001All [bell] right. I apologize for the delay in starting. Uh, welcome to the April 8th board meeting. Let's begin with a pledge of allegiance. Okay. So, each month the board would like to recognize students and staff members whose contributions or achievements are outstanding. Employees who go beyond the call of duty or community members who generous, excuse me, whose generosity is greatly appreciated. This month, we're happy to we're pleased to call out the robotics club who had a fantastic uh competition. Last weekend, two weekends ago at MVP Arena, we had an elementary school Odyssey of the mind team go to states in Syracuse this past weekend. Anything else anyone else aware of? Looking for anything else? I I do want to Um just make a comment about the robotics team. Um being more of the humanities
002uh scholar and um arts and education. I spent the day most of the day with them on on Friday competition and I was extremely impressed. Um the kids worked collectively together to problem solve. like if the robot didn't move and uh for example the robot didn't move in one of their matches and um part of the problem solving is they realized they didn't take it off like test mode said oh they'll never do that again right and then the next time when they struggled with it um they realized that it had something to do with you have to turn Wi-Fi on or Wi-Fi off I'm like they'll learn now right to make sure that happens and you know I had talked to M Mr. G as kids were trying to fix it. And I said,
003"When do you step in?" He said, "Only if I have to and if it's a matter of like last minute, need to get it done and they had backtoback ma matches from like 1 to two and they needed to fix it." And you saw Mr. G jump in and he was like helping the kids and well and they were screwing and putting together and coding and all that. Um I spoke to uh Mr. Goodman who is their mentor. They're allowed one mentor in the field and He's a retired GE engineer. And walking around and seeing they call it pits, right? Because it looks like pit crews. Some of the schools have really elaborate pit crews. Like they're beautiful. They look like fancy garages. And I So I was asking I'm like um you know, and
004Mr. G and the kids, they've kind of got the basics, but what they need to do to fix the robot. And Mr. G said that there is no hard rules with robotics competitions. So what a lot of schools do is the kids all they do is just market and fund raise. Then they spend they take the money and hire a company and pay them $20,000 to build a robot. Our kids, they do the work. Go ahead. No, no, you can't. Yeah, we can't talk about that. Right. Um, our kids do it from soup to nuts and Mr. Goodman coaches on the coding piece, coaches on the mechanics of of it. And I how impressive of our students, they could fund raise. They could do what other schools are doing and they weren't big fancy schools
005and pay a company to build them because there were some fancy robots. I was like, "Wow, they're super fast." Or and our kids take pride in in building their own robot, managing it, fixing it in between matches. And um and it was interesting because you could distress because they were like trying to fix it and get ready. They, you know, Mr. G makes it very clear they support each other. There was one student in particular who kind of snapped at his his teammates. He made him sit out a match and then he learned to keep it in check and he he worked as a team. So, I have to give a huge shout out to Mr. G. Again, I learned a lot. It was a lot of fun because it's my first time. Um but
006more importantly the team it's usually you know there there were some middle school students there to learn but the the sec you know the high school students um they did it from beginning to end and they should be very proud of themselves. Cool. Uh so we're going to move on to the discussion of the agenda as it stands and also any any other possible new business items to discuss for the agenda. Um one of the possible things uh that's mentioned on here that we've discussed is the principal search update. How that's happening and what the plan is for that. So the um posting closes next Wednesday. We currently have Um last time I checked 18 applicants um the process that I've done in the past is um and I shared this with the board is
007that I want to make sure that it is stakeholders are determining who their next principal is going to be. So what happens is say we end the search with 20 candidates when the 20 candidates um myself and the leadership team will narrow it down to 10. Right now at a quick glance there was a couple of people who applied who do have their school uh building leader certification. So, they won't be in the running, right? So, from there, we narrow it down to 10 10 people. Uh myself and either Melissa or Francis, the uh board leadership, will do a screening interview with those 10 candidates. 20 minutes, fast, furious, get to know them, put a face with a name. From those 10 will be narrowed down to six. And those six candidates will be welcomed
008back. It would be a twoight process of going through three interview panels and these interview panels are stakeholders. I am not on any of those panels. So basically I we come to the determination what six candidates do I feel would be a good fit, we could coach, we can support and that would be you know staff would be receptive to. So over a period of two nights, three three candidates each night rotate 45 minutes to an hour through each panel and then each panel has like a team leader. We use rubrics so we're able to quantify and then from there there's qualitative [clears throat] data as well. The team leaders keep their their team on tasks. The teams meet prior to go over what you can and cannot ask legally and we be consistent, you
009know. So I'm sure a is saying HR HR HR, right? consistent questions and then they pick their top, it ends up being their top two, both qualitative and quantitative. And I always say in the beginning that when I do a deeper dive in uh reference checks that if something percolates, I may not be able to tell you what, but it may disqualify someone because sometimes folks have something that's happened in their past that we want to make sure that would or we would deem that would not be a good fit for us. So from there, um the top two candidates I meet with make a final determination. naturally eliminated, then it's one and then that one candidate will develop an entry plan and or a success plan because entry plans are are a fickle thing
010because you really don't know what you need to do unless you do it and then they present to the board of education in executive session and then from there there's resolution. One one step that I a couple steps I forgot. Um at the end of this week, surveys are going to be going out to internal and external stakeholders of what you want in a principal. We'll use that when we determine those 10 candidates. When we get to the six candidates, I actually provide each and every one of them with a discovery packet. In the discovery packet is um things that aren't confidential, but it could be data where we've been, what we're doing, what we want for the future. Because I I'm a firm believer that an interview shouldn't be and I got you right.
011I want them to see our data and when we say where do you think we need where do you think we need to work on what ideas do you have and why not give them the information so that they can clearly speak to ideas or or potential solutions they've used in the past. So the discovery document is given to all six and they can use it in any way they want. Again, it's not confidential information, but it will allow them to speak specifically to each of the panels. So, we're hoping that by the end of May, we can have a special session, brief session with the board where they they uh are presented the entry plan and then we can have a board meeting so that whomever the selected candidate is can give their 30-day
012notice by June 1st. Quick quick question. Are we what they say in the entry plan? Are we give as board members? Can we see that? Yes, they'll present to you their entry plan. We are okay. They are I missed that. Yeah. They'll present to you their entry plan or their success plan I like to call it because again it's like you know what's the saying about you know fish in a barrel. Um what they believe will make a successful um entry into the school district and um it will be presented to you both hard copy and whatever media they use to ask questions. and I will I will request that they give it to me prior so that you have time to look over it and ask questions. Cool. Any other questions? Yeah. Well, will
013we also be able to see their past like resumes and things like that? So, so we can see what their track record is, not just, you know, we all have good ideas, but let's see what you know, the experience level is, right? So, I can I can give you an um obviously an outline of their past. I'm sure within their presentation, they will find that. So, it it becomes a little bit of a gray area and I know we've talked about this before and we we had spoken to Lauren about it in our retreat. You know, this board has one employee employee that's me and then everyone else is my employees. So, it becomes this really gray area, but any good candidate when they present to you is going to provide you with that information.
