001Good evening and thank you for joining us in our annual reorganization meeting tonight. I'm calling this meeting to order 5:00. uh in the event of an evacuation and we need to uh evacuate the building, we can go out to the door behind the Hendrickson's or we can go off to the right here for the superintendent's office and we can head out far away from the building 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. Action 1.04 to appoint the district clerk. Would somebody move that please? Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. passes 500 action 1.05 appointment of
002the temporary chairperson. Somebody move it. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 500. There's only five of us here. Yep. There's only five of us here right now. Uh action 1.06 is a roll call of board members. Mrs. Avalor is present. Mr. Dorne, present. I'm just wondering what you only got five of us. There's six of us here. There's six. Oh, I'm sorry. There's six of us because Mrs. Alvigor is on vacation. Thank you. Thank you for that. Mrs. O'Brien is officially one of us. Welcome. Thank you, Nick. Thank you. I'm sorry. Okay. So, Mrs. Elor is present for the roll call for one action 1.06. Mr. Dalor, present. Okay. Uh Mrs. Hutchinson, Mrs. Mainville, present. Mrs. Prawl, present, Mr. Connors, present. And Mrs. O'Brien, present. I'm sorry about that, guys.
003Action 1.07. We'll be doing our administration of oath and code of ethics. So, we should all have that in front of us. We're going to pull that out as I read it. You guys may sign and date. Today I do hereby pledge and declare that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New York and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the position of the Fulton City School District Board of Education member according to the best of my ability. So once we sign those, Mrs. Trude will collect those. You want to help me? Oh my goodness. Oh my god. Stop. This is my day. I'm still in June. Please don't take this back in June. No. No. I like the weather too much in July.
004Let's see. There's the three on this. Three on this one. Okay. And then you also got your board operational goals. Uh Mrs. TR printed off for us so that we have that as one of our policies. So you guys will have that at your hands. All right. Action 1.08 08 will be the election of the 2025 2026 officers going to uh the A says the outcome of our election. So we're going to be voting for our president and our vice president. So we're going to open up the floor nominations for president. Anybody four presidents? Uh Brenda, I'm nominating you. Thank you. Tim, I nominate Fallon Hutchinson. Okay, so Brenda and Fallon. So, can I get um those who are interested in votes for Fallon? Okay. And those who are interested in votes for myself. Thank
005you. Opening up the floor for our vice president candidate. I nominate Mr. Connor. Is there anybody else? So, all those who are in favor for Mr. Connors for vice president. Do I put my hand up for if you want to vote for yourself? All right. So that'll be six for Mr. Connors. All right. The following resolution. Can somebody move that? Move it. Second. Good job. There we go. All right. Thanks to each other for Therefore, this board of education had held election for officers. The results of the elections are for Brenda as president and Tim as vice president. Can I guess all those in favor? I I opposed. Abstaining passes. 600 76. My goodness, now you all have me going crazy here today. All right. Action 1.09. Voting delegates for alternative for NISPA. Is anybody
006interested in doing the delegates? Mr. Jul, are you interested in that again? Sure, I'll do it. Okay. Uh, can I get somebody to move that? Move it. Anybody to second it? Second. Okay. And then we need an alternate voting delegate just in case Mr. Dorm is not available that evening. Anybody interested in doing that? You just perfect. And that is online, correct? Usually the Monday before or the week before. It's it's been virtual. So, so that'll be great. All right. If you want to if you want to get together and see how it's done. Yeah, that sounds great. We've been there as late as midnight. It's nice. for the surprise. We thank we thank Mr. DJ Long. He has he has uh done this for the last couple years and um he is he has
007made it. He said other uh members across the state have uh dropped out. So dropped out and matter of fact that's why we only went to midnight because we didn't have enough delegates to have a quorum. So they had to stop. So we stopped at midnight. Yeah. All right. Uh, all those in favor of Nick and Jessica I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.10 appoint the deputy district clerk. Somebody move it. Move it. Second. All those in favor. I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.11 appointment of officers. Somebody move that. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.12. We have all of our other appointments um for the district. Somebody be interested in moving that move. Second. Jessica and Jen. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 600.
