001No. >> Looking for a film. Antique film. >> Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming. Um, we're going to call the meeting to order at 6:01. If everyone can please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. Item 1.03, approval of revision of agenda. Be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Fayetteville-Manly Essential School District approve the agenda as presented. May have a motion, please. Thank you, Christie, and a second. Thank you, Anne. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thank you. Item 1.04, recognitions. So, we're going to start with Alexis Thorpe. She's hiding. Hello. Good evening, everybody. Tonight, I
002am thrilled to take a moment to recognize two members of our FA team who have made an incredible impact on our students this year. Our speech-language pathologist, Mrs. Andrea Benz, and Mrs. Lauren Peach. Although Andrea and Lauren are new to us at FA this year, they've quickly become invaluable members of our school community. Their dedication to our students, particularly those in our kindergarten and combined first and second grade 1211 classrooms, has been extraordinary. Through their work, we have seen tremendous growth in our youngest learners' communication skills, confidence, and ability to engage in the world around them. The progress our students are making is truly remarkable. Andrea and Lauren support students who use augmentative and alternative communication, AAC, by utilizing a variety of communication devices and giving a voice to students who are non-verbal. Through their
003use of the AAC devices, our students are now able to communicate their thoughts, needs, and ideas in ways that were not previously possible. Some students communicate using a touchscreen program on iPads, while others, who may have limited mobility, are able to communicate through eye-gaze technology that allows them to select words and messages by simply looking at the screen. The programs they are currently using with our students are TouchChat, TD Snap, and Proloquo2Go. Watching students express themselves in ways like this has been nothing short of amazing for our students and families. Beyond working with directly with students, they've created meaningful systems of support for staff and families as well. Each month, Andrea and Lauren send home a a newsletter with strategies and activities to help families and educators reinforce communication skills at home and at school.
004They also meet monthly with our 1211 classroom teams to share strategies, discuss the core word of the month, and problem-solve together to best support our students. Their work has helped build confidence among our teaching assistants and classroom staff who are increasingly more comfortable modeling communication and helping expand students' vocabulary on their devices. Their efforts extend through our building, also. Their newsletter is displayed in the hallways and in classrooms, and the core word is highlighted on a communication board outside of the speech room so that all students and staff can continue practicing throughout the day. Inside classrooms, you could see teachers wearing communication devices to model language for their students during their daily routines. Just another example of how Andrea and Lauren's guidance in strengthening communication opportunities are across our entire school day. Andrea and Lauren
005have not only supported our students' growth, but they've also strengthened our collaboration with teachers, TAs, and families. Their passion, creativity, and commitment have made a lasting difference for the students that we serve. I am so proud to recognize Andrea and Lauren tonight, and I'm incredibly grateful for the work they do every day at FA. Thank you. >> [applause] >> And now Mr. McNamara has some recognitions. Good evening. Supervision aids at the high school hold a role that can often be challenging and at times under appreciated. Yet, it is undeniably essential. They serve as both the face of our building and a consistent point of contact for our students, making their impact both visible and meaningful every day. As a building with a single point of entry throughout the school day, our supervision aids stationed in
006the security office play a critical role in ensuring the safety of everyone inside as well as those seeking entry. This responsibility requires a strong understanding of security procedures, a calm and empathetic approach when interacting with others, and the ability to think quickly in time-sensitive situations. These expectations are further heightened by broader safety concerns present in today's worlds, adding another layer of complexity to their work. Each morning, our supervision aids begin their day by supervising hundreds of students from 7:05 to 7:30 prior to their release to class. The shift from a 7:10 to a 7:05 opening time, implemented to improve district traffic flow, was met with professionalism, flexibility, and understanding. Another significant change this year has been the implementation of the bell-to-bell cell phone ban. Enforcing this policy can be particularly challenging as it often involves
007asking students to surrender a highly valuable personal item. Despite this, our supervision aids handle these situations with kindness, tact, and a focus on avoiding power struggles. Their ability to de-escalate situations is one of their greatest strengths, an essential skill not only in managing cell phone concerns, but also for addressing occasional verbal and physical conflicts that may arise throughout the school day. While the role of supervision aid is demanding, it is deeply impactful as well. The relationships they build with students and staff are genuine and lasting. They greet, support, and affirm those around them, helping to set a positive tone for the entire building. I want the board and the community to fully recognize the value of this incredible group. Their contributions do not go unnoticed, and I'm truly grateful for the dedication and care they
008bring to our school each and every day. Thank you. Our supervision aids, Jason Didzinski, Erica Fallon, Lindwee Bugile, Jessica Piersaw, Hayley Quinlan, Kim Taylor, Christine Seville, Michelle Hanson, Lori Vendetti, Mark Zello, and we can't forget our Cyros, Officer Damien Golden and Officer Mitch Grogan. Congratulations. Thank you for recognizing the great service that all of those groups bring to the district. Much, much appreciated. Okay, now we're going to move into presentations. So, Brad is going to be presenting the program portion of this upcoming year's budget. Thank you. Bear with me, and my voice is a little shaky, but we'll get there. Um so, this is going to be the the second round we had uh the last time where we talked about uh capital as well as admin, and this will be the program, transportation, and
009revenue, and it's kind of the conclusion of how we bring everything together. So, I thought I'd put this slide in. This kind of represents Thank you. This kind of represents kind of where we left off uh previously when we talked back in February kind of like what are our options in going forward. So, as a reminder, the three options here, finding other sources of revenue, state aid, grants, legislative aid, and then FM property taxes. Option number two, cutting expenses, attrition or reduction in staffing for programs, and then use of reserves and fund balance, and this is what we'd use to balance the budget. So, this was kind of the concept as we go through tonight, we'll kind of talk about where we landed. So, program, program, this is a similar slide, and the concept here
010is you kind of represents here's the main components being athletics, benefits, uh what I call regular school, special ed and support component. Overall, you can see the increase about 1.6 million or 1.8%. The program budget represents largest part of the budget at about 87.5 million. So, within program, you have athletics. Uh these will be a little bit different slides. I had some help from some uh people that were did a much better job than I did as far as the aesthetics of putting those up. So, enjoy the new coloring and font. Uh overall, you can kind of see uh from 25-26 to 26-27 uh kind of where we're at. And then at the bottom, again, you can kind of you see kind of the notes there. So, with salaries, these were those reflect negotiated contractual
