001[Music] going to call the meeting to order at 501. If we can stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. >> 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. >> Okay. Item 1.03 is approval revision of agenda. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as written? Thanks, John. And a second, Chrissy. All in favor? Okay. Thank you. And item 2.01. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Manla Central School District enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the superintendent's search. May I have a motion, please? Uh, thank you, Rebecca. and Jason. All in favor? Anybody opposed or obstain? Great. Thank you. So, we will return
002by six in time for the six o'clock continuation. Hello everybody. Thanks for coming and sorry we're three minutes tardy. Um, okay. We're moving right along. Uh we you missed the pledge. So we're going to move into item 3.01 recognition and I guess you're going to recognize us. Oh, isn't that wonderful? Thank you all for coming. >> Oh, how convenient. No, certainly as the board knows uh we are at the tail end of school board recognition week and we would be remiss on behalf of a grateful community if we didn't recognize all of you for your volunteer service to the children of the Fagatville Manley Central School District. As a small token of our appreciation, as you know, we bring things from the different schools and this year from the high school, the high school students
003and the maker space and the library. Uh thanks to librarians Mary Patrulus and Liz Lutz. Uh they've put together some gifts for you from the maker space highlighting the work that they are excited to do as part of the new facility which we pushed for. [Applause] And while I was just the playbyplay, the color commentary tonight is Jacob Chen would like to read the official proclamation uh from the governor. >> Thank you, Dr. Ty. Um shall I begin? Um so state of New York executive chamber proclamation whereas New York state has one of the best public education systems in the nation compromised of 731 schools districts overseen by more than 700 school boards whose members are the educational leaders in their communities. preserving policies that govern their local public school systems and providing guidance for
004statewide school systems that serve nearly 2.7 million of New York state's children. And whereas our state public school consistently maintains high standards so as to best meet the educational needs of all children and to empower them to become informed, productive contributors to society and an everchanging world. And whereas we recognize the role of this of school boards in partnering with school administrators and educators to provide students with safe and healthy learning environment and ensure optimum opportunities for intellectual and personal growth. And whereas members of school boards are committed to serving children and schools of our communities and devote many hours to elementary and secondary public education as they continually strive for improvement, excellence and progress in ch and education recognization and all children that all children can be successful learners. And whereas these dedicated individuals
005are strong advocates for public education and are responsible for communication uh communication the needs communicating sorry the needs of the school district to the public and the public expectation to the district by working closely with parents, educational professionals and other community members. And now therefore uh of Kathy Hokll not I um governor of state of New York do hereby proclaim October 13th to 17 2025 as school board recognition recognization week in the Empire State. Oh embide under under my hand and the privile of the state at the capital of in the city of Albany this 9th day of October in the year 2025. Signed by Kathy Hokll. [Applause] >> Thank you, Jacob. It was very formal and I'm glad there was no PS uh some new law that was going to be announced as a
006result. Um, thank you all. Appreciate it. Moving right along. So, we have um all of our building principles who took time out of their busy schedules to come and present their building action plans. Thank you very much. Good evening. Thank you very much for everything that you do as a board. Uh the the tote bags also have images from um student art over the years. So the artist's name is in your bag as well. So thank you. Um I'm Katherine Don. I'm the assistant superintendent for instruction. I'm very excited to be presenting our our principles um to you today to to share their building action plans for the school year. Um the structure for our presentation this evening is to highlight the goals as well as the outcomes and data that exist within our strategic
007plan areas. We have shared the board um we've shared the building plans with you ahead of time so that you can get a very detailed look about what those uh goals and outcomes look like. Um we want to be mindful of time. We went we ran slightly over last year. Um, so we've structured this a little bit so that each uh member of our our buildings and our building principles can present um a highlight of a goal as well as the outcomes um and the data that they are measuring in each of these areas. I also just wanted to point out um while all our principles and their team will be speaking to each of these strategic plan priorities, it doesn't necessarily mean that there is a goal in each of those areas in any
008given year. Um but we'll we'll talk about um why it's important um in all four areas no matter what. So, with that being said, I'm going to turn it over um to Alexis Thorp, who is going to to speak to um teaching and learning and the building goals for the elementary team. Good evening. Hello everyone. Um, so I am Alexis Thorp. I'm the proud principal of Fateville Elementary. And I'm going to start us off with our teaching and learning building goals at the elementary level. I'm just going to read our goals and then the middle school and high school um will read their goals and then we're going to circle back and then talk about the outcome indicators. So we'll kind of do it in that fashion. Um so based on the quantitative and qualitative
009data gathered during last school year um we chose benchmark advance would be um implemented with intentionality in kindergarten through fourth grade. And I do want to just note that we are um as a building um community. We are very very grateful that we were able to do this in the kindergarten through fourth grade. There was talk about what we can find the funding for and you did it. You made it work and we're very proud. um to have you backing us up because it's been huge for our teachers and our school community to be able to do it in K through four. So, thank you for that. Um we're also looking at expanding opportunities that promote student engagement, educational equity, um and personalization of instruction at the elementary level. I got to go back. Hi
010everyone. I'm Trish Fogerty, principal at Wellwood Middle School. Um, in teaching and learning at the middle school levels, we're really focused on that personalized learning practices, looking specifically at strategic scheduling, data-informed decision-making, and targeted academic supports that promote equitable and responsive instruction for all learners. [Music] I knew this would be tricky. Pat McNamera, high school principal. Thank you for having me. Uh, the Blue Ribbon Commission is in its second year of implementing New York Inspires, which is a plan to transform education in New York State. One transformation that we will continue to focus on at FM High School is the portrait of a learner, a set of skills that can help students find success now and into the future. These skills include collaboration, innovative thinking, effective communication, global citizenship, and many others. At the district
011level, personalized learning is one of our premier initiatives. We will identify and share best practices of personalized learning to enhance teacher instruction and pedigogy while improving student learning and engagement. So strategy and outcome indicators at the elementary level for our teaching and learning goals. One of them is of course um using the professional development opportunities this school year for our teachers around benchmark advance. We're going to be using time at all of our professional development time this school year. We're going to dedicate time for the teachers to learn and grow together as well as with benchmark advanced representation from the program. Another thing that we're looking at is flexible scheduling. This is a M road initiative. They had a team over the summer look at win time. That's what I need now. And that's going
012to they're looking at how they can put something into place in their schedule for common academic support times like blocks of times where they have the academic support for each grade level. They have been talking about looking at other school districts that already utilize this time and how they could make it work for their building. Another thing at the elementary level, we're um expand we continue to expand our special ed continuum um with special ed classes in each of the buildings. New for this year, um, Enders Road started an 811 special ed program and at FAL we included a new 1211 to add to our already 12 our 121 class that we already have. So now we have two at FAL and Montro continues to support their students in their 1211 and 811 classes this
013year. And finally, Enders Library for English language learners. In response to the increase with our English language learner enrollment, Enders Road is hoping to expand their library to include multilingual titles for their students and their teachers to help support their learning and continue. That's it. Thanks. Good evening, everyone. I'm Karen Leperulo, principal at Eagle Hill. Good to see everyone. I hope there's some goodies in that bag for you to snack on tonight. So talking about the strategy and outcome indicators for the middle school um we're going to uh Eagle or Wellwood and I are going to be collaborating between Eagle Hill and Wellwood for the master schedule committee. We are also implementing a systemic um process for regular panorama data review. We are going to prioritize personalized learning through the development of uh department level
014goals which is something that we did start last year with a focus on horizontal and vertical alignment of key skills. That's to include assessments, grading and standards mastery. And then we will be supporting professional learning for teachers around the use of un universal screening data to drive instruction and intervention fifth and sixth grade uh specifically with the new reading time block that we have implemented this year. Thank you. And now back to Pat. Might be easier if I just explain it instead of uh reading it. So we are starting at the district level with our district curriculum committee and that is where we are learning about um the portrait of a learner and personalized learning more than we know at this point. Um from there at our high school instructional forum our teachers and departments