008Action 1.13 appoint committee on special education. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Obstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.14 appoint the committee of preschool education. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Staining. Passes 600. Action 1.15 our dignity for all students coordinators move secondary and Jen all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 600 action 1.16 our school law firm move it second all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 600 action 1.17 bonding of personnel Now move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.18 official bank depository for all of our funds. Second. Was that Tim? Yes. And Jen. All those in favor? I opposed. Staining. Passes 600. Action 1.19 is our official newspapers. Move it. Second question. All those in favor? I opposed
009abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.20 person to certify payroll. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I oppose abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.21 purchasing agent and agent for temporary investment of funds. Second. Tim and Nick. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.22 is our attendance at conferences, conventions, workshops, etc. Move it. Second Tim was worse. Okay. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.23 authorization to establish petty cash funds. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.24 is the startup fund. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.25 designation of authorized signatures on checks. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining passes 600 action 1.26 authorization to approve budget transfers move second
010all those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 600 action 1.27 27 authorization to access safety deposit boxes. Move it. Second. Was that Tim? Nick. Nick. Sorry. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.28 is to authorize the bank as school tax collector. Move a second. All those in favor? I I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.29 is a roll call for the authorization of the issuance of revenue anticipation and/or tax anticipation notes. I am a yes. Mr. Dorm, yes. Miss Mainville, yes. Mr. Connors, yes. Miss Prol, yes. And Miss Sorian, yes. All right. Action 1.30, establish the rate of mileage reimbursement. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining pass 600 action 1.31 the building use fees move it second all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 600
011action 1.32 are gate receipts and admission fees move it second all Those in favor? I I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.33 is our non-resident tuition rates. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 1.34 is the rates of miscellaneous service. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining passes 600. Action 2.01 will be building principles to suspend students under education law sections 3213, 3214, and 3216. Move it. Second. All those in favor. I opposed. Extaining passes 600. Action 2.02 02 to authorize the superintendent to require employees to undergo medical exam under education law 913. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. Action 2.03 a regular board of education meetings. Let me see. They are to still start at 6 o'lock. I think
012that there was a little bit of discussion to have. So if somebody could move that first. Move it. Second. Okay. So the discussion that we needed to have and I believe there's a calendar that should be right in front of you. Uh one of the dates is in November. So the discussion is do we want to do our um meeting on the 4th or the 12th? We would only have one meeting that month earlier rather than later. I know that Thanksgiving pops up. So that kind of gives us the should we do it in the 12th then so that it's more in the middle. There would be two meetings. It's just how it there is two. It says 4 or 12. Oh the 21. And then there will be the 25th as well. Yeah. That's
013Thanksgiving right there. That's why. Okay. So then the 25th being that's our second meeting. Do you want to do it the 12th being closer to the 25th or the 4th? Probably my votes the 12th because our second meeting is the 28th of October. Yeah. So that seems like to be really close. Yeah. Tim and Nick, what do we think? I'm good with whatever you got. All right. So, let's go ahead and hopefully I'll be here. That's why I forgot my calendar. So, you're welcome. All right. And then looking at May, just keep in mind that we do have a tentative date for the 21st. We will have a meeting on the 14th and we do need to do a meeting on the 28th, which would be uh to approve that Bosey's budget. Um, April. May
01420th. She meant April. No, April. April. Okay. April 14th, we'll have a meeting. The 28th is the uh approval of the Boseies. I see now. Okay. And then a tenative is the 21st because it's possible that we may need to do some budget talking approval for our own district on that date. So that date is a tenative. So it's possible we'll have three meetings that month. And then also in May as we get closer, I know sometimes we move those dates depending around the ratify of the election, but keep in mind that there's a possible 3-day uh meetings there for May as well. Okay. Any other discussion on that? All those in favor? I opposed. Obstaining. Passes 600. Action 2.04 04 authorize the superintendent to hire staff on a perm basis. Move it. Second. All
015those in favor? I I opposed. Obstaining. Passes 600. Action 2.05 is approved professional development plan. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed. Passes 600. Action 2.06 06 is to approve our code of conduct. Move that. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. And then 2.07 is to reaffirm all of our policies. Does that include the ones that we're talking about tonight? I think that's our first reading tonight for the other meeting. No, the other one is approval. These are It is approval. This would just be confirm how this is done like it was on there for so it would reaffirm all that we have of as of right now and then yes before we vote on them and well because well what we would have now and then we're going to
016change put them back in we'll put them back into so what we have right now before this meeting starts so we know that we're we're reaffirming that all the policies have in place are in place and then when we jump into the regular meeting then we can talk about those three um Just want to have I guess it's the ones we've already approved. Yeah. Okay. For for this the course of this past year. Good. Yep. Yeah. All right. All those in Oh, can somebody move that please move it? Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining passes 600. And then would somebody like to call this portion of the meeting a new adjournment? Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining passes 600. Mr. Lawrence, welcome. Thank you. That is our reorg.
