001Turn your volume off. Oh yeah. So we only have two. So basically our garage of our house. You know where I live. I live over the house. I asked >> she's contemplating. She can see. Maybe maybe in the winter time when there's no leaves, garage. So we put it on basis his daughter-in-law and he speaks I know don't go anywhere. Or you can go. Why can't I My time building. Ceremony here at Eden Middle and High School. I I'm also with Mr. Mcdana. want me to start o start over or no? Am I starting over or just Okay. So, we're here to present the code of conduct for 26 20 the 26 27 school year. Um, so this is with input from the three shared decision-making teams across the district and tonight we will be
002presenting quite a few changes for the next school year. With that, I will turn it over to Mr. Mcdana to go over those changes with you. >> Thank you. So, a couple of the simple housekeeping items. We always update the year and in the last one, we also the middle Mr. Cervonium and ourselves were listed separately under the middle school and high schools. It was separate. So, we put those together underneath the one building. The uh next part is One of the third changes was about uh backpacks, about the string backpacks. Um since we have gone this year back to using the lockers. Uh we've eliminated and deleted that section in regards to backpacks and large sports bags. So it will now read that the backpacks will be prohibited during the school day and that
003only small bags will be allowed um about the size of a um middle school high school agenda. And if there's a size in question, the final determination then will be made at at admin at at the administrator's discretion. Um, and there have been times that we have students for various reasons why we've adjusted the need for backpacks and the use of them. One of the next changes is our acceptable use policy for parents and students. And this is an this is an addition into the code of conduct. So nothing was deleted. And part of that really we'll cover it's not it's not changing. Oh, there we go. Um and as you can see what it will do is it covers the parents and guardians expectations. Couple things far as monitoring screen time passwords. It also
004covers student use and the care being responsible. make sure that they're charged in different places in the building where they can use them to have them charged. This also it uses the filtering and and conduct of the students and what gets filtered and if there's any concerns for cyber bullying. It will also include just estimate of a grid of replacements and the cost of what it takes to fix some of these items which is why we also always encourage uh to get the insurance because you just never know what's going to happen for the um for the Chromebooks over the course of the year. And then the Chromebooks and then just mentioning that the Chromebooks are always collected at the end of every June in order to update, maintain um and get them cleaned up
005and ready for the students for the following school year. trying to get that out of the way. There we go. All right. Um and the last one is the last major change really is in really just cleaned up some language based on Governor Hokll's um internet enabled devices. And so what we did is we took out a large section for the technology. So there's a long section in regards to the use of it um and some of the consequences. So, we condense that into that last section and it simply states that New York State mandates that the schools um will be implementing the bell-to-bell policy and that will include all the personal internet enabled devices such as phones, tablets, uh smartwatches, earbuds, mega glasses, metagasses are the new thing as well. So, we're keeping an
006eye on that um in order to make sure that we are providing a respectful focused learning environment for all students. And in here, it also talks about the violation of any of the bell-to-bell policies that'll be put in place that we've already started enacting um in regards to it being on a progressive manner from a warning. And then we build in other pieces if we have um students that are repeatedly not following those directions and guidelines. And that pretty much is this that pretty much summarizes all of the challenge the changes that we've put into the code of conduct for this upcoming school year. And there are any questions? Overall, it's gone really well. Um, and we're every now and then we see like peaks and valleys of, you know, the we're starting to see
007cell phones, you know, in pockets and stuff like that. Um, so it kind of goes up and down. But overall, I I we've asked some of the students and they actually it's nice to not have that on them all the time. Um, it's kind of helped them allow them to focus a lot more. So, it's been pretty good overall. The kids adjusted to the lack of backpacks obviously. >> Yes. Um are >> the teachers enjoying it more? >> A lot more. It's safer, less navigating, you know, as far as them crowding and taking up space. Um so that's been a piece that we've navigated. Actually, the students have actually um they adjusted quicker to the no cell phones than they did the backpacks. >> Yeah, I'm sure. >> Um just because because they had everything
008with them. Yeah, that takes more planning and >> right >> any issues with AI this year? I know trying to to use it as a tool but also learn >> really at this point um what the teacher been able the teachers have been able to um uh what's the word I'm looking for as the AI access um has has the opportunity to increase its workload over maybe what the students are doing the students the teachers have been able to manage and kind of keep up with being able to detect um in different programs they use to determine the amount of AI that's actually being used. Um, some of them is some of the classes have kind of gone back to doing a lot of the the core work of the writing pieces within the classrooms.
009So that way they're there to watch and observe and know exactly the work that's going on in the classroom. Um, so those have been some small nuances that they've been changing in the classroom for instruction. >> Nice. Any other questions? Okay, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thanks. That's okay. United States of America nationis. Next, we have the end of the season report for uh athletics, Mr. Olano. Good evening, members of the board of education and superintendent, Mr. Certicio. Thank you for the opportunity to present on our winter athletic program and for your continued support of our student athletes. During the winter season, we offer 14 teams across the varsity, JV, and modified levels, providing a wide range of opportunity for our students involvement. Our goal is always to make the athletics accessible to as
010many students as possible. This winter, approximately 30% of our students participated in athletics. While that number is low, lower than the fall and the spring, it's important to note that we offer fewer sports during the winter season. Because of that, direct comparisons across seasons don't always tell the full story. That being said, one of our ongoing goals is to continue finding ways to increase student involvement during the winter months. Every percentage point we grow represents more students connected to school, to teammates, and to something bigger than themselves. Academically, our student athletes continue to excel. Seven out of the eight varsity teams earned scholar athlete team recognition this year, meaning over 75% of each team uh maintained a 90 or above average. We also had over 63 individual scholar athletes this winter. Our goal isn't just
011to build better athletes, is to build successful students. This winter we had a number of outstanding individual and team accomplishments. Our varsity cheerleading team took first place at both the Gwanda and Fredonia competition in the co-ed division. Sophomore Kobe Jenko reached a thousand career points and finished the season as the all-time leading scorer in Eden boys basketball history. Our wrestling team won their division for the first time in 5 years and placed first overall at the ECIC tournament out of 22 teams, which is a great accomplishment for a small school. Bryce Mason and Trevor Delapanta each earned first place at ECIC's as well. In postseason play, our teams continue to build build on that success. Girls basketball played their best basketball at the end of the season, advanced to the class B championship game. Our