015there will also continue to learn about personalized learning and familiarize themselves with the portrait of a graduate. But what they're going to do from there is they're going to take these ideas back to their departments and they are going to find right now examples of personalized learning in their classrooms. So we started today at our instructional forum meeting and uh English was our first department. So they came and they gave an excellent example of personalized learning in their department. um they will also present that next time at our staff meeting and we will continue to do that for all of the disciplines and that's the way that we will get it out to most folks. We also have a student panel and those students are going to um express what their favorite personalized learning activity
016or project has been throughout their time at FM schools. Good evening everyone. My name is Tom Chvers. I'm the elementary assistant principal and I'm excited to share a little bit about our goal in the area of school environment. So at the elementary level, all three elementary buildings are going to really be focusing on our data throughout the school year that is gathered through our universal screeners, not only with academic data, but also social emotional data. We're also looking at attendance data and are very excited about our new platform, Panorama, which will help streamline some of that data analysis and allow us to make data-informed decisions to support students individual needs. At the middle school, our building goal is to foster a supportive and responsive school environment through datainformed practices, aligned systems of support, and a
017consistent behavioral framework. In the priority area of school environment, uh, recently renovated classrooms throughout the high school are perfect settings for personalized learning skills. Uh, in fact, our new brojo classroom and equipment allowed for our students to do a live broadcast of the football game two weeks ago. Uh, yet now it's time for us to create a new master schedule which complements learning with student choice and a focus on mental health. As Tom said earlier, we will also continue to improve our student mental health services through a new universal screener. And in addition, we have one new mental health support staff person who will be there for the Helio Health Clinic. So, our strategy and outcome indicators at the elementary level, um we mentioned a little bit about Panorama already, but that will really be
018utilized um as part of our MTSS process. And so at the elementary level, we utilize our best teams, which stands for brainstorming educational strategy teams. And this will be our third year with that team at Enders Road and our second year at both M Road and Fateville Elementary. And we're excited to now incorporate Panorama not only for the data analysis, but it also has a bank of interventions that are researchbased that we can utilize with students and monitor their progress throughout the school year. In addition, we will be using Panorama for a new um social emotional and mental health universal screener which we're excited to roll out very soon. >> I feel as though I'm really going to echo a lot of Tom's words. We're doing the same thing with Panorama at the middle school
019level and really prioritizing how to identify the Panorama system or program platform has a bank of resources that we can pull from for strategies and and ways that we can intervene for from things from academics to attendance. So, we're looking forward to and have already started to explore that. In addition, the intervention part where we can start to track right through there um and see interventions that are working, not working. So really capitalizing on the use of panorama and creating some systemic processes for that. In addition to that when we think about MTSS and that umbrella looking at the implementation of PBIS um so a schoolwide expectations when we think about the area of behavior are we explicitly and and consistent in our expectations around uh behavior and what we want from our students. And
020sometimes at the middle school level, I think we assume um but we all we need to make sure we're really clear. So focusing on some schoolwide expectations and um as Tom said um the SEAL mental health universal screener that we'll be using through that as well this year. And um Pat mentioned the Helio Health. We are hopeful we're a little bit behind um the high school, but the middle schools are going to be getting that um very soon too. So, we're excited for that to be um coming to the middle school this year. So, although not completed yet, our new high school schedule for 2627 will include nine periods instead of eight. Therefore, students will still have the ability to choose up to eight classes, but each student will have a scheduled lunch as well.
021Panorama will be used to create a new universal health screener for all students. A new screener will allow for a clearer picture of our students mental health. And finally, as stated, we are up and running with our Helio Health mental health clinic. Good evening. My name is Lisa Jaci Cileto and I have the privilege of serving as Mont Roads principal. I'm here to talk about our next priority area and the goal at the elementary level is to develop student service learning opportunities and community partnerships that extend classroom learning and support personal and social growth. Oh, thank you. And at the middle school level, we're creating opportunities for students to support others and provide school support for the community. Um, I feel like this has always been a strength at the middle school. So, we are
022continuing to part make new partnerships and Karen will speak more to that. So, the last indicator in the last priority area as I stated was Helio Health um, which is actually a perfect example of a community partnership that we have in our schools. So we are working with Helio Health um to make sure that we have a clinic in the building so that all students can have access. Another goal in this area is to expand career developmental opportunities through job shadowing, volunteer opportunities, and our career day. In order for our students to experience these unique opportunities, members of our community must be involved. So in this area, the elementary level, we partner with various organizations such as camp good days, we rise above the streets, interfaith works, and the FM food pantry. We sponsor food
023drives. Uh we facilitate kindness club, which at the elementary level um happens at third grade at Benders Road and M Road and fourth grade at FEL. And this program um is faciliti facilitated by adult allies um and their topics in this dialogue focus on community building and belonging, personal identity and individual uniqueness, understanding the impact of stereotypes and action planning for our school community. Such projects like uh make a new friend on Friday um a video about what was learned in kindness club incorporating a kindness wall and positive messaging in our schools and chalk the walk have been projects that have come out of that. We've also worked with um in coordinating with sort of um a vertical alignment. Uh we uh the dance marathon comes to Amat Road Elementary and we we do a
024drive there to help with their fundraising for Camp Good Days. Um also um looking at Pinwheels for Peace is done out of Enders Road and all three elementary schools participate in Waldo which stands for we all learn differently Olympics which brings awareness to different ways that we live and learn. So we have a variety of partnerships and community outreach that works to develop these foundational skills as we set the foundation for further growth at the middle and high. And at the middle school, we are we are working to create service opportunities for our students and school community through project pass it on and other partnerships with community organizations. Eagle Hill is partnered with Mary Nelson Youth Center and Wellwood is partnered with CNY Adaptive Sports. So, we're lucky at the high school um where students
025have myriad opportunities to learn through community service and partnerships. Uh I actually wanted to refer back to last board meeting when the idea of growing our future educators was discussed. We actually have a big sibs and bridge programs. Uh they're opportunities for our high school students to help elementary students in our district. Uh this may be a group of students. We encourage to follow the path of education as a profession. Our career fair was a success last year and we plan to hold it again. The outpouring of support from community members who wanted to present their professions was truly incredible. And finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention our flagship fundraiser, Dance Marathon, and our partnership with Camp Good Days. The tradition will continue this year. Good evening everyone. Dustin Vera, principal at
026Enders Road Elementary. Thanks for your time. Thanks for your support. uh to discuss the last priority area which is fiscal responsibility. Uh we at the well all buildings here are listed. I mean we are continuously looking at our facilities and our district plans to ensure that we are responding to what we need to to ensure that we are still meeting the needs of our students and our school community. So looking, you know, at the elementary level specifically, you you may notice on the building action plans, I know at least for Enders Road, there is not a, you know, a listed goal, but that is always something in terms of fiscal responsibility that we're prioritizing. It's always in the background. Um, but we are looking to continue to respond to our emerging needs. Um I identify
027special services and ENL or English as a new language as we have additional programming options and services. So for example at FAL that looks like the two 1211 program uh that are in the building. M road has a 1211 special program as well as an 811 and somebody previously mentioned Enders Roads 811 which is just being initiated this year. So the significance of that and its impact uh financially is that we are you know retaining students in our district in buildings rather than sending students out of district which is a significant cost savings. Additionally students are getting the benefit of being in the school community. So students in these special classes are not in isolation. they're able to integrate and be with their peers and continue their sense of belonging which is a priority area
