001Hello, is this working? Oh, it is. Hey, good evening, everybody. This is exciting. Look at we have a packed house tonight. This is like really exciting. A lot of people. Uh all right, we're going to call our meeting to order this evening at 6:33 p.m. Uh beginning with the Pledge of Allegiance. Really like seeing a bunch of students out there today. This is awesome, guys. Okay. [clears throat] Oh, I touched it. I touched the touchscreen, guys. I'm not not good for me. Okay. Um All right, we're going to start our meeting as we do each time um with recognizing students and employees and community members that have gone above and beyond um or have achieved um beyond what what they have to do. Um so, [clears throat] we want to acknowledge this evening um the
002boys of our city basketball team for moving forward in their sectionals, right? Is that am I saying the right is it sectionals? Okay. [laughter] They're now going to Now we're going to sectionals championship, so awesome. Very good. Super exciting. A congratulations, huge congratulations to our freshman Wyatt Rock who came in fourth, if I remember correctly. Is it fourth, Serena, or was it sixth in states? I don't I don't have that. No. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Oh, I see it down there. Oh, it's the whole thing is written out for me. I'm sorry, guys. All right, let me start again. Congratulations to the D C S boys varsity basketball team. This is a little bit more, you know, polished than what I was doing. And coach Simpson making it to section two classy boys basketball championship
003game for the third year in a row. Team made it to the finals by beating the number three seed Saratoga Catholic on Monday night, many thanks to a buzzer beater three-point shot by senior Jason Pro Pru? I don't know how to say his last name. Is that right? Okay, sorry, Jason. Jansen. Jansen. The team will now face B K W, the number one seed in the championship game this Sunday, March 9th, at 12:45 in Hudson Valley Community College gym. The boys have surpassed 20 wins the past three seasons along with three straight WAC championship appearances. Also, in Monday night's game, senior Jeffrey Mulhern also scored his 2,000th basketball point. He is the 11th member of section two boys basketball to reach this prestigious accomplishment. Congratulations, Jeffrey. Good luck Sunday afternoon. [clears throat] All right. Again,
004huge congratulations to freshman Wyatt Rock. I I I had that part right. On his appearance at the New York State wrestling tournament held past this past weekend at the MVP Arena. Wyatt advanced to the state tournament after becom- becoming the section two class D champion at 124 lb as well as the second section two division two champion. Wyatt went two to two and one on Friday at the state tournament, which meant he continued on to day two of the tournament on Saturday. With a loss in his first match on Saturday during the blood round, I don't know enough about wrestling to read this guys. Um, Wyatt's first New York State wrestling tournament appearance came to an end. With three more years left to compete for a spot on the New York State podium, we are
005confident that Wyatt will get there. Congratulations on a great tournament and an outstanding season to Wyatt. You have made us all proud to have you representing DCS. And [clears throat] finally, congratulations are in order for the Odyssey of the Mind teams who competed on Saturday, March 1st. One team did exceptionally well and will be going to states on Saturday, April 5th in Syracuse. So, congratulations and good luck to coach Andrew Hooth and students Gabe Denny, Carson Hooth, Clayton Eisberg, and Braden Ryvenburg. That's pretty cool. And Mr. Sport, do you have anything to add to that cuz you were there? Uh it was really great to see and I'm really happy for that that that division one team. Younger kids are going to do it. Uh I think what's really cool is we're in region seven
006which includes like Shen and Middleburg and all kinds of school districts and Duanesburg got four teams had almost most of the had more teams there than most of the larger schools. So, I really I think it's great their little school there was was up and competing and really doing very, very well. Thank you. So, congratulations to everyone. Our students [clears throat] are going to doing some pretty great things and I think we're going to hear about some more great things they're doing later on in the meeting. Uh all right. So, next item is board discussion of this agenda. Um any questions or open discussion of any agenda items that you might have to the board members. I will just mention that um Sarah Gwozdz is out of town for business which is why she's not
007here this evening. [clears throat] Um no questions or concerns? All right. Um I will start uh by asking for a motion to make a change to our agenda for the evening. Um a motion to add the oath It's the oath of office basically. The oath of office to Serena. This is her first uh board meeting with us and so we have to swear her in as our official district clerk before she uh can take that role on officially. So, may I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Avis. A second? I'll second. Oh, everyone wants to second. Everyone has seconded. I think it was Tony. [laughter] Um okay. Comments or questions about that? All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. So, we will add that. Um any other agenda changes? Okay. So,
008that's our next item then. Is the oath. Oh my. Okay. That's really fast. Okay. I have to click through this stuff. Hold on one second. Oh, are we going to do it after this then? Okay. [laughter] All right, we're going to do it now? Uh she put it as number four, but she So, we'll just do it now. Then it'll be done. Then I can move on to the next thing. All right, so I'm going to click on this. Do we have to stand up or can we just sit here? All right. So, you have to stand? Do I have to stand? Do I have to hold this? Hold on. Okay. Oh my gosh. And a special welcome to Serena again cuz we're super happy to have her. She's been [clears throat] very busy these
009first 2 weeks of her time with us. Oh my goodness. All right. Um our next item is public comment. I do have a list of folks here, but no one indicated that they wanted to speak. Uh but before I move on, is there anyone who did is in attendance that wanted to address the board publicly? Okay, great. We will move now to the Board of Education minutes. Um this is a resolution, right? The language for the resolution isn't in here. For the um Board of Education minutes, we're accepting the minutes from the last meeting, right? But there isn't a res- there's no resolution uh language in there, which is fine. I know it. [laughter] All right. Be it resolved that on the uh on the recommendation of the superintendent uh that the Board of Education
010accept the minutes for the February 11th uh 2025 regular meeting with budget work discussion. May I have a motion? I motion. Thank you, Francis. A second? I'll second. Thank you, Ray. Comments or questions? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? If you need me to slow down at any point, Serena, just let me know. Um I did. [clears throat] I remembered it. [laughter] I wanted it a lot of times. Okay. Uh okay, next we're going to have our presentations and reports, and we're going to start with STEM from Mr. Falco, I think. You're first. Is that okay? Or is less somebody else wanted to go first? Oh, all together. You're right. STEM, elementary school student council, and elementary school store advisor, Mr. [clears throat] Falco, and Miss Mrs. Rory, but I Oh, she's here.
