001Mr. Long, Miss Kais, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. We're now back in public session. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, nation, and to the liberty and justice for all. Thank you all for being here tonight. It's one of our favorite times. Uh we are going to start with our GC Pride Awards. Who's up first? Yeah. Okay, can you hear me now? So, good evening, President Coffee, members of the board of education, and superintendent daily. I'm Janice Phillips, school nutrition director, and I'm here on behalf of the wellness committee. Uh we'd like to give Katie Elkins a GC pride award. This was our inaugural year of getting the staff wellness program really kicked off.
002Katie was a big part of this. She is on our wellness team. She has fantastic ideas and led our GC yoga classes. Her classes are very accommodating of everyone's abilities, encouraging, uplifting, and we all agree they made us feel taller. Katie is lightigh-hearted, thoughtful, and caring in her approach. She is a wonderful yoga teacher for our staff along with all her great work she's done here at GC as a high school math teacher and track and field coach. Congratulations Katie. [Applause] There are more seats in some of the front rows. Not to, you know, make you feel pressure, but if anybody wants to sit or move a chair a little bit, they can. So, I actually have the honor of doing two awards tonight. The second one I'm doing on behalf of the school nutrition
003department. You can see we got a few team members here. The person being honored does not realize she's being honored. So, Carmen, can you please come up? So, this took a little finagling to get the team here without her knowing because she's kind of the heart and soul of the department. So, in Carmen's role, she's the familiar voice that families receive when they call to get assistance with their meal accounts, free and reduced applications. I receive many compliments on how kind she is with our families along with our students. She is the one that brings the enthusiasm to the team. She's way more upbeat than I can ever be. So whether it's helping with our team activities or very strongly encouraging our team to be active in the county food service activities, she's the one
004leading the charge and we really appreciate that. Gates Charlie always has the best showing of all the districts at all the county events and that's really due to her. She cashiers each morning at the middle school. She fills in wherever she's needed and does it all with a genuine smile. In addition, she makes sure all our many invoices get organized. She takes care of all our government produce each week. There's many more tasks that she takes care of to keep our department running very smoothly. We appreciate her very much. Thank you, Carmen. [Applause] I know, but it wasn't. Congratulations and thank you both so much for all the work you do for our community. Um, do we have any agenda changes, sir? We have agenda changes to personnel and in action items we have added
005the property tax report card. Thank you. That moves us now to one of our big celebrations of the evening, our tenure celebration and recognition. Excuse me. Good evening, President Coffee, Superintendent Daly, Vice President Dr. Richards, Board of Education members, colleagues, family, friends, and most importantly, our 24 25 tenure recipients. My name is Michaela Parado. I'm the assistant superintendent for human resources and labor relations here at Gates Chili. And it is my honor to recognize our tenure recipients this year. Tonight we celebrate a moment that reflects not just years of dedication, but a deep and lasting commitment to something much larger than ourselves. The shaping of lives, the nurturing of minds, and the building of futures. To each of you receiving tenure this evening, congratulations. This is a milestone that speaks volumes about your passion, perseverance,
006and purpose. You have weathered challenges, embraced change, inspired our students, motivated your colleagues, and upheld the values of excellence that define Gates Chilai. Tenure is not just a right of passage. It's a recognition of the trust our district has in you to continue to work towards our collective future. You chose one of the most demanding yet rewarding professions. And through your actions, day after day, lesson after lesson, you've shown that teaching is more than delivering content. It's about seeing potential. It's about helping students believe in themselves. It's about sparking curiosity, fostering resilience, and cultivating a safe space where young people can become who they are meant to be. I encourage you as you step into this new chapter of your professional journey to see this moment not as a finish line but as a launching
