001Good evening and welcome to the April 9th board of education meeting for the Chester Union Free School District. Mrs. Ayuzi, can you please take my name? Mrs. Present. Mrs. Negresmith present. Mrs. Arnett, present. Mrs. Johnson, present. Mrs. Can you present the meeting? Thank you. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. Before we get started with the business, just thank you to everyone for coming this evening. It's so nice to see a full uh auditorium. Can I please have an a motion to adopt tonight's agenda? I'll make that motion. We'll second. All in favor? I motion pass. Can I please have a motion
002to approve the board meeting minutes of March 26, 2025? I'll make that motion. Second. All in favor? Motion pass. Okay, that brings us to the part of the meeting of presentations. Mrs. B. Good evening. Thank you for having me. Uh, board of education superintendent O'Hara. I am happy to be here tonight and present to you all. Um, so I am going to get through my portion as quickly as I can so we can move on to the excitement of our students being here. Um okay. So um we recently had actually yesterday the prek lottery. Um the lottery was livereamed. Uh there were 29 students that were registered for the lottery. There are 20 slots to be filled at the CES prek and um all 29 students were pulled in the lottery and the nine after
003the first 20 spots are the order of the weight list. Uh the families were um informed of their slot immediately following the lottery. Uh 34 people did log on and we're watching the lottery. This is I think one of our heav heavily attended uh live streams um because everybody is looking forward to knowing if their youngster got into the lottery. Um, moving on. Uh, in March, our PBIS assembly was held on March 31st. During the assembly, 24 new students entered the winner circle. 24 students spun the wheel for various prizes, uh, like the prize box or extra recess for their class, silhouettes on the front CES wall, uh, spirit wear, ice pop parties, and mini golf at the castle. Uh, we are adding a golden award to our PBIS. um assemblies and um that is
004due to some rising concerns of some behaviors on school buses. So we will have a golden school bus um and we introduced that at our last assembly. Mrs. Baptist introduced it to the entire student body. Um and Mr. Hannon is working with us and every morning Mr. Hannon gets a thumbs up or a thumbs down from each of the bus drivers and he's maintaining a spreadsheet for us and the bus with the best bus behavior for April will win the golden bus award. Um and uh that will come with some sort of a reward either extra recess for the bus students uh that win the reward or an ice pop party or something like that. and um we think that it is going to be a good addition to our PBIS um assembly and to
005our initiatives. Um I'd like to share about Odyssey of the Mind. Last time I briefly mentioned because we had just gone to the regionals um but I would like to honor our Odyssey of the Mind coaches and teams. Um they all did uh participate in the regional competition on March 1st. Um the primary team uh worked hard at putting together a skit. Um this team competes and they compete for participation. Um at this age with a young age for uh the primary teams, which is first and second graders, it's more of an experience um and getting to know what it's like to be at Odyssey. Um but they did an excellent job. Team members Elizabeth Rousich, Isaac Aila, McKenna DLO, Zoe Nerburgg, Emory Vitz, and Ryan Naggermith, and Vivian Mod Shik were supported by their
006coaches Ashley McClean and Alyssa Florentino. Uh, the division 1 team placed second at regionals and they were awarded a lottery slot at the New York State Odyssey of the Mind competition where they competed in Syracuse just this past weekend on April 5th. They came in sixth in the state for their division and problem. Uh it was a great experience for everyone, the students, the families, the coaches, and myself. Uh team members Kristoff New House, Troy Simon, Ariana Perez, Asher Pilot, Ellie Zucker, Parker McElroy, and Maya Vargas were supported by their coaches Audrey Cutler and Victoria Brink. Um, finally, this year we have grown our Odyssey family to division two. Again, we have not had a division 2 team since um before COVID. Um, so that was really exciting. And they um also competed at regionals
007and they placed third, which was excellent for a first time showing for the division. Um, but there was a change in scores. There was a penalty for one of the first place teams and, uh, first place wound up being a tie. So, the Chester team advanced into second place, uh, which was awesome. They did not receive a lottery slot. They were already given out. Um, but they did receive a new trophy here at the academy. Um, and, uh, the that team, the division 2 team, uh, consisted of Sawyer McElroy, Stella Dunn, Khloe Gasai, Emily Cassetta, Jayen Deleó, and Michaela Kindress. And they were supported by their coach, Jenna Liry. Uh the CES school musical also occurred this past month. The fifth graders all performed in the school play Nemo Kids on March 27th. They performed
008during the morning for all the students at CES uh and then in the evening for the families and the community. Miss Sci did an amazing job getting the students prepare prepared for an absolutely um incredible production. Uh the talent of the Chester students was absolutely shining. uh that day and that night and we are so proud of them and Miss Galley of course does an amazing job uh bringing out the talent in our students. Um I'm going to move on uh to commu family and community uh communication and engagement. The final parent advisory meeting uh for CES this year will be tomorrow uh April 10th. Parents were sent a survey uh following the last meeting to enter topics that they would like to learn more about. Um moving on to data, we continued to utilize
009data to drive our instruction at CES during the March 7th conference day. Um teachers were engaged in professional development centered around I Ready data and programs to further support meeting individual student needs. as well. Teachers examined their midyear data and were able to see the growth in both reading and math of their students as well. They were able to examine areas um within each subject that kids are excelling and areas that students are exhibiting more of a struggle. Um this with this information uh they set classroom goals for to strive for in their final do diagnostic assessments. they will be setting individual student goals with them um doing data chats moving into our final um parts of the year here. Um in um equity, our DEI committee met in March. We discussed the logistics and
010brainstormed ideas for our multicultural event which I have mentioned at um prior meetings. Uh we will have that event in May. Um we will be communicating to families through parent square uh to facilitate signups and gather information ahead of the event. Um we also discussed getting our classes together to work on collaborative projects uh and presentations that will enhance the event. Uh and we are continuing to plan and are actually meeting tomorrow morning in regards to planning. Um our fifth grade families met on April 7th to review funds raised for the year. Some student representatives attended the meeting. Um I have met with representatives who provided me with some ideas that they came up with to enhance the end ofear events. Uh parents have sent me their final fundraiser ideas and they will be sending
011me design ideas for certain items like t-shirts for the students uh for them to vote on so that they have a say in um the things that happen at the end of the year for their final elementary school celebration. Um, and we continue to collaborate with the PTA and the SEPsA around events in support of parent and family collaboration. The PTA hosted a reading under the stars on March 6th, which was in collaboration with our um, author visit. They hosted bingo on March 13th, which was a great success and so much fun. We love bingo. Uh, the SEPsA hosted a comm room during the CES play, Nemo Kids. Uh and the PTA and Sepsa parents um continue to volunteer for such things like spring picture day, which is a little chaotic, but they are calm,
012cool, and collected and getting all the siblings together for those sibling pictures for spring, which everybody loves. Um lastly, the CES broadcast team uh put out their March broadcast. It was sent to families on March 31st. Um, it was another great broadcast that utilized stopmotion technology to animate a segment. It was very, uh, very cool. Um, and the broadcast team with Miss Randy and Miss Tonis is here tonight and I will turn it over to them now. Hi everybody. I'm Mrs. Rendy. I am CES steam coordinator and robotics instructor and I'm here today with a portion of our CES broadcasting team a lot of which are at baseball practice right now but we have our great representatives here today for us um this enrichment team is comprised about 1920 students this year we have 19
013students um and to become part of this team this group of students really had to be ready for it they had to apply for the job they had to sit for an for the job, they had to collect references and I didn't follow through with that. Um, so when we talk about enrichment here, we're talking about a group of kids that um, we're not necessarily looking for our top test scores here. We're looking for our kids that are motivated, hard workers, and really team players here and great teams here. Um, because we find that we need that constantly, right? And as far as enrichment is concerned, what I mean by that is we really follow what our students want to do. They choose the segments at all times. They choose what we're going to present
014to our community. They've really come up with some amazing ideas every single month. Um and I help navigate it. But as you can see here, and I'll show you in a moment, our latest. I am super proud of them. They go above and beyond every every month. And these students aren't just, you know, working hard with me. They also have to make up that time that goes in the morning of their classes. And they have to then manage their time well to finish their work and be ready for the rest of the day. So we're talking about a lot of different. So, I'll show you here our latest our latest broadcast. [Music] Oh my. Why is it snowing again? I know. I wish it was spring already. Don't worry. Spring is just around the corner.