012wrestling team won sectionals for the first time and qualified for the dual state tournament in Albany. At the individual level, Mason and Trevor Deapensa each earned third place finishes at the individual New York State Public High School Athletic Association tournament, and Bryce Delipensza finished second in New York State. As a team for the wrestling team, Eden finished fourth overall out of 194 schools. What we saw this year, this winter, wasn't just success. It was the result of years of consistency, commitment, and belief in our programs. At this time, I'd like to invite Bryce Delp Penta to share his experience and what Eden Athletics has meant to him. My name is Bryce Laenta. I'm a senior here at Eden and I recently finished my six my sixth varsity season in wrestling. And I'm here tonight to
013talk about what Eden athletics has meant to me. Throughout my middle school and high school career, wrestling has helped me grow so much as a person and has given me many friends. It taught me the meaning of hard work and how to truly give something your all. I learned the importance of good nutrition because I had to maintain weight but still perform at my best. But most importantly, it gave me a place to belong. And because of the intensity of the sport, friends became like family. One final reason that athletics mattered to me was the fact that it gave me something to work towards. not only individually but also as a team. Due to everyone's hard work, we won our division and made it to team states for the for the first time in Eden
014history along with three of us placing at individual states. I would like to thank my coaches, Mr. Iwanco, Mr. Certicio, and the school board for your continued support of the athletic programs. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight. Thank you, Bryce. The success of this season is a direct result of the dedication of our athletes, coaches, and support staff. I'm proud to work work alongside all of them. At Eden, we're not just building teams. We're building a culture our students are part proud to be a part of. Thank you again for your continued support of Eden Athletics. Before we close this down, I just have a small presentation. Hopefully this works. Thank you again for your support. >> I'll take that. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have a budget
015presentation by Mrs. May. Okay. So, tonight's um the fifth budget session of the 2627 budget development process. This is the budget adoption meeting. So, for tonight's agenda, we're going to start with a review of expenses. Then we're going to talk through revenue uh which kind of goes in tandem with our reserve usage. Uh we'll talk through what a contingent budget may look like. Uh we'll talk through the tax levy historical review and then lastly the propositions for ballot on the May budget vote. So when we look at expenditures um for next school year um you can see this is broken down by major expense category which we've looked at throughout the budget development process. Um, you can see that there's about a $27,000 increase in salaries. Uh, really the reason that this is pretty low
016comparison to what we're used to seeing year-to-year budget increases is because we have staff breakage. Um, so we have nine retirements uh in the teacher um position and we are replacing six of those. Um, if we go down to equipment, about a $43,000 increase. U majority of this is related to buildings and grounds equipment. So, we have two scrubbers, an auto scrubber, and a manual scrubber as well as a ride-on lawn mower. Um contractual um significant increase of about 300,000. Um about 200,000 of that is related to legal fees, uh property insurance, and utilities. So, I think from a personal perspective, we can all um agree that insurance and utilities have pretty skyrocketed the last couple years, and the district is no different. um materials and supplies of about a $40,000 increase. Um some of
017this is related to inflationary um increases as well as um purchase of a new reading program and um the continuation of and purchase of those WAD kits. So we had a student come in a couple of months ago um and present one of the robots that he created uh that was a WED kit. So, the continuation of purchasing those kits, um tuition, about a $20,000 decrease year-to-year. And this is really just looking at um actual tuition costs charged by each of the agencies that we have students placed in. So, this is like outside outside placements for our special education students. Um and actually just marrying those closer to what the actual cost is per student. Boseies about a $482,000 increase of that increase about $436,000 is related to special ed placements um in Boseies programs.
018So kids that are waiting on weight lists that we know of um as well as increased services that they may need at those Boseies programs. Benefits kind of goes in tandem with our salaries. So um an increase of about $20,000 there. Um, we talked about last time that health insurance was estimated at about a 10% increase. Um, we did get that down to 7.53. Um, so that's why you're seeing that line kind of jump down. Um, it also includes a 2% decrease in workers comp premiums and a decrease in our TRS or our teacher retirement system employer contributions. Debt, um, significant drop off of about a little over a million dollars. This is the debt that we had taken on in the 2526 year to offset that deferred building aid that we had come in.
019So when we look at our state aid a little bit later on you'll see that there's a large drop off in the building aid category that kind of goes in tandem with our debt drop off transfers. So these are inner fund transfers. Um they are they fund our help fund our uh school food service program as well as our extended school year or special education summer school program. um just an increase in those costs. So that's why there's an increase in the inter fund transfer from the general fund. If we take out that debt increase because that really is the major outlier year-to-year. Um you can see that right now our budgetto budget is actually a decrease of about 155,000. But if we take out that debt or that ban payment, which was a little
020over one and a half million, um our actual budgetto budget increase from 2526 to um what we're adopting at 2627 is a 3.74 increase or about 1.437 million increase. So even though uh year-to-year it's going down, our when we compare apples to apples, when we look at our expenditure lines minus that debt payment, it's actually going up about 3.74%. So if we look at the same exact expenditures just broken down by program, which we looked at last budget session, um you can see that general instruction is decreasing by about 70,000. Again, this is uh kind of goes along with the decrease in um or the staff breakage that we're seeing and the small increase in salaries. Um special education instruction really driven by um those outside placements at Boseies. Um pupil support services. So PPS
021includes our guidance, our nurses, our psych, uh social workers, co-curricular, athletics, and technology, which may not be easily understood when you're just looking at this number. Um, but the drop off is not the $56,000 decrease is not related to our psyches or our social workers. Those are staying relatively consistent with an increase based on contractual requirements. This decrease is actually the removing of um technology purchases from our general fund budget and using um our smart schools bond act to purchase those. So that's why you're seeing a decrease. So I kind of wanted to point that one out. Um building maintenance is our buildings and grounds department. So, increase in uh contractual requirements as well as those buildings and grounds equipment I talked about on the last slide. Student transportation um again about a $227,000 increase
022just related to general operation. This does not include bus purchases as that's a separate proposition that's voted on separately by the taxpayers using the capital reserve funds. our general support. Um, so this is our district office, our business office, uh, central printing, property insurance, legal. Um, so of that 300,000 really 200,000 of it is related to our legal expenses and our property insurance expenses, which we had talked about on the last slide. And then employee benefits, about a $20,000 increase. Again, same number as the previous slide. Same thing with debt service. So built into our expenditure budget is a $100,000 mini capital project or capital outlay. Uh this is built into the budget every year. Unfortunately that threshold has not increased even though there's been significant advocacy because with $100,000 that entire um construction must
