001You know Oh my god. This is Hello. Thank you all for coming to our meeting. Say [singing] proud [singing] at the twi. Twilight [chant] [singing] stream. [singing] through the night. >> [singing] >> Say that star spangled [music] for [singing] the land of the free and [singing] the home of the [singing] Thank you students and thank you Sean. Great job. Moving on. Item 1.03 agenda resolved that the board of education district agenda item. Dr. Sugar Good evening everyone. My name is Scott Sugar, director of athletics here at Fable Manas. I'm here with retired athletic director Rich Roy. Um, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to recognize one of our retiring coaches, Mr. Phil Rudolph. Phil has been a teacher and a coach here. Phil is a a lifelong uh resident here at FM. He's
002a a graduate of FM in 1978. He returned to FM in 1984 after graduating from Cornell. He's uh he was our girls varsity tennis coach for 40 years and in that time he amassed a coaching record of 573 wins and 11 losses. I'm not sure if that's more impressive or this next stat that in 32 years that we've been uh crowning sectional championships, Coach Rudolph's team have won 30. So, you pick, but there's two good records for you. Finally, at one point during his career, um, coach challenged his teams and they decided to win 329 matches in a row. That stat actually got him and his team into the Sports Illustrated magazine uh, back in the day. So, coach, first on behalf of myself and the district, congratulations on a tremendous career and the number
003of lives you've impacted both in the classroom and on the tennis court. I started as AD here at FM in 1990 and I did not hire Bill Rudolph. That's how long he's been here. He's one of two coaches that I didn't hire in in my tenure here. Um, Phil's uh coaching, he not only coached the girls tennis, but he coached in lacrosse and basketball and did those for a number of years. And what rang true with Phil, we, you know, Scott mentioned the the number, record number of wins, but is his relationships with the student athletes that he mentored and coached. He had the 300 and some odd wins, but he has thousands of relationships between the three coaches that he three teams he coached over the 40 years. Uh, and I know all of
004those kids rem remember him fondly, but his passion for the sports he coached and the kids that he coached was just always rang through. And Bill, congratulations on welldeserved retirement. And now I'd like to introduce Vice President Rebecca Cohen, who was also a former tennis player for Coach Rudolph. Hi everyone. On behalf of the board, I want to congratulate coach Rudolph again on an insanely successful 40 years of FM varsity girls tennis. As was already said, he had one of the longest winning streaks in American sports. That was in Sports Illustrated. Coach Rudolph, every season you've led the tennis team to smashing success, but equally valued, you are a role model to those around you, inspiring our student athletes to do their best and represent FM with integrity in class. As a four-year varsity player
005and captain in the9s, I can personally say that you brought your best to coaching every day and walked the walk, getting out there and running the preseason fitness runs with the team, playing with us on the court, and working hard to bring out the best in a generation of student athletes both on and off the court. Always wearing your teacher hat, you helped athletes see the bigger picture, using athletics as a platform to teach valuable life lessons that extended far beyond a point or a match. Now that you're officially retired from teaching and now coaching, FM will miss you dearly. But know that you've built a tremendous legacy that will live on at FM forever. Thank you so much for your incredible service to our district. Heat. Heat. [applause] You guys great night. Okay. Item
0062.01. We have a presentation. Dancers. Not that the audit is not dancers. Good evening. I'm really excited to to welcome the incredible 100 plus students who are going to help us present our K12 music program here at FM. My name is Katherine Dotton. the assistant superintendent for instruction. I'm also a really proud parent of an FM musician and I know I echo a lot of voices in this room when I say I am tremendously grateful for the experience that my kids have had through the music here. Okay, >> I'm gonna stand back just a little bit. music is and the fine arts are absolutely essential to the development of our students. And when you look at the New York State standards for the arts, they list a few words, create, perform, produce, respond, and connect.