015Yeah, well, that's too long for me. Wow, look at this weather. It's so warm and beautiful. Look at the flowers. They're bloomberries. It's so crazy. How could this happen? It was just winter. Yay! It's the perfect weather spring. Hello, CES. I'm Thomas Toledo. It's Iana Perez. There are so many amazing things happening in March and the main one is spring. Let's go over here to learn about spring. Hello, I'm Adriana Janeiro and today we are talking about science of spring and today we are outside. I'm so excited. Let's go. As you can see, I am not wearing a heavy coat and it's starting to get warmer outside. And look, there are some buds on this tree. Also, more kids are playing outside because the climate is getting warmer. More animals are coming out outside because
016they're out of hibernation. Now, let's go to the future fifth grade garden and see Allison and Anastasia's important information. Let's go. Hi, Ally. Hi, Anastasia. Hi, Adriana. I'm Alison Winger. And I'm Anastasia Costa. We are here visiting what will soon be the fifth grade pollinator garden. The fifth graders will be choosing what they are going to be planting some hope from the Orange County Master Gardeners. They will begin planting after the last frost in our area which is probably after May 15th. They're also looking for a water source such as a hose or sink to help the plants grow. That's all for now. Look forward to seeing us in June to see the progress of this amazing garden. Now back to you Ariana and Thomas. Wow, that's amazing how winter can change in spring like
017that. Yeah, it's so cool. You know what I love about spring? What? April Fool's Day. Same. Let's go here to learn about the history and tricks of April 1st. Hi, I'm Chloe Williams. And I'm Ken Moon. Wait, hold on. I just got a notification from the principal saying that the cafeteria is getting redone and we have to eat in the bathroom. April Fools. Did we get you? April Fool's Day dates back to the early 1500s. April Fool's Day is celebrated all across the world. This includes Brazil, France, Greece, India, Poland, the USA, and more. In England, fool is known by a few different names. This includes Noodle, Gob, Gabby, and Naughty. Some believe that April Fool's Day is celebrated on the first day of spring because mother nature fools us with sudden change of weather.
018A common prank to do on this day is scraping the cream out of an Oreo and replacing it with white toothpaste. Maybe you should try it. April Fool's Day jokes can be fun, but make sure nobody gets hurt. Happy April Fool's Day. Now back to you, Ariana and Thomas. Well, that's the end of our broadcast. Remember, when you want the news, CS broadcast is here for you. [Music] That one section with Chloe in and out and in and out producing here. How long did that take us to do? Oh my gosh, it took us many class periods to get that in and out. So, I have to say our students here are not just writing scripts, acting it out, and having fun in front of the camera like we are, but they're learning a lot
019of high-tech skills. They're working with video software that some of us might have never seen or used before. They're their level of writing has increased so much. Um, they're trying new things. There are students who never thought they'd be in front of a camera and at the last minute Thomas, right? Like, oh yeah, I want a part of that, too. Right? We're trying new things all the time. I do have some students here who would like to share some experiences with you. Francesca and Sela, would you like to come up first? You want to try this mic or do you want it? Oh, yes. Hi, I'm Sila Perry and I'm here to talk about how I love broadcasting. Broadcasting is an enjoyable place to be in the morning because we think outside of the box
020a lot. To get our broadcast on time, we have to think and use teamwork to complete it. At the end of the month, we watch our broadcast to make sure everything's okay. As you can see, broadcasting is very enjoyable. Hi, I am Franchesco Olivi and I am here to talk to you about broadcasting. Our broadcasting team is awesome. The team loves to make new ideas for all of the different broadcasts. We always need to think really hard to get the perfect ideas. I love broadcasting team because we have so much fun planning our ideas and filming. Bye everyone. Hi, I'm Cheryl Vargas and I'm here to talk about broadcasting for you. About broadcasting. Being in broadcasting is a fun thing to do for your school. Though it could though it could still be hard, but
021you can practice stuff that you you have lines daily side notes. You could you could practice stuff you have to do like for example read your lines daily. Side note if you like Side note if you like recording I recommend broadcasting for you. Broadcasting is the best thing ever. What I love about broadcast about broadcasting, my favorite thing about broadcasting is that it is so fun when it goes out to the school and you can get to see your face on camera. Another thing is that it is very fun helping people with stuff like writing and things really. As you can see, broadcasting is really fun for your school. Hi. Hi. I'm Anastasia Costa and I'm a part of the CS broadcasting team. There are fun and challenging parts of broadcasting. For me, remembering lines
022is difficult because our writers work so hard and have lots of things to add. But speaking of writers, writers are a type of job for our broadcasting team. They are one of the three jobs you could have and I will be explaining all of them to you. Since I was already talking about writers, I will explain their job first. Writers write or type what anchors and correspondents say and ask. They have very talented writing skills. Next is anchors and correspondents. They have to memorize their words and sometimes talk to writers to give them some ideas. They use microphones to talk so their voice is louder. Lastly, there are producers. They pick backgrounds and add different text and transitions. I love our team because we all work together and have fun. I also love when there
023are bloopers that we can watch over. I I remember when my sister, who is now at the academy, did broadcasting. I thought to myself, I want to do this and here I am. Thank you for letting me be here tonight. [Music] Yes. I want to just say thank you Miss Bosch and thank you the board for inviting us. Do you happen to have any questions for our team? I just have a comment. Student presentations are my absolute favorite part of these meetings when they happen and I'm just so impressed by the poise and professionalism that you all show and you should be very proud of yourselves. Thank you for showing up here tonight. Thank you. Thank you students for joining us today. These are the best when you guys come out. Um is there anything
024that the board has questions for me? I would just really ditto to what Lisa said. Um this is as as a board the highlight when the students come. No offense to the administrators and the presentations, but we do love when you bring students. Um, and I was sitting here amazed um, at like she said the poise and and the depth and I always look forward on social media to to uh, your presentations. So, thank you for all your hard work. Absolutely. Thank you to the students. Thank you to Miss Randy, Miss Tonis. Um, they really do an excellent job with this broadcast team and uh, same. It is one of my favorite times when the new broadcast comes out every month. Thank you. Outstanding job. Wonderful job. That brings us to Mr. Flanigan. Thank you.
