001Good. Then so at this time we will call the public hearing for the presentation and comment on the district safety plan to order. Um it's time I'll turn things over to Mrs. Hooper. >> Sure. So um tonight we're doing our public forum for the district safety plan. and it's something we do annually and although the safety plan is formally updated once annually uh we we do address district safety throughout the year through our safety committee meetings. So we would like to thank all of the members of the safety committee not only for their input on the district safety plan but also the various concerns, ideas and solutions that they bring forward throughout the year at our committee meetings. Um just briefly the timeline uh when updating the district safety plan, we review any updated or
002new requirements from New York State and update the district safety plan accordingly. And we start that in the spring or early summer. Then um the next step is to notify the school community of the 30-day public comment period and post the draft planned on the website for comment. It's available right now in the announcement section on our website and it will be there until August 25th. Then the next step is to hold a public hearing which we're doing tonight and then the board of education is able to approve the plan no later than October 1st of each year. We'll just give a overview of the various sections of the plan. I won't go into too much detail since the plan is available for for review on our website. Um the plan is divided into four
003main sections. The first section uh covering just general considerations and planning guidelines, an introduction to the plan and process and a description of the district safety team. Section two covers risk reduction, prevention and intervention. So that section discusses prevention strategies, various training drills that were required to complete, implementation of school security, early detection and hazard identification. Section three is all about response uh notification and activation during an emergency, emergency response procedures and protocols. And the final section, section four, is about recovery or debriefing and evaluating how an emergency situation went, what could have been improved, things like that, and then determining the need for support for students and staff if it's required. There are also several appendices. Um, some include district contact information, other emergency contact information, the various uh emergency response terms and references,
004our DASA reporting form, our code of conduct is linked at the end of the um plan as well as the after incident report. Some of the updated requirements this year included more thorough definitions and explanations of the emergency responses. Those are what we commonly refer to as shell. Um they include evacuation, shelter in place, lockdown, hold in place, and secure lockout is a slightly different term. Lockout was in there, but now they're calling it a secure lockout. And there's the potential to need to include a response plan for cardiac emergencies. We're still waiting for additional guidance on that portion from the state. We're told it should be coming soon and we'll include that necessary component in our plan once we receive more information. to view or comment on the plan. Uh the draft of the
005district safety plan can be accessed on our website on the main page under district announcements that has its own tab and comments can be submitted from that location until August 25th and it's simply just a link to my email. I'll receive any comments and we'll make uh revisions as necessary. Any questions? All right. And again, if there are questions or comments, uh there is a link to my email with the the draft of the plan on our website. >> Thank you. Good are here. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. I'd like to call this meeting to order. We are going to move into a quick executive session. Somebody move that. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed. Staining. Passes 400. We will be right back. stay on
006orders as I return. I know it's easy. >> All right, welcome back. Uh before we move on to approve our agenda, I'm going to ask our superintendent if there's been any changes to the agenda. >> Yes, several changes. uh including adding 4.04 to 4.08 for the approval of the phase 3 um award bids and then several personnel changes. >> Okay. And then I get somebody to approve the agenda. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Passes 4 0. In the event of an evacuation and we need to move away from the building, we have two exits in the room that we can go through. U move as far away from the building as possible. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
007United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, I'm sorry. You're good. You're good. >> And all those changes were the changes that you sent in the updated scan file, right? >> This morning. Yes. >> Yes. >> Just double checking. >> Okay. So, there is nobody on for public forum. So, if we can have somebody move 1.07, which is to approve the July 22nd regular minute meeting minutes. >> Second. All those in favor? I >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 4 0. If anyone is wishing to reach out to the board of education, you can reach us at our email at clerkfton.cny.org. Uh just a few things on our uh meetings and events coming up for the next month. Our stuffab
008bus will be on the 26th at 4:00 from the at the Colton War Memorial. If anyone is interested in helping out, I know that is before our uh regular board meeting that evening, which will be moved to 7. Uh just let Desiree know so she can put us in there. But also on August 20th is the stuffab bus collection. So if anybody has some time that they want to pop over and help uh collect the our donation, uh it's over at the uh Bullhead Pavilion Point. Um and you can let Desiree know that as well, and she'll pop you in there so that they know who's coming to help. Our 7th grade welcome picnic is now on the 27th, which is also the first day of our building walkthroughs. Uh, and I believe that we're
