FCSD Board of Education Meeting 3/25/25 @ 6PM (At the Ed Center on 4th Street)

001e e e pizza good evening and thank you for joining us this evening for our community members at home if you're wishing to reach out to the Board of Education you can reach us at Clerk Fulton CNY y r i .org I'd like to call this meeting to order 6 p.m. action 1.02 approve the agenda move it uh let me ask has there been any changes to the agenda this evening y there was an adjustment on 7.08 was already in your things yesterday 7.09 Point spring athletic coach we had added one that we got wanted to get that person on so that was added as well it was yesterday right Des thank you was it that'll be it all right can I have somebody move that move it all those in favor I I opposed

002abstaining passes 70 in the event of an emergency and we need to evacuate the building we can go out the main door right behind Mr hundon you can go to the left or we can go out the uh superintendent door here as long as you move away from the building when we get outside that would be great hopefully we won't have any emergencies uh if you can join us for the pledge of a 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 we're going to move to action 1.06 approve the March 11th meeting minutes move second all those in favor I I

003opposed abstaining passes 70 looking ahead we have quite a few meetings coming up through the next uh couple of months uh we have our AI presentation with the sgo County School Board and Central New York uh School Board Association that is this Thursday um that will be at the ocm bosies at 6:30 uh we have our budget Workshop coming up on April 1st and then the Bose's annual meeting which will be out to the City Campus on April 2nd we have a couple of regular board meetings coming up the one on April 8th keep in mind that our Fulton Public Library will be doing their presentation for us um also we will be approving the Bose's Budget on April 29th we'll have a public budget Forum at 5:30 on May 8th that is both virtual

004or in person and that will be being given by uh superintendent Pino uh we have also on May 13th we're going to start the process for our Board educ of Education self evaluations so you can see on there that they will be sent to us on May 16th uh we need to have the Google Docs um completed by the 30th if there are any um trouble getting on or if you have any questions we'll just let uh desire now and she'll she'll set us up and then we will receive those and go over them on June 10th as a whole so that we have that set up uh we're not doing the superintendent evaluations this year because Mr Pino will be leaving us so um there's nothing that he is some desing at the time

005it was best that we focus on the budget and other things so we will go ahead and do that um the budget vote is May 20th and keep in mind that there are two sides there's the east side that is at the community center and the West Side voters will be over at the war memorial if anybody has any questions as to where their designation is or if anyone had trouble last year with their uh voting uh in the district um feel free to call our Mrs trud here at the uh superintendent's office and she will make sure she points you in the correct direction of where uh designation of where you're voting at this year um we also will be ratifying the vote on May 21st so that should be a very quick short

006meeting that would just come in and ratify on there uh I did want to go ahead and do a superintendent um search update because I know last week I told you that interviews would be on the way um we are in the process right now of doing interviews I just want to kind of back up a little bit and give a timeline of what we've been doing so far um our search was a closed search so in doing the Clos search we were able to get more um prospects to apply for the position of superintendent uh we have been working with Chris Todd out at City bosis he has been our uh coordinator helping us with this process um what we ended up doing was Chris reached out to several stakeholder groups uh we had

007students parents staff and community members he had a meeting with those who were selected to be those groups and uh surveys were sent out the board of education did get a copy of all of the comments in full from what our stakehold holders um had put into those surveys and we have read them and we have used those to guide us in looking for the best fit for folon so we are definitely thankful for all of those stakeholder groups who have participated and uh have given us um information and what you are looking for uh in the next Super super intendent um we have started interviews and hopefully we will be able to come up with a good fit for our community um relatively soon hopefully if everything works out well and after that we

008will then you know look at uh introducing who the candidate will be for the next superintendent and then there will be like a meet and greet uh we will set up some information so that you guys can all and share come and share your concerns with the new superintendent as well as maybe just say hi so that is where we are at I don't know if any of my board members have anything that they would like to add but um we are doing our very best to find that that next candidate who will take over Mr Pino's shoes and lead us forward into the future of fton City School District uh education so thank you very much um with that said I think I'm going to go ahead and just pass it on over to

009Mr Pino for the superintendent's report thank you very much so the evening we have a lot of students here tonight so we're going to not have Mr Pino speak too much tonight we're going to get on to to uh make sure we're in front of our kids um this evening we're going to start our evening off with our music in our schools month over in the auditorium everybody's welcome to come over there we're going to hear our Orchestra and then we're going to come back in here and we're going to hear about the amazing goal setting that's been going on and as part of our strategic coherence plan and just so grateful to see our kids and families here this evening to share so excited about that so why don't we move over to the

010auditorium and get on with our opportunity to hear from our kids this evening so thank you e e e that yeah great thank you thank you for um to our GR the orchestra those of you that I know that out uh in cyber world didn't get to hear the amazing concert they are playing next Monday night uh and please take advantage of that they were terrific um I would be remiss if I didn't comment the music in our schools month has been absolutely amazing I've been to each concert I went to our uh countywide our County Orchestra as well it was amazing we had 31 students who performed uh on Saturday afternoon after we did Family Fund day in the morning we had a presentation there as well so just outstanding work and a great

011way to highlight the the work of our kids um and our staff in the district so thank you to all of that that makes music in our schools month happen here in full and it happens 12 months a year here uh strategic coherence Plan update Mr and Mrs Hendrickson and all of your visitors um for our board members you have a packet here as a note pater so as we're going through our presentation you can CH down any questions or thoughts you have we'd like to start off with our vision mission and values tonight our vision is to create a learning organization that is a centerpiece of the community where all are welcomed and held to standards of EXC Excellence that Fosters hope and resilience for the future our mission the Fon um School District

012Community will Empower students to develop the Knowledge and Skills to become respectful responsible productive citizens who are committed to lifelong learning and we're going to achieve these through our values of everyone belongs here it's safe speak up and what we do is important so that really is the center of our strategic coherence plan and why we why we write this is to achieve our vision our mission um and those values that we hold dear for our kids to learn and our our adults around them to learn as well so remind you again about our plan it is centered around those three circles they're not separate circles they all work together the idea of students learning wellness and life Pathways in the middle we support that with the systems instruction we put in place and then

013the culture that we create around that to support their learning our year one of our fiveyear plan has been to focus on outcome one um with setting the goal of all of our buildings students and students looking to create a system of goal setting we thought this was important um for our students to achieve goal setting as a um as a skill because it boosts Learners motivation confidence and and focus along with a lifelong skill that we take forward so you can see here all six of our buildings have similar plans with the goal of creating a goal setting culture but they action steps all vary based on the needs of their buildings so that's also included in your backup plans to tonight we're going to walk through our um search the coherence plan updates

014through the acronym of dragons we're going to share data our Reflections achievements and goals for next year and some obstacles we faced and some new strategies in your um packet as well are all the data that we've collected um from the beginning of the year to the middle of the Year based on our primary indicators and our additional indicators again this is a 5year plant and this is our first year as we go through that so we thought we'd start our goal our goal this year was to develop that goal setting culture so we invited some of our guests from each of our buildings to come and help out and talk to us a little bit about where they are with goal setting and and where they are in that process so we have our

015principes here and our students here to help kind of talk about all the way from upk all the way up through 12th grade we've had some people who have joined us so uh all of you who are nervous to talk right now thank you for being here we appreciate it I know this is a big deal and I know this is something you've been working on this year uh as we go forward so thank you all principal if you want to introduce your folks and for fair grade we have Demi Shu she's in upk working and with go grade you want them to start up and stand in front of the podium cuz I don't know if we able to see it we behind the podium huh should have got the smaller Podium up huh

016or the big block we had a big step stool last week is there a block behind oh is the block there it is there okay is the block there yes yep H right up there there you go see [Music] you you to learn your remember what we said you learn your to learn your learn her letters did you remember what you like about school remember what you said reading reading D's working really hard in you PK with Mrs nent and there's no doubt about it she's aiming for that goal of learning her letters absolutely great job de it's [Applause] easy my name is Karina Clemens and I am I am a sixth grader in Miss locals class at Fair Elementary this year we have focused on goal setting and attendance reading and math I'm a

017student who takes pride in their work and is very motivated on my own but when I think about goal setting this year some important things come to my mind by goal setting this year I have found that it has increased my responsibility responsibility in a positive way it has given me a sense of pride in myself and and it has helped me be successful I've become more determined and it has given me a sense of achievement with goal setting I've learned from my past mistakes and have a sense of ownership of my goal goal goal settings have has allowed me to see where I want to be in the future and make a plan to how to get there I know goal settings will continue to motivate me into sound three [Applause] good evening everybody

018I'm Gina cero I'm the principal at Grandy and we have jedadiah DeForest here with us he is in kindergarten and he's going to talk a little bit about his goals what would you like to start with j attendance tell everybody about your attendance this year I've got one two three of them three months of were you here every day yes you were here every day are you proud of that yeah yeah why do you love to come to school cuz we always get stn at the end of the day always get stack at the end of the day what else are you working on breaking letters apart breaking words apart right mhm and can you can we show everybody your graph of your word of your letters so every month the kids graph their letter

019sounds and you can see what's going on in your graph we have to break light AP part right what's happening what what does it look like what does your graph look like we have to to count you have to count is it going up yeah it's going up right and that's what we want to see yeah huh okay can you do me a favor and read some of these words mad [Music] mad it hit hit p p log l great job Jed are you on your way to meeting all your goals this year do you think [Applause] yeah I have Carrie mamir here with me from Lanigan she's one of our third graders I'm going to turn it over to you you're professional here hello my name is Karen I am a third grader Landing

020again throughout the year we work on math fluency we start with Adent and subtraction with 20 and work our way up to multiplication in our classroom we have multiple ways to work on this we use Flash CL flash cards games and to increase our number fluency also we track this with our Dragon typ tracker we get to choose and activity and rate how much we enjoy or how much the activity benefited me thank you for letting me show you some of my goals that I am working on thank [Applause] you all right so I have my friend lilan Manford here also for third grade and I'll share what she had written hello my name is Lillian I'm a third grader at Lanigan as well in third grade we work on writing goals we do this

021by planning Drafting and editing throughout the year we work on many writing pieces in third grade we work on writing a complete paragraph my favorite writing piece that I've done was the Leprechaun one also in our in our classroom we use journals to write letters to our teacher this allows us to practice these skills and work on our goals I love to write in my journal thank you for allowing me to share some of my work with you and she did bring some of our writing pieces she's been working hard this year [Applause] good afternoon I'm l d principal from b elementary I have Zoe French from fourth grade with us tonight hello my name is Zoe French I'm in fourth grade at Vol Elementary School we have been learning about the power of goal

022setting and working hard to build a growth mindset my goal my goals at school are to read one book series a month I am currently reading ST has has something to say by Angela I can meet this goal by reading at home each night for 30 minutes in math I have already mastered my multiplication my current goal is to become better with my division facts right now I can answer 55 questions correctly when time for 5 minutes my goal is to answer 75 division questions in 5 minutes I can meet the school by practicing division facts every night for 10 minutes I love coming to school because it helps me learn and grow and I learn something new every day every day and if we didn't have school I want to be where I am

