001We're doing good. >> Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Can somebody move action 1.02 to approve the agenda? Move it. >> All those in favor? I >> I opposed. abstaining passes 6 0. In the event of an emergency and we need to evacuate the building, we can go out either of the two doors in our room. Move away from a far move away from the building as far as possible. Would 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. >> For those of you at home, if you're willing to wishing to reach out to
002the board of education, you can reach us at clerk bolton.cny.org. There is nobody signed up for public forum this evening. So we're going to move on to action 1.06. Approve the July 8th regular meeting minutes. >> Somebody second. >> Second. >> All those in favor. >> I opposed. Abstaining. >> Abstaining. >> Passes 501. Action 1.07 to approve the July 8th reorganizational meeting minutes. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Abstaining. >> Abstaining. >> Passes 501. President's report for this evening. We have a few uh meetings coming up at the end of the month. We have our school law conference. If you have not already signed up and you wish to do so, please let Mrs. Trude know. Also, the August 1st through 3rd, there's the NISBA leadership
003and education conference. August 12th, we have our regular board meeting. And then on the 26th, there's quite a few things going on that day. We do have our stuff a bus over at the war memorials. If there's anyone who wants to help out with that, just let Mrs. Trude know. Um, and then I believe that there's the seventh grade picnic that our admin team will be going to. So, because of those two wonderful events, we are going to push our regular meeting time off to 7:00 and we'll meet right here in the boardroom at 7:00. >> Would that be a good one to split up? Some of us had one, some of us had another forum. >> Could definitely do that. I mean, we won't, you know, if we all want to go to the
004same ones, we can. We'll just be there celebrating our students. But yeah, if some want to go to the seventh grade picnic and some want to go to the Stuff Bus, that'll be good cuz then we can kind of make an appearance there as well. So, uh, NISBO convention discussion that will be coming up in October, but I do believe that in August, Mrs. will be able to start reserving rooms and res uh res reservations for that uh conference. So, if you are interested in going, we just need to let her know. Um and then if for some reason cuz I know October is a little bit of a ways off, uh if we do need to cancel out and someone can't make it, we just need to let you know. You get you sent
005me >> it was early >> early October. >> October time. >> We're going to get you that date. We'll have Doug put it in the uh backup just I think it was in the last one but just so that we know um because life happens sometimes and we have all good intentions of going but if we can just kind of let us know that kind of keeps us you know finally financially aware of what's going on in in uh being responsible in that way as well. Uh another topic we kind of briefly talked about membership dues for some of our organizations. So, I know the business office is wanting to get uh for those uh organizations that we want to still take part in, they want to go ahead and uh get those dues out
006to them. So, maybe we can just kind of have this conversation again just to, you know, let them know so they can get on with their business. Uh I think we talked that rural schools, um just for the purposes of what we do, um they're they don't necessarily do anything different for us than NISPA does. Uh the difference being that they might not be lobbying for us. Uh but NISLA is. So in my opinion, uh that could be one if we are are wanting to to remove one that we could possibly remove. I obviously would like to get um you know feedback from my colleagues on that one. >> And we also discussed you know getting rid of that one although it's not the higher of the two we discussed. We because we also discussed
007getting rid of what was the other one? uh the Central New York School Boards Association and I know that their dues are a little bit higher, but they do provide um several opportunities for um trainings. They have more trainings that will be coming up this year, especially with our student board reps because now that being that the state is mandating that for all school districts, um they want to start uh doing a little bit more with that, not only with our currently sitting um students, but anybody who might be interested. So, if there's a sophomore out there who wants to know a little bit more about it, they could go to the training and if we're in that membership, I believe that um and I won't say it for sure, but I'm pretty positive that
008that is covered. I believe that's what they said at the last meeting that I attended. But as always, there's membership versus non-membership dues. They also do uh collaborate with Asugo County School Boards as well. Um and we haven't had to pay for county school boards in the last five, six years. I do know that they will be presenting in front of school boards in the fall, but uh they said that is a very nominal fee and they definitely do give a lot of trainings for us or bringing different speakers in for us or getting us hooked up with our our assembly men's and different uh um people who will help lobby for us in Albany. So, that's something we want to kind of keep uh an eye on. But uh central New York they lobby