007pad. Let this moment serve as your call to innovate, to take bold steps in how you engage your students and to lead with confidence. It also calls on you to mentor, to support, and to elevate those who are walking the path behind you. Our district is stronger because of your dedication. Our students are braver, kinder, and more capable because of your belief in them. And our future as a community and as a nation is brighter because of the foundation you help to build every single day. So tonight, we honor you, we thank you, and we challenge you to keep moving forward. Congratulations and may your impact continue to ripple outward for generations to come. Thank you all. Okay. Now, I'd like to call up our tenure recipients. When I call your name, please come forward
008to receive your tenure certificate from Superintendent Dailyaly and your gift from your building administrator. Then please head over to the photo backdrop so that we can get a picture of you by building with your building cohort. After pictures are concluded, we'd invite our tenure recipients and guests to join us for some light refreshments in the large cafeteria. And if you don't know where that is, we'll lead you there. Okay, without further ado, Neil Armstrong, Britney Dollywall, Nicole McMillan, Sen TVado. So, Florence Brasser, Lauren Uert, I believe Adam Groom and Melissa Canana can't be here this evening, but we still recognize them. Congratulations to both of them. Tara [Applause] Roberts, Walt Disney, Kelsey St. [Applause] Dennis. Congratulations, Kelsey. Paul RH, Courtney Hopkins, Nicole Toms. Congratulations, Middle School. Jennifer Frederick's congratulations. Danielle Hamill, Alexlair, [Applause] Shaina Ruptell,
009Zelica Johnson, and Kella Rollins. Congratulations [Applause] high school. Alan Ferrari. [Applause] Congratulations, Alan. Danielle Ljwitt, an Aasia Rosario, Sandra Train [Applause] again. Congrats. And now for our districtwide recipients. Christine Smeen [Music] [Applause] Jeffrey McKini. Congratulations. And last but not least, Troy Olan. [Applause] Once again, congratulations to all of our district's tenure recipients. We thank you for your dedication and hard work on behalf of our students every day. And once we're done with pictures, we'll all head down to the large cafeteria for some refreshments. Derek. Hi Derek. Hi. Once again, congratulations everybody and thank you so much for your hard work. [Applause] Sure. Thank you. I'm sorry. Congratulations. Moving forward, we have our board president's comments. I wanted to again thank everybody who's here tonight for our tenure celebration who apparently my daughter is joining and
010going with as well. I also just wanted to take a moment to recognize all of the people I saw in our community just driving in. Every part of our campus was full of kids and families and staff with sports going every which direction. Um which is always such a nice thing to see this time of year. I wanted to recognize the work of our elementary school teams and our middle school team with our fifth grade fun night. Um, which is where I was in place of our meeting last time. Um, which was just a really great experience. Really well done and well thought out. um inviting all of our fifth graders going into sixth grade to kind of have free roam of certain parts of the building with a guided um you know map activities.
011Staff that they knew from their current schools, staff that they'd meet at their school next year. Um the different parent organizations supporting and just getting to kind of roam the building in a way that's educational for them but not kind of scary, not intimidating, that good first exposure. Um we also some of us had the opportunity last week to attend the Boseies 2 annual meeting which is a wonderful event um that occurs each year where um we participate and kind of learn through what's going on in our Boseies hearing about their budget the work they've done throughout the year and the way our kids and our teams and our buildings are supported and connected throughout this Boseies network. Um we also get to see many of our students who are in our different CTE programs
012um being a part of the work and really chatting and talking and seeing their excitement and their pride. Um and then tomorrow have the opportunity to participate in the end of the year um Monroe County School Board uh meeting and there's a social hour which I think uh one or two board members are possibly attending. Just again that networking and connections throughout our county and our area of people who are working to support our kids and making sure we all learn from each other. Do we have any points of interest? Okay. Uh do we have any reports of meetings, visitor comments? This portion is moving fast, guys. All right, that moves us on to our reports section of the night. We have our continuing education and volunteers update. Hi guys. I usually don't need this.