014Does that make sense? So, if they they choose to provide it to you, that's great. That's that's that's a choice that they have. Um, but you know, when it comes to the hierarchy of our organization, they become my they become my employee. So, I want to make sure that I I kind of have very clear boundaries. Um, and so that we're not violating any, you know, labor not necessarily labor laws, but pro, you know, expected processes and protocols. It would be like you handing out my resume to folks prior to appointing me. Anything else? Cool. Cool. Okay. So, the next thing is actually going to be a discussion for the board because we have to kind of come to some decisions based on guidance on data security we receive from our legal counsel. Um there's
015an interpretation of New York State education law around the regulations protecting student information, which means that student name should be kept out of records, including board minutes and potentially subtitles on recording anything having to do that is recorded that has a student's name. Obviously, we've geared our whole meeting recently around having students here, around celebrating their successes, around elevating everything that they're doing to try to make sure that that's what we remember we're here for, to make the school happen in that park that we do. Um, so there's some suggestions as to how to possibly keep some of that, but it all essentially boils down to we can't use a student's name or a minor's name really in a way that's recorded. Uh now that's could be as simple as we just make sure that
016the minutes just refer to clubs for you know we don't have any students here tonight for the Dungeons and Dragon Club but we would refer to them as club and not identify anybody by name. We could choose to keep them out of the minutes and also potentially stop streaming. In which case, we as a group could continue to use their names here in the room and celebrate them here in the room and invite the community to come to the meetings here in the room. But we would lose the ability to stream because one of the requirements on streaming is that the subtitles have made automatically from the transcript. So YouTube does that for us auto. So we're kind of caught in a c in a in a thing there. Um any idea of editing the
017feed afterwards is that's that's so much work. Um We don't have the manpower. And I mean I've done it. tremendous amount of work. Um, does anyone have any ideas or feelings? Yes. Hello. Yeah. Okay. Um, I have an idea. So, maybe we can recognize as a group without the names of course and then can we do like some sort of certificate maybe that can be handed to them and they they could attend the meeting but we can just you know and not say their name any so like no not just giving them like an like appreciation been appreciated by the school board type of thing or it could even be like end of school year because I know they do awards right or certificates at the end of the school year that they've been recognized
018by the school board. I mean that's a possibility. The thing is too it also the shout outs that we get during the athletics things of how many points we scored. Yeah, that's not necessarily a call out from the board. That's just a statement of look how good our students are, right? And we can't do that. Um, so but yeah, I do agree with you on this. Um, that's a that's a great question. I even think about athletics like when we do shout outs for or the newspaper, but so this is where so Bethany is going to um who is the HR attorney who sent us because she's the capital Jabosi. So she sent it to all the superintendents and board clerks. um pose these questions and I even think about athletics. I thought about like
019we put kids names in for honor roll in the paper but that's okay. And then if the Gazette's interviewing basketball team or the channel 6 has got kids on how where's where's the disconnect or where's the line? Right. So Beth is gonna try I don't did she give you any further clarification yet? No. So I have my chief's meeting on Thursday. She's hoping to give us a little bit more clarification of like [laughter] so we can and cannot do. I know. I don't I don't know. I like the idea of certificates where we're like not saying your name but well we can applaud them as a group and give them a certificate to have, you know, showing our appreciation. Yeah, that's my only idea. That's all right. No, it's a great idea. Um just quick
020question. Um, why can't we just prior to the opening of our meeting in don't stream recognize them. Maybe we start 15 minutes early and recognize them in person um using names and everything and then stream afterwards. We absolutely can open a template to do that or some sort of thing. plan that ahead of time just so that we as a small community we can because we know these kids you know we know I mean I know half the kids and and so I think that that would be good continuity to our mission um so maybe just mentioning them then starting afterwards pledge allegiance and then I I think that's absolutely and that's actually one of the suggested routes but it feels like we lose the power of doing it from this meeting. Um, it feels
021like then we're to me like we're just sort of telling these kids are great, which is fine. You know, like for example, the kid in the back, I'd like to tell him what a good job is robotics, but I can't name. Um, hey, you did a good job. You did a good job in the back. Nameless kid in the back. [laughter] Um, who works on boards. Um, is this in any way something where if we have uh something signed beforehand, we can the questions we asked. So I I think I don't know maybe we could still do the recognitions here. Usually it's only a few people and they know ahead of time and they're coming. So at least those I can't solve the problem for everything else online because I know that to my mind
022brings a problem of exposure you know like in sports or in acting like if you want to be recruited and sought for these things later how are people going to find you if now we're putting this everything yeah gonna have its own set of problems I think feels to me this is a weird way start this conversation. Um, you know, as far as like dialing down school board recognition, but so maybe I'll have more and I can share in my weekly update the further guidance. I love all the ideas. Um, but I I guess I have more questions than ideas like I don't know where where the line is and and is it just school boards or is it Again, usually I can understand when things come down the pike, you know, the story behind
023it. So, I'm not quite sure yet. So, I'm hoping Thursday I have more. Was there like a reason that this is coming up now? Like out there? Like I don't think we've had anything here that would make this relevant. Do we have the the email from It just simply says several data incidents in 2024 involving PII. It's being shared through schoolboard information. So maybe executive content leaked out. any representations to make schoolboard meetings make sure they do not contain any student data and that's another question I have um like is it individual student data or I can't present to you guys overarching data that's I I would assume I mean the difficulty here is it's such a small data set that it's not that hard take guesses. Yeah, everybody's This went to all the superintendent.
024Yeah. So, I just saw the piece about the student data. I didn't pick up on that. So, I'm going to ask Bethany about that as well. So, it just looks like there must have been there was um some challenges in 24 with um you know PII being shared through school board um some just they say there must have been some breaching data but you can get kids names from anywhere the honoral list or the Gazette for athletics. So um I I wish I had more definitive answers but you know I I'm sure Bethany is getting bombarded and she's going to get clarity for all of us. But for now, we just be extra careful for all the great kids with no names in the back who do great jobs for for the school. [laughter] Cool.