007And when I was putting together um some of the slides with our director, our K12 director of music and the incredible teachers that we will welcome uh this evening, I called back to something I pulled out in 2018, which is the music program from Athen High School in uh when we ran Cinderella. And I looked back at the director's note uh which was written by Sean Heert who will be presenting with me tonight. And he talked about the fact that um that looking at the the positivity project and the strengths that exist um and what we what we try to exude for all of our students. um we talked about teamwork and he spoke about the fact that K12 music is the biggest team that we have at FM and that's really represented uh here
008tonight. And what it takes to to be a team member is so incredible. And whether that's dance, whether that's voice, whether that's um instrumentation, all [clears throat] of the practice that goes in during classrooms at home [clears throat] right before board meetings um is a really, really special thing. And again, um, as a parent of somebody who's coming through this district in this program, that stays with you regardless of whether or not you major in music, regardless of whether or not you you continue in music after. And so music is a community. Um, and so tonight's presentation is not just about what we do. Um, it's it's also about how we do it. And there's no better way to share what what happens is is but to go beyond the standards to see what happens
009in our classrooms. And so I'll turn it uh over um to to Mr. Heert who will talk a little bit um about the different parts of the standards and what you're going to see tonight. >> Thank you very much. And um I'm glad that I that I wrote something that made sense uh in that program. That's been seven years. So I didn't I wasn't sure where you were going with that actually. Um, thank you all for being here tonight and and this is just one more indication of what a strong community we have at Vietnam Manlas um to come out and support uh this sort of um presentation. Um I I will admit I was going to use the slides to cheat a little bit on what I was going to say. Um, so it's
010a little a little bit of a challenge, but the main thought of when we were putting this together, we wanted to showcase some of the great numbers that we have here, some of the some of the fantastic achievement that some of our students have and and so forth. But really what what this is about is two things. One is that music is for everyone. there is not a student in this district that that doesn't have some participation in music between their their K12 journey. The second is that that scaffolded foundation that is built. And so that's why we we came up with the idea. That's why we came up with the idea of having um a presentation that shows here is our second grade foundation building up to our seventh and eighth grade and up
011to um one of our one of our most experienced coral groups at the high school which is swing. So what what I get to do with the kids that are in, you know, 11th and 12th grade for the most part that are in swing is because of the great foundation that is built from Miss Comar and Mrs. Brooks and all of our fantastic music teachers here at at FM. And so, um, I think you'll get a a nice opportunity to see how they build that through movement, through instrument playing, through singing, and experiencing music. So, I'll turn things over to our fantastic second grade team. Hello, my name is Shelley Brooks. I'm the music teacher at Faithville Elementary. And we're going to demonstrate in about 30 seconds. But um you we start with the steady
012beat and matching pitch. And that's the goal. And we go from there to being able to feel, sing, say, dance and play is the ORF mantra. And we go from the steady beat and matching pitch to being able to subdivide and do elongations and to be able to first echo melodic patterns and then hear them in our heads and then eventually be able to read them and hear them in our heads just like you can your novel when you pick it up. So, um, Finley or Noah or whoever, play me a D, please, on your bar. Just hit D. So, we go. >> [singing] >> And now for the performance. Ready? Okay. 35. [singing] My high [singing and music] I know street. [music] Will you come [singing] and be my only good >> [groaning and
013screaming] [applause] >> I don't know. Turn you guys. All right. So, while we transition, >> what we're as we transition to our our seventh and eighth graders, thank you so much to our second graders for for sharing some of the things that we work with in K12 music development. everything from singing voice to music to keeping the beat and steady rhythms. Um, and we'll continue our journey with our seventh eighth grade group. While they're setting up, I do want to recognize the incredible numbers of students who participate consistently through our music programs. So, you can see that we are we're the beneficiaries of fantastic programs. And I'll turn it over to Mr. Heert um to share some more detail. >> Thank you so much. Yeah. So, one of the great things um that that we've
014been fortunate to have here is great participation. And we start our fourth grade strings. We start our strings in fourth grade and have over 200 students playing string instruments in fourth grade, which is incredible. And then in fifth grade, many of those students continue playing string instruments, but they're also introduced to the band instruments. And so we have again over 200 fifth graders playing either wind or percussion instruments or string instruments. Um that that doesn't just happen at many districts. And so we're really fortunate to have such strong participation. And we know that that comes from the support of the community and of course the support of the board and and the administration. Um >> great. So we have um some of our fifth and uh excuse me some of our seventh and eighth grade
015singers here. We're trying to figure out how to fit on the risers obviously while uh while maintaining our space for the for the screen here. Um we're going to do auditions and get rid of 10 of them in a second. So no uh no no no. Um but this is uh this is a wonderful um collaborative performance here. So um Mrs. Tommy and Mr. Poprenttowski both teach seventh and eighth grade um corral at the two different buildings. And um our seventh and eighth grade audition song for All County is a piece called Throw Open Your Shutters. So both of the both of the middle schools are working on this in their seventh and eighth grade corrals. And we thought it would be a great example um to to showcase and to share with you all.