023be done in one fiscal year. And all of the work must fit within that $100,000 threshold, which includes construction, it includes any administrative costs, um, architect and lawyer fees, any insurance. Um, so it can be difficult to fit projects within that $100,000 scope. Um, next year we are planning to do tile repair at the middle school high school. So you'll see a lot of these pictures or all of these pictures I should say are in the pool area, the pool deck, um, the bottom of the pool, all of the tile that needs to be repaired um, in that building. So, state aid, um, this hasn't changed at all since our previous presentations. Um, even though the state budget is due April 1st, it has still not been signed. Um, we are on our fifth budget
024extender, it just got extended through Wednesday with likely more extenders coming. Um, so foundation aid still that 1% increase of about 95,000. um our instructional materials very small decrease. Uh that's a per pupil amount allocation. Um so as our enrollment drops a little bit each year, that's where that um per pupil amount is going to decrease as well. Private access costs and public access costs kind of go together. These are our special ed students attending outside placements at either private agencies or like a Bosey's placement. Um so in total a small increase of about 5,000 but not really moving the needle. um transportation and boseies. Um so those are both expenditure driven aids. So what that means is what we spend in the current year we get aid on it the following year. So if
025we spend more this year we get more next year and vice versa. If we spend less this year we get less next year. Um so in total those kind of offset each other as well. And then the largest drop off is that building aid of about 900,000. Again you see the drop off of the debt on the expenditure side. So the the two of them kind of net together. Um so overall our state aid is decreasing by about 800,000 with the majority of that being that building a drop off. So the enacted budget if we go we look at the last five fiscal years um and when the budget was actually adopted or enacted um signed into law. So the budget is due April 1st. Um, last year was the latest we've seen in the
026last five. Um, it wasn't signed until May 9th. Um, Governor Cuomo had more of a priority on having an on-time budget. Governor Hokll doesn't seem to have as big of a emphasis on having an on-time budget, which can be really difficult for a district um, especially our size that relies on state aid. Uh, we are planning a budget without really having a full understanding of what our state aid is or will be. So, we're we're locked in. Even though the state budget is not finalized, it's not enacted, it's not signed, we have to make a decision and we have to adopt a budget no later than um April 24th. So, we are um adopting a budget without really having full state aid numbers. Um, and the things that are holding up this year's are car
027insurance. Um, some changes to the climate change that was enacted in 2019. Um, some school aid, but I haven't we haven't heard a ton of that. Um, and tier six pension reform. So, uh, we'll talk a little bit about that when we get to the reserve section, but um, some pretty big changes in tier six could impact districts um, a couple years down the line based on our what we're going to have to contribute for employer contributions. So if we look at our overall revenue um state aid just talked about decrease of about 800,000 federal aid remains relatively consistent at 100,000 property taxes this model shows up to the tax cap of 2.52% about 400,000 other tax items. So these are our payment in lie of tax or um think of our solar farms that
028aren't on the tax roles through the towns but they're paying the school district their property tax bills or their school tax bills direct. Um it also includes any um late fees or um interest and penalties on uh late school tax bills. Erie County sales tax kind of a wager going. Um this is based on consumer spending. So, as consumer spending increases throughout Erie County, Erie County distributes a portion of sales tax revenue received um to school districts in Erie County. So, as we're seeing consumer spending increase or stay relatively consistent, uh we are anticipating a modest increase there of about 50,000 miscellaneous revenue. Um incre this includes interest earnings which we've talked about uh we know that those are decreasing. So, we had a very conservative approach. the current school year and what interest earnings
029will be. So, a small increase from year to year in interest earnings, but still a decrease overall knowing that interest rates are going down, are reducing. Um, it also includes use of facilities, sale of equipment, um, and tuition paid by other schools. So, we have special education students that come here to Eden. The districts that they reside in pay the pay Eden to, um, for those costs to run those programs for those students. Um so increase there of about 75,000. Interfer fund transfers remain consistent at zero. We don't have any anticipated interfund transfers from other funds into the general fund. And then lastly, our savings. So this is really the the chunk that's changed from last budget session to this budget session. So in order to fill that budget gap, uh really using additional use
030of reserves or savings account. Uh, so we'll talk a little bit about what that increased use of reserves looks like. So if you look at the top section and then the bottom one, leave out the middle. So our work our our reserves that we're using to offset the general fund budget include our workers comp reserve or about 150,000 for our workers comp premiums, about 5,000 for unemployment claims. Um and then this is where the significant change is happening. So the ERS and the TRS, so our employee retirement system, so for our support staff that are uncertified as well as our teacher retirement system, um which are for our certified staff, uh the pension system. So an increased usage of those funds. I know I had mentioned last uh budget session that our TRS reserve is
031difficult. The more we spend out of it, the harder it is to replace it. we are limited to contributing 2% of um our salaries in any given year. So when we end the fiscal year and we have excess funds that we want to refund reserves, we are limited to how much we can replenish the TRS reserve, which is difficult because once we spend it, the money is gone and it's going to be more and more difficult to replace. That's important because with tier six reform coming, we think um employers, we know that our ERS and TRS employer contribution rates are going to start increasing to pay for that cost for tier six reform. Um so we're going to have to rely probably more so on these reserves and if we don't have the funds to
032pull from them at that point, we're going to be stuck with more difficult decisions. Um so then the last one is our employee benefit acred liability or ELAR reserve that remains unchanged from the previous session at 400,000. And then the last section that middle portion is our capital reserve for our bus purchases. That is a separate proposition no taxpayer impact. um it is voted on separately but it is important to show that our total reserves are decreasing by you know 12 million to n and a half with the use of reserves that we're planning um to use in the 2627 fiscal year. So if we talk about what a contingent budget would mean and what it would look like um so if we go out to vote in May and the budget goes down the
033board essentially has two options. We can either go for a revote in June, which is the statewide revote day, which is June 16th, or the board can adopt a contingent budget at that time. If the board decides to go for a revote, we go for revote in June and that fails, we are forced to adopt a contingent budget. What that would mean is there would be no increase in the tax levy from the prior year. So even though the tax levy in total may not change, individual tax bills may rise or fall depending on the assessed values across those five towns that make up Eden Central School District. Um so we and we have no control of that. It would eliminate equipment purchases for next year. It would eliminate the capital outlay project or that
034$100,000 mini capital project at the middle school high school for next year. It would we would not be allowed to allow the use of our facilities free of charge. So when we think of town wreck using our facilities for our their summer wreck program, we would have to charge for those for those use of facilities fees. It would eliminate any school bus purchases and then it would also eliminate any other non-contingent expenditures in order to meet that expenditure threshold with revenue knowing that our tax levy can't increase. So essentially cutting enough to make up that $416,000 difference. So if we look at the historical usage um of our tax tax cap or tax levy limit um back to the inception of the tax cap calculation in the 2012 2013 school year, you can see the