009for us at the uh at the count or at our county levels or closer to home for us where NISBA they're going on that state level and obviously NISBA does a lot of our trainings and offers a lot of free webinars. So, >> so what we talked about our agenda setting meeting was that possibly right now and whatever everyone thinks is the discussion, but getting rid of rural schools for now because we know we can get those things covered by NISBA and other organizations we're part of. keep one more year on the central New York to see what a lot of these things if they're starting to do with the student representatives because it sounded like a lot of great stuff if we stay involved in the lobbying they do but then addressing it next
010year once we've had another year to really look at it and see the different things that they're coming out and offering and then keep the other ones for now that we're already heavily involved with >> thoughts and discussion from the rest of our colleagues on what you guys might want to do >> I think that's a good idea I know we did talk about um with the rural school schools that a lot of this stuff's picked up from other from other ones. So yeah, I I I like that idea. >> Good. >> I'm good. >> All right. So then we will um get this into our business office that we're going to uh eliminate rural schools at this time. We'll re-evaluate the uh Central New York School Boards Association um next year. NISPA we will
011keep and then we will discuss the Swigo County School Boards if they come and talk to us in the fall. Right now we're we don't have a membership so we might as well keep them right now. >> Okay. All righty. Well, with that then I think we can uh move on to the superintendent report. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um first I want to welcome Miss Holland back to our our meeting. This is her first meeting as our student uh representative on the board. So welcome. We look forward to seeing you at our future meetings. Um the only other item that we I have on my agenda for this evening is our cell phone policy update. So obviously we'll be touching on this a little bit later in the meeting as well. Um
012but this is the policy that we have to have approved and updated on our website by August 1st. Um we this is this will put us into compliance with the governor's order. Um and we did receive feedback previously from our community on this which was one of the steps we had to take um via a survey. Um our policy committee has discussed this a couple of times now. Um the the policy that you're seeing is the third draft of the policy itself. Um it is very consistent with what other school districts are doing around the state. Um we did take some steps. we aren't quite as specific. Although it it it does outline for us um the that students will have to put their devices away and it designates the different ways that they they
013can be um stored away. Um we've chosen to outline that portion of not really the policy but our our plans moving forward in a regulation. Um therefore we would have a little more flexibility to uh update that rag if if needed. Um right now really the it it looks like the the two main avenues that we could go to um are pouches that students could use um those are quite expensive. Uh we did receive from uh the the governor from the state um $16,01 um which we could apply for and use toward um something like pouches, lock boxes, other uh ways to store these um devices. One of the issues we're running into is because of it's based on our student population. Um the uh the um pouches for instance, they run about $30 a
014piece. There are some um cheaper ones that we've looked into, but we haven't heard too much back on. Uh it's really not an avenue that we really feel like is is smart for us to go down right now uh financially. >> And the question would be smartphones but also smart watches. So wouldn't you need multiple for m for the same student or would they all fit into the same pouch? >> I guess it depends on how many devices they bring, >> right? >> Yes. >> So um still a lot of discussion on our end as far as is really hammering out a final decision on on how student devices will be stored. We will have a a final regulation on that determined by the August one deadline. um likely we we seem to be leaning
015a little bit toward lockers and and what that might look like for for our students because there is no cost associated with that. Um we have them there. It's really it would just be enforcing that. So um for for us moving forward like I said we we will be providing that updated um uh regulation and in that will be coming in the coming days. We we have a meeting set up this week with our administrative team to finalize that and um that's kind of where we stand. But the big step for us is making sure the policy um is approved and and then we will end up having to post it in to our website as well as send it into the state and um that way we will be in compliance and meeting that
016deadline. >> And just for some of our our our members, I mean we we understand, but in case some of our community members, can you just kind of give the difference between the policy and the regulation and what the regulation means going forward? >> Sure. >> Excuse me. >> I was going to throw it in. You want to get it? >> Okay. Um, well, if you would like to. >> I mean, the big reason we talked in committee about doing a regulation versus a policy is a policy is basically our outline of like what it is. The regulation is more how it's enforced. And if for say because we were told we had to do this by August 1st, you know, a couple months ago, as the state normally likes to do, throw stuff at