028as well. So with that English language learners also are one of the emerging populations I would say an estimated nearly 100 students in the elementary level across the elementaryaries. Uh so students at the elementary level who are English language learners are being able to be supported in many different ways. We are looking to try to continue to allow for uh these students to have access to all facets. You may have heard earlier the library in Enders Road is trying to up uh upgrade their their titles and include a little bit more uh access to books in multiple languages. Um, additionally, allocation of resources falling under this goal area uh looks like space. So, up here we talk about being committed to providing adequate resources and space. So just as an example at Enders Road, we
029have transitioned the maker space which was kind of a utility all-purpose space to being now dedicated for enrichment which is you know one keeping space that has been used but also leveraging that space to enhance a program that we have. So now the enrichment program has access to all of the additional resources within the maker space uh to support our enrichment program. At the middle school levels, we continue to monitor programs and facility needs. Um, our facility needs specifically might look a little bit different as Wallwood has recently undergone a project in in Eagle Hills. So while there's differences, those are things that we are constantly considering and monitoring, especially thinking about the safety of our students and being remaining committed to making sure the resources and spaces necessary to sustain the high quality programs
030that we do offer our students can stay there for them. Of course, I need to talk about the capital project. Uh, as we begin our fourth year of a major capital project, we continue to be fiscally responsible through planning with a focus on student needs. It's important for us to fully utilize the newly renovated spaces and classes while also accounting for the cost of safety and security. It's also paramount we offer a wide variety of courses to our students while also accounting for the cost of staffing. All right. So, as we conclude, um, first I want to recognize that October is National Principles Month, and I want to say thank you, um, for everything that the the team behind me, every building leader, I know from the the district level, we say thank you for
031all of the work that they do day in day out, what's on a paper, what's not, all in support of of students. Um, as a as a parent here, as a community member, I'm incredibly grateful um for this team and and with them and and the goals that we have here, our future is so bright. This is a great time to be in inric uh curriculum and instruction when you think about where we are going even in the next few years to be all in K4 um with a a highly researchedbased um curriculum is a is a real gift. and being in our curriculum meetings this morning with our kindergarten teachers and moving forward into our second unit and thinking about the professional learning that's coming in a few weeks. It is a huge investment
032that is going to pay dividends for our kids and the fact that we are already at the middle school level thinking about how curriculum and instruction and assessment are going to beautifully align with what we have decided from our pilot. um means that we are committed to that work K12 and that really brings us to personalized learning. So the fact that on the very first day of school we had our district definition for personalized learning shared to all of our faculty and staff across all six buildings. But the principles are already at every faculty meeting, at every department meeting thinking about that definition holding up exemplars and thinking about what can we build to continue to to personalize all of our instruction and and and allow students ownership um as well. And that leads us
033to again being ahead on the portrait of a learner. So we have said the words portrait of a learner and not a portrait of a graduate. And that's because we spent the last year developing with our district curriculum council of which all of our um administrators are a part of our own FM portrait of a learner which is a real K12 look and it is perfectly aligned with the New York State portrait of a graduate which was published um this summer. And so we already have students working to design it. We have student voice on what that looks like. As some of our principles have talked about, we are going into classrooms. I'm going into an enrichment classroom this week to ask students about what this means to them, what they're looking um to build.
034And we're already talking just even at the instructional forum today about what that looks like in our classrooms. What new pathways can we build? What new um courses can we build? and I'm so excited for um all of the ways in which our teachers and our leaders have come forth with some really some fantastic ideas. So when you think about where we're at in New York inspires, we're ahead. We're ahead and I'm really excited that all of this what this is going to mean in the 2930 school year um when when New York expires is is becomes real. Um but it's real to us right now in everything that we're doing um in our buildings. Um and so while we can't put it all into a presentation, but um I hope you know we've conveyed
035certainly the goals and I I hope I can continue to convey just the convey the excitement that I'm that I have in this position um as a community member, as a as a parent for the work that happens every day in our buildings. So, with that, we say thank you and we'll open it up for for questions to the board on those action plans. Thank you so much. Um, I I have one question, but but one actual just assessment of this before. I love this format. I sat through quite a number of these presentations. I haven't always left these presentations fully confident that each of our building levels. We're rowing in exactly the same direction on initiatives, goals, how we're measuring them, how we're treating them. So I I love to see this as elementary
036level, not three elementary schools and same at the middle school level. So, thank you for that. I think that's that's wonderful. Um I have one p specific question on the high school. You said that the the master schedule is getting closer. Um gave a little short preview of it. Um I I am curious um if in evaluating how best to address that if if and at all how um block scheduling was or was not considered. I would say it was considered minimally. Um, I had spoken with our teachers about, you know, what they may want moving forward and, um, I would say most are comfortable with the 40 41 minute periods that we currently have. Um, I do know that the block scheduling would take away some of those transition times throughout the day, but
037um, as you probably know, block scheduling is not necessarily just putting two lessons together, one 40m minute and a second 40m minute. I mean, it's a it's a brand new way of teaching for a lot of folks. So, um, it would take training. It would take a lot more work prior than prior to us putting that into into play. So, um, I feel like most were comfortable with the 41minute classes. >> You're welcome. >> I guess I just have a follow- on question to that, Pat. Sorry. Um, uh, sorry, Dan. So, I appreciate that that explanation. I guess I I'm assuming that through that process there was also some consideration and discussion related to the impact on students for a block schedule pro procon list because I know that that has come up in the
038past about homework and different things that that may be a supportive way to move for helping students manage course load and things. So, I just wanted to make sure it was kind of all-encompassing for the evaluation. >> Yes, I I think that it could have been discussed more to be completely honest with you, but um I'm very comfortable with the decisions that we made moving forward. Um and again, only having four periods in a day would make it difficult also for our students to make sure that they are, you know, meeting all of the classes that they would like to to take and so on and so forth. So, um, again, we had a lot of changes that we needed to make in the first place, and that wasn't necessarily one of them that we
039were going that we were willing to to make at this point. >> Okay. >> And I also echo I love this format. Thank you very much. Um, and I was thinking, gee, I wonder when we're going to submit all of this for Tri-State Consortium. Um because >> oh my gosh, if I can if I can can if I can share a little more excitement, right? And I know it's going to be in the superintendent report, but um we had the the benefit of hosting sorry I'm spoiling all of it, but um we had the benefit of hosting a tri-state training here last week. So typically we have to go downstate um to um very far away places um to to have the opportunity to to to train people so that they can go out to
040consultancies. And so we had the benefit of of 20 teachers and some administrators. I couldn't I couldn't get people out of the room on the second day because they were so excited about about the training which again most teachers who have gone through it said it's it's maybe some of the best professional development that they've ever had. And so we it was so exciting that we are actually scheduling another block of time in our staff development day on November 4th to bring the group back together to think about first what's the next consultancy look like in the district. What's the big questions that we want to ask um to to have that evaluation again, but also what can we build here? what what kind of critical friends, you know, consortium could we build here to
041tackle things that we want to tackle in a in a space that's not evaluative, that it's it's peer-led. Um, and and we were throwing out some fantastic questions. So, like, what does it mean to equitably grade? To be able being able to have your peers like work with another department and and observe classrooms and gather data and share, you know, learning around that. that I think can be a really powerful model for for where we want to go. So again, I think um that was just a great opportunity um for for us to build on something and I'm excited to see what the next conversation is. >> Just kind of a kind of a I know this is um back to discussion on black schedule. Um when I was having conversation with some students uh
042concerning homework as um kind of brought up during our meeting um this over the discussing the start time, a lot of students did actually bring up propose um a blog schedule and talking about how other schools have used the blog schedule as a potential way to I guess make homework a little more manageable. Um but I'd probably want to set up another poll specifically on that just to uh get bit more firm data on what percentage of students are actually considering the pros of a block schedule. So stay tuned. >> I just uh thank you. That was a wonderful presentation. I loved the format and everyone had such insightful things to say. Um just my one of my wish list items is it sounds like you're using panorama in in multiple different ways and layers.