016Um but how do they get there? What are the skills that are built to be able to achieve that? How do they teach um the reading component? So you could see in second grade we're working steady beats movement, we're working on our singing voice, we're working on collaborative performance and certainly some notation but not a lot of notation especially in like kindergarten, first 2 grade that gets built up and then by seventh and eighth grade we're really hoping to to um do some of the literacy components as well. So I will turn it over to Mr. and he can um either show or tell whatever we're going to do with our sulfa. >> I just want to speak briefly and say this the the uh presentation by the second grade team was such a great
017kind of um precursor to what we're going to be doing here because our first kind of introduction that you're going to hear is how we build uh kind of knowledge of literacy with SFG and then go directly into our uh performance of throw up in your shutters. Uh thank you so much for being here. We really appreciate it. Ready? >> [singing] [singing] >> So far rejoin. [singing] Don't me. [singing] [singing] So redo [singing] do me rao. >> [singing] >> Raino [singing] do [singing] so he lost so [singing] he lost Mommy radio. Oh, [singing and music] your shoulders may sound out trumpets. Be glad to be glad [music] [singing] this festive day. Ring your bell. [singing and music] Celebrate this festive day. Your bells [music] neighbors with candles bright. Sing out [singing and music] your choruses
018of Jesus. Cate [singing] [music] this day. Ring your bells. [music] Cate [singing] this day. Ring your bells. [music] A ding ding [singing] a ding a ding. [music] Hey d a dong. Lane. [singing and music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] Join us in dancing. Rejoice. We dance. Rejoice. celebrate [singing] this day. [music] Ring your bells and glazing. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] So, as our students, um, our middle school, seventh, eighth graders, thank you so much. Um, as they're exiting, I'll ask Mr. Heert and Mr. P to just sort of walk through what that process was for our middle school students and how that builds um from our elementary school students once they students. All right. So, Mr. He will walk just through sort of that middle school process um and what that looks like um through those
019different scales. So um as you may have noticed uh we use the Kerwin hand signs. Those are the soulfetch hand signs and soulfetch is a way to develop our language of how to read music. And um Mr. Pocrinowski and Mrs. Tabby ran those seventh and eighth graders through um a scale a scale in thirds um the do reo which is a building up scale and then doing that with independent parts which is uh really great to see. Again I am the uh the the recipient of such wonderful teaching and it's great to see that happening at our seventh and eighth grade level for sure. Our final group tonight is swing and this is 20 uh of our high school coral students. They are auditioned. This is a group that meets once per week. We rehearse
020on Monday nights. Um, so this worked out for us. Thank you for making your board meetings on Monday. We appreciate that. Um, and Swing is really, in my opinion, the the only group that I work with that is more performative than um than process. So, I'm I'm very big in working on the process and developing musicianship and developing um the skills that we need. Swing only rehearses once a week and it's really a here's the music. We need to be able to do it right off the bat. Um so, these kids are all great readers. They are all great at holding parts. They are all great at learning music quickly. Um and so we're going to share three of our favorite um pieces with you. The first is called Putting on the Ritz. All right.
