001Good evening and thank you for joining us. Can I have somebody move action 1.02 to approve the agenda? >> Mover. >> Just Lori. All those in favor? >> I opposed. passes 600. In the event of an emergency and we need to evacuate the building, we have two doors in our room. If you could move as far away from the building as possible and could you please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We don't have anybody signed up for public forum this evening. Can I get somebody to move action 1.06 to approve the August 26th regular meeting minutes? >> Move it. Second it.
002All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. >> I >> passes 501. All right. So, in our president's report, we have quite a few meetings coming up over the next two months. We've got all of our policy and our health and safety and our regular meetings in there. Uh there's also on October 6th, our DCC meeting. Um that will be at the Grey Bali at 5:00 PM. and not on here. But for those of you who are part of the Asugigo County School Boards Association, that meeting will be on Monday, September 5th at 6:00. So, if you're able to join, just let me know or reach out. It's for the Asiggo County School Boards Association. Lori and uh Jess are going to join in that. >> Oh, I thought you said September. That's why I wanted
003to double check. >> September 15th. >> Oh, okay. I thought you said September 5th. I'm not asked. >> That's what I thought. Nope. September 15th. If September 5th, we all missed it. September 15th. Um, and and Tom, who's the president of the group, he just uh informed us this week that that's when the meeting's going to be. So, if you can join, that'd be great. Uh, we also have to talk about our NISSBA and our resolutions. Uh, Desire had point printed off of our proposed bylaw amendments and resolutions that we need to go through as board members uh, and check them out. Um, we also have a Google Docs form that we can put our answers in so that Dez can collect those by September 17th. So, if you can make sure that they're into
004her by the 17th, uh, Mr. Dorm and Mrs. O'Brien are going to be our delegates uh, on the October 16th business meeting. So, we will be discussing all of our results um, at our meeting in September on the 23rd. If anybody has any questions, feel free to definitely reach out uh to Mr. Dalon. Uh you had something that you wanted to share with us or any thing in the process. >> In the book, it refers to sun setting resolutions and I just want to make sure everybody understands what that means. This will be the last time that they'll be on the resolution for voting. >> Y okay. Does that mean that if they've sunset they will stop entirely or we will keep them depending on how it's voted? No, it's the last time. Yeah, depends
005on how it's voted, but that's the last time they'll be voted on. >> Okay. All right. Thank you very much for that. Um, let's see. We also have from Central New York School Board Association the opportunity for a training for our exofficial uh student board members. Um, that is coming up September 27th. Uh, when I think in front of you uh Mr. Lawrence put a paper in front of you and I think he spoke with you a little bit about that training. >> Um if if by the time this meeting comes or training is in September and we have our junior and waiting already appointed, they are definitely welcome to join you as well. Okay. Par your parents can go. I believe that Mr. Dorm is going to uh make it a point to try
006to go with you for that meeting as well. I'm not sure if Mr. Lawrence is, but um you'll have support there for sure. you don't just go sit by yourself. And Mr. Dilorum will be great. He'll be able to answer any questions you have as well, too. So, thank you for stepping up and and doing that for her. All right. Uh some of us were able to go on the building walkthroughs. Uh it was wonderful to see the pride that our custodial staff and our principles had in their buildings. Um I I love this time of year. Um, I just want to say to Corey and Tim out there, just keep in mind with all the great things about our building, there are still some wish lists, Mr. and Lawrence. We talked about some of
007those with our >> wish lists are wonderful. We'll hear about them every year and so maybe it's not a wish anymore. >> So, uh, but it was wonderful to see some of the, uh, new things that they have going on. Um we got to check out the pool and see all sorts of things happening at the playgrounds and um just the shiny wonderful inviting look of the uh the schools itself. And so for those of you who are able to join us uh it was it was wonderful to take part in that. And uh we we thank the custodial staff uh for everything and all the hard work that they've done this summer. It was truly uh truly wonderful to see the fruits of their efforts. So that was great. Um, does anybody have any
008questions on any of the, uh, meetings or events that are coming up? Okay, with that, uh, I know that, uh, superintendent will be giving us a update on how things have been going, uh, for the start of the year. It's hard to believe that we're almost one week into your students being in school. And with that, um, there's always things that come about and I know that, uh, um, Folton has been, uh, in the center of the news again. And, uh, I just want to on behalf of the board, um, say that we support what the district's doing. We know that you have our students education and safety at the forefront of everything that you do. Um, and you know, I'm not sure if there's anything that you have or want to share, but you