025Uh, anything else? Anybody? Cool. Uh, we're going to move on to agenda changes. We have one agenda change that I've been told about. We're going to strike the capital project update. I need a motion for that, right? Mhm. Can I have a motion to strike the capital project update? Yeah, I'll move. Got a second. Hey. Uh, the reasoning is because the CJ who's going to present on the capital project update apparently has so he'll be back on the 23rd. He'll be back. Uh, all in favor? I uh have a motion to accept the agenda as amended. Thank you, Tony. Got a second. I'll second. Thank you, Avis. All in favor or any questions? All in favor? I oppose. Any extensions? Uh, anybody sign up for public comment tonight? Okay. Is there anyone who would like
026to speak? All right. Move on. All right, we are going to on to our first item. Uh the acceptance of last meeting's minutes. Um be resolved upon recommendations to superintendent board of education approved the minutes for the meeting of regular meeting on March 18th. It was good time in the elementary school. May I have a motion? May I have a second? Thank you. Any questions or concerns? There had been an update to um I voted on the to establish the fund reveal talked about on you don't see the vote or you see I just yeah I don't see um so that was a clerical error on our part. So Serena did you get a chance to correct it in the minutes? Yeah. So she corre I she corrected it of how many yays and how
027many nays is that in there may need to be looked at again is it it says all in favor okay so so I had made that right no so what we'll do is again I think it was just a clerical error so Serena and I kind of walk through what the template that Celeste used to do about you know who first seconds. Who yay? Who nays? And so it's just that she can go in and correct that. Thank you. Does it show there? Any while they're sorting that out, any other questions or concerns about because it does say one post. Okay, she'll fix it. She'll fix it. So, can we just do a motion to accept it? Accept it as amended. Amended if you're comfortable with that. Okay. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Oh,
028wait. Don't you need? I guess. Yeah, we could do that. Uh, a motion to uh a motion to accept it as amended. Uh, may I have a motion? A motion. May I have a second? I'll second. Thank you, Sarah. Davis. Uh, all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Any objections? Sorry. Okay. All right. Now, it's presentation time. Don't say anyone's name. [laughter] First, we're gonna have Mr. Gillister tell us about Dungeons and Dragons Club. Supposed to wander over here, right? Excellent. All righty. So, Dungeons and Dragons Club. So, D&D Club uh got its first like real start last year and it's been awesome. I know a lot of the kids love it and it becomes the highlight of their week. Uh, which is crazy to me. I walk down the hall and every morning there are
029students are like, "Mr. G, Thursday?" I'm like, "Yes, it's Thursday like always." And they always run off very excited and, uh, pretty amped up to say the least. And so, uh, D and D club again meets primarily twice a week, uh, Thursdays and Fridays. Um, from the very beginning we our goal is just them to play tabletop role playinging games, allow kids to run away with their imagination for about an hour and a half at a time and just have fun together. But this year in the fall, what happened was I had a couple seventh graders come up and ask, "Hey, Mr. G, can we like bring in like Pokemon cards, too?" And I'm like, "Why not?" And so we started playing that as well. And we it's kind of become a hodgepodge of just
030things that the kids like to do and come together and just connect over. So that's been the program thus far. And um in terms of like what our purpose is um everything you see up there on the board, you know, we try to build social skills and teamwork. We want to build confidence and kind of get them used to speaking in front of their peers. And on top of that, we want to foster creativity and storytelling. I think that last part, storytelling, is one of the things I love most about D&D club. Uh you may not think about it but I have been using D and D club as a way of exposing my students to uh classical literature which is weird to say but um like my students currently are exploring like a fa
031circus like a fairy circus and they don't know it yet but they've been exploring like Midsummer's Night Dream by uh Shakespeare and they've been gone through a McFast already and this past week we finished reading a story called the most dangerous game in eighth grade English class and one of my students who was a part of B&D club last year looked at me and said, "Mr. Gilmeister, you plagiarized that whole story." And I was like, "Yes, yes, I did." And so they're they're not only encountering stories and living through stories, but they're learning to appreciate English literature in a way they wouldn't otherwise be able to encounter it. And so, while again, Dn D is just fun and it's silly and it's goofy, I'm finding that the kids are really benefiting it from it from
032like one more than one way. And again, these are just things that I love about the club and it's one thing, one of the things that uh the kids are learning to really embrace as they come every week. So that is our purpose. Um in terms of milestones, um D&D Club started like officially last year. So we have had milestones and we've had a lot of kids jump to our holiday party or our end of year party. We watch a Dungeons and Dragons movie and we have Kasa Villa Pizza and that's great and they'll love it. But um this past uh winter we had a holiday party and we which I think was Lord of the Rings to a Hobbit and there's a hot poker bar and the kids made that blanket you see up
033there and we donated it to the Eagle outlet and so that way just as a way for our little uh club to give back to our school and our little community. But also another big uh I call it a milestone is around the same time we had that holiday party, I was looking into like different programs and things to really give our DL D and D club a boost. And I found this nonforprofit called Magic Kids. It was founded by special education teachers over in Minnesota. And uh I basically just shot him a quick email said, "Hey, I work at a small school. We're starting off this club and uh yeah, anything you would be willing to help us support us with, that would be really appreciated." And they sent us that care package you
034see there on the right. In total, it was over $900 worth of like cards and supplies. And it really has allowed our students just to have their own decks to kind of encounter uh different card games and board games and other things on their own level. And so that's kind of been an awesome gift that the kids get to walk away with at the end of the year and something they get to enjoy, you know, when they go home this summer. So, we haven't been around for very long, but I think we've definitely been able to do a lot for our kids and really make sure they feel like they belong somewhere, which for me at least is always like an awesome thing. You know, letting my kids know they belong. Um, I believe the
035next slide again I none of my uh students were able to join us, but um I was able to do a quick recording of them and I asked them, you know, what what's something you enjoy most about D&D club? And uh I have a few other answers right here. And I promise none of them are paid actors. So here we go. My favorite thing about D&D club is I can um share with all my friends and we have fun together. D I get to spend more time with my friends and beyond. The future is pretty fun. [laughter] So there you have it guys. I'm pretty funny. But no, I mean, when it comes to D and D club, it's just it's a time for kids to belong, a time for kids to connect, and it's
036a time for kids to enjoy telling stories together. Um, I don't need a lot for D and D club. I think this past year I asked for a couple sets of dice. And uh, Mr. Ryvenberg over there say, you know what? I'll give you two sets of dice. And that was pretty cool. So, [laughter] I can't complain. Uh, but we don't need much. You know, we're just there with our imaginations and with each other. So, you know, thank you guys so much for making D and D club happen and uh giving us place to play and time to do it. So, thank you. Appreciate it. I just want to say thank you very much uh for having this club. My son goes to your club. Um I would have to agree it really is um
037a social building um vehicle. Um additionally, I I think he's reading a lot more um especially the fantasy stuff. Um we definitely have a lot more D and D stuff around our house. But thank you very much for doing this after school. Thank you so much. It's an honor. Thank you. All right. Uh next we're going to hear from the elementary school math enrichment group, the Crazy8s Club. this one. Thank you. Nameless student in the back. I'm Debbie Johnson and I'm the advisor for the crazy math club. Um what it is is an enrichment um math club where we do a lot of fun math activities. We meet after school and basically just show um that math is all around us and we just practice different. It's a lot of fun. The kids really like