035gray line is our tax cap threshold where the red line is our actual tax levy limit that was adopted in that fiscal year. So you can see every year since the inception, we've stayed at or below that tax cap. Um, so of these all these years, eight years we were below the tax cap. The red line is below. Um, and six years we were at the tax cap. The most recent one is the current 2526 school year where we went out at the tax cap of 2.58%. So if we look at the cumulative difference or the amount of money that the board has made a conscious decision to keep in our taxpayers pockets by not going to the tax cap in any given year going all the way back to the tax cap inception in
0362012 2013. Um so the one thing I want to point out is you can see 2526 we we went to the tax cap. Why is there an increased difference from 2425 to 2526? And the reason for that is because every year that we didn't go to the tax cap since the inception, we lost out on the compounding effect. So this this model shows from the first year if we always went to the tax cap, we essentially kept $2.1 million in our taxpayers pockets by not doing so. Um the biggest jump you'll see is from the 2022 23 school year to the 2324 school year. And the reason for that was the tax cap was 7.49. 49 and we adopted a 2% tax levby increase that year. So that's where you're seeing that really large jump
037from 600 to about 1.5 million. Okay. So if we look at the different iterations of the budget on the revenue side, the expenditure side and at each iteration all the way up to the tax cap of 2.52% what the budget gap is. So with the current increased usage of reserves, our budget gap is zero. So, if we go all the way to the tax cap, if the board were to adopt a budget um needing 2% tax levy increase, we would need to cut an additional 86,000 from programming, for example. So if we summarize and talk about the propositions for ballot. So proposition number one or the different items that a taxpayer would actually select yes or no on the day of the budget vote would be the general fund expenditure budget which in this model
038is $39,921,20. It includes that capital outlay, that $100,000 mini capital project. and it also includes a tax levy increase up to the cap of 2.52. Proposition number two uh is the use of capital reserve funds for bus purchases of 587,648. This is two 20 passenger diesel buses and two 64 passenger diesel buses. Since this is using our capital reserve to pay for those buses, there is no taxpayer impact. Essentially just using our savings. And then proposition number three is the creation of a new capital reserve for the purchase of vehicles and equipment. Um our current one is expiring at the end of this school year. It was created in 2016. Um just because it is ending it is expiring. Um any any money that's left in that account we can still expend out of. We
039just can't fund it after this year. So this again has no taxpayer impact. This is just creating another reserve that we could uh fund in the future. And then there will also be two election um spots of two vacant board member seats. So next steps in the budget development process tonight is adopting the property tax report card which goes in tandem with adopting the budget and the tax levy. Um the public budget document which breaks down the budget into the three-part budget, the admin, the program, and the capital, um is available in our school offices Monday or May 5th. Our budget hearing is Monday, May 11th at 6:00 p.m. here in the middle school high school library. And then our budget vote is Tuesday, May 19th from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the middle
040school high school auditorium foyer. Questions? So, let's look at Prop 2 first. >> I don't know if this is clear yet. Is this the last year we can buy diesel buses or do we have another year or >> one more? >> Okay, >> we have one more year currently. >> Current under the way it's currently written under. Okay. >> And then we can apply for the waiver which we get additional two years and then we apply for another waiver. We could get another additional two years. But that 2035 where we have to comp transition our fleet to fully electric hasn't changed. There's no waiver at this point. >> So during the waiverss we will be still allowed to buy diesel buses. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Your whole fleet has to be converted to electric.
041Oh, no. I'm sorry. >> Correct. >> They're all individual individual a question and I I feel like I know the answer, but we have a excuse me a bigger crowd than normal, so I just a little repetition wouldn't hurt. Do we have any inkling of what the state um budget will be for education? Is there any talk of an increase, a decrease, no change? >> I'll take that. >> So, um you know, as as Frankie pointed out, the budget was due April 1st. Here we are in April 20th. And um our timelines haven't changed. Your timelines as a board haven't changed. you're still required to adopt the budget and do the next steps. Um I think 4 days from now our military ballots need to be in the mail. So that's why the time is
042of the essence for this work. And I and I preface your question with that because naturally I people would say why don't we wait why don't we wait to learn if we if we're going to if we're going to get a few more dollars. We don't have any more time to wait and it's not our fault. It's not our choice. It's the way it is. So, the governor um has proposed a um a 1% increase for I think about twothirds of the schools in New York State. Almost all of area 1 and area 2 is at that 1%. 1% for Eden means $95,100, something to that effect. Um the legislature has proposed a minimum of 2% which would be again another $95,000. Um and that's the last we've really heard about any education funding. There
043has there's been it's been incredibly quiet about education this year. Um the the the negotiations are about lowering car insurance. Um what was the second one you said? >> Climate change. >> She and Governor Koko wants to roll back some of the climate change uh legislation that was adopted a number of years ago. And then there was a third one. Oh, tier six uh tier six reform, which I will say I, you know, and as you did a great job presenting that as a tier six member. >> I am a tier six member. >> You are a tier six member. We've talked about this a lot. Um I understand the argument on why tier six needs to be reformed. But I also understand the cost to our district or potential cost to our district is
044anywhere from 1 to 3% increase on our uh on our contribution rate. Um, so th those are the those are the real pressure points that they're that they're debating at this point. I think at the the most we could possibly hope for would be another $95,000, but I I don't think that's going to happen. >> You mean the 2%. >> Yeah. Yeah. Let's go back in history a little bit. So reserves three, four, five years ago. Now we're up over $2 million usage of reserves this year. Was it if I recommend reconcile back probably what four or five years ago, we were around 900,000 in reserve usage. >> Yes, it was significantly less. So, >> you know, this board, you know, as much as we try to balance um tax rate and and trying to
045keep as much in the taxpayers pockets as we can, you know, going out at 2.5% 2.52% and then increasing reserves from 1.8 to a little over 2 million. Um, you know, going back 5 years ago, we were at at 900,000. And we only condo that for so long. you know, the the savings account kind of dries up at some point in time and you're you're starting to see that where we're going down um you know, projected at the end of 26 27 was under 10. And we've got capital projects right now. One that's, you know, we're going to have to start paying for. You're going to start seeing roofs come off of this place and you already seen at the elementary school. Uh parking lot's going to be coming up. Um so it's a balancing
046act of you know maintaining this district um but also providing the services and then also respecting the taxpayer. So you know I look at it it's it's a 3 or 39.9 million budget. um basically if you compare year-over-year it's a 3.74% increase um with the adjustment of three FTEES and it it's a balancing act and it it truly comes down to it um you know I look at percentages here uh general education is roughly 30% of the budget special ed is 15% of the bud budget benefits is 20% of the budget. So, where'd he cut from? And, you know, we're using these retirements, these these nine retirements to, you know, backfill six of them. That's that's the picture, the way I see it. Am I off anywhere? >> It's a pretty good summary. >> Okay.