021>> [music] >> Have you seen [singing] what Mark [music] with their [singing] noses in the air [music] and also spending every [singing] night for a wonderful time. [music] know where to go. Why don't you go [music] away? [music] [singing] [music] Put on [music] [singing] [clears throat] [music and singing] the song just I can't stop [music] this rock. [music] [singing] breeze Far [singing] as the trees tend the trembling [singing] trees [music] [singing] and wondering by and lost [singing] in a [singing] shore [singing] by sea and earthly and I can't [singing] bre your arms [singing] open wide and close [singing] me inside. You took [singing] my love so tender. [singing] So tender. Thank you very much. Again, I'd like to say thanks so much for um supporting the fine arts at Faithful Manlas. We're going to close
022our portion of the music presentation with our arrangement of Jingle Bells. Hope you enjoy. >> [music] [music] >> through the snow. [singing] [music] Dashing through the [music] snow in a one-horse open sleigh. [singing] Over the fields we go, laughing all the way. [music] The king spirits bright. What fun it is [singing] to ride and sing a slayighing song tonight. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle [singing and music] all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride one open sleigh. [singing and music] Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride [music] one open sleigh. >> Jingle jingle [music] jingle bells. Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, [singing] jingle, jingle bells, jingle, jingle, [music] jingle, jingle bells, jingle, jingle, [singing] jingle, jingle bell, [music] and there's many [singing] [music] [singing] [music] to
023jingle bells, [music and singing] jingle bells, Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride a one-horse. One horse, one horse, one horse, one open sleigh. Jingle [singing] bells, jingle bells, jingle [music] all sleigh. Dashing [music] through the snow [singing and music] all the way [music and singing] tonight. Jingle bell, jingle, jingle, jingle [music] all the way [singing] to ride. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle [music and singing] all the [music] [singing] jingle bells, jingle bells, [music] what fun it is to ride. [singing] Heat. Wait, there's more. [laughter] I promise you'll want to see this. But I'm going to keep going no matter what. In addition to some of the the fantastic um things that you've seen here today, we couldn't bring everybody to the meeting. Um but please know that there are multiple
024bands, multiple orchestras, multiple choirs, uh multiple music classes at a variety of different levels in addition to dozens of concerts and ensembles. Um we're proud to say that we have diverse composers um being chosen at K12 um and that there are a lot of different cultures, a lot of different um people across space and time that are represented within our music program. In addition, um we wanted to recognize um that half of our students um are recognized through our K12 music program. Wow, we really cleared out. All right. Well, you're gonna miss the big announcement. [laughter] In addition to um those honors, you know, we just wanted to to recognize those students. When you take a look at the numbers, not just the number of of students who participate within the music programs, but the
025numbers of students that are recognized um for honors within the music program. It really speaks to not just their level of commitment, but the level of commitment of our families, our community, um, as well as our teachers. In addition, there are a lot of different places where our students can participate in the music program regardless of whether or not they're um, entering different state competitions, right? So, you can be a part of the ukulele club. Um, you can be a part of our our musicals in a lot of different ways. Um, and with that, we're going to leave you with an announcement about this year's musical. This was um the presentation to u by Mr. Heert uh to his class about this year's High School Musical Choice. Heat. Heat. That's what the fine arts is
026all about um at FM. So that kind of excitement um you know the the record sales for the Lion King at Eagle Hill um the production that's going to be happening at Wellwood um in Once Once Upon a Mattress. Um these are things that bring our community together and again we talked about this being the biggest team um in the district. Um, it's also something that brings our community together. So, um, although there are few fewer people here, I know that the the I know the crowd will be full um for for the next musical. Um, and with that, we want to thank um our families, our community, and especially the board for the support that you give for the fine arts program here at FM. It's world class. Um and that is really testament