017us and say make it work. we had to go back to policy committee, bring it to the meeting, read it for the first time, go to after our reading, the following meeting, pass something where regulation were more apt as a superintendent is how it's going to be enforced. So if there are issues, things that come up, ways that it's interpreted by the state that you can either do or not do, we have the ability to change that without having to go through the longer process and make sure this works for our students, our staff, and everybody involved without having to go through the hassle of the bureaucracy as much. >> Thank you. Not sure if there are any other questions or >> any questions. All right. And it isn't typical, but we are looking to
018take action on this this evening. We we would typically not do that in the same meeting, but because of that deadline. >> Sorry, I just took one question. Um, given that this policy is state required, this is a state law that we have to follow. Um, I'm just wanted to make sure what our plan is communicating this with families. >> So, that's actually part of our meeting this week as well with administration. We want to make sure that um not only are we meeting that August 1 deadline, but then starting that process of communicating pretty clearly with with parents and and students. Um here's our our plan moving forward. Um we'll I would think that would be a plan uh of of repeating that message several times as as we enter the school year. >>
019Um so we're we're still working on that, but the plan is it's not just going to be a one send. It'll be multiple times. >> Thank you. And so they will have this information prior to school starting. >> Correct. Yes. >> Okay. Anything else? >> That's all. >> All right. We are going to move on to action 4.01. Accept the financials. Somebody move it. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 4.02 02 approve the use of facilities contract. >> Move it. >> Second. >> I just have a question. >> Sure. >> Does the swimming pool at the Fulton High School? >> Well, here it says Fton High School facilities. >> Oh, it does. >> Okay. Good catch. >> Wasn't where >> No, you're right. It's
020a new pool. >> Is that what they've been doing over there with all that construction? Absolutely. >> It is at Grand Beam. Okay. So, is that something that can just be fixed or do we need to >> do we need a move to amend it? >> Move to amend it. >> Move to amend. >> Okay. So, move to amend action 4.02. Somebody move that. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I I opposed >> passes 600. I think you have a good catch, Mr. Varm. >> Yeah, we got to move this one again, right? Or do we just approve it now? We have to wait for that to come back, right? >> No, he amended it. So, we should go. Okay. All right. Action 4.03, approve rates for the uh internal
021plane monitor. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed abstaining. Test 600. Action 4.04 approval of the disposal of surplus property. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 5.01 approve committee on special education. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? I >> opposedaining. Passes 600. So for 6.01, we have our first reading on policies. There are a few of them to look over. Um and we will do the voting on those at our next uh meeting. Um I did have one question. I know that uh with the fundraising and the field trip there and that was one big major pol uh policy at one point. Um Mr. Connor, can you just kind of take me through a little
022bit how you guys broke it down? I mean, I've read the policies already, but like you guys why why the we decided to kind of break them down and and make them >> So, one of the things is we'd addressed this at a couple meetings and we kept coming back to contradictory or kind of things that made sense in one area and not the other. So, with the work of Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Hudson, myself, and the rest of the committee, we really tried eventually just decided, you know what, instead of trying to have a one-sizefits-all that's not going to work, let's address each of the issues we have with each individual section. And then we sort of made those the policies and then it made them easier when we went back in to go
023in and say okay this makes sense for this instance or maybe oh let's just change the word here and then we did that for each one and that really helped us get to a point where we had three policies that made sense for each situation because they are unique in themselves. But it was kind of that process of you know you couldn't get something to work. So instead of that, why not take what does work and work on that? And by splitting it up, we were able to meet those objectives. >> Well, I thank you three for so much um work that you guys put in. I know that went over several meetings and you guys put a lot into that. So So thank you for the background on that. Any other questions on any
024of the other policies? Good. Okay. Six uh action 6.02. Um we're going to approve that policy for the cell phone. >> Move it. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposedaining. Passes 600. Moving on to personnel. 7.01. Accept a resignation. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I oppose abstaining. Passes 600. Action 7.02. Appoint teachers on special assignment. >> Move it. Second it. Is that Jess? All those in favor? >> I opposed. >> I >> abstaining passes 420. Action 7.03 appoint teachers >> move it. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Obstaining. Passes 6 0. Action 7.04 04 Appoint replacement teachers. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 7.05 point community school summer program. >> Move it.