038it. It's a very popular group. um when I sent out to see who would like to go into it, there were 74 students who signed up this year and it's a K through second grade program. And so this year I did two sessions. Um the future goals I just want to continue the club and um hopefully expand it a little bit more. And some of the activities that we do are the glow-in-the-dark geometry where they use um glow sticks to make patterns and make repeating patterns and even threedimensional patterns. Um I also did we also did um beach ball party where um subtraction. They also did that with a crazy addition to be the first one to get the finish line about um just about exploring money and um buying things of money, how to
039make change, um what taxes were, things like that. Um and also training where they had to complete different puzzles to find a secret code to open a lock. Kids really enjoy it. It is fun. It's a good Yeah. How do we get the other half that couldn't do it? It's one of the only groups for the younger kids. So, Um there's can take 16 students and so I had two sessions. Thank you very much. I can talk again. Uh next we have the elementary school social peerto-peer club. Hello, my name is Bridget Minnet and I teach kindergarten for those of you who don't know. And I'm Michelle Dillianic teach special ed to kindergarten and first grade. I'm ready. Sorry. Got it. Thank you. Okay. So, um this is Michelle and I'm Bridget as we just
040said and we run the peer-to-peer um program which is a social skills program at Dwayneburg Elementary. There we go. It's cool. Um, was that the first one? Okay. So, just a little history of what peerto-peer is. Um, we started this program. It's been at least 15 years. I was trying to find the start date and I couldn't. Um it was started with um another first grade teacher, Jesse Westfall, which I'm sure many of you um remember at some point. She was with the district for a long time. Um and something we noticed was that a lot of kids needed more help with um learning social skills and we needed time to explicitly teach those. Um we didn't have a lot of time in our day, although we did try to incorporate that. So, we decided
041to start a program where we could work with kids that really needed help in that area. Um, we've helped kids for many years build relationships. Um, it's been really great to um kind of see those kids grow up and now a lot of them are actually adults in the real world, which is awesome. Um, and we really hope to continue this program for as long as we can. So some of the goals that we've made for peerto-peer is we really try to teach students to understand and manage their emotions. So the elementary school we're actually piloting a program called zones of zones of regulation where we are teaching the children to identify the feelings that they're having and then give them some strategies to help self-regulate themselves when they're having those really big feelings. Um,
042so that's one thing that we really try and teach and practice at peer-to-peer. Another thing that we are really working with them to do is uh to communicate successfully. I mean, we know there's adults that have a hard time with this. So, especially all down to our younger kiddos um who have all these things to say and all these feelings. Um, we really work on helping them to get their thoughts and feelings out while also learning how to be a good listener and try to understand others feelings um as well. And also my favorite part is practicing cooperative play. Again, this is something that, you know, really has to be taught in these younger years and a lot of times we don't have the time that we wish we did during the school day. Um,
043but this allows us to really practice cooperative play. Um, so that they can have fun and they just have those opportunities to practice sharing and um, you know, getting along with each other and building relationships. And here's some pictures that we've taken. This is us working on our zones of regulation where there were identifying the different feelings they can have and talking about reading facial expressions. And this was um we were talking about communication skills, making eye contact, being a good listener, listening with your whole body. And this is them playing cooperatively with each other. And a lot of the kiddos that we target for this program, um they are students that sometimes do not naturally gravitate towards others to play. They sometimes are students that um more play on their own. Um naturally. So,
044we kind of are really like teaching them and showing them that it can be fun and that it's work, but it's fun to have friends to play with and they love each other. [laughter] That is it for us. Any questions? Okay. Um, so the revers we usually at the beginning of the year um because there's specific skills that we really tried to target. We start with students first that we know of um that we have seen in the classroom. We usually we wait about a month into the first year month of school so that we can get to know the students and then we can kind of see who can benefit from these these skills. We ask the teachers we we put like a little feeler out do you have any students that you think
045would benefit from this program? It's not something you can necessarily sign your child up. And we do try to keep the age group like kind of similar so that we're practicing skills that kind of work and that they're actual peers. Um had another question. Um it's during the school day, right? Or after school. Oh, okay. All right. Thank you. How many students are involved in the program? At this point, we try to keep it to be a little bit of a smaller group being that these students are really working on those skills of getting along with each other. So, we typically are between like five and 10. Yeah, we try to keep it small. We've had bigger groups and we found that we have less success. Um, so keeping it small, we find that we
046can really like hone in on specific skills and Michelle was talking about when they're playing and stuff, it just comes up so naturally because they're in their natural environment playing. So, it's kind of like they're in charge and we kind of like watch and intervene when necessary. But that's one thing that we don't have a lot of time in the school day for. So, lots of teachable moments during this time. We So many lessons and you you primarily focus on like younger like kindergarten typically. We've had like last year our group went a little bit higher. We always try to that there's at least like a buddy that in a similar age range. It depends on the needs of the kids in in the school at the time. It's awesome. Any other questions? Thank you
047so much. All right, skip that one. And it is time for the superintendent report. Be careful. I had to wake Jeff up. Okay, so a couple things. Um, just a reminder, the Friday before Memorial Day, and we're going to make sure Trisha gets this out in parent squares, it's that contingent day based on the contractual, we don't use more than two emergency closing days, etc., etc. So, the Friday before Memorial Day, there will be no school for students. We're going to remind folks starting this week through parent square social media. Wanted to get it out here on the boards official state of the board minutes. Right. So, and it'll be on the website as well. Um, we've used one snow day so far. That's it. One emergency closing day. Um at our speaking of calendar,
048our next meeting in two weeks will be um and the board will have perview to look at it will be the adoption of the 2526 school year. We kind of went back and forth about the two weeks around um in December and that it would only give us four emergency closing days. Maybe I'm old school from the 70s where we get, you know, 10 feet of snow growing up in Skairy County, um it makes me a little nervous, but talking to the um the leadership team and talking to the teaching unit and so on and so forth, um we're going to take a gamble and we're going to do the two full weeks um in December. Worst case scenario, worst case scenario is that um we use more than we can't use more than four
049snow days. That's that has to be um is that we either shave off of April break, which it would not be popular, or um staff um and our students have to come back like the day of graduation um like at the elementary level. So hopefully we won't I'm not jinxing myself. Um again, I'm old school. You know, it feels to me that it's always cyclical. You have a couple no snow day, no snowy winters, and then you get you get two really bad winters. So, uh you know, let's throw good vibes to the to um mother nature that we don't have a terrible winter. So, um all right. What I have um and I'm going to get up and you're going to And I have a piece of paper. So my attention um on uh
050social media that um there was a a message put out there about um our legal notices were in the newspaper but weren't on our website. And I got talking with Melissa about this and I said, "You know what? is this is a perfect and I'm going to steal your phrase teachable moment where kind of educate and um the community as well as remind the boards we get this timeline and it can either come through state aid planning or school boards and there's an echo and I hate it um this is our holy grail of when we have to have things postmarked for the budget so the things to note um like March 1 right Jeff had to submit any information necessary for the tax levy limit to the state controller. And this is the next