017Congratulations, Mr. Commerce. And we wait till six for the right. No question. We just move right on. We just go right from here. No problem. That's how you had it in the paper. Correct. Mrs. We're going to go from one meeting right to the next. All right. Okay. We're going to start our regular board meeting for July 8th. It is 518. [Music] Action 1.02 02 to approve the agenda. Somebody like to move that move it. So I have a Lori and then who wants to second? Second. Tim beat you up to it. Good job. For our community members at home, if anyone is uh wishing to reach out to the board of education, you can reach us at clerk bolton.cny.org. All right. Um should we uh We uh moved it. Then I need everyone to
018uh Yes. I I abstain and nay. Passes 600. Uh we're going to reaffirm the evacuation plan behind the Hendrickson's or over to the right of myself if we need to move away from the building. Would you all like to join me for the pledge of allegiance again? Why not? It was just Independence Day. That is correct. I pledge algiance 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. There is nobody signed up for public forum this evening. I have somebody move action 1.06 to approve the June 24th regular meeting minutes. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 600. All right. We have um just a few things going on for July.
019Uh at our next meeting, we will do our retreat here in the boardroom uh at 4:00 and then that will follow by our regular board meeting at 6. Um our board of education handbook is another thing that has come up for topic. I know that we were going to start to work on that last year a little bit. Um things got real busy for us with our superintendent shirts and some of our other things that we were involved in. So if anyone is interested and we can even do this in smaller groups. It doesn't have to be the same three people that do it that bring it back all the time. We can open this up for discussion on how you guys want to uh start to formulate our handbook. And I know Mr. Dalor
020also wants to uh get something into place for our students as well. So when our students come on, they know um exactly what you know they would be entailing them to do. Yeah. I could use that. Okay. If anybody's interested in doing the student handbook. Okay. So we have the student section and then we have our regular section. So who are we? I'll help out. You want to help out? Sure. Okay. So there is no handbook right now at all. It's we're starting from scratch. Okay. Well, I mean, we have some things into play, some policies and things. Uh, last year we did a a retreat where we had gotten some uh samples from other school districts, but yes, we're going to fulcanize it. We don't have anything. We do not have anything permanent at
021this point. So, this is something to make it a little bit especially for our students. and now that. So, um, and I think from your perspective as a new board member, you know, having something when you come on that explains a little more about kind of just some of the rules that we're used to, I think. I I know I, you know, would have definitely benefited from something like that. So, we want to make sure for future board members coming on, they have an easier time understanding some of the stuff that's either jargony or just some of the basic courtesies that we try to award one another. And another thing too, I I I was at the Esville County School Boards Association last night and we were talking about um some training that might be
022going on um that I can touch base with at the end. But uh it also would be something good for future um members in the community who might be interested in running for board positions. That would be something that they would be able to look at so that they understand and know also what uh happens in board life. Um, and know that that was something that, uh, the members were talking about at the school board meeting last night. So, um, I thought that was a really great point to point out. So, sure, I'd be willing to help. Okay. This was got a book called Onboarding. Yes. Yep. That would be a good help. Yeah. All right. So, we'll uh talk about starting setting up some C um committees over the next couple of meetings and
023we'll get we'll get those underway. So for those that offers to help, is that all for the regular board handbook or is there anybody volunteering to help with the student board handbook? You can kind of cross over too. Yeah. Yeah, I would too. Okay, there we go. Perfect. Any um anything else that anybody would like to add? just like to welcome you all to our our new year and uh welcome Miss O'Brien again. Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, we get to see you sitting here now because you've been jo you've been with us since February. I think it was a little bit more comfortable back there, but you went from being in the office and I said are you the audience and I said we should hide it down here. All right.
