001Good evening and thank you for joining us this evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Could I have somebody move? Well, let me ask first. Are there any changes to the agenda? Mr. Pino, just want addition, you know, updating the wording on 5.03 and you all have that. Yep. Okay. Can I have somebody move that? Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining passes 4 0. For our community members at home this evening, if anyone is interested in reaching out to the board, you can reach us at clerk bolton.cny.org. In the event of an emergency and we have to evacuate the building, we're going to go out the back door behind Mr. Henderson, hopefully to the left, move as far away from the building as possible. If we need to, we
002could go through Mr. uh Superintendent Pino's door right here. Would you 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. There is nobody signed up for public forum this evening. So could I get somebody to move action 1.06 to approve the May 13th meeting minutes? Tim and second Lori. All those in favor. I opposed passes 400. Action 1.07 to approve the May 21st special board meeting minutes. Could someone move that? Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 4 0. Um just a few uh dates to kind of put on your radar. Uh we do have our policy meeting on May 28th.
003That is virtual. Wait, that says it. Okay, it does say virtual. Um you should have gotten your self board evaluation in Google Docs. If somebody did not receive that, please let Mrs. Trude know. uh those do need to be into her by May 30th. We will be doing our board evaluations on June 10th after the meeting. We do have the district coherence sitebased meeting which is at 5:00 at the junior high um on June 2nd. Is that the Mr. Pino? Is that the big meeting where everybody's bringing the six the different the sitebased teams from each of the schools together? Okay, perfect. Uh we have our regular board meeting on the 10th as well. And with that, I'm going to move us on over to the superintendent reports. All righty. Thank you. Well, I want
004to start off just by thanking all of our constituents um for successful budget process. It was long and very challenging. I believe we have a budget that really continues to support our kids and all of the things that we want to accomplish for all of you. Um and also thank you for supporting all the propositions as well. Um, and again, this is the most exciting time when I see a room full of kids at a board meeting. It's the best way to start a board meeting this evening. Um, we're going to be starting off with our Carlton Barrett proclamations and Mr. Cahill and the Bony students are going to kick us off this evening. This is something we started was last year our first year. Uh, thank you for your efforts and here we are
005in year two. Sir, um, I'll go to the microphone. Um uh I want to thank uh the board and and and Mr. Palino for being a good partner in in Carlton Barrett Day. We wouldn't have it without your support and the mayor and the and the city of Fulton County Council. So I know uh Mr. Paulino has been interested in community relations and this uh undertaking is has really been a partnership between the district and and the city. So, um, thanks very much, Brian, for all your support, um, over the years. Um, so we've got, uh, five or six, uh, students. Uh, I could have brought 20 or 30, uh, but you folks got other business to take care of tonight. So, we've got five or six. Um, if I could just soap box for
006a second, was Mr. Henrikson's heart rate quickens. Um, if you, you know, like what you're hearing from the students, um, as much as Mrs. Zimmerman, I forgot to introduce you, my teammate, Mrs. Zimmerman in the back. Um, we might like to take some credit for it. It's really Carlton Barrett's story that that gets the credit because they were inspired by him. So, in the future, when we're looking at at curriculum and and content, maybe we shouldn't look so much at at standards and checking boxes, maybe we should be asking ourselves a question, is this is this inspiring content to these kids? And will it motivate them to produce a product like you'll be hearing from um these kids tonight? So, um because it, you know, my involvement as far as what you're going to hear
007is really minimal. little paragraph helping a word here or there. Um, you know, these are kids speaking from the heart and about the person that really inspired them. So, uh, thank you so much for having us and, uh, um, I'm proud of all of our kids, all almost 40 fifth graders. Um, but I'm super proud of of these guys because as most of, as everybody knows, adults, public speaking is uh, not everybody's favorite thing to do. biggest fear for a lot of adults. And here's some 11 year olds that are ready to literally jump up on this box and and uh let let you hear what they have to say. So, they have predetermined the border. I wasn't going to get involved in that. And uh um maybe it'll come back to me later. So,
008who's going first? Cash, you should say ladies first. That's what you should say. Yeah, ladies first. [Applause] Carlton Barrett was on Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944. And so was I. June 6th, the day, 1944, I was there. I still remember the screams of terror, the soldiers in battle, my comrades, my brothers screaming mama. And I was one of them. At only 18 years old, it was a cold morning on the English Channel. We were all among the 73,000 Americans in the Higgins boats, ready to go fight the Nazis. The boats rocked back and forth while we cleared. That's when the first shot went out. We all jumped into the water. It was hard with our equipment on, but I managed. The men in front of me arrived at shore. Some some either taken out
009by shot or by stepping on mainline. I remember seeing my Conrad Duke just standing there with a missing leg. I was running to help him when I felt the shooting pain in my chest and another rang of me. That's when I jumped down into the sand and realized that I'm probably going to die. All I could think about was my family. As I examined my fate, my eyes went blurry and I saw a figure in the distance. It was him, Carlton W. Brit. He scooped me up and said, "You will be okay." Then he rushed me into a boat while someone else screamed for him. While trying to calm me, he placed me gently into an evacuation boat. We left, but I will never forget his name, Carlton W. Bear. That was all I could
010think about, but he was my hero and her many others, too. I was able to I was able to go home, have kids, three kids, Mark, Ellie, and Luke. I named Luke after my best friend, my comrade, my brother, who died right in front of me. The man I couldn't save. I was able to see him. My three kids grow up. Luke, the oldest, the middle child, and Ellie, the youngest. They all grew up so fast, and I was able to witness all of their milestones thanks to him. Carlton Barrett first steps in the first words, mostly mama or data. Now they're all grown up, and I'm blessed to have grandkids. All thanks to Carlton. This is my testament. He is my hero and a hero to many others. He's the reason I'm still here.