009know, thank you for sharing with us and keeping us informed with how the the safety of our students. >> Sure. Yeah. Obviously, not the uh opener we were quite looking for um day one of school with students and um we're receiving calls around 10:00 a.m. that you know, we we have several students who were impacted by the the ICE raid that happened in KO. um several parents detained and and for us there isn't a lot we can do but there are things that we can control and that's what we tried to focus on was really pulling together our staff um who knows these students the best and and their families and making sure that number one they had a safe place to return at the end of the day um Mrs. Hendrickson. She did an
010outstanding job working with our ENL teachers, our principles. Um it was a really a full team effort and making sure that we were identifying the right students and and making sure they had um everything they needed at the end of the school day. Um we also made sure that the students really weren't impacted during the school day as well, which I think was important. They were able to have a normal first day of school and a very abnormal day um for them later on. So, um, student safety and and and was our number one concern through all this. So, as a district, as we're moving forward, it's now just continuing to provide resources for our students and and their families and those who are taking care of them right now. Um, that's our number one
011concern is making sure that they're taken care of >> and and the board appreciates that that is where you guys go on. I know that we have policies in place that puts you at charge of day-to-day operations and that you definitely take those serious uh keeping our kids safe and >> yeah absolutely >> appreciate that. >> Definitely a team effort. >> So by compiling with my board members, we just wanted to let you know that we are in support of them. >> Thank you. >> You taking care of our kids. >> Thank you. >> Um and with that, we're going to go ahead and move on into your superintendent report. So, we do have several things this evening. Um, the first one is a school project update. So, we have Mike James here from King
012and King and um Matt Heert from the Chase and they're going to provide us with some updates on on our current projects and where where things currently stand. [Music] >> Thanks for having us tonight. Um, is the presentation? >> Yep. coming. Um, go to the next one. So, we've uh the 2023 capital project is well underway. Uh, phases one through three have been bid. Uh phases one, two, and just recently three have all started construction. Uh phase four um is getting ready to go out to bid and uh we've recently added a phase five which I'll get to in a little bit. Uh for phase one, the the audit or the uh gym at GRB is turned out amazing. Mike and his team did a really great job designing it and I think that um
013PAC did a great job with their painter and their murals to get that to turn out really really different. That space has changed 100%. Um and um at Fair Grave we've been working through the uh the new staircase and getting that up and taken care of. Uh right now we're just using some railings um per the permanent railings. We have temporary railings so that the entrance can be used. Um, and that will really finish up the large scope of work for phase one. There's some window sash replacement that we have to complete. Um, but for the most part, that's the large portion of phase one, and we're generally expected to finish that by the uh, end of the year. Um, there might be some kind of bleed out a punch list, but in general, we'll
014be done by the first year. Uh, phase two, uh, we did a big chunk of work this year for phase two. all of the site work at Grand um and about half of the site work at GRB. The northern parking lot uh was mil and topped and the what was called the gravel parking lot was made into a permanent parking lot. Um and that was all completed before school started this year. We were also able to get some uh valve replacements inside the uh GRB completed. Uh we've also been working on the boiler in Graanby. Uh we've got a new boiler installed and working on getting it up and running so that that building will now have two functioning boilers instead of just one. Um so that's been a big chunk of work for us
015to complete and uh we're planning more work uh throughout the year and planning the summer for next year. >> You'll remember that at Graanby that was a boiler that failed this past year. That's right. So, we were able to squeeze that scope into this phase and thankfully it's there sitting before agencies and and Matt mentioned the Graanby work. Uh, if you've been to Graanby, you'll recall that the sidewalks and bridge were borderline dangerous for students and there's a lot of traffic there. So, it looks fantastic. And we had we had a great contractor. Yeah, our our contractor out there really took an aggressive schedule and they completed all of Graanby and all of the parking lot work at GRB well before school started. Uh it was very much ready weeks before school. So they they