024Well, without any further ado, I'm going to pass this on over to our new superintendent, Mr. Doug Lawrence. Yeah. Thank you very much. Um before we we only have one item on the superintendency report, but before we get started with that, I just want to thank everyone. Um all the staff that I've met so far. Um we've had opportunities to go around to some buildings. We've had we've kicked off our administrative uh retreat. Um everyone's been very welcoming. Uh very kind in helping me uh get caught up to speed on quite a few things. I do want to thank Mr. Paulino. He's been a great asset so far and and giving me uh the background history on on quite a few items and again the the team's been great so far as well and uh
025helping me and and really trying to keep me on the right track and keeping me up to speed. So I I do appreciate that. So um the one item that we do have on the agenda for this evening um Mrs. and Mr. Hendendrickson are going to provide us with just a brief overview of the or update on the district uh comprehensive improvement plan. Uh so this week we received from New York State um Ed Kerman um reviewed our district's plan and they approved it. They said we met all of our criteria. They did provide suggested feedback. They said we didn't have to make any adjustments, but we decided to go ahead and make the suggested changes under measuring success. In the last um action step there for quantitative data target, they suggested rather than um
026our verbage was general growth and they suggested putting um exceed their annual growth um target. So for each student to individualize that to exceed and meet their annual growth rather than saying just a general. So we made that adjustment and it will be posted on our website. Just a general number. It it doesn't have to like increase by 5% or 10% or anything. Just just improvement. Just improve. All right. And they said to make it more individualized. We had we uh had showed general growth. Yeah. For the subgroups and they said they actually more individualized and that each student should make seed or mean growth for each of the targets. Makes sense. Thank you. Thank you. Um I just a couple I mean I saw that we have our um who our team members are.
027Do we have students representing this to the district as well when we have these meetings? We did the um interview process with all the students but not on this one in particular. We had discussed that but I think going forward when we um when we do our review visits our benchmarking that could be a spot that we may have been okay and then in the past you've had board member or two on you don't currently. Is it something that you would like to see? I mean, I would I was thinking that maybe somebody might be interested in Sure. going for Okay. So, keep that in mind when we uh you know, decide where we're going to be at for our committees, which we didn't talk about in the last portion of our reorg. But, uh
028this could be something too if somebody in the board wants to uh jump in and help out with this as well. We are um we will definitely have to write a plan for next year. It's usually a two plan. So, and I think we should start earlier than we did this year. When that process starts, we can open it up and more members. Perfect. Perfect. Are our parent members um are they um a split between grade grade levels like elementary, middle, I know we have two parents on. It's really challenging to get parents. Um so, we reached out during our title one uh meeting and asked for feedback and they said, "Try the 9:00 time and the afternoon." So, we're going to try that again. And I think putting more items on the agenda to
029see if we can get more people there. Um, we talked about leveraging before musicals, before concerts. Usually parents have to arrive an hour beforehand. So, that might be an opportunity for us to reach out to parents to get more feedback. So, that's something we're trying to work on to get a variety. Right. Are they both elementary parents? Um, I know Jess is right. I I don't know. Chelsea both have elementary. Okay. Mhm. Well, it's good that we have parents on there. So, it's a good start. And they they connect to each one of the schools that are associated with this as well. So, there's one rep from each of the two. One parent represent those two parents that we are in secure. One is from Paul and one from Good. Anything else? We're all set
030on our end. All righty. Then let's move on to our finance section 4.01. Accept the financials. Somebody move that. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Action 4.02 is to approve the disposal of surplus property. I just have a question. Sure. Yes. I was able to check with Corey quick. I heard what you asked, Lori. So, I kind of a quick test. Um, the difference between disposal and scrap. So, disposal means it's been deemed just too wrecked to salvage and we're throwing it out. Scrap is recycling. So, we're able to recycle. Okay. Good question. Look at the material maybe. All right. Um, they like to move that. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining passes 600. Action 5.01 is to approve our committee on special education. Move