043Um I would love to I know obviously student confidentiality being paramount. It would be so great to see how that's being utilized once you dig in more. Um even if you use dummy students just to understand because I it's one thing to hear it but it's another thing to see it. Um so maybe that's something that could come back around at some point that you see fit. >> Absolutely. So that it's a really powerful platform. um many different uh districts use it and um I know that Amy Evans has done a tremendous amount of work um getting it off the ground. Our assistant principles collaborative of which Tom will be a part of tomorrow is actually going to dig into um how do we develop some more professional learning for our teachers and and I
044know the principles have dug into that as well. It's really incredible to have um a platform where you can bring all of your information into one spot and then make decisions from there. So, I'm sure we can find time um this year to to share some feedback on that as well. >> And as you heard too, it replaced the by mass which we told you was part of the plan. >> Hello. I'll just echo everyone's gratitude of course for all of you and all the work you do and for presenting in the way that you did. So, thank you for that. Um, it was really obvious with this format and hearing from all of you how this kind of built upon and complemented the action plans that you shared with us last year. Um, and
045I echo Katherine on how exciting this time of education is. And that's just the word that keeps popping around. Um, just because it's so innovative and fun and new. Um, so I would just love, you don't all have to talk, but if any of you wanted to just pop up and just share very very briefly what you're really excited about the most this coming year, like what gets you like psyched. >> I'll be here all night if I start. So I'm gonna back up. I think for me with personalized learning and I I touched on it earlier um we're going to have a panel of students and we are going to ask them um to really think about some of the greatest personalized learning lessons or projects that they've done over time. uh we would
046like our our brojo to be a part of it as well so that they can uh tape those and in the end you're going to have a bank of discussions with these students and ideas for you to use moving forward teachers wise I mean um so I'm pretty excited about that you have one in mind or not an invite but like a a lesson you're on the Um, something that I'm really excited about at FAL, um, to include our 1211 students in our specials in a special way. We have adaptive PE for our special ed 121 students. They go to PE, the general ed PE with their typical classroom peers, but then they have adaptive PE with um our one of our PE teachers specializes in um the target areas that are right for them
047at their levels. So, something that I've wanted to do at FAL um now that we started these programs is see what we can do to enrich their art library, computer lab, and music programs. So, it's very unofficial, but what I'm working with my art teacher and my music teacher this year, and we're giving our 12-in1 classes some we're not calling it adaptive art or adaptive music, but an opportunity every week to go to the music room with just their cohort and do some pre-teaching during that time. So, when they go with their typical peers, it's nothing new. They maybe already learn the song and music or they already experience touching and playing the instruments. So when they go again, they're able to experience it with a little background knowledge. Same thing with art. We're noticing
048in the art room, a lot of the students if they start a project with their their general ed class, maybe they don't get to finish it. Maybe they have a service during that time. So that's another time for them to pick up maybe something that they didn't finish or start something so that when they are in class with their general general ed peers, they already have a head start. so they can work at their pace and still be able to do the same projects that their peers are doing. So, that's something I'm really excited about and I'm excited to see where it can kind of uh kind of grow in our district. Um, and my teachers at Fail are on board and really excited about it with me. So, that's been a really a big
049win so far this school year at Fail. >> I feel like mine feels a little nerdy to be honest. Um uh at both buildings we have a a master scheduling committee that's um started this year. We just had our first meeting and I'm really excited because we're going to be looking at that. So we're on the same page with both buildings and also coming at it through the lens of the portrait of a learner and New York inspires and where can we maybe think outside of the box with scheduling at the middle school level and there's no set vision of what that's going to look like. Um, so we're I'm really excited for the work and looking and diving that into um with with both schools working on that together. So more to come at
050the end of this year [Music] and I'll add a quick one from M Road. We're very excited to be implementing more intention with more intentionality restorative practices. And I'd be remiss not to um thank Trish Fogerty for her leadership and Tom Chvers who helped um build a team at our school. But we're we're hosting morning AM clinics which is professional learning. We're attending uh workshops together and we're holding restorative circles in our building to help foster relationships and um just really focus on how we treat each other in the climate and culture of our buildings. That's something we're really excited about. Uh so just being new right to end En enders road to being new to FM one one and there's a lot here but one thing is the panorama SCCL or mental health screener
051I think it's something that's utterly important to reflect on is the students well-being understanding it's a priority consistently it's been a district priority but it's one of my own coming from, you know, a former educator. I was a health and PE teacher, I was heavily involved with the New York State Education Department's role out of the 2018 implementation of the mental health law. So to seeing where we are now, 2025 from 2018 and the advocacy from from that and how really, you know, looking at the elementary level, we're we're engaging our younger students in reflection and thinking about their well-being and expressing emotional concepts and what that means and how to regulate. and overarching theme there is is one of my own passions which is the the building of resiliency with our students and our
052school community. So that new opportunity with panorama as much as Sarah I know you're interested into seeing all of the facets which I think you'll you'll really enjoy the visual data components but that is something that just the sheer screening of it I think empowers our students indirectly and again underscores the priority that it is so utterly important student mental health. well-being. >> Lots more to share later this year. >> Great. Thank you. And thank you for sharing your exciting pieces. That was really wonderful. Like really wonderful. So, thank you. [Applause] Okay. I was gonna say, is Sarah coming up to present something? Um, no. Uh, all right. Item 4.02, president's report. Um, so up Oh, did I skip something? No. Okay. Um so uh just from a superintendent search update, we are actively engaged
053in the interviewing process. Um so stay tuned for more information as that um continues. I'd also like to give a very large thank you to an for participating in the NISBA annual meeting on behalf of the district and the board. Huge time commitment. Um, as with anything, they never go super smoothly, but you persevered and we are incredibly grateful for your service. So, thank you very much. Um, and then last but certainly not not least, I just wanted to uh congratulate I I believe the girls varsity tennis team won sectionals and I know a lot of our student athletes who are we have a huge fall season with a ton of participation and I think a lot of the teams are just starting their sectional uh bids right now. So, good luck to all of
054them for participating and hope they do their best. Um, and that is it for me. >> Item 4.03, superintendent report. >> Thank you, President Fitzgerald. In your uh board docs is the backup information. Item one, capital project update. Construction work on the high school's 52 million capital improvement project continues with the house two renovations located on the first floor and likely that will continue until the holiday break when the contractors plan to move up to the second floor. I'm happy to report that the architects are putting bid packages together for the phase five site work at the high school which will be completed during the upcoming summer of 2026. The phase five site work package will include the milling and replacement of the top coat and the respective student staff parking lots as well as
055the continuation of the paving on Pride Lane. It will also include the installation of an access road at the rear of the building in the event of an emergency. Uh Dr. Don uh talked quite a bit about the tri-state consortium training. We were lucky to have 20 uh staff members, faculty, and administrators in attendance. As you know, our district's membership and the prestigious uh tri-state consortium allows us to participate in consultancies, which are site visits to provide helpful feedback in certain areas, as well as study groups in which our staff members are able to share best practices with representatives from other districts in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. And as Dr. Dton said there was a palpable excitement among the participants and I know they're planning on reconvening at the upcoming professional learning day