011agreements. Coaching, uh the adjustment there is really just a budget to actual adjustment. Officials were one of the drivers, you can kind of kind of see there. Uh that was an increase in the really in official fees. And then rentals where we saw an increase in rental fees and pricing, things like pool, uh rings for ice hockey, things of that nature. Special ed's the next slide. Um you can kind of again see that that same pattern where you can see down towards the bottom. Uh the salaries really uh represent the reflected negotiated contractual agreements. Uh BOCES services, you can kind of see there. Uh that's one of those where the decrease in this case uh continues where we had it's a shift really from BOCES services where we uh shifted over some of the instruction
012from a high needs perspective specifically over to the internal base instruction. We've had some growth in the 811 and 1211 programs. And then equipment and supplies where we had an increase in needs and higher prices. Regular school, uh this is kind of the first slide you'll have to really kind of pay attention to where this is going to be a difference. Uh and that teaching salaries, that first bullet, you can kind of see there we had seven retirement positions not being filled due to attrition. So, this is what something we've talked about uh I think back in February, and this is kind of that first kind of wave kind of uh coming to fruition from that standpoint. So, those seven positions of folks who were going to be retiring, uh that represented somewhere around $650,000
013uh of money that would be applied to the budget for the subsequent year. Uh the next item there, TA sub aids and subs, but again, those represent negotiated salary increases. So, that represents that top part like I said with those teacher salaries, that decrease, that's really what that's attributed to. So, again continuing with regular school, you can kind of see there uh professional development, that's an increase professional development needs is this the increase there of about 10K. Equipment, there was really less equipment furniture needs, again that's probably due to the construction over the last 4 years up there and the amount of equipment and construction related things that we've been taking care of. Uh materials and supplies, less training and fees into the year two. So, this is something where I probably didn't do the
014best job in my initial draft of kind of putting that through. So, with the literacy program, we had an opportunity where the extra offered a price where you could basically pay it now for a one-time and then it would actually waive the fees for the next 2 years. So, that's some of kind of what that's attributed to. That amount is actually less than the first year because the first year is most of you probably know of anything you take on, you have those first year needs with the installation, training, things of that nature. So, that's kind of really what that represented. Uh BOCES is the is the last item you can kind of see with that increase. So, the STEAM program, the STEAM program was new, I think it was last year. We have two
015eighth grade students, I believe they go per year. That goes on for a period of about 4 years, it's $25,000 per student. So, ideally you have the $50,000 last year, it goes up to $100,000 for this year, then it would go up another 50 and another 50 and then plateau off unless there's any changes in the pricing. So, that's kind of the STEAM program. Virtual high school, uh past year we had two students, this year I think we're budgeted for five. Uh so, that's kind of what that represents in regards to that increase. Then the BOCES copy center print shop, that can escalate and kind of move around a little bit as I've been seeing this year. I think they've lost some staff and then uh it's a situation with based on volume or whatever
016districts do internally, those prices can kind of fluctuate. So, that kind of really represents what we saw from an overall BOCES increase. Pre-K, uh really the main thing here is really that bottom uh part where you can kind of see outside services and that's kind of an anomaly in the sense of really it's an increase due to curriculum needs. That's an every 2 years is kind of the way that cycle works. So, next year you'll see it kind of go back down and then the following year it go back up, but again it's a every 2 year cycle for curriculum. Support, you can kind of see there at the first one, uh it's actually uh the CTE and that's at bottom uh I should say towards the bottom there that first item where you can
017see 10 fewer seats needed. Those seats are expensive, they're about $10,000. And that's really what that uh decrease is there in the in relation to CTE is those 10 fewer slots. Uh summer school, you kind of see the increase there. Uh that's the return of the summer literacy program. We took a hiatus last year because of the construction going on and then the safety and security uh capital project we had done on campus. So, this year we'd like to bring that back and that's kind of represents that increase. IT department, you can kind of see there that increase there from the 3.7 to 3.9 million. That really represents additional hardware and software needs. We've got a big movement on from a Chromebooks perspective and try to order more and have those ready. It kind of
018seems like since the COVID days that we've kind of struggled at least from uh the outsourcing of where we've had to receive Chromebooks timely to have them everything ready for students to come back. So, that's something we've been trying to take advantage of. Uh the other items there, the health medical and the family school liaison again represents the contractual salary increases. And the library is really additional media services from BOCES for needs that they requested. So, mental health services, this is a slide we've had up I think since you know, basically when kind of the the movement came a few years ago. Uh we've added a dollar figure towards the top and that represents roughly about $4 million uh from a price tag perspective. Again, you can kind of see that top part being our
019internal support and what we get for the for the corresponding funding. Uh family school liaisons, there's six of them, one per school building. Counselors at 13, one in each of the elementary schools, two at at the middle schools and six at the high school. Psychologists where we have seven. And then you can see the corresponding contracts we have with Contact Community Services, CEOI Mental Health. And then towards the bottom, the Onondaga County uh with it some of the uh tier one, tier two and tier three uh services that we've uh are are using. Next, we're going to move into transportation. Again, transportation, this is a slide you've seen probably in the past. Uh you can see the corresponding components of it. Overall, it's an increase of about 157,000 or 2.6%. And transport transportation represents about
020$6.1 million of the budget. So, in transportation, uh the big things again towards the bottom, salaries really reflect again negotiated contractual agreements. Uh bus attendance, we did see a decrease there. Uh some of it where we're we're seeing uh actually just looking at overall use and kind of you know, mostly being driven by IEP needs and things of that nature. We just weren't seeing as much of there or in fact uh what the needs currently were. So, this really represents really more of a budget to actual adjustment on that. Contractual services, you can kind of see there that there's an increase. That's really represented in insurance as well as our tire mounting service, projected bus lift repairs. Ideally, that bus lift would be something that would get uh fully repaired to the point where it
021actually would receive a new one. Uh we're working through with a grant right now trying to be able to get that through uh Senator Ryan and then hopefully that'll be some funding that we can kind of shift off of the repair side. Materials and supplies, we see an increase in needs and rise in prices in fuel, parts, tires and supplies. And then in BOCES, uh we've added a service on the bus routing and labor relation service. Uh and that'll be something that uh we'll be looking through and I think they'll end up tying over into uh school start time committee with some of the routing and things of that nature that they're going to have as well. So, those are some of the increases with transportation. So, next we have district-wide benefit components and those