011Yay. Okay. And she's here, too. And the students are here. Landon, Robert, Jayda, Grace, Emma, Mabel. Is that right? Welcome. Okay. All right. Well, welcome, everybody. They're like an on Hello. Oh. Dear Board of Education, good evening. I am Grace, and I'm the elementary school student council president. We would like to start by saying thank you to the Board of Education and Miss Ross for allowing us the opportunity to share some of what we have done in student council. Our goal is to help our school while also helping everyone in the community. We are writing on behalf of the student council, which represents the student body. We have a parliamentary procedure for each of our meetings that includes the minutes and my gavel, the pledge, business, and motions. One of our achievements from this year
012are the Legacy Project, which is where we collected donations from the community to send to the Legacy Park in Glenville for veterans and their families. This is a place where veterans can go for food, clothing, or just to help cope. Here is a plaque we received from them, which will we will be hanging up in the elementary school. Also, if you would like to see pictures, we have posted them on the Duanesburg Elementary School page. I now turn the mic over to Mabel. Hello, my name is Mabel and I am a student council member member. Another achievement we did was the claim to earn money for future project projects. Here we give every family every family member in our school a claim bag and a sticker. In return, they give us a a bag of
013redemption cans. Today, we have raised a few hundred dollars to help with future projects. We also did the see something, say something where we made posters for our campaign so somebody someone sees a problem, they'll be encouraged to tell an adult. Finally, four years straight the student council has run the school store which allows the student council's fourth and fifth graders to sell school to sell school school supplies to all of the students. Thank you. Now, I turn the mic over to El- Emma. Good evening. I am Emma and I'm here tonight to represent student council. One of our goals for the future that we are already planning and creating is a private space for Waynesburg Elementary students who are in need of anything. This in many ways will be like the Eagle Outlet in
014our high school. However, we want to take it to the next level. We will be collecting food, footwear, clothing, winter clothing, and toiletries. We are currently in the design phase and are working on a plan. Thank you for supporting our past events and we are looking forward to meeting with you to discuss our future events. The Waynesburg Elementary Student Council. I will now pass this over to my peers in STEM and our friend Landon. Dear Dear Board of Education, my name is Landon. I am a student council representative and a STEM member. We would also like to start by saying thank you to the Board of Education and Ms. Ross for allowing us the opportunity to share some of what we have done in STEM. As you may or may not know, STEM class refers
015to a class that focuses on science, technology, and engineering, and math. For several years we have we have worked on projects such as cleaning up oil spills in water, lift and propulsion with planes and rockets, lunar landings with AISS and rovers, made art and projects through upcycling, created prosthetic hands, and have even created devices to help individuals who need assistance with crutches and wheelchairs. This year we have done things differently. This year we started with an upcycling art project, but quickly changed direction to ask school stores school Transburg School purchased us a Teacher Geek Makerspace cart. This cart allows you to make almost anything mechanical. It allows us to both experiment and play while allowing us to revise and engineer. As you might not be aware, the STEM class is a class that fills up
016quickly every year with this year amounting at at almost 60 members. This year the students were broken down into three groups. Each group was broken down into small groups where children focused on Teacher Geek Makerspace cart, and we have been building our very own race car using stored energy and rubber bands. I now turn the mic to over to Robert. Uh my name is Robert. I am a former student council member and a current STEM member. This year we have been doing a lot of work with our Maker Cart. We have been building race cars with our partners in class. While we are constructing our cars, we are constantly testing the speed, accuracy, and distance. We are following the design process and we are modifying the cars as we get closer to making our final
017project. This project has been following the engineering component of STEM to build and test our cars. I now turn the mic back over to Grace. Although not STEM after school related project, wait. Although this is not a STEM after school related project, this year we have all been introduced to the Trout in the Classroom program. Although this is new for the elementary school, we have been caring for our fish and raising them in the classroom. In the classroom, we are monitoring the water temperature daily to make sure that the temperature is accurate, as well as feeding and caring for them. The goal is to continue to raise the fish for another month before we fill out a permit and application and decide where we are going to release the fish in the wild. We felt
018that this was an awesome opportunity that we wanted to share. Again, we would all like to thank you for this opportunity to present before everyone here tonight. Thank you very much. Am I correct in in guessing that these are fifth and sixth graders that just did that beautiful presentation for us? Is that right? And and one fourth grader. Well done, you guys. Can we give them another round of applause? That was awesome. Sounds like Mr. Falco is awful busy over there. At the elementary school. Um that was really great, guys. Thank you so very much for coming and to your parents for coming as well and for preparing and I think practicing. Um that was really, really nice. Uh next up How are you guys going to do, class of 2025? [laughter] This is a
019tough act to follow. Um Um [clears throat] Let's see. I I see Joey, Ella, and I think I see Janson. Yep, maybe not Mia. Yep. No [clears throat] worries. All right, so class of 2025, welcome. Is this okay? Okay. We have a slideshow, so if you are online on the agenda No, I'm I'm just going to There you go. Present. All right. So, at the beginning of the year we all got our senior shirts and we took our class picture in front of the stairs. And then here are officers. Janson who and Joey who have been on the news this morning if you watched the news at all for the basketball game last night. And Ella who also plays on our girls basketball team this year. And then So, this year our fundraisers were we
020did a a barbecue in the beginning of the year at open house um with Louise. So, it's a nice local organization supporting local. We really try to do that as much as possible. And then we did an Uncle Sam's for Christmas. And then year round we have a bottle drive, so if you ever just want to donate bottles, you can donate it to the class of 2025. And whatever we don't use, we'll leave it for next year's class. So, it just kind of continues cycling. Prom, that's our big thing. That's what we all are really looking forward to is prom and graduation. Prom is May 17th this year at the Tater Barn. Um walk-in will be at the high school. Time to be determined on that. And weather. If it's nice, we'll do it outside.