027to our incredible educators, our incredible students and the you know unconditional support um of the district and our community um and making sure that our kids have every opportunity um to to be a part of this music team. So thank you very much and we'll open time for questions. Mr. Heert's still here. [laughter] Anybody have any questions? >> So, Catherine, so real quick, it was it was hard to read the screen. So, what is the musical? >> So, the musical is Newsies. [laughter] [cough] [clears throat] >> Which is clearly what our students Yeah. Our students are very excited about that. It's a fantastic few tears there. >> A lot of happy tears. >> Yep. Well, I I would just say thank you both for putting on this fantastic presentation. Um, you're welcome to come back
028anytime. This was so enjoyable and such talent and it's such a great opportunity for any child at FM to be able to participate in so many different ways. So, uh, it's really great. Thank you for all that you that you do. Um, greatly appreciate it. I just want to take this moment myself to publicly recognize all of our music educators and I this presentation I haven't been on the board very long but I can say unequivocally this is my favorite meeting to date we are you music is not just a part of a great education musical is a critical music is a critical component of a great education and um Mr. Heert, the entire staff, both on the vocal music side and then with our bands and orchestras. Just thank you for all that you
029do to inspire our students, to engage our families. Um the reaction of everyone tonight just shows what a great music program can do. And so just delighted to have this opportunity to publicly recognize you and all of our music educators for what you've done for our students and our families. >> Thank you very much. I know that many of my colleagues feel the But I have always felt 100% supported by the community here, the board, the administration. Um there there really has not been an instance where I've felt anything other than that. And it's a it's a wonderful place to work. So thank you all. >> Okay. Sorry Leslie, [laughter] but But now we are going to have a 12-month claims audit review presentation. [laughter] >> Yeah, you can jazz hands with it. Good evening
030everyone. I'm Leslie Melinowski and I've served as the uh the board's uh district claims auditor since August of 2022. My financial experience includes over 20 years managing operating funds and drafting budget policy for the federal court system. My role here is to assist the board with ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the school district's financial transactions. Uh the district also employs a deputy claims auditor and his name is David Shraven. Dave's not here today, but he's a CPA and he reports uh at least two days per year so that he can remain current on any changing school policies or matters. He also subs for me as needed. Um I come in one day per week and I review the invoices, the requests and all the claims for the schools for all the schools within the
031district. And when these packets are submitted for payment, I go through each one and initial after looking through to ensure that everything is intact. Um, generally I'm looking at uh claims for four or four different funds. I look over the general fund, the school lunch, special aid, and the capital or the building funds. Um, so those invoices all come in with the attached paperwork, with the procurement and the uh department head signatures. And I have to make sure I go through and flip through each page of each packet and make sure that uh that they're uh they're appropriate to be dispersed and that they're authorized, there's uh no unauthorized taxes charged, and that all the items were actually received and agree with the purchase orders. Um, I also make sure that there's uh competing bids
032for anything that's over 25,000 or for capital goods over it's a little higher at 35,000 um to make sure that we're getting the best prices on our services. And I also confirm that the uh pay and the address and uh all that information is correct and um we're getting the payments to the correct companies and individuals. And finally, I ensure that the check sequences are uh sequential and there's no gaps or missing checks. We can account for every check that leaves the the district. So, what this work does is it it allow us to check for any clerical errors or emissions before any of the checks actually go out the door. So, this helps to attain a clean yearly audit which is done by external auditors. So that helps prepare for that. And for any
033issues that can't immediately be corrected, they're they're just held until we can um resolve them. So what you're seeing up here is the monthly report that I submit to not only the board, but the financial supervisor and the superintendent's office. Um, thanks to Sarah Gidley's Excel formatting experience, we've uh now just recently revised it to be ADA compliant, and it's available on the district's website. Um, it does contain all the same information that the old report used to have, but it's just a little cleaner and uh it's more widely available and can be, you know, read on the website. So this is basically showing the monthly outlays for for all of these funds that I just mentioned. Um I also prepare prepare in addition to this one. Um I thought I had click here. Click.