016put in a lot of work. They pushed their teams really hard and it turned out great. >> And that's rare. >> Yeah. For all of us. >> Uh phase three we just took bids on. Um, our low biders were PAC Associates, Rhondo Electric, Crosby Brownley, JM JNA Mechanical, and Davis Wallbridge. Uh, we did break ground already here in September. Davis Wallbridge um is out at the fields. They have demoed the back stops for the baseball fields and have actually started digging their trenches. Um again, they've taken a very aggressive schedule um and are really pushing to get these fields back online as soon as uh humanly possible. Um we're going to start to plan some of the interior work um that we have for phase three uh with the other contractors. Uh we're still working
017through a little bit of bonds and insurance for a few of them, but everything is uh running for this phase. Davis Ballbridge is a very experienced site contractor. We're fortunate to have him here and as Matt said, they've been very aggressive. So, we look forward to turning that over as quickly as possible. >> Yeah, the owner um his son played college baseball, so he really loves doing baseball and softball field. So, he we're lucky to have him and he's out here most days. So, uh phase four, uh we're working on getting documents ready for bid. We expect him, uh to bid in November. Um, as you'll recall, the the scope is um some abatement at Lanigan and HVAC upgrades. Um, and going for a playground at Bali and upgrades over there. Um, so we've been
018working to kind of rightsize this scope and figure out what it's going to look like and get it out on the street so that we can get this in the spring for work. and we've met with the team to incorporate a few more alternates in this phase to make a little room for phase five that Matt will talk about here in a moment. Yeah. So, we've added a phase five to this project because a few um two months ago um the one of the boilers here at the education center uh has completely failed. It's rusted through. It won't run. Um so that leaves this building with one boiler of the same vintage um same make and model almost um to heat this building with students. Um so the district came to Mike and myself and
019uh we started to work through a plan on what we could do, what some possibilities were. um and working with the other phases um to rightsize some of the phase 4. Uh we were able to find a space to be able to make this phase 5 to bid for a new boiler and an alternate for a second boiler to try and replace this entire boiler plan. Um that way there won't be any downtime and that we can keep kids in the building as much as possible. Uh we also have some backup plans in place in case the second boiler um goes down in the time frame that it will take for us to bid this and get it out on the street and get the new boiler here. Um Cory um has worked with a
020local contractor to come up with a temporary heating plan that we can uh work through the capital project to cover. >> And our goal is to turn this set around as quickly as possible to bid it in a short time frame. And uh we've already been talking to vendors about lead times for boilers. So as Matt said, both of those boilers are the same vintage. They've been operating in an less than ideal environment with excess steam in that space, which is something else we are addressing in the current project. Um so we're showing both boilers on the documents currently. If we can only afford one, we will replace the one that's um been dismantled. If we can afford two, that would be okay. Yep. So, that's we've been uh working through this with the district.
021It was a last minute um issue that we we felt like we could try and help with it. So, we're working through it and I think that we can get it taken care of. >> And by adding this, we're we didn't fall behind in our timeline for the other phases. Correct. Or was there something that we needed to push? Okay. >> Um timeline is still um total 2026 CIP will be completed um year end 26. >> Okay. That's that's what we've been pushing for the whole time. >> Were there a couple things we had to push off because some of the surprise things or I don't want to bring that around. There are there are we took a few alternates in the previous phase phase three and then just recently we had discussions about adding
022a few alternates in phase four. Things that would have been nice to complete but were of a lower priority than say what in this program. Yeah, you're right. That's what I thought. >> Could you remind me what those were? >> Do you remember? >> Yeah. For one, in phase four, we talked about an alternate for the cafeteria flooring. >> Um, >> in the high school, >> I'm sorry, that is at Waln. >> Okay. >> That was the play the play uh >> flooring, right? Uh >> there's also some mechanical work at Lanigan. So, the newest portion of the building uh on the south west side, there were several rooms where we were planning to replace mechanical equipment. Uh and speaking with Cory and Tim and the team, they felt like they could extend the life