031that. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Our policies that are up for approval. Can I have somebody move those? Can I ask a quick question? Yep. Let's move it and then I'll let Yeah, definitely move it. Okay. And then second. All right. Okay. Okay. So, let's open it up for discussion. Okay. Um, for the plan for the re-entrance of students who have life. Okay. Um, do we have a plan in place that's consistent amongst all of the school buildings for kids who do not have transportation and are not able because you're not allowed to ride the bus. Correct. Right. So, do we have a plan to get those kids to school beforehand? with to get checked before re-entering school. Do you know what I mean? I know. I know exactly what
032you mean. Okay. So, they can't ride on the school bus. Mom and dad don't have car to bring them in. What is our plan to help them to work with transportation to make sure like they can't ride on a bus with other students, but we'll send a van if we need to pick up the liaison, the home school leaison. We'll coordinate with transportation with the building principles and make sure that we get them in to get the checks. That's what we've done this. Okay. And it's like all consistent throughout all of the buildings. Yeah, we had Mr. Als actually come on for this meeting to describe the step-by-step process and he went through and we had one of the nurses come on and they went through you know all the different things. They went through
033like they have a 15minute rule you know as far as cleaning and you know what's you know permissible, what's not, what's effective, what's not and making sure if we have the to be able to get the product in the hands of the people. So, you know, making sure that's not necessarily a barrier. So, Mr. Al did a really good job coming into the meeting explaining all this cuz we wanted to know like you've said, what's the step by step? How's it being implemented? Is it the same everywhere? And that's all the different thing pieces we were able to get for the process part before we finalized the policy to come to here. And once they're ready to come to school, we don't have to wait a couple days or anything. It's usually just like they're
034ready, we're going to go get them, we're going to check them. Perfect. Okay. That was my question. Great question. Any other discussion? I know. Um I'm just wondering, do we have a school physician or a district physician? Who might that be? [Music] Let's see. Um we go through ESGO Health. Okay. There's no like one particular factor. That's it. It's a service that we do with us. We go help. There was a physician. Now we work with the nurse practitioner who consults with the physicians there. So they're our service provider and our consultant. Okay. Thanks. Okay. All those in favor? I I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 600. Would somebody be interested in batching our personnel which is 0.1 through 0.14? Move it. Second. Second. You have a question. Sure. We'll open it up to discussion. U should
035there be a section here for teachers on special assignments? Uh no. Uh we talked in executive session about voting on a particular position and I don't see it here because we didn't put it on this meeting. It'll be in another meeting. Yep. Okay. All right. All those in favor? I I opposed. Abstaining. Passes. We will you I'm sure I couldn't hear what Nick said. What was what was the question? Um he was uh wondering if the teachers on special assignment were on but it Mark was telling me that it will be on a future meeting. Okay. So that he's not ready with that yet. All right. Okay. So all those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 6. All right. Board forum. M us. Okay. I want to say I've completed my first year. I've learned
036a lot. Still a long way to go. I want to thank everybody for all the help and assistance you've given me over the past year. And congratulations to Brenda and Tim. And welcome. I'm happy to have you here. No. Can you sit across from me? All right, Mrs. Bainville. Um, I'm happy summer vacation. I'm happy that we have a great group to move forward with. I can't wait to see what you bring and a new perspective. So, that's going to be a great addition, including Mr. Lawrence as well. So, um I'm looking forward to the work we're going to do this summer and a successful school year ahead. Mrs. O'Brien, thank you all for a great first meeting. Um it's I'm very very pleased to be here and I'm looking forward to working with all