022represent what you consider benefits with ERS, TRS, social security, uh health, dental and vision insurance, retirement incentives, et cetera. So, this we kind of made it stand-alone, I kind of pulled it towards the back this year just because it was such a big focus and I'll get into some of the changes here. You can see in ERS we had a higher rate this year at 17.6 from the prior year's 16.5. So, that drove some of the increase at that point. TRS was ironically the opposite where it went a little bit lower and that went from 8.24 from the prior year, excuse me, 8.24 in the current year to 9.59 which was in the prior year. Uh workers comp, that was really a decrease due to a lower projected rate for those dollars. And then the
023403B uh retirement payout codes are really projected to be flat. So, the ERS TRS kind of swung and that kind of netted itself out per se. And then the workers comp was a decrease there. The bigger one is is is really here in this slide and this represents your benefits with the the dental, vision and health insurance. In the health insurance you can kind of see over to the right by the number with the red asterisks. Uh so, this year was a new one in the sense of as you can kind of see on that bottom bullet, they came out about 10.5% was the annual premium increase. Uh you can kind of see at the bottom there with in the italics the health insurance increases over the last 10 years has historically been somewhere around
024that 6% range. Uh we haven't experienced anything, you know, anything in double digits that I'm aware of. And then our last meeting we had at our health insurance co-op that I sit on there for an executive committee uh spot, we got talking and there's a BOCES that's uh neighboring BOCES that's a little further south, they're going to see a 35% increase. So, that number was quite staggering to me. Um it's a situation where they've tried to kind of put it off maybe for a few years where as a certain percentage they were proposed to say, "Hey, this would probably be ideal for you to do that." And they were kind of trying to hoping that maybe it wouldn't be as high as when it finally came in. And they took that road and then over
025the last 2 or 3 years the number just kept creeping up to the point where they got hit with a 35% increase. Those are in the private sector that aren't using the co-op, I think they're seeing double digit increases as well. So, the 10 and a half if anything if you took us kind of around the state and said in comparison to other co-ops, we're actually on the low end. Um the bad news is that 10 and a half percent is a significant increase. The other bad news is for the next 3 or 4 years for projections if everything goes the way they're going, they're projecting somewhere around that 9, 8 and a half, 8% for that. So, the point you probably are going to be asking is what's driving it. And everything I'm kind
026of hearing it's kind of twofold. There's the GLP-1s and the increase of kind of what's going on there. I think that can actually represent part of that 10 and a half percent to the point where it might even be a 2% alone represented in that. The offset of that is, okay, well those GLP-1s, is that something maybe we could produce better health results for folks in future years and ideally have, you know, reduced impact from health. And that's just something we're not at that point yet. Uh but that's kind of what they're seeing. They didn't know with going to the pill from the injections there'd be any change from a cost perspective. I guess at this point there really isn't anything significant that we're hearing cost-wise. So, that's kind of one of your primaries if
027you're wondering what's driving it. Uh people are using it and and you know, from that side of it and it's those costs just just aren't decreasing. If anything, uh they're either stable or they're going up. So, that's really kind of where that's at and for the future you're probably going to be seeing those kind of numbers with that 10% mark give or take. So, the budget components here with benefits, excuse me, with budget components here with benefits included here, this is going to be your administrative, capital and program. Again, in that pie chart format, you guys have seen this before. The blue representing the largest portion represents about 87 and a half million dollars or about 71%. Capital, and this has creeped up this year and that's a 24.2 million or 19.8% and administrative being
028the smallest down there at 10.8 represents 8.8. So, I think it's kind of where that you've heard the norm usually where you get that kind of like 10, 20, 70 somewhere in that ballpark, that's kind of where you're at. You're a little below 10 in administrative which is where you want to be. Capital, you're sitting somewhere around that 20 and then program you're sitting at that 71. So, the budget components, I spiked out the program part, excuse me, the benefits part towards the bottom there, you can kind of see that as a standalone because it was really interesting if you kind of pulled out [clears throat] the benefits and that 10 and 1/2% that we talked about and kind of what does that do overall to the three-part budget? You can see program with only
029a a 0.6% change, uh $60.8 million. Admin, 2.59% and I'm going to talk about that in a second. Capital, you can kind of see it at that 21.2 to 22.6 and then that benefits piece with that uh corresponding 10 and 1/2% increase that I talked about, you can see there at 5.1% overall and it represents on the total budget a 5.2% increase year-over-year on the budget. So, that admin at 2.59, one of the pieces here if if the folks that were here last time uh got to see when when uh Matt Cook was here, we talked about was that in that 20 125,000 of BOCES capital improvement. So, there's a lot of construction going on at BOCES. Unfortunately, it's a situation where they pass it through back over to the districts. So, our portion of
030it represents about $125,000 that goes through. So, if you pulled that 125 out, in this case admin would really represent somewhere around 0.82% overall on the budget, which kind of goes in hand in hand with what you're seeing in program. And I'll talk a little bit more about what's driving that in a second, too. So, the expenditure budget, again, this is kind of that slide I talk about if you're going to retain anything on one slide, this is probably the one uh from the expenditure side. You can see 500,000 really represents salaries. That's overall salaries, negotiated contracts and or attritions included in that. So, that's that increase from budget to budget. Health insurance and benefit costs, we talked about that and that's that 10 and 1/2% increase and that represents 1.8 million. Gas and electric,
031we saw an increase. I think I should talked about that last time. Uh I think most folks have been seeing that national grid cost increases where we put in somewhere in that 20% range. That represents about 100,000. And then debt service with high school capital project and roofing project at 3.7 million increase year-over-year. So, overall if you take those numbers, it represents 6.1 million. And I'm going to talk about a couple of those as I go further into some of the other slides as well. So, revenue components, similar to uh what we have with expenses, uh again, you can kind of see there in a three-part state aid, property taxes and other revenue. Uh tax levy being the highest part in green represents about 63%. State aid represents about 31.6 in the blue and then
032other revenue represent the smallest portion of 5.1. So, state aid, this is there's a lot of on here, but uh this is where we try to consolidate a little bit and uh okay, I'll walk through it with you guys. So, if you look, you know, towards the top, you got the foundation aid at the top and that's really more uh of what you call a formula-based uh aid aid plan and then everything else is really what you call spend-based aid from BOCES, high cost, instructional materials, transportation and building. So, foundation aid, if you go down, you can kind of see it's the second from the uh from the second bullet in there where it talked about formula-based and a projected $342,000 increase. I think it came out somewhere around 1.7%. So, depending on whatever the
033governor does in regards to the the last budget, that number ideally would go up a little bit. If it doesn't, I think that's probably a a a pretty fair number in that 342,000. Um Next, we'll talk about uh BOCES transportation aid. Really, more spending generates additional aid. And then building aid, this is kind of the one where it it's kind of the driver and you kind of see I've got the red asterisks over there uh by the 7.9 million. So, that's really due to the completion of the high school capital project and the roofing project. So, construction overall, this is the piece I think Jason did a good job where he was asking me last time to kind of have a little bit of a competitive analysis here from kind of overall, what does that