023of that equipment to make some room in the budget for the boiler. So, there were probably a few other things that >> What type of um mechanical work was it? >> What's that? What type of um mechanical work was it? >> Request of classroom ventilators for the most part. >> That scope of work was um largely added um in discussion and not really a part of what the BCS plan was. Um so it was a stretch to get done anyway. Those rooms also need to really be renovated. Um, and so going in and doing the mechanical work would be a stretch on top of not renovating the space. Um, it would it's it's kind of doing half of the work. Um, so it was something that especially talking with Cory and Tim that they feel
024like they were able to get that that equipment to run better longer. Um, that they we could push it off. We had discussed adding adding that to future projects pretty quickly. Um but maybe a larger project that would not just focus on that end but some of the rooms in between as well. >> The whole scope of the room instead of just that one piece. >> Yes. >> The original wing at Lanigan is probably the the most dated set of classrooms and that building happens to be a steam boiler system which ideally we would convert the entire building at one time. made a lot of sense to kind of push that off for >> Okay. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> The next question. So, um any questions you guys have? Um >> um did we
025get the sound system in the gym completely replaced at the high school? >> That's a part of page one. Um we have to uh do some startup and testing. Um but in general the work has been completed. >> Um do you guys have a um date in mind when you're going to like start testing it? I know that we have you know like volleyball and stuff. >> We've been working with um I I don't have a date in my hands right now. We've been working with the contractor to make sure that everything is completed so that we can do um owner training uh with Corey and anybody else that will be using that space. So I don't have a hand a dated hand what we're working with. >> Yeah. It's very soon as to punch
026listing that it was like phase one are all in. Everything's been wired. There's one or two things that >> maybe by the end of the month. >> I hope so. >> Can we get I mean we have we got sports going on. We like that's a huge thing. >> I can't give you an answer right now. >> Who who can we get an answer from? >> When I have one I'll give it to you. >> Thank you. Thank you. I I just want to say when we went through for the um walkthroughs, it was when they were finishing up the dragon, they were stenciling him the dragon up on the wall and that was just the coolest thing to witness. And so to see your picture of the final version, I I got to get
027back over there now and see the whole thing because that just >> the gym looks so good. It's like it superseded what I expected it to look like when we were all done with it. So, >> and the bleachers are safer now. >> The bleachers are great. Great. >> It looks amazing. >> We just have railings. >> Yes. >> Long story about the uh about the dragon, but we actually found an artist in Fo Mandis who came in and finished that for us. He did a great job. >> He did. And you know when we say all you can have are the few weeks of summer and uh we want all this done. Uh the muralist came in and did it, worked long hours and had it done in a matter of three or four
028days. >> Wow. So we could have the gym open for the first day of school. So we expect a lot in just a short period of time sometimes. >> I just How long have we had the sound system in the gym? >> The new one. >> When they finished it, they finished substantially finished it. Um, you know, installing the parts and pieces u before the floor was done. So then it was programming and getting some things done. >> Yeah, that was my only question. Mr. >> B. had to leave the space in order for the floor people. >> Right. Right. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> So, next up we have um summer PD discussion with Mr. and Mrs. Henderson. So this summer we had um we offered over
02930 professional learning sessions with a total of 432 participants. Our um MTSS symposium, the amazing dragon race, brought in um 361 participants and we offered 17 sessions all centered around literacy, STEM, SEAL and instructional practices. Uh we also partnered with the Boseies and approved uh 13 of their sessions. um we had roughly 71 participants who u participated in the city offerings. So I think together with all the offerings they um aligned with our district goals um we tried to address all those staff fees that we received throughout the year last year and um I think it reflects the our teachers commitment um how many people participated and also our partnership with city to meet our teachers needs. The feedback was really positive and we had several people commenting in the survey that it was one
030of their best um PD sessions that they had. Uh the teachers really valued the time of collaboration and planning. So we tried to structure it so we had direct um PD and then allowed them to uh implement it right away into their plans. And then also at the very end of the day we provided collaboration and time. So if you had teams of people coming at the end they could share with each other what sessions they went to and then as a team have planned for the start of the year. So the suggestions we had was again time is always the most valuable for teachers. Um so trying to build more of that within the sessions. Uh the AI session was a hit. They would like to expand that and offer some more SEAL offerings.