021If it's not nice, we'll do it inside the auditorium. All are welcome to that. It's optional. Kids can attend prom and not do the walk-in, or they can do both. And then the big big thing at the end of the year is graduation. It will be on June 26th at 4:00 p.m. We actually already have our stoles for our val and sal and for our president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. They came in 2 weeks ago. And we have ordered all their caps and gowns. That should be in in the next few weeks. We will hold on to them until we do the walk-through at the elementary school, where they'll get them that day. They'll do their little luncheon. And then they can take them and decorate their caps if they want to. And then
022graduate here in this auditorium on the 20 6th. And then our givebacks. So, the first one we did was the spaghetti dinner and Joey and Ella were both there. Uh we we volunteered our time at D-Vac for that. Our hope was to help Andrew out for Odyssey of the Minds. That was our hope when I um first made connection with uh Carrie, who sent me Andrew's uh contact information. We had about five kids said they're interested, but they were mostly on the basketball team. So, with basketball practice and um and the other kids work at the elementary school at the after school program. It didn't work out. Um you know, we're hoping after basketball, but now we've you know, learned that kind of over with. But, maybe we can help out maybe in a March
023or something. And then the D-Vac also uh Carrie reached out and asked us if we could help out again at the fish fry dinner because the community loves seeing the seniors there so much. And the seniors are very helpful. So we will do one or two of those days depending on how many workers we can get availability. I also then sent the information out to all the other advisors. So if they were looking for give backs or National Honor Society kids were looking for hours, I want to make sure they knew that there was opportunities available to them. And that's all we have. I heard it was a hotly debated topic where you're going to have the prom. So we settled on the Tater Barn, huh? Classic. Um how are you guys doing for fundraising?
024You feeling good about where you're at for prom and graduation? Yeah, I'm happy where the prom is and everything. I'm happy where the prom is and everything. Oh snap, I broke the mic. Great. Um yeah, we're finding as the classes come up though, the fundraising is getting a little harder. Um there's not as much involvement the older they get. And especially with like COVID for the few years, like they did take a hit. So they won't have a senior class trip this year. Um but they will have a really nice prom and a luncheon and a breakfast for graduation and things of that. All right, thank you so much. Thank you guys. Appreciate you guys coming in. Okay. Ooh, goodness. Next up uh we have Community Service Club with Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs. Turnure, and it
025looks like a repeat from Miss Emma Wright. [laughter] And Natalie. Yes? Hi, I'm Natalie. Um today I'm here with Emma and we're presenting for community service for fourth grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade for Duanesburg uh school district and this is by Erin Goodwin and I'm Mrs. Senior. And then So Our mission statement for this club is for students who would like to make a difference for people in the Duanesburg community as well as the capital region, New York State, and around the country through various fundraisers, projects, and activities. We urge students to use virtues such as kindness, respect, responsibility, and selflessness. Uh for the months of September, we had a uh a slip sent home to for students to join community service club and this year we had 34 students. Over the last few
026year Oh, yeah, over the last few years our numbers have been increasing. We welcome returning and new students to the club. Introducing advisors and review rules and procedures. We explain what to look forward to for the year and explain the commitment to help others. Um we have proceeded to create a grant and create work to the pe- for a buddy bench for the sixth grade. Students wrote all of the grants. We did a food drive in November 2024 and postponed due to a student council fundraiser. Um Oh. So, we did the Turkey Trot in November, which uh if for younger kids and for preschool to sixth grade, you could uh donate a dollar or a canned food for the uh food bank of New York. Northeast New York uh for the helping support our backpack
027program pro- program and we raised $142. And this goes along with the running club even though they hadn't started until later this year. Um but the PE, music, and the art teachers were spearheading this because obviously we're still in the classrooms during the day. So, they were instrumental to make sure that this Turkey Trot keeps going. Holiday Helping Hands. Gifts go to David Preston, social worker, and Brandy Fall, Duanesburg Ladies Auxiliary to help families have a plentiful holiday season. Uh So, for Helping Hands, which we did Monday, December 4th on a Tuesday, uh or to Tuesday, December 19th, which uh you could donate uh Toys the Toys for Tots program. Oh. Oh. Um so, we donated art supplies, crafts, books, gift cards, warm weather or or accessories, like hats, gloves, um and a couple other
028stuff. We did toys, LEGOs, dolls, puzzles, and diapers. So, what used to happen is we used to do the Toys for Tots program sponsored by the Marine Corps. All those gifts would go into Schenectady County, Albany County, but they wouldn't stay in Duanesburg. So, we decided to change it up and make our own program, so we knew that every donation stayed in our community. This year, we had a special treat to support a Duanesburg Middle School student who had his wish granted this year. Reed Benson, a seventh-grade student at our school, received his wish this past month. He visited all the Disneyland parks. During the Make-A-Wish, we had participants who donated. We were able to raise $333.50 for the Make-A-Wish of Northeastern New York. Anyone recognize who the Grinch is? Uh in the month of
029January, we did we donated we did like a sock drive, which we donated gloves, uh and mittens, hats, and scarves to uh Street Soldiers of Schenectady to help the homeless and the poor. In March, we are going to kick off our annual read for the Ronald McDonald House. This year, we have a goal of raising $2,500 for the Ronald McDonald House. Last year, we raised over $2,000. If you remember, Mrs. Cerniglia and I were brave enough to do the challenge and they were able to put pies in our faces last year. We don't know what's happening. We're not quite sure what the challenge is this year, but it's not going to be a pie. Uh thank you for letting us be here and presenting our slideshow. If there's any further questions, sir. Sounds like you
030all are doing a lot of good work in our community and in the capital region. That's pretty awesome. Thank you ladies for coming in and doing that presentation. Anybody else have anything they wanted to say? Um I think we forgot to mention that the Duanesburg Education Foundation did approve the Little Free Library money. So, they will be purchasing the Little Free Library and that will be located inside of the Duanesburg Elementary playground. When it finally thaws at some point. Um this is for Environmental Club. Yeah. Oh, yes. Let me just announce Mrs. Goodwin is also the Environmental Club advisor. So, we're going to shift gears and talk about that now. So, this is for you. We've got to get Grace up. Okay. We have girls that wear multiple hats just like just like Mr. Falcone