051the third one down. April 1st through the 5th, we must publish first of our four legal notices of the budget vote and board election. So four times in seven weeks. The difference between the legal notice and our budget book. Legal notice, all it is is saying this is when the budget vote is, this is where it is, this is the time. That's the legal notice. That's it. That's all we're required to publish. What a community member had commented on is that the website doesn't have a legal notice. Well, we do have it doesn't look like it does in the newspaper, but there is information on the board of education website. And what I think this community member might have confused with is that if you look through seven days prior to the budget hearing, I
052call it the budget book. Basically, it's the whole budget needs to be made available in every building in the district office and on our website. So, that's something different than the legal notice. Um, but here's and again I I made sure this is included. This piece of paper the board is looking at is included attached to the agenda electronically. But if we look right, so we're in compliance with our legal notices. They've gone out. And then April 21st, school board candidate nomination petitions are due back to the district clerk by 5:00 PM. So that's 30 days before the election and the vote. April 22nd uh determine the names of the candidates and it's usually like a lottery whose name goes first on the ballot and then the 25th um they we have to distribute any
053military b uh ballots on April 28th we have to submit the property tax report card to sedd that's a Jeff job 30th um that's only for small city schools so that's not relevant to And then here's the April 29th to May 6th. Districts must complete the budget 7 days prior to the public hearing. So this is where the budget book goes online. The budget book is in each building. It's just a paper copy. Um and then May 5th pertains to small city schools. May 6th is the last possible day for voter registration. May 6th through the 13th, we hold our public hearing and we're holding ours on May 6th. Correct. That's our Yeah. May 6th is our budget is our budget hearing. And then it is available to residents um dur uh during the 14
054days prior to the vote. And then May 6th through the 15th, last day for voter registration by school district boards of registration. 14th deadline for mailing the budget notice, which that's our budget newsletter, right? our budget notice is that um the the packet we send out and then on May 20th is our vote. So, I just wanted to make sure um that I'm sure the board already is aware that there's timelines, but the community knows as well and that um they understand that there's a difference between the legal notice versus the budget book. Any questions? I'd just like to add that the candidates tonight will be the 15th. Probably Not in this room, but in this building. Correct. And it's the same night as National Honor Society. It makes it a little tricky, but we'll
055figure it out. Right. So, um, works for me, so I can be in two places at the same time. I've learned that skill. And then the budget vote will be at the elementary school. Correct. Budget votes at the elementary school. Um, I met with the mayor and Chief Brody this afternoon about the parade. There are so many nuances with the parade. It is the same day as the budget vote. Um because they rely on safety agencies in in this community and other communities that there's just really no way they could possibly move the parade. They are they're completely understanding that we have no choice when our budget vote is. But the parade is early enough or actually in the middle. Our our uh the voting starts at 1 one o'clock. The parade doesn't kick off
056until 6:30. So, and gets done by 7:15 and there's a 45minute window. I learned a lot. We have to work with the the train schedule as well. So, either before I know I learned something new. Um, so folks will still have the opportunity to vote prior to the parade or right after the parade. Any other questions? I do. Um, only because it's usually a busy night prepared because there's so many things going on that same night. Will will class be doing like the Brooks barbecue chicken or any type of fundraiser that night? Yeah, there's one that does, right? The juniors will be doing at the elementary school. Okay. I think it make Yeah. Well, will you will make sure that you know and the community knows as well. Okay. Because it's usually a really busy
057night for parents. It is. And if we're you know, you know, if your kids get to dinner and and go Yeah. It's a perfect opportunity, right? Yeah. Oh, and the um the mayor has uh respectfully and you're going to get a formal invitation. Would like the board of ed to march in the parade again. And they'd like to extend that if um students and staff would like to march in the parade as well. They would love it. We kind of talked about how can we make a float for students and staff or if the board wants to. So, um really connecting our community um and bringing, you know, it was a great event last year. I walked it in a boot. So, I don't want to hear anybody can't walk it because I walked it
058in a boot if you remember. So, it's a short walk. How um what are the hours of voting again? You said they closed at 1 to 9, right? 1 to 9. Okay. So, yeah, there is some buffer afterwards. Yep. Okay. Yeah. All right. And now we'll hear from Mr. Ryvenberg, the assistant superintendent of management services for what I'm sure will be all bright news of rainbows. So, I don't have a lot to say tonight because the state has not finished their budget. Um, so it's a little frustrating uh when you are looking to finalize your state aid runs and all that for the district and you don't have those. Um, so uh a lot of my uh slides that I've got here tonight are just a summary of where we're at. I will say that
059um so tax cap um still at 3.2 or the tax levy 3.2 is what we filed with the state um and then uh after doing some work even since the last uh meeting uh been able to get that gap down a little bit. So I am showing uh that we still have a little bit of a gap. Really hoping uh that maybe the state decides to find some money and uh maybe fill that gap a little bit better. But um we still have some work to do. We still have a couple weeks uh before we finalize uh a budget for the board to accept on the 23rd. Um but little less or a little less than $152,000 and what I'm showing here in the gap. Uh that is of course with a the use of
060fund balance and reserves already and the same amount that we used uh for the 2425 school year. Wow, this microphone is super loud tonight. Um, so this is just a summary of the uh revenue budget. Again, just showing that gap. Um, and a 20.7 million budget. Just remember, a lot of that has increased, a lot of the budget has gone up just because of uh of debt service as well. Um, but that is balanced out with uh with building aid. uh summary of the uh expense budget. Just showing some uh some of the summaries here of the uh different categories of the budget. Um didn't dive into it at all uh tonight because we still have a lot of work to do uh to get where we need to be. Uh right now showing a
0616.81% but again this is draft so um we expect some changes for the next time. I showed a slide on the component budget. Same slide that I've showed the last time. uh the largest portion of the budget obviously the program followed by capital and then administrative uh just a reminder to vote on May 20th what we were just talking about uh the school bus uh proposition is uh significantly lower than it was uh this past year we're only looking to buy two buses this year um so at a maximum cost of $230,000 and then uh the the next proposition will also be to uh establish a repair reserve in the maximum amount of $3,000 $300,000. That is it. Does anybody have any questions for me? I do, Jeff. This is all a relatively new board.
062What happens if the state doesn't get it together and pass a budget? We're we're going to have to uh come up with our best guess and uh we would likely fill the gap or make cuts based on what we see is the most, you know, where we need to be. uh and balance the budget with with fund balance or reserves based on what we if you look recall back from last year's uh conversation we were looking to reduce our fund balance and reserve or actually our reserve amount that we had balanced the budget with. Um, so it's a matter of finding that that medium balance, I guess you could say, and what how much savings you want to use because then you have to look at the long-term effects of how you keep using fund
063balance and reserves. So, um, I don't know, my fingers are still crossed. I I'm hopeful that the state comes out with their numbers pretty soon. Avis, you had a question. Yeah. Um, so I'm sure Everybody's seen the news about um New York State refusing to remove DEI and the US president is saying that if we don't remove it then we don't have federal funding. We won't have federal funding. So what will it look like if we don't have that federal funding? I know they pay for the food, right? So Kim wants to Kim's I'm let comment uh Kim from com was on or off. So I'm on the legislative advocacy team. So, um, obviously following this really closely, um, here's the thing. Title funds in the the food fund, the money for food is legislated.