056in November. Item three, school start time committee. Our school start time committee will continue their deliberations in early November and will attempt to reach consensus on a recommendation that can be brought forward to the board of education at the regularly scheduled November 17th meeting. Our scheduling consultant, Elliot Marin Bloom, has helped the team examine the advantages and limitations of each potential option. At the very least, by lengthening the high school day by about 20 minutes. Right now, we're exploring, believe it or not, 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the afternoon. That will include the much anticipated lunch periods at the high school. Certainly, the arrival and dismissal times for the middle and elementary schools will probably be slightly adjusted, and that will be impacted too on whether we decide to double trip
057or triple trip with the school bus fleet. And item last, our annual report should be hitting community mailboxes in the near future. As per custom, the annual report features a community survey accessible from a QR code to gauge stakeholder perceptions about the school district. The report, which I know our district clerk has provided you with a copy at your station, is replete with valuable information regarding the district's progress on its overall strategic plan. The narrative references many initiatives put in place to further our work in the four key priority areas. As you are aware, these priority areas include teaching and learning, school environments, service learning and community partnerships, and fiscal capacity and responsibility. That concludes my superintendence report. >> Does anybody have any questions for Dr. Ty? >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um, item
0584.04, reports from committee representation updates. Um, Marissa Well, legislative liaison, we'll start with um between Jacob and Marissa. I'm not sure if you guys had a chance to coordinate yet. We haven't talked yet, but um I will be reaching out soon so that we can meet. Um I hear a lot of good ideas that you're mentioning. I want to talk about how we can bring those to the board. Sounds good. Okay. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. And then um Marissa Ombosis update. >> Yes. So OCOis is um as a capital improvement project. It's first in about major one in about 30 years. So, I have some information about that for the board and we have a short video to show um what the referendum would cover. Um there's been about a 30% increase in our
059CTE enrollment at Boseies and there's a desperate need to upgrade um some of our classroom spaces and our buildings both in Courtlandville and in Thompson Road. [Music] Every morning at OCM Boseies begins with a promise. A safe place to learn, grow, and discover what's possible. But behind the classroom walls, some systems are wearing out. Roofs, heating, plumbing, even safety systems and lighting have been stretched beyond their useful lives. They just weren't built for the demands of today. That's why OCM Boseies is proposing a $30.5 million capital project to address these critical infrastructure needs. It will affect two of our buildings, the Makavoy building at our Courtlandville campus and the Career and Technical Education Building at our Thompson Road campus. At Ombosis, it's been over 25 years since we've done a major capital project, and our
060roofs and our infrastructure are tighter. Your students are our students, and they deserve the best. Over the last several years, CTE enrollment has risen 30% while overall enrollment in the region has declined. We know these jobs that are created from the programs the kids are involved with are important to the region and we want to be able to offer all of our students, all of your students the very best. [Music] Most of the cost is covered by New York State 65%. The rest is shared across our 23 component school districts. For most homeowners, the tax increase per year is going to be less than a medium cup of coffee. You can find the estimated tax increase for you by visiting ocmosis.org/c capital project. Just click on the district you live in. >> I appreciate Boseies
061because it gives me a big head start for my future. >> It's just such a great way to hone in on your ability and it gives you access to actually be able to achieve what you enjoy doing. I think Bosis is awesome because I get to build a house and I get to learn cool new things that I've never learned before. >> It's definitely a really good opportunity for really anybody, not just somebody who wants to be a mechanic or if you're in construction. You don't have to be a construction worker. It's really good to learn these kinds of skills just in your daily life. I >> feel that the renovations are going to be good for Boseis. It would just like make learning experience smoother and better for all the students. I appreciate Boseies
062because it gave me a second family and I look forward to coming here every day. >> This is your chance to shape the future. Join the conversation, ask your questions, and make your voice count on November 19th. Please vote. [Music] So, everyone should have a flyer now that has um summary of the information from the MO um from the film there. Sounds probably not the right word, but I'm tired. Um and again, this is mostly going to be aided through New York State and the cost of the project will be divided over all the component districts. Um, voting is on November to be 19 in person and you can also vote early. Anyone is even if you're not a registered voter, as long as you're 18 years old, a citizen and a resident in the
063within the OCM Boseis component district, you can vote. So, if our students want to get out and support Boseies, they can do it, too. As long as they're 18 years old. and they have the link so that each person can go to their particular district and see exactly what the tax impact would be. But again, it's very very minimal. >> Thank you. >> Um >> Sarah, can I ask a question? >> Yes, of course. >> So, Marissa, when I went out to the link today and looked at it, it said for FM the district's going to get assessed about $65,000 a year. Do you know how many years that goes to pay that off? I do not know how many years that is over off the top of my head, >> but I can find
064that out for you. >> Thanks. >> Great. Thank you very much, uh, Jacob. Hi. So, uh, today, um, set up a bit of a slideshow to make, uh, everyone's life a little easier when, uh, a bit more comprehensive. Um, just this. Okay. So, uh, here is my report for the board of education for today. Uh, Stuco updates. Um, as you know, recently we had our prep rally, which everyone had a lot of fun. Um, this year we were able to get a lot more people involved in our games. Um, homecoming/tailgates. Many students came and enjoyed popcorn and snow cones at the tailgate while playing lawn games. Um, as you may or may not know, FM had a victory against Nottingham. And we saw the fantastic class floats. Um and during homecoming dance we had over
0651,000 in attendance. It was a large success. So great. Um and currently we are doing the MC auditions for um with our student officers and adviserss and interviewing future MC's. Uh here are a bit of couple photos I took of the events. So guess everyone's having quite a lot of fun. polls. Um recently we had sent out um polls to students to fill out um on certain um things that were discussed during board meetings. Um start off um here we have um a poll on concerning the school start time as well as how much students are getting sleep. This is quite relevant to current um decision as well as discussion on the start time committee. Um so take as you will. Um for this is currently these responses are from the high school. Um um
066these are respon the responses that we had received from one of the middle schools. Unfortunately, not nearly as much, but hopefully more responses shall trickle in. Uh here is the polls. We had discussion um over the free lunch that we had discussed a few meetings back as well as discussion if students would eat lunch if it was free. Um vast majority which is quite interesting. Yes. High school. Um if you see a High school will be on the left side and the middle school will be be on the left. Oh no, the high school will be on the left. The middle school will be on the right. Sorry. Um next slide. This is the middle school. Um should um school lunch provide it's vast majority but hopefully more responses so I'll be able to update
067you on that. Um this is on the question of should schools make meals more personalized? It is quite divided for the high school which I found quite interesting. Um that a lot of people were quite indecisive about it. Um the middle school seemed quite more decisive of a yes. Um so I know this was another one that was brought up by a teacher. Um if we should be making school sizes smaller. a large portion of the high schoolers said no and equally large from the middle schoolers of our 23 respondents. So, which is interesting give or take and it's quite similar. Um, here's another one on if schools should be reducing the amount of homework given out as well as opinions on the New York State electronic band. Um so yeah. >> Yeah. But but