031and I. We wear multiple hats. All right. So, go ahead. Uh so, Environmental Club has third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, uh Duanesburg students. Now, this club was actually created by former fourth grade students of mine during recess. They decided that one indoor winter recess they wanted to They knew that we had community service club. They were part of that club, but they wanted to do something for environmental club. So, Lila French and Annelise Peterson are very involved as well. They're like these upcoming girls. Unfortunately, they couldn't be here even though they're student advisors for my club. They actually run the club, but they are super involved in everything and they're at dance and they have a competition coming up this weekend, so they couldn't be here. Um so, they started this 3
032years ago, this process. Our mission statement for this club is for students who would like to make a difference for the environment. We will learn how to help the Earth by researching best practices. We will also do crafts using the reduce, reuse, and recycle concept. Our goal is to clean up our school community in town of Duanesburg. The projects we did was the meet the Cornell We met with Cornell Cooperative Extension represented to discuss recycling program in Schenectady County. We did the toys for the Animal Protective Foundation made out of recycled materials. Researching environmental issues to create posters and a digital newsletter. Various crafts using recycled materials for holidays ornaments. So, future projects ideas working with Mrs. Mr. McKeeve Oh, Mr. McKeeve and the Schenectady River Society or Schoharie Schoharie River Center uh more recycling
033uh composing composing uh in cafeterias with Cornell Cornell Cooperative Extension um city um city or community garden start start recycling paper again plastic recycling project to get a free community beach bench neighbors cleanup or neighbor We're just a little nervous. First speaking it it's the first speaking engagement. All right. So, these are some big projects that we're looking into. Um science department um brought up the Schoharie River Center with Mr. McKeeve. He actually came into one of our staff meetings where we got the idea. So, we're trying to connect with him and have him come in for one of our meetings. Um Cornell Cooperative Extension representative um had some really good ideas for the lunchroom audit um to reduce the amount of waste that we use. Um we'd like to create a community garden over
034the years. Um paper recycling kind of has gone by the wayside lately. We'd like to get that back up and running again. Um Oh my goodness. Um someone in the central office Michelle Huntley, thank you. It came to my mind. Um she told me about this Trex program where we can get a free community bench if we recycle plastic so it's a win-win. And um maybe doing some give back program and doing some neighborhood cleanups like, you know, the adopt a highway type of program. So, these are the things that we have um in our brains that they have decided that they would like to do in the Okay? Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you, ladies. Thank you so much. All right, ladies. Great job. You ladies did a great job. Natalie, that was
035your first time. That was awesome. And I'm glad that I made so many mistakes at the beginning of the meeting so that you made fewer mistakes than me. [laughter] I will continue to make mistakes cuz that's what happens. All right. Uh last but oh, sorry. I actually would like to I'm actually going to challenge to the superintendent and assistant superintendent. With the sixth grade moving up to the high school, these clubs are going to be losing potentially a bunch of their people. Is there any way that we can look at possibly engaging them more at the high school with either similar clubs or making it so they can still participate? Microphones. That is a great question, Francis. So, um as we start teasing out um the nuances of the middle school model. Um I I
036definitely put it down. Um we're right now we're gathering internal feedback from stakeholders and then on March 24th, we have the community forum. Um but we'll put that on our radar. Like, what does that look like? Is it an extension? Is it um all-inclusive? Is it, you know, um I don't see why any of the clubs wouldn't extend. Um you know, obviously the elementary teachers are doing a great job keeping kids involved as young as fourth graders. So, um I'll make sure that is on our radar. So, once we get gather feedback both internally and externally, we're going to do um like a Q&A on the website and we'll make sure that's part of the Q&A. So, I think someone had something over there. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, there's enough. And there's also there's there's enough
037buses running back and forth between the schools in the afternoon that we could figure this transportation thing out pretty easily. Definitely make it work. Thank you, Mrs. Goodwin. Thank you, Mrs. Sernear, and ladies that were help I think Grace is the only one left, but thank you. [laughter] Awesome. Well done. Excellent speaking. Um last but not least, we have the student council um with Mrs. Downs, and then Haley, Mora, and Brooke. And Jen, I didn't know you were there. You were not on my list, Jen, but I see you. [laughter] Well, hi. My name is Haley Rose, and I'm one of the co-presidents of student council. One of the main things we do is pep rallies. We have three a year. We have one in the fall for like homecoming and fall sports, one in
038the winter right before Christmas break Christmas break for the winter sports, and then we have one in the spring for spring sports, and we plan all the activities and everything, and it's just a really great thing to get the entire school involved cuz we have 7 through 12 all there. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. And then we also make locker signs for a lot of the clubs and sports, and that goes through a modified all the way to varsity. So, that's just like it's nice cuz you see them along the hallway, and it's a nice like sense of school spirit. Hi, my name is Paige Krab. I'm the secretary. I've been the secretary since eighth grade. So, you know, have to give props to me right there. So, spirit week aligns with our pep
039rallies, you know, the week leading up like Monday through Friday, spirit week, Friday pep rally right before like a holiday. But, we do it so it aligns with our school sports, um, between the fall, winter, and spring seasons. So, um, we pick, um, what days they are. So, we have five, um, every day's a theme. Um, winter we do like um, white out, like stuff that really like correlates to like the theme. Like if like if it's fall, we center around like homecoming, like really school spirit. Um, winter winter [laughter] white, cold, snow. Um, uh, like uh, then spring, we'll be planning that soon, too. Um, probably do some festive colors. I'm hoping for some pastels. Personally. Um, so, we try This I Personally, this spirit week is a great way to really bring together
040like seventh through 12th graders. Um, it's a great way to also bring together just the grades. Um, some will do like a color day where each grade has a specific color, and that like whoever Whatever grade participated the most will like win a prize. Like we We love to see school spirit. Um, this is Yeah. Um, faculty also gets involved which we love. Sometimes they even give us ideas for spirit week which we love to see. Um I'm pretty sure that's it regarding spirit week. Um Great way to bring the school together if I do say so myself. [laughter] Okay, hi. I'm Jennifer Patino and I am the student council treasurer. So one of our main difference this year is that instead of doing a semi-formal in November, we did a homecoming dance and it
041lined up to like other homecomings that you see at bigger schools. For example, like well, we didn't have a football game but like big areas like that leading up to a spirit week. So that was a big change this year. We did it in the gym and it did save us a lot of money which was really nice but I do think that it was also good to brand it as a homecoming because when people hear semi-formal they're like, "Uh, you know what I mean? Like I don't really want to go." But when they hear homecoming they're like, "Oh, I've seen this everywhere like other schools do it and I think it was a really good opportunity for all the high schoolers to get together for that. And the second one that we did was