037of you. Um you've had some great insights in the past that I really appreciate it and I look forward to bringing something forward with us. Um and congratulations to Brenda and Tim. Thank you Mr. Dor. I just want to welcome Mr. Lawrence. Look forward to working with you this year. And to Miss O'Brien, it's nice to see you here. Thank you, Mr. Connor. Yes. Welcome, Mr. O'Brien. Uh, glad to have you here. As I said, you know, I thought way back before I knew you were running that it would be a good fit. So, I'm glad to have you here. Mr. Lawrence, thank you for reaching out to me. You know, being proactive on that. You know, I good good first impressions from that. You know, it's one thing to talk to talk, it's another
038to walk the walk. So, again, I appreciate that reaching out not only but an accessible way as well. And congratulations to Brenda and the team and everybody. All the hard work you're putting in, especially Desiree, all that work behind the scenes to help me out with everything I need. And I'm sure you're going to help me be a successful vice president. So, thank you again. And that's for you now, Brenda. Well, I'm looking forward to another year. Um, it's exciting to have new members in the perspective, and I thank you for already jumping on board to help out with our handbook and and some of those. I know that uh in in passing we may have uh let Mrs. Trude know what kind of committees that we were interested in um being on. Um you
039probably have the list because there should I didn't see the paper here. You have it. I don't have Okay. So I know that we have our um you did but there were some things that weren't weren't on there that were not claimed. I should say um our policy committee Tim and Lori are still going to stay on that policy committee. Um anybody did you want I would like to join it. I know that you had talked about that for me to join it. Okay. And then our health and safety committee we can only have up to three of us on each committee. So we we don't have a quorum. So that's why we had to divvy it up. Um, health and safety. I'm I think that Nick, were you on it last year? Fallon might
040have been. Yes, Fallon and myself and Lori. Okay. Um, anybody wants to stay on there or give another opportunity to somebody else? I'd like to be on. Okay. Somebody doesn't want to be on, they think their plates's full. Okay. So, and if not, I can wait for another committee to come up where there's need. All right. Nick, you still wanted to stay on or do you want Is there room for me at Well, if we can, we can do Lori John and we can do you. Sure. Okay. Because I know you wanted to be on that last year. That's a Yeah, that's a good committee to to be on. Um and now Mr. Kapani is our our head lead for the health and safety committee. So, um All right. We have What are our other
041policy? Yeah. will audit would be Tim and myself. Um, and we would be looking for one more. Nick, you were on it last year. Is that something you so want to stay on or I'll give anybody else a chance if they want to get on it? Anybody else want to take on audit or do you want to just let Mr. Dalorm stay on audit? Okay. Looks like we're all doing the numbers, Nick. All right. Well, I know we have our Asiggo County School Boards Association. Um, this is a wonderful group that also uh works with the Central New York School Board Association and you would then work with other um board members throughout our county schools. Uh they have a lot of really cool um events that they're starting to plan for next year which
042is great to help out with our uh lobbying. We always meet with Mr. Barkley. Uh there's talk about some um possible PD day that they will combine school districts if there are school districts that are interested in. We Oxel just talked about um some training that they're going to put forth for our student board members across the county and also new board members uh as well. Oh, there you go. That's the one I was looking for. Um they do great work with all of us. It's nice to network with other um school districts and to see what kinds of things that they're dealing with. I'll be honest with you, we're all dealing with the same things, but it's nice to get their perspective on how on how maybe their districts are working with things. Um,
043we can have more than one. I did talk with our president of Tom last night and he said that would be a wonderful idea. Um, they would like to bring in some new some new blood some new blood uh maybe with new fresh ideas and um for those of you who might have like a few years left or are just starting out. So, um I would love to still do the ESGO County School Board off um association, but I am definitely looking for someone to tail along with me. Um they're quite often they're on Monday night. Well, all the meetings are on Monday nights. Um quite often I do have church school, so sometimes I need to uh have a friend fill in or we could go together. So, um do they happen once a