068it seems that a there is a large maj which is interesting that a large majority does seem to be on the side for in terms of homework that they strongly agree to agree that um the school is giving a lot of homework which is something we'll probably have to further discuss later on. continuing. Yeah. Um as well as the electronic band. Um yeah, not many there couple that's fantastic. So that's a bit reassuring. So take as you will. And this is the middle school. Bit more I guess vibrant especially for the phone electronic band. But this is with only 43 responses of this poll. So, >> Jacob, how do the middle schoolers respond? Like, how do you reach them? >> Uh, what I had done was I tried to reach out to the u middle
069schools as well as elementary as well as the high school um to see if we um and tried to push that out the um Google form which I had created for students to fill out. Um, I ended up having to create two just in order to separate the middle school as well middle schools to elementary as well as the high school. Though, we might need to make a couple changes and accommodations for the elementary because of age. So, yes, I'm not there. I know there are plenty of elementary schools who are elementary kids who are quite intelligent. Not that I'm doubtful of it. It's just, you know, age appropriate. If it's appropriate for some questions, >> they they just might not have access to >> Yes. your format perhaps I don't know >> um student
070concerns um going through mainly the high school um I looked over as well as analyzed what came up the most um here are some things that came up uh five I a lot of these things are things that we I have brought up in the past um there are concerns um issues of the fiveminute passing periods being too short um which has I've heard from both students and teachers. Uh various students voiced their concern about next year's um launch being mandatory and many having preferred the wellness period. Um issues of there being too much homework which is also seen by the polls. A cons continued issue of sites being blocked which was addressed to last meeting. Um so uh as well as uh students wishing to have more access to music sites. One uh specific
071site being Spotify. I saw quite often in the polls. Another issue is um students being concerned about vaping in the bathrooms, which is something we might want to have a bit more of a firmer discussion on. Uh various rooms being either too cold or too hot. I know we are we've had discussion about the air conditioning as well as heating in the school. So, uh there was also some concerns with traffic in the morning in the parking lot. So that um was also somewhat discussed during the start time committee and would be interesting for more students to be able to voice their concerns given that more students come. Uh students also want more flexibility in what and what with what electronics they can use. Um obviously a state law but it's just something to take
072into consideration of what students are feeling. uh student voice. Um recently I've talked to a couple students who would like to um address um a holiday that they would like to have recognized. Um it's called Diwali. Um recently many students in our district have been advocating for the inclusion Diwali as a school holiday. Around 300 students have petitioned for this change. Diwali if you didn't know is a traditional Indian holiday all otherwise known as the festival of lights which is celebrated by many. And this year Dewali begin began today. So uh happy Dewali. This was not planned. It's just fantastic day to bring it up. So something to consider in the future. >> Oh, even better. >> So yeah, that is all I had to say today. >> We haven't done Sunday. [Music] >> Jacob
073looked up. It's a fiveday festival, but the first day next year will be Sunday, November 8th. We figured, which is the week of Veterans Day, the Monday because it starts Sunday at night to sundown Monday. So, right now it's sundown tonight till sundown tomorrow. Wait, the answer is 20 years, Jason. >> Well, Jacob, that was phenomenal. I mean, such a great presentation. So substantive. And I guess my question for you and the board is what do we do with all this information? I mean, it's one thing to just move on to the next agenda item, but how do we take this feedback from students and um integrate it into the work we're doing? So, I just kind of wanted to open up that discussion. >> I'd like to see some um some followup specifically on
074this the the lunch part piece. Um students um somewhat like wellness versus lunch or there were some students who would like to see more personalization, more diversity in the lunch, but there was I can't remember how many students responded, but there were a lot of students who wanted thought the lunch should be provided um free of cost. And I'm wondering if those students were aware of the limitations that puts on what they're able to receive. So I'm wondering if you think that it would be helpful to uh gather some students who are more passionate about that than others and a small group, maybe student council, I'm not sure, but a group of students to really like dive into the issue and say uh to make sure they're very informed about what they would receive in
075each scenario. I can see what I can do about that. Um the kind of for most of the concerns concerning um actual lunch um were in the optional basically where you can type your concerns. Um some of them had to relate to um just overcrowding within the cafeteria itself and feeling uncomfortable in such a large space. They felt um many felt seemingly more comfortable in a more smaller environment of a classroom which is something to consider. Um but I will be I am willing to have more further discussion with students or pull out another poll to collect data on um just be infor um to inform students of how the lunch works. Um of course unfortunately I would not was not today I would not was just wanted to say but I was not able
076to address every single student's concern. There was, let me see here, um, 119, um, concerns written up, typed up. So, um, I apologize in advance if, um, you had a concern that you're very strongly in. If any of people online or in person that they had typed, just uh, know that um, it was read in something that I will be um, having further discussion with um, um, Mr. Macron, right? Um, so yeah, >> one of the things Jacob and I talked about while you were in exec session is that some of the students are afraid in terms of being isolated and having to sit by themselves at lunch. So, one of the things we've been wrestling with is activity period and bringing it into the lunch and running clubs and possibly uh I know the
077teachers have a contract that's coming up uh for negotiations and what does that look like? I mean, can we move the activity period to the middle of the day to ensure that students aren't by themselves sitting in the lunchroom? Um, so Jacob, that was actually one of my questions was so the items that you were able to list, were those the most frequently um listed items or was there kind of a priority list that you >> Yes. Um the one the respon the um concerns I had listed are ones that I had seen multiple times over and over again as also have when talking with people I've heard over and over again. Um there are some issues that are quite concerning that um though I've seen from a couple responses but not enough that I
078would be putting out as I mean all these all the concerns that are something I would want to bring up but unfortunately it's time wise I would like to but >> just being realistic with time as well as trying to summarize thing if in future with polls I might begin to integrate some of the smaller response responses that have only heard maybe once or twice and see if we are able to get a larger student voice on those issues. I mean, I wonder if um I I think this is really great, Jacob, for us to have the information, right, and for awareness as well, but I wonder if you know, as we were talking about last time, when we're having committee meetings, if we're talking about some of these topics that might be relevant to
079items of concern or um items of interest from the student body, I think that's a time where we maybe have to take a step back and make sure that we're either somehow figuring out how we bring in students to participate in those conversations um a little bit more proactively perhaps. >> Yes, I 100% agree. Um perhaps we can set up um more I guess specific meetings for student concerns if that would be possible in the future. Um so these things can directly be addressed. But I mean also we'll might maybe have more direct meetings with school principles as well as of these specific schools would be nice as well. Um just so we can make sure everything is fully addressed and that these students know that their concerns are being heard as well as there
080is change in consideration. So I just want to make sure I haven't been misunderstanding something. So, when we talked about lunch for all at the high school, we we know we had to rebuild the facility because we didn't have the capability to feed everybody if that's what was needed. But we've also had multiple conversations about enabling and allowing lunch to take multiple forms and not be just lunch in the cafeteria. Am I correct that that's still the position that we're driving toward is allowing flexibility of where and how lunch can be managed in a high school. >> Yes and no. I mean that's one of the reasons considering what can we do with the activity period in the middle of the day so students that share common interests are able to have a working lunch.