042the snowball dance for the middle schoolers and they had a lot of fun. I feel like the middle schoolers are always the ones that are more like into a lot of things rather than the high schoolers but I do think that that will also change in these upcoming years because for example, when I was in middle school like we didn't have these activities such as like the pep rallies but now that like the middle schoolers are integrated with that at such a young age like seventh graders are already with dances and pep rallies that once they get to to be upperclassmen like freshmen and sophomores like they'll really bring out the school spirit, really participate in spirit weeks. So even though I won't be here for that, I'm really excited and I mean, I won't
043be able to see it but like it'll be cool. And yeah, they had a lot of fun, a lot of requests, and there's me and Haley we DJed and it was a lot of fun. And yeah, that's all for the snowball dance. Thank you. All right, I'm Brooke. I'm another co-president of the student council. I did want to take a moment just to mention that we kind of do things a little unconventionally. We have three co-presidents. So, our other co-president is Mora O'Donnell and she couldn't be here today cuz she had physical therapy, but she's a really great active member of the student council and I I think she deserves a shout-out, so. Moving on. So, for our our give-backs, uh one of our goals this year was to try to make every single person
044in the school and in the community feel more connected to the student council. So, we did Valentine's Day cards for the entire middle school and high school. Um the cards were made by Mr. Chanda's printmaking class and then it was definitely a labor of love. We had some great student council members working away, writing everyone's names and individual messages until our hands were nearly about to fall off. So, it was a lot of work, but it definitely paid off. Um and we also did cards to senior citizens within the community for Christmas, which was a great experience and we actually had one of the senior citizens email us and um just tell us how grateful they were for that and how that really made their holiday season. So, that definitely makes it worth it for
045us. And we definitely want to continue to do that in the future and make it a tradition. Um and then for this uh Easter season, we're thinking about doing something similar and again having Mr. Chanda's printmaking class make these cards so that it can be a little bit touch of personality. Um and also the teacher appreciation week, so. There we go. Thank you guys for your time, but yeah. Anybody have any questions for student council? I just wanted to comment that the the the cards at the holidays were really really great and I really appreciate I can tell you that our our church family was really appreciative that you reached out because that allowed us to connect you with some folks that otherwise might not have had that little bit of joy. So, thank you
046for that. That was a great idea and it's really making a difference. I actually um it makes my heart very happy to hear the vision of this group of fine individuals. You know, being an educator for 25 plus years and oh, but um uh more specifically, you know, as my 6 years as superintendent and when I would meet with students and working in five districts, I always asked the question over and over again and for the first time in my 20-something years, a group of students have answered this question. So, when I meet with students as students throughout the last two decades become disengaged with their school community, I always ask them, what is going to be your legacy? What is going to be your imprint? So, for you really focusing on 7th and 8th
047grade and you said it, I may not I won't be here cuz you're going to graduate, but knowing that you're forward thinking and knowing that identifying the value of feeling connected to your school community and your your alum, it really does make my heart super happy because for the again, for the first time in a in a very long time, you nailed it. You nailed that response. So, thank you for thinking that. All right. Thank you. Oh. I just want to say um I definitely appreciate the fact that the student body seems to be very um cohesive in this community and it's an honor to um sit and listen to your presentation. And I good luck to you in the future. And we're going to miss you when you graduate. Thank you, guys. Thank you
048so much. Okay. Now we have to go on to the stuff that's not quite as exciting, but important nonetheless. Um okay, so our standing committee's um policy committee met? Yes? Yes. Okay, so Francis, take it away. So, the policy committee met last week. Um and we have a couple uh recommended actions that are up for vote tonight. Uh they're all sort of for first reads and resolutions, so they're all relatively straightforward. Uh the first thing we're going to do is we had a policy 3281, which explicitly allowed the Boy Scouts ac- and other patriotic groups access to building. That's duplicated in another policy, so for now we're retiring the the special policy. Uh and we've made sure that it exists in 8130. So, nothing is changing. It's just simplifying the the policies. Um 2210, we're
049re-clarifying what the expected uh committees of the board are. Uh focusing it down on the group the committees that actually exist now. Uh and that we need think we need moving forward. Of course, if things change, we can make changes. Um 3311 is a recommended policy from the state as far as if there is a It it changes the rules around uh foiling, uh requesting access as a as a member of the public for an employee's discipline records. Um it just sets up some boundaries and some rules around that. And let you know who's going to have to be notified. And uh the one thing we are that is up for first read uh and comment is our new advanced coursework policy. Um we're hoping to get that probably approved at the next meeting. The
050goal there is to um clarify and make sure everyone involved knows from the parents to the students to the teachers what's expected for children to advance to accept advanced coursework here in Doylestown Central School District. Are there any questions on the policies that are up for tonight? Well, I'll do that after the motion. That's fine. I just figured I could do this as part of the report, save time. Well, we're going to do one one motion for all of them, I assume, so. to do one motion for one through five and then I'll have the a separate one to have comment for the first read. Yeah. Well, that's the one. Okay. All right. So, uh for our recommended action, uh may I have a motion to uh Can I do it? Do I Should I
051do two? The one for the retiring and the one for the Yeah. consent agenda because it's this is Yeah. You don't have to separate it. I don't have to separate it into retiring and No. Okay. Okay. Um so, a motion to approve Mhm. item 7.01 through 7.05. May I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Ray. A second? I'll second. Thank you, Alyssa. Comments or questions on these policies, the retirement of the first two and then the uh well It's just an update, right? It's just an update, right? It's just an update, right? 2210 is is is weird that it's being retired and then re instantiated, but it's whatever. Okay. Uh yeah, 8130 doesn't change. It The only thing we added was um language around pregnant students. Um just sort of it it to match