031Um and then the address session length that was based on the needs of each one of the sessions um specifically. So in addition to the summer PD, we also offered uh summer curriculum reading. We had 117 teachers participate in our curriculum writing days. Um all the summer curriculum work was done collaborative collaboratively in teams and in person. Uh prior to them starting they had to be approved um by Mr. Hendrickson or myself and the work was centered around the first 10 weeks of the school year. So applying what they had learned in the PD also um you know adjusting any of their pacing guides revisiting their um essential learning outcomes and then just embedding our practices that we've been focusing in on all of the work they had done is in a Google classroom so
032people can access that and uh see what was done and our first district PLTS have been sharing that work out with anyone that couldn't participate in those hours. So, I think based on our summer, no, I don't think I know that um our summer learning and curriculum work has really um set our teachers up for success for this school year. And I think they feel prepared for the first 10 weeks. >> And I know the community has probably seen what the soaring is by our flybys and different things you've had on social media, but could you just give a little breakdown because we have so many acronyms and wonderful play on words. Can you just >> Yes. actually >> self-control. >> So, we're continuing we're working with PR right now. We met with Alex today
033and uh getting the posters up so that they can be modified per building so that they can go in the areas so that um we can affiliate them kind of marry them with our our matrix behavior matrix and matrices. Um so the S is self-control uh always on task A is achieve and R is respect. uh and then defining what those look like in each area, what it looks like, what we'll be looking for to show self-control, being on task, what achievement looks like, and what respect looks like in each of those areas. When we rolled out PBIS, like really did a an aggressive roll out. We also brought that out to the community. So, we talked about that a little bit today, too. like uh out in the community when you're in stores seeing
034like as our our students and staff are in the community, we expect the same thing that what does it look like to show self-control, being on task, achievement, and respect as you're out uh within the f the greater Fton community as well. So, those are things you'll continue to see. It'll be a big push for us this year as we kind of it's it's a lot of the same culture pieces, but it's a little bit of rebranding. And um one thing that is kind of a nice piece of this is it's universal. It's it's across all six buildings. Soar is the same. Like I know that was one of the things when we had our PBIS expectations. It was be respectful, responsible, and safe. And then there was a fourth that was kind of open
035for interpretation, but now soar is universal. And um wherever you go in the district, that's an expectation. So towards the end of last year we talked a lot about like goal setting and things for our students. Are you incorporating this into their goal setting? Is this something that's separate? >> So we will when we do our uh strategic coherence plan update, we'll talk about goal setting, what studentled conferences will look like, what our kids are going to do, how SOAR is built into that, some of the proactive pieces that go along with that. Okay. And how we'll kind of document and um monitor that as well. >> Perfect. Thank you. The change was um actually a result of one of the PD sessions on behavior solutions that we had at roughly 50 I think um
036teacher assignments attend the drive for us to make that shift. Before you move on though, I just want to note that with with our summer PD offerings, so especially the the four PD offerings, that's very unique to this district. So, having worked in other districts, we don't you typically wouldn't see that many teachers coming back for that amount of PD offerings during the summer. So, um, hats off to Jeff and Renee. The the work that you do to put that together, I know it's time consuming. Um, it takes a lot. You have a great group of teachers that are working with you as well to put that together. So, hats off to our teachers who are putting on these sessions as well. But, it's it's a huge undertaking, especially in the summer. and when you
037ask districts around us, they're not doing um the same level of of professional development offerings. So, yeah, thank you for your work. >> We have a great community of teachers that are um willing to step up and be brave and teach their colleagues. And I think it's amazing that we have this group. >> Sorry to cut you off. I know you're moving on to the >> read the book reveal finally. >> No. So in June, Mary Curtio, who serves as our New York state representative for read to them, um shared that constellation had reached out and they were eager to support um Boltono and Mexico and wanted to support the read to them. So um we started working in June and the elementary librarians have been working very hard to build some excitement. So you
038will not know the book until September 22nd or yeah 26th. Um so in front of you is sort of a timeline of our um approach. So on this week and up until the 25th the students are participating in a scavenger hunt. So in front of you is sort of a board as well. Hidden around their schools and in the community are these different pictures. And then once the kids find them, they mark them on their scavenger hunt form and they're going to turn them in um to their librarians and on September uh 26, they'll have the opportunity to or a chance to win a prize and also the book will be revealed. And then from there on October 6th, the kickoff will um start. Students will receive their books and a bookmark with the schedule