013If you know me, you know I'm loud and I don't really want to follow these guys next time. Okay. Yeah, it's a lot of energy. So, good evening, Superintendent Dailyaly, President Coffee, and members of the board of education and guests. My name is Mara Shafalo. I'm the director of continuing education. And tonight, I'll be presenting community programs, the update for continuing education, drivers education, community use of the Spartan Fieldhouse, facility rentals, and volunteers. We'll start with traditional continuing education. The Gates Chila continuing education program offered 486 courses over four program sessions during the 2023 24 school year. 1497 community members attended these courses. Our most popular program is our community concert band under the direction of Mr. Christopher Ol. This group continues to grow and performs regularly for free. Popular programs for adults included the
014emergency preparedness class offered by Homeland Security, Paint Your Pet, and the mixed level yoga program. We introduced some new preschool classes in 2023. These photos are from our toddler music class and our tiny tumble class. They're so cute. Oh my goodness. And finally, our kids summer camps that are wildly popular. Pictured is the middle school community band and Miss Blazy's kids cooking camp. FYI, registration for summer programs and swim lessons opens on June 1st. Continuing education by session. This slide shows a summary of each session. As you can see, fall 2023 was our most popular and profitable session. And here are the continuing education grant totals for the year. We enrolled 1,497 community members. This is an increase from 1,100 last report. Our income was just shy of 63,000 and expenses were just over 50,000,
015giving us a net profit of $12,441. Some program highlights. As an eclipse ambassador for the Rochester Museum and Science Center, I worked with the Gates Shilai Middle School garden club to host two informational eclipse events for the community. We were a part of the fall festival and foundation events including the Wizards game. We opened and supervised the pool for prime time. We also hosted SPTO swim nights and elementary fun nights. We had a held a very successful passport night with the Monroe County Clerk's Office where 88 community members applied for passports. In 2023 24, we introduced our community chorus, our elementary summer band, our middle school community summer band programs. And on July 9th, 2024, we hosted our first community band extravaganza. This featured eight bands from around Monroe County and we'll be hosting our
016second band together on June 7th from 1 to 4 pm in the performing arts center. We hope you'll join us and we hope you'll bring all of your friends because it really is an exceptional day of music. Driver's education. We traveled 7,669 miles last year in the driver's education car and we had 61 students successfully complete the program. Does anyone have a student who needs driver's ed this summer? We released the lottery form yesterday and it can be found on the district website. You might have also seen a notification on parent square today. This slide shows our financials for the driver's education program. For the summer of 2023, we enrolled 37 students. Seven of those students were out of district. 30 students successfully completed the program. And in the winter spring of 2024, we enrolled
01735 students. Two of them were out of district, but they were actually employee students or employed children. and we had 31 students complete the program, giving us an overall net of just over $10,000. As you know, at Gates Chilai, community I'm sorry, as you know, community members in the Gates Chilai School District are able to use our tracks, pool, and fitness center. The Spartan Fieldhouse had 9,624 visitors in 2024. This slide summarizes this slide is an overview of the fieldhouse usage over the past four years. In 2021, we were actually closed for January to March. So that reflects that's part of why that number is a lot lower. But we are still seeing an increase and we're excited about it. We had 1,000 more visitors in 2024. volunteers. In 2023, we processed 370 volunteer applications
018across the district. As you know, this is a two-part process using the Raptor system as the part one, that's the application, and a Microsoft Office form as part two. A common question that you might hear, is why does it need to be two parts? And the answer so that you know is to maintain confidentiality with the personal information that's collected on the Raptor site and then give us a way to share that information on a form with all of our employees. That way it remains confidential and we also have asurances on there about how how volunteers will behave while they're volunteering. The next steps for the volunteer program in this this summer we'll be merging all of our forms because right now our forms are sight specific. So, we're going to make one district-wide form.