009ending at the junior high. So, it's possible that we'll run into some of our new students coming in. So, that that works out well. And then on the 28th will be our second set of building walkthroughs. Uh, each of those start at 4:00 this year. And as always, you know, if you can't make it to all of them, pop in, send us a text. We'll let you know what building we're heading to. Uh, and that way we can see as many buildings as possible. All right, with that, I'm going to pass it over to Mr. Lawrence for our superintendent reports. >> All right, thank you. So, we do have several reports this evening. We're going to start off with Mrs. Gates, our director of early childhood education, um, with a presentation on our universal prek
010program. It's just up to you if you want to. >> I should bring out like my coaching voice, right? Um, good evening. I appreciate the opportunity to be with you tonight to share about our universal prek program. Um, I want to start by taking a little bit of a step back in history to 1998, uh, when Fulton City School District first had a universal prek program. So, since 1998, our district has provided high quality early childhood education for our youngest learners. Now, when I was driving here this evening, I thought 1998 I just started my first job, which feels like yesterday, but it is not. Um, so I just want to share my appreciation for the district and what you are providing for our littles. So, in 2022, we added full day UPK. During that
011school year, we had two full day UPK's and we also had half days. We then continue to add full days having five in 2023 to 24. This most recent school year, we had eight full day UPK's to start the school year. Added another in November to finish our year with nine full day UPK's and one half day. I also want to share with you what universal prek is. It is a statef funded prek program. This is offered to families free of charge. This allows our district to provide programming aligned to the New York State Learning Standards. An eligible child must be for on or before December 1st of the school year when they start. Our district provides oversight of the programming as the funding is awarded to us. We currently receive the New York State
012allocation and also the statewide universal fullday pre kindergarten grant. This will be our second year receiving that funding. This additional grant requires a visit from New York State and also the completion of a quality assurance plan yearly. Our New York State Office of Early Learning representative was very pleased with all of our classrooms and we were successful uh when she visited this past school year. So our district curriculum aligns directly with what students will be receiving in kindergarten. So we use core knowledge language arts heard we are moving to Eureka squared this September and second step for our social emotional learning. Our teachers also participated this past school year in the science investigation which New York State released for preK students. They did that investigation which was around bird nest and then they took a
013field trip. All of the UBK's went to Rice Creek. I got to go and super great. Uh we also we use the bants for our screening and assessing and we also have quarterly report cards. Our UBK teachers meet with families on the same schedule as K12. Our class size, we could have up to 20 students. We have attempted 20 students and live that and we have decided that having 16 to 18 is better. Um this year we are really trying to have 16 in a classroom. We do have a classroom of 18. the prek services uh they receive the same health services as K12 students. Our student support in the buildings is provided as needed. Special education is through the county for preschool age students. Professional development is provided by our district. Next week, I
014will be leading the UPK boot camp, which is a threeday professional development opportunity for all of the UPK teachers. This is the second summer that we have offered that. These are the numbers for the school year that ended in June. We had one half day classroom at the YMCA with nine students. We had nine full day classrooms that were located at the YMCA and in all four of our elementary buildings. A total of 156 students attended full day for a total of 165 students taking part in our UPK programming. At the end of the school year, I sent a survey to all of the families that took part in UPK. So, one of the questions is the amount of communication that they receive from their child's teacher. And as you can see, 93% uh felt
015that that was just right. Um there was some that didn't think there was enough. Um no one thought too much. So we will continue to strive to communicate with families through parent square and also having families in for parent teacher conferences and our UPK family fun nights. This looks at uh readiness in the areas of reading, writing, math, speaking, listening and socialization. So, as you can see, the majority um felt that their student did improve in all of these areas. When we get to the comments, you'll see that many of the comments about what their students loved about UBK were really about being with their peers and making friends and being a part of a building. So, these were the some of the highlights that people shared. I think my favorite is watching my child
016grow and hearing about how we love to help always made my heart burst. So, I think for me, having been a former UPK teacher, this is really what it's about is really setting kids up for success for the rest of their school career, loving school, knowing how to be a part of a classroom. It's really the best time. Most kids want to come back to UPK. >> A secret as most adults keep. >> I know. That's why I've remained for 28 years with the little. >> So, this is a preview of the year that begins in September. So we currently have 157 students registered and enrolled and placed in a classroom. Last year at this time we had 144. So we are ahead of that with with the number of students already registered and placed.