025>> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 7.06. Appoint the staff eligible to teach targeted summer extended year students with disabilities. >> Move it. >> Second. So Lori and Jess. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposedaining passes 600. Action 7.07 appoint educational support staff. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. Staining passes 600. Action 7.08 appoint custodial and maintenance >> move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I opposed passes 600. 7.09 appoint summer bus drivers and bus attendants. >> Move it. >> Second. All those in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Staining. Passes 600. Jim, this is the one you wanted me to remind you about. Action 7.10, appoint fall athletic coaches. >> Move it. >>
026Second. >> All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> Abstaining. Passes 501. Action 7.11 appoint unpaid volunteer athletic coaches. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. Postaining test is 600 action 7.12 appoint athletic contest supervision move it >> second all those in favor >> I >> opposedaining passes 600 action 7.13 it's to approve the withdrawal withdrawal of a resignation >> move it >> second all those in favor >> I opposed passes 600 action 7.14 approve tenure >> move it >> second >> all those in favor >> I >> opposed staining passes 600 action 7.15 appoint administrative >> move it second it >> all those in favor >> I opposed abstaining passes 600 going to move on to board forum and why don't we start with our newest member our
027student breath. How are you? >> Good. Anything you'd like to share with us or things you'd like to tell us about what you do or, you know, um any questions about the meeting, cell phone might be a big one. >> I think it's definitely going to be interesting going into the school year because in when I go through the hallways and everything, I see people interacting. It's not like they're on their phones, at least in the high school. So, I think it's definitely going to be interesting, especially with parents. Like, my parent doesn't like the idea of me not having access to her. Like, it's a big thing. So, I think it's definitely just going to be interesting to see. >> What are you hearing from the students? Is that a thing? I'm not really
028hearing anything now, but I mean it's the idea of the freedom being restricted like it's their personal property and I feel like it's not as big of a deal until you make a big deal and that's what causes problems because if you're told not to do something and that's >> true, right? >> So, well, thank you for your input on that. We appreciate it. We we welcome you to the board and uh we can't wait to hear your voice coming throughout the year. So let us know whatever you're hearing and what you're thinking and we appreciate it. >> Hey, Mr. Connors, >> it's Gwen, right? >> Yep. >> Okay. I just wanted to make sure I got it right if we're going to be working together for a meeting. But congratulations again. Uh I think
029it's good. Thanks, Doug, for all the work with the policy and making sure we got it in on time so we can start moving forward with that. And I think you know for the meeting great job earlier for the you know group session we did with the lawyers and everything just to go through really focus on again all the things that are important for us to be a functioning board this year. That's all I got. >> All right Mr. Lee Jarm I'd like to welcome Miss Halbec and thank you for your input. We'll be looking forward to that probably at each meeting. And I'm going to be helping you put together a student handbook, a student uh board member handbook based on other handbooks I've gotten from other schools so that there's something for you
030to follow and something for those who come after you to follow. Okay. Uh, thank you to the policy committee and Doug for getting the uh the cell phone policy out there and also all the work that you guys did on these others um the field trip. That's going to be interesting to read. So, and that's all I have. >> Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. I want to say welcome Miss Hollandbeck and um I I'm looking forward to hearing from what a lot of the students are thinking and thank you for everybody to all the hard work you're doing. >> Okay, Miss O'Brien, thank you Mrs. Holland Beck for your um information and everyone else at the um at the policy committee for going through and uh thank you Doug for having a flexible policy with