025Very nice job, broadcast team. I'm excited. Normally, everyone runs out of here when I come up here, so I'm really excited you guys are staying. Thank you to the board of education, Miss O'Hara, everybody here for for having me tonight. Um, before uh I'm going to in just a couple of minutes, I'm going to I'm going to turn it over to to Brooke and Lauren here who have a a nice little presentation we're going to we're going to talk about. But I just want to go through a few things and see if there's any questions. Um, this is prom season. It's exciting coming up. We're actually selling our tickets now for the junior senior prom. Just so everybody knows, the prom is a is an event here at Chester Academy for our junior and senior
026class. They can bring students from other grades that are of nth grade or above. Um, but the students uh as long as and they can bring students from outside of the district as long as they're under the age of 21 and are have a really good reference from the school or school they graduated from. Um, our tickets are $80, which is one of the lowest prom tickets in the area, which I'm always proud of. Our students really fund raise hard to get that that price there and make it affordable for for all our students. Um, we've actually had some some donations. Mrs. Cuckaroo has been working behind the scenes to have prom dresses donated for people that might need a prom dress. So, we're working on those things. It's the first time we've had that
027this year. Um, we have our we'll be at the West Hills Country Club. Last year, uh, we we went away from West Hills one year and still had a nice prom, but we're back. The students wanted to go back to West Hills. I've been reminding everybody on the announcements to buy their tickets now because West Hills has two options. There are there's a there's an option we have where we're inside in in kind of the the dining ballroom if we have less than 150 students going which is very realistic because our junior and senior class this year is closer to the 7580 range in each grade whereas two years ago when we were in the the big kind of luxury tent outside which is where a lot of students want to go. Um but that
028was also we had about you know our classes were closer to 90 to 100 those particular years. We just happen to go through different uh bubbles in terms of our numbers. The inside is actually I've been in there. It is beautiful. It is really the kind of place you would enjoy having a prom or a wedding or a ballroom. So So either either option it's going to be great. We just encourage students to buy their tickets now. Um as always, you know, as part of the prom, we want to provide education because it it starts a season that a season that's called the 100 most dangerous days. um you know for for students and it goes from the prom right through graduation. So we want our students to make good decisions. So we'll have our
029pre-prom assembly where we we team up with Garnett, the Town of Chester Police Department, Orange County Stock DWI um that come in and provide education for our students and then we'll have our mock accident uh simulation out front as well as part of that day before students are released um to go and and you know get themselves ready for the prom. Um, speaking of fun things, I I I'm I just got back uh a couple of weeks ago or a little over a week ago from Orlando on the senior trip. Um, Ariana is not here tonight. She was going to talk a little bit about it. She will at the next meeting. She wasn't feeling well tonight. I don't think I maintained my tan well from from down there in Orlando. But, uh, I had
030a great time and I had a great time mostly because of our students. Um, it was a great trip. The students uh were were a pleasure to be with from myself and all the chaperons. We stayed at the Cabana Bay Resort. It's the first time we stayed on Universal property and Universal property which was the primary focus of this trip. We did some Disney, but we spent a lot of time at Universal and it it was great because Universal and their hotels are so close. So commuting time to the parks was was very minimal. It allowed a lot of flexibility to go back and forth and you know sometimes I think that I had more stamina than a lot of the kids which was which was incredible. A lot of people wanted to go rest,
031which was great because we had time to do it. And when we were going to and staying on Disney property, it wasn't very realistic to think that we could give people a 2-hour break and go back to the hotel. It was a much more detailed process. So, this allowed us that flexibility where we could send one chap back with, say, 10 kids that needed a break and then they could come back later with that chapron. So, it it was a really nice option to have this year. Um, so we'll we'll in just a little while we'll turn it over to Brooke um and and Lauren who are here to talk a little bit about next year's uh possible trip. Everybody we're hoping comes out to see Mean Girls um on the 25th and the 26th.