047Um, I've been doing this for over 10 years now and these are, you know, tough decisions to make. I know Jack and Jen, you've been on a couple months longer than me. So, yeah, I would simply add that unlike a business where you have 12 different things you can do differently, there's only two. there's spend less or raise taxes. And we are capped at this mythical uh tax cap number at this year 2.52. And that means there's only one other place and that's reducing and um you know um we've been a part of these conversations and we use reserves when it's prudent and uh when we had some COVID money we went out at 0% because it was critical that people who were in a jam we didn't raise their taxes and when you make
048those seemingly um important and passionfilled decisions, you know, now other hard decisions have to be made and that's where we find ourselves. And so there's no tears about it. It's simply this is the deal. We we can raise we're going to raise the taxes as far as we can raise them 2.52 and then the rest has come from somewhere else. And spending money from reserves um is a short-term solution to what could very well be a long-term problem. And so it's just not, you know, I happen to be a financial adviser. If someone said this is my plan, I'd say, well, that's not a very good plan because you can circle a data on a calendar when that story ends. And so we don't want to put ourselves in that position. We have responsibility to
049Eden taxpayers, Eden students, people who work here to be fiscally responsible. And so that's what we'll continue to be. Any other questions? Thank you, Mrs. May. At this point in time, are there any requests to remove any items from the consent agenda? That upon the recommendation of the superintendent, consensus items be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> This is the approximate position and time that the board is designated to receive statements from individuals and groups. The board will review all statements, then respond appropriately at a future meeting. All persons in attendance are required to sign the attendance sheet and designate the representation status. For example, a parent, teacher, bus driver, chamber of commerce, etc. There is a twominut limit. Good evening. My name
050is Tom Wall. Um I am here as a math department chair. I'm representing many math members of the math department. Um I'm here to speak um well on behalf of the department. So first I would like to thank Mr. Schwartzio and the board um for all the work that you do and the time you dedicate to the district that we all care so much about. Um this year our eighth grade math teacher Amy Porter is retiring and it is my understanding that I believe the district is not planning on that is not one of those six that we um were able to fill. and I'm here to basically give my pitch um that I I hope there's some way we can find a little bit of extra money to fill that position. Um these comments
051might take a little bit more than two minutes. Um I have other people to follow me up if it would be okay if I could just roll through for about three. >> Just roll through. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. Um the overarching impacts I see on our students um would be three-fold. Mainly opportunity, flexibility, and support. first opportunity um in the three boxes you see on the front. The second box is where we are right now with the current number of teachers that we have. Um historically during their junior year, our students have been offered an intermediate algebra class. This junior level class is a bridge um for our college and SAT readiness for our students. Um often students who struggle a little bit more in math. They've made it through their freshman year
052and their sophomore year. this class either offers them two things. Number one, it offers them the opportunity to just get enough highlevel math content to prepare them to take the SAT if they're thinking about taking the SAT to go to college. And it also offers them the opportunity to prepare to take algebra 2, which offers them a solid foundation for any introductory math class that they're going to take in college. Without filling this position right now in our schedule, this class simply doesn't exist. So for those lower level students after sophomore year, they are put into a bind where either they have to take a class they're not ready for or I don't know what and that um worries me a little bit. Um, second, for some of our upper level students, our higher achieving
053AP level students. Um, historically we've offered pre-calculus, general calculus, um, AP pre-calculus, and AP stats. So, four kind of upper level classes. After hearing some feedback from the shared decision-making team, we decided to try our best to offer kids ways to earn college credits while they're in that aren't necessarily tied to taking an AP class. So we teamed up with Hibbert College in order to provide three classes. We have um Hilbert College pre-calc class, calculus class, and a stats class. So the idea there was to take the general cap class the seniors take and the pre-calc class that the advanced juniors take and we're going to make one se one class out of it hopefully providing two sections. So that thing would give them two things that are really important. So number one, obviously they
054have opportunity to earn college credit without the AP that they did not have before. In addition to that, having it in two sections instead of one gave them flexibility scheduling that they've never had before. Right? So if we had a student that's interested in taking this pre-calculus class is offered fourth period and also newep bio is fourth period. They at if we don't fill this position, they will have to make a choice. Do I want to take this newep bio class or do I want to take this AP or pre-cal class? They won't be able to do both. If we fill the position, we will have an extra section of that class which will obviously give the students more opportunities, but it'll also cut down the class sizes, which is, you know, the class sizes
055are what they are. But in terms of the students, like if you have a choice between Clay taking a class with 25 kids in a pre-cl class or 13, I think most kids would gravitate towards a class with 13 rather than 27. So there's one impact. And the second last one is um flexibility. So last year um our math department in collaboration with the guidance department, special ed department um decided to have a trial run of having every ninth grader take algebra 1. This is a change for what most districts do. U most districts and us in the past have offered it for the students that need it the most to break it up into two years. So it ensures that the students get one credit. I shouldn't say insure. It gives them a better
056chance to get one math credit as freshmen and then they go into the regular algebra class as sophomores. So they get two math credits, slow down a little bit and they can take that class. The idea behind moving them all into one class was to give them more opportunities to take that regions test. But the opportunity was given and the trial was given with the understanding that the kids would get some extra support because instead of stretching out over two years, we're taking this cohort which is usually about 10 to 15% of the class, right? And about 10 15 kids um that usually take it over two years. We're telling you now you're going to take it in half that time and you're going to have to take the exam which provides them opportunities to
057take the regions more and it provides them opportunities to take more classes later which is good. But the unfortunate reality is we weren't able to get all of those kids the supports that they really needed. So there are some kids that would have been in this two-year algebra class that were forced into one-year algebra class that didn't have an AIS class. They didn't have any math lab. They didn't have that extra support that they needed. Um and unfortunately right now of that group right now they are looking like it could be up to eight to 10 kids that are not going to make it through that course. Um and that impacts what you guys saw in terms of how many students are going to be in the algebra one classes next year. Right? We lost
058we went from four sections to three and now those class sizes were set to start at 23 and with those addition we're going to be talking 26 to 27 kids in every algebra class next year. Um again manageable but for those kids that struggle with math if I want to go around and talk to all the kids that need a little bit extra help um getting around to five of them or six of them rather than two or three just makes it a little bit more challenging for everybody. Um, and then finally, a little bit more on the support piece. Um, overall this hits like our kids at every level. Um, the la Oh, sorry. The last piece, um, behind you is the the school's learning lab in that room behind there. Um, historically, we've
059had one math teacher in that learning lab, especially during the lunch classes. Those lunch classes are 40 minutes as you know with younger kids like they don't take 40 minutes to eat. Um so usually they can go over there they can get extra math help. In addition that learning lab has scheduled students and often it's for those kids that needed that AIS class but because we only have one section and it's the same time as English or bio they don't have access to take that that AIS class. So their only other option is to throw them in the learning I shouldn't say throw put them in a learning lab with a math teacher. So we're there to help provide that extra support that they weren't able to get because their schedule didn't fit without replacing