011The reason I got to go home and experience life. You grow a family. Thank you, Carlton W. B. I remembered what I forgot. Um, they have seven prompts to to choose from for their writing piece. The there's a first person that you were on Omaha Beach and you were saved by Galin Barrett. What would you say? And I've had that prompt for probably three years now. No, for whatever reason, kids haven't picked it. This is the first year the kids have picked that prompt. And that's what Harper's perspective just was. And and a few others tonight uh also have that perspective. On D-Day, Carlton W. Barrett was one of the one of 73,000 US soldiers crossing the English Channel to liberate Europe from the Nazis. When he landed on Omaha Beach, he was selfless and
012put other soldiers lives instead of his own. Thinking of others is a good quality to have in 2025 because less and less people are helping each other now. Carlton William Barrett started fighting in World War II when he was around 20 years old. On June 6th, 1944 during Operation Over overlord, Carlton W. Barrett bravely risked his own life to save many fellow soldiers. Even though he was shot multiple times, it didn't stop him from helping others. On D-Day, he jumped in the water countless times to save soldiers. They were about to drown from all their heavy gear and boots. Barrett jumped in and saved everyone he could and set a triage area for wounded soldiers. He was shot in both his hips and his leg. He declined medical care multiple times. On top of that,
013a mortar came close to Barrett while he was talking to his friend from boot camp. Unfortunately, his friend got hit and was killed. Although it did not hit Carlton Barrett, it almost blew off his foot. He then crawled into the surf and swam out to an evacuation boat just like he helped all the other soldiers that day. Private Merritt was very brave during D-Day and he pushed through even though he was injured and wounded. Wounded. Carlton Barrett later received the Medal of Honor. He kept saying that others deserved it more than him and others should have received it instead of himself. He demonstrated to all of us what a true hero really is. That day he showed us that he was brave, calm, and fearless. Carlton W. Barrett deserves to be remembered and should always
014be a part of the Bolton community. Carlton Barrett's actions should never be forgotten and people should know his name and remember what he did for his fellow soldiers. He was a brave and humble person and what he did was truly amazing. In 2025, it's very easy for kids and adults to tear each other down. The road would be a much better place if we followed Carlton Carlton Barrett's example and spent more time helping each other up. [Applause] Carlton W. Barrett was born on November 24th, 1919 and started serving in the US Army in October 1940. Nobody would expect this from him because he was a high school dropout. He attended Poland City Schools for most of his life. Carlton Barrett's character traits are still important today because his actions saved lives. Carlton W. Barrett was
015kind, compassionate, and very very selfless. During Carlton Barrett's time about 3 hours on Omaha Beach on Omaha Beach, he was a quick thinker, but also a smart one. Carlton was shot in both sides of sides of his hips, was shot in his thigh. His foot was nearly blown off, and was helping others in equity water. Carlton didn't brag at any point in his life about what he did or how he did it. These character traits are just as important in 2025 because if everybody could be as kind, humble, and selfless, it would make life a little easier. Carlton W. Barrett rose up as a leader with these character traits and had a huge amount of bravery while doing it. He saved many lives while not thinking about his. That just proves his leadership during his
016time on Omaha Beach. One of the things I think that was really cool is that he was also from Foland and lives on as a role model for the people in Bolton. And maybe, just maybe, if everybody could be as kind and humble as Carlton William Barrett, the world could be a better [Applause] place. Carlton Barrett and a life well-lived. I was on Omaha Beach on June 6th, 1944. The mission was cenamed Operation Overload, later to be known as D-Day. It was the largest armada in military history. Our destination was the southern beaches of France. Our goal was to get rid of France and Europe of Nazi occupation and brutally. As I ran out of the Higgins boat, we were met with a wall of steel bullets everywhere. Mines in the sand, mortar rounds coming
017in. No training could prepare us for the chaos on of Omaha Beach. I did not get very far up the beach when I was hit with 50 caliber bullet shot from a Nazi pill box. It felt like someone hit me in the stroller with a sledgehammer. I still remember when I laid there helpless, thinking my time had come to go. But then out of thousands of people out there, Carlton W picked me up and and took me to medical triage area that he had set up where I was treated by battlefield medics. I remember getting brought there realizing I was safer than I was before. Although there were still people getting hurt by the minute, Carlton Barrett just kept on bringing people to the triage area and swam them out to evacuation boats. Even though
018it was complete chaos, Carlton was still calm when he would see people getting blown up by mines. Soldiers were terrified, losing limbs because of mines and German machine gun fire. He was shot in both hips and in the thigh and refused medical treatment even when his best friend from brute camp was killed by a mortar that particularly that practically landed right in front of him. Mortars explode in metal shards spray everywhere. They can cut or kill you. Carlton's foot almost got completely taken off by the mortar that killed his friend. Because Carlton W. Barrett saved me, my mom didn't receive the letter that more than 400,000 other moms received telling them their sons were never coming home. Barrett's selflessness allowed me to come home and live a life to get married to my wife and
019have kids and see them be born. Their first steps meant everything to me. hearing their first words their first day of school. I still see the smile on my child's face when she started prek, the proms that she went to, all their birthday parties when she graduated, have kids of her own, and all the all the vacations we went on. I mean, he Carlton let me and a bunch of other guys see those things. He allowed me to live a life and have the chance to experience all that's that life has to offer. I never saw a crowd and bear after that longest day. But there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about him and how much myself, my wife, my children, my grandchildren, and my great great grandchildren. Oh, that
020man. I hope that in his eyes that my family and I learned the life his actions allowed us to live. [Applause] I lived a life thanks to Carlton W. Ray. On June 6th, 1944, I was one of the 73,000 Americans on the beaches of Norway, France. I was brought in with other US soldiers who departed about 150,000 persona that crossed the English Channel. Hitler and the Nazis had occupied Europe for almost seven years and landing on France's northern beaches with the goal of oper operation overlord. What was waiting for me on Omahabi to something I could never have imagined, not even in my worst nightmare. On Dday, I was moved by a land mine and it blew up my foot. I fell to the ground and thought I was going to die until he called
021me and said, "Are you hurt?" I was too hurt to sneak, but I guess he took that as a yes and dragged me over to the triage area. Then he went to save more people. But as soon as they stopped my bleeding and stabilized me, he came back over and swam me out to the evacuation belt. Because he saved me that day, I got to live the best moments of my life with her marriage. Having my first kid, my first my kids first steps, first day of kindergarten, high school graduation, college graduation, and lots more. At the time, I didn't know his name, but when I got home, I turned on my television and there he was, the man who saved my life on TV, getting awarded the Medal of Honor. All I could think
022of in that moment was I've never seen anyone more deserving in my life. Carlton Barrett saved my life that day and gave me the opportunity to have a wife, have kids, and amazing rest of my life. I will forever be grateful for all that Carlton Barrett has sacrificed for me and all the other people who saved that day. [Applause] Savior on Omaha Beach. On June 6th, 1944, World War II had been raging in Europe for almost 6 years, and the Nazis had occupied France for 4 years. On the morning of June 6th, Operation Overlord put Private Carlton W. Bear on Hagen's boat along with 73,000 other airline soldiers. Of these tens of thousands of soldiers, Bear was one of three men to earn the Medal of Honor in Omaha Beach. I feel like there should
023be a statue of Carlton W. Barry in Poland, beginning to save many people's lives while risking his own on that day. One reason he deserves a statue is he had to swim neck deep water carrying full grown men knowing that there are bullets everywhere and he could get shot. He did get shot in the thigh and two times in the hips. Carlton W. Barry did not give up at all on June 6th, 1944. Not thinking about his own life, he swore countless times to save lives. He also set up a triage area where Maddox is stabilized the wounded. Once stabilized, Barrett would swim the wounded out to evacuation boats. When someone says get down, he probably would get down. So did Carlton W. Bear. Luckily, he didn't have time and also has his foot blown