039readings. Um, all our K6 students will be receiving books and we're going to give a class book to each of the UPK students as well. So, we're really excited about this. See what book is revealed. >> U, make sure you get that out on the social media page as soon as you tell the students because inquiring minds want to know what the book is, too. >> You're not giving a sneak peek the braille copy. I don't need to see it. funny. >> Any questions about Thank you so much for the updates. So, just as a as an update for our school opening, um, obviously we spoke earlier about the uh major issue that that happened, but aside from that, you know, I think we really did have a a great opening as a district last
040week. Um, starting with our staff days as well as our opening with our our students. Um, want to say thank you to our custodial and maintenance staff because as you mentioned earlier, our our buildings look phenomenal. um they're still shining, they're still looking good. Um so and they put in a lot of hard work and and time to make sure that we have a smooth opening. Um same to our transportation staff. Um you know, really we we're still working on a couple of glitches here and there, but nothing too major. Um, we've all been at each of the buildings in the morning and in the afternoon and things seem to be for the work first weekish. Um, running on time and and we aren't running into too many issues there. So, um, it's it's good
041to see all of our processes in place, working fine, and um, again, we're making some tweaks here and there, but um, I think we're in a really good place. So, >> that's great to hear. >> Yeah. And then last but not least, we did share the list of open houses with with the board. Um, obviously looking forward to those coming up, the first one on the 17th at GRB. Um, and then they continue to go through the month till September 30th. Um, where we'll wrap things up at Fair Grave. >> I'm sure they have each building has something fun planned. Probably have their outdoor picnics and whatever. They welding always seems to have their block parties. Yes, >> I'm sure they do, Bill. It'll be a first for me, so I I can't confirm or
042deny that. So, >> well, then you you're going to be in great for me. Yes. >> Yeah. So, great. >> In addition, we are doing a title one um parent advisory on the same day as as the GR GRB open house. So, in the morning on the 17th, we'll host it here uh for parents. They're invited to come and talk about our programs, talk about what we do with our title one funds. And then in the afternoon, right before uh the open house, we'll hold it at GRB for parents. That way we've got a captive audience and we can kind of talk about it as >> What are you going to discuss? >> It's a title one family engagement policy. Um so we get input in input from whoever attends on how we want to
043uh spend the money for title one talk about the programming and then also planning for the next school year too like what they see um the advice that they give. Um one of the tweaks that we made was offering two u meeting times in the morning and at night. We haven't scheduled the rest because I think whoever shows up, we'll base it on participation and anything like that. >> And so when you get a list of your times for your afternoon um or morning, uh can you put that out because I know sometimes board members will pop in, they want to be part of that as well. Uh so depending on what time you might be able to get some of us. Um and then Tim, did you have a question about the like when
044they do the DCC? Didn't you ask me a question earlier? Like if there's a board member, we have a board member sitting in or can we have a board member sitting in on those DCC's? I think I said something to you guys. >> Just not four or more. But >> yes, >> you had said we'll talk about that in the fall. Well, here we are. We're talking we're talking about this >> because I was on it last year. Yes. And so and then we kind of switched the format of it. So, I don't know if any of the other board members are interested in going, but you know, it's really just talking about the information we're getting at firsthand from all the different buildings about where we are, but also where we plan on going.
045And it's really interesting if you really want to look at it at that level and see, you know, with our engagement, what you know is getting out there and what we're trying to focus on. So, then you're going to bring that in, share that with the meetings and just people have a better idea. Okay, so these are our main focuses. You know, here maybe this didn't work. Maybe this worked really well and so we're going to focus on that, but it's a great way to get involved. >> So, if you can just get us a a list of dates for those so that you know and we can talk amongst each other to make sure there's not four or more of them showing up at any one meeting, but also uh a question is uh
046are we going to have some student involvement? >> Absolutely. >> Okay. Yeah. So each of the site base and each of the ele six elementaryaries is their sitebased teams that come to dcc. >> Okay. >> So if there's uh student members on that they're welcome and then we um at the district level we also try to incorporate a few more people involved. >> That's great. Awesome. >> That's it for the superintendent report. >> All right. So now we are going in to talk. Do you have something you'd like to discuss with us for your uh part your uh reference school representation? Uh if you don't or you can just tell us how the first week went. >> Just tell you how the first week has been. Um people have been I have heard only positive
047responses for the first week of school. I know one of the big things over the talk over the summer was how our gym was going to turn out. I can say that students are loving the gym, how it's turned out, how there's dragons. It's beautiful. I mean it blew my mind. Um so yeah. Um, the cell phone policy. I haven't really been at the high school too much because I've been on campus, okay, at Sunni Swiggle. But I do plan on planning a meeting with the principal to allow myself to like put out posters and like that and what I am allowed to do to have students input. >> So, that will probably be planned the next week. So, I'll have something by the next board meeting. >> Perfect. I'm glad that you're off to