032The drama club has been working really hard. It is a it is, you know, it it's called Mean Girls. The overall point of the musical is about not being mean. It's about being nice and it's about, you know, kind of seeing the what the reality of some of the things that are happening and how we can as a society and as as students and as a school rise above that in a very comedic way. So, we're excited for for Mean Girls. There will be tickets will be announced soon and there'll be options for there'll be people that can buy at the door, but center orchestra will be on sale online. So, you could buy those tickets in advance online. We'll send that information out if you want to sit in the center orchestra section. So,
033there'll be some options there. Um, I wanted to also let you know, and I love collaborations and and I I think it's great. We're we're starting to see collaborations with our town that we that we work in. There was an amazing event with Makea-Wish that w that was uh just uh a couple of weeks ago where one of our amazing students from uh CES was able to have a wish granted and that took a lot of collaboration uh with with with Shopright and community organizations and members of the town and uh we normally go down and we paint windows in the village around around uh the holidays. Um we have another great collaboration. I really have to give a lot of credit to Mrs. Priner who's been working with five of our amazingly talented art
034students where they are repaint they're painting a Chester Academy and Chester community mural for the snack shack. And I know some of you are aware of that which has been really really great and and you know we we have that collaboration that it's going to be unveiled uh on on May uh I should say that should say April 28th. I put May 28th. My apologies. It should be April 28th at 10:00 a.m. in the Chester Commons. Um, so our artists will be there, Miss Crryer will be there, the supervisor will be there, members of the parks department, and our students. So you're all invited to be there. I think it's a really nice collaboration. And, uh, there'll be more to come. I know our art students are are very eager to continue to work with
035the community, which is awesome. Um, congratulations to Shan Cunningham and the mock trial. They they got uh they got through the first round. They made it to the single elimination tour and Amanda at Orange Stis's uh, last weekend. um they didn't advance to the to the next stages. They did a great job and and I'm really proud of the work of Mocktrial and Mr. Cunningham. Um they they they've done a great job. Um as you can see that there's a lot of testing coming up. Everyone clos your testing season. Um we have everything coming up over the next two months. It's very very busy at Chester Academy. Uh as a middle school and a high school, we will have our traditional middle school exams which are in ELA, math, and science. The nicest slot exam
036is an extended exam over a period of time for some of our some of our ENL students. Um we have AP exams, we have our I Ready exams, we have the New York State Regent exams and we were we were uh selected for four field tests as well. Three at the academy uh at the the secondary level and one at the middle school. So field for field testing will be field testing in seventh grade ELA and for in algebra 1, geometry and global 2. So the state must really love our field testing. They let us do all of them. So excited about that. Um and once again the it was it was awesome for the community. Thank you to the community that that came out for the Harlem Wizards game. I think the Harlem Wizards
037game was was a huge success. We were we were very proud. I mean, you guys in our our our juniors over there, Brooke and Lauren were part of the leadership team with the juniors that helped represent um you know, our our class very well. We're able to fund raise a nice sum of money to go for the class to offset some of the costs of the prom and other things that come up uh during their senior year. Um, thank you for everyone that came up for Rohan Murphy. Um, that was that was a lot of fun. Rohan is a he's a really entertaining guy and like he said he's a really interesting guy with a really interesting story. So we were excited and we we look forward to further communications with Rohan. He was Rohan
038actually called into one of our ELA classes. They were doing a project and the students were talking about uh motivation and kind of what drives you and they they were referencing some of the things that Rohan uh had me had mentioned in his presentation. Uh they wanted advice to him. So Mr. Agular was able to connect with Rohan, uh, connected them right to the students and Rohan actually called right into Miss Edward's class and was able to communicate with the students in class while they did their project, which is cool. Um, but before I I I bring up my my stars of the night here to to talk about a possibility of of seeking approval for next year's senior trip, I want to see if anybody has any questions. No questions. I love that we're
039collaborating with the community and doing things, you know, out there. I think that's great. And and we hope it's just the start of of more and more, you know, especially now that you mean none of us can I I always love to say this. I'm the first one to say it. It's like we're no longer able to use CO as a reason why we can't do things. And it's been long enough. And now we have what we have to get is used to putting ourselves out there again the way we once did to to start bridging those th those uh those groups and and those communications and and getting back to doing what we do, which which is uh which is great because it's nice when we go out for the community, the community comes
040out for us. And I think that that's really what we want in the school community. Um, so I'm gonna have uh Brooke Badiato, who is our junior class president, and Lauren Deviko come on up. Lauren is our our secretary for the secretary, right, for the for the class of 2026. And I know this is early, and I I'll explain to you a little bit why we're doing this. Come on up, ladies. Um, traditionally, and those of you've all been on the board of education, uh, you know, for at least through the last year and saw our presentation in October of last year and for our senior trip approval. And part of the thinking is that when we when we go for approval in October, our students are then starting to raise money to pay for
041their trip November, December, and then either late December, early January. It is an expensive trip, and we we acknowledge that. And we also want to be able to give the students a little bit more time. So, we decided to get ourselves organized a little sooner. The the the junior class officers have been great. They've put together a little presentation in collaboration with our our travel group. I'm going to let them talk if they need me to jump in on things. You know me, I love to talk, so I don't mind popping in here. The one thing you'll have to do, Brooke, is you probably know how to start the slideshow better than I do. So, I'm going to turn it over to to Brooke and Lauren to talk a little bit about the proposed trip
042to Orlando for 2026. Everyone, so we're just going to talk about the senior trip for 2026 a little bit. So, we are interested in having a senior trip to Orlando, Florida. We have some different options available to us for chaperones. The class advisor and an administrator will be attending the trip. All rules and regulations for the school district will be enforced while on the trip. Any student breaking any of these rules will be sent home at their own expense. The trip is self-funded by the students attending and we're going to start fundraising as soon as possible. Any student failing more than one subject at the time payment is due will not be permitted to attend. Any student failing more than one subject at the end of the second marking period may not be able to
043attend. The student attending must not have a major disciplinary problem. The tour company we will be using is Let's Go Freedom Travel and Lauren's just going to talk about some of the options that we are considering for next year. So, one of the things I'll just say where this might be a little different than the past been doing this early is we want to be able to present to the students and then to their parents what the options are and then choose the best option to move forward once we have a consensus. So, we have a couple of options. So, option one includes a $50 meal credit used for use on arrival, a oneday Disney hopper with bus transportation back to the hotel midday. It would be $340 for the Universal 3-day threepart hopper ticket
044which includes the new theme park epic universe. It would be $300 for the flight, which is subject to availability. The total price of the Portoina Hotel will be $2,100 which includes the Universal Express Pass. The Hard Rock Hotel includes the also includes the Universal and is $2,15 and Cabana Bay, which is $1,840, but no cost. Option two is similar to this year's trip that the seniors went on. It includes a $50 meal credit, a two-day half-day Disney trip, and $300 flight. The Portoino Hotel is going to be $1,940. The Hard Rock would be $1,955 and Cabana Bay would be $1,680. What I'll do is I and I'll jump in Lauren to explain to them kind of what the differences really are when you break down that particular um those two breakdowns. So the difference between