024off when a mortar came flying at him. Right next to him, he saw his best friend from boot camp that he ran into on the beach. When Private Barrett picked up his head out of the sand, his friend was laying there dead. Barrett crawled back into the surf and made it to an evacuation boat. Carlton Bear wasn't screaming that day. He was calm and he also made people calm. Carlson W. Bear was 5'2, 125 lbs, and only 25 old when he went on to the shore of Omaha Beach on D-Day. Even though he was that small and young, he still saved people and gave them a chance to go home and live a life. Ert was fearless and selfless on June 6th, 1944. And I think a statue of him in the city of Bowen
025would be a fitting tribute of his actions on Omaha [Applause] Beach. That's everybody. That's all our students. Wow. I'm going to read in the proclamation and then we're going to thank you because it was absolutely amazing. So all of your your sharing receiving evening of of your essays and the work and your studies you've done leads to this proclamation that we read every single year. At a meeting of the Fulton City School District Board of Education held on the 27th day of May 2025, the following resolution was entered into the record. Whereas native Futonian Carlton W Barrett while serving in the US Army during World War II distinguished himself during one of the most important military battles of the 20th century and whereas upon landing on Omaha Beach in the vicinity of St. Lorent Sur
026Meant on June 6th, 1944 during Operation Overlord. Private Barrett saved many lives, assisting drowning men to shore and evacuating wounded men to an evacuation boat in neck deep water. And whereas Carl and Barrett returned to the surf with wounded men time and time again, ran messages up and down Omaha Beach, stopping only to give medical treatment and calm the shock, disregarding his personal safety, and while sustaining three gunshot wounds to the hips and thigh, only to be taken out of the battle after a fourth injury, a mortar wound to his foot. And whereas out of 70 out of the 73,000 American troops to land on Normandy beaches on June 6th, 1944, Private Barrett was one of four individuals awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty, being
027the only one to survive, to have the medal placed around his neck. hand. Whereas Private Barrett, later to become Sergeant Barrett, would never speak of his actions that day, he humbly would only speak of the sacrifices of others, especially those who paid the ultimate sacrifice never to return home. And whereas Carlton Barrett, after recovering from his injuries, went on to serve his country for another 18 years in the US Army after D-Day, continued to serve something bigger than himself, serving his country for a total of 23 years. And whereas in the year 2025, the Fulton City School District, Fulton, New York, concludes that recognizing Carlton W. Barrett for his actions on D-Day is an opportunity to educate the public on World War II, Operation Overlord, valor, selflessness, sacrifice, humility, the price of freedom, and those
028that paid the price with their lives. end. Now, therefore, it be resolved that in consideration of the aforementioned facts and events, the Fulton City School District does hereby proclaim every June 6th or the following Monday, if on a weekend, to be forever recognized as Carlton W. Barrett Day recognized and celebrated through events deemed appropriate by the Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education. So, I just want to thank our students for getting our this started this evening. It was just absolutely amazing for you to share your words. And the first person was a a very unique twist this year. It was really terrific. So, I just want to commend our students and and um Mr. Cahill and Miss Zimmerman for all of the work that you've been doing. And this spreads across all six
029schools. So, thank you so much for your efforts on behalf of uh on behalf of World War II and all of those individuals that sacrificed so that we could all be here today. So, thank you, Mr. Cahill. Thank you so much for and Miss Zimmerman for sharing your students and their essays with us. You guys put a lot of time into those essays, didn't you? You can you can tell. Um I liked as well. I was thinking the same thing. The first person that was I got to share the day with you last year and to hear the first person point of view like that puts it into a new perspective. So you guys did a great job and um we're still working on that statue, right? We I mean we heard about the statue
030last year. We need to get the mayor in here so we can all forever. Let's let's get going with that, right? No, thank you so much students for for coming and speaking with us. I'll say it every time. Public speaking is so tough and to see you guys come in here at such a young age. It just it blows our mind up here and we appreciate you coming in because we do what we do because of you guys. So, thank you for sharing your talents with us. Thank you so much. I just I just want to say what a phenomenal job and I love how you bring it to the way people should be today and it brings tears to my eyes. I generally [Laughter] Oh, they're going to go get ice cream. This is
031public. Right. Well, I just want to extend my appreciation to our kids. This is my last Carlton Barrett day, but I'll be around. Uh, and this was an amazing, this will be a memory that I carry with me. So, thank you so much. And thank you to our families for being here this evening. And sharing your kids with us each and every day. They're truly amazing. Uh, and as sixth graders, you just stood before the board of education of the Fton City School District. I couldn't have done that without sixth grade. So, congratulations on doing that this evening. So, thank you so much for all your efforts. Well, I'm going to see you again on the 6th. Oh, yeah. And uh and I hope that we we see other folks too and uh public's invited
032and uh the more the merrier. 6:00 on at the war memorial. At the war memorial on Friday night on the dream courts on the dream court. On the dream courting there's a gym inside the war memorial. We'll be in there. Thank you for reminding us. Speaking of public speaking, Mrs. Henderson, I'm going to put you on the spot here for the director. You know, humanities here. I I see a lot of portrait of a graduate here especially when is there any way I know we're not technically at that seventh eighth grade level to incorporate what these students have done here for seal of civic readiness or to be able to go on and adapt these things even though years down the road into achieving that because I feel like right here community service all these
033things tie into exactly what we're trying to get out of that. So, I didn't know if we, you know, working on that, if we're tying that in at all, but I just I see the connections in my head and all the hard work that's been done here. And I feel like if that's what we're shooting for, we have to figure out a way to incorporate that. That is exciting. There's a group of sixth graders there who are going to be presenting a pilot junior seal creek readiness with the safety patrol. Um, uh, Mrs. Stoddard has arranged for Mr. Pulo, myself, and Mrs. Zakamone and um Mrs. Rodriguez to come over and the elementary principal to observe them. We're trying to think of a way to um get the ball rolling with earning the points and
034bringing awareness to the sealic readiness. The points wouldn't go towards the actual pathway, but I think we could set that um framework down for the students. Um and we're working on doing projects starting in kindergarten to bring awareness to civic readiness. So, we have that in the works. Yeah. Again, thank you parents too for bringing your students tonight and sharing them with us. You know, this is what makes it worth doing what we're doing and we know they wouldn't be able to do it without you. So, thank you everybody again. I'm doing another round of applause because you deserve it. [Applause] Very good. Well, thank you everybody. Thanks everybody. All right. Thank you everybody. Thank you so much. Future sixth grader right there. There you go. Starting to be young. Yes, we are. Earlier the
035better. All righty. Well, the second presentation we have, we're just going full boore about kids tonight. This is all the work we do is to come back to these types of events. So you heard really something aligns with our seal civic readiness and portrait of gradu. You're going to hear more and more about that down the road, but this is the type of project that's going to lead us to the opportunities for our kids with a portrait um of a graduate. Next is our road to success career exploration fair, Miss Fledo. And this goes really to our commitment to starting as early as prek and kindergarten, really talking about the future and getting our kids to really frame um their educational experiences. And I think you're going to see more and more of that with
036opportunities that we're providing for hands-on learning. But more importantly, how does this connect to what I want to do well beyond the the world of Jay Bodley High School when we graduate? So, Miss Fo, if you'd like to share, and I see you've got some friends with you as well. I I I would have had more, but some kids have to work, you know. So, I had two students that were going to come that said, you know, you know, I can't build It's okay. I have the slides. This is for Lita. So, let me know when you want me to I'll move ahead. Okay. So, good evening, Mr. Board of Education, executive directors, and Mr. Hani, all of you. Um, welcome. And I'm I'm really happy to uh to be here this evening to be
037able to present um kind of almost the culmination of my career here at uh Fulton City School District, which uh I don't know, it's tough to follow those kids because that was just unbelievably amazing. So, but I'm I'm hoping that um we'll be able to continue to build upon this in the future and um with the seal of civic readiness and the portrait of a graduate, our kids are are going to do great things. So, um to get started, last week on May 20th, we hosted at the junior high and the high school um 28 different vendors. We also had um seven um trade unions. We had the police. We had the fire department. We had EMTs. We had the border patrol. We had um all five branches of the military. and we um had