023today and next up we have cor Pet's from first grade hi hi my name is cor and I I am in the fourth grade at VY my goal is to read 77 correct letters Sounds by end of this qual [Music] and got I practiced my goals by working my skills weing and reading I check my goals on my goal sheet I love coming to school because I love [Applause] warning so she's been working hard to to track and monitor her goals as well nice job thank you so [Applause] much good evening everybody Eric Abasi uh principal of the F Junior High School I brought two students with me Liam scalan member of the seven red team come on up Liam and Heath Turner member of the eight Green Team so at the beginning of the

024year each of our students uh met with their teachers in September to write their goals for the at least the first 20 weeks and then every 5 weeks after that did a check-in of where they were for their attendance goal or their academic goal at the 20 week Mark each of the students kind of reviewed their data that they collected and then made adjustments for the second 20 weeks so Liam and Heath are going to take a few minutes and kind of explain what they did during our social and emotional learning class before our lunch we've worked on our attendance and how we can improve and Beyond um School in time and how to attend more classes so basically this pamphlet shows how you color in how so basically it shows how many days you

025color in green how many days you've been present present how red how many you've been absent and yellow how many you've arrived late or left early at the end of this pamphlet oh wait it will show a um attendance rate so if you miss 5 days of school you will equal to 97% of the school um the school year that you've attended um if you've missed 10 days it'll be 94% so the more days you have missed um the more days the more where the percentage goes down um we've also gone over ways that you can meet your goals and on the front page there is to improve my attendance I commit the following and there's things like going to bed earlier um preparing your school stuff for the night before and staying off Electronics

026early before bed and you can review the progress every five weeks and fill in more as the year goes through we also every at the end of the quarter we will review our sheets and fill in all the things all of the um days you've missed or attended and then halfway through this uh next quarter you will check back again and this can help because it'll make kids want to go to school more to help kind of reach their goals and attend and it'll make their grades better so also at our um assemblies our quarterly assemblies we have attendance Awards which is kind of a way to get the kids to try to keep up their attendance so they can get that award and it comes with our Dragon dollars where you have a dragon

027store where you can buy things just as a I forget word but yeah something to look forward to and kind of work at thank [Applause] you i' say remember the biggest trick in public speaking is they never know what you're going to say so you could have said they give us pudding and we would believe you gentlemen did a great job uh so uh my name is Nate Murray one of the principls at the high school and we have two names up there under G by but unfortunately Julie couldn't be here tonight because she is homesick um so we had Anna Rose Odette here to talk about her goals very similar to the junior high we started with attendance as our main building goal we taught students um how what smart goals are and how

028to how to work through what smart goals are how to track them how to keep how to uh monitor where things are at how to adjust them and then we sort of migrated away from that a little bit because students were being overwhelmed with the tracker that you gentlemen are talking about we had something very similar at the high school and we moved it in theory to academic but it very quickly morphed into anything um and the reason for that is because as we talked about his ability with our students is that artificially setting up a goal for a kid isn't going to cut it um especially at our level the the goal has to be meaningful for them regardless of what it is because if it's a student goal that they're setting for themselves

029without being told what the area needs to be around they're going to be more likely to follow through with it improve on whatever that goal happens to be whether it's personal in School academic attendance whatever it's more likely to get a little traction with them so Anna's going to talk about her goals piggybacking off of what he said our guided Mr Jared love him by the way uh our guided was not very good at following smart goals so once it started to shift more towards personal goals we really started to pick up and actually keep track of them sadly since I am not sadly I'm an ECS program Early College High School so I don't go to guide it anymore but I do still keep track of my goals and I think that's really cool

030because I didn't think it was going to stick with me but I did so one of my first this is more of a major goal for me I always wanted to get out of my comfort zone as I am right now I never really talked in front of crowds and I feel like I'm working really better at that and I love the Mr gave me the opportunity to do that a little more personal towards me is the weit room I recently started going there and Mr Jared helped me make a plan we called it stepping stones to Victory so he basically helped me I had no idea what I was doing and he helped me figure out a step-by-step plan so I wasn't overexerting myself I wasn't putting too much pressure on myself and he

031really helped me focus on small steps stepping stone so I actually have been going to the waight room now for six weeks straight I haven't given up on it which is amazing because normally I drop out of things if I don't know what I'm doing which is something I'm also working on but Mr Jared I I visit with him during my study hauls 910 and he has continued to help me with the smart goals and it may not be educational but it really is personal to me and it's helped me grow a lot and getting out of my comfort zone like I am right now but I think goals are really important because when I was younger I never set goals for myself I was like I don't need to do that I don't understand

032why I would need to do that I can just do whatever I want but when I started actually setting goals for myself reachable attainable goals that W like I'm going to be the president like how do you do that so I started doing the stepping stone method small little things I joined the musical which helped me get out of my comfort zone and it was an amazing situation to be in and it just gave me so many opportunities to meet new people and I think everyone should focus on smaller steps instead of the bigger picture because it makes things so much easier and a lot less overbearing I told her to drop the mic cuz she's the last one but we didn't want to break it so we're not going to drop I would have

033done that I was [Laughter] not yeah thanks for not breaking the mics so we want to thank all of our presenters and family members for coming here tonight we've had you here long enough in room 103 we have some pizza cookies water if you want to make your way down the hall you can go help yourself and uh then you can excuse yourself and head out for the night so thank you all for being here we'll continue after you scaddle you're more than welcome to stay it is riveting know just saying really can thank you amazing amazing [Applause] job take care everybody did a terrific job thank you so much job love that they gave us the goal sheet because you guys talk about it but to be able to see it really really nice

034we should figure out a way to employ Mr s he gets up at 4:30 like manages the weather thank you so much everybody a lot a great job everybody thank you so much so exciting to have [Music] [Laughter] you carry on H all right so the data that we focused on you heard this students present about the variety of things we're trying to keep this again getting back to the idea of our strategic plan setting that culture of goal setting looking at year one you can hear we have a variety of things we're looking at that we're reflecting we're really as we collect the data we're using it to help us answer questions and ask more questions um we're not looking at the data as much as answers as much as like okay where do

035we go from here what do we need to do where where are we looking for our next pieces and a big part of that is the students rather than than us telling them this is what you're going to do we want to hear from them and say this is where we want to go and then we can kind of help them along the way so first area we looked at um in our goal setting was our chronic absenteeism uh the data that we put in front of you there and again reminder the the graph on top tier one that's the 95% and above students who attend um 90% and above I should say uh students missing 10 to 20% is tier two and then 20% or more um that becomes that intensive intervention and qualifies

036its chronic absenteeism so uh looking at you can see down at the bottom uh where our kids are where they're falling our chronic absenteeism currently where we stand now is 30.7% so about a third of our kids are missing 20% or more of school uh we know that's an issue and I know we're going to do a report on chronic absenteeism at a coming board meeting where we're going to specifically focus on that um you can see compared to last year we do have an improvement and our last full year preco we're not there yet we're still not there we're about 5 percentage points behind in all of those categories um the tier 2 has remained pretty consistent you can see that that's close but as far as the tier one and tier three that's

037where our our slide has happened pre-co to now so we're looking to make that Improvement uh that's something that we really look at and we're hopeful that a big part of it is having our kids goal set and work on these things that they want to focus on and drive them forward so they want to come into school and and find that success quick question yep do you find that your data tends to match what the students are seeing as well like on those visuals like you know a student doesn't have like oh it looks better when it's green so maybe I put a little more green in here cuz you know I can see myself doing that to make it look better but I'm just thinking you know so they be able to see

038it as well you know we're getting the data are they able to see the visual perspective of that they are uh and they can pull their data right from school tool so at the elementary the focus obviously there's a little bit more support and help depending on where the kids are developmentally at the high school we teach them how to look at their own data and dig into it and I think Nate kind of talked about this if it's not meaningful they kind of drop it anyway so it has to matter to them if it's something that's driven by the adults at that level it doesn't matter but at the elementary level when you're looking at K3 it's a it's a huge big deal to fill out those graphs and fun to do and I

039have you know my teacher working with me and digging into it uh and it does make it something that the kids pay attention to so they know it's important uh we've been trying to reward the kids that are there and support the kids that aren't and get and get improvements with our attendance at our um secc meeting last week it was interesting the junior high and high school shared about their reflecting on their goal setting and the junior high commented that they actually U spent the majority of September showing them how to get into school tool and look at all their graphs and that was like an unanticipated um experience of getting them that skill set so now that's going to bring that to the high school getting in there checking that all the time

040they were very interested to see the graphs that they had so we talked through that and What I Hear Too is a lot of students didn't realize until they were looking at their own data that they had missed like oh I didn't realize they missed this many days or was late or already to yeah they said it was very powerful yeah and putting the the percentages in terms of days you know 80% attendants me they're they're missing a day a week one out of 5 days is 20% so you know 90% what does that mean it means I can miss one day every two weeks or less you know 95 how that works uh and graphing that out is important for the kids to see you notice the Junior High kids also kept track of

041their light arrivals and early dismissals those are all those are all pieces of that because I know when they get to the high school if I get to school late a bunch of days I'm missing bells and that impacts my academics as well so um again trying to build that culture getting the kids to own this and pay attention to it is is important and I think the skill set of reflection I um the junior high spoke that the student were going back in their years and um commenting on how many days they missed in third grade fifth grade um and trying to improve so I thought that was very interesting to get on speak and because there's yellow do yellow fall into the I was absent category or like uh when you're collecting the

042data I'm TR I know it's its own category but if we're looking at how many days they missed are we counting that or we counting it as a own thing it's a own thing okay yep so like on the report cards it shows uh absences total absences and then uh late arrivals early dismissals show as separate categories so they're keeping track of those pieces the next area that any other attendance and again we're going to get into a full report on chronic adente as and more we're going how how our systems again culture systems Pathways and learning how do our Systems Support attendance specifically um good all right next uh our discipline data from the last two years again here this is broken down into those that three- tiered uh mult um multistem of support

043model that you can see um last year uh 73.6% so 74% of our kids uh stay in the green which means that they had zero or one referrals um 200 well 7.4% of our kids had uh 2 to five referrals and then 19% had six or more referrals uh this year you can see again the numbers have improved um and again this is where our data has us to ask more questions this is General whole holistic data pre- to 12 right we know looking at this as we dig in that there are areas target areas that we need to hit where where we have increases and decreases and which groups of kids which cohorts of kids we need to support more and which groups are are kind of moving forward uh the way we expect

044them to or want them to so we're digging into that our data looks good and and I know a trend we've talked about before which is interesting is our high school data looks much better and our our Young Learners data doesn't that's something that we're finding some of those uh areas of support are with younger students and it's not this won't show that same amount as much because once you get five or more you're in the red that doesn't go away so if I get five referrals in September I'm going to be in in the tier three support all year long it's it's an automatic it's the way we collect our data so quick question we do pay attention go ahead so I'm assuming it resets your following year it does but I'm assuming also