081So it could be in a small classroom or whatever. So I think the idea of yes being able to serve everybody with the multiple stations that as you know as chair of facilities that we've put into the high school but at the same time we've got to be able to we're right now letting them eat in the classroom but the ideal would be can we have clubs in the middle of the day. Does that answer what you're going for? I just want to make sure we're we were staying consistent to the original theme that we we know we need to provide the space to do it, but we've also always known that the cafeteria for some is an uncomfortable or stressful environment and we so I just I just want to make sure we're staying
082true to where we've been with that. >> But the idea >> as the new schedule and everything else is built out and Okay. But yeah, I think part of our mental health was not only give the students an opportunity to decompress in the middle of the day and now with the eight periods plus the 30 minute lunch will be able to do that. But it's also bringing together birds of a feather and those that share similar interests to be able to have just like adults would a working lunch. You know, could be a club, could be an activity, what have you. And we know so many students are hardpressed at the end of the day to stay for extracurriculars whether it's to go and take care of a younger sibling or parent or have a
083job. Um and so is there a way to try to navigate that by putting it into the middle of the day intermixed with the lunches? >> Good question. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um, Jacob, I loved the presentation. You mentioned principal McNamera. Have you sat down with It seemed like the majority of the issues were at sort of within the high school level and then there were a few related to lunch that I think touches upon food services which is more broad. Have you had a chance to sit down with Principal Mcamera to share this and maybe the fuller list of what was surfaced yet or not yet? Yes, the um that is what I intend to um be doing as well as being doing more frequently. I did have one meeting with him um which
084I did um discuss um issues of um concerns about um passing periods as well as site certain sites being blocked. Um I plan to also have future meetings with him um in regards to like the middle school. It's a little more tougher. Um, of course, because I'm a high schooler, I'm in a different building. Um, though I am willing to share the data um shown under the respect that um each student is is allowed to be anonymous and that they're not going to be just walked up to and asked about and interrogated about the um their concerns. So, just being respectful of students privacy as well. Um so, Does that answer your question? >> Yeah. I mean, I think there's there's an enormous value to pulse surveys, right? Because they can give you a snapshot
085of at at any given time how folks are feeling about something. And I'm interested if you do some of these continuously throughout the year, if we'll be able to see, you know, shifting perceptions or shifting attitudes. You and I have talked. You don't think the cell phone one will change very much. I will be interested to see if it does even even if the hate it talent just gets a little bit smaller fine to say >> but but I also think just your ability to take this and then sit down with the relevant folks and share it with them is just it's enormously helpful and so thank you for taking this on of your own initiative to share it with us and with the building leadership too. I had on the most part I just
086figured it would also be good information for the school board to know as well as in regards to concerns within the school. Obviously um this is most mostly I guess high school centric say. Um I'd hope to be able to get more responses from middle schoolers. Elementary as I said is a bit more iffy with getting responses sometimes. So um we'll see what we can do from there. I I uh I think uh first of all I think I agree and I want to piggyback a little bit on what Sarah and Sarah said. Um but perhaps there you know as far as the polls and I think that can be a great tool for uh you know the board and the administration and the principles and the committees. I'm wondering um if there might be
087a mechanism uh to put in place where you know committees or or the board might be able to have um you know where we can push out not us push it out but maybe through through you or however a mechanism where we can get where we can pull or take the temperature of the student body and and do it in a way that gives some context to the question because that can be the challenge with polls sometimes as we mentioned with even some of these things but especially If there's a particular topic, whether it be school start times, give give some context, give a couple of questions that relate to that to really take the temperature and do it in in a way that's not just, you know, a snap pole necessarily, but with a
088little bit of context. And that might be if we could put that type of mechanism in place. I think it would be a great tool for some committees or us where we could say, "Hey, Jacob, you know, perhaps, you know, let's put together this, you know, really quick, you know, not a lengthy poll, but a couple of questions and give it a little bit of a paragraph of some context so that we can take the temperature on some of these topics because I I do think some some of the respon I thought it was a little bit surprising." So I think sometimes we assume you know that we what students are going to like or not like but without really you know taking the temperature I I think we can make some bad assumptions occasionally.