048a good start and you know thank you for all that you're doing to get the word out to your fellow peers and appreciate that. Thank you. Right. Action 5.01 accept financials. Somebody move that movement. >> Second. >> Was that Tim or Nick? >> All right. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Staining passes 600. Action 5.02 accept disposal of surplus property. >> Move it. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 5.04 to accept an anonymous donation. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. And we appreciate um that donation for our school champion supplies action 6.01. >> There was 5.03. >> 5.03. >> No, was that the time? >> Oh, >> I have a 5.02 and then I have a 5.04. >>
049Champion. Same. >> Hey, look. There's a five. Okay. So, we'll go to 5.03. >> Second. >> So, Tim Nick, all those in favor? I >> I opposed abstaining passes 600 and that is another uh school champion supplies donation. So thank you very much. >> I don't know how that one >> from [Laughter] Brenda that is from Marathon Nuclear. >> Thank you. Thank you there. Okay. All right. 6.01 01 approve committee on special education second. So Laurian just all those in favor I >> opposed abstaining passes 600 6.02 approve the lead evaluators >> second >> all those in favor >> I opposed abstaining passes 6 0 Could I get one of my colleagues to possibly batch personnel 7.01 to 7.12? >> Move that. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. >> Obstaining. I
050>> passes 501. All right. I'm going to start with our board forum. Mrs. O'Brien, would you like to start us off tonight? Well, it was very exciting to be able to go through the building um walkthroughs and I really really appreciate how excited all the custodial stuff was and the leadership and it's just amazing to see the progress that's being made in the schools and how they have a vision for making it even better too. Um which is exciting. um excited to be part of the board and hopefully getting more projects to see them making our schools even better. So, and then thank you so much to the Hendrickson for the presentation um and prepping our teachers. It's really exciting to see teachers getting excited about teaching and um I think the just administration for
051really stepping it up last week um and making sure that all of our kids went home safe. It I'm sure it was not what you expected to happen on the first day. Um but I really really appreciate you making a stance and stepping up and making sure that they were safe. Thank you, M. >> All right. Well, I agree with Mrs. O'Brien and um I want to say, you know, thank you, Mr. Lawrence, for giving us an idea of other districts. And it just goes to show with like um Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson, what a great job they do to show that the teachers and the students get so much support. And thank you. I know how hard you guys work and I I wish other people could see that cuz it's, you know, it's
052great. Um I wasn't there for all the school walkthroughs cuz >> you were there for some. >> I was there for some and they do look great. They, you know, it is exciting the beginning of school. And and again with what happened the first day, um I think it was handled very well, especially with something that you weren't expecting. I mean, you just kind of get it dumped into your lap and it was handled very well because it's first and foremost about the students and I think the students were protected the best that they could be. So, thank you, >> Mrs. Mayville. Um, just to piggyback off of what my colleagues have said, um, what happened the first day of school was, I mean, keep all politics aside, it's it's an emergency situation and, um,
053I think that we handled it well just by, you know, keeping our kids safe. So, um, that's what we're here to do to make sure that our students are safe. So, we accomplish that task. So, thank you. um flybys by um Alex and City. That's really cool. That's really cool. That I think that's a really great addition to our district and I actually look forward to seeing um the flybys. I look on Facebook. I'm old. Um but that's where I usually see them and it's just really cool. um the whole district acronym of SOORE to um it's a way to unite our community and our school environment. It's universal. It's going to um I just really think that it is going to pair well and it's going to filter down so everybody is on the
054same page. Um so I'm excited to see what that what's to come of that. Um, thank you Mrs. Hendrickson. You are with all of your stuff. You always make reading so like just so much fun, you know? I mean, I can just speak for myself. I'm a parent and my children's struggle with reading. So, seeing what you are doing from the bottom up is just so important. um and you do a really great job to make sure that they're excited about it and um I just I just think it's awesome. So, thank you for all of your um hard work. Um the cell phone policy, thank you for I know you're not in school, but thank you for, you know, trying to do your best and seeing what everybody thinks about it. I can just
055tell you from my experience, I haven't heard anything about it. You know, I I haven't heard like good bad They just don't use them anymore and it's just fine. >> I see them in the hallway. Yeah. And it's just fine. There's no complaints. So, >> no news is good news. >> Yeah. No news is good news. And so, I think so far so good. We'll >> take >> um the sound system as far as the gym, I'm looking forward to seeing it, you know, working to its full potential because the gym looks absolutely amazing. The mural is great. We have um safe bleachers and that's just going to be the icing on the cake and I know Mr. Dia is going to be ready to pump those tunes out >> for sure. And that's it.