060Miss Porter. We will not have anyone in the learning lab at all. There will be no period throughout the entire day especially during lunch but ever um that that extra support will be there. And so if the kids can't fit into an AAS, that fall back of the learning lab also won't be there. So we're kind of asking a lot of those um struggling students that we're going to have you in this one-year math course and hopefully we can get you an in AIS. Um but I'm not sure, but we don't have this other option either. Um, and then finally, uh, as I'm sure you guys know, New York State has issued a mandate that we now start teaching personal finance to everybody, starting with next year's freshman. Um, it's a great idea, right? I
061teach personal finance. I think it's a wonderful course and I think I wish I would have taken it when I was a senior. Um, right now I teach about 15 to 20 kids. Um, this year's freshman, you know, we're looking at 90. Um, I know New York State mandates are always a little fuzzy. I don't know how or how this will get implemented, but I think planning for the eventuality of offering more than one section of that class is probably um, a thing we should consider. So, um, I don't envy the position you guys are in. Um, I know running a small district presents itself with unique funding challenges. Um, I just ask that you consider ways you can possibly find to keep our math position. Um, it will help us all as a group
062continue to provide as many opportunities we can for the students and provide them all the support that they need. So, I thank you very much for your time, your consideration. If you have any questions, I know I'll probably have to bounce out now because I'm over my two minutes. I can answer them now. Uh definitely hang around after we're done and if you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer them. >> Tom, I got one quick question for you. Um >> so you mentioned the conflict of fourth period. >> Yeah. >> What what grade level is that at? >> So >> junior or seniors? >> That's the thing. Like it used Well, short answer. Um both. >> Okay. >> Because that it used to be the pre-cal class was just for the
063accelerated kids, right? So it was just those accelerated kids. they were in that cohort and they just kept moving together. Now what we're doing is for the ju the juniors that want to take an advanced class, they used to have what we call general calculus. We weren't able to fit that into a Hilbert College credit course. So we will have the cohort of juniors that are advanced. they will be taking pre-cal and then we have the seniors who want to get exposure to that material that will also be folding into the same course. Does that make sense? >> It does. >> Okay. So, usually we have like 22 or 23 in that junior cohort and then we have anywhere from 5 to 10 with the seniors. So, that could create classes if we only have
064one section right now. Right now, there are 25 kids scheduled to take that Hilbert College pre-cal class. in the future. Like I'm right now my freshman honors class has 26. Um so you combine that with four or five seniors eventually when they get there we could be up over 30. >> But you said it like kind of conflicted at fourth period. >> Well I I wasn't saying it definitely because I'm just >> I was kind of getting at if it's a senior's class why don't we just offer it first or first period or last period because how many seniors are taking late arrival early dismissal? >> I the more kids are in the building more often. I love that idea. >> Okay. Yeah, that's great. >> Thanks. >> Okay, thank you guys very much. Anybody
065else? Okay. Next, we have new business resignations that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the resignation of teacher aid Caitlyn Lei be accepted effective at the end of the business day on April 2nd, 2026. The board of the board and administration wish to thank Miss Lei for her four years of service to the district. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the resignation of library media specialist Allison Conn be accepted effective at the end of the business day on March 27th, 2026, the board and administration wish to thank Miss Conn for her one and a half years of service to the district. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. I apologize if
066I mispronounce this name. That upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the resignation of bus driver Rebecca Cruz be accepted effective at the end of the business day on March 24th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent the resignation of clerk typus Sharon Galley be accepted effective at the end of the business day on March 27th 2026 >> second >> any discussion all in favor I any opposed any abstained motion carried >> on new business appointments that upon the recommendation of the superintendent after successfully completing her probationary period Kelly Maer be per permanently appointed as a Payroll Clerk helps effective May 11th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried.
067>> And upon the recommendation of the superintendent after successfully completing her probationary period, Michaela Eddie be permanently appointed as a confidential secretary effective November 17th, 2023. >> That's what it says. Second >> 2026 it should say. >> Okay. >> Any discussion? >> Uh yeah. Oops. Um >> I just read what I'm giving. Okay. >> So uh um doing some some analysis of uh of some recordeping in in district office. We uh realized that you never officially uh appointed Michaela Eddie to uh her position. um that she she obviously did complete more than her probationary period. Um she's actually taken on more and more uh um for us in the district and this is simple uh simply a uh a fix of a of a paperwork error. So my apologies. >> Any other discussion? All in
068favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent after successfully completing her probationary period, Claire Baker be permanently appointed as a senior clerk type typist helps effective a April 5th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent after successfully completing her probationary period, Kiara Rup be permanently appointed as a teacher aid effective May 11th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent after successfully completing his probationary period, Steven be permanently appointed as a bus driver effective May 17th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon
069the recommendation of the superintendent Gerard Leno be appointed on probation as a bus driver effective March 30th, 2026 and ending November 29th, 2026. Salary is based upon CSCA contract level 9, step two. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent Thomas Ford be appointed on probation as a bus driver effective April 21st, 2026 and ending December 20th, 2026. Salary is based upon CSEA contract level 9 step one. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent Rebecca Cruz be appointed on probation as a bus attendant effective March 25th, 2026 and ending November 24th, 2026. Salary is based upon CSEA contract level 4 step two. >> Second.
070>> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent that Mary Maximon be appointed as summer school principal effective July 6, 2026 through August 14th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. New business that the Eden Central School District Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent hereby approves the capital outlay project 2025 2026 ASI signage innovations quote >> second. >> Any discussion we want? >> Yeah, I'll give you a brief explanation. Um so under our capital outlay project uh th this current school year we plan to um um improve on the the numbering and naming in in each of our buildings. So for instance if you're if you're in this building you'll
071see that teachers names are on curling pieces of of paper that's been laminated and the room numbers don't really make a lot of sense and it's been kind of uh a sore spot across the district. Um so um our bid came in such that we are going to be able to do this across the district in the GLP and Eden Elementary and the middle high school um and just a little bit more professional that we than we currently have. Uh and this is a capital uh outlay so it was approved in in last year's budget and we do get aid back on this as well. What's our percent on that? >> 78.2. >> So we spent $100,000 we get 70 $78,200 back. >> Correct. Okay. >> Does this include the additional noise cancellation stuff? >>
072Oh, thank you for reminding me that. I'm glad you're on I'm glad you're at that facilities meeting. And in addition to the the naming and numbering of the classrooms, we are also adding uh um we'll call it sound sound suppression paneling in the cafeteria at the middle high school. Now, it's not going to make them be quiet. It's just going to lower the lower the den a little bit. Okay. And uh you guys got that all squared away back there what we're going to do. Okay. Because you don't want me making those decisions. >> No. >> All right. Any other discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the 2026 2027 school budget in the amount $39,921,20 be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >>
073Yeah, just one I just want to make one point in regards to to the board's responsibility when it comes to adopting the budget. Um, Mrs. May has done an excellent job leading us really starting I think in November and December to talk about the different options for the for the budget. We had a really um nice presentation by Mr. Wall and I thank him for meeting with he and Mr. Swans for meeting with me earlier today. Your responsibility as a board is to if you agree with it is to um vote yes or no in in terms of the amount that's approved and then my charge is what we do do with those funds. We we've been very transparent um particularly at an early uh early um stage as I mentioned earlier today to Mr.