045when we meet you know I think it's the grade levels like in class they're going into the teachers and stuff they they're aware that this was a you know thing going in so then they I mean I would think you'd want to start with the reinforcement right away to prevent it so they don't have to look at that all year again so a big big part of that is we again we study the data and we look at that and we see which kids are on a winning streak which kids are kind of on a losing streak um you know if if a student started the year rough the year before and then brought it together and had a good rest of the year that that's a pretty good indicator for that St that next

046teacher it might be bumpy to start until they get to know the system and then we can see how they respond and pay attention to that because we have kind of historical data too to look at those things or we can say like o November was kind of a rough month I wonder what happened here and kind of dig into those pieces as well and that's what our our problem solving teams our student support teams they get together regularly and talk about specific kids and and where they are within this that's what our student support teams really focus on is getting kids on on a good winning streak with with their with their discipline data when we look at um if I wrote um if I wrote a student up for let's just say like

047being disrupted for class and then we we get back in school tool that it was solved like the matter is resolved um by like restorative reflection or something like that is that would that referral count as part of this data or is it just like like an ISS or you know lunch detention or something like that so are they all counted they're all count so it's one of those things where it's been a cultural shift for us to move away from referrals are written as consequences versus referrals are written as data collection um and for our for our kids for our staff for our parents it's been one of those ships that's been kind of tricky but we've gotten to a pretty good spot with that because again historically we can look at that and

048say you know third Bell or this time of day or after lunch or whatever happens to be tends to be problematic and that's not like the consequences that we think often go through for so if a student got written up we talk about it we do some reteaching okay go practice this try this and then there aren't any future referrals all right but we still have documentation that it happened if it continues to happen and we start see a trend then we say okay what supports do we need to put in place because this is tending to be uh an issue um and getting people to that culture is important because if write your kids if you write referrals for your kids and I don't we both teach the same thing and they move forward

049it's not really fair for those kids or for the next teachers to not have clean data to say like okay I could have a kid who misbehaved every day but I didn't write them up and you have a kid who misbehaves every day and you write them up going to the next teacher it's a very different picture that we see painted in front of us so that's one of the things where we're trying to look at that and say okay this isn't about the consequence the referral is not the consequence the referral is documentation so to your Point all of them count and that way we can take a look and make sure that we're we're following up and and for us to look at the Historical piece to say okay this tends to be

050a time or not for this individual student or this group of students right right these sixth graders after lunch tend to get a lot of referral okay we probably should look at some reteaching or what it looks like to come back from lunch in a way where we can get back into the action so so you're sort of going toward if I'm acting out in class write me up so so we have data not to a point like not if I'm just you know it's a couple times but to a point where it's being extremely disruptive just so that you have the data yes so you're asking like that's like a te like all teachers are being asked to do that okay I didn't know I didn't know we were sh I didn't know that

051that was like the shift for like the data collection part does that um does that hurt us with the state we have to report like our um oh what's called SSC what used to be called Vader repor yeah um it it does only if they're the the major categorical pieces that go Vader which would be written up anyway so they don't keep track of all the little stuff that's our own like minors don't count a lot of the majors don't they have very specific categories that we have within School tool that qualify that automatically this data you use all of it all of correct and then when we report to the state it's only very specific classes that are Majors by the state got it question off of that do we have a separate area

052than where we house where you know it was written up you know we have the data point on that was anything you know addressed to the point where they were you know they brought up they were improving on that do we have a separate area to house that so once kids have a plan that's developed then our student support teams have um whether they're Behavior plans or what we call ptrs um prevent teach reinforc um plans for the kids if they if they've gotten a number of referrals and the student support team says we need to put a plan in place to support the student then we house that as a separate piece to show that the progress monitoring and collect the data specifically toward the goals that they have for improving their behavior all

053so if I'm a parent and I come in and I say you know I guess so and so when you know talking there off in class but I want to know have you done anything with them you can pull that out and say here's what we have here's what we've tried so far we haven't found something that worked yet but we're still working on it we have that somewhere to pull out and and really with uh the the different tiers the tier two level often don't necessarily um require parents to to be on board but often do but when we get to that tier three level hopefully the parents aren't surprised by it anyway they don't come in and say what's going on they say I already know what's going on how's the progress where

054where are we say I I just meant for data perspective like you know I guess legal perspective from the border I would think we'd want to have all those things written somewhere and in a file just so if anyone ever did question or you know we can say you know here we have everything here yes so from the legal angle yes we do uh for some of our minor plans that aren't long-term plans and and don't require uh the level of support uh we have we still keep more anecdotal notes and and maybe less formal records of what's going on and I think that all of the principles do that that they're building and again it's part of the student support team uh which meets weekly in talks that's that's part of their discussion they

055also keep uh records and notes of how how kids are responding what we need to do to adjust who we need to talk to to follow up because it's it's coordinating like if if they're going to multiple Bells it's talking to they need to go to PE and the PE teacher needs to know this is their new goal or this is what they're working on and if they're going to you know uh math and those tend to be the areas then the math teacher needs to know as well so a lot of is that coordination so that people are on board with helping support the kids help them in the elementary see students with uh goal sheets and they go from class to class and the teachers give them feedback and they earn points based

056on the goals that set for them for their behavior Target and then you'll see them at the end of the day often in the the office getting brags if they m their goal or to show that off some and I guess the third question with that is we're not overload like I'm not going to have a again we're working on a b c and d on top of academics and attendance versus other kid who's working on academics and attendance like we're not going to overload certain kids on goal setting correct so great question Tim because historically when we've done goal setting it's been led by the adults a lot more the adults are doing that for the kids or to the kidss you're going to do this this and this but really again this goes

057back to how do we create a culture for our kids to own it and it was nice because um uh Miss Odette who came in who by the way I should mention she pinch hit today we asked her and she came in I'll come in and talk um that's one of those things where the goal setting you could tell she owns it right like I didn't think I was going to like goal setting I didn't but she's saying now it's part of what I do and I'm getting that positive feedback for myself because I own it it's something that I want that's what we want create for this is that culture whether it's it's Liam and Heath moving from the junior high all the way up through you know with the 5year plan uh those

058two junior high students hopefully for the next four years will continue to to hone this and build this as part of their culture of what they can do with their goals so I think that's something that um we're focused on what the kids need some of them might want to set five goals and some of them might want to set one or two goals our job is going to be to support them through the systems we create and how we we can uh help move them forward with their goals that doesn't mean that a student hasn't selected a behavior goal and they need one that we're not going to develop one for them so there are students where we need to with with them with them uh to read that they may have multiple things

059they're working on but that's with the data that you collect is there anything in there for getting to the root cause out their issues that's a million dollar question uh it really is and and it's one that often gets debated um what what causes it and and it varies from Kid to Kid really uh it's something that our student support teams really dig into what's the what's the what's the the driver for this Behavior you know what's the function of this Behavior what do they get from it um and ultimately there's a lot of research that says when you have kids who are uh academically achieving MH their behavior their attitude their attendance all improve like that's the one that pulls everything else forward so how do we get them to be on a high

060level of achievement we find those winning streaks we drive with that and that hopefully pulls everything else forward um but there are other causes too that that get in the way and that comes into talking with kids talking with teachers talking with families and saying okay what do we need to do to support what's what's getting in the way and how can we move forward without lowering the bar how do we get them to it um with that as as well as with attendance is there any way to track if it's familial like if you got a brother two brothers brother and a sister you're both that's something that actually our all of our schools work very closely with our H School aens are always calling each other if they start to see a pattern

061with a student they'll call for junior high I notice they have a sibling are you noticing the same thing and they'll coordinate efforts to support the family if that becomes this Mr can you um clarify something for me sure so just looking at the numbers so from what I understand we have a little bit over 3,000 students but looking at your numbers it's adding up to like 3,400 can you tell me where the discrepancy is nope okay no it's what's reported in school tool so those are the numbers that we have and and again often times we don't have clear dat I thought the same thing I'm like sometimes it may be um misspelling some of the not clean data all the way through so when we find those things we dig into it and

062take a look and see where it's reporting if it's way off um and and again I can't speak to that exactly but I do know like those two numbers when you add them up aren't the same because we had different enrollments different kids that showed up but also like if we have 3100 kids why do we have 3,400 that are reporting with 3er one Ander no this this is a case of they they will qualify for a tier um maybe not but I think that this is just a matter of digging into it a little deeper and sometimes you'll find that uh if a referral was written for a student this used to be more of an issue when you'd hand put things in uh than it is now a typo or something like that

063where it' be the same kid who qualify in two different areas or you know sometimes you have that repeat data or something like that the other is it could include our fifth year seniors as part of that cohort too so like the kids that we have enroll going to count kids isn't going to count kids that um roll that leave the district we've got kids that enroll in the district throughout the course of the year so we may have 3,500 different kids in and out of the district and I'm just throwing a number in and out of the district throughout the course of a year where our static attendance is sitting somewhere between right now 3,70 and 3100 and so but it's in and out those kinds of things so that that would that would

064do it so if you never had a referral you would show up as one of the kids that wasn't but you could have left in October right and that was a perfect example of the questions that we asked like we're saying why does that that doesn't make sense and then we'll dig into it oh okay this is where we are this is what we need to do this is what we need to address so that's one of those curiosity makes you ask those kind of question we can run our data in spreadsheets and you can actually run all the and do breakdowns and and do it different ways to actually analyze the data as well out a school tool all right so we're going to move to our third grade um read scores so you

065back what um Mr some talking about you know data process to ask more questions so when we're looking at our Moy and boy Moy being meaning beginning of year assessment and the mo middle of year assessment you'll notice that we had a slight decrease in our scores in tier one two and more um students in tier three so in January all the buildings um had their pstd meetings and really dug into that and one of the things that we noticed was um that our students accuracy rate increased tremendously which tells us that our students are slowing down and applying the skills that they're learning so we're hopeful that at the end of the year we're really going to see those skills move from accuracy to automaticity and we'll see them rise we added the last

066or this second graph here to really highlight a more global perspective of where our students are where Fon district is compared um nationally so this is for Mo but I just want to give you um some information when our Learners are coming in they're at 60 we have 65% of our students who are scoring well below Benchmark so that's right when they come in to kindergarten 65% are scoring here nationally it's 31% now at the mid year our kindergarteners are at 50% so our kindergarten teachers have already started to close that Gap and as as we go through you see that our scores are getting closer and closer to the National so you can see that TR we're closing that Gap slowly but we are making gains as they move through and that goes to

067our next slide with our um Ela and I will go back um for our region we continue to grow and now at our English region you can see we're actually higher than the state it's not National but here you can see we're slightly above our state so our students continue to grow from year to year and I've had um people from the work say you know your students start um pretty you know well below but what we see is that cheline they're constantly going up where in other districts they'll see dips and we'll see more of this inconsistency but our students are continuing to make growth so that gives us um encouragement that the strategies that we're using the interventions that we're applying are working something I was going to point out here is we're