064Meaning, it has to be an act of Congress for that money to go away. The president cannot, nor can his administration stop that money unless Congress passes a law. Okay? Regardless of if you're a Republican or Democrat, this is not politicized, right? New York State relies maybe five to 10% on these federal funds. These funds for southern states rely on these funds 30 to 50% of their of their funding for schools. It is with all the political um advocacy and not that's actually the bad word uh an incorrect term. The people who are way smarter than me who live in the political world have been very clear that there is no way that Congress will ever pass a a law diminishing these funds because they will decimate their school districts and they want to get
065reelected. So let me say this again. For those funds funds to go away, it would require an act of Congress. The the representatives in Congress, both Senate and legislature in in our southern states, rely to upwards to 50% on these title funds to fund their school districts. If they were to pass this law or this act to remove these funds, they won't have a job anymore because they will defund their school districts. So what the what you're seeing a lot of is and I can include the memos into my in the actual memos and the letters is it a lot of it has to do with school accountability. So we're not a school in need of accountability of um you know improvement. They're called SIG grants that are filtered through the state. Yeah. Right. Those
066are the monies given to school districts like my previous district to for to put initiatives moving forward forward. And then they are also talking about um during COVID the stimulus funds, the ARPA and ESSER funds. Some districts capitalized in September and put in to extend to expend that money. Jeff and I this summer said this is a gamble. We knew what the election was coming that you just never know if there's a change in administration. And when we were able to um allocate every dollar that so we don't fall in that bucket. So, there was a couple things going on, right? So, the [clears throat] Secretary of Education on the federal level said, "If you didn't use your stimulus money, guess what? You don't get to anymore." Jeff and I were smart. We we could
067see the writing on the wall. So, we made sure that we didn't lose a dollar. And as for our title funds andor the federal funding for nutrition, again, it would take an act of Congress. Now, I could be wrong. Act of Congress, it changes. They take a gamble. They're going to fun their schools in the south. We only have what 5% of our budget rely about 5% of our budget relies on these federal funds. We would figure it out. We would figure it out. So it would not be it would not decimate us or our budget. Would we have to use one of our reserve funds to cover it or We would probably just have to um you know we could rely on some of our reserves. We could, you know, look towards u more
068aggressive grant writing. We could look at because it's always the goal uh programs and sta staff, right? We never want to cut programs or staff if we don't have to. But really just we would if if there was a hiatus with it um because everything's unpredictable. Um we would just tighten our belts. So we would say, guess what? We we can't um we'd have to slim down our supply, you know, the the supply line. We'd have to slim down. So maybe this athletic team was due for uniforms this year. Well, let's wait a year and we'll get them next year. Kind of just not cutting programming, but saying, you know, just like when we put our families on a budget, right? Just saying we're going to we're going to trim the budget. We're going to
069hold tight. But again, even if if something devastating was to happen and I'm completely wrong, it's only 5%. Okay. Yeah. I'm really I'm really not worried at all. It's interesting. Um Maine did something very similar like two months ago. Um kind of took a stance with it and then again it was back you know back and forth back and forth and then I don't know what's happened with it but Maine said well fine we're not going to pay federal taxes. So, I don't know what the outcome of that, but you know, my job is to educate the kids of Dwayne'sburg and I keep my ear to it because I want to advocate for small schools and rural schools, but and and stay on top of what's unfolding, but I'm in my professional opinion, I I
070am not concerned right now. To me, it's just a lot of noise and a lot of posturing. Okay. Thank you. I really I'm not worried. All right. I think this is um a case where being a small district actually kind of helps us as well um financially. Um larger districts I mean it's going to hit them a lot harder. So again that we have to consider that as well. Yeah, I think it sounds that sounds reasonable and it's nice to know that um there is a backup plan for something that theoretically really can't happen anyways. Right. And it's interesting because a few years back, I forget what budget season Jeff will remember what year they we were, you know, the sky is falling kind of attitude where like they said everyone was going to be
071cut 20%. Do you remember that? But was it 22 23? Yeah, I think. And we all panicked. Every school district panicked. I remember like how are we going to cut 20%? How are we going to cut 20%. I think this is when it was the change of the governor right before Governor Cuomo left. and uh every school district was having a panic attack and we went through and we came up with plan A, plan B, and then guess what? It never happened. So, I've learned that just like I say to my doctor, I'm not going to worry about it until you tell me to. Anybody else? of expenditures and so where things were being cut, where things were not being cut. Yeah. So what'll uh at the next meeting you will have a line by
072line. Um, the the reason why you don't have it right now is because if I give you multiple copies of a of a budget, you're just going to have multiple copies of something that that's fluctuating and changing right now during budget. Um, that's correct. So, it'll be provided also on board docs in board docs ahead of time, too. So, what you vote for is a number, right? a total number and then hopefully fingers crossed we have an executive budget. Um and yeah a line by line and that's your budget book that I I talk about right that's your budget book that we that we produce for on the website. Um but if you'd like a have you done in the past where you've done like this is what we've historically spent and this is where
073do you do that normally? Yes. So I would provide you line by line of you know what it's been and then the dollar amount for increase increase or decrease depending on where we the budget. Right. Yeah. So um we can make sure that that before it goes to um for public open meeting session. We can provide it for the board to review. Um again they filed another extension. So it was supposed to yesterday and now there's another extension. They file the extension so that they can meet payroll but without thinking school districts are hanging but you know on the edge of their seats waiting so we can finalize our numbers right soon as it comes available we will get it to you guys right off the press anybody else thank you all right moving on
074to instructional personel recommended actions. We have a couple exciting things here. Uh so we'll go through them. Well, we're going to do 701 and 702 together. Um it's the rescending the resignation for retirement of Christine McCain and then accepting the resignation of Christine McCain. Uh she has gone a different direction but is still leaving the district unfortunately. So may I have a motion to accept 701 and 702? I'll motion. May I have a second? I'll second. Uh, any questions or comments? Uh, all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Anyone say? Cool. All right. 703. Accepting for resignation for retirement Andrea Conover. Be resolved. Based on the recommendation of the superintendent, board of education accepts the resignation for retirement of Andrea Conover, elementary school principal, effective July 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? May I have
075a second? I'll second. Any comments or questions? I'd like to go the wrong way with it every time. I means I see I see the zero. Um so I was really debating um what to say tonight, but rest assured come June. Um this is bittersweet. Um, I've really enjoyed um my first year with Andrea and um she runs a tight ship and I respect that. I respect that because sometimes leaders want their employees to be their friends and she runs a tight ship and because she wants what's best for kids and that is commendable. So, I'm not going to go too deep into it, but um I am going to miss you and your spunkiness and um the chocolate will always be on my table for you. You didn't take any today. I was shocked.