044month? Do they happen? They they're not always once a month. Sometimes they're a couple months. Like our next meeting won't be until September. Okay. Um, and then we we just talk about when we feel like we need the next meeting. It depends on how many events we have coming up. Um, you know, if we're going out to talk to different school, not all of our school districts are um part of this, but we would like all nine school districts to be part of this. I was not a good alternate because my kids and coaching just got in the way. It's at 6:00, but it's usually at the lock. It's almost always at the lock. Sometimes we're in uh Mexico. It's so great. And I wish I could have attended more. Yes. Um, I can be
045a third option, but I feel like So, it's a Swiggle County School Board. I'll I'll do it. You want to do it, too? I mean, you both can. It's We can have an alternate and then we can Okay. Yeah. We'll be all we'll be and sometimes you know you guys can go along as well because he's you know we are start we're trying to bring more members in so that we it just before co they were doing a lot of things but then when co happened obviously we had to come to a standstill and then it's been slow bringing in uh some of the events but the AI meeting that we all went to last year um that was really nice we brought in Dr. Bill Daget. Um, and we brought another gentleman from downstate
046up, um, who worked, I think he was a history teacher who was phenomenal with like the whole AI thing. And yeah, Laura, you were there. So, um, just some things. Uh, we actually talked last night to, Nick, about the onboarding. Uh, there his name was Scott Scott Levy. Do school boards matter? and then the student board uh members the exofficio um stuff. So there's it's something that kind of talks about that training. So we're hoping to bring that to school boards and and administration as well. So um all right. So I'll put Lori and Jess on there as well. Okay. And then so we policy audit school board uh voting delegate and then we did talk about the strategic coherence plan. Should this is different than right. So do you have a member who comes
047consistently for the strategic coherence plan meetings? We have the DCC and PCC or so there really isn't a one meeting that's in particular because you do buildings and then you do I was on it when we were doing kind of the setup for the stuff and since it's transitioned into its current form I haven't been doing that one as much because it's more integr a lot of the stuff that they hear there is stuff we're also hearing here. Okay. All right. Cuz I knew you were doing it last. Yeah. But so that was more when the strategic coherence was being updated for our next 5 years. Okay. But I mean it can't hurt to have someone go to the meeting. But I know a lot of the stuff that's being discussed there is also we're
048bringing it on here. Okay. So if anybody is interested at any point in time, we know when the meetings are. We can just kind of pop in as long as there's not four of us. We can kind of pop in for that as well. And that looks like all of our committees at this point. So, we are we are good with that. Um, also, if you didn't uh sign and hand in your uh schoolboard code of ethics, I did sign one, but I forgot to hand it into you. Um, I know that uh that needs to be done today as well. Yeah. I have to Okay. Yep. Yep. I can do that. I almost had that. Sorry about that. Um, I thank you for everybody who supported me. I um I look forward to a
049really good year and I am excited that Tim has set up uh to step into leadership um because he's going to make a really great president someday. So, um that'll be nice to work with Tim and and Mr. Lawrence. And you know, of course, I enjoy always coming and meeting with all of you guys. We we have lots of work to do this year and um you have lots of work to do this year and thank you Mr. Palino for joining us. It's completely not out of character for you and so thank you for your support continued always. You look so much more comfortable. Much more relaxed. All right. Uh anyone want to join us for a second public forum? All right. We are going to enter into a brief executive session and then if
050I can get somebody to move that second Tim and John all those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 600. Thank you for all everybody who's joined us at home this evening and the rest of us will move on down the hall for a few minutes. All right. Uh, somebody want to move action 9.01 adjournment. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 70. Thank you everyone and have a great evening. Thank you.