068focused on kind of that red well below column but if you notice the the below Benchmark and Benchmark level the green and yellow are pretty consistent they stay pretty much the same where we see the the amount of growth it the other amount of growth is in the students that are above Benchmark so that means that our kids aren't moving from red to Yellow it means our kids are moving from red to yellow yellow to green green to blue so the the move is across all of those levels in other words if you look at the same kind of Trend in our district 133% of kids come in kindergarten is probably lower than that but 13% come in above level where nationally 27% of kids come above level by the time they hit fifth grade

069we've closed that Gap to 3% so we have 18% where nationally it's 21% so again our kids are moving in all of those areas it looks like the the green and yellow are flat but really that's because all of our kids are moving up they're all stepping up a stair along the way so this slide reflects um the humanity so the first one is our region scores um so you can see we have 81% scoring and proficient level for our El regions um for our global history we have 76% proficient and then in our us we have is um 62 % proficiency so again we're stay pretty close um to where they are Statewide or yeah Statewide and I know at the um the high school are English and Department are really working closely together

070um to support each other with the regions they've been taking the regions apart trying to look for similarities in the skills that they can be reinforcing in both contents to build um time for students to practice and develop the different components of the assays that they have to write so you'll notice sorry you'll notice level three four and five in these cases are what them what totals up to that proficient level so one of the things we're paying attention to is we have a lot we we definitely outpace the state at level three so again that kind of goes back to that K through five graph that shows our kids trying to catch up trying to catch up we get them to that third level of proficiency or that that basic level of proficiency and

071what we're noticing is we need to get those fours and fives are where we need to grow our kids or continue to grow our kids at the high school level uh at the secondary level because yes we we're out we're outpacing the state for proficiency but not for our for our next level of same kind of thing here's our math our third grade data which is our Focus area because we know third grade tells us a lot about future academic success um our beginning of year data where we were for tier one two and three as far as our star data which is a nationally Norm test and our middle of the year we've seen really some nice growth you can see um 42% of our kids at the begin of the Year we're Tier

0721 14% tier three middle of the Year we're we've moved those forward considerably um and you can see down below the graph kind of shows what that looks like as far as those bottom triangles you can see that where kids started that was like it's test to test so the big triangles tell what those same kids did on their next test did they stay the same did they move up did they move down um we we can dig into that a little later if anyone ask questions we can talk about that cuz I know it's a lot to look at but overall we're making some nice growth growth in our math scores um and we're not just seeing this in third grade we're seeing it across the board so this brings us to our algebra

073again our high school you'll notice the same kind of trend that we saw with our humanities which is we're outpacing the state if you look at that proficiency level on the far right we have more kids for all of our math regions Algebra 1 Algebra 2 and our geometry we're outpacing the state but again if you look at those level three level four and level five where where do we make our most gains level three we get our kids to where they need to be but now we got to get them pushed to those next levels of fours and fives if we can Mr Hendon does this include kids who are in advanced math in the diagnosed sometimes our data for our regions is is different yeah I'm not sure about that I couldn't tell

074you top my head I do know that throws off our eighth grade ELA our e 8th grade 3 through eight test scores because those kids are removed I don't think it does because this counts all the kids who take that June region okay thank you for you Sor uh and the other part of stem is the the science part you can see here we have our um chemistry living environment earth science and um phys results uh it's not a fivepoint scale for science it's a fourpoint scale so the level three and four are the ones that count here um and again you can see a lot of the same Trends were definitely outpacing at three um and four were actually especially physics uh and that's something countywide they're asking what's going on with physics uh

075our our kids have done historically very well with that but those are kids the kids who are taking physics region it's usually their fifth science regions that they're taken so they've been around they know how it works and and they're usually pretty successful in this area where uh usually it's that um earth science or our biology physical our living environment I'm sorry living environment that comes first so as we were reflecting with our team um where we are with our strategic cerence plan so far um we're making progress in particular with the goal setting establishing our mtss system our multip multi-tier support system we're seeing positive Trends with our chronic abs onism and um we have a lot of students reporting that they're participating in extracurricular activities we're going to continue working on addressing challenges

076with our um meaning our third grade reading level really digging in um uh digging into the data which interventions are working um where maybe we might not need to offer as many different intervention options and find the ones that are more post effective expanding our family engagement there's another area we like to focus on things that we're proud of um our culture we've been working hard to to develop that Dragon way the how our kids behave how they function within our school system system um the systems and structures um the one that we've really focused on this year is parents Square building that communication system building consistency having everyone on board and using that um and then for our learning and Wellness Pathways part of our strategic cerence plan we rolled out um about the

077same time that New York state is rolling out uh the graduation Pathways and what those are going to look like so we've really been focused on those and what it's going to look like for our kids to move forward with our our new systems in place for them and really exploring that Pathways um model for them looking at that our early college high schools our um the opportunities that our kids have and continuing to build those looking at our seals that the kids can earn as they get closer to their diplomas so moving forward next year we're going to focus on planning for achievement really digging into backwards planning um looking with how to intentionally plan our lessons taking a look at our units starting with the end in mind and mapping where we need

078to um to provide instruction for our students tightening up our systems for monitoring progress and then um making a system that allows time for students to reflect and adjust goals and think you heard today that some students focus on attendance at first but wanted to switch to achievements so this will be an opportunity for them to keep um focusing on that and then more ways to share their accomplishments and celebrating you heard Anna Rose talk about how she's working on the step the step plan right that's specifically built with backward planning I want to get here here are the steps that I need to get here here's how I can keep track of it here's how I'm going to monitor that so our year two Focus right now what we're looking at and of course

079we're open to make adjustments but right now what we're looking at is how do we again include that culture not just for our kids but for our adults because we're going to model that we're going to support them we're going to do that so how do our teams build their own goals and share those with their kids how do our kids build their goals and share those with their their colle their peers and their teachers um and then be able to adjust along the way so that's going to be our big Focus next year is what does the planning look like we we're doing goals now but now how do I own them even more and how do I plan and build them and deal with when they don't work again it was great to

080hear it heard talk about um you know I've been six weeks in the gym now that's never happened before right part of that's because she's got it mapped out she's keeping track but I think that exemplifies what we talk about and our I think it's our mission statement is that the second one we did there was a vision Vision yes but where it said you know creating you know people that can go out in societ you know goal setting when she said well it's not really one of the categories but I'm using the same methods and I think that just represents you know what we're going for we're teaching something that can be used in the future far beyond school not just teaching so that you have something that's say goal setting for a portfolio

081or all that uh one of the things Mr H and I have been trying to implement this year is after meetings for Mee we have is um an opportunity for feedback so we have a short survey that we often ask after every meeting what what what's working well what do we need to improve on and and these are the things that we're hearing from our teachers from our students that we need to shift our goal setting to be more individual we need to establish a consistent monitoring or reporting and tracking system for them um and defining time for students and teachers to get regular feedback and adjust their goals that was something both teachers and students said was we need to have specific times like if we say this is goal check week or this

082is you know and those are specific times where across the board we're all going to look into knew it well we don't we don't have to say fourth Bell of the third Friday we can say Okay week nine of the quarter everyone's going to review their goals week four of the quarter everyone's going to review and dig into their goals and make adjustments that way there's specific time set and that's going to be part of those systems again that that work around those and hopefully the kids see we're going to come back to it regularly it's not going to be something that start and drop it stays throughout the year we've mapped it up so with us having uh School Improvement planning from the state level the the Sig Grant the school Improvement Grant we're

083trying to figure out rather than having to do new uh planning and build new plans different than what we already have we're trying to build figure out how do we take our current plan and work that in with those six tenants that the state says that we have to do for Effective schools so we took their model which is those six boxes pointed at that middle effective school and we took our three three circles model and realize that tenant one and two organizations systems and organization and school leadership fit with our systems and structure Circle uh tenants three and four curriculum and instruction go directly with learning wellness and life Pathways and then tenant five and six those cultural piece that's social emotional learning and family and Community engagement so their six tenants fit within

084our six circles and we can stick with our current plan and just make adjustments to look at the specific specific data that they want us to look at within those subg groups gu the the difference that you'll see in our strategic reer plan we currently have four outcomes we would like to switch that to three outcomes and then you'll see on on the packet that I gave you we organize those in easily into the three categories of outcome one two and three it's not changing our vision of our strategic cerence plan it's organizing it in a way that lines up with the three circles and the plans that we're going to be writing in the future we been caller for got the white the green and the red uh the highlighted yellow boxes that are

085there are areas that we need to make adjustments within our current plan to reset those where we looked and we said here's we have these ambitious ideas for what we want to do with our plan um one of the things that we need to do within this plan is make adjustments as we go forward every time we want to present we want to look at see this is working this isn't working right that's the whole idea behind it if it's working let's continue to do it let's let's fortify that make it strong if it's not working let's readjust and see what we need to do differently and meaning is the the data that we're collecting is it actionable if it's not actionable we can't do anything with it then we need to make an adjustment

086with the goal so we're getting the evidence that we need to make sure we're moving in the right direction I'm glad you're taking the initiative on that because it is important you know fiveyear goal to get there you know it's easy to say if we do one two three but we live in the real world where maybe we have to step up and do four 17 and then 16 to get there but doesn't mean we're not still going to the same place any additional questions so I know we didn't bring this up but I know one of the things that Rene mentioned that we're proud of or that's an achievement is our credit accumulation the the document that you have there um looks at what our I believe we uh the credits the credits that

087kid already have on the second page of the outcome two learning Pathways by halfway down it's got five and a half credits oh okay yes sorry um so at the bottom where it says 90% of high school students will acrew credits and be on track for graduation it's pretty interesting that our 11th graders 55% of our 11th graders currently have enough credits to graduate so they're a year ahead 55% of our kids are a year ahead of schedule 94% are where they need to be overall right now 94% of kids have the credits they need as as Juniors um 16% or I'm sorry 32% of our 10th graders are a year ahead of schedule our 32% of our 10th graders are what have what 11th graders me so you can kind of see how that

088works and uh thought it was interesting our nth graders 88% are on track our 10th graders 92% are on track 11th graders 94% are on track and all but three freshmen in our entire class 98.7 are entering high school with credits before they even start in high school I think that's a pretty um prideful thing for us to take a look at and it really is a reflection on our teachers at all levels to make sure that they're the kids are getting what they need it's it's a great thing and and our when you look at that you go man our kids are having a lot of so because great experiences because our um kids are being so successful and you're you're talking about the 11th graders being 55% being early meaning we could and

089I know we talked about this at a at a prior meeting like what are we doing are we like how are we trying to encourage them to stay for that full 12th grade year or is it some or do we see a lot of kids leaving us in December so another thing that we can be proud of another thing we can be proud of in Fulton because we're investigating how we can do this more we offer 65 credit college credit classes right now at our high school so that's where we're pushing you don't need the the Carnegie credits you have your 22 okay what can you do you can take college classes you can dig into the things that you're interested in and find the the classes that are going to help you with whatever