017These are the locations and our community partners. So we do have the nine full day classrooms again and the half day morning at the YMCA. So our classrooms are located in all of our elementary buildings and also offsite at the YMCA. >> So out of those 157, how many are in the half day? >> There are 16. >> 16 in the half day. We have continued to offer the half day because families have continued to to love that area. So this slide really embodies how I feel about that we truly are better together. Our partnerships with our community-based organizations is how we are able to provide this programming in our community. So we do partner with little Luke's first step universal prek YMCA Asiggo County opportunities which is head start and milestones for the special
018education piece. I want to end by saying thank you to the board, the superintendence team, all of the community partners, the building principles, the building staff, the transportation, food services, the registar. We have to all be together to support the littles and I feel privileged to lead that. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any questions? Thank you for all the information. Appreciate it. You're >> welcome. Anytime. >> I just had a general question because I don't remember. >> I didn't know I have it written down somewhere. So, we do four UPK classrooms at Bali. And then how many classrooms do we run out to city? How many city is not UPK? But how many classroom do they four? >> Four. Four. Okay. Yeah, I Yeah, I'm aware of this idea. >> Just wondering how class we
019like. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I think we're good. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our next item is I I just want to give a brief update on where we landed with our cell phone policy and regulation. Um I think I've shared before, but we did decide to go with uh students storing their personal devices um internet enabled devices in their lockers. Um our youngest students, our K through two students, three students um would be using their leaving them in their backpacks in their cubbies or locker spaces within their classrooms and then the rest of our students um through uh grade 12 would be utilizing the lockers out in the hallway. Um we thought that really did make the most sense um from a a fiscal standpoint. Um it's also it
020did end up aligning with really the rest of our county. I can only think of one other um school district that decided to go with the pouches that have been um somewhat popular across the state. So it sounds like the majority of the schools in our area have decided to do a similar plan and having students um store their devices in their lockers. So, um, we know as a team and we've been discussing as a team that our next steps is really going to be the communication of this plan to make sure students, parents, everyone's on board. Um, staff, they understand, um, the process we'll be taking. We've been joking around a little bit. Students at the high school have to relearn how to use lockers because that's not something that they've been using. So,
021um there will be a little bit of a there will be a time there where I I think we might have a hiccup or two there for for students to start using those again. Um but we're pretty confident they'll be okay. Uh that's been happening at the junior high anyway. So, we know the students transitioning up, they are used to using lockers. So, um, and then as far as any consequences go, we did determine that really would be at the specific grade levels. Um, they would be handling the consequences with their students as seen appropriate. Um, it wasn't something that we had to put into our plan overall as a district, more our our building level enforcing this. So, I'm not sure if there are any questions with where we've landed overall with the plan
022>> and just uh lots of communication with parents and hopefully parents out there will have these conversations with their students, their kids, kind of let them know what's going on and takes a village for us all to come together with a new plan and >> and hopefully everything will run smoothly. Yes, that's that's the hope and yeah, um plenty of communication about this, but also I think more importantly, communication between administration and our students as as we kick off our school year and um between administration and our teachers as well to make sure they're feeling supported. >> I think it's a good place to start. >> Okay. Yeah, we'll see where it takes us. All right. Um next up is summer program highlights. So, Mr. Mrs. Henderson, Miss Hooper, if you can share. So, I'll