074Wall and Mr. Swansonce and and with Mr. Mcdana because of the nature of of scheduling at the high school. So if we really are going to reduce a math position, we need to know now. All right. Right. Not replace I should say, but there's other things that can continue to move move around. Um it's April 20th and while it's it's late in terms of state budget, we do have a number of months before the school year starts. So that will be our our work starting tomorrow as determine exactly what we can do. Okay. >> Any other discussion? All right. So, the thing is the motion is to approve a 39.921 million budget with a 2.52% tax cap and usage of reserves of 2.06 something like that million dollar. So that's what we're ultimately um approving
075with this motion. Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> That upon the recommendation of the superintendent the 2026 2027 budget in the amount of 39,921,000 be approved. >> Oh, I already read that. >> Can we do that one? Okay. >> Playing tricks on me over there. >> Geez. >> You got a second. >> Just want to make sure everybody heard that. Okay. Um then upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the 2026 2027 budget No, just kidding. Property tax report card be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? So, this is what we're approving the 2.52, right? >> Yes. So, this outlines our budget to budget and decrease. Um, it outlines our tax levy increase. It outlines our use of reserves as well as our appropriated and unappropriated
076fund balance. >> Okay. Any other discussion? >> That's a card that's all in legal ease and really hard to understand. >> It's the one we mail out. Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I Anybody opposed? Anybody abstained? Motion carried. That upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the following items be declared excess and disposed of as a district deems appropriate. Frigid air range from FACS class asset tag that number. 32 freestanding sanitizer stands and 400 vacuum bags for royal vacuums no longer in use. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Sanitizer stands from CO. probably we didn't have to get rid of the million gallons of or thousand gallons of hand sanitizers and we wanted to donate to us. That was a good thing. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstained?
077Motion carried. >> Wow. >> You have to read all >> right. Put your feet up, people. Do I have to read this whole thing? >> No. >> Okay. A resolution dated April 20th, 2026 of the board of education of the Eden Central School District, Erie County, New York. The district declaring the district's proposed capital outlay project involving the reconstruction and construction of modest upgrades and improvements to the middle high school building to be a type two action under SRA and authorizing and directing the inclusion of funding for such project in the district's proposed 2026 2027 budget. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> That upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the 2026 Chevy bus number 2021 with that VIN number be declared accessed and
078disposed of as the district deems appropriate. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent Paul O' Conor be added as an approved occasional driver pending a completed physical effective May 1st 2026. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent a resolution dated April 20th, 2026 of the board of education of the Eden Central School District, Erie County, New York, the district declaring the impartial hearing officer compensation rates. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent the 2026 2027 commitment for Bosei services be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Can
079I can I have a little discussion? Mr. Certisio, >> you're the board president at your meeting. >> So, we could probably sick them with the color printing. >> Trust that when I saw that brochure, I felt the same way. >> Okay. All right. Any other discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> That upon the recommendation of the superintendent, an overnight trip for FBLA on January 5th, 2027 through January 7th, 2027 to participate in the New York City trip be approved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. that upon the recommendation of the superintendent, an overnight trip for the high school band and orchestra on May 1st, 2026 through May 3rd, 2026 to participate in the Washington DC trip be approved. >>
080Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I Any opposed? Any abstained? Motion carried. >> Now we have the business report. >> Just one quick note. Uh just wanted to thank the Eden Community Foundation for the donation for the pre kindergarten uh bike helmets and safety equipment that we are able to add to the tricycles that we purchased um a couple months ago and the kids seem to love. >> Did they provide one for Mrs. Carter? >> Next we have the superintendent report. >> Okay. Um, sure. All right. I'm going to um I already said my my piece on the budget. Again, thank you to to Mrs. May and the board and and all of our administrative team who helped uh develop the develop the budget and we'll continue to work on uh fine-tuning things
081as we move forward. I'm working on sharing my screen because I want to start to unwrap uh the thought exchange. So, the board will recall, as will our audience, that uh we used a product called thought exchange to try and um garner what people were interested in in seeing in our next capital project. Now, it it may seem a little bit um insensitive to talk about a future capital project when we just had a discussion about a very tough budget. Okay. Um just want to remind you that the budget discussion is to support next year's teaching and learning and all that goes into running a school district. this thought exchange uh it this engagement really is a future capital project where the vote could happen as early as December of 2026 but the actual construction
082won't happen until 2029 or 2030 more likely. Okay, we always have to be many years ahead when we're planning. Um you saw or you heard earlier that we had a significant drop in our in our debt service um because there was a little bit of a little bit of a a glitch in in our planning. You never want your debt service to drop because then your revenues drop and you run into a little bit of what we what we ran into here. We want our debt service to be level because we know our buildings continually need need improvement. Um and some are real basic improvements and some are a little bit more more aesthetic um and and we need to focus on all of them. So the engagement um was where oh there it is.
083It's hiding on me. There we go. You know, the the question was, "What are some things you'd like to you'd most like to see in our facilities in order to support the success of our students?" Um, we had 645 participants. I was absolutely thrilled that we had that many people uh um take part in in this thought exchange. They shared 415 thoughts and they rated 20 24,886. Um um there's 24,886 ratings. I'm absolutely thrilled with that level of participation. Um 68% identified as parent and guardians, 10% were teachers. Uh we had support staff, students, community members, administrators, and and others. So it was a pretty good cross-section of our overall community. Um the schools that they represented, uh fairly uh fairly balanced based on the population in each of those schools. And um the next
084slide is a a word cloud. And the uh the product that we use just pulls words out from uh from the different thoughts and and puts them in this cloud. And you could see leaking is a problem, air conditioning is a problem, heat, hot, bathrooms, uh roof leaking, it said music auditorium, uh classroom, so on and so forth. The larger the word, the more often it was it was mentioned. basically. So, I just want to get into a few of the thoughts and these are these are in rank order from and we're not going to go through all of them because as I said there were there there were quite a few. Um but my goal today is to um um talk about some of these thoughts, what the short-term plan is to address some
085of these things and where some of these uh some of these thoughts may fit in longer term. Um there were a lot of comments about replacing plumbing at Eden Elementary. There's sinks with signs saying the water's not not portable. Make sure all drinking fountains are are working properly. Water quality remediation for all water outlets. Uh improve the roof so it doesn't leak. Fix the roof roof on the elementary school from leaking. Fix the roof in the middle of high school. Let's talk about those right now. As I said a second ago, this construction doesn't happen until 2030. So, I don't think we should wait until 2030 to stop the roofs from leaking or to fix all the water water uh outlets. We're going to do that right away and we already are. Um Eden Elementary
086roof is about half complete uh in terms of its replacement. That that will that work will be complete this summer. Uh the the roof on the middle high school over the gym and science wing I believe will be completed this summer and the rest of that roof will be completed next summer. So summer 26 and summer 27. Uh those roofs will be uh will be completely brand new. And also, interestingly, um, we have done it in such a way so that the the when those roofs are out of warranty, they won't be stacked right on top of each other because right now they are. So, we needed to replace two major roofs and two major buildings at the same time. That's pretty expensive. We're going to have a 10-year gap in in 20 and 30