090you want to do next it's not just college level classes there's also um credential classes where I can I can earn uh certificates toward whatever I want to do with my career those those are all things that our kids do too so we're trying to keep them engaged with things that they want to do and not just those you have to jump through these hoops to graduate from high school we're getting them through the Hoops sooner with our kids advocating for themselves I mean we had a meeting um a couple weeks ago with Melissa Daniels and she said well first thing I need to do is you have students advocating to take more um college credits so when they graduate from high school they actually have an associates degree so they were asking us how

091can we make this work and she said they were so impressed that the students were coming to them wanting to even take those courses during the summer so when they graduated when they were seniors they would have an associates degree so I think that speaks to them quick question the 55% that doesn't necessarily mean they completed their pathway though right corre got it Tim and that's that's why sometimes that gets in the way because I might be missing one of those key elements I might have 24 Carn credits but I don't have my PE or I need one more science or English or something like that so again all those Hoops to jump through we have to make sure that we're checking all the boxes and I know sometimes those were those halfe courses where

092kids will try to get them done before you know December to leave us but I like to hear that they want to take these more advanced classes and that we're keeping them engaged so and for all parents out there that's money safe you know right and I think one of the things if you just go from the goal setting you heard tonight you start off with all of our kids it was absolutely amazing and you start to apply it to the portrait of a graduate we're poisoning we are positioning our kids think about this we're positioning our kids to already thinking about goal setting and looking at alternative Pathways in two years I believe it's what's this this is 25 in 27 is the first rendition of rendition of opportunities to graduate through the portrait

093of a graduate starting different things the regions will not necessarily be required there'll be other packages of of how you put Pathways together and you put together a portfolio that results in a graduation component the goal setting is going to be essential and I think kids across the state if they don't have that opportunity to learn and understand goals this is going to be we're going to set our kids up perfectly to be able to really look at here's the set of things I want to do when I as a pathway this is what I want my become mapping backwards this is ultimately where I want to be and then we can set that kids plan up individualized helping them set those small steps working toward the pathway and meeting the portrait of a graduate

094component so if it's an Arts pathway that they're going to have as part of their their package the Seal of biliteracy the Seal of Civic Readiness there's many other seals that'll be a part of that portrait we're just getting the information just starting to come out from the state but a lot of this is going to going to require kids to take a lot of individualized ownership and and over their work and that's going be very different it will be not as prescribed it'll be more of a broad base where kids are really walking out with a broad um set of skills and knowledge and the goal setting I think is what's going to hold that is going to bring that all together for them so I think once again I think we we've put

095something together to see these kids today from from prek up through 12th grade and to see just after what what about 6 months 7 months in it was pretty impressive tonight and it's going to provide us a foundation for the future I think it's going to set us up well down the road it brings us back to that mission and vision you we want to have our kids leave school ready for the world it's not you know after a couple years it doesn't matter what grade you got in high school but what matters is can you problem solve can you get along with others do you have the skills to be successful in whatever career you're pursuing and that's that's what we're looking for like grades grades important in high school but if there's no

096learning associated with them they don't do us a whole lot of good and if our kids can't take that learning and apply it um they're not ready so that that's really where again we want to turn it over to them and they can take their learning and and grow it from there set their goals see what they want to do what they want to become and give them lots of opportunities and options that is all that is a lot to digest but thank you guys so much for for putting that out there just thank you to all our families and our kids tonight and uh just they were amazing what a great way to to hear from our kids and I think there's anything if you've noticed we've had kids in front of you now

097I think four four meetings five meetings in a row now we're really trying to work at that because that's why we're here I I actually had a bit of a tear my tonight when I when some of them because that's what as an educator that's what that's what makes us go and I'm so proud of our staff and our students for all the work that's going on in our schools I mean that data shows Trends in the right direction um you know and as we talk about other things this evening budget things like that everything comes back to what we saw this evening and what's happening in our classrooms each and every day so thank you and this was just a small very tiny snapshot of what's going on in the district but there's a

098lot to be proud of in that data so uh and there's a lot of work to do as well there's it's both ways so thank you Mr Miss Hendrickson for the presentation and and uh getting into our all of our buildings for represented this evening uh next up is our budget presentation it does say budget first and financials on the agenda would you like to do operations and finance first can I I like that's sort of my order I don't like to get out of my out of your comfort zone go right ahead normal routine so all right so this is the financial presentation first the February financials that I'll go over and then we'll do the the budget update so this is through the end of February um comparing to last the prior year

09923 24 in terms of where we are percentage wise in revenue and expenditure um this is just staying consistent with what uh we've been showing you month to month um again we're we're similar to where we were in 23 24 in both revenue and expenditures um very close in revenue and expenditures this year 59% 59% uh at the end of February um this is our Revenue breakdown as of the end of February um in the percentages that we've realized so far and um Mrs Hayden did you want to speak to or comment on any of the revenue received in the month of February I know it was a slow month but yeah I just I wanted to point out that it was a slow month but if you remember uh 11 months ago we did

100invest in a 11 month CD uh that did come to term at the end of February and that resulted in about 207,000 of Interest so that investment was um know Wise in our opinion to invest it for that long uh since then we have turned it over into n class um you had passed a resolution to uh join that and we have turned those funds over into that and it still continues to earn um approximately 4% a little more than 4% on that so that's been a positive uh change for us um but February was a very slow month for Revenue um taxes are starting to pick up right now in March as the final collection month so uh we'll see some more Revenue then and this just shows the general fund so I think

101we've also seen some Revenue come in in terms of uh the Consolidated grants Mrs um title money yes so that's been good to see as well so that is the revenue breakdown in terms of expenditures these are our expenditures compared to January of 2025 and then through the end of February um again nothing too unexpected other than um again benefits is is spending rather rather quickly but I think I've been commenting that each month this is the budget projection that I've been showing in recent months um this shows the the projection that windcap is giving us again through the end of February it's projecting it out through the end of February in terms of um what we've spent what we have encumbered or spoken for and then what that leaves us for an available balance

102and again it doesn't represent the actual projection through the end of fiscal year just through the end of the month of February so and I know I've been drawing attention to that um second to last line of employee benefits so what I did for this month is the employee benefits line encompasses all benefits so rather than show all benefits I broke out the benefits line into all of the different types of benefits because that encompasses a lot of different things you know I I focus on health insurance but um when I just show the benefits line it doesn't break out health insurance and show what a what a worrisome line that actually is so this breaks out all of our benefits lines retirement social security workers comp you can see all the different types of

103benefits that um fall within that category and then the health insurance line um stands out as being the line that is putting that overall category in in the negative numbers and I think that looking at that amount that health insurance is projected to be overspent and um Tim net right now it's it's oscillating a little bit this month it's saying 3.2 million last month it said 3 million the month before that it said 3.1 million a lot of that has to do with our claims versus what we're getting for reimbursements and you know that does vary a little bit from month to month but I think that that is the more accurate reflection of how far over budget we can expect to be if we you know break out that employee benefits category and then

104just tone in on that Healthcare line um and obviously if any other lines are over budget that that deficit is going to grow um in talking with our auditor the audit committee met with him um a debats yesterday and Paul and I are in contact with him quite frequently you know he I said yesterday you know he is in charge of overseeing our annual audit but so much more than that he's just helpful and in terms of any questions we have or concerns we have and helping us plan um to how to address the concerns so we've been speaking with him about how to address um an impending deficit and we do have our insurance Reserve as well as um what's left of our fund balance to cover the deficit if we did need to

105draw from another source um his thought right now is you know we've talked about that employee benefits and acred liabilities Reserve it's not necessarily the intended use of it but he's been sort of studying the law around it and he learned yesterday that there may be a way to request he called it a permissive referendum to use the reserve for this purpose he's continuing to research the language in that law so should we need to tap into that Reserve because you know he went over our reserves with us yesterday as part of preparation for our annual audit and our that's what that is our largest reserve the elar reserve that we've pointed out in talking about our budget you know it's $3.8 million that we we really could use so so um that is the

106again the the portion of our budget that I wanted to draw attention to because that is the area of concern and then I just wanted to share this graph so this is a 10year study of our health insurance costs so as obviously the first several years are actual expenditures on um health and dental so those costs were combined up until 21 and 22 so the blue dots are health and dental expenses combined and then in 21 and 22 we started breaking apart health and dental so the blue dots are health and dental combined and then I broke out just Health costs for 2122 and on and you can see you know from 1516 until really 22 23 it was kind of predictable flat there were ups but then we even had some decreases so you

107know it was sort of a a a pattern and then even in 22 23 yes it went up but then after that you can just see it went up sharply and it has kept going in that direction and it has not continued to follow the pattern that we saw for you know 7 to 8 years so um and I think at least I heard Mike say this yesterday you know in working with other self-insured districts he he doesn't know how anybody could have foreseen this kind of thing happening and not coming back to the to L our Trend was 2223 is actually still lower than 1920 and when you really look at that we nice and flat and if you went even before that you'd see little dips and things like that but what's the

108percentage that we've looked at 23 24 24 25 isn't it's like 56% isn't it right so when I figured out the percentage it's been like 17.5 17.6 20 and projected to be 17 or 18% for next year so I mean it's not something that is easily sustainable so I just thought sharing that might be another visual to to show kind of what we're contending with here with the the health line are there questions on the financial portion the visual is helpful I mean it really depicts the problem the budget update switch over I started this uh budget presentation off a little differently um so we did have a question or some feedback from a Community member which I really appreciate and if anybody else in the community has questions or feedback um this person emailed

109the clerk email and that's a great way to get a hold of us and I really appreciate the question like I said and if anyone else has any questions please feel free to reach out to us um and we will certainly address them and like I said I included this person's feedback in the presentation by in including some District data and um just information like that before getting into the the budget portion of the discussion um we do include data when we get to the the budget packet statement that comes out in early May however that's a really large amount of information that's probably hard to sift through so it's it's a good idea to sort of start to include that I think as we work through the different budget presentations and um you know

110start to share the different data about our district so just a couple of pieces of data and certainly I can include other data as we move forward and as I said it will be part of our our budget statement packet in May some of the data is um current that I just took from this year much of it is from the 2324 Nia data or school report card that just recently was released the first portion is regarding our staff so this is current this is 2425 data in terms of number of teaching staff broken down by school um and then uh we also have some districtwide staff so teaching staff support staff Administration custodial and then totals so teaching staff total is 414 support staff 244 Administration 22 custodial 65 and the overall overall total