019It'll be sorted by year of graduation and finalizing this manual that's pretty close to final. Um, that's a a guide for our employees. And overall, we have 1,00 Whoops. That's an exciting number. Whoops. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What just happened? Okay. Overall, we have 1,730 approved volunteers. Facility rentals, which is Mr. Yakono. Uh Derek Yakono handles all of our facility rentals and in 2024 he received 10,213 requests. Of those 9,312 were approved. 74% of these requests are district activities. So tonight is a request in the system. Um there 74% are in district activities. um 23% of the requests are rentals and of these half are feeder programs. So they're charged a discounted amount and the other half are fullriced rentals. Uh the m and and the reason for the feeder program logic is
020that these are our students. So the majority of the roster of students for those organizations that are that are renting are students from our district. Um, and the majority of those requests are for the high school. This slide shows the rental revenues by location for 2024. We're kind of excited about this because the 70,000 total reflects an increase of over $30,000 from 2023. Hats off to Derek. Seriously. Um, so we're excited about that. Those are those numbers. Finally, connecting with the community is what we do. We're parts of lots of different associations. This is a list of some of them. Um, we work regularly with the Monroe County Continuing Ed directors and we host many, many other continuing ed programs. By offering our programs, they get to put their our programs in their booklet. Um,
021Dererick and I are both active members of the GC3 community connections along with Chief Long and Angelina Pound. Dererick's the treasurer for this group and we are all of us on the gala planning committee and we really want you to come to our gala next year. It's a lot of fun. Um we're members Gates is members of the Ravs Rochester area administrators of volunteer services group and I am the social chairman. Um what else? Uh we're part of the New York State Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association. We partner with Homeland Security, Emergency Services, the Monroe County Clerk's Office, and um we're I'm a member of the Friends of Gates Recreation. We owe thanks to lots of people because none of this happens in isolation, mostly to Dererick Eono and Josie Arento. None of this
022could happen without them. also the fieldhouse staff, Jod de Santo in the custodial staff, Eva Petraino in the communication department, the business office, the HR department, the mechanics, Sam Bell in the security department, our program instructors, and our students. Finally, I would like to invite you to the spring community band concert this Thursday. It's titled Eclectic Landscapes, and it's at 7 PM in the Performing Arts Center. and watch your mail for the spring continuing education brochure which should be in mailboxes any day now. And with that, I thank you for your attention and welcome any questions. You guys have any questions? Thank you so much you guys for all your work. Thank you. Have a nice night. Next, we have our capital project update. Good evening everyone. Uh, President Coffee, Vice President Richards, Board of
023Education, Superintendent Daily. We're here for the April 2025 uh, capital improvement project update. Uh, work completed. High school technology. This space is moving quickly now. We started the wall painting and we finished up the roofing in this area. High school facts, we finally installed the ceiling grid, which you can see on the right hand upper photo in the two uh kitchen classrooms. Uh middle school technology, we uh have been working on the punch list with our general contractor as well as we've paved the sidewalk outside the space. The temporary lot will be paved as part of the phase 2 contract this summer. Uh and then we have started the middle school music space. We've been coming to these for over a year, giving you all updates on the capital project phase one, and we have
024finally entered our last space of construction. Uh so in that we uh temporary conditions so the fencing you may have seen coming in tonight and then abatement is the first task. Uh plumbing work continued working on roughin in both in the technology spaces and then punch list and then uh the middle school music just some minor things so the abatement can start mechanical work uh high school technology both continued wrapping up duct work and then started the dust collector rough in uh so it's a separate duct line that feeds uh dust collection system just for the woodworking uh equipment. uh middle school technology punch list and then similar to the plumbing uh just a makes safe for the abatement contractors. Uh and finally phase one electrically middle school technology punch list minor demolition in the