045option one and option two is that essentially option one comes with more of a food option. It also comes with doing di a Disney park hopper which allows them over the course of one full day to go to all four parks if necessary because some people do get tired, don't want to do that, need a little break in the day. We're going to have transportation back to the hotel midday um after we we we do say a Hollywood studios in the morning. Allow those students that want to go back but also keep a group of chaperones for those students that want to say, you know what, I want to hop to Epcot. I want to go to Animal Kingdom right now so that they have they're really able to get that. So the Hopper adds
046uh a a a cost to this in addition to the um to the meals. Those hotels, the Hard Rock and the Portoino. Cabana Bay is a beautiful hotel. It's a great hotel. I mean, we all enjoyed staying there. What the Hard Rock and the Portoino offer, they're they're considered a higher level of hotel. The little cabana bay was beautiful, but it comes with a universal uh express pass which allows the students for Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure to go on all the rides as many times as they want and cut the line, essentially skip the lines. The value on that Universal Hopper, if they were to buy it outside, if say we stayed at Cabana Bay and 15 students decided to go and buy that on their own, is $250 a day. So over
047the course of three days, that's $750 potentially for a student that wanted to do that. The class likes having the option right now has expressed why don't we present this to the group where we could look at because you know look I I loved Cabana Bay. Um, but you know, I think that everybody looks at their time that they're there and the amount uh that you're spent on. And the one thing we'd explain to the class is that the Universal Express Fastpass is eligible for Universal and Islands of Adventure, but because it's uh Epic Universe is a brand new park that we'll be going to, it is not eligible for Epic Universe. But all the parks including Epic Universe, whether you stay at Cabana Bay, Hard Rock, or Portoino, you're eligible for early entry into
048all those parks an hour before the general public. So you can go to the best ride and kind of get on there. We would be at the parks from March 13th to Monday, March 16th. We'll be flying Delta out of NY LGA Airport. The departure time would be around 7:00 a.m. And we would arrive at Orlando airport at around 10:00 a.m. A bus will take us from the airport to the resort so students can drop off their belongings and change clothes before going directly to Universal. The Universal option includes the Universal Parks on Friday, which includes Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, and City, the City Walk. On Saturday, we would have the Disney Park Hopper to take us from Hollywood Studios from 9 to 1:30. Then students would have an option of deciding if they
049wanted to go back to the hotel or go to the Epcot or Animal Kingdom. Then we would go to the Magic Kingdom from 5:30 to when it closes. On Sunday, we would go to the Universal parks, including Epic Universe, Islands of Adventure, and Universal. And on Monday, we would go to the Universal, Universal Parks, including Universal, Islands of Adventure, and the Epic Universe. If the trip is approved by the Board of Education, an email regarding financial information will be sent to parents to start handing in the first payment. This first payment will be $400 and this is the deposit on the room and the flight. Payment two will be collected after summer vacation and then following that payment three and four will be collected at the end of September and October. Informational meetings coming up
050are the junior class assembly which is the week of April 22nd and then the parent Google meet the week of April 28th. And thank you so much for listening. And you know, we we one of the other reasons we we're going to seek we were looking to seek approval now as well is that we know that so many of our students do work over the summer and the there is a real value and lesson learned for students in in raising their own money and saving money and in being able to do a little combination of fundraising in working at say either the castle or the commons or or some of the local areas here and giving more students the opportunity to save money over the summer to possibly go on this trip. That's been one
051of the goals and the feedback that we've had. So, I appreciate that feedback really did come from from this class early on as to could we look to do this a little earlier and so uh I thought they they had a really nice idea so we a little early. I'm glad you mentioned um starting early to give more opportunity because upon reading the numbers of students that did go on this year's trip in comparison to the size of the class, I was like, "Oh, that did the numbers was for me is a little lower." So, I'm thinking of more time to save and have parents to plan because senior year is a is a costly year with everything going on. So, I do appreciate that you guys um got that feedback and are acting on
052it. So, thank you for that. I will second that cuz there are three of us that have seniors next year. So, we're invested literally and figuratively. Um, but I appreciate the detail very much. Thank you. You guys did a great job presenting. Thank you. So, with that, can I please have a motion to approve the senior class trip? I cannot believe for the class of 2026. I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor? Hi. Have yourself a senior trip. Well done. Very nice job. Congratulations everybody. And by the way, I did go on all the scary roller coasters. Veloca Coaster, Tron, Hagrid's ride, all of them. So, it was a lot of fun. Any other questions for me trip or other orient? Like if you need chaperones, everybody, everybody seems to be willing to shaper
053on this trip. I'm so I'm sure your senior children would so enjoy mom coming on the trip or Mr. Agular hears the hard rock. He's looking at me going, "His guy's going to take the trip again, isn't he?" Thank you everyone. Thank you. Um before we move on to our presentation from Orange Boseies, I'm going to give an opportunity for the students in the room. As much as we love having you here, we realize it's a school night. So, um please feel free at this point um to go home and do homework. All right. I'd love to hear. Thank you so much for coming. Great job everybody. Fantastic. We actually had two meetings tonight. We had our annual meeting, so we discussed our budget. That was our budget hearing tonight. Um, and then we had
054our regular meeting and Ed and I escaped. So, I'll take the opportunity to introduce u Mr. Estrada. Ed Estrada is is one of our uh trustees on the Orange Bose Cooperative Board. He is also the president of the Middletown School District Board. So, thanks for being here tonight. And Ed is one of three, and I'll just say this now, Ed is one of three of our board members who is running uh for reelection for their term on the Boseies board. So, it's Ed, Mr. David Eaton from Warwick, and Mr. William Boss from Greenwood Lake. And I think you probably all uh know of or or know or know of uh each of those members. So, and they're really great members and very supportive of all that we do at Boseies and especially the students, which
055is what what we're all here for, right? So, I handed out a couple of of flyers for your review. Um, and tonight again, we're just going to go through uh really the administrative budget and then a couple other things. Uh, I won't take up too much more of your time. Um, so with the administrative budget, right, the the if you take out the flyer, I'm just going to run you through it, not line by line, but you know, give you an overview. On the cover, of course, a letter from our president, Gene Pavec, and some important dates, one of which is today, which is our annual meeting, which I just explained to you, um, just just occurred this evening. And then, of course, our Bosey's budget vote on April 24th, which I know you all
056have a meeting scheduled. So, um, we appreciate your support. I can't ask you how to vote or advise you on how to vote, but we can just say now that we appreciate your support. Um, so the budget itself, right, the administrative budget is the budget that each of the school boards uh vote on. Uh the budget itself is really uh we we took a long hard look at all of our budgets this year as we do every year, but especially this year with all of the uncertainties with foundation aid, with federal uh aid cuts and and god knows what else, inflation, tariffs, and things, right? To name a few. And I'll help Nicole support her position later as she tells you about probably increasing costs, right? Um so we're all going through the same thing.