111745 and that was as of the date that I put this together so sometime last week you know again those numbers change somewhat throughout the year as people um leave us or come to us but those were the numbers as of the time I did this and then just some definitions uh the teaching staff includes teachers teaching assistants psychologists counselors social workers really any staff who are certified support staff could include teacher aids clerical staff School nurses uh technology department staff bus drivers Food Service um any staff members that don't necessarily require a certification then the administration portion are principes assistant principles directors and District level leadership and the custodial section of the graph uh included cleaners laborers custodians maintenance workers and grounds workers uh the enrollment data that I included um is by school

112and by uh a few different subgroups um really similar subgroups to what Mr and Mrs Hendrickson have been sharing with um some of the subgroups that we're focusing on with our our um our planning for our our school improvements um and this is from the 23 24 Nicea data um by building and um at this time our total enrollment was 367 our percentage of students with disabilities for the district was 19% economically disadvantaged was 62% and then just um for your information um at bed's day for 2425 which is in early October our total K12 enrollment was 3,69 which is very close to this number and at that time we had 163 prek students okay I'm sorry to interrupt um students with disabilities total this supposed to be 157 this is 1 oh probably I

113apologize it's 57 I I believe it's it's 577 yeah we're just under 600 that's a great catch no we do not have 1500 would M we got that one no I believe I talked to her the other day we've always hovered around 600 but um no we're not 50% don't worry we're 19% which should put I believe it's 577 or 580 right in there no I must have H up it's with my chubby finger thank you for recognizing that I'll fix that before I post this to the website um the next portion I did um was a these are average attendance rates this was kind of a neat thing I found on schol tool oh yeah um so these are for the year so you can sort it by District by building um and you

114can see at this point this year you know average attendance rate is showing Improvement across the district so you know last year at the end of the year we were at 88.1 two at this point this year in March we're at 90.1 so um at the high school level last year at the end of the year was 83% at this point this year we're at 86.2 at the middle school 87.8 at this point we're at 90.4 and for all four elementaries at the end of last year we were at 90.8 and at this point this year we're at 92.1 uh graduation outcomes again this is from the 2324 nice data so our graduation rate was 82% and fton is in yellow and the New York State data is in blue and then it breaks it

115down in terms of diploma type Regents with Advanced designation Regents local diploma um still enrolled GED and uh did not complete and then just a different way to look at it in a a table view as compared to 2223 where a graduation rate was 76% and then 2324 our overall graduation rate was 82% so we did see some growth there and also saw some growth in our Advanced designation diplomas which is nice to see and then um the one of the specific questions that I received in the email was about P per pupal expenditures this particular data has not been released for 2324 yet it's part of the uh Financial transparency reporting and that portion isn't included in the data yet on the New York State website um so I did include the 202 2223

116information and what they do is they show you your District's per pupil expenditures which in 2223 ours was 23,44 per pupil then they show you the county average and the New York State average which were a little bit lower at that time we were a little bit lower than the county average and quite a bit lower than the New York State average um I anticipate you know we have a higher per pupil expenditure for 23 24 but it's a state formula so I don't dare try to to do it myself and that's per pupil or is there something separate for like our students with disabilities they do separate it um this is just general per okay overall yep and then there's a separate one on that report that compares students with disabilities so you be

117adding costs on top of those and there also it's very similar we're less than the county less than the state okay then um just looking at the draft budget and again this is not new information at this point um our projected Revenue the only thing I added was a graph to show the percentages in terms of what is state aid what is tax levy and what is projected to be other so our state aid is projected to be um the bulk of our Revenue which is expected at 68.9% the tax levy 24.4% and then other Revenue 6.7% and included in the other revenue is our use of our reserves putting our total revenue at 94,6 53,8 and this Revenue projection has remained the same in the last few meetings and updates and we should receive

118the final numbers from the legislative budget add are around April 1st April and then um in terms of progress we continue to work towards bringing the expense side of the budget into balance with the projected Revenue um at present at least when I prepared this presentation our expenses had been reduced to uh around 95.3 million which represented just under 4 million in reductions and although it's not quite the balance number I did want to show it in the format of a a three-part budget and in the format of a percentage of the three-part budget so as it stands knowing that we still have some work to do um the program the three-part budget again is the the program capital and administrative portions so at this at this point the pro gr portion uh is 75.3%

119of the budget capital 14.6% and administrative 10.1% which um when you see that next to 2425 it's very similar so that that's good news then the last part I included are the four propositions that we plan to have as part of the budget vote first proposition being our budget and um the second one the student transportation Vehicles which was the purchase of two replacement seven passenger vans then the sale of property um hopefully um I had hoped to have an update from the sellers attorney last week uh so far the individual has not responded to our attorney act and they reached out again today so hopefully we can get an update soon they're going to begin reaching out by phone as opposed to email and then the final proposition is the library Tex proposition um

120some upcoming dates for anyone interested um obviously tonight's board meeting there is our F probably our final budget Workshop is next Tuesday April 1st um cities and ual meeting is April 2nd uh we'll have a regular board meeting on April 8th where we'll have a budget update uh we should be very close to our final numbers at that point um then the next regular board meeting April 22nd we would hope to uh adapt the budget and um adapt the property tax report card which is a requirement uh to submit to New York State within 24 hours of adopting it then um April 29th is City's budget vote April 30th is the deadline for school board candidate nominating petitions to be turned in at the district office and then on May 1st first thing in or

1219:00 in the morning will be the drawing for the candidate order on the ballot and then later that day we'll finish getting getting all the information uh compiled and the budget information will then be made available to the public then one this is one change to make note of our public budget forum is going to be May 8th and that's actually going to be at 5:30 p.m. and the reason we switched the date was we had scheduled it for the 13th but that was the last permissible date to have the budget forum and that left no room for error so if something happened and there was a catastrophic catastrophic event we had to reschedule it we wouldn't be able to because the 13th was the final day that was a recommendation for turn yeah wait

122so we have a there's not a Bo not a board meeting I was going to ask I saw that earlier I was going to ask you about our regular board meeting is the 13th 13 correct okay yeah so the regular board meeting is still the 13th and then the budget vote is May 20th from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. okay and then we ratified then we ratified okay any questions we next week at the budget Forum or budget budget Workshop budget for Budget Workshop we will dig in further and and really start to flush out where all those that 4 plus million recommendation is and what those what how we're getting that will be reviewed next week at that meeting and then we'll we'll tighten it up at the 8th meeting getting feedback from the

123board and then um the eth will really be the real big that'll be the the board meeting where we were going to be rolling out this is the this is the budget this is the properly proposed budget and then we'll have that two weeks after that to tweak work question adjust um but you saw that Healthcare line that that healthare line you know results in a 4 and a half M was it 4.7 K $4.7 million in reductions roughly uh that we made um that we're working towards and you know the health care piece is you know a big factor and you saw that that's what's driving that change and so you know it's something it's we have to look at this in the short term and the long term at the same time so

124that this budget looks at that the other slide that I think popped for me and I and I want to commend Kate for we've had a lot of discussions every day we meet and discuss budget which um has been very good um we've the part where we have increased the monus percentage in program did you notice that the program went up and the administrative went down and so did the um what's the third third what the capital I'm sorry uh went down so even in the propos where we're at at this point you've seen how we've driven more in keeping that number where it belongs which is as much in front of programming and kids as possible so that would be an important number for us to keep an ey Mr Pino can you just

125clarify if we are making any reductions in sta I thought that was April 1st what is the date that we have to notify Staffing reduction if we're doing any staffing reductions with not what ACC to law there isn't however we'd like to give them the curency of letting them know so they have time to look for another position if necessary probably around April mid April before after spring break and then that would be initial notice and we're going to do everything we can to save as many jobs as we can and so anybody we can build back in we will and then final notice we give them to staff in June okay thanks I just for some reason I thought I had April 1 in my head and I thought that you're thinking of fair

126dismissal Fair dismiss no you've got a date a date it's just yep great question okay thank you so you know I think more follow I think the goal is is how do we you heard a lot of good things moving in the right direction how do we move and keep a budget in place that keeps all of those things going um and I think um that that's the questions that you ask as we go through over the next couple of weeks are going to be pivotal as we prioritize and and move forward over the next month so all right swidget Mr Quick Swit update um Swit has cameras in six classrooms at the junior high this week they'll be installing one in the seventh classroom they've held several calibration meetings where really switched goal coming

127in was proof of concept and product development basically they wanted to figure out what this product needs to look like what the process will be from notification to the dashboard that the administrators and the First Responders are going to see um when they get into alert all the way up until how it communicates with outside agencies such as for us Fon PD and ASO County sheriffs um so they've held I believe three meetings so far there's one tomorrow that's going to involve more of the administration team as well as our SRO are going to be present uh the process has taken longer than we had anticipated and the teachers to be blunt for participating in the study are fantastic teachers and I think they're just a little bit bored because what they're doing is kind

128of very slow moving and it's literally the direction of the buttons the placement of the buttons what the dashboard looks like how does it look here it's a lot more of the the really the functionality of the products the post to the action of the product so we had met with Swit a few weeks ago um and had suggested that our community our board and our staff need to see how Swit it works from the moment that button's pushed and there's a crisis in a classroom or outside of a classroom so that goes to the SRO to the administrator from the administrator of the SRO to how it moves to the Fon PD what that looks like on Fon PD's end what they see uh what they're able to see and how they communicate with

129the SRO 911 call center as they move towards the situation really everything that would happen all the way up until the crisis is mitigated um and the situation is over I think that we need to see what that looks like and I think they're moving towards that direction when we had brought it up they had actually told me that they're working on storyboards to create a commercial um and so I had met with the director of marketing last week and she was very gracious and taking my feedback and we were able to kind of redesign that commercial to be more front loaded with the action as opposed to the description which I think is going to kind of grab people and give them an idea of how Swit Works before we tell them what it

130works what it does and so um we plan on hopefully running some actual tests come spring break when students are not in the building just as far as engaging that button and then working through the dashboard which tomorrow they're going to be working in the dashboard again to see how that communication will work and how it's going to be routed and and what I'm thinking is we have a program called zero eyes that we use the district and zeris actually owns we have two licenses one for Fon PD and one for yoso County Sheriffs so when zero eyes is alerted that there's a brandished weapon or something that looks like a brandished weapon outside one of our buildings now Fon PD gets that notification as soon as an administrator or s or S so what

131I think with um swidget is if we design it similar to what we do with zero eyes and allow them access to a dashboard or a license so to speak we can make that notific ation seamless between the administration SRO and the fbd or depending on the building us we go County Sheriffs but these are some of the Kinks that they want to work out and and don't feel like they're interested in rushing um I think that once we spoke about the process and really what we need to do to make our community aware of the value of this product um I think they understand that we have to have a lot more action and demonstration as opposed to more um like I said proof of Concepts and and really just trying to figure out

132what the product look like they did say they're going to work on the badge to make it something that's more recognizable to modern technology they took all the teachers feedback it really is valuable like I said it's slow for them um but it really is valuable to them just they're coming from the nothing that ever like this has existed in a school before their products that are close but nothing exactly like switch it so they're building from the ground up and they're scientists they're not Educators and so they really need to understand what we're looking for and really what situations would arise in a classroom that would require teach you to engage that button in the first place so I think we're starting to really get into the same book and sort of towards the