038the opportunity for almost 1,500 kids to to go through from 6th grade through 12th grade to see everything that the the city of Fulton and surrounding areas has to offer. So, it was a really great experience. Uh we had a hands-on portion outside at Grey Bodley and then we had at the junior high and at Gray inside we had vendors as well. So it was divided into three different locations and from 9 to 2 on the 20th and it was a a great day I think for all involved and hopefully all of our um our hard work did pay off and um we got a lot of positive feedback from all the you know people involved the the vendors as well as the faculty and staff and especially the students. So and that's what we're
039here for. So Um this is Gira and we had this in the library media center and these are just a few of the pathways that we had represented at this year's fair. We definitely were looking at early college high school. We looked at the health healthc care field. So we had um nurses, we had um CNY ack came in and showed us um simulations of um medics talking about um the uh Memorial Day and um we also they did ultrasounds and this was all simulations and the kids love them. Um, we also had a meteorologist from Channel 5 came and um, a physical therapist from a local PT organization. Um, we had bankers, we had people in clean energy and for the first time this year, we had people from the arts come in because
040students last year said that's what we were looking for. um was the opportunity for kids who would like to pursue fields um careers related to the arts. So, we had and I'll show you as we go through the the slide deck um some of the the things that we had. And before we go any further, I would like to introduce Alejandra Rodriguez who is here uh who is our student senate president this year and he has done a phenomenal job in that field and I don't mean to put you on the spot. um but also in helping to coordinate students to serve as ambassadors for for this career fair this year. So Ali, I don't think how many kids did we have helping out? Um about about between 20 to 30 kids. Yeah. Between the
041junior high and GRB. Um what kinds of things did you work on? I know I was I was your runner. I went around and made sure every I made sure everyone had water. I made sure everyone knew where they needed to go. I helped people with parking. I helped people get whatever displays they had set up. I got chairs, tables. I came back around during lunchtime with food, water, coffee, and a lot. And because we were in two different locations, there were they were lacking something at the junior high. So like, Ali, can you send a runner to the junior high and bring another tablecloth or whatever it happened to be? But it worked out. It worked out pretty well. And I think uh the kids could all tell you how that, you know, made
042them feel to be able to host all of those businesses and organizations in our buildings. It was it was pretty awesome. I thought we got a lot of really good feedback from that. uh kind of inside and outside. Pretty cool. Anything else you'd like to add? [Music] Okay. We'll think we'll think of something as we get moving along. So, it sounds like you incorporated kids into the planning and and really the piece. Absolutely. Which is terrific. Yeah. These they're leaders, so we put them in those leadership roles and asked, you know, what can you do? What needs to be done? They made to-do lists and divided up the the chores and got it all done. got all the advertising out. Yes. Helped make surveys. So it was so they used their technology skills to do
043that. Um and also the uh the slide deck and everything that goes goes along with it. So thank you very much. Um next slide I think. So, first time, like I said, this year we had people from the our person from the Everson come down to talk talk about museum curation and all the behind the scenes things that go along with having a large museum like the Everson. And the kids were really interested in that. Um I w I was very surprised at the feedback how many kids actually were interested in um in museum and art curation and um the CNY arts that we have. Uh so we have a lot of kids that are involved in that. And then also the Rev. And I know we have productions that come into the district from
044the Rev. And they were wonderful talking to kids about all of the behind-the-scenes things that our kids could do. Not just the the acting or the the singing and the the performance part of it, but the set creation and all the planning that goes on behind the scenes. So, a lot of our kids were uh it opened their eyes, I think, to a lot of other possibilities for them. And we had one issue which wasn't so bad, but um one of our kids' favorite things from last year was the heavy equipment operation where we had um forklifts and payloaders and all kinds of big equipment there last year where the kids could get in with an instructor and actually lift things up and move them around and they had little competitions. Well, the instructor woke
045up in the morning with a bad stomach bug. So, his partner who was in the picture on the left there, um she told him that absolutely under, you know, no way could he come. He wanted to still come. And she's like, "You are not getting hundreds of kids sick with a stomach bug." So, she wouldn't let him come. So, she brought the simulation instead. Not the same thing, but we still had a lot of kids try it out. and they, you know, how they they love their video games and their their simulations. So, it it went over really well and um we do have quite a few kids that want to get into heavy equipment operation um and and things of that nature. So, it was great that she was able to come with that
046even though we couldn't have all of the pieces of equipment that we had last year. Um, and then we also had the simulations from CNY Ahack, which is the Oh boy, I can't I don't know this acronym. Central New York Association of Health Educational something coalition, I don't which they are the ones that have the three different simulation, the CPR, the um ultrasound, and then the um medic situations. So, I'm not sure Jace was one of the students that was supposed to be here this evening that had to uh to work in, but he was talking about how much fun it was to try to troubleshoot and figure out how to um you know, how to serve someone that was injured and how to take care of them in the in the medic tent. So,
047that's what he's doing in that in that picture there. So, it was it was pretty pretty fun for the kids to do that. And then at the same table, and I haven't really figured out how this all relates, but she was having them carve teeth out of bars of soap. For what reason? I have no idea. Did you make it, too? I did. I did. I don't know the why of it, but um the kids love doing it. So, she had all these little bars of soap and they were carving away. But um perhaps the dental field, perhaps. Perhaps soap teeth. I 16. I don't know. But um but it was fun anyway. Watch the some of the creations that the kids came up with. So um we also as as always have our um
048banking and finance students there and they're great because they bring some swag with them and they have have the kids answering questions that deal with banking and finance and then they win prizes. So naturally all the kids were going to that booth because they could take a chance and win a prize. Uh and for the first time we had an architect because last year uh there were students who wanted to get into architecture that maybe are in our CAD classes um our DDP classes at the high school now. And um so it was it was really interesting to see the kids come over and look through the blueprints and say, "Oh, I've seen this. You know, Mr. Harry, show us how to do whatever. So, uh, so that was that was very interesting to see
049and, um, the students were were intrigued, I think, at the level of complexity of the, you know, some of the, um, blueprints that they looked at and and the the schooling and all of the technical skills that are involved with getting into, you know, architecture. And of course, one of the the most fun things that the kids do is all of the physical activities with all the branches of the military. And we did we had the the um Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, the National um Guard and we also had Border Patrol for the first time here this year. And the kids were um lifting and they were doing, you know, having push-up competitions and were on the right. Um the the sailor that was here, he had some of the most amazing stories and
050the kids just loved listening to all of all of his stories about life on the, you know, the sea. Um and then on the left the army they had these giant weights and the the kids had to to lift weights and they had competitions there. So that was something that always um always goes over well with the kids and we do have quite a few seniors that are interested in possibly going into the military or who have already committed to the military at this point. So it was a time when they could, you know, touch base with some of the recruiters and talk to other students about, you know, their next steps, things like that. So um this was a great table. Um we had the actually the border patrol um and the police talked
051with with me called me and said you know would it be possible to get they couldn't bring the um the dog for the police but they brought um they brought some of other their tech equipment that they use and they had a drone and they had the drone up in the air and then um the other agent from the US Border Patrol he had all of these like night vision and goggles and and all the equipment and things that that they wear. And so so many kids tried everything on and had questions because, you know, of everything that you're seeing and hearing about. Um, and he was amazingly informative and helped all of the kids understand what their job actually is. And he was out of Asiggo, so he's they're right near Lake Ontario where