034I don't know. How do we do that? Huh? >> I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to get it up there. >> Sorry. Oh, okay. That was easy. Okay, this is the annual version of what you just saw in the last report. It just rolls up all of those totals um into a a yearly amount. Uh and these are available from year to year. Uh as you can see this one covers November through October, no last November through this October 31st of this year. And the the the thing to note are the error margins. The error margins indicate whether our financial staff is doing a good job in preparing all the invoices and the backup paperwork, the purchasing information and getting the proper signatures and everything's intact. And they've been doing
035a great job. As you can see, the margin error has been consistently lower than 1%. And that's for processing about 6,700 invoices. And those invoices, as you can see, were big numbers. They totaled approximately $123.5 million. So that's a lot a lot of paperwork. And to have a less than 1% error rate is is really very very good. They're doing a remarkable job and they're complying with all the state uh purchasing regulations. I've not enc encountered any questionable purchases or significant repeated errors. So everything is there. They're doing just great. Everything's rolling along smoothly. Um I don't have anything unusual to report from last year. Um everything is status quo and unless anyone have any has any questions uh this would conclude my report. >> Thank you. Does any questions? Thank you. >> Thank you,
036Leslie. All righty. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, item 2.03, president's report. Um, nothing necessarily to report. I just wanted to uh wish everyone a happy holiday season. And also, if this season is not the a happy time for everyone, um I just wanted to make everyone aware that our mental health brochures coming out in mailboxes shortly for students and then for our staff members. Um just a reminder, a shout out for our EAP services. Um just to make sure everybody knows that those are available to them. Um and that is all for me. Um item 2.04, 04 superintendent report. >> Thank you, President Fitzgerald. Uh superintendent report is in your backup information. Item one, capital project update. Construction work on the high schools 52 million capital improvement project continues with plans for contractors to move
037to the second floor in house 2 over the holiday break. Contractors are ensuring that utilities are being run for the first floor swing spaces that will accommodate temporary science classrooms uh as the project progresses. Intercolastic sports, a big shout out to Dr. Sugar and all the student athletes uh from our fall intercolastic athletic teams for being recognized uh as the NISFA scholar athlete teams. More than 200 fall varsity student athletes helped to achieve this accomplishment. Hornet pride. Winter concert season is underway as many of you know and I've enjoyed attending the performances of our vocal and instrumental student musicians. As the sun sets on my more than 10 years of service to the district, I cannot help but reflect. It was just a few years ago that I listened to many of these artists when
038they were in the elementary and middle school. I marvel how far they've progressed under the toutelage of some very talented music faculty. Well done. As President Fitzgerald mentioned, our supporting students mental health brochures should be hitting community mailboxes soon ahead of the holiday season. Unlike the three earlier editions which focused on our multiaceted approach of activities that promote wellness, strategies that foster relationships and actions that support well-being. The new format of this year's publication centers on the plethora of tiered services that are being offered at nearly every level within our school district. The Panorama student screening tool will be used in the weeks ahead. Uh we'll be using a small sample of the panorama questions that we've announced to the families uh in order to gauge student perceptions. The screening tool will provide valuable insights
039into student experiences so that the school district is able to improve and adapt our district to better meet their needs. Building life skills and supporting student mental health and wellness is an important part of the work that our counselors and other educational professionals do every day and the district believes that student voice plays an important role in helping our schools to create engaging educational experiences for all students. The Panorama student survey will replace the BiMass 2 screener that has been used in the past. And last but not least, our annual community survey has been mentioned before. Our annual report came out this autumn. It con contains a QR code that's a link to community feedback. So our stakeholders are able to provide their input to the governance team. The survey is designed to gauge this