025music wing and the makes safe and then high school technology continued uh installing lights permanent light fixtures for the space. Our phase two of site work uh Florence Brasser the addition foundations have been poured. They were backfilled this morning. Uh the site contractor has continued to grade the softball and baseball fields. And I just want to say it's going to be very exciting seeing all the sports that were out there tonight to be shifting those over to the new turf fields. Uh the field drainage work is ongoing as well. Uh and then light b light pole base installation has completed. Uh pretty soon we'll see those poles raised into the air. And then not on here, but they installed the retaining wall along Spartan Way for the new sidewalk going along that space. our general
026contractor for phase two um completed the foundation bore and then they're doing some more hazardous materials uh for the uh concrete block in that space and then some OTP wall and fill in the back and then we started prepping this contractor for the summer work in the high school middle school. A lot of small rooms to be taken care of with ceilings and the like but there's a lot of planning that goes into that with moving teachers and staff out of the space. Uh plumbing, mechanical and electrical work. Uh we're still doing minor things really. Electrical is the big one. Starting to run conduits for the fields for those light poles as well as just the general electronics that are associated with a turf field complex. Uh looking ahead into May, uh high school technology,
027the epoxy floor that was done in the middle school is also going to be done in the high school technology. Uh we're going to be finally putting the brick facade on the building, completing the dust collector and then any specialty fixture installations in the room and then finished wall and ceiling painting and then soon to be display cases. Middle school music wrapping up the abatement and then starting to tear down about 60 to 70% of the building. Uh the new structure will be wider in all directions. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Not 60% of the building. 60% of the music current music wing. There you go. Thank you. uh Florence Brasser putting the steel up for the new main addition and then framing the inside of that space and then the MEP ruffins middle school continued the
028it's going to be a very common theme drainage uh material fill and lighting for the fields and then the sidewalk. Uh they're going to start removing some asphalt, clearing up the space and uh hopefully pouring concrete in the next couple of months. Budget-wise, we are 69% build through phase one and then phase two, we're 12% build through all contractors. Our contingency has not changed. We are we have a healthy contingency remaining. And then the contractor's allowances, we've spent about 146,000 of our 570,000. Some photos. Uh new teaching wall in one of the technology spaces. More stud. Yes. And and now drywall for one of the new uh teacher offices. They're they will have their own offices now instead of being in back closets in the technology space. And then another wall. Uh this will be
029one of the computer labs in the uh most east room for the space. Uh this is a photo of the music band room that has just been completely emptied. Um this is one of the only areas not currently under containment for the abatement. This is uh what will be I believe just a general music room emptied. And then this is what abatement uh looks like when you're inside of the space. Everything gets plasticked off. Uh and just the materials that are hazardous are removed. And some field shots. Uh this is one of the light pole bases being installed. Another light pole base. And then just general filled. Again, the the fields are going to be coming up several feet across to for both fields. And then Florence Brasser. Some infill work. This is the foundations
030being poured. infill work uh for the faculty room. The old storage room is shifting north and the faculty room is expanding slightly. So the uh what used to be the storage room door has now been a wall. There's now a wall and that was April. Any questions? Do you know when I do not have a date yet. Just throwing it out there. If you've never seen light poles being installed, it's pretty impressive with the crane. And these are about 120 foot poles. So, uh, if you get a chance and you hear a date, I would highly recommend trying to make some time to check that out. You will hear it happening because everyone's gonna be talking about it. It's impressive. Sometimes they use helicopters to install the poles. We will not be You're not hearing
031that, though. It'd be fun. So, we're not using helicopters to install the light poles. Unfortunately, not. Okay. Not yet. Any questions, you guys? Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Have a nice evening. That moves us forward now to our budget report. Good evening, Superintendent Dailyaly, President Coffee, Vice President Richards, and the Board of Education. Thank you for having me. I'm Mitch Bald, the assistant superintendent for business. So with that um this will be our fifth and hopefully final budget presentation to the board. So this evening on the um so first of all the agenda we'll talk about where we are today expenditure budget proposal the revenue plan um the propositions that will go out um to the public if approved tonight um board of ed election information um some summary information and next steps.