052he was from. So they just watch for people coming in with any contraband from from the lake and that sort of thing. So um so that's I think that one and this is always one of the big sellers of the day is um the tractor trailer association of New York. They come in with this simulation that allows kids to get in, upper classmen to get in and try their hand at maneuvering um an 18-wheeler and they have to park it and they have to move it around. And um it's amazing how many kids think they go in there thinking that they're going to be able to do this. Oh, it can't be that difficult. And then two minutes later they're opening the door, coming back out saying, "No, you know, I didn't make it a
053quarter of a mile down the road and I crashed." So, um, but but it's funny at the end of the day, they always they always say, "Oh, we have, you know, four or five kids that have potential in this that they picked it right up right away and they paid attention to the directions." And so, we'll it'll be interesting to see over the next few years how many of our graduates go into uh get get their CDL licenses and drive tractor possibly. Um, and then of course we have all of the the trades were there outside with their hands-on. We had the kids that were practicing with the carpenter, they were drilling and they were having um nail pounding competitions. Um, what I loved is the the plumber. He said to me, because I told
054him last year, I said, "We really need to work on on kids, you know, ch um looking at fractions and percentages and changing, you know, fractions to decimals and, you know, the simple mathematical things." And so he brought a tape measure this time and he's like, "Okay, what, you know, what is this measurement?" And then he said, "What would it be as a decimal?" And I'm walking by and he said, "I'm I'm I'm taking your uh you know, following your lead." And then he said, "I even told the pie example, which I was saying, you know, a pie divided into four, each one is a quarter and relating it to there's four quarters and a dollar." And he's like, "I never thought of that. I'm stealing that." I'm like, "Good, please." You know? So, so
055anyway, so um all of the trades were there and they they enjoy working with the kids and getting them to complete circuits or to run wire or whatever it it happens to be. We had um the iron workers were there and they were talking about life in you know on the top of a skyscraper in New York City with all the you know the people that are up thousands of you know thousands of feet having hundreds of feet in the air and how difficult that is and how important safety is and so they all had that same theme about safety. So it was it was pretty interesting. And then of course um mentor is always one of our our greatest supporters and they were there with uh a lot of info and allowed kids to
056work on um CPR and we've talked about maybe having them come in and offer um CPR to the high school kids. I know it used to be a requirement years ago I believe for them to get CPR in their health test or something. closed. Is it still okay? So, um, so they should all have it, but so we'll see. Um, so, so anyway, so that was something that we were going to talk about trying to put together, uh, another like a CPR class for whoever needs to get certified or reertified soon. U, so that's that. Next, next, um, this is I just put in a little bit of feedback here from this year's career fair. I just asked what vendors they were interested in and you can see it's all across the board. Um, but
057one of the main I was surprised, not really, to see that Youthworks and Asiggo County opportunities had so many students. I was making copies for them of our summer youth employment applications because they um they hire a lot of our kids in the summer. So, the fact that kids were going to them in droves and picking up applications was, you know, was a great feeling for me because that that partnership has grown over the years. So, I'm I'm pleased with uh with the way things are are working out. And Asiggo County Opportunities again, they look at um barriers to employment and our kids have barriers such as um the inability to get to work. they don't have a vehicle or they, you know, they don't take driving lessons or driver's ed. So, there is there
058are possibilities there that they can um take a a driver's or driving lessons through a county opportunities and then they also have a vehicle to take the driver's test on once the lessons are are finished. So, that's that's a really good thing that they do as well. And they also help kids place uh place kids in internships and shadowing opportunities around the area, too. So, um the military again, no surprise. Police, no surprise. Border Patrol is new, so I figured they would probably like that. And healthc care, of course, um is always important and always there's always a lot of of students that are involved that want to to go into some form of healthcare. So, they could select more than one. So, that's what they did. Next, um, for the future, I asked, you
059know, what would students like to see more of? And some of these things I tried, um, Laura tried to get in this year and have tried every year, but with short staffing, it's very difficult to get, um, you know, like a vet. The kids want a veterinarian to come in. They're short staffed. they can't leave to spend the day with us even though they would want to. Um lawyers, you know, they're in court all the time. Forensics, you have to go so far away to to get someone that could come in to do that. We did have a zookeeper this year. Uh so, and child care, the same thing. Everyone's so short-handed now, uh that it's it's very difficult to get the small um entrepreneurs in their own businesses to leave for a day to
060come in. They try, but they they could come in for an hour. They come in and talk to my classes or the English classes that I bring down to my room, but they can't come to an event like this. Um, so the kids want next year, they want to expand on what we're already doing, and some of them, you know, didn't for whatever reason get the opportunity to attend. Um, we tried to make it throughout the day so that they could come during their lunch or a study hall or with a teacher. We tried to have it so that just, you know, their social studies classes would all come down and um we it's still a work in progress for that. Okay. Next, um vendor responses, like I said, all positive except the guys that
061were outside in the center there. Plan well with timing. Maybe next year give breaks to vendors throughout. They needed to, you know, go in and use the facilities and they were the only one at their table. So I said, "Well, next year you have to bring someone else with you so you can take turns." So that was really their only their only negative feedback other than shorten it a little. I don't know how um to shorten it and give everybody the opportunity to attend. Um we've done it three or four different ways since I've put these on and um this was the way last year that they said worked best. So that's why we just expanded this year with that. I was I was really happy to see that 100% of our kids were attentive,
062engaged, and respectful. You know, that wasn't a prompt. That was what they said. So, and then the other um another person said students were kind and willing to try activities. And then they used the Oculus headset. So, that was um the medic simulation that they did with the CPR simulation. So, so that's that was they were good. I think the feedback's really good. Um, okay. So, next, um, some of the other things that weren't necessarily related to the day, but they're also they're related to, um, the activities that have happened throughout this year. We have had over 50 kids get their driving permits in the Career Exploration Center, and I I added a couple more today. Um, and I'm they just come in and they say, you know, can I come in during my study
063hall? and take it. And I give them all the application information. They come in and they take it. So, it saves them the the angst of having to go and stand in line at the DMV at the DMV and um and wait in line and then if they don't pass, it's embarrassing and they have to come back. So, we do have kids that take it several times, but we get them through it and and they're so proud and happy when they're finished. Um, also we have I've taken two different groups to the Carpenters Training Center and the IBW training center. And you'll see slides in a minute of that. And then um Jace, who was supposed to be here tonight, he did a job shadowing opportunity with an attorney's office in town and um they
064let him go to um city court and county court all in one day. he got the behind thescenes view of everything. He said it was the most amazing experience that he'd ever had. He was amazed that he was able to do that. So, um so that's something that would be appropriate hopefully to continue in the future. And um then the last but not least, the future educators club that we had with the um nice grant. The grant is over at this point. Um but we're still we're finishing up this year with everything and we've done um over the years we've gone to Sunumius, CCC, Le Moine, um SU. This year we went to Courtland which was someplace different. We look at education programs around the area and they get to talk with college professors, financial