056Thank you. So you you were saying you haven't you've seen kids more engaged with each other in the hallways? >> I mean I've always seen them engaged like I don't see people walking along to classes even before the cell phone policy. I've always seen people walk together. One of the things that I like to think that was a great addition was the couches >> in the out in the hallway. One of the best things that have made students more engaged. Like they sit together every morning. They like ask how your weekend was. How was your night? >> And it's really amazing to see >> that. Those are the good things we like to hear. So, thank you for sharing that. >> Wonderful. >> Definitely, Mr. DJ Lauren. >> Um, thank you to Mr. Lauren and
057your team. uh testament to your leadership to, you know, to to with with all that went on to be able to act in the spur of the moment and make sure everything went well. Uh the Hendrickson's, thanks so much for your uh your leadership on the the PD. It sounds like it was a teachers enjoyed it and perhaps we'll have more uh next next year. And Mr. Lawrence, you know, the feedback that Fulton's leading the way in the PD, uh, you know, as far as other district, what other districts are doing, that's that's great. Thank you so much. And, uh, Miss Hollandback um, Holland back, excuse me. Um, you're taking a leave over there at the high school and just to hear you say you're setting up a meeting with the principles. I don't think
058I heard other uh, student board members say that they were going to do that. And so, uh, you're Thank you. We're we're we're happy to have you and, um, we'll be working on a handbook together and and, uh, hopefully the next one we'll be able to, uh, uh, take advantage of everything that you've started. Thank you, >> Mr. Connors. >> Uh, short and sweet. I've been impressed and really excited about how everything's taking off at the beginning of this year. all the different components, everyone participating, really stepping up and going that extra mile no matter what it was from making sure the schools were ready all the way down to this book release that I want to know about. I think I've mentioned that a couple times and a great job for you, Mr. Lawrence,
059really steering this right from the, you know, top down, you know, making sure that you're not just talking the talk, you're walking the walk for the district. So that's all I got. >> All right. Well, I'm glad that we're off to a a pretty good start. Sounds like we have a lot of really exciting things um coming down the pipe for our students uh for their learning this year. Um and welcome. Thank you for choosing us, Mr. Lawrence. Um I have heard really great things about uh opening day. Um except for that I was, you know, virtual. I I don't think that my my friends and and and the staff realized that I was doing the same thing that they were doing. So it was nice to be able to put the message out but
060also be able to partake in my my own district as well. So so that was wonderful. Um but I'm hearing wonderful things the about the team in general. So um I hope that you guys have a really great year and keep bringing us exciting exciting news. Uh one thing that I do want to just just address um with our community because I know that we have our uh board uh clerk email address that we put out each week. Uh that is [email protected]. If there's something that you would like to address with the board that is a board concern and not a dayto-day operational concern, that's the email address you're going to want to send to us so that we can, you know, help you with your your inquiries and your requests. If you have school
061related issues, maybe with transportation or if there's something you didn't get from your building or there's just something that you want to know on the district level, um our secretary to the superintendent, Mrs. Trude, would be wonderfully helpful with any of your concerns. She has helped us greatly with some of the um emails that have come through in the last couple weeks. Um but you can reach her at dt ruddy.org. Either way, we're going to make sure that you get in contact with the correct person to help you uh with whatever it is that your concerns are. Uh we appreciate all your support and we thank you for sending your students to us. We hope that your kids or your kids there are students, but we hope that your kids have a wonderful year and
062uh I can't wait to see what that brings. Uh with that, we're going to move on into uh public form if anybody wants to pop up and join us, say a word. All right, then we will go into our executive session. Did I get somebody to move that? >> Move it. >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Thank you for joining us and enjoy whatever wonderful beautiful weather we have coming over the next week. All right. Can I get someone to move action 9.01 adjournment movement? >> Second. >> Okay. So, Lori and Nick. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Passes 600. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful week.