052along with supported by federal law is as far as lactation spaces and stuff. Any questions? Okay, all in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Any abstentions? And then item 7.06, um this is this is just first read, so it's not a resolution for this one. So, um we'll just yeah, we'll just take that. Oh, oh, now it's fixed. Oh, it just didn't update. I'm sorry, it was on the wrong one. All right, so um this policy Francis, you just mentioned about advanced coursework. Um any comments or questions as we go through this first read, and then um we'll do a second read and and vote on it next time, presumably. I am thrilled. Yes. I will say that. Um I I as a parent, I really appreciate um the work of the policy committee and and
053our administration to delineate all of this and make sure that everybody knows what we're doing, why we're doing it, when we're doing it, how we're doing it. Um I think it's really important, and it will eliminate a lot of confusion. Point A still says eighth grade students on the policy. Oh, so we have to change that? Well, yeah. as as part of the read. Oh, right. We're reading and reviewing. Right. It says what? It says eighth grade, but it should Accelerated coursework for eighth grade. It probably should say fourth students. Fourth students. It doesn't Okay, so I got to fix that. Yep. Okay. Yep, you got it. Any other comments or questions for now? Obviously, if you have any or you think any of any between now and the next time, you can um let
054Francis and Serena know. And if the committee has any opinions, we'd have to hear those, too. Absolutely. Okay. Next item up is our superintendent's report. Okay, so a reminder, and we will make sure where send it out Parent uh website, social media. The March 18th meeting is being moved to the elementary building for play practice, but it's going to give an opportunity for the board and our community to see you all the great things going on. Um in the cafeteria, Mrs. Conover, is that where you're doing it? Okay, in the cafeteria. Um so March 18th, board meeting will be there. I'd like to start a tradition once a year that the board has a meeting over there cuz we love our elementary uh students and building just as much as we do the the students
055that walk the halls here. Yeah. Um just a an update. Um I know we talked about the um one of the aspects of the middle school model is and knowing that the challenges of um anti-bullying. And we've discussed a lot that any anti-bullying campaign has to come from the students. It has to be driven by the students. Adults telling kids to do X, Y, and Z is not effective. The kids have got to want to change their own culture. So one of the pieces that was very effective, because I was a middle school educator for 15 years, um was called the Boomerang Project, and it's uh on the middle school level, it's called WEB, Where Everyone Belongs. And for the folks who aren't familiar with it, it's a a middle school orientation and transition program
056that welcomes our sixth graders and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their middle school. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, the program trains mentors from the eighth grade class to be WEB leaders. As positive role models, WEB leaders are mentors and student leaders who guide these sixth graders to discover what it takes to be successful in this transition. Um more and more studies show that if students have a positive experience the first year in middle school, their chances for success in increases dramatically. And this WEB provides a structure to receive support and guidance from eighth graders who have been through these challenges. And what happens is that the timeline is um in August, we train the eighth grade web leaders. And there's lessons they do every month. Fun,
057interactive lessons um with the sixth graders. So, I'm happy to announce that um Mr. Rivenburg and I kind of looked through our title funds and we had rollover title two funds, which is meant for professional development. And we're going to be sending two of our staff members. Um they're going to go to Pennsylvania April 7th through the 9th. So, very excited for that. Uh Remind Oh, and there is a high school, it's called Link Crew. So, let's get a few years under our belt with with the with the web and see how it goes and then um explore pulling that up into the high school, transitioning ninth graders to high school. Um drama production is coming up very quickly, Adams Family. Um very excited uh for that to happen. That's coming up in two weeks.
058Um very excited for our elementary students. I'm trying to figure out my schedule tomorrow. They they take their annual trip to the concourse to perform. Um so, if I can try and figure that out, I'd like to be able to go down there. You know, just zip down to the capital. Um last but not least, I just returned this afternoon from the Winter Institute, the Niskayuna Winter Institute. That was the theme of expanding the horizons, the promise of public education. Lot of workshops on AI and safety and connections with your SRO. Um the commissioner spoke today. Um lots of chatter about um upcoming mandates with cell phone policy for one and the portrait of graduate. So, it was a busy three days. Um but, as always, I appreciate the board supporting me attending these conferences.
059Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Uh next up we have assistant superintendent of management services report, Mr. Ivan. All right. Can you hear me? Okay. We're good? All right. Uh so, just a budget update for all of you tonight. Um still kind of early in the budget stages just because there's so many things that are up in the air right now. A lot of things going on. Uh you know, first only the first run of the the state aid had come out in January. Um still waiting to hear things from from the state on what the status is of uh you know, where where we're going to land. Uh so, just some updates for you tonight. Just basically no updates on the state level. Uh going to show you what uh revenues look like right now.
060Um and uh kind of break down into the uh sections of the budget into the operations and maintenance, uh employee benefits, debt service, and then an update for the tax cap. Uh so, this is the slide you've seen before. Just an update again. Um we're projecting a uh an overall about 4.95% increase on uh state aid overall. This is different than what state actually shows on their on their website, and the reason for that is that uh I'm already projecting the building aid that's going to come with the capital project. So, our this has to do with uh our filings on our paperwork. So, eventually those things will show up on the portal, but it's it's a it's an estimate right now. We also use our fiscal advisors to to assist with our calculation. Uh
061so this is a a look at the the revenue budget where we are right now. Um I am showing that we we do have a gap. Uh so current projections right now are using the fund balance and reserves that we used in the current year budget. Um and then uh as we move forward through uh through the month of March, uh there's going to be a lot of work to try and trim that gap down. Uh right now we're looking at about uh 550,000 but um that could all go up or down or whatever depending on uh where all the balls land when they come down. Uh so a lot of things uh like uh insurances, contracts, etc. um all need to be settled. Um and then uh we're also hope hopefully, you know, looking
062at maybe an increase in state aid. Uh if you remember back in January when I reported about the uh the state's status, they were actually in good good shape. Um and they actually had some some funds just kind of sitting around. So uh hoping that they recognize that and uh will help to to offset some of these uh these gaps that uh I'm sure that we're not the only district that's going to be faced with this kind of a a challenge this year. Um Yeah, sure. Cuz it's easier to ask while the slide is up than for me to try to remember later. Um the fund balance appropriation, is that this year that we've already done or is this projected what we might that we might use that percentage to fill in for next year?
