001the regular meeting to order and start with 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. I will make the motion to approve the meeting agenda with one um change. We were we're going to eliminate D special presentations to the board. Um the council presentation will be done in September. All the other items remain the same. Could I get a second? Any discussion? All those in favor. Okay, thank you for that. Pearl, do we have any blue cards? Kind of quiet. Um I will make a motion. that uh the Sens Square School District Board of Education hereby move into executive session to discuss matters leading to the appointment of
002one person with with action to file. Okay, I get a second. Any discussion? All those in favor? We'll see you in a couple minutes. Okay. Could I get a motion to come back into regular session and second? Ken, Randy, any discussion? All those in favor? Okay. On to item E. Can I get a motion to accept item E in its entirety? Get a second. Any any discussion? All those in favor? Take it away, Tom. All right. So, we've got some uh congratulations and some welcome aboards here. So, if we can first have uh Chuck Pette, sorry, Chuck Pay. So, Chuck is our new assistant transportation supervisor. It's got a wealth of knowledge. He's got transfinder experience that's going to be very, very handy with a district our size when you're building those runs. So, congratulations,
003Chuck. [Applause] Also, I believe we have a former Central Square student, now teacher, Brian Ramirez Holland. Congratulations. Welcome aboard. And then we also have Tom Sweeney who is our new executive uh high school principal director of counseling and pathways uh to to success. Congratulations Tom. Welcome aboard. Yep. Congratulations and um and thank you. Um on to item F. Can I get a motion to accept item F and one and six? I have a motion. I get a second. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Okay. On to item G. Um we'll start since we don't our student rep uh is not here. Board members, um I'll start the discussion for the organizational meeting. If you could have think about who you would want to have as a guest or presenter for the upcoming year because
004we'll be talking about that. if you could just let me know, we'll get it into Pearl. I know for me, um I'd like to have the new superintendent for bo for Boseies to come in and to uh give a presentation. So, we'll get that on on the calendar. And so, those are the types of things that that um we'll be talking about like last year we had the athletic director come in. So, if there's just somebody that you would like to have present to the board, then uh let me know. We'll get it on on the thing and we'll get it we'll get it scheduled out. Anybody have anything? No, because Micron hadn't got the superintendents the money because they were paying for all of us just to leave it on county. So that is
005now going to be in October and we're all going to go down there which is good because we also want I want to a priority is to go to that school district and to see how they brace themselves for their massive influx of enrollment and also look at their micro credentiing that they did there pathways the micron pathway so that's in October. Okay, great. The only thing and I've got a coffee appointment at the end of July with my micron rep with Joe Nimik. So, I'm going to start calling his name out um to start putting pressure on him. So, anybody else have anything? Take it away, Tom. I just want to say um again this was it was a tough experience with the first budget going down but it you know there's lessons for
006all of us. At the end of the day we're very grateful. We had over a thousand uh more yes votes than no votes. I want to say it was 1,783 yes votes to 780ish no votes. Um the no votes are will always be there and I we understand you know there's people that live that are retired and a fixed income. Um, I just personally need to make sure that I'm doing my job, not just in the three months leading up to the budget, but really getting the pulse of the community on what, you know, they're interested in. We're ahead of the game right now because we already know that it's probably going to be a 2%. If we can, you know, if if we can lobby and and maybe get it to a 3%, that
007would be great. But as of right now, it's a 2% increase in foundation aid. So that would mean if we go out with another 3% we'd be making about another 1.2 million in cuts for next year. So it's very very important. I had many people I don't know pearl hundreds I had hundreds of people call me in the three weeks leading or the two weeks leading up to the revote. A lot of them saying put the same budget up. We're going to pass it this time. And I said no we can't do that because if it goes down then we run the risk of having to cut 2.2 two million which would be significant staffing positions and student programming. But they had all said the same thing. If we can come out in the majority
008and really move this, you know, would you be interested in going up with a little bit more so that we can, you know, continue the trajectory of where we're going with these opportunities for students. And I said, you know, those are things that we will look at. Well, they came out with over a thousand yes votes. It's going to be very important starting in the fall and I'm going to have Google surveys and whatnot, but I really want to make sure that the community there's complete transparency. They see everything that we have so we're not waiting until the last minute where there's social media campaigns or misinformation, the whole nine yards. We want this commun community to fully know what we have and why we are doing the things that we're doing. Um, and again,
009we're in this strange waiting area because the numbers are going to come. Micron is coming and even if it comes out and only does 25% of the scale that they're talking about, it will be the largest um industrial movement that has happened in the Northeast and it will significantly impact this community. every Micron committee I've been to, they're on point as they put out stuff and it showed that the number one area of available land that's only six and a half miles away from the Clay site is the Central Square School District. So, we know that changes are going to be coming. I think in the next, you know, two to four years, we're going to start to see major developments and um and and small like kind of like in in Camilis has the
010Township Fives popping up. And when you have things like that, you're going to start to see more restaurants. You're going to start to see hotel. You're going to see medical facilities. And when that happens, again, you're going to see more families. And when you have more families, you have more of a tax base. And so, the central square you see right now is going to look a lot different five years out. And we need to prepare for that. So, we're excited. Uh we're going to do our homework starting in the fall to really provide those opportunities. I I had some parents that were new to the district. We had a very eloquent speaker in the community spoke at the last board meeting and I told him that I used to do those breakfast with the
011superintendent and then you know after dinner meetings with the superintendent on the same day and I want to get back to that and I want to be able to have parents come in and share their concerns because we don't really have a huge number of people that come to our board meetings for whatever reason but no one's going to be able to say that we're not communicating or offering those opportunities because it's so important. We um we just had interviews for student board reps. I will say right now, you'll know before I even tell them, we're going with two amazing as co- student board reps and I think that they're going to do a wonderful job really getting the students on board as well. And when you get the student voice, that's the goal right
012there. So, that pretty much concludes. We're we're we this is going to be an extremely busy summer for our staff, especially now that we have a new um executive high school principal, and we're going to be able to hit the ground running starting July 1. So, we're looking forward to that and uh in the in many many months and years to come. Thank you. Okay. Can I get a motion for item H in its entirety? Get a second. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Got to get a motion for item I, adjournment. Get a second. Um, Randy, I'm going to thank you for all of your years of service to the board and I want to thank you. It will not be the same. I expect I expect the late phone calls on Saturdays
013and Sundays when you see people that aren't shouldn't be around on snowmobiles. Let me know. Thank you, Andy. Good point. Yeah. So, that will end a discussion. All those in favor of German.