089I think oops sorry we've had discussions among the officers about including like in community relations committee including members of the community and in the past we've had students participate on that and having faculty or staff I think there's a way to bring in as we've talked uh even for something like the community relations committee >> um I 100% agree with um on that. Um obviously this is mostly just a first time thing where kind I'm just trying to see what I um what how many students are actually going to respond because it is an optional thing. I'm not forcing these students to uh all these polls. Uh maybe as evident by the middle school lacking responses. I'm quite proud of our high school of 438 in 24 hours. So, um yeah, I do 100% agree
090with you that we could make some of these polls a little more specific so we can and as well as be a bit more specific ourselves with these um what we're talking about so students have a full understanding of what we're trying to ask of them. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Jacob? >> Thank you. And would you like to give us a debrief of your event? I would love nothing more. Um, so on Thursday night, I was able to participate in the NISSBA annual meeting. Um, I had some technical difficulties at the beginning of the meeting. Um, and after that was solved, so that that prevented me from being able to vote for the first um, I think 15 14 resolutions. I got in at resolution 14, which means most of the
091things that we talked about at the last meeting had already happened. So, I apologize for that. That was beyond my control. Um, they actually let me into the meeting as a panelist. and Danielle Graasso. I have to give her all the credit in the world. We were going back and forth over email while the meeting was happening to get me in. So, I appreciate her efforts. They were nothing short of heroic. Um the the res the process was interesting. It's really um something that I have never experienced before. And um there was um generally speaking about 285 people on the call that it kind of waxes and waines depending on who's getting kicked out because they're on too many devices such as myself. Um many of the resolutions um a a topic came up that
092many of the resolutions that were being passed should not just include and this is something for future consideration the school board. So so a lot of them will say in reference to the board but should also include boseies as well. Um so so that is something that we may see in the future is that language change. Um there was let's see I did manage to vote as we all prepared for on on any of the ones that I could and the link in our board docs has the adopted resolutions. If anyone wants more specific notes on numbers 14 through 34, I'm happy to provide those. You can look at my handwritten notes. Um, is there any questions about any of this? >> I guess were there any surprising votes that changed from what was the
093recommendation? >> That's a good question. Um, there was one. So, it was actually I think one that Dan brought up. Please hold. I have too many packets of these. Yes, whole milk did pass. That was that was I I don't think I was on or was I on at that point? I don't remember. Um, so resolution 24. Let me check on what that one was. Sorry. [Music] No, that wasn't it. I'm sorry. I can't find the right paper. Give me a minute. There were two that had addendums in the book that the addendum answered the questions that we wanted the answers to. If I can find the right page, I am happy to tell you what they are. Oh, right there. So it was number 24. It was number 24. So, um it passed with
094a yes and we had originally said to oppose it and then that was really the only one that was significant. Number 34 also passed. Um and we opposed that one as well. So, so there was only those two. Um everything else went as you would imagine. >> Okay. >> So everything that NISBA recommended or no >> those two were on the oppos list. I I don't know how to call it. >> Um >> and they the addendum is what clarified >> the information that people wanted clarification on. One of them might have been about uh middle school age or something like that. Um so if you want my notes happy to share. >> Well thank you for participating and um we will need to participate again next year so we can share we can rotate
095the responsibility u so we'll just need to be thinking about that. Thank you very much. Happy to rotate the responsibility. >> I'm sure you would even train your replacement. Right. Okay. Great. Um, item 5.01, public comment. I believe we have one person registered for public comment. Um, Jay Brener. And as you're coming up, Jay, just as a reminder, we have allotted three minutes per person. um and um and issues involving particular students or employees are not appropriate topics and the board um typically does not respond to any comments that are made. So, we're not don't be offended if we don't respond. Thank you. Thank you uh President Fitzgerald and Vice President Cohen, Superintendent Ty, members of the board for giving me a couple minutes to talk about an issue that has come to my attention
096that I would like to ask the board to consider. Um so first of all, who am I? I'm Jay Brener. As you heard, I'm a parent, a father of a 12th grader and a 10th grader at the high school. And I have not addressed this board in 12 years. I think Marissa was on the board then. um she remembers um and uh that's because you all have been doing such a great job. So I want to thank you for you know providing such a a great oversight to the um the district. Um so uh three years ago uh three school years ago I got uh to have the um opportunity uh really it was a privilege um to chaperon the school music trip uh when our son was a freshman. And it's because of my
097day job. I'm a physician and you know the district likes to have physicians and nurses accompany the the students. Um but my full-time job as a as a parent is why I'm here. And it was such a phenomenal trip. Um they went to Williamsburg, Virginia, as some of you might know and stopped at Howard University to get a master class. Um, and this was, you know, three groups, the combined orchestra, the combined band, the combined chorus, and then went on to Busch Gardens to have a great time, ride some roller coasters. I get to ride with a couple of the teachers. I won't tell you who got sick. Okay, it was me. Um, there's a reason why it's called Verboten. It means forbidden in German. Don't go on that wooden roller coaster. Um, and then,
098uh, it concluded with, you know, the festival, the music festival, the whole reason that, you know, the the trip was was planned for. And if you could have been there to see the joy, the pride and the unity that all the students had when they won first place across the board at this music festival. It was just phenomenal. Um and you know seeing the social emotional learning that these students were getting was really remarkable. Um so why am I here to talk to you? It's because the music trip is penciled in for uh end of March into April. Um but it may not happen this year. And I'm I'm under the understanding that it can only happen Am I down to 35 seconds? Oh my gosh. Okay. We have to raise Oh, I'm sorry. We
099have to raise the limit on what a school trip can cost an individual student. And we have to do it now. So, we have time to raise. It's currently 750, which is from 1986. Inflation puts that that should be at like $2,250 by by now. So, apparently the administrative council, the board has to act on this, for this to happen. I think it has to happen now so that we have time for our students and families to fund raise so we can send our students on this marvelous trip that is important for their social emotional learning. And thank you. >> Oh, look at that. Right under the wire. Thank you very much, Jay. appreciate the feedback. Okay, moving into uh new business item 6.01, policies in first reading. Be it resolved that the board of
100education of the Fateville Manla Central School District hereby moves revised policy 7210 and the 9000 series policies into second reading for the next regular board meeting. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Rebecca. And a second and uh any discussion? I just was on a few of them. the proposed administrative regulation is still in there and I thought that that's just not what we vote on or move forward. I thought I could be wrong how I was interpreting. Back to >> you are correct. We don't we don't approve administrative regulations, right? could be just I'm sorry I didn't mark down where it was >> they've been included as reference because the policy often defers to them. Is there one in particular that >> none in particular? Not in particular. Just just as a general
101prospect general purpose. Okay. >> Yeah, we're not adopting at this point anyway. So, >> okay. So, when we would adopt, Sarah, would you take them out so that it's clear what the board is adopting versus? >> Oh, okay. Any other discussion items? Okay. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Okay. Thank you. Item 6.02, approval of minutes. Be it resolved that the board of education of Fateville Manla School District approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on October 6, 2025 as presented. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Rebecca. And second, John. Any discussion? All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Okay, thank you. That was Mar. Yep, Marissa and Jason. Okay. uh ongoing business 7.01 board development um if you're interested so the national school boards association their annual conference this year
102is in April in San Antonio so if you are interested in that um I think that would be something to just we should all discuss and um go from there. Item 7.02 future potential considerations for future meetings. So, no changes on our list unless there's anything anybody wants to bring up on there. Uh 8.01 future meetings calendar. So, we are gathering again uh November 17th. Um and we will be going over some statistics that Dr. ch will compile um amongst other things that will also probably be the um school start time recommendation. So we're just trying to make sure we have plenty of time um and materials in advance so that we can give that the care that it deserves. >> Is the intention of that to just receive the recommendation and then subsequently have
103discussion about it or is the intention of that to receive the recommendation and vote on a course of action that night. >> I think it's up to the purview of the board. The intent is to receive the recommendation and then if we feel we can act on it, then we should act on it. more deliberations are needed. The only thing that we're up against, as you know, is that we promised the community that especially if there was any flip involved, flip and slide, or just a plain flip, we would want to give the community as much advanced notice as possible for any child care arrangements. I'm assuming a recommendation that doesn't include a flip in it possibly could be voted on and have a quicker turnaround. Okay. Um, consent agenda item 9.01. Uh, be it
104resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Manla Central School District hereby approves the consent agenda as presented. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Marissa and Dan. Second. Um, all in favor? >> Anybody opposed or abstaining? Okay. Thank you, Jason. and 7:40. Uh item 11.01. Be it resolved that the board of education of the Fateville Mania School District adjourn the meeting at 7:40. We're only 10 minutes off of the estimated time. Thank you, Chrissy. We'll motion that and and we'll second it. All in favor? Anybody opposed or abstaining? Thank you. Have a wonderful evening.