087years for whomever is around in 20 and 30 years. And let me know how that goes. Um, in terms of water quality, this was a really really um hot item, if you will, in the exchange, the district has about 500 water outlets across across all the buildings. um the breakdown and now mind you the report that we were required to do last year um shared the parts per billion that lead levels uh and parts per billion. The the regulation was 15 parts per billion uh and and less was acceptable. That changed essentially overnight down to five parts per billion. It's a pretty significant change. So after we had had our water tested um we were required to identify any of those areas that that fell within that fell above that threshold. Uh Eden Elementary had
088one bathroom sink, two storage room sinks, two office sinks, and there were also a number of of sinks in classrooms that have uh drinking fountains built into them. That's how old those classrooms are. Uh all of those classroom bubblers, faucets uh have been taken out of service and physically sealed. They're going to be removed this summer. Okay. Um the water outlets in Eden Middle High School, 16 bathroom sinks, 14 classroom sinks, including the shop classes, three drinking fountains, all of which are are physically turned off. I'm going to come back to drinking fountains in a second. The water outlets in in GLP, seven classroom sinks, seven bathroom sinks, one office sink, one storage room sink, one drinking fountain, all which has also been physically turned off. Every drinking fountain that is turned off is going
089to be replaced uh as soon as as soon as the summer and they will all be um and they will all be filtered water. Any of our filtration systems in our uh in our um um what am I trying to say here? Any and our drinking fountains that also have the bottle fillers, those are zero parts per billion. There's no lead in those. Um all the outlets have been labeled and andor shut off. So we have plans in place. We're going to keep addressing that uh well before the the capital project. Um so moving on from there, the next uh biggest item was air conditioning 3.9. I'm not surprised. I've said said to the staff that's one of my goals is to is to have proper heating and cooling in all of our buildings. We
090do know that that's a pretty significant cost. That's something we're going to have to attack over time. Um, and then down from there, I'd like to see us continue to modernize classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms. Also remodeling in the middle school, high school auditorium, and adding AC wherever possible. These are comments taken directly from the exchange. Graphically, um, again, based on the rating, water quality and plumbing, air conditioning, roof repairs, bathroom renovations, auditorium upgrades, classroom upgrades, playground enhancement. Um, I can tell you that, um, in 2027 when we start construction on GLP, um, we are addressing all of the preK classrooms. We're adding, uh, a bottle filler fountain station in the prek wing. We're adding bathrooms for those prek wings. We are addressing the the bathroom connected to, is it connected to the gym? Is that
091right? Kind of hallway gym area. And we're going to make improvements on that. We're addressing uh the playgrounds, adding walkways, which was a suggestion from one of your faculty members, adding ADA accessible equipment, and more likely than not, changing the uh the surface for for those playgrounds in addition to uh um adding a play pad similar to what E has on the back side of that building. So, a lot of the suggestions that came out, they're already in the works. So that makes me feel great that the the community and whoever answered this has a lot of the same thoughts that we are that we already had as well. Again, replace plumbing, water quality, new pipes for drinkable water, air conditioning, long overdue in schools, better climate control, HVAC, um improve the roof so it
092doesn't leak. I address that. Uh address that as well. Um, I'd like to to see us continue to modernize classrooms, hallways, bathrooms. Also remodeling the auditorium. I think that's a repeat. The auditorium needs full renovations. Unsafe, worn stage floor, poor acoustics, broken seats, outdated finishes, uninviting space overall. Most used space in the district for concerts, musicals, and events. Impact student safety, performance, etc. Update the auditorium. All activities occur here. Occur there. Um, again, an auditorium. Update the rest of the classrooms at GLP and Eden Elementary that were not touched in the last project. Uh more updates, make Eden Elementary and the high school more modern, up-to-date. Big wish, uh put AC in the buildings would be nice. Um playground equipment, playgrounds, make all playgrounds more ADA accessible. So, um that that's really just a high
093level look at at the thought exchange. we plan on or the plan is to continue to unwrap that over time, particularly because when we do fully develop the the project and and then go to voters for it, that's not going to happen until December. So, I want to talk about this over time and and continue to to share more about um what those who who uh participate in the survey felt was important. Okay, any questions for me? So I know in our um OMAC uh meetings um we basically took this information and are having our architecture firm uh young and right apply these thought exchanges across our building condition surveys to see you know where we need to you know start looking at you know things are kind of you know pretty easy when you
094say classrooms and um auditoriums and and and things along those lines but it's some of stuff behind the walls that you don't see, the water qualities and and things along those lines. So, we're laying that over top of, you know, uh the maintenance, uh mechanical, electrical, and plumbing side as well, too. So, okay. Thank you. Next >> we have student report with Haley Delts. Did I say that right? >> Okay. Good evening everyone. My name is Haley Delts. I'm here to give the student report for April of 2026. We had Spring Fling spirit week which was March 30th to April 3rd of 2026. We have Earth Week, which we are doing a scavenger hunt in home room. You will receive a scavenger hunt. You complete it outside of school this week and return it. Complete
095it to Mr. Brunner for a special prize. Tuesday, we have reduce energy day. Turn off lights, use less water, unplug your devices, turn off your phone, help our school reduce its energy use for the day. Wednesday, we have chalk the walk. Meet Mr. Bronner periods 5 and 7 and Mrs. doctor's period 6 by the auditorium doors before lunch to create earthw week art on the sidewalk. If you buy lunch, eat first before going outside and bring your own chalk if possible. Thursday we have wear eco drip. Wear a flower print, green camo, and other earth themed clothes to celebrate Earth week. Thrift as much of the outfit as possible. Most thrifty, most earthy, most treelike eco drip will win a prize and vote during lunch. Winner is announced Friday. Friday, we have slash the trash.
096Today, try to produce as little trash as possible. Bring lunch with little to no waste. After school, clean up around your home. If you would like to join us, the environmental club will be cleaning up trash around town. Help wherever you can. We are preparing for teacher/staff appreciation week. We have some new student and teacher activities for this year. We have the powderpuff teams and cheerleaders on May 22nd at 1 p.m. We are making teams. We designed t-shirts for juniors and seniors and we are making a donation to be like banks. We have the prom dress collection and free prom dresses event which is going to be Saturday, April 25th, 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. It will be at the North Collins Westland Church by appointment only. Call or text Jen Pisa at
097716 6289146. And that is it. >> Thank you. uh board report and roundt. I >> don't have a report and I know this is out of call for a meeting but is there's Mr. Can I ask you a question? >> Can I use your pen because I just want to write down what he says your germified pen. >> I just want to make sure I'm understanding the chronology here. So 2024 no more AP Calc. There is around right now. >> Oh, okay. >> Next school year there will be a public college. >> Okay. >> Those students for a transfer to college and they will have the opportunity to take the step. >> Oh, okay. >> Will not take that opportunity away just >> welcome. >> Okay. So the college So the Hilbert College you it's
098the math isn't newep it's Hilbert okay would be say that again it would be pre-calc >> okay okay thank you that's all I had thank you very much okay thank you anyone else >> anybody Okay. >> All right. Uh, future dates. Bosey's component vote is April 28th, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. in the district office. Public hearing on the budget, May 11th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the Middle School High School Library. Annual budget vote May 19th, 2026, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Middle School High School auditorium foyer. The next regular board of ed meeting is May 20th, 2026 at 6 PM in the middle school high school library. And now that upon the recommendation of the superintendent at 7:23 p.m., the board of education enter executive session to discuss the employment history of
099a particular person or persons. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Motion.