a motion on a resolution having received an appeal of the superintendent's determinate determination following a student disciplinary hearing held pursuant to section 3214 of the educational law. The board of education of central school districts reviewed the record of the hearing and the parents request for the appeal and denies the appeal and upholds the determination of the superintendent. The board of education met on October 6, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. and determined the following. Can I get a second on that motion? I'll >> second.
055>> Any discussion? All those in favor? How do we do Pearl? We do all right. Okay. On to item I, adjournment. Can I get a motion for item I? >> A motion. >> Get a second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Thank you very much everybody.