063To fund the the revenue portion of the budget, I've I've used the amount of fund balance, the exact dollar amount that we used for this current year for 24-25. Doing it again. Yeah, doing it again. Just that just to balance that out. So, um So, in in perspective, the the gap is much bigger than That's what That was my question. So, really we're we're covering a a much larger gap, but we're doing that with some substance from our fund balance potentially. Um okay. Yep. So, um I'm not completely nervous yet. Maybe just a little bit. Ha. Not dooming gloom just yet. No, I'm not going to give you the dooming gloom cuz This is not completely nervous, Jeff? No. [laughter] Ha. Just cool as a cucumber, Jeff. Just a little bit. So, we're going to
064be talking about that more obviously at the next meeting. Um and and hopefully maybe things will land in a little bit better space, but um going to be keeping my eye on that and got a lot of work ahead to do. So. Uh just uh you've seen this before, too. Just a dive into uh the different sections of uh how we present the budget. And uh first off just giving about um So, the operations and maintenance uh looking at about somewhere between 5 and 9% this year. Uh and that all depends also on energy costs. So, if you remember last year uh we got this notice that starting effective May of 2024 uh the electric bills were significantly increasing. So, um again, you know, we're being told that electric is going to continue to rise
065and rise and rise. And I'm sure you will see that in your bill. Uh and then obviously the materials that uh go into maintaining the building, uh contractual things that go into maintaining the building, uh inspections and repairs also continue to uh to rise. So, um this category uh could go up or down. It at a 5% increase uh based on what we've seen over the years, uh that would that would actually be pretty low compared to uh if you look in an at at an inflation. So, uh trying to do what we can to uh to settle some of these uh some of these costs down. Um we've also uh been looking at uh competitive uh costs with like we just started with Ed Data this year. Uh they actually have some supplies that
066we can start to use. Um we just found uh paper for $3 less a box. Um so, it's one of those things that we're going to continue to try and look to try and drive those costs down a little bit more. Even even off of uh So, the state contract was actually $3 more than uh than what we had found in a in a cooperative purchasing network. So, uh the cooperative purchasing networks are actually pretty good. Um employee benefits, uh so these these are the things that we really have um not too much control over. Uh health insurance is that really large piece of the health insurance benefit or you have the employee benefits uh portion of the budget. So, um hoping that within the next couple weeks I'll have that number kind of nailed
067down. Uh at the prior meeting I had reported we were um somewhere between I think it was 6 and 9%. Uh it's looking right now like it could be closer to the lower end of that. So, um my fingers are crossed and I'm knocking on wood that hopefully that's where we end up landing and we settle on that. Um and then some of these other categories, uh dental insurance, dental uh uh group just met today. Um we have a self-insurance or self-in- self-insured uh dental group with uh for our district. We've done very well um and I'm happy to report that we're going out with a 0% increase on our dental insurance again this year. So, or for next year. So, some good news is coming out of this budget so far. Um So, I'm
068going to hope for for more of it as we move forward. Um employee benefits looking somewhere between 6 and 8% again. One of the largest things one of the largest factors is going to be the health insurance. Our retirement system is coming in with a with a close second place there. Um so, once those get calculated, I will have more of a solid number for you on that. A quick quick question. Sure. On the retirement system, due to teacher attrition, do you project that would go down as far as expenditure? Uh Like in the next year or two, based on the projections of student body uh versus the amount of teachers that we have. You're you're likely not to see an immediate impact just because the following year we pay the bill for it for
069for the previous Yeah, so trying to drive, you know, retirement costs down um little bit. I I don't tend to see that you know, savings even the year that we had several retirements it didn't really seem to go down much. Um little bit, but yeah. Just trying to look for the light at the end of the tunnel sort of thing. Yeah. [laughter] I like your way of thinking. So, uh retirement systems, you know, both uh ERS and TRS are both included in the employee benefits. So, we have both teachers who are fall who fall under TRS and then employee retirement system. So, all of our educational support staff, everyone else in the district, bus drivers, teachers' aids, uh custodians, um I'll probably forget a ton of people, so I'm going to stop right there. So,
070we just appreciate everybody in the district and uh So, debt service, this is a this is a um a part of the budget that's actually going up a little bit uh more than than usual, but that is because So, we are also uh projecting our building aid to go up with that. So, we're going to see a significant increase on building aid um simultaneously with the the debt. Um so, this is to take on the new uh the new bands for the Centennial capital project. And then um transportation debt is going up uh is, you know, continues to slightly increase, um but that's that comes with the the expense of some of the some of the increases that we've seen with our purchasing buses over the years. Uh So, tax cap update. So, uh the
071last time I reported that it was a 3.45% um uh tax cap. Uh I've recalculated that, uh spent a lot of time with it, and uh came to a 3.2% uh tax cap. Um mainly just because of uh some transportation calculations that I had in there. And um so, I uh I've added the 3.2 and submitted that to the uh state comptroller's office, submitted um before the March 1st deadline to say that we have a tax cap of 3.2%. Um And then, this is if you are um wondering how I got to that uh wonderful number 3.2, this is my calculation that I have shared here as well. Um so, it's a lot of fun. It's a big calculation. Got my spreadsheets out. Uh so, an an allowable taxable allowable dollar increase is 287,125 on
072that 3.2% increase. And I'm sorry. Excel always like just rounds on me. I'm sorry. So, Jeff, that that could go towards that gap, but we're still quite a few hundred thousand dollars away from balance, right? Okay, just just throwing it out there. So, the 3.2 is actually calculated in that revenue budget just because we knew we were going to need it. So, I've updated this slide as well. This is to show the what the increase would be on that 3.2% increase. So, um we do have to remember that Duanesburg has notoriously left a lot of money on the table and uh because of that fiscal cliff that we've talked about for years, now we're going to have to make sure that we take care of that. So, going out with a lower tax number than
073what we are allowed is is a very risky thing after um we're going to start paying for that inflation thing that happened a few years ago. And then we are looking at um our situation with our school buses. So, we reached out and got a quote for a 42 or a 42 passenger bus, which is we have one of those on our fleet. They use it a lot for for sports trips and for smaller field trips. And it's it comes in handy because it's also easier to navigate through at the CTE centers as well. Um so, we did discuss getting another one on the fleet instead of a larger bus. Uh but then the cost of the 42 passenger came in a lot higher than what we had expected. So, um we're looking at what
074our options are for buying some of our last gas powered buses before we are forced to buy the electric buses. So, um this is a conversation that I'm having with transportation and uh looking at the cost uh versus, you know, what do we do with um our 65 passengers if, you know, if we have no more gas powered. So, um that's still a conversation that we're having uh within transportation. I'm waiting for another quote to come back for a 65 passenger right now um just to compare to that 42 cuz it kind of caught us by surprise. Um and then I'm also looking at uh some some of our options with the 30 passenger buses. Uh so, trying to uh cost that out. Uh they're 30 passenger buses that you can actually rig them up
075with the harnesses and safety harnesses for the UPK kids. So, instead of installing those safety seats in the buses and letting them sit in the yard when when they're not picking up UPK kids, um I if if it's if it's an option, we'd love to be able to uh to use those buses for more than just picking up UPK kids during the course of the day. And then perhaps we can look at reducing the fleet by maybe a bus or two. Um or, you know, so when we go to replace or when we go to say that we're done with a bus, then we maybe are not replacing it with um such a bus like that. Um so, those are still some conversations that we're having uh with transportation and uh you know, that should