057So, so our program directors really did a great job. Um, in terms of the programs, uh, I will tell you that the CEKC rate is up 1.27%. It is not in this flyer. Um, and the special ed rate overall is up 1.89. So, really, really conservative. Um, they did a great job of keeping those numbers low without sacrificing uh, program or the amount of students we're able to serve. Right. So, back to the admin budget that is before you. Looking at this at this page, we have not changed any staff. the slight increase in FTEES, that's just an allocation um as to where we we budget someone as you do in your own budgets. Um so the the number of of folks budgeted in this budget is is the same. And we go down to
058the expenses, of course, you would expect salaries uh for both uh administration and support staff to rise. Um we kept equipment and supplies flat. Um big decrease though in other contractual expenses and that has to do with how we're managing cash flow. So, we were able to uh knock out uh a significant amount of interest budgeted here uh for for what we do when we do short-term borrowing. So, in other words, a rand which we don't think based on cash flow and how we're managing billing and payables um that we will need to borrow rands any longer. It's not a guarantee, but we we believe strongly enough that we're able to reduce the budget uh because of that. That means that overall without the retirey health, which I'll get to in a minute, our administrative
059budget is actually down significantly and overall this budget is below contingency. So again, we we feel really good about presenting this budget to you this evening because of that. Um the Boseieswide Retirey Health Insurance, we put a little graph there to illustrate that that commitment we make to our employees as do you, right? There's a lot of employees who get at least a partial payment for retirey health in retirement. And um that represents 68% of our budget because by law um we have to budget all of our retirey health in administration. No matter what program you work for and really that is because we eb and flow as we have programs and we have retirees now that no longer exist. The retirees of course exist but their programs that they worked in might not exist
060and we need a place to park um their their health insurance in retirement. Our retirey health represents 569 retirees. 14 are new and usually the only way we get people out of the re the uh retirey uh health insurance plan is when they pass. So there were no uh deaths this year out of the plan. So that actually that's good news because people are living longer, but it's not great news for the budget because we don't get to to uh exchange a new retiree for for another one. So I know it's horrible to say it's actuarial science. I'm not an actuary. Um but that's that's the that's actuary, right? So the to the overall admin budget is up 2.95%. Again a very modest increase um which includes retiree health. You'll see a line uh under
061the total admin budget which reduces the admin budget. It is an infusion of revenue from um it's called administrative fees. It's an administrative fee we tack on top of like non-component districts like your Newbergs. Anybody outside of what we call the JMT which is Orange Sullivan Olster Duchess. Anybody outside of that provides a service from us, they get an administrative fee tacked on uh to their service just as you would if you were say uh dealing with cap region Boseies or somebody outside of our JMT area. So we use that that offset to to reduce what's allocated out to the component districts. So overall that's the that's the administrative the administrative budget, right? It's again it's uh we we think it's a very fair budget. um we think it was respectful of our districts and
062and uh you know what everybody is going through and um we hope you agree with that. Any questions on the admin budget at all? I'm sorry this is the second time you're hearing it. I know we heard it last week. So um so if you flip over to the next page, we have two other budgets um which we uh which we present to you this evening. One is the capital budget. So, you remember back in 2022, uh, voters supported the Boseis capital project, which was, uh, you know, a lot of you have been there and you've seen that there's a lot of things we need, roofs, windows, you know, classroom upgrades and things. And it was 30 or so years, uh, since we did a a bonded capital project. So, this $12 million is allocated
063out to all of our component school districts. Um, and then and um, this represents the third year in a three-year phase in of the debt service, right? Because we had to finance through DASNY because Not all of the districts agree to uh to use an IMA for funding. So therefore, the only vehicle the Boseies can use then to fund a capital project is Dazzling. So uh we have locked in uh starting next year, it'll be 19 years um of of uh debt service at 12 million. And when you flip to the back, you'll see what your allocation is. And keep in mind that these numbers are before eight. So there's a significant amount of building aid on this number. Okay. Okay, but before we go to the back page, um very quickly below, uh below
064the capital budget is the rental budget. Um and as you know, we do lease some space from from our friends here at the Chester Academy, and we do enjoy the space. Hopefully, you don't throw us out sometime. I hope not. Right. That budget's up 1.08%. Again, a very uh respectable increase. And these spaces are spaces we will continue to need even after the capital project. Um because there are several programs that need to be in a district space at least restrictive environment. It's been determined some of these programs need to be in those those those areas to to meet those needs. Okay. Any questions there on capital or rental before we flip to the back. So on the back is the uh district allocation. So each district's broken down of course Chester's first. You can
065go right across the column and see um how your um your costs of each of the budgets are allocated. It's based on our WADA which is resident weighted uh average daily attendance which is a formula that counts a lot of things um you know including growth and uh poverty indicators and attendance and uh special uh special needs. Um so it is not your this is never equal to your actual enrollment. You know what is always going to be different. I know that question comes up a lot. So again, um you can go across and see what the allocation is and and keep in mind that this is all before any age. Okay, any questions on that? Okay, inside this flyer, it it is our um what what students and parents say about OUB? Just uh
066you know, some nice things. I don't know if we have any Chester Yes, we do. Chester Academy student. Look at that. So, we do have two students on here. I remember doing this one. if they are uh a mom who has two students who went to the CTE program. So that's great. Would you get a minute to look at that? Um okay, let me just go back real quick to the capital. I have a couple notes here I want to I don't want to, you know, not say. So the projection of the 12 million for the uh for the debt service over the next 19 years is actually originally projected to be 13 million, but based on some upfront payments we did and interest rates, we were able to secure um that number. obviously went
067from over 13 to 12 million which which is going to save the districts about 14 just over 14.5 million in total in interest over the period of the financing but the savings to Chester will be 423,000 over that period as well. So, you know, we're trying to be conscious of of all of these things and so we really um took the time to make sure we were able to get that number down and save you some money. So, I just I wanted to to share that with you as well. All right. I told you about the three board members who are running for reelection. So now there are two other um handouts here, right? One is the Chester Union Preschool District D district data set, which I think you probably saw for the first time
068last year. And really it gives you a five-year uh historical overview of both CTE and special ed student enrollments by program. So you can see um how many of your students, our students um are enrolled in each of our programs and you can see the trends. Um you know, again, take some time to look through that. If you have any questions, we don't have questions now, feel free to call myself or Carrie or Deb. Be happy to go through it with you. Um but this is really a great we we always get asked about, you know, how many kids are we sending? I'm sure you guys uh as the board um ask Mrs. O'Hara all the time, what's what's going on, how many kids are there. Um, so this is here's here are the numbers
069for you front and center as you can see. Okay, any questions on that? Okay, the third flyer is involving CTE. It's called engage CTE. It talks about um really our process for enrollment because several years ago our process for enrollment changed. That was at the superintendent's request. It used to be first come first serve. So, if you had a a a really uh you know, excited uh uh what do they call it? A guidance team who collected everybody's enrollment real quick on day one, that district would maybe take up all the slots in in a program. Um so, what we thought was a more fair and equitable way to do it. Um we have a period of enrollment where everybody submits their enrollment, which is the month of April. So, that that period is now
070passed. It then gets put into a randomizer. So, it's a randomized selection process and students are selected based on the computer uh randomization process, right? And that's all spelled out in the enrollment process. You can take your time uh at your leisure to to read through that. Again, if you have any questions, reach out to us. Um what we do see and what you all know is that CTE and career tech programs continue to have waiting lists because there's such high demand for these programs and we can't build the space fast enough especially labs like electrical and welding which we are doing but it's going to take several years until those are online. So you will see that on the right side of the in of the inside of this booklet um you'll see the
071programs listed and what the enrollment is and then you'll see a column that that talks about weight list. So that means that students did not necessarily get their first selection. So those weight lists indicate that that's the number of students in that program that didn't get their first uh selection. Most of the students there there was only a couple left. So most of the students did get in second placement. So not necessarily their first choice, but their third their their second maybe third choice. Um we hope to alleviate some of that through our capital project obviously. Um but again our numbers continue to there continues to be tremendous demand uh for obvious reasons right I know John mentioned COVID before we don't want to bring that up again but that really woke people up as
072to the opportunities and who's who's able to work and make a living during a pandemic right and a lot of it had to do with the trades so um you know it's good news for us we just uh we just can't build things fast enough to accommodate everyone so we're trying our best okay I think that's all I have did I miss anything. Okay. Any questions, comments? Okay. Well, I appreciate your time. No, we appreciate you coming, you know, as one of the component districts and we're in the thick of obviously our budgetary process. So, it's it's great that you come because that obviously we have to take all that into account. So, we appreciate you with the handout so we can look and digest. No problem. Anytime you need us, give us a shout.