023start with uh GRB. We had regions review and credit recovery that started last week, goes into next week. We have the regions class uh regions exams on the 20th, 19th, and 20th. Um most of the kids, this was a this year was a little different. It was a joint effort. Hannibal and Fulton run through city. They were looking for a host um district and we decided to pair with Hannibal and Fulton and Hannibal kids because traditionally it's been a little tough to recruit staff to cover and then give tests and things. So we figured if we could pair up we would be able to be able to uh do a better job with that. We had about a little over 100 kids who are signed up for the math exams uh algebra 1 algebra 2
024about 150 or so kids who are signed up for the science exams. Most of those are the new exams. The um the uh living environment uh is the old test. Living environment, earth science, which are the old tests. Now it's called life science and earth and space science. Those are the new ones. Most of the kids that are signed up are for those new ones. Um and again, those are they tend to be our um newer kids to high school. One of those early readers. Um we had about 35 kids signed up for ELA uh and about 60 who signed up for social studies. So they're doing they're currently Monday through Thursday doing their review. Um and then they will take the regions next week. >> We are running our extended school year which is
025a six week program that provides our students with disabilities um structured learning environments around regression over the summer. This year our programs are running at Lanigan Elementary with five classrooms and the Fton Junior High with two. Um we are able to service 42 students daily and we have two students who are receiving related services only. We also have our community school program. Uh this summer's theme was Dragon Quest. Our um fifth and sixth graders participate in four weeks of hands-on projects um including building marshmallow bridges, popsicle stickouses, solar ovens, and making ice cream. The activities emphasize teamwork, problem solving, and fun academic concepts. Our seventh and eighth graders focused on self-discovery and community connections. Um they created about me scrapbooks and they created this design games for the Dragon Quest Carnival. So simultaneously at the
026um at the junior high we had a skills academy for seventh and eighth graders which serviced 37 students. Um and it was run by our certified tutors to help close um gaps for students as they moved um to eighth grade and 9th grade. So, focusing on math, man, science, and um really targeting what they specifically needed. >> I have a brief update on our summer food service program. So, we did participate in the summer food service program again this year. Uh we served meals at the junior high, Lanigan, and the education center to students participating in summer programs in those buildings. We also opened Fair Grave and GRB as open feeding sites, which gave us the flexibility to offer meals to anyone under 18. For the month of July, uh the food service department served
0271,937 breakfast and 2510 lunches. And just on average at the open sites, um we're seeing about 12 students per day at Fairrave and GRB 40 to 50. That also though includes our out of district students attending the summer program there. >> So if there's any questions about our summer programs, which seem to be in a great spot, we've done visits throughout the summer. Um I'm sure not every student's excited to be there, but they seem to be, you know, very highly engaged and having a good summer. >> I've been hearing some good things from parents and students. Um, the kids do seem engaged and they do seem like they're having fun. So, uh, it was good to hear some positive things over there. I mean, I always hear positive things from our staff. So, always
028good to hear from the community as well. Great. Um, just wanted to make sure the board was aware that we have our new educator orientation coming up on Thursday, August 21st at 7:45 a.m. at in the high school um cafeteria. So, we're excited to welcome our our new educators to the district on that day. And last but not least, um we also wanted to provide an opportunity for the board if there are any other additional questions as far as our safety plan goes. Um obviously, as we kicked things off earlier, you were able to see that and and hear about that, but we aren't sure if there are any other questions. >> Just a quick general question. >> Sure. are some like one of the policies we just implemented was the heat policy about what
029we do in like a situation if it's too hot in a room or something. How are policies like that linked into this or is this more covering the other areas? >> This is more covering those emergency response situations where you would need like a shelter in place or an evacuation or a lockdown lockout situation. But >> that's what I thought. >> Yeah. Thanks. No problem. No other questions. We're all set. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Action 4.01 accept financials. Somebody move it. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 400. Action 4.02 to accept disposal of surplus property. >> Can I make a comment before? >> Sure. You sure may. I I know there are some large numbers on the disposals this time. So, I