034mean? So, that red asterisk, that construction debt, we've got about 10.7 million overall and then what does that mean? Well, you're offset by building aid of about 7.9 million. So, that's kind of that analysis where we kind of gave that 80/20, give or take. Every time you spend uh a dollar, you get 80 cents of it is going to be spent towards or get get back, excuse me, from uh the state in regards to building aid. That 20 cents is the portion that the districts have from the taxpayers. In our case, it's a little bit off from that, but give or take, that those are the numbers uh for this year from that standpoint. Property taxes, uh this is the similar side you've kind of seen. Uh you get towards the middle and you can
035kind of see where the tax cap is. That usually is the number people are kind of focused on. This case, the tax cap being at 3.12% represents about 2.3 million. Last year, we were at 3.56, represented 2.6 million, so we'd be down from prior year. And the levy itself we're proposing to go out again at that 3.12. So, this last uh item on the bottom is one I usually like to try to have a little more information for this meeting and have a discussion, but uh what that represents is that $58 is the increase on a $100,000 home. Uh ideally, I'd like to hear if I can reach out and talk to the assessor, what's going on with assessments. I haven't been able to get that information yet. In past years, I have and then
036we kind of try to apply some kind of a multiplier. If it was 8%, 10%, whatever that number was. And then if I'm lucky enough, I can get my hands on some of the equalization preliminary numbers and then I'll try to come through and do a calculation. So, at this point, I think the 58's probably a high water mark. Uh I do think they probably might go down a little bit, but I just wanted at this point kind of be consistent with having a new assessor in and I was going to leave that number of kind of what I had thought was a high water mark. And then so, using the that prior year assessment values and prior year equalization rates, that's where that 58 comes in. Other revenue, uh again, this is a bigger
037slide. It's the smallest part of the budget, but a lot kind of going on and I kind of broke it out and and and Kelly did a nice job for me where she kind of broke out the bottom cuz that's kind of going to be my focus point, but so up top, you can kind of see some of the changes. Interest, we're showing a decrease. Uh the way the interest rates are going, we just thought there'd probably be a slight reduction there. Uh some of the other things are relatively, you know, uh minor, I guess overall from that aspect. And then the big thing is really kind of at the bottom of the use of reserves and assigned fund balance. So, last year with 25/26, you can kind of see in that middle column the
038total there being 3.45 million. That's what we were using last year to basically balance the budget. So, if you think about your revenues less your expenditures or vice versa, I should say, expenditures less your revenues, that's that net difference where ideally you're looking for zero or how much do you have to apply towards it. Last year, we applied 3.45 million to balance the budget. So, this year, you kind of come through and you can kind of see what we've got there with the asterisks, you actually net it out to last year where it's a point where you're only within $6,400 overall from year to year. How did you get there? Well, that was the point where we talked a couple weeks ago when I first came out and did that presentation, I said your number
039was going to be significantly higher in appropriated fund balance. This is where that assigned fund balance and reserves took that attrition impact and then you were able to come through and apply 750,000 against that and that's where you were able to basically come back to net zero, if you will, year-over-year. Excuse me, with the amount of reserves and fund balance. So, that's what that was worth, I guess, you know, from a dollars perspective to overall budget and how you got there. Okay. So, overall revenue revenue budget overview, again, that slide it kind of if you take away everything from revenue and apply it into one slide, state aid, $3.9 million increase, 3.3 million of it was that increase in building aid. That's something that we we use, as we talked about, to offset expenses where
040we got in in debt. Property tax levy represents 2.3 million. Again, it's that projected 3.12% tax levy. And then other revenue is actually a decrease about 100,000 and that's really what the interest was. So, if you take the 3.9 and 2.3, subtract the 100, that's roughly your 6.1 to offset that 6.1 you had over on the expense side. So, what I want to do for this one is kind of similar to what I did last time with the last uh with admin and capital is I wanted to kind of go through a summary, but this one I wanted to pull in all the components and then kind of walk through kind of how we got there with the overall budget. So, benefits being the first one again, that 1.8 million dollar increase in health insurance,
041there's that 10 and 1/2% we talked about. So, that 10 and 1/2% what does it represent? Represents about 1.8 million dollars. Program, what are we seeing in program? We didn't fill seven positions due to attrition, that represents about 650,000. Athletics, we had an increase about 100,000. Those are what I was talking about with the official fees and rental fees for the ice for for the pool, etc. IT, we saw an increase about 240,000 related software and hardware needs, Chromebooks, etc. Capital, debt with the BANs and bonds, we saw a 3 and 1/2% increase in overall debt. Again, that's going to be offset by 3.3 million in projected building aid, but you did see the debt on that side. Gas and electric, 18% increase in overall in gas electric. I type talked a little bit about
042the 20% mark. We came through at 18, that represents somewhere around 120,000. Admin, we're going to have a reduction of one administrative intern position, represents somewhere around 96,000. Uh building insurance costs, you're going to see an increase about 17% due to overall insurance, something we've been seeing uh overall with other insurance-related companies and schools, things like cyber insurance and building replacement costs. And then that BOCES capital expense which I talked about last time with passing that through over to the district was an increase about 125,000. Another summary piece of it here tying back over to state aid, taxes and fund balance and reserves. So, in state aid, your foundation aid increase represented about 342,000. That's the initial projection of 1.7%. Again, if the governor comes through and it's a higher amount, that's great. But right
043now, it kind of sits at that baseline model that we had of 1.7. That building aid increase represents 3.3 million. Again, it's offset by that 3.5 million in debt. Taxes, we talked a little already about that with the cap being at 3.12 and then the levy itself being 3.12 and the overall dollars being about 2.3 million. The fund balance and reserves, again, this year we're going to use about 560,000. Using fund balance about 2.85 and the total use this year for overall be about $3.4 million to balance the budget. So, use of reserves and fund balance. This is the one where I When I think when Deb kind of gave her slide, she did a nice job of kind of focusing in overall and kind of saw what what we were doing. So, I tried
044to kind of put something together for you guys for a visual aid. You can kind of see on that left side the 23-24, how much you're using to balance the budget. In this case, we used about 319,000 to balance the budget in 23-24. 24-25 comes down, we're not getting as but chain expenses creeping up, we're using about 2.1 million. Last year, we got to the point where we knew we were kind of starting to tip the scale, we're using about 3.4. And this year, we're actually going through and we have as we got that bottom note with the asterisk, include $750,000 of attrition, uh seven instructional position, and the reduction of one admin intern position. That it represents there that 750, that brought us back down to actually even with last year sitting around 3.44.