073Thank you so much. Thank you guys. That brings us um to Miss Dusa, our sister superintendent for business and our budget presentation with Miss O'Hara. Okay. So, and again thank Mark Coleman at Estrada for being here this evening and uh we we appreciate as Boseie services is a component of the presentation this evening our partnership and the opportunities provided for our students through Bosei. So, thank you. Uh so this evening uh this presentation is uh covering undistributed expenses expenses central services and Bosei services. I'll just wait a minute for that to pop on the screen. So, as you're waiting for the presentation to come up, I just wanted to reiterate, as we always do with all of our budget presentations, they are available on our CUFSD website under board of education. Uh so, if you're
074not watching this evening, you can certainly watch at a later date or uh look through any of our budget presentations at length on our district website. All right, there we go. Uh, and again, um, it's really important to take note that our budget priorities are centered around investing in excellence. And you saw examples of that this evening from both our se our Chester Elementary students as well as our Chester Academy students. Pardon my voice a little bit this evening. Um, and really the budget supports our vision, our mission, certainly our expectations for our Chester graduates to be effective communicators, as you saw as early as our little ones in our CES broadcast team, dynamic collab collaborators, innovative problem solvers, digital strategists, ethical citizens, and empowered learners. That's in every area of the budget and in
075all that we do. That is what this budget supports. And once again to reiterate our key investments in education programs and staffing, strengthening community engagement, and advancing safety, security, and infrastructure. So with that said, Mr. Susa is going to address and uh give a little bit of an overview of undistributed expenses. Thank you, Miss O'Hara. So, when we're talking about undistributed expenses, we're talking about costs that are not allocated to any specific department or program, which includes things like our health insurance, our retirement costs, social security, workers compensation. It also includes our debt service costs, which includes our principal and interest for our um bond payments. So, new for next year, you'll see interest related to the $1.9 million bond anticipation note we did for the HVAC STEM project funding. Um, we also have our
076interfund transfers to special aid, which represents the district's portion of summer special ed um expenses. The state does reimburse us for a portion, but whatever the state doesn't reimburse us for, the general fund has to transfer over to the special aid fund. So, that's why that is there. We also have our interf fund transfer to capital which represents small capital outlay projects that are eligible for state aid. So here we have the budget breakdown and mostly you'll see standard increases here. Um a big one I want to highlight because it it is large is the health insurance line which actually is going down 470,000 which you might ask how has that happened because premiums always increase and our premiums are increasing. However, after doing a deep dive into that budget line, analyzing this year, there's
077some misallocated expenses. So, we move those to the appropriate budget codes. So, this is actual a representation of projections for next year. So, health insurance is not going down, it's going up, but it it appears a little funny here. Um, below you'll see the ban the additional ban interest I spoke about, which is new for next year. And then you'll see those transfers to the capital and the special aid fund. So next we'll talk about our central services which is things that support the district but are not tied to classroom instruction. So we have our central mailing and printing including postage mailings and the postage meter rental. We also have our special items which include our liability insurance, our professional association dues, and our Bosey's admin capital and rent expenses that Mr. Coleman mentioned. Um
078there is an increase for the Bosey's capital cost. As he mentioned, this is a thirdyear phase in. So there's an increase it increases to 240,000, but it should remain steady for the remainder of the funding, I believe. Yeah. Um so here we have some of our management services we we receive through our local Boseies. It is beneficial for the district to partner with Boseies at it as it generates our Bosey's aid and it ultimately reduces the overall cost of these services making them more affordable while improving efficiency. Here's the budget breakdown of our central services. Um, some of the new budget lines here were created to more accurately track the expenses in specific budget codes. So, we have our public information for Bosei services. This was an expense that already existed. However, it was combined
079in another budget line. So, we separated that out as well as the central data processing. And here you'll notice the increase in the Bosey's capital cost. As we mentioned, this is the third year of the funding and should be steady for the remainder of the funding period. Okay, so this I found on um NISSBA. As of today, we have not received the final New York State budget. It's always due on April 1st every year, but this shows in prior years when we got the final budget. Last year was April 20th. Year before was May 2nd. So, at this point, the state has passed three budget extenders, and they plan to pass another one tonight or tomorrow. Um, school aid doesn't seem to be a controversial issue that's holding it up, but um, the governor and
080legislature have offered consistent proposals. So, the school aid is not really what's holding it up. So, I'm not too concerned with that. Um, I've heard there's been no movement to come to an agreement and there is a scheduled twoe break starting next week for Passover and Easter. So, all this to say, we may have to adopt our budget before the state budget is actually finalized. Um, we're scheduled to hopefully adopt the budget at our next meeting, April 24th, which is the deadline for districts to adopt their budget. So, as I mentioned, our next meeting is April 24th. We'll have our final budget overview and hopefully the board will adopt the budget. Um, May 13th is our public hearing and May 20th is the budget vote. And this can all be found online under board of
081education budget information. And that's all I have. Any questions? Thank you so much. You have just like such an easy way of breaking everything down and explaining how things are reallocated and why things look different, right? So, I really appreciate that because sometimes it's a lot of information. So, we appreciate how thorough you always are for presenting this. Thank you. And just um for the benefit of the public, it obviously it looks as if we're going to adopt before right it settled. Then how much let's say it's May like it was in a previous year. So I don't I don't see our foundation aid that's really the only kind of determining factor. The other aids are all um expense driven. So it's just foundation aid and we're not a whole harmless district. So we're not