030just thought I'd offer a little bit of an explanation. Um the technology um is the disposal of Chromebooks. However, you see that large number, especially at GRB, because that's the central location where all of the Chromebooks filter back through before it's decided upon um you know, where they will go next. All of the Chromebooks are at the end of their life um or even damaged. So we do have a company that we dispose of the Chromebooks with. It's called computer asset disposal systems. And um they you know the Chromebooks go there. They kind of evaluate them. If there are any parts that are useful, we will get a portion of um money back from the parts that they're able to use. if any of them are usable. >> Then uh the other large number, the
031furniture at Bali, that was um 79 broking chairs that made that number so high. So >> yeah, >> just so everybody's aware what's what we're talking about on here. >> No, thank you. I like that you put in there where when something is scrapped, when it's disposed, ends when we have put it up to auction. That's very that's very helpful. >> Yeah. Thank you for taking the time to go through and explain that it doesn't give us and the community an idea of what all these things are. >> Yep. Not a problem. Anytime. All right. Action 4.03 to accept. Oh, did I miss one? >> No, we didn't. I cut you off. >> Oh, no. 402. There we go. >> All right. I'll move it. >> Ah, thanks. Somebody want second. >> Okay. All those
032in favor? >> I oppose staining. 4 point or passes 400. Now we will move on to 4.03. Somebody want to move the donation? >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. We really appreciate the donation for the music um supplies. Thank you very much. Uh action 4.04 to approve phase three award bid for the general construction contract. Second. All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 4.05 approve the phase 3 award bid for the electrical contract. Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Passes 400. Action for 4.06, the approval of phase three bid for the site construction contract. Move it. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 4.07 to approve phase three award
033bid for the plumbing contract. Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed. Passes 400. Action 4.0 is to approve that phase three award bid for the mechanical contract. >> Move it. Second. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 5.01 is to approve the committee on special education. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Staining passes 400. Uh before we go on to our 6.01 approved policies, is there any discussion? Okay. Somebody want to move that? Move it. >> A second. >> All those in favor? I >> opposedaining. Passes 400. >> Action 7.01 to accept resignations. Move it. >> Look through each one individually. >> Yeah, we have a couple that we need to pull out, too. >> We We're
034doing it individually. >> Mhm. Well, I didn't think that we were supposed to do that. >> Yeah, we can do that. But there's a couple that you're probably going to individual name. >> Oh, I thought you meant names. I'm like, yeah. Oh, no. Not an individual name, individual resolutions. >> I know you're batching. >> Sorry, not batching. Good evening. >> All right. I'm like >> I'll second for someone. >> Okay. Those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 7.02 a leave of absence. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Staining passes 400. Action 7.03 03 appoint administrative >> move it >> second all those in favor >> I opposed sustaining passes 400 action 7.04 04 to appoint staff for extracurricular activities. >> Move it. >> Second. >>
035All those in favor? I >> opposed. Abstaining. >> I passes 301. >> Wait, we will we be able to do that? >> We can. >> Okay. So, we're going Can we move this on to >> No, wait. I'll just vote yes. I'm fine with that 100%. >> Okay. >> I'm fine with it. >> All right. 400 Z. >> It's funny because we had this conversation the other week. >> We did. Yeah. >> If we had four, could we pass it with a majority? >> Action 7.05 appoint facilitators. >> Move it. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed passes 400. Action 7.06 appoint department chairs. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> uh um nays abstaining passes 400 7.07 appoint community school summer program >> move it >> second
036>> all those in favor I opposed passes 400 7.08 08 appoint staff members eligible to teach targeted summer extended year students with disabilities. >> Move it. Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed. Passes seven 400 not seven. They're not all here. >> I keep wanting to say 69. >> Action 7.09 point monitors and teacher aids. Move >> it. Second. All those in favor? Okay. Poke saining passes 4 0 action 7.10 appoint custodial maintenance employees >> move it second. >> All those in favor >> I opposed passes 400 action 7.11 appoint lifeguards. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 400 Z action 7.12 approve P city school district tutor contract move it >> second >> all those in favor >> I saining four it passes 400 action 7.13 fall
