001Can you start the live stream? We are live. Okay. Like to call this meeting special meeting of the board of education of Fort Edward Union Free School District for May 21st. Calling it to order. Would you please stand with me and recite the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, Kazy, would you do the roll call, please? Absolutely. Tim Clark here. Audra all here. Sarah Bashinsky is not here. Ken Chester here. Tara Ryther here. Lisa Carpenter here. And Jody Voucher here. Great. Next, we need to uh have a motion to accept the agenda for this evening. Uh Audra and second by Ken. Uh any discussion? All in
002favor? I carried. Sorry. Do you want to do this now or? Um, let's do this first. Okay. And then we'll grab this. Next up, uh, Mr. Holly is going to give a brief overview uh, from public of board members. Board members seats and terms. Yes. Just real quick, I know, uh, when we were all here last, Casey did a fantastic job of mapping out potential scenarios given our election scenario and writing candidates and things. Congratulations to to uh Ken and Tara on your election and Lisa and Jod. Welcome to the school board. Now that we have a fully seated board, I'm just going to go through this one more time for our public and for this collective group to make sure we all know exactly where we stand uh as a board of trustees. Uh
003Audra all term expires June 30th of 2026 and that's the remainder of Amanda Derky's term. Sarah Kachinski's term will expire June 30th of 2029. Tim Clark term expires June 30th of 2029. Ken Chester, now newly elected, June 30th, 2030. Tara Ryther, June 30th, 2027, which is the remainder of Ella Collins term. Lisa Carpenter, June 30th, 2027, the remainder of Taylor Boucher's term. And Jodie Boucher, her term is through June 30th of 2026, and is the remainder of John Buglmo's term. So, we have a fully seated board as a result of these elections. Very pleased with that. And we all know the length of terms and who they're replacing. So, we've got this all cleaned up and ready to do business for the for the coming school year. I'm very excited about it. Thank you. Thank
004you very much. Uh, next up, we have a recognition of success for Mr. Connor Anderson, uh, grade three for publication in the Chronicle. I'd like to read his publication. It was called New Brother on His Way. One thing I'm looking forward to is my baby brother being born. and he'll be born on October 20th and I can play with him a lot. It will take a long time for him to grow up, but when he does, I can play with him all day. I can teach him and he will make a lot of friends. A Conor Very nice. Would you please come up and uh accept the certificate of you? Well done. Congratulations, Connor. No, not so fast, my friend. Not so fast. I want to shake your hand again. Congratulations. Well done, Mrs. Bruce.
005Nice job. You got anything you want to say about Connor? I'm just very proud of him and all that he's doing in third grade. And that I get to meet his little brother. And is that the little brothers in the in the audience that you wrote about? Yes. Yes. Is it as good as you thought it would be when you wrote about him? Yes. Yes. All right. Great job. We're very proud of you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Great job. Thank you. Okay, the next part of our meeting is uh dedicated for our community comments. Um, have there been any community comment forms? Okay, moving on to action items. First action item 4 A is accept the budget vote and election results. Can I have a motion and second floor? Tara and Audra, any discussion? Do
006we need to read any of this or like we can just pass it as it's written in the agenda? I think you guys can feel free to just pass it. We put it out publicly everywhere. Okay. I'd just like to say thank you to the community for their support once again uh of our of our financial plan going forward means all. Thank you. Uh, all in favor? I I carried it. You should be. You're on here forever. You're committed. Okay. Next action item is the special patrol officer contract for 2526. Have a motion on that. Jody and Audrey. Any [Music] discussion? I just want to clarify. The county pays some of the benefits, right? Like you pay salary for this, but county sheriff chips in for part of it. Is that right? For benefits or
007health insurance or something? It's all inclusive. So whenever we pay as a full amount, it's it's allocated through the county that way, but we do pay the whole thing. Yeah. All right. Any more discussion on that? All in favor? Carried. Okay, next one. Uh, the Hudson Headarters Health Network contract for 2526. Can I get a motion on that? I'd like to discuss this before we vote if that's okay. Yeah, we just have to motion to bring it to the floor. Audra and Joey. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. So, I have lots of questions. So, um, only because of my role in my other job. Um, were there other are there any RFPs or is this the only one that came through? It was the only one we had. Okay. Is there any way that we can
008see the RFP? I know we had a situation with our previous provider. So, we were also desperate to like land this for that year. So, 20 at the end of 22. Yep. It was related to um basically paying funds that were should not have been paid. So, it was kind of a easy find for these people and they were willing to come aboard. So it was a time frame. So I got to look at that information of how it would landed. But that's how we reached out to Hudson headlars. Well, we didn't post in the paper. And so RFP didn't go out. I'm not even sure how that actually landed. But again, we were using funds that were not appropriated correctly for 30 plus years with our former provider. Right. I think so. We need
009to look at I think we should look at this a little closer before we accept it to what's the deadline? What are we what are we looking to do? Well, by doing that just if if this is the only one we reached out to, should we reach out to other and it's been a few years and it's been 2022. we should open it back up and take a look at other providers. So, I guess my first question is is how long once you signed the contract with Hudson Headwaters in 22, how long was that that contract good for? Question number one. Question number two, if the contract had expired, you have to put it, don't you have to put an RFP out to get bids to come in to see who else would be interested?
010And then from there then we would decide which medical provider we want to go with to be the medical director for the school. My understanding is there was issues.