076Um and we will miss you and um and I'm jealous. I'm like I still got like nine years. So, we do wish you wish you the best and your service to this district. And I've said this to the uh to the the staff when we announced it that 14 years in the district she could have moved on, moved to a place closer to home, made a lot more money, but she was committed here and committed to us and committed to the kids. So that is commendable and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Uh can I say something? I'm sorry. Andrea and I have history. [laughter] I just want to thank you for your service and your time and attention to to the students. Um you will be
077missed and um I wish you the best in your future in your time off. Thank you. I just want to say I'm jealous. [laughter] Not fair. Good luck with everything. Congratulations. Absolutely. Congratulations. And you know, obviously there's time between now and July 1st for us to to thank you again. Thank you for your time. Uh uh we've done the motion. May I have all in favor? I Anyone opposed? Any abstension? All right. Thank you. Second. Next. 704. Be it resolved based on the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education accepts the resignation for retirement of Donna Wilks, library media specialist, effective June 30th, 2025. May I have a motion? Sarah, may I have a second? I'll second. Thank you. Any questions or comments? She's she's beating Andrea out the door by one day. [laughter]
078It's a race at the parking lot. He's also going to be there. Yeah. [laughter] again. Um I know Donna's not here and um you know her commitment to the district and the kids and track she's very passionate and she's very passionate about her field and she has seen what from a stereotypical librarian to what a library media specialist is and providing that rich um support to classrooms in in in digital literacy and also just literacy. Um, we're going to miss her. She's just a sweetheart. So, um, I I'm incredibly grateful that I I got to spend some time with her this year. All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you very much. And finally 705 be it resolved based on the recommendations presented the board of education approve the medical leave of absence
079for employee 1184 March 12th 2025 till medically cleared to return. May I have a motion? A motion. Okay. Thank you. It was a tie. It was it was a tie. Tony was first. Um any questions? All right. Uh, all in favor? I I opposed. Any extensions? All right. Non-instructional personnel. Uh, this one we'll do as a group. Uh, this is for item 801 through 807, which improves a series of long-term and standard substitute teachers. Counseling, clerical aid, EC appointment of Michael Landowski, baseball, modified baseball, a volunteer parent coach. May I have a motion for 801 through 807? I'll move. Thank you. May I have a second? Thank you, sir. Uh, any questions or comments? Cool. All in favor? I opposed. Any abstensions? Okay. Uh financial items 901 through 9003. Uh may I have a motion
080to accept? Francis, can we separate these out to vote? Sure. Thanks. Uh okay. So then we'll go uh motion for 901 accepting the financial reports, the warrants AC30, EC14, and the March 2025 ECA treasury report. May I have a motion? Thank you, Tony. May I have a second? I'll second. You any questions or comments? Yeah, I'll just comment um on the warrant section where we do have something that um didn't pass the internal auditor. So, I'm I'm not comfortable with that and I just kind of wanted to explain why. Yes, that's fair. Um, our auditor uh flags $350 for the use of breakfast for teachers at a conference day. Um, upon further um upon further investigation, it was noted that we do have a board policy, I believe it's 5232, that does allow for uh
081the usage of working Um, but the audit does indicate that more documentation was probably necessary ahead of time. I think it also says it needs board approval prior. That's the part that I'm more concerned about. The policy is at the discretion of the superintendent. Prior approval of the superintendent or designate must obtain for food and beverage provided according to the policy. Absolutely. So, um, so then what would be the reason for the auditor not feeling that this is I guess and I I do have that question. So she's only here every few weeks. So she did she come this week? She'll be here tomorrow and I I'm going to ask her that question because we've had three other superintendent conference days where in which because they're working they're working meetings that we've provided the staff
082usually does a potluck lunch but um so I'm I'm confused myself why the three other days it wasn't she we weren't cited so I I kind of want to ask her um so when she cites things like this it's not like it goes to the comproller or the auditor it's just kind you know, something that she wants the board to be aware of. Um, again, I'm going to ask her based on the board policy and the three other times that we've done this, it wasn't really it wasn't an issue. So, I'm not sure. So, I I can't answer that question until I see her tomorrow. And then if she and then my next question to her is that like what's what does she need in the future to like that would make her comfortable? But
083then I also know that um do we have the possibility of um reaching out to um some of um of our school partners to to provide breakfast um during these staff days. So I can't I I'm with because she doesn't live here and she only comes here once every few weeks, right? I can't really ask her until I see her tomorrow. But again, Neil, the policy says based on the superintendent and that's what we did the last three times and it was okay, but now it's not okay. I guess it does say prior approval. Was that obtained? That's what I'm wondering. Yes, because I actually requested it myself. Well, okay. So, was that presented to her? That's I don't know. She didn't She didn't ask. We just She handed that in. Yeah. So, um while
084Kim had actually said that she wanted the the breakfast to occur. I think what um what the auditor was looking for was further documentation that she had really just asked the food director to do it. Um and I sent a message to her um regarding the request or that Kim had actually sent the request and I think she was just looking for further documentation. So in the future an email an email would I mean but I understand documentation is always important. So if that is what's needed we can make sure moving forward. So again, I this isn't anything that's going to get us in trouble with the auditors or I just know she's done right by us for over a decade, you know, and I really respect, you know, her feedback and when she says
085something, you know, I would take it with credence, right? So if it if it's something as corrective as me having it in the email, that's fine. Um seems like that would be something like that. I think additionally um uh Melissa and I were actually looking at neighboring districts versions of this policy. It probably needs some rework and there should be some real clarity sort of set up around that. So maybe we should find that policy committee for a look policy number uh 5323 5323 Okay thank you sir any other questions or comments okay uh all in favor I uh anyone opposed yeah just without further explanation I'm not comfortable. So, I'm opposed. Uh, any obstensions? Okay. All right. Uh 9002 uh the approved resolution, excuse me, the approved resolution and purchase proposal of Chromebooks be
086resolved based upon the recommendation of superintendent board of education approves the following resolution and purchase proposal of Chromebooks. Uh may I have a motion? Thank you. May I have a second? I'll second. Thank you. Mr. Ryenberg, could you please explain this to us? Uh so this is a uh resolution to purchase Chromebooks over a three-year period or purchase Chromebooks uh for next year uh and go through Boseies to utilize uh Boseies Bosey's aid through um through an agreement. So Boseies will purchase the Chromebooks and then we get the Chromebooks through. Um so it's basically a purchasing agreement uh like a like a loan to take out for the Chromebooks. This is very similar to the photocopier process we did last year, right? Absolutely. It's the same process. What's neat about this is that needs the
087right word. So say if we were to just buy buy them outright, whatever the Does the cost say how much it right? So what they do is the installment plan is say it's let's make it an easy 80,000 the first year you and you three equal payments and say um you know it's $25,000. What happens is you get aid on that money the following year and it makes your payment. Does that make sense? Because Boseies lags a year. So the installment Because we know things like Chromebooks, they're they're kind of consumables, right? The the life of them are three to five years. What happens is by getting in the cycle of installment purchases, you make your first payment and then the rest of the payments are covered are somewhat covered by the Boseies aid that