045So, that's what it take again to get us even overall with last year, but you can kind of see that trend where you're going from 300,000 to 2.1 to 3.4, and then that reduction in those position uh for the intern and then the attrition for the others to to that 3.4 overall. So, that's kind of how we got here from that standpoint. So, back to that slide number one, I think I gave like kind of how we're going to answer everything, there's kind of where we got to. So, the recommended options. Number one, state aid. Again, any significant increase is probably unlikely. F&M property taxes, we had to cap in the levy at 3.12. The supermajority process, it's probably not recommended, but the concern of local assessments again, they've increased historically back at that 50
046to 60% level over the last few years. Cut expenses. We went through uh we've we've listened. There's been a reduction as far as in attrition uh from that standpoint at 750,000 again with the seven teaching and then the one admin. Use of reserves and fund balance. Again, we tried to keep it flat with last year. So, overall there uh you're going to see budgeting in that 3.4 or 3.5 million dollars of use of reserves and fund balance to uh balance the budget. Next steps will be the adoption on the 20th, budget hearing the 11th, and the vote itself on the 19th. So, I know that was a lot of information, a lot of different slides. Um I want to open it up for questions. I know you guys aren't shy, so uh Brad, I just
047a couple of questions. I think maybe you've you've addressed them before, but um first off, uh the BOCES capital. Could I know you kind of reminded us uh what that's that's from, obviously they're capital improvement projects. Is that a recurring cost every year? And is the amount uh projected to be the same every year based on that most recent capital uh project or that just got a Yeah, so that was the one I think Jason uh and I got the phone a friend last time with Matt Cook sitting in the audience, and I think it was similar to that question, and the answer is yes. It's so it's a recurring, it's flat from that aspect of it until they do anything future where it could either go up or go off the books. And then
048and then one other question. Um with with this budget, I just wanted to confirm there's no uh actual cuts to program included in this budget, correct? All there is is attrition. So, those were positions that at this point we're going to be retirees for program from that side of it, and those are just reductions from attrition. But as far as program offerings No, right. Okay, thank you. So, You got to hit your little Yeah. I'm still learning. This is start of week four. Um if there were going to be any reduction in programs, we would certainly alert alert the board a lot sooner than this presentation. Uh Brad, I I just want to reiterate. First of all, I appreciate you going through all of this. I know a lot of work that's involved with it.
049The um business of education is becoming a more and more expensive business each year, and you know, we're in the situation where we have many unfunded mandates that come from the state that impact our budget, and the aid levels from the state are not keeping up at the inflationary rate of the expenses that we're having. And so, we have this impos- semi-impossible task every year where inflationary rates are driving expenses higher than the aid that's coming in, but we also have the blessing of this state tax cut cap that we can't exceed, and that causes obviously some significant budget issues. So, I do just want to highlight again as John asked about is that the budget as it's been presented is preserving 100% of the programs that this district has offered and continues to offer,
050and the only position that's proposed to be eliminated is that single administrative position, not any teaching or faculty or staff or coaching or other positions throughout the district, which I think puts us in a very unique position relative to our our peer group schools. Many of them at least in in this region, um I'm not to call out any of particular other than the fact that, you know, it's it's been you know, on the news again today and many days that the Liverpool district, for example, with a $20 million budget deficit looking at cutting 82 roughly positions to close that gap and and to deep dig very deeply into reserves. Um I I think that I just I don't have a specific question. I just want to thank you for the work that has been
051done not this year, but over many years to keep us to the position where we've been able to add programs, the programming that we need in this district. And you know, one of your slides was was the fact that um we spend $4 million a year on mental health services Sure. for our students. Uh most districts are not doing that, and that's a very significant expenditure, but one that was specifically asked for by this community, by our students, by our faculty um that we do. And so, the ability to preserve those programs in the face of the economic increases, inflationary increases, fighting against a tax cap, and and state aid that doesn't come up. Um I'll I'll I'll I'll end with just one thing. There used to be a slide for those of us who
052have been around this district for a long time that was always present in the um budget discussions was a slide that I believe that the last time that it was shared showed that the state owed us approximately $66 million in foundation aid that should have been provided to our district, but wasn't in the many years when the state was not meeting its foundation aid obligations. And although the state um over the past six five six years started getting back to and did get back to the formula that they were required to pay off, they never did pay that back owed money. Um and that's what's largely contributed to many of the difficulties that many districts find themselves in today. And And so, being able to continue to offer the programs without staff cuts, I just
053I appreciate the work that you and the rest of our administrative team have put in to be able to hold the line on on the offerings that we do in this district. So, thank you. Yeah, I think, you know, one of the the things I probably should have remarked as well Danny did a good job a couple years ago kind of starting the trend. Again, for you guys, anybody new or anybody listening out there, a lot of those kind of one of the talks was, you know, what does that represent? Are those items that are up there right now? They're fixed costs, you know, anything from salaries what you're looking at, you can kind of see negotiated contracts or attrition. It's a fixed cost, it's documented, it's been negotiated, etc. Health insurance is part of
054the co-op, here's the actual recommended rate from that side of it. Gas and electric, I guess it's not a fixed cost in the sense of we can put the heat down to like 50 here, we can you know what I mean? From that side of it, but that's not going to be acceptable either. And debt service, that's a negotiated amount as well. So, when you get into it, you know, one of the common things kind of I tell some of the younger folks doing this for a living is there's a lot of this that really isn't really that variable. You know, you can do your materials and supplies and things of that nature, and a lot of it kind of we already did from that side of it. And you can kind of see it
055with program. They went through and they did their part to the point where they can see the 0.6% increase. Admin, you pull up to 125 and you're at 0.82. That's the hard part Danny just got to. You know what I mean? Here's what state aid's offering, here's what you got for fixed expenses, that's what your actually two areas of you you know, that went through and they actually gave up, that's what you're down to. And the benefit side of it, that is what it is. The Liverpool's the other There's going to be a bunch you'll see in the news. We are the envy of everybody from the contract standpoint, we're the be up envy of everybody, you know, having the HVAC systems in place and things of that nature and the instruction on that thing.