076be more nailed down, too, uh in the near future. So, this is just an example, this uh proposition that I put up here um just based on our trend that, you know, we could potentially be up to about 430, but um this all depends on some of these options and these conversations that we're having uh for what is best fit for Duanesburg. And then just a reminder the budget vote May 20th, Tuesday May 20th and uh the so so far the two propositions right now are definitely going to be the obviously the budget vote and then to purchase school buses. And that is that's it. So just a reminder of the schedule the next time we talk will be March 18th. And then um there's any questions? I'm looking for it man. I'm looking for
077it. Uh believe elementary school the library the lobby in the elementary school. Yep. Any other questions? Thank you Jeff. I always appreciate the clarity with which you present all of that so it's a lot to boil down to less than 30 sides as well. Thank you. [laughter] Appreciate [snorts] you. Brilliant. Thank you. [laughter] On behalf of us all we appreciate the 15 not 30 slides. All right, moving on to our financial items. Be it resolved based on the recommendation of the superintendent the board of education approve financial items 10.01 through 10.03. I don't need to read them right because they're all in the in the agenda. May I have a motion? You got it. Motion. Thank you Francis the second. I'll second. Tony got it this time Ray. [laughter] Any comments or questions about the
078financial items? All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Uh next item is personnel. Instructional personnel. Be it resolved based on the recommendation of the superintendent, the Board of Education accepts the resignation for retirement of Christine McCain, fifth grade teacher, effective June 30th, 2025. May I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Ray. A second? I'll second. Thank you, Avis. Comments or questions? Uh just a thank you to Mrs. McCain. We'll say it again. When we get closer to the end of the year, um but uh she's a she's a pretty remarkable woman and a really excellent math teacher. I [laughter] so um I will certainly miss seeing her smiling face in the halls. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Ooh, there's lots of these. Um next item non-instructional
079personnel. Uh be it resolved based on the recommendation of the superintendent that the Board of Education accepts the non-instructional personnel items 12.01 through 12.07. May I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Alyssa. A second? I'll Go ahead. Tony, again. [laughter] Um comments or questions on any of these? Welcome to our new student worker. [laughter] Very helpful. Um I like student workers. It's nice to have you guys here. Absolutely. Any questions or comments? Okay. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Next item uh approval of CSE and CPSE minutes. Be it resolved based on the recommendation of the superintendent that the Board of Education approve the CSE and CPSE minutes from the meetings on January 30th, February 4th, 7th, and 14th, 2025. May I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Francis.
080A second? I'll second. Thank you, Avis. Um any comments or questions? Just the constant comment that how impressed I am with all these meetings. All these meetings. This is This is not a very long list of meetings. No. It's quite a bit of paper. It is a lot of paper. Um all in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Okay. You should probably read I'm going to read this just because it's kind of important. All right. Um next item uh uh other? Resolution for grade reconfiguration. Be it resolved based on the based on the based on the recommendation of the superintendent the Board of Education approve the following. Whereas the Board of Education of the Duanesburg Central School District is committed to providing a high quality educational experience that meets the diverse needs of
081all students. Whereas the reconfiguration of the elementary school to include grades K through 5 and the middle school to include grades 6 through 8 will create compre- a comprehensive middle school which can provide a more enriching, supportive, and developmentally appropriate educational experience for students setting them up for greater success in their future academic endeavors. Whereas the reconfiguration plan has been reviewed and endorsed by the Superintendent of Schools and the district's administrative team. Whereas the Board of Education has reviewed the proposed plan and has determined that it is in the best interest of the students and the school community. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby authorizes the reconfiguration of the middle school to provide that grades 6 through 8 shall be as outlined in the proposed plan. Be it further
082resolved that the Superintendent of Schools and the district's administrative administrative team are directed to implement the reconfiguration plan and to take all necessary actions to ensure a smooth transition for students, staff, and families. May I have a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Alyssa. A second? Also I'll second. All right. Right. Um comments or questions? I have a question. Go ahead. Um there's will there be an orientation and walk through for the upcoming sixth graders for next year? So, that's part of the Boomerang project. Okay, got it. I with the where they they actually bring them in um at the end of the summer so that it what eighth graders get their training and then they have the building to themselves and then they work with them then. So, yeah. Okay, so it's kind of like
083integration. Yes. Yep, it's a transition program and it you you are it's a great question because um as our two teachers get trained um and they learn and then they train the eighth graders, the eighth graders will actually they will drive the the orientation or you know, activities in the building. Have you gotten an idea of how the fifth graders this year are feeling about next year? I actually yeah, see. Yeah. Um I'm told and I know Mrs. Conover and and the teachers like the kids are really really excited. Okay, good. Yeah. Good. That's it. Any other questions? I'll just comment that this has had a lot of start and stop over the last several years. Um so, I'm I'm pleased to see it moving forward um and and as a developmental professional um I
084think this is the the best way to go for our kids um to to really have a true middle school model. So, I'm I'm happy about that. Um and I you know, and as I mentioned being a teacher of Solvay Middle School grades, I um such a firm believer in the middle in a middle school model and making it beyond just geography. Right? We we want to think about every aspect of for this to be successful. And interestingly, our instructional coach uh through Capital Region BOCES, who I've worked with for years, so when I came to Duanesburg, she came with us. Um she was a middle school principal for years. So, we've got a lot of experts at the table leading this change and with the kids being supportive and the teachers, I think um
085we're off to a good start. All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay. Uh next, we just have two informational items. One is um that there is an uh just a clarification on our calendar based on the current June Regents information, June 10th uh the secondary building, 7th through 12th, regular classes will be canceled for students who are not taking a Regents exam that day, and classes will resume the next day on the 11th. Uh and then again, just a note that our next Board of Education meeting on March 18th in 2 weeks, uh will be at the elementary school in the cafeteria. And I think that is all we have for our open meeting. We do need to have a brief executive session. So, I will ask for a motion
086to enter executive session, but before I do that, we will not be returning to open session. So, um have a lovely evening, everyone. Um may I have a motion to enter executive session? Thank you, Francis. A motion at 7:52. Um may I have a second? Thank you, Tony. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. It I don't remember what category Discussing personnel matter. Personnel, right. Yes, for personnel. Yes, yes. Um that's what I thought, but yes. Uh okay. I had the We had the first and the second, right, Serena? I didn't miss it. All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? All right. Thank you again. Grace Gydel, great job. Great job. there for all the things, and you stuck around. Thanks, everybody. Have a great night. It's chilly in here.