032So, um, where we're at is we've been through the, um, entirety of the budget process. Um and so that was a a very inclusive process that included um staff members, administrators, um the board of education and in conversation specifically with the finances and audit committee um to where we are tonight, which is um the night when um we anticipate the board will um be prepared and ready to adopt a budget that would go out to the public for referendum on May 20th. And so after this evening um what we um will typically see is that we'll start preparing the budget documents in the background. We've already been doing a lot of work around that. Um the newsletter um presentations uh tomorrow morning we start shooting the bit of budget video series. Um uh episode one
033would um anticipate to come out on May 1st with u May 2nd through the 12th being when um the newsletters are mailed out. So, in terms of the expenditure budget proposal, it's um the same as what was presented before. Um this is just a final run through of the numbers, a 4.85% increase. Again, it's a modified zerobased budget um with with no frills. And so, I know that we've had many conversations, we've had budget ambassadors, um we've gotten feedback from our community. Um we feel that this is a very sound budget um that both um represents um fiduciary responsibility to our community respect of our taxpayers as well as providing great programs and services for our students. Um in terms of a revenue plan, um we're still waiting a New York state budget. Uh I
034I did read today that um the one thing that was a bit of a hangup in terms of the state budget itself was not related to education. Um it was related to the legal system and um something around discovery laws and um how things are done um from a court perspective. Um there was some hangup on that front and from what we understand there's a tenative agreement on that today between um the governor and the the legislative side of the process. Um and so what we're hearing tenatively is that it could be possible we have a budget by the end of the week. Um we're not too um we're not too certain about that at this point. Um we think it might be more likely that we don't see something until early May, but there
035is some word that we might have something as soon as the end of this week. Um so one thing that we do know is that um the intention is still there to include that SAP data that we discussed. That's that poverty indicator that frankly um aligns more closely with the reality that we have here in Gates Chili today versus the census data that was used in prior iterations of the foundation aid formula that was looking at census data from the year 2000. Um this data is far more current and more reflective of the needs of our community. And so we are hearing that the intention of the state is still to include that in their budgetary proposal which would be obviously advantageous um to us here in the district. And if there is any issue
036with the numbers when they come out um we would use fund balance and reserves to cover any budgetary gap. And then going into the following year um if necessary we would have to make budgetary decisions if there were financial reductions in state aid revenue. So any questions on the revenue plan? Okay, thank you. Um the propositions and board of ed election, um three propositions um we would hope to put out to the public. The first is the annual budget. Um again, the annual budget is the community approving the max amount of um expenditures that the district can have in the fiscal year. Um then there's the bus proposition. um we have uh a approximately six-year bus rotation of our nearly um 90 school buses. Um and so that's that proposition. And then the third proposition
037is a capital reserve for bus purchases um if we're able to get this capital reserve approved. This would allow us to defer um up to $200,000 a year in um issuance cost of bonds and the work that needs to be done in order to make that happen. Um which involves um our financial advisors. Um it involves bond council attorneys. Um so a lot of legal fees and then fees to Moody's which is a rating agency um where we have to go through a rerating every time we issue bonds. And so that's a process that they have to go through and we end up paying for. And so this would save about $200,000 a year. And then the board of ed ed elections. Um there's three seats available. Um they're three-year terms. Um we do have
038um candidates now because um those were due yesterday at 5:00 pm. And so the candidates in ballot order, we did a ballot drawing today, um are Tanya Serbinowski, Jamar Elliot, Andrea Mchella, and Dr. Christine Brown Richards. Um the vote is May 20th from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Spartan Fieldhouse um here at the Gates Chryai High School. So with that, thank you. And are there any questions? Okay. No, thank you so much. Thank you so much for your continued support. All right, that moves us on to our last report for the evening. We have our student exeicio update. Good evening. At the high school, our students are reading to buckle down for their upcoming AP exams beginning in around two weeks. The AP classes offered here at Gates Shil allow students to explore
039college level rigor right here at the high school while also allowing them to even gain college credit depending on their exam score. And if you look around the high school, you'll begin to see many more seniors wearing their college apparel as they start to make their final college decisions. In addition, there's many exciting events coming up at the high school with the junior junior and senior gala and the senior prime time on May 16th. And this will offer plenty of entertainment for Gates Shil students and their guests. And overall, we're all looking forward to the end of the year excitement. Thank you. Thanks, Lucas. All right, that moves us on to discussion items. We have our policy committee updates. We have very quick committee meeting. We have one policy to go over 6161 conference travel