082getting that minimum 2% they speak of. So, I'm pretty confident our numbers will probably remain the same. Um, they may go up or down a little. If they do happen to go up, we can use we can appropriate less for next year than planned. Thank you so much. No question. Okay, that moves us on to our first public comments. Okay, see there's no one coming up. That will move us on to round table. M Howard, do you have anything to share with us this evening? Thank you. Just a just a few things to share. I just wanted to reiterate uh uh how proud uh it was to see that our opening this evening with an outstanding presentation by our CES broadcast team and that is absolutely a powerful example of students bringing our district vision
083to life through communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. And then uh again we don't we have our um board of ed student representatives. Um Ariana Dowy is out uh this evening not feeling well but certainly our junior Brooke Badato recently joined the team and um the two uh certainly this evening as well constantly and consistency consistently demonstrate poise purpose and pride in representing their peers. So we we truly appreciate uh you being an evidence of an example of leadership in the district. So, thank you. And uh in general, incredibly proud of our students and soon to be graduates. Continue to embody the portrait of a graduate I just recently shared in the budget presentation, empowered, resilient, and prepared for the future ahead. So, as we continue to present the 2526 budget, this is truly an
084example of what investing in excellence looks like. So, we look forward to continued budget presentations and once again encourage you to um go on our website to review in further detail. Uh in addition on this evening's consent agenda for board of ed consideration is item 5.5, proposing an emergency day giveback due to unused emergency closing days built into the 2425 school calendar. If approved by the board, schools and district offices will be closed on Friday or would be closed on Friday, May 23rd, uh extending Memorial Day weekend for students and staff. And I just want to make a note that the remaining emergency days would be held in reserve. And that's to ensure coverage for any future needs that may arise. And then lastly, a spring break reminder. Schools will be closed for spring break
085from Monday, April 14th through Monday, April 21st. Students will return to school on Tuesday, April 22nd. So certainly wishing all of our students, staff, and families a relaxing, safe, and well-deserved spring break. That is all I have for round table. Thank you. You have a report. I do. Thank you. Um, so I wanted to report on the last Orange County School Board meeting which took place on Wednesday, April 2nd. Um, I was able to attend in person uh for a presentation by attorney David Shaw and Be Harris on current legal collective bargaining issues and legal concerns. Um, it covered a variety of topics that were forwarded on to our board members and that are very important and relevant at this point because there are many administrative changes taking place uh on a federal level that
086are not necessarily aligned with uh New York State at this time. So, the presentation was incredibly informative. that covered everything from DEI to gender to immigration. And I really want to applaud our local um Orange County School Board because they really do such a phenomenal job bringing in different presenters and topics that are really relevant uh and keep us updated as to important changes that are taking place. The next meeting will be in person on May 7th and then looking ahead, the annual dinner will be on June 4th. Thank you so much. Before I go to Brooke, any else from board members? Do you have anything to share with us this week? Starting with on March 27th, as we talked about before, the elementary school had their Finding Nemo production. Tickets completely sold out and
087the Chester Academy Chorus profited $1,300 from one performance. They did a beautiful show with professional m puppets made just for our students and had many families and community members help paint, fund raise, help with costume, scenery, and makeup. Funds contribute towards the Lori P scholarship to a graduating senior in vocal music as well as the course program. And thank you to Mrs. Ngermith for assisting in all aspects. As Mr. Flanigan had mentioned earlier, on March 30th, Make a Wish Hudson Valley led a ceremony at Shop in support of Lily Fernandez. It was very well attended and everyone was greatly supportive. We had several groups here from Chester Academy attend this event to show support such as the cheer team and drum line as well as other other schools such as the go high school band.
088April 1st, our prom ticket sales began. Tickets have been selling fast and will continue to be sold up until May 1st during lunch periods 5 and 7. The promay voting form and playlist suggestion form have also gone out to both juniors and seniors to ensure everyone has a say in the food and songs provided for the night. On April 4th, youth and government attended county service day in Gan where students were able to shadow government officials and different departments such as emergency services, community development, legislation, and more. The participants were also offered an internship with Orange County representatives. And this day was a great learning experience and was followed with a lunchon at Walill Golf Club. On Saturday, April 5th, the Mock Trial had their second tournament where they unfortunately lost to Monroe Woodbury, concluding
089their season this year. They are proud to have advanced all the way to semi-finals with a relatively new team, and they're excited for the case next year. On Sunday, April 6th, Key Club hosted their Arcadia road cleanup. Several student volunteers along with Mrs. cleared the roads of garbage and there was a visible difference by the end. There's also another upcoming Kuanas town cleanup on May 10th that many are volunteering for. On Monday, April 7th, the yearbook took their official senior superlative photos as well as personal head shot of yearbook club members for their page in the yearbook. The yearbook is available to pre-order currently for $60 until April 11th when the price will increase. Class of 2025 shirts and hoodies have also been put back on sale which will end on April 11th. April on
090April 8th, the class of 2026 began after school snack sales to assist in funding for prom. These snacks will be sold the entire week and profits will go directly to the savings account since the food was all donated. Tomorrow is the Sunni new college visit. This trip helps to provide juniors with a better idea of what they're looking for in a college and it also shows them a glimpse into the college life. And this is also the last week of medical club's hygiene drive to support underprivileged people across the state. It has been very successful so far and will soon be donated to Hobie New York East, a nonprofit organization. And then lastly, the date of the next board meeting will be the day before opening night of the drama production Mean Girls. Last Sunday
091concluded the drama team's final weekend rehearsal and they have been eagerly practicing every day to put on a successful show on April 25th and 26th. And then that's all I have today. Thank you for your very uh thoroughly appreciate it. Do you have any questions for both? You've been a really nice addition to the team. So, thank you for your hard work. Okay, that brings us to our consent agenda. I would like to make a motion to adopt consent agenda items 5.1 through 5. Second favor. I consent agenda passes and that brings us to our second public comment. Let's see no one is coming forward. Can I have a motion to adjourn? We'll make a motion. Second. All in favor? Thank you all for tuning in this evening. Um wishing everybody a happy and safe
092spring break.