056So, we're we are doing a good job if, you know, from that side of it, the unfortunate part is it's just hard to keep up. So, are there other questions? I have a question about the seven positions um that we're not filling due to attrition. Um how did we or or how did the district decide that those positions could not be filled? Like, what positions were they? And is there was there a look at how that might potentially impact students or staff? Just curious to what those positions were. We've been having a lot of sections meetings and looking at enrollment. And so in certain instances, there are a decline in enrollment, reduction in caseloads. So we've been spending quite a few meetings actually looking at scheduling, caseload, and enrollment, and that's how we make those
057decisions. And we have shared staff where appropriate to also address that. You're welcome. Are there other questions? Sure. Um I just had a question about the pre-K curriculum. Um so every 2 years, is that a a new curriculum set that comes in or training related to curriculum? Just Could I phone a friend if I do so in this year? Looking in her direction. We even have the last name Parvi even. Oh, sorry. Either friend. Either friend. >> [laughter] >> So it is a digital curriculum. So we pay for it every 2 years. We could decide to pay for it annually, but there is a cost savings if we pay for it the way that we do. Okay, so like a renewal fee to just >> Correct. Yeah, to subscription. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, thank
058you. You're welcome. Other questions? Brad, I I just want to say thank you as I know that there is just a ton of time and effort that goes into all of this and it is very very complex and you do a wonderful job of really not only mapping out this year, but you know, kind of giving the board a heads up as to what is coming in the future. So really appreciate the the thoughtfulness and the time that you take to go through it all. If you can go back to the slide for a minute where we show the cost per 100,000 of home assessments. So I just want to emphasize and this comes up every year. Um that you know, that we do not control the Board of Ed does not control the home
059assessments. That is through the town assessor. Uh there's a new town assessor this year as you mentioned. So don't know how assessments will look. Um but it's something that that we the board don't control and that directly influences what taxpayers pay. Um so if your assessment is uneven or something out of the ordinary, again, that's something we can't control and that has to be appealed back to the the town of Manlius. Uh their appeals day might be the fourth Tuesday in May. Just just throwing that out there. >> [laughter] >> Um and also Brad, I think Yeah, public service announcement, right? The fourth Tuesday in May, conveniently the day after Memorial Day. Um but I also I think the other key takeaway, right? Is the the property tax cap of 3.12. And and I can't
060emphasize that enough. The town last year, the town of Manlius budget where the majority of our taxpayers sit for the school district, uh they raised the town the town took an increase of 17 and 1/2% last year. Uh so when people look at their tax bill and say, "Wow, this is this is rather high." The town raised their tax 17 and 1/2% the school district at 3.12. I don't know, I feel like we're kind of a bargain. Um but I I just want to get that out there and get it on the record so that folks can, you know, think objectively about it. Um and again, encourage folks to to come and ask questions. I know I think on one of the slides, I think it's May 11th, we're going to have the budget open
061house. I believe. Budget hearing. Yeah, um May 11th. So again, thank you Brad for all the efforts. And also one last shout-out, I do want to say thank you at the last board meeting to our teachers union who are here, but recently, you know, settled on a contract to again help give the district financial clarity going forward. It's a big thing. It's a good thing for all of us and so greatly appreciate it both sides that we were able to work through that and get that done. Yep, that was great effort. Are there any questions? Thank you very much. >> Okay, thank you guys. Uh item 2.02, president's report. Um two two things. Um so in the light of discussions about budget, um I wanted to circle back. We have an opportunity to either renew
062or not or choose not to renew our National School Board Association uh dues. It's not the same as New York State School Boards Association. Um it So my understanding from researching a little bit and with our district clerk, it still allows us to participate in the national conference if we wanted to. I know we haven't sent anyone in a couple of years. Um and then it we can participate, you just don't get the advanced early bird special. Um and then the other thing is the magazine that comes out periodically. Uh there are a lot of other districts that do not participate the national level. Um and we can always rejoin if we want to in the future, but it's a $2,500 annual fee. And I wasn't it seems like maybe we're not getting our bang
063for the buck out of that. So I just wanted to see if anyone um felt differently about taking this year off of the membership. Um I don't feel differently. I agree. I attended the conference about 3 years ago, I think it was, and it's changed a lot. Um I think it was in 2020 or 2021, but about half the states involved no longer no longer to participate. So it really changed the quality of the conference. So um I think we would be doing well to not renew. Okay. Does anybody feel differently on that? Okay, great. Thank you. And then the second piece that we've talked about in the past fairly recently about piloting board listening sessions and we had discussed maybe kicking them off in the fall for the start of the new academic year.
064But in discussions with Dr. Parvi, the reason we talked about waiting till fall was we didn't want to have too many activities going on with the new superintendent listening sessions and the board. Um but we have been discussing maybe it would make sense to pilot one maybe in April and one in May to see how they go and give an opportunity to your point, Jason, if people have want to give feedback about the budget or whatever it may be, but maybe are less inclined to come to public comment. Um and we can see how they go and then maybe learn some lessons from that so that when we kick them off in the fall, um we have a little bit more feedback on that. So does anybody have any concerns about trying to get something
065together for maybe one session in April and one session in May? Sounds good. So how many what is the vision for how many board members should be involved for each one? So we would probably have about three board members. And one of the things that we've talked about in CRC is that we would have very clearly articulated sort of um standards and rules and expectations similar to public comment that they're meant to be listening sessions as opposed to necessarily Q&A sessions. It's an opportunity for any members of the community to come and just give us some feedback about particular topics and then if we're noticing various [clears throat] trends or things that are popping up that we can share that with Dr. Parvi so that maybe there's something that we want to look into taking
066action on or in looking into further. Thank you. I'm just a really enthusiastic yes. >> [laughter] >> No no questions. Jacob, did you have a question? Uh yeah, just curious. Um I know we uh have briefly talked at a past board meeting about having one specifically with students. Um is that kind of um does that also encircle that as well? Or will it be kind of two separate things? One's more towards the adult audience and the other one's more towards the student or like during the school day where so students are more available cuz students tend to be less available and kind of get less of a variety of students of different areas. >> Yeah, so I think we can think about what the timing is. I mean, it's open to anyone, so it doesn't
067it's not that it can only be students or only be community members or staff or anything like that. But we can think about scheduling options so that hopefully we can make it most accessible to any group of of stakeholders that would like to attend. So maybe it's right after school or something like that, perhaps. Yeah. Okay. So silly, we learned a little bit of um evidence statistical evidence on when people would prefer to meet. So So thank you to Dr. Parvi for pulling that together at our last meeting. So we we have some basis on how we would go about doing that. Yes. Although I will say at the meet and greet, right? Which was on the weekend, which was the non-popular item. There were quite a few people there. So um Uh okay, great.