037athletic coaches move it >> second all those in favor I >> abstaining naysay passes 400. Okay. 7.14 approve athletic contact supervision. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I passes 400. All right. And action 7.15 approve food service employees. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor standing >> passes 4 0. All right. I guess we could have batched those after all. >> But never know what to >> never know what's going to happen. So that's fine. All righty. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to move on with there anybody. Well, we're going to do our board forum first. And I want to start with Gwen. I want to thank you for joining us, taking a day off. New summer. It's a beautiful day out there. You'd probably
038rather be outside swimming or hanging with friends. But thank you so much for joining us at the table. How's summer been going for you? >> Uh, it's been going good. I've basically been outside and playing just been enjoying it before my senior meeting. >> Very good. Very good. Uh, anything you want to share with us? Any ideas? Any thoughts? >> Um, yeah. Me and Mr. warrants. Uh we meet right before the board of education meeting um on Mondays and we have come up with the idea of basically a newsletter or like a blog that allows students in the high school to be aware of who their student representative is and how they can reach out to them. I think that's a great idea. Very nice. And you could probably share some information in that blog
039as well. That's great. Do you feel like people have known who the representatives were in the cast? No. Not have known. >> Perfect. All right. >> It'll be helpful then. >> I love it. >> Okay. And so with that too, we would be starting looking for our junior and waiting pretty soon. Correct. >> Correct. >> So this might be a good way for you to get that put out there and get people interested. And um that will probably happen early September. >> I would think so. Yes. So, we'll we'll start that process after we get the school year started. >> That'll be great. Awesome. Mr. Connor, was there anything else you wanted to share with us? Okay, Mr. Connors, >> I'd like to thank everyone for presenting tonight. Congratulations to Mr. Cuni who's here with
040us. I hope, you know, everything goes well. I'm glad I'm not the one dealing well with the junior high students. Have enough time with my young and niece nephew. But, uh, again, everyone, great job on the presentations. Thank you again for the donation and summer's going way too fast. >> Did that >> Mrs. Nville? Um it's good to hear um what's in store for us, what is continuing to be successful in our district. Um including the UPK program. It's crazy that we went from two full days in 2002 and now we have nine full and one half. Right. I don't know. I don't know where that's been going. >> Yeah. And it seem and it Yeah. And to make that big jump from 2023 to 2025. So there's definitely a need for it and hopefully
041we'll see that and test scores and the whole child as we continue. Um but yeah, summer's going great. Athletics, fall sports, I think start next week. So if you're not signed up, sign up. >> Yeah. Hopefully the weather will cooperate a little bit so it's not too hot out there. >> Cool down a little bit >> for our kids. Mrs. Hutchinson. >> Um, thank you for everything tonight. Ditto what my colleague said. Have a great evening. >> Yes. And I definitely concur that summer is going way too fast, but I I absolutely love the heat waves we've been having. So, um, continue to bring those on, except for when our kids are out on the on the fields practicing. Um, and I really appreciate the time you took to update us with what's going on
042with UPK. I know um it does seem like yesterday, but my first two children missed this wonderful opportunity and my third child was able to take advantage and to see the difference um between the two is was wonderful. And then the expansion like you said, it's just been it's been great. So, so thank you for that. Congratulations, Mr. Cooney. Thanks for joining us at that next level. We really appreciate it. And uh with that, uh if there's nothing else, we're going to go ahead and move on. We are done with our executive session. So, it's really going to uh second public forum. Does anybody want to say any other words? All right, then we're going to move right on to our adjournment 9.01. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I opposed
043abstaining. Passes 400. Thank you everyone. Have a great evening and enjoy the rest of your summer.