065aid officers, um students in the field. So the kids get a real um a real good picture of what it's going to be like for them should they choose to continue. So and um we've done teacher turnabout days. I call them at the elementary school last week at the junior high and then this Friday we'll be at the high school where our future educators take over for the teacher for the day and try to present the lesson to their peers and um they they learn quite a bit from going through that. These are some of the kids. Like I said, there are 50 plus that uh I've done this year and I'm making a slide deck with everybody in it so that it can go on our TVs at the high school so they can
066see everyone. But I just put a few in so you could see I make them, you know, the mom and me makes them take their picture with their their passing permit test. Um so it's they love it. no matter how how many of them just kind of make a face when I say, "Oh, you need to get in front of my tree and get your picture taken." They do it. No one ever barks at me. But, uh, so I think it's a good opportunity for them to be able to do it at the high school instead of having to go to the DMV to do it. So, that's that. And then, um, these students went with me to the carpenters training center. So, they got to, um, go up in cherry pickers. They were on
067roofs. They were building scaffolding. They were um screwing what do you call it? Sheetrock in the the guy in the middle was doing like a combined space activity. So it was an awesome that training center. It's it's great for these guys and they all walked away and were just in awe of it. So um I think at least two of them are going to continue on and get into the pre-apprenticeship program and then apprenticeship once they graduate. So, so that was a rewarding day for me to to see them. And then same thing with the IDW, the training center in Syracuse. We had four kids that went and they cut pipe and they ran wire and um smoothed out the inside of the pipe so that the wires would go through without snagging. And they
068talked about um you know completing uh junction boxes. And it was a a busy day, but they they loved it. they got right in there and and uh made short work of whatever they were given to do. So, it's it's just good to see that there we're also focusing on the kids that may not go to a four-year college that may want to go into an apprenticeship or a training program to uh to do what they want to do. So, um and these are some pictures from this year from our future educators. This was at at Lanigan early on. What's unique about Lanigan is that they have student teachers there. So, our kids get to work with the student teachers as well as their cooperating teacher and um you know and the administrators in the
069building. So, they get to see all different levels in one place. So, that was that was interesting. And then last week, like I said, we're at the junior high uh with Mr. Kapowski and never a dull moment there. The kids had a ball. Um, this was something that I added in. I've already mentioned it a little bit. Some of the beneficial part um, partnerships that we've created, Colton Savings Bank funds our work keys curriculum through a grant every year that we need to re-up um, like the end of October. So, that is something since I won't be here to do that, that it will need to be done by someone. Um, and then the, like I'd mentioned before, the Asiggo County Workforce New York and the summer youth employment paid work experiences. I know we
070have kids working at the um, war memorial and at the dream courts and all around um, the city and the county actually. So, that hopefully will continue um, in the future as well. And like I mentioned, so county opportunities with the employment necessities, they work along with um on point for college who also gives students like um clothing for work or special equipment they need for work so that they're prepared and ready to go if they can't pay for it themselves. So good good programs and I'm glad that we're working with them. Angel, how many kids in works went through work keys this year? Roughly ballpark. Oh gosh. Well, not as many as last year because they have a class. So, we went with um the sections of the class. There were three sections of
071the class. So, 20 401 16 there. And then um we had the financial math and the career and financial management kids. any seniors. I pulled those kids in, especially the kids that are on my senior list that don't know what they want to do and got them and are still getting them through and working on the four plus ones. We still have a handful of kids that need that to graduate and that's my focus now is to get them through it by the end of the year. So, they'll be walking the stage as they both won. So, thank you. Know that was a lot. Any questions about any of that? No, I just want to say thank you for all you do. I I mean the this has grown so much since my kids were
072in school. I just to see the amount of work that you've put in and I love how you're using your students now to to really help you and that their leadership is is uh important um in in the district. So for them to start at such a young age, I mean this is great. I wow to to see how many kids um were involved. Now, there was the one slide that said that to keep it smaller and for more people to get in, does it mean that more high school students want to get in? Like one of the comments, it said keep it smaller. It said something about more people to be involved in, more students. Is this open to everybody? Like who votes? It's open. It's open to everyone. Okay. So 6 through 12,
073Laura um Ptornock did the sixth graders. She brought them to the junior high. She set up arrangements for them to go to the junior high and they did the interior portion at the junior high. Then they all walked up to the exterior portion at the high school and back and got picked up. Um so however many sixth graders, they were involved and then the whole junior high came up, okay, in groups. Um and then all of the high school was allowed to come. Uh it's just this time of the year. This was when the the um all of the contractors and a lot of people wanted to get it in now because that's when the apprenticeships and things are are starting. So that's why we've tried it in the fall before and it worked. you
074know, we did little separate um evening sessions for the military and for the trades and that sort of thing in the fall, but they suggested that we try it in the spring. And so that's what we did. Um it seemed to be seemed to be worthwhile. The weather was beautiful. Um but you know, like I said, they No, that's great. I I I love this. I I hope this continues. And um did I hear you say you won't be here? Is that what you said? he won't be there to do. So, I hope that you have somebody under your graduating belt to after 30 years wear those shoes that you've had. So, it'll be fun. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for everything. I was I was there last year with some sixth graders
075and and I looked around. They were all participating. I I honestly thought sixth grade, seventh grade, you'd have some standing back there just kind of looking. They were all involved. I got to try this. I got to try that. It it it was I loved it. Can I do it? I know. I wanted to do the tractor trailer cuz my son drives tractor trailer, but I can't drive a car. So, um Well, it would have been a simulator, so you would have been okay. But yeah. Yeah. We had to limit the sixth graders and se sixth, seventh, and eighth graders that were doing the tractor trailer simulation because the union they were looking for people that within the next year or two would be ready to go. And so we let the the kids watch
076the older kids do instead of having them sit behind the wheel this time. So, thank you. Thank you for Thank you so much. It's a great extension of the work that we're doing around our early college high schools and all of those components provides another opportunity for our kids to explore and goes along with the work that go along with the portrait as well. So, it's really going to work well. Uh, next item on the agenda, just as we put I put out the uh, last week of school agenda, our schedule for last week of school went out on Friday uh, to families and staff. 23rd to 27th will be early dismissals will give us the opportunity to not only close 2425, but also prepare for 2526 because with the budget obviously there won't be
077as many opportunities perhaps to work on things during the summer. So, this will give us an opportunity to make last minute titans, things that we got to work on, be prepared, plant seeds, whatever we need to do, uh, to be prepared for opening. So, those went out uh, last week. So, I'm just putting that on the record and thank you for getting that out so early for for our families so they can make arrangements for their students. You're welcome. So, that's out there. Uh, and then finally, the last item uh, on the agenda this evening is our April financials. Miss Hooper. Yeah. So, I will be brief. Um, we're taking a look back at the month of April for the financials. Um, as we always do, look back a month. So, comparing our April financials
078in 2425 as compared to where we were in 2324. Again, percentage- wise for revenue, we're in a similar spot at um 83% of our revenue has been realized. Um, we are expecting our last large state aid payment actually this week. which will be good, you know, going into the final uh month and a half or so of the fiscal year. And then expenditures as well, um very similar percentage- wise where we were at this point in time last year as well, 74%. In terms of the revenue breakdown, um again our main sources of revenue, the local revenue, again the majority of that local category is our tax levy. Then our state aid and a small amount of federal money which comes from Medicaid reimbursements to make up that total 83% that I discussed on the