040uh community feedback and the deadline's been extended to December 19th in an effort to encourage more participation. That ends my superintendence report. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? >> Great. Um item 2.05, reports and committee updates. Um Marissa and Jacob, you guys have an update on the legislative. >> We met in was it October? >> Yeah, we met um in October and discussed um some different paths forward as far as like getting um gauging students um opinions and being able to use that information to inform the board in our decision- making process. So, we landed on the um food service um program and um getting information about um to students about what potential changes would look like um compared to what they have now and information about uh what students are actually purchasing
041right now so that students could um make a very well-informed decision about like would they like to see certain changes take place. Um so I wasn't here at the last meeting and we're going to um Dr. Ty if we can get information about what students are purchasing in uh through the lunch program and that will help inform the questions that um Jacob puts together for students. >> Great. Thank you. Is there anything you wanted to add to them? >> So great. Um Marissa, do you have a Bosey's update as well? Well, we were very pleased with the passing of our referendum um last month. I believe it was 83% passing rates. That was great. That'll allow some more classrooms in both Anadaga and Portland um um facilities. So, a lot of needed repairs. There are
042a lot of um very old facilities. So, we are very grateful to the community for their support in getting that referendum passed. Thank you. >> And Jacob, your student update. Thank you. Uh so StuCo um this seat um Saturday on December 13th we'll be holding holding a volleyball tournament um from I believe 6 to 8:00. So um hope to see some board members uh maybe participate. That would be nice. Maybe have a team of board members. No, it's for the kids. >> What What is it for? >> Um it's um along with the MC's. So, >> yes. >> So, we get a t-shirt. >> Oh, I there um there is a reward for the winning team. So, >> what is said reward? [laughter] >> I've not been told that. >> We're a solid maybe. >>
043Okay. Um on December 18th, um after school, we'll um the MC's will also be doing their annual head shaving. Um actually uh talking uh with Mr. McNair um who um said if there's enough people who goes to a dance marathon he uh may consider shaving himself and uh so yeah and he also put his beard on the line which I mean that maybe that's a step too far. That's like your identity. You're not asking for You're not asking for board volunteers for that part. [laughter] >> I mean, if you're volunteering, that's >> it's it's winter. It's winter, Jacob. [laughter] >> Fair enough. Okay. Um the um Stuko would also be um holding a blood drive on January 13th, which is a bit far in future, but still good to know at St. An's from 1:30
044to 6:30. Um recent um week after our last school board meeting, there was a Jewish um the high school students held a Jewish panel um where they talked about their experiences um at FM um as well as educating um other fellow um high schoolers about um their beliefs. Um also talking out about their experiences of anti-semitism within school. Um on that note, um some students have um talked about um concerns of homophobia within the school. Um so I would like to um there's also um I'll kind of leave off on a bit more of a positive note. Um heating in the school um specifically in the music wing has gotten better as well as in the English wing. Um well especially with the addition of five heaters in the band room. though it is still
045somewhat cold. It is better than what it was. Um but hopefully we can get the heating on soon. Um so yeah, I believe Oh, and roads. Um there are some concerns with um the roads as well as potholes. Um and that's something we could consider having done. Um but also I have Okay, last note, apologies. I would like to uh kind of give a shout out to the um maintenance who do all the plowing as well as salting in the morning. I see them at early in the morning at 4 um a.m. just plowing and salting the grounds. It's um just wanted to give a thank you for, you know, coming out so early in the morning to get those. [applause] >> So So Jacob, why do you see them at 4 [laughter] in the
046morning? Let's just say I'm a morning person. [laughter] >> Let's just say in the morning I um have a tendency to be a bit more productive for some reason just in the car outside of the school just sitting just working in the car. I don't know why this is this is it's a bit bizarre I know but it's you know it's peaceful. There's no cars around. Just the maintenance people saling the grounds, plowing, you know, the >> They They've [laughter] been wondering who this person is. >> Don't Don't worry. I'm giving that company. [laughter] >> Well, I as long as you're getting enough sleep, Jacob. >> Don't worry. [laughter] >> Um, that was a great shout out. Thank you. Um and regarding the feedback from the students, um are are you speaking with um Mr.