031it and hopefully um I we'll see even more people connecting in person in the hallways and just that that it won't be an issue hopefully that as long as the the internet devices are away, they won't even need to be thought about. So, >> yeah. Okay, Mrs. Hutchinson. >> Um, ditto what all of my colleagues have said. Um, welcome Miss Holland Beck. I Mr. Digur, I just got to thinking when you were talking about the handbook. I wonder if we should also reach out to previous student board members that we had to see if they had any feedback of things that maybe they wish they would have known or or wisdom that they want to pass on to the new um students moving forward. That also might be an area where we can look into
032getting their feedback as well. Um and I'm >> just welcome to list a name for maybe how we can contact parents to get in touch with them. >> I do have a couple of contact information for some of them. We just approved tonight. >> Um, so I'm If you need any help with that, please let me know. And that's it. Thank you everybody. >> All right. >> Well, I hope that uh some of you in the administrative um roles have been able to enjoy some of the summer. I know that you guys have been working really hard the last couple weeks. I can't believe that we're already like almost a month with school being out. Um I have seen because I'm out and about. Uh I've seen some big progress going on especially at Fairrave
033and uh GRB with the outside of our capital projects um um making some great strides in those Fair Grave stairs which has been something in the making for a long time. Um and I know that uh we have some summer school going on and hearing some good things. There's a really great program going on that Mr. Broadick is doing with um our students and a lot of our coaches are in the district are helping over at the W memorial and I've seen you know some some good things come out of that as well. Been able to get over there and >> this week plan on uh heading over to uh join that group that you just mentioned the athletics. >> So great things for our kids happening still over the summer. Um, and the weather's
034great, so that's been good for them. And I just wanted to say thank you so much for everybody um, joining in and participating in our board retreat today. Um, it's always eyeopening to, you know, we some of us have been on a while, but to like go back to the basics. Um, along with Mr. Dalorm doing the student uh, handbook, we are also going to to put something in place for um, board handbook as well for for the grown-ups. And uh so we should probably start thinking about when we can all get together and meet on those. Um and input from everybody even if we're not all on the same committee is great. So if anybody has any ideas for either Mr. Velor or myself when it comes to either one of those handbooks. >>
035Can we Sorry to interrupt. Um I'm just thinking former board members like Mrs. Griffin would be a phenomenal resource to him. Yep. pulling those resources together to see if >> that would be great. >> Be very happy to help us out. And we also got we also received the uh uh board the student not the student Mr. G has those the uh board handbook from um the Heather just pull the blank on her last name. She did our NISPA retreat last year there. um she she does she works for NISSBA and uh she sent us her district cuz she's also a board of education member on their handbook as well and I know that we can definitely look out into other school districts as well. So, but it's just something nice to have because a
036lot of us have questions when we're jumping in and wanting to take on school board roles and you know, it'd be nice for the community to kind of know as long as well as our students knowing, you know, hey, is this something that I can do that I want to do that I can be part of? And I think it'll be good going forward. It would be nice to if we could I'm just thinking like publish it on our like website people are >> are interested in joining the board and sometimes we we have good intentions and I'm going to join the board to solve this issue and then realize that's not our role and so maybe a handbook published on our website or whatever so they know exactly the role of what board is.
037>> Yep. That's a great idea. So, anything else anybody wants to add? Anybody want to uh jump in on a second public forum? Got no takers out there today. We do not have executive session, so we can cross that right off the list. And we'll move on to action 9.01. Ajournment. >> Move it. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I oppose. Staining. Passes 600. Everybody have a wonderful evening and thank you for joining.