079previous slide. the expenditure breakdown. Um the different categories again spending about how we would expect um other than that benefits category spending a little faster than we would like to see it which we'll show you on a upcoming slide. And that has been the pattern throughout the year which we're prepared for and we we know benefits is our our area of concern and the um the level at which it is uh putting pressure on our budget. Everything else is spending as we would expect it to at least through the month of April. um budget projections again through the end of April. So this tells us where we would stand in terms of what we have appropriated, what we've spent year to date, what we have encumbered, or in other words, what's spoken for and what's
080available. So at the end of April, again, I highlight that employee benefits line because that's the line that uh doesn't look so good. In other words, it's it's trending to be over spent, but at the end of April, our unencumbered or available balance was still just under $5 million in the budget. And then when I break it down just to the benefits, and this includes all benefits, retirement, uh, social security, different insuranceances, and of course, health insurance. That's where we see um that larger area of concern with our health insurance being um over budget and it's been tracking about the same amount and this is current. This is up to date, not just the end of April, but it's been right around this mark as I've tracked it through the months. So, um, you know,
081as we're getting towards the end of May, you know, I'm looking at this the budget status, you know, almost on a a daily basis. So, um, I'll be speaking with our auditor and, you know, we'll be preparing for how we're going to address this shortfall as we get to the end of the fiscal year and we'll, you know, we'll have a plan for you at one of the June board meetings in terms of addressing this with the use of some of our um, reserves, different reserves than what we plan on using for the budget next year, but reserves nonetheless. And then we look forward to you know, a fresh start in the the 26th fiscal year with a more robust health insurance line for sure. Are we still in the process of connecting with all
082the unions and everybody with the different things we're looking at? We are and we've actually got some new ideas in terms of um Mark and I have been talking at length about some other strategies of um things we can do within what we've got to work with right now. um you know looking at our current plan, our current broker um you know what we what we can do with what we we have now as well as looking to the future and what our other options might be. Are you at the point where you could send us an email with updates where we are or probably another couple weeks? I think within the next couple weeks, you think? Yeah. I mean, we could now, but I think it come weeks and be a little more productive.
083No, that works with me. I just want Yeah, I know we were talking about some different things, so if we get an update in a couple weeks, that'd be great. Sure. Any questions? There will be. Thank you for the update. Okay. And thank you. That's the conclusion of the superintendent's report. Thank you, Mr. Super. Going to move on to action 4.01. Accept the financials. Could somebody move that? Move that. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 400. Action 4.02 to accept Steuart's shop's donation. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Thank you for your donation. Action 4.03 approve the cafeteria supplies and food bids for the 2526 school year. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Passes 400. Action 4.04 04 is to approve the cooperative purchasing for
084the 2526 school year. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 4.05 approve the specialty bid for the 2526 school year. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Staining passes 400. Action 4.06 06 approve disposal of surplus property. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 5.01 is to approve the Carlton W. Barrett proclamation. Tim Lori. Okay. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 5.02 to approve the committee on special education. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I posted passes 400. Action 5.03 is to approve the new superintendent of schools. Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstaining. Passes 400. Congratulations. Yep. And just because they weren't here, I just want to know all
085of our other three board members were in support as well. You know, couldn't be here tonight. You got all you you have our full support. I I did want to say thank you and congratulations, Doug. We uh welcome you to our team and we're looking very forward to that. Um Tim, it's funny you say that because I did let um Mr. Lawrence know that uh just because half of his new board wasn't here this evening to not be worried when he walked in and saw my floor was. So, thank you. Life happens. Life life happens. Yes, I did say that, too. So, um but yes, uh we look forward to to the next adventure with uh you at the helm. Absolutely. Thank you. All right. Would somebody be willing to move or batch our personnel
0866.01 01 to 6.09. Move it. Move it. Second. Laurian. All those in favor? I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. All right. Going to move into our board forum this evening. And I'm going to let Miss go ahead and start. I just want to say welcome. Welcome. We're glad to have you. Um they're all gone now, but for the Corporal Barrett um presentation, it was just it seriously I brought tears to my eyes. It really does. They're they were the greatest generation and I'm I'm glad that the the kids are they're, you know, they're looking at it and they're seeing what it was like and um and uh um Oh, jeez. This Yes, Mrs. for Leo. Thank you so much. Which I know the kids enjoy that and I love seeing things like that. It's I don't
087usually look at it and think I I would like to be young again because I don't think I would. But I see things like that and I was like, well, maybe, you know, it's great that they have things like that. Hi, Mr. Crannle. Lori, if you live your life right, you only have to do it once. Uh, I just want to thank everyone for the presentations. Congratulations, Mr. Lawrence. Should be a lot of fun. And that's it. Okay, Mr. Connors. Again, congratulations, Mr. Lawrence. We're excited. You know, I'll be sticking around another three years to be bothering you to be ready. And again, the students coming up, I mean, at points hearing them speak, I I kind of just sit there like, how much did they practice this? Like, I don't think this is for
088real out there. These kids growing up, having heard so many different speakers, I always just remark that we have some great speakers amongst us and some of them, you know, are younger and younger and younger. So, it's just amazing to see all the work they're doing now that'll pay off further down on the line and then to hear about this career fair and everything and especially the students being involved behind the scenes. was listening to our smooth was talking about being the runner. And I think what's really cool about that is not only seeing all the things, the musicians, but realizing that when you think of the event, whether it's the play, whether it's a speaker, whether whatever it is, it's those people in those roles doing the work that needs to get done that
089make all that possible. The people behind the scenes. And I think getting to experience that firsthand and you know getting a peak quote behind the curtain is really a great thing for our students to understand and understand all the different things that are out there that we may not realize cuz I can say 10 years 15 years out from graduating high school I've learned there are more jobs than I can even imagine. So again thank you for all your work Mrs. for Al. And you know, again, as one of our board members remarked, you know, since I was in school, it just continues to grow and continue to have more and more opportunities for our students. To you, Brenda. Thank you. But just bear with me for a few minutes because I do have a
090few things that I want to kind of point out and thank. Uh first, I I do want to also thank all of our voters who came out in support of our budget. We cannot thank you enough for being so supportive to keeping all those wonderful programs and uh things that we do well here in Fulton in place. So, thank you so so much. Uh with that said, um I'd like to also not only say congratulations to Tim Connors, but Jessica O'Brien, who's been here with us pretty much every meeting since February, uh will be joining us in July. So, um you have a lot to look forward to. Um I hope you're funny because Mr. Crannle always keeps us in stitches. So, uh, with that said, Mr. Crannle, we are going to miss you, but
091there are lots of opportunities and commun committees for you to continue to join and be part of us. Just a year vacation till next summer. Just a year vacation. So, what do we say? 13 years. You've been on for 13 since 12 years. 12 or 13 years. We've lost count, but thank you so much for your service. We appreciate it. And you. Um, Mr. Lawrence, again, congratulations and thank you. Uh just to put out there to the community that we will be doing a meet and greet with Mr. Lawrence coming in June. Um Alex will be in touch. Uh so look for further details because uh our PR guy will be putting that out for us. Um but June 12th looks like the date. Uh I do believe it will be at the library over
092at the high school. All the other details uh to to be out soon. So we will uh invite all of our community. So, so look forward to our first meet and greet with you. Um, what do we have? Uh, to take it back a little bit, um, a couple of weeks ago, uh, May 13th, uh, we I heard about the passing of one of our superintendents who actually was superintendent when I was in school, uh, Mr. Rasbach's passing. Um, he was, uh, a wonderful educator, very involved in the community. Um, I believe it was wrestling that he was big into. He helped with the wrestling community. Um, he just was a big uh asset to our community back back in the day. So, I want to uh say uh to our deepest condolences to Mr.