088you get back for them. How much are we paying per Chromebook with this agreement versus if we were to just go out and buy them ourselves? Because I I know I'd ask for a little bit more information on the numbers with this because just a blanket almost $90,000 agreement. But for what what are we getting for this? You're asking how many how many computers or these like hours that they're going to work on any of the technology broken? Like what? He's pulling up the the actual What are we What are we agreeing to with this? I thought there was like 300 every three to three to four years because you know if you assume you're like your Bosey's aid rate which is around it's around 50 cents on the dollar. So that's what the average
089is what we actually get back So, um, one of the last reports that I had on our Bose aid was a three-year average was a 63.67 um, aid rate on that coaster. How many total? So I think the she just wants to know like she's curious. She's curious like is this 250 Chromebooks or is it 100 Chromebooks? Is it Oh. Oh, I got you. Okay. I thought we were trying to calculate how many it was paying for. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've got I've got the quote right here. I thought you were asking me how how much was the aid paying for Chromebooks and [laughter] Okay. 250 Chromebooks. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yep. At $354. Yeah. Yeah. They're $354. 250 if we were to pay. So it's the same rate if we just bought them outright,
090but it becomes aidable at a 60 almost 64% aid rate. Neric does uh goes in and Neric services. It's never just a flat each different category is a different aid rate and he just looked it up and it's 63 and change. So almost 64% aid rate that we get back on that and again each year and then it helps make your payment for the next year and then that helps us keep technology relevant without having to dish out $90,000 every every three years. Gotcha. So um and excuse me Francis I'm going to lean on you a little bit on this. What what would a going price be for a Chromebook? And do we know the the Chrome like how much memory you are doing apples to apples kind of thing. Actually, I have it right
091here. I pulled it up. So, it's they're they're Dell Chromebooks. Okay, hold on. And it is um 35489. 354.89 per Oh, yeah. I Yeah, I just said I had it right. So, it is quote name Dwayneburg total customer number quoted on expires sales rep phone email billing right but she's asking like what's their memory and things like that what type of Chromebooks are right right yeah what are the species Yeah, that's why that's why I just think it'd be really good to for us to know before we vote on this, you know, is this an apples to apples type one, right? No, I understand point's aid at 63% which is insane. Uh, we're getting back $212 each Chromebook. So, they're really only costing $135, right? So, and it says the Dell Chromebook 3120 features an
09211.6 in HD display, Intel N100 processor, 4 GB of, and I don't know what any of this means. I'm just reading. 4 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, 64 GB of eMMC storage, and runs on Chrome OS. 360 degree hinge for two in one versatility. So the Wow. So Francis, that's closest to the $160 one or the $500. That's closer to That's about the 350. I mean, I think it sounds like we're paying rack rate. Thank you very much. Yeah. No, it's a fine question and and I'm glad we walked through it. Um I It's one of those situations where it definitely looks like Boseies are saving us some money. They do. And again, we make the first payment and then the Bosey's aid comes back and helps and makes the second and the third payment. Keeps
093the cycle going. I understand. I know. Um, Avis has got question. I was just wondering, do they is this including like a warranty? Are they do they have warranties on them because I know they break a lot. That's what Joe fixes a lot. I I remember that. Yeah, I'm sure there is. Every technology you get gets a certain level of warranty. Okay. There have been times when he's had to send send them back, send one or two of them back, you know, because something happened that's defective. Yeah. Okay. All right. I I think two tends to be I don't I can't speak to these necessarily, but institutional purchases like this tend to have tend to be relatively repairable on site and tend to be able to get repair parts. I I know Joe has quite
094a few repair parts down there. Yeah, he's fixing screens all the time. So I I would assume that you know there'll be additional cost to repairing them but it won't be the same. Okay. Just a quick question. Maybe it's it's a new question. Maybe it's dumb question but postco during COVID actually school districts were given um not just extended warranties but there were I think it was federal money um towards fixing and repairing these things. Is there anything out there that might That's the stimulus funds that I mentioned earlier that where now they've said no more. Um if you haven't expensed them expensed the monies that um you no longer can but we did expense it by August 31st, right? Yeah, it was like August 31st before that give or take. Um there are things
095we can you can buy extended warranties, right? But unfortunately, Chromebooks tend to be disposable just like tablets, right? You know, you guys have little kids, right? How often they go through a tablet or break it? So, Joe does a great job um repairing what he can and um within the warranty of sending back when he can as well. Okay. I was just seeing if maybe we there was something else out there that Not that I'm aware of. I know there's grants out there to buy technology, but not to necessarily repair or warranty. Okay. Never able to repair. That's not fun. [laughter] Uh, all right. Any other questions? All in favor? I I. Anyone opposed? Anyone abstain? All right. And finally, uh, matter 903, be it resolved based on the recommendation of superintendent, the board of
096education approved the list of contracts between Dwayneburg Central School District and each party. In this case, it is city school district wear welfare group. These agreements shall not be binding on the parties until authorized and signed by each party's respective representatives. May I have a motion? We have a second. That was very quiet. Any questions or concerns? All right. All in favor? I Any opposed? Any extensions? All right. Matter 1001. Be it resolved. Based on the recommendation of the superintendent, the board of education approved the cse and CPSSE minutes from the meetings of February 25th, March 4th, 6th, 11th, 12th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th as attached. May I have a motion? Thank you. May I have a second? Excellent. Thank you. Any questions or concerns? I've always wondered why do we vote
097on these? We're not there. We're required by law. We're required by law. You know why we're required by law? Because in the attachments you see what services the committee has determined and there's financial, right? Well, it's financial. It cost the district money for some of these services may be in district or out of district placements. So there's that financial strength compiance. You know what the fun part is? You may choose to vote no. But you can also be charged with education on the [laughter] I remember that. I do remember. Thank you Francis for the Yeah. I mean it's just it's it's you know I don't know. I agree with you. I I this is whatever. Uh, all in favor? I I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Cool. We're on to other. This is just an info
098item or do we have to accept this? Accept. Okay, we have to accept this. Be resolved. Based on the recommendation of superintendent, the board of education accepts the donation of baseball hats in the amount of $540 for the B varsity baseball team from the Lancing Gardens. May I have a motion? A motion. Thank you. May I have a second? I'll second. Thanks, Ray. Any questions or concerns? Thank you. Yeah, I'd like to say thank you to Super generous. That's awesome. I've learned a fun fact. Did you know that baseball caps um do not get reused year to year? I would not. Hope not. [laughter] Humanities, you have reused helmets, football helmets. And those are those are disinfect. Those are plastic. I know. I was like I I just thought look at me grow and when
099you guys interviewed I said athletics was my blind spot. Look at me grow and learn. I'm like oh I never even thought about it that you can't reuse that. Let the minutes show how proud we are of Kim. [laughter] Uh all in favor? I. Any opposed? Any extensions? Cool. Um, don't think we need an executive session tonight. So, I am Oh, uh, one note, the next meeting will be on a Wednesday. It'll be April 23rd, uh, because we have to, all the school board meetings will be meeting on Wednesday because we have both on budget. That's a special day. So, same bat time but different bat day. Um, any other things? All right. May I have a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:07 p.m.? Thank you. May I have a second? Anyone? Okay. All
100in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Any abstensions? Fantastic. Thank you all. Thank you all for coming. Have a great night.