068Then uh I will probably ask the Community Relations Committee to help. Um we'll work on some of the details and then send it out to step try to get some folks signed up for to try to pilot and see what information we learn from it. Thank you. That's all. And now moving on to superintendent's report. Thank you. And good evening. So, wonderful things are still happening in our great district and I'm happy to update the board on what's been going on over the past 2 weeks. I always like to share a little bit about what I see in our environment because I would like to say that our school environments are very positive places. Very creative bulletin boards and murals. This mural was at Wellwood Middle School and thought it was a great one just
069by reminding our students to be upstanders and to be able to speak out sometimes against friends, especially when you see something that probably isn't okay. So, thought it would be a great way to start in terms of, you know, just saying our peace and, you know, especially for our students who sometimes see things but don't say things. So, my agenda this evening will share my I'll share my school visits, some administrative happenings in our district, community events and engagement, and also can never forget our FM pride. Make sure we're keeping up. Okay. And so, um I was at Wellwood Middle School on March 10th. Great visit there. Had an opportunity to visit several classes and some of your children did see me there. And this was a technology class where students were designing and building
070tic-tac-toe boards and were very happy to show off their work, um but also very happy that for the visit. I also felt I had to highlight this student, Daden D. He took a break from badminton to say hello, but I had to highlight him because he was so polite. I couldn't believe how just amazing and polite he was. And so, I just wanted to say a shout-out to Daden. And then also I had my visit at Fayetteville also on March 10th. And I have to say, so I'm highlighting Mrs. Merritt's grade 2 class because our students appropriately asked, "What does a superintendent do?" And so, I explained and the principal explained, you know, that I'm responsible for all schools, all staff, and, you know, and they agreed that it was a big job. So, I
071said, "Well, it is a big job. Does anyone want to share in the job and help me do the job?" And I had to take a picture of the number of hands that shot up, which clearly our young ones don't know the job if they really want to share. So, um felt like I had to highlight them that they were willing to help me out. And then of course our students I just always like how engaged they are. You do see one cute one looking over, but for the most part no one was interrupted by the visit. They were very focused. And Doc um Dr. Doton would be very happy to hear that they were doing their literacy lesson. And no one cared that the superintendent was there cuz they were focusing on their literacy.
072So, that was a great thing to see. And um I have to say that our Pi Day is otherworldly. Had a It It's just like I mean, that kind of excitement around math. I just could not believe it, but I also have to highlight our educators because not only were our students engaged and um and excited, but our teachers made it quite an experience for the students. And so, special shout-out to Chris Alvarez, Leigh Bishop, Deanna Comer, Megan DeBlois, Brad DeLance, Pat Engel, Kel Kelly Flannery, Elena I'm going to mess up her name, but Elena Wellwood School. I thank you because she was also there. Matt Harbinger, Susan Hebert, Jennifer Kroll, Rachel Mason, Kelly Pelliter, and Natalie Wilson. The teachers did such an amazing job, but the students the energy of everyone. So, thank you
073and a shout-out to our students. And if you have not seen Pi Day, that's something you must experience. It was And also just congratulations to the students that actually were successful. And your daughter, Ms. Pinsky, was in the top five. It's a lot of work. I couldn't tell you anything but beyond 3.14. So, I'm very very Yeah. Very very very proud of them. Um and then I had an opportunity to go to our K-12 art show at the Fayetteville Free Library. Just had to highlight some of the amazing work that our students are doing. So, I just wanted to highlight that. And also the fact that I had an opportunity to engage with our community at the art show. And our students who were there um their families that were there to support their um
074students. Okay, I'm having a little bit of an issue with my mouse. All right. And this little one um from Mott Road, she I actually saw her at the art show and she said, "Hey, I know you." And I was like, "How do you know me?" She said, "You came to my classroom. You were at Mott Road." And so, she was very schnazzy that day. You can see with her hip um hat. And so, I just had to shout her out because she was just very She stood out to me because she came with her family and said, "I know you." um because I had visited her classroom. And I had a great time learning with our third graders at um Enders Road who had an opportunity to learn about the Iditarod. We had Carrie
075Lant Karen Land who was there with her dog Sophia, but our students were so engaged and paying attention to something so unique and also following the races because they had a first-hand experience through this visit. So, we do great things for our kids in um Fayetteville-Manlius and I think the world needs to know because our students even get to do unique things like following an Iditarod race. So, and I was happy I was there to be able to meet Sophia and Karen on that day. I'm going to just use this arrow here because that is starting to get on my nerves. All right. And so, we had our high school Battle of the Books on March 16th. And um our congratulations to our students who do amazing They have to pull out these books from
076just a quote or a situation and they are able to do that. And so, our students came in second place. They did an amazing job and I was happy that I was there. I was there with Dr. Doton. We had an opportunity to see our students in action. And thank you to Liz Lutz for inviting me to be there. And I had a great experience at our planetarium. Such an amazing experience. I was accompanying Mrs. um Miss Norris's um fifth grade class from Eagle Hill. So, I'm just impressed by the planetarium. It was a great experience. And I want to thank Aaron Concannon who does a great job narrating the whole experience for students and making it really a positive experience. So, again, if anyone doesn't know the great things happening at FM, I'm very
077happy to be a cheerleader about the great experiences our students have on a regular basis in our schools. And um Once Upon a Mattress was absolutely amazing. Our students did a fabulous job. I could not stop laughing. And to say that I saw our students on opening night, not an error, not a hiccup. They were phenomenal. So, thank you to our staff that helped get this off the ground and to our amazing students. And I did get to sit next to Mr. McNamara who also had a great chuckle with me during that performance. And I our board member who isn't here but was also there um Rebecca Cohen. We had a great time seeing our kids in action. So, just a great performance. And our professional learning day, shout-out to Dr. Doton who coordinated and
078organized it, but also shout-out to our staff. Had to show you the love that our teachers have for each other because Matt Murphy, there were pictures for him there. He was a presenter that evening. Our educators do love learning from each other. And Mr. Murphy, when he came to the podium, there were huge pictures of him held up by his colleagues. So, I was just impressed by that. So, we had to get a picture of that. But it was a great learning day talking about our FM portrait of a learner. Great conversations. And what really Dr. Doton did a good job with organizing is making sure that there was cross-functional conversations. Teachers at the elementary level and secondary level had a chance to talk. And our elementary teachers had some time to really also unpack