133same page I hope after tomorrow's uh meeting and after spring break if we can set up some some dry runs and some drills with a bon PD um I'm hoping that we're moving in a Direction Where We could have a demonstration by the end of the year of how switch it would work and not only a demonstration but actually have it work to be able to have it work set up so it is a functioning product uh to present to you to the community to our teachers and to our staff um they were interested in coming down here and shooting this commercial maybe with our own people if they're willing to do it um but they seem fully invested they brought on the name for the lady who spoke at swim sgle that we went

134to see a couple years ago she is she is now a spokeswoman for swidget and they what I've been told bringing on investors um I think it's worth looking into and I think it's hard to think that in the next 5 to 10 years we would have cameras in the classrooms and most buildings and districts because of the trends that we've seen over the last 20 and violence within schools so uh it's it's an interesting product but it is in the ground stages and like I said I think that in the next couple of weeks we'll really see what it can do and hopefully we can bring that to you guys after that yeah so what have they been doing now like what what have we done to this point is it just like it

135is it just inst inst C this button what do you see click that button what do you see like what what buttons and what are for though the buttons that are on the badge one would initiate a response from the Fon PV as well as the SRO the other one would initiate response from administrator but we haven't pressed those yet they've been pressing them but they haven't they haven't had an actionable response they're they're more or less been interested in the design of the product and now they're moving into the response meaning they want to know where a teacher's comfortable pressing so there aren't any mistakes so where should this button go how long should it be suppressed for should we're designing it what's that we're designing Fe feedback and that was there was really

136their intent that's what a proof of concept is is to use our feedback to give them information about what a product would look like because they have absolutely no idea what the Comfort level of a teacher would be in a situation like that and what their Instinct would be so and now they're building the dashboard which is going to be the information center really that interface for the product to show the SRO The Fulton PD what's happening um so it's it is it's kind of like a beta version and they're building the version and then the beta part is going to be one to test it and then they'll have a streamlined product that is actually usable within a a district a building and in a classroom so it's again it's a slow process and

137and from my invol stting that already set up what's up remember I sort of felt like it was like already set up like you know what mean I guess I didn't understand process and I think Market just did a fantastic we had a fantastic conversation with him and I think when you said Rescue 911 I don't watch that kind of TV show that much but what it was was it Su at the beginning of the show The Event happens you see it all happen that's what Mark and Shar they're like you know we're like teachers are like no all the teachers need to do is see the button and push the button like then they don't care about the they said no no no no no no we need to see it from the moment

138they push the button run the TV screen you're watching you know Jeff Hendrickson push the button now you're looking at SRO kapani it comes up on his as as well as the 911 Center here's what they're seeing and you're seeing the screens at the same time that's what they're coming and so the storyboards were helpful that's when that conversation is now going to lead to we would need something like that so that all of our our consumers can really see wow from the moment this is what's going to happen if God forbid something happens in the classroom this is the the order of thing this is what it would experience and experience maybe land well and that's what I was thinking of Rescue 911 is where you hear the the dispatcher you see the action

139interlace it with actual camage footage from the classroom as well as body cam footage from maybe the Vol can if we can do it uh as well as testimonials of First Responders as well as staff members of how this product makes them feel what it can do the importance of situational awareness in a crisis situation just to kind of give people an idea of because right now I don't think anybody really completely understands what Swit it does and I think there's some value behind this product so again in the next couple of months I'm hoping we have something that's at least gives us more information to make an informed decision on whether or not this is a product that we want to again they're going to s it for free but it's an investment because

140any security system is always going to need upgrades and being told that's minimum but that's something we obviously would want to confirm especially in the situation we're in but first thing we need to do is just see how it works I guess I was under I I was under a different impression like they had the product we were ready to install it the cameras were installed they had the badges they had the lighting going out and we had a set plan of if I press the button everybody is going to be on the same page to get to stay where we had to go or get to a location where it was safe and the route was going to be like highlighted with the lights you know what I mean and so I thought this

141was already a package deal we had this this was set to run not actually designing designing it on original product just you know I mean yeah it just isn't designed to be as complex as what it would need to be to work in our school district so I think there was a little bit of a miscommunication about what their intention was I also think scien and I think that they know what they're talking about but I don't know what they're talking about like I had to look up what proof of concept was so I think that there's a little bit of a miscommunication about that as well as how they're going to go about uh working with our staff to inform the design of the product it sounds like they want to get it right

142because they never put it into a school district before so I'm happy that they're not rushing it to that doesn't work well for our staff and our I think you're going to see some more momentum now I thought the conversation we when we reached out to them and here's the other piece that I don't think we intended but everything happens for a reason two of the members of the pilot the administrator as well as one of the teachers are First Responders by training they're also you know so we've got a classroom teacher who's also a first responder EMT fire and then we've got a principal who's uh a fireman uh and so it's interesting to have two members of the set of the participants that's really helpful as well on on boots on the ground

143as well so I don't disagree I was surprised we wenten further along as well I said but I think the conversation that Mark and I had really got them moving because a lot of things happened in the last week and a half two weeks yes how it has yeah I'll upate you guys when I have with them because I think they needed to get a better concept of what Educators we need we're needing it in a lot of ways we need to see how things work and how's that experience going to be because you have to think about if I a second grader in my classroom how I need to understand this you know so I have an idea of what's happening so I can Ure the kids sounds like it's not get what are

144we focusing on for safety like right now is there like a miscommunication of what expectations are because right will you say like yeah no but I mean this is like a huge huge thing like a huge security thing and huge safety concerns and I guess I'm just we security future this year they don't even have they don't even have enough equipment to install in the we I don't I know that I didn't know that I there I maybe I didn't understand it completely we still have zero eyes we still have SRO in every building now we have we have a lot of definitely I missed a big chunk of that it's a pilot it's really just the design the testing and then the hopefully the implementation if we so choose um I just wanted to

145so let me just clarify so from what I understand our staff does not even have the buttons to push they they've looked at them at training but they don't have them they don't carry them in the classroom right now right they don't have a digital interface to hook up to the cameras that's really what the chunk of their their meetings have been is to create that dashboard so it's something that's intuitive for First Responders administrators or anybody else who's going to be Dowing it so and I don't know because I just hopped on this widget thing but it sounds a lot like that's really the bulk of their work has done is being done is creating that digital interface that's going to be like I said useful and helpful and it's going to help route

146information between First Responders and between the SRO um and I'm not a scientist so I can't give you the details of how that's coming along the last training that I was at there was they do have they do have a concept they they can push a button it's not doing anything yet they're looking for the teachers the people who are involved what size does this need to be where where's the placement of the buttons that are more comfortable for you that won't be inadvertently pushed that's the last training I was I was at and now I'm going to tomorrow's as well right but but when they came I guess when they came they had a prototype or design of kind of what they thought it was going to look like and I was under the

147impression at least that this was up and ready and and going to be installed and the buttons were going to be there as well and from what also I'm hearing is I've talked to some staff members when I was in the building last week and they're having issues with their um in at least one classroom the um Outlet overheating and and that being an issue as well um and then I'm hearing and I just want clarification you don't have to have it now but the lighting and the things like that that they also discussed is not included in the you know fre of the district would be additional they did say that at the in octob were they with us in October just when they did the first initial they did say that that would

148be something that we would look at later down the line that's not part of their right I just wanted to make sure we're clear then we're talking about the which is why I think we we pulled up the and I think it was good that that we had that meeting with with their team and I I had two uh and one of the reasons why we had to learned a lot was um one of the teachers actually two of the teach we had some P some flag pole discussions we were in the morning I'm out there greeting kids the teachers are walking we had some great conversations which gave us great questions to Mark and I uh to take them when we met with swidget so we actually debriefed by the poll out there one

149morning and then um after student Leed conferences the other night I was over there and I met with those same two teachers again which was last Thursday night just getting we had some more Conant discussion came back talked to Mark and just so we we getting some really good feedback cuz they were thinking about what it's not that it won't it's that it's here's what would make it better this's what we need to have here's what what they're looking for and I think that's been really important too that's been real open and honest conversations and the one teacher puts his EMT hat on when he has the conversation too which is a a really rich conversation from a first responder's point of view as well as an educator and um I one more question that

150blew out sorry I don't know it'll come back it'll come I'm sure send them yeah well I think where the the pilot where the miscommunication was because I thought the same thing pilot it's all sat let's try it we haven't used it before let's try it here and then after I've had conversations with you now I understand like he said there's scientists that are they have an idea they put their idea into something and then they bring it to us as a school and they want to know okay what's going to work for us and and I you know the bottom line is I know it's kind of a scary thing but this The Way of the World this is this is where our world is heading and anything in my opinion anything we can

151use to keep our kids safe that's that's important well I will say that um we're the only District in the country that is part of this pilot program it's a brand new product they're not charging us to use it they've told us that installed the district for free and like you said I I can't think of any parent who could look me in the eye with a straight face and say no I don't want the police to have situational awareness approaching a crisis situation of my daugh 's classroom I can't think of any parents who would say that and mean it so it's I think worth giving them a shot working with them and see if they can develop a valuable product that potentially could save lives in the future and I know when I

152was a police officer when we had to go through buildings you know we had different diff different things we did and you go in there blind you're totally blind and you are well this was almost 20 years ago when I was on but if you saw somebody bleeding you just kept going because you're trying to find that person that shooter and with this this this to me if it runs the way it's supposed to is invaluable to know exactly where this person is police officer would tell you and and just like police officer would tell you when body hands first came out they addly against them and now they say it's the best thing that's ever happened to them yeah so it's just just again we're the only District in the entire country working with

153a product like this so I think we need to bear with it and be open minded to I would just assume or just prefer taking the time to get it right yeah agre um sorry I remembered my two questions so the the ones that are installed in the classroom are those currently live streaming are those not functioning right now okay and then my other question is is right they they are not right they are not okay and then do we know if has been in discussions with ASO count 911 and the police to see about how that interacts with their system if that's if legal been involved in all of that things and they've gotten the go ahead in the okay uh full and PD but just like zero eyes I don't know what the

154legality of it is but if it's a product that would hook up to any any first responder um we we are the ones that give them permission to view it just like zero eyes we gave Fon PD and Theo County shares a license to view the product that we have in our school so I would imagine sget would work very similarly where we would give them access to the dashboard and if there's an they would get it and they would have that information almost simultaneously again I don't know because I'm not a scientist and I'm not a lawyer but we do have a similar product that's running within our district and has been for the last two years now that operates in a similar way okay do we have any association with our it it

155Department I mean the guys we have must know something can't we talk to them do you know what I mean help install theas they must have ideas they're helping with our installations right things like that oh yeah they've nothing and talked over so yeah okay yeah no I think it we're building it I know that you know I think we all I think we all may have thought different timelines as we entered this and it's interesting how it's fall into place but I I felt very good about the conversation we had the other day and I I've seen some movement but it was a good conversation and as I said the conversations we're having with the teachers have been terrific they've done a really nice job as well as Eric um giving us some feedback