093Rasbeck's family or anybody who worked or or knew him. Um, I just didn't want that to uh to go by without being noted. Um, I have a couple more things. Hold on. Bear with me. They're all over the place. Uh we have a lot of great things going on with our students with uh the end of the year celebrations, but um a lot of our kids are out on the sports fields doing great things in sections, right? Uh so our student uh voice is uh playing a lacrosse game this evening. So Santina is um down there, the girls uh sectionals. Uh did I did I see in the paper also that the the girls softball team is also doing well this year? Yeah, they're on to the next round. So that's great. our boys lacrosse.
094They are doing fantastic and they're playing tomorrow night. Um I'm sure there were probably so many others out there, but those are the three that have been like really big that have been crossing paths. Uh I have seen a lot of happy students uh happy happy athletes uh this week. So let's uh give them a big shout out. Congratulations and and good luck in your next games. Um, I don't know how many of you u were out in the wonderful weather Saturday, but it was fantastic to see our bands, our Fulton bands out there uh performing in the Memorial Day parade. They sounded fantastic. Um, they the vibe was great. Uh, so I I'm thankful for all the students who volunteered their time in the morning to come out and uh, you know, support and
095celebrate the community for Memorial Day. So that was great. as well. Um, I saw an article in the Valley News this weekend. Uh, and we had this group of students in not that long ago, but our synergy group that did their cleanup at North Bay on the 14th. Um, that was a nice little write up. So, if you guys didn't get to see that or follow along, um, our students are doing great things. Not only are they doing the gardening and the painting, but they built benches and picnic tables. I don't build benches and picnic tables. So, I think that's fantastic. what our class of 2028 is doing for our community. So, I wanted to get for seal of civic readiness for their seal of civic readiness. I wanted to make sure I did that.
096Um, also our booster burn is coming up. So, our uh athletic group um puts on a wonderful fundraiser every year to help raise funds for our athletic teams. Uh so, the athletic boosters on June 8th, we'll be doing our I believe this is our third year for the booster burn. So, uh, everybody get dust off your running shoes, walking shoes. I want to see all of you guys out there. Bring your kids. Have your kids friends. Mr. Henderson, we're going to run. I mean, I'm going to be pushing the stroller this year, so I'm going be slower. So, come on out. We're going to run. Raise some money for our for our athletics. Uh, say what? I'll be the pace car. You be the pace car. Perfect. Perfect. Um, we have they have a kids
097fun run. They have the athlet athlete mile and the 5k run. You don't have to run. You can walk. It's a great event put on by our booster club. Uh Beth Nicholson is the race director. There's a Facebook page out there. Um from my understanding, if you sign up before the 31st, you're going to be saving some money. After that, it funds go up a little bit. Whether you sign up today or after the 31st, the money goes for a great cause. So, please look into that. Um me and we talked about that. I have like notes everywhere. The last thing I wanted to just kind of put out there, um I know Mr. Dr. Paulina will probably um be talking about this in the next coming weeks, but I also work in a school
098district and uh that New York State is putting out that wonderful cell phone policy for the next school year. Um I have gotten a few questions from community members already. I know that you guys have long since been looking at this, but um I was a little disappointed to see that we have such a short amount of turnaround time to start to get things put into place. I believe it's like August 1st, very early August that we have to have um you know policy and notification out. So um I don't know if there's anything you want to add. Yeah, we've started some work with I know that the they worked with the culture students or culture group which is fourth graders and up. They had a good conversation about it. They happen to be meeting
099soon after the legislation was was ratified uh through the budget. Um we're going to be sending surveys out to families um and staff as well as part of the process. It is a short turnaround. I think it's going to be a living policy. It'll be one of those things when I think we'll build off what we have in place. We've got some good things going on. I think we just need to take that next step. So, we'll be working closely with our administrators uh over the next couple of weeks as well as those constituent groups. And hopefully I'll leave Mr. Williams for the policy uh on August 1st. Uh and so the committee may have to get together in June to July just for a focused meeting just on those two policies. But we'll get
100something or those two uh that policy those two meetings if we need to. And there was the heat index on the heat index. Tomorrow night the uh policy committee uh by September 1st we needed to have a policy in place with respect to the heat. Uh and so we have a draft policy uh that I just uh been working on and we will be presenting that to the board policy committee tomorrow evening hopefully to you for a first reading at that June 10th meeting. Just all the things that are coming down the pike towards us. It's good to see that you guys are uh one step ahead already and um you know just putting it out there for the community to be aware of what the district is uh moving towards in the next couple
101of weeks. So, thank you so much for all of that. Um, we are going to put it out there for a second public forum. Is anyone interested in coming and speaking to us about anything? Come on up, Jessica. Hello everyone. I just want to say thank you so much for the voters um that gave me the vote of confidence to be able to be part of this board um starting in July and I'm very excited to be working with you all and I didn't get to meet um I didn't get to go to last Tuesday's meeting because I had gone to a public forum that was held by Catholic Charities and it was a forum about anti-bullying and violence that's going on in the community. Um, good news is that no one specifically from Fulton
102besides being a fair. Um, so that was really really good, but it was kind of concerning to see that people in the community are dealing with some serious issues and our uh other district other school districts are dealing with some very serious issues that are close. And um a lot of the parents just said that they were looking for um board of education and the school to be very proactive and it's an opportunity that uh if we want to be involved we can be. So I I I gave them my information and I look forward to being a a good um member of the board and this community to help keep our community going forward. Well, it sounds like you already have jump started on that because you know, you just brought something into our
103attention and you know, you know, maybe you're going to be head spearing that one. So, maybe spearheading, but I thank you so much for for bringing that information to us and uh we look forward to joining our board. Thanks. All right, we will be moving into a brief executive session. Um, and you move it. I'm going to Yes. I was just making sure I didn't miss anything. Uh, do you want to move that one? Okay. And in the second. Sure. Second. A second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Thank you so much everybody for joining us this evening. Have a wonderful Yep. Okay. Welcome back. Can I have somebody move item 7004, disciplinary appeal? Move it. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed abstaining. Passes 400. Action 8.01 01 adjournments.
104Move it. Second. All those in favor? I opposed passes 400. Thank you everyone for joining us. Have a great evening.