079the new literacy program and talk about things that are going well and things that where they need additional support. And then that was um our counselors who were also talking about the portrait of a learner. So, really a very focused professional learning day where a lot was happening and everyone We have very good feedback from our staff also about how the day went. So, thank you to our staff and did who led the PD, but also for the engagement of all our other teachers. And we had our dance dance marathon. Again, also otherworldly. Um and the fact that we raised $167,921. This is more than we ever have. So, we broke another record. And we are just Our students, our parents, HSA president Christina Mosher, and the treasurer Jody Hearn. I just had to make
080sure that I shout them out. But also there was such great representation from our administrators. Every AP was there. A number of our instructional aides, our teacher assistants. Um just a number of people there to support our students as they did this amazing fundraising event. So, it just really just shows the what FM truly is and really is about. So, I'm happy that I had the exposure. Jacob, thank you for shouting me out. You said you saw me. I'm like, you did see me cuz I was there at Mott Road. So, yes, and it was a great really great evening. So, um congratulations to all who were part of this. And some administrative happenings. Um um I think it's important just as a newcomer to the district that people do know that um our administrative
081team meets on a regular basis to problem solve and to address questions from the board and check questions from the community. And we are focusing on some of the feedback that we've received about just how we communicate, what we communicate. So, I'm sharing that our district office executive team meets, but we meet very regularly. So, I probably won't be sharing that moving forward because it's a happening on a regular basis. But also I had a great meeting at OCM BOCES with other superintendents. And that is where I gather some information about how other districts are doing things because sometimes we may have a perspective as a singular district, but other districts are doing it differently. So, I get to collaborate there with other superintendents and really learn more about how we can do things in
082the district. And also a very warm welcome from my colleagues around um this area. So, thank you to um Matt Cook for facilitating that. And then we had a great administrative council on March 18th where all administrators meet. And that is where we get to calibrate some of the things that are going on in the district. So, we've talked about how we're going to be operating as an administrative team moving forward. So, that was a great meeting. I thank our leaders for their engagement. And I thought that my wise executive assistant thought it was important to note that since my March 9th meeting, I have held 16 one-on-one meetings with various FM stakeholders. So, in a short time, I've had several one-on-one meetings. I thank the board. I've met with every single board member, many
083of our administrators, and I'm continuing to do that. So, just to keep the board apprised of my process and engagement and learning about the community. It's been a great experience. And Saturday was something that was just amazing. Being of Moose and Mind Workshop bookstore, but having the meet and greet. Many families came out. Thank you to our board members that came out on the Saturday to be there and participate with me, but it was really such a positive experience and a reflection of FM. So, I thank our community for coming out, for engaging, for sitting and talking. And one of the things that I know I need to do better is figure out how to give people the time and let others have time because many wanted sessions. And it's people were waiting. And I
084was like, "Please don't leave. I'll be right with you." So, that's something but it just showed the interest was definitely there. So, I will be planning other community engagement events, other meet and greets where people can come out and have some time to have some face time with me. But I will be launching my office hours. So, I am knee-deep in my engaging part of my entry plan. I will be kicking off my office hours as soon as we get back from spring break. But my superintendent drop-ins for staff will begin this week. My first drop-in will be at Mott Road Elementary, and I'll be doing that this Friday. So, I'm really looking forward to my superintendent drop-ins as well where I get to engage with the staff, all staff. And people have been really
085great and very welcoming. And then I'll be planning focus groups as we start thinking about some of the feedback I've been getting this far from the community. So, on that happy note, we have our FM Pride. Thank you again to Aaron Concannon, who was our science resource teacher, who was also leading a PD. She's a true teacher leader. And our focus is personalized learning. And so, she was assisting with that. We had our Wellwood Battle of the Books team. They slayed Queen 101. And they placed first at super regional. So, they are clearly slayed Queen 101. So, very proud of them for that. And also, congratulations to our winter season student athletes. Our student athletes have done an amazing job and have had an amazing winter. And we congratulate them. And finally, our swimming and
086diving team who set school records this year. Kudos. Highlights to Jack P, Alex K, Connor K, Derek W, and Ben P. Our amazing swim team have done an amazing job. So, kudos to them in terms of what makes us proud all day, every day. And on that note, I believe that is all I have for you this evening. >> [laughter] >> That was great. Does anyone have any questions for Dr. Carvey? I should not be. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Public comment. My understanding is nobody is registered for public comment. Okay. New business. Item 4.01. >> [clears throat] >> Be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Fayetteville-Manlius School District hereby moves the policies into second reading at the next regular board meeting. May I have a motion, please? Thank
087you, Sarah. And a second? Thank you, John. Any discussion? I just have a question on um which one? Just trying to find which one this is. 2120.2, the voting procedures one. I know that's been revised significantly. Um and and I know that processes have been So, Sarah may be able to best answer. As my my concern was on the very last sentence of the old policy that's being removed in our We still doing what was there? So, I'll read I'll read it just for clarity. Under our old under the policy that we have had to this date, the last sentence read, "The district will request registration lists from the Board of Elections for those voters whose registration record has been marked {quote} permanently disabled {close quotes} and will automatically mail absentee ballots to such voters
088in advance of each district vote or election." So, my my question specifically is is that a process and procedure we are still going to be following? >> Absolutely. And we can keep that particular phrase in. That's no problem at all. I I would I would prefer to keep that particular one if we can. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. >> You're welcome. Thank you. Any other questions or discussion items? Okay. All in favor? Anybody abstaining? Objecting? Thank you. Okay. Item 5.01, upcoming meetings. So, we are meeting again on April 20th to adapt the budget and talk about the BOCES administrative budget and the board election. Consent agenda. Be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Fayetteville-Manlius School District approves the consent agenda as presented. May I have a motion? Thank you, Dan. A
089second? John. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Dan and John. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we Oh, did you get all all in favor? Yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. No problem. Okay. So, we are going to adjourn and then the board is going to move into an exempt session with council. So, can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting, please? Oh, read it off. Be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Fayetteville-Manlius School District hereby adjourns the meeting at 7:11. Wait. Yep. We are adjourning the meeting before exempt session? We Yeah. Correct. Just Thank you. Yep. Sorry. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Chrissy. A second? Thank you, Jason. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thank you all for coming. Have a wonderful evening.