047McNamera about that those those experiences and those feedback pieces to see if we can learn more and >> Yes, I intend to hold more meetings with them because I believe so. Yes. >> Great. >> Does anybody have any additional questions for Jacob? Yeah, I just want to just just as a quick followup because I know we talked about this at the last board meeting and I did share with board members in Jacob. I apologize I did not share with you. I will forward it to you now. Um the heat question that was raised at the last meeting and thus we had a facilities meeting that same week. We talked about that at length and what what was clarified as the quote unquote the heat issue was actually a series of seven distinct separate issues that
048all had the same effect that all affect temperature. Um but as each arose each was being addressed by our facilities team and our construction teams were appropriate as well. Um so they they seem to be the same issue. They were not the same issue. they were just an unfortunate series of backto backto back interrelated issues. Um there are still some we are still in the midst of a major construction project. Um but our team just as they do a phenomenal job outside um as you mentioned they're they're doing their very excuse me their very best inside as these issues arise to to come to it. that that Monday morning extreme cold situation was the result of a heat sensor tripping late on Friday that was not discovered until that Monday morning uh from a heat
049sensor in the kitchen and that sensor was since moved to a different location so that it wouldn't trip the way that it was tripping but surely it was an issue. Um but they they're addressing these the very best that they can given given what we're in the middle of. And then the second question was on the the paving and the roads and that is a part of the current high school project um that we're having discussions currently about the timing of what is going to be paved, where it's going to be paved. We're looking at potentially some significant modifications to traffic and parking patterns at the high school. Uh so very aware of it, know it's know it's an issue, but know that please that it's being addressed as well. >> Thank you. That's very
050comforting to hear. >> Jacob, just thank you uh for bringing up all of these issues to us. It's really important that we hear about them and really appreciate the feedback as well. >> Um okay. any other committees that have a pressing issue that they would want to report on. Okay. Um public comment. We don't have anyone for public comment. Is that correct? Okay, >> that's correct. >> All right. So, we're going to go to item 4.01. Um executive session. Be it resolved that the board of education, the Fagetville Manley Central School District enters into executive session for the purpose of discussing the superintendent search. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Jason. And a second, John. And then all in favor? Any opposition or absention? Okay. Thank you. And we will be returning afterwards
051um for the rest of the meeting. Item 5.01, approval of minutes. Um, why is that? Hold on. Sorry. >> Um, so we don't have a resolution. Um, >> be it resolved that the board of education of Fateville Manlas uh approves the minutes of November 17, 2025 as presented. I believe it's my resolution. Thank you. Uh, Dan and John, we lost a few. All in favor? [laughter] Anybody opposed or abstaining? >> Uh, 5.02. Uh, be it resolved that the board of education of the Fagetville Manley Central School District approves the consulting agreement with the transportation advisory service task in the amount of $17,000. May I have a motion, please? >> Thank you, Marissa. Second. Thank you, Jason. Any discussion? >> My only question is, >> did we have to RFP that or can we do that
052without RFPing that? >> We do without a sole provider. in the past. >> Okay. Uh all in favor? >> Anybody opposed or abstaining? Okay. Thank you. Uh okay. Ongoing business um for development Uh, nothing. Um, Marissa, at a future meeting, perhaps you could share any key highlights from the NISPA conference would be would be great. Sorry, I didn't get a chance to ask you that. Uh, upcoming meetings. So, our next regularly scheduled meeting is January 12th. Um, potential consideration for future meetings. No updates on that. Feel If anyone wants to stop me to add anything, feel free. Um, item seven, consent agenda. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Mania Central School District approves the consent agenda as presented. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Dan. A second. And
053all in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thank you. Okay. Nothing on eight. Oh no. And item nine. Um, be it resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Manley Central School District enters into executive session for the purpose of discussing a student discipline matter and pending proposed litigation. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Ann. And a second, John. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thanks. may come back out >> to vote >> May and >> okay thank you Item 10.01 01. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Manley Central School District upon its review of the submitted appeal upholds the 3214 hearing decision. I have a motion, please. Thank you, Ann. And second, Jason. Thank you. All in favor? [clears throat] Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thank you.
054And item 10.02, 102. Be it resolved that the board of education hereby authorizes the district's attorneys for our Forenza PC to commence legal action in the form of a third-party complaint against Tucker Mchuan to include him as a party defendant in a litigation identified as Anadaga County Supreme Court identified as index number hash 2025. This resolution shall take effect immediately. May I have a motion? Thank you, Jason. A second, John. Uh, all in favor? Thank you. Anybody opposed or abstaining? And item 11, adjournment be resolved that the board of education, the Fateville Mania Central School District hereby adjourns the meeting at 9:17. >> Thank you, Marissa. And second, Jason. All in favor? >> Thank you. I [laughter] could an early