040expense reimbursement. Uh it's been recommended by the uh business office as well as uh IR1is to update uh one line in it to increase the uh uh tip rate maximum from 15% to 20%. Uh so that is the one uh recommended for the border to consider up to 20%. Uh for the board to consider this evening. Thank you. That brings us to our second item which you've just led us into is our first read of policy 6161 conference travel expense reimbursement. Any other discussion around that? Okay. That moves us now to our consensus items. Can I have a motion to approve the consensus agenda? Dr. Richards, uh, Miss Jennings. Any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve consensus item C through H? Miss Littlewood, Mr. Long. Any
041discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. That moves us on to action items. Be it resolved that the board approves the following tenure appointments listed below in the agenda as the April 22, 2025 meeting as recommended by the superintendent of schools. Do I have a motion? Dr. Richards, Miss Littlewood, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to acknowledge board candidates in election ballot placement? Mr. Long, Miss Kais, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 property tax report card? Miss Jennings, Miss Davis. Any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 board of education proposed budget? Miss Littlewood, Mr. Sinowski. Any discussion? All in favor? The
042vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 annual budget and proposition as listed in the agenda? Have a motion. Dr. Richards, Miss Davis, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. I have a motion to approve the Monroe to Orleans Bosey's administrative budget of 8,958,813 for the 2025 2026 fiscal year. Can I have a motion? Miss Jennings, Mr. Mscado, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to vote on Monroe to Orleans Bosey's board candidates? I have a motion. Dr. Richards, Miss Jennings, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous? Can I have a motion to wave the second reading of policy number 6161? Miss Littlewood, Miss Kais, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Have a motion to approve
043policy number 6161. Have a motion. Dr. Richards, Miss Davis. Any discussion? All in favor? It is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve the MOA between GCSD and the GC teachers association? Miss Littlewood, Mr. Bowski. Any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. That moves us forward to our superintendent comments. Well, this week the high school will host its annual careers in demand breakfast. The event scheduled for Thursday continues to grow. This year over 350 students are scheduled to meet nearly 50 presenters representing careers in hospitality, healthcare, engineering, skilled trades, information technology, business, law, education, public safety, and advanced manufacturing. Mrs. Petraino will also be moderating a panel of GC alumni after the breakfast to allow students to hear from industry experts who once sat in their very seats. Also this Thursday, seven
044Gates Charlie students in the postseason 2 career and technical education program will compete in the New York skills USA state leadership conference at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. This is a conference. This is a conference and empowers Skills USA members to compete in various challenges related to their chosen career in technical education trade. Four other CTE students will be there in volunteer roles. We'll share more about how it goes after the conference is over. Apparently, Thursday is a very busy day for Spartans. As you heard Mrs. Shalo share. You're invited to hear the Gates Charlie Community Concert Band perform Eclectic Landscapes this Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Gates Charlie Performing Arts Center. The ensemble will be presenting music from different genres that each paint evocative musical landscapes from the streets of New
045York to Emerald City. The 90 piece band comprised of GC community members, alumni, students, and staff cordly invite you to take part in this epic free musical adventure. Other concerts coming are this month and next month uh are here in Gates Trilley include the Triam on May 5th, the Paul Road Band and Chorus concert May 7th, the Florence Barasser Band and Chorus concert May 8th, the Walt Disney Band and Chorus concert May 14th, the High School Jazz Band concert May 20th, the Neil Armstrong Band and Chorus concert on May 21st, and the high school chorus concert May 28th. All these events kick off at 7 PM in the GC Performing Arts Center. Last Thursday was also ironically on a Thursday an exciting day here in Gates Chry. Congratulations to the Paul Road Panthers faculty and
046staff for earning the ball bus trophy in our third annual GC Education Foundation volleyball tournament. The biggest winners of the night were actually our community because over $500 and six boxes of food were raised or donated for the foundation. Thank you to everyone who attended and supported this event and our foundation. Earlier today, our four candidates for the board of education selected their ba their ballot order. The candidates in ballot order are Tanya Serbanowski, Jamar Elliot, Andrea Menchella, and Dr. Christine Brown Richards. They will join us next Thursday, May 1st, in this room for a budget hearing and meet the candidates night. This event kicks off at 6 pm. Bless you. You're welcome. And a reminder that our annual budget vote and board election is four weeks away on Tuesday, May 20th. Polls will be
047open from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. in our Spartan Fieldhouse at Gates Charlie High School. And as Dr. Ball referred to, yes, there's still a late state budget. Depending on who you talk to, it could be tomorrow, Friday, next week, or next year. We're still waiting for a finalized state budget, so we hope it comes soon. Either way, we've adopted our budget for this year, and we hope the community will as well. That is my report. President Coffee. Thank you, sir. Can I now have a motion to adjourn our meeting? Miss Kais, Miss Littlewood, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.