156about really I'll be honest with open and honest feedback which has been really terrific so that's what it should be CU that's what's going to make this a better opportunity for us okay if you have other things you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about these things write it down send me a text well we wait till 7: morning no um wait you're up at 4:30 I'm up at 4:30 looking at the weather don't have a choice um so if you have questions please just forward them to us and we'll each those answer and that's the conclusion superintendent report was a bit longer this evening but uh thank you and I think it was just great seeing our kids toight I just can't thank their families enough for being here this evening

157and our staff as well so thank you right moving on to our finance section action 4.01 accept the financials move it second all those in favor I oppose abstaining passes 70 action 4.0 02 approve the Cooperative purchasing agreement is there any well first can I have somebody mooving moveing second is there any discussion on that no all those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 70 action 4.03 approve the internal audit move it second all those in favor I I opposed abstaining pass is 70 action 4.04 approved budget amendment for the appropriated fund balance something it little bit second is there any discussion on that yes could I could you explain that a little sure more so that's related to the next action um to approve the the tax seary proceeding so um there was an

158organization that that challenged their assessment and asked for their assessment to be revised over several years so our attorneys reviewed it and um along with their attorneys came to a settlement which is the the 36439 in the action 4.04 so 4.04 is to to pay that settlement that you see in 4.05 which was the actual proceeding if that makes sense and Paula can probably expand on that a little bit more yeah it's it's vacant property within the city of fton and it was assessed at 100 or 87,000 um and the original proposal was that they wanted to have 3 years reduced to 375,000 for an assess value um but through the course of that and the cost of it uh that is what led to the settlement of agreeing to reduce the assessed value through

159the city assessor uh as well as the attorneys to 750,000 for those 3 years um they're waving um any interest in uh the monies that would be refunded from that and they're settling for that $33,000 settlement thank you um all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 70 action 4.05 to approve the tax assary proceed was that Tim no and who was the second Lor all those in favor I opposed and Kate just said it and it'll be every year guys I don't think I said it right either okay all right action 5.01 approved committee on special education Mo second so Nick and Lor all those in favor opposed abstaining passes 70 action 5.02 to approve the district clerk second ni and Fon all those in favor I opposed abstaining passes 70 action 5.02

160to approve the D Deputy clerk Nick all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 70 Z what number was that again that was 5.02 did we I thought we had three in the five so far I on that or no we did yeah 5.01 5.02 oh it should say I'm sorry it should say 5.03 good good catch I could have been tired but I counted three in my head nope you're you good catch I just can't count sorry all right for our policies action 6.01 approve the policy which was the meals and refreshments second okay all those in favor I I opposed staining passes 70 if we can break up some of the Personnel uh if somebody would like to batch 7.01 to 7.08 Second so that was ni Tim Tim okay Tim and

161F all those in favor I I opposed abstaining passes 70 and for personnel 7.09 somebody move it move it second I think I heard Nick first all those in favor I I I opposed I abstaining passes 610 all right board Forum let's start with Miss PR tonight well I want to say I really enjoyed the orchestra and I'm I'm a little disappointed but happy for us that we still have strings and she was saying that a lot of districts don't that's that's sinful but anyways I really appreciate them appreciate all our guests here tonight and I love listening to the kids with their goals and all the hard work that all you guys do too that's but it sounds like the kids with the goals one out once again so thank you for bringing them

162to us um Miss n thank you to everybody that took time out of their busy schedules to come and join us and participate and I love hearing from the kids and I think I saw Mrs Hendrickson well up with tears when we had the little upk guy up there sounding out and he was working so hard it was it was great so thank you everybody for coming and sharing with us Mr djar uh yeah I think the uh the orchester was great um again thanks to all the gold presenters I don't know that I still don't like to talk in front of people but those little ones did a pretty good job um 65 college level fores that we offer where do we stand as far as the rest of the districts in the in

163the uh the county I don't want to compare but say no one is close that on the record we we can get that data and not only that but we also have uh we have apprentices programs for those who want to go into the workforce correct we have kids going on internships our Early College High School obviously many opportunities for mentorships and internships yeah uh thank you to the Hendricks for your presentations on uh strategic uh coherence plan uh Mrs super always good to hear the budget and trying to stay on top of it um and Mr K appreciate the update on switch uh if I could be included in any of those meetings that you have with switch I'm attending the the training so I can be up datee as to what they what

164they're doing and where they are in that um I i' appreciate I think it's important that there be a board member you know uh monitoring progress as well so okay um and that's it all right one more thing thanks to all of you who had the stamina to stay around until almost 9:00 we here all so thank you Mr Conners okay you know it's always hard you go later in these you know you don't want to be redundant but I do appreciate that we are spending time like you said the last four meetings having the kids come in I think the thing I'm most excited about is I know last year my first year I always felt like I knew every name that was going to come up and some people on our districts I

165you know it's always the same kids that are always the same things I can say most of the names I didn't recognize and it's nice then because I feel like that gives me a more genuine response to the community and people as individuals that you're not hearing from the same people the same group so I really appreciate that we're pushing toward that and we're trying to engage all different kinds of people to come and speak and be in front of us because that helps us be more engaged with community and helps us make better decisions I'd also like to say I appreciate everyone taking the time to really go with Kate today we did a phone call and just going through all the data all the things making sure everything is you know understandable I

166figure if I can understand it I think everyone else can understand it so I'm glad we're taking the time going through and doing that and not overlooking certain things just because it's easier to not do but because it's important that we do our best to give the most to our kids and our community and I think if I were going to top it off at the end it would just be I really like seeing where things are going I know fellow board members I know you're excited I'm going to be running again because I think it is important that when you're in motion you're doing well that you keep pushing and you stay on and you don't disrupt things so I look forward to hopefully working with you all more and helping bring this success

167to our students and continue on that path all right Mrs Hutchinson um I agree with everything my colleague said thank you for your presentations and that's it all right thank you I'll just St it with a ditto all right we love that um I'm very sad that Miss Cunningham Santina had to leave us this evening uh I don't know if you got the opportunity to go and see Cinderella but she was the Fairy Godmother and she was amazing so you know here we always thought she was our little soccer player and she played Lacross but she has some serious Talent up there on that stage as well so I hope when she's with us next week and we don't run out or next meeting you know she can kind of share her um experience with

168that uh everybody did a great job as always The Quirk players they I just in WoW with every production that comes um such an incredible talent that those kids had up there on stage and I know that they had a lot of snow days there was a lot of sickness that went through the quirks players and yet they still pulled off uh an incredible performance so um that that was fantastic uh music in our school's month um I'm hoping to hit up some concerts next week I know it's been a little tough for me to get there earlier this month but um I I I did a what you said Lori um to have the strings and I mean I was a band you know participant when I was in school but to have strings

169available for those students who are interested in the strings it's it's just phenomenal and I'm so blessed that we still have all these great uh programs for our students um and we have an all state that's what I wanted to share too so um please remind me his name Chris Rodriguez Chris Rodriguez uh he was able to go to the uh area conference for for our state um I know that we have sent a few in in a few you know over the course of the last few decades but uh it's rare that we get to have a representative from our district and how wonderful that he could be there for that um you know representing fton and for his talent I mean fun to watch right they they did a fantastic job and I'm

170so proud that we had somebody at that that high level um for our for our students so so that that was great uh family fund day if I don't know who got to uh uh the opportunity to go but I did H end up going towards the tail end I think that you were there Mr crle and I'm not I didn't really run into anybody except for um our students it was great to see them running around engaging with the dragon that was running around uh they had the games and all the different booths it was really so energetic and I appreciate all that you and your team do um I mean they had the m demogr station out there and the fire trucks and stuff when I first arrived and you know I got

171to listen and hear about how many of our upk and kindergarten and I you guys have some ideas for how you want to be able to bring in more it was just wonderful overall to be able to uh interact with Community um so that was that was a great opportunity so thank you so much for all that you and your team have done on that appreciate it uh and with that I think we are going to move into a second public form if anybody is interested still has the no all right before we hit executive session oh do we have a friend oh yese come I wasn't sure if you were going to ask oh absolutely the conversation yes the it's my first meeting coming name is Jessica Brian um and the swiet sounds really

172interesting have you it seems like it's a it's a company that has done like home security um and they're getting into school security do you know like the school district is giving a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of great information that the company needs um have you and you're going to obviously get a free system but have you talked about what what the costs of upkeeping the system would be and also if you would be able to as a school district be able to get money back on future profits because by you saying yes other school districts are going to say yes and it's a lot of it it's a lot of time for us to well just to be clear this this is not something that the district

173can just say yes to staff members also have to agree because it involves their classrooms it involves them having to wear the product maintain the product but I never thought about asking for money for being the first yeah can you 1% of [Laughter] whatever also the uh they're not just home they do bus they deal with companies and if I'm not mistaken the last time I spoke with glob U I think they have something to do with NASA as well so so they there obviously have been successful but we can make them more successful and we should get some money back for that no I I agree thank you that's an excellent anybody else interested in a second all right before we move into executive session we have to do it Mrs Perry you knew

174it was coming um Mrs Perry not bad more more talking stay we will be talking about you um I know you're leaving us in good hands with de she's been f fantastic but you have been keeping us going for the well I've been on for eight years I know Tim's been on for a while so he's had you you I haven't had 12 years though and we are going to miss you great and I will miss you sort [Laughter] of You Blue that holds this all together without a doubt do you got to become I often tell you you're the apple to our sauce you make things go so smoothly I got a big team behind me that's helping every day and I was very fortunate to land in a place where we have great

175people you know right from the custodians right straight straight up to our superintendent and we I I feel like there are so many nobody appreciates the work that they do every day they're magicians I don't know how we go from you know 7 o'clock in the morning where the bus is late and then the kid forgot the backpack and the Mom is calling and at the end of the day the same calls are coming through the bus is late you know but somehow with shoulder toh shoulder every day I was very very fortunate and I very much appreciate all their hard work every day so so with that Mr D jarm would you like to uh the Board of Education V wants to send our appreciation and support um to you just to share our

176love with you and wish you a wonderful retirement we'll see you at budget season or at voting season yes my favor thank you very much I appreciate it it's beautiful it's beautiful thank you very much I appreciate it all [Applause] your so at this time we're going to move into to Executive session so for those of you who have joined us we thank you so much it's so great to have people in the audience and uh and you picked the longest meeting to come to so thank you always in the audience right and and for all of our friends who are viewing from home thank you and have a great evening to gra cake oh yes anybody who is interested in please some [Music] yes everybody going into exec session with me and so we'll

177go down to yes don't board but somebody want to move the executive session it got you got e e e perfect let's move action 9.01 adjournment move it second so Fallon and Tim crle all those in favor I oppose sing passes 70 good night everybody good night good night 10:06