001e e e she all I'd like to call the regular board meeting to order at 4 532 Pete Gordon yes Max Tim H yes Kelly here Jamie Wilson here indivisible andice person who address the board under we havean um you don't know me Brian Clon 2008 graduate JY valy Central School um I'm a resident in village of Belmont I work for the village of bont run the W fire treatment plant here and I've also coached basketball baseball and soccer the Youth Level for the last seven years um the papers that you guys have in front of you right now are just basketball numbers of our youth basketball program from 2019 to 2024 so what I'm keying in on here is just boys basketball modified JV andity um between jese Valley and Belfast and the numbers
002that I want to give you guys are uh in our K through two we have 4 we had 42 kids sign up this year 20 third and fourth graders 22 Fifth and six if you look at 2019 we're at 28 K through 2 13 third and four and only 11 Fifth and six so you can see the growth of the basketball numbers just at jennessee Valley from 2019 to 2024 now um I know basketball season's over but this is the time that we need to talk about stuff something like this um the school had two modified basketball teams this year the school had freshman that also moved down to modified from JV four of them I believe four or five um it's very hard to develop a basketball program with numbers like that and it's
003also hard to give all of these kids that are that really love the sport the opportunity to play the sport when you have this many numbers between the two schools I have nothing against Bast I have nothing against the merger at all as long as the numbers say that needs to be in basketball right now the numbers are continuing to go up in America in general the NFL is the most popular sport NBA college basketball second these kids like wearing the shoes they like buying the jerseys it's a very in yourface available sport for these kids to get into the last three years um myself Nick Kelly R yman Max guli and others we started a community of Champions fund where we send players uh mainly kindergarten through eighth grade aged kids to basketball camp
004we raiseed money we send them to Camp every over the last three years every year we are sending more and more kids from the Belmont Angelica West Alman JY Valley School District kids to Camp there are people like myself like Ry like Nick like Max is making basketball popular again amongst these kids um and the numbers are speaking for themselves so what I'm asking the board is I'm one person you guys may need more to come to get get it across I would like to ask you guys to please consider that on the boys basketball side of things and modify JV and varsity to take a hard look at demerging and being Jesy Valley and Belfast separately if the numbers allow that to be to allow these kids the opportunity to play because ultimately they
005are student athletes right but the kids that struggle to be students when they get to be an athlete it makes them a better student I was one of them I have many friends that were the exact same way I needed basketball to get through school and I like I told you guys I've known these kids for the last s to eight years I know their home life I know their family situations I know how many of them whose parents are divorced which ones are adopted all of the things that these kids struggle with on a daily basis and them being involved in sports keeps them on the straight and narrow and I feel like that us being merged with Belfast in basketball right now is deterring some of these kids from signing up whether they're
006I don't care if it's the best athlete on the team or the worst last guy on the bench I want every one of these kids that go to this school an opportunity and a chance to play on the team and it's a hard sell if we start doing cuts to these parents in both communities in jese Valley and Bast when they can say the exact same thing that I'm saying right now why are we cutting our kids from these teams if we have enough kids to make the team why are we having freshman play 14y Old 14 and 15y old freshman playing basketball with 12y old seventh graders just from a body development standpoint it's not doesn't make sense it really doesn't and um I don't want to sound like a disgruntle dad or anything
007like that this has nothing to do with either of my boys both of my boys are phenomenal athletes I'm not not being conceited when I say this they're going to play no matter what I'm not worried about Brock and Taylor I'm worried about Brock and Taylor's friends who I've gotten to know over the last seven to eight years that I really would hope that you guys would just consider talking to Belfast talking amongst yourselves and seeing if the data would be there um to maybe give that uh a try um and if anybody has any uh questions or concerns or anything that they say back to me I'm open to whatever I think we certainly appreciate you coming in and it's nice to see these numbers especially for the youth programs I know our with
008our athletic director about best athletic director our two boards our athletic committee boards we discuss different scenarios every year um it's it's a tough situation I'm not saying that we can't look into it obviously I feel the boards will look into it do every year um you know I just like to to go back to when my son played he had the biggest class in gene Valley and most of them were male athletes yeah seventh eth nth grade teams were loaded but you were talking 25 by the time he got to Varsity half them kids didn't want to play anymore we didn't have enough make a team y so there's ab and flows for sure that that that's an issue you got to look at for you know we're I'm not saying this is this
009be a year toe basis though yeah you know deping yeah I get what you're saying um is a year to your basis you're correct but the way we do the merger is we we have to definitely go back and rewrite the whole thing um as of right now I don't think anybody on this board has the objection looking into it um but it's not nothing we can do overnight you know yeah you know there's two boards involved two spools involved and like you said it's nice that you brought this now so we can start thinking about it for next year the uh the support system that in my opinion that Riley's age group had is not the same level of support and and uh that these kids have now there's a lot of basketball men
010in women from the 2000 to 2009 Glory Days of Gene Valley bask that are all back we are all back and we are all pushing and we are all getting these kids involved uh I personally don't think that Riley's age group had that in my opinion but um and you're right there will be abs and flows but right now it's really flowing in the direction of there being a lot of kids if it's something that you guys can't do when the time comes there's other things that would at least need to be visited like when Max and I were in school there was a seventh grade modified team there was an eighth grade modified team you had cuts at the JB level those would be things that you may have to consider and look at
011because at the end of the day I I know that when Denny miles came in here on the baseball side of things he preached program development and he was going to do this and do that this is the same exact mindset there's a lot of us that want to develop a basketball program a basketball program is going to be very hard to develop in the current environment the way that it's structured with boys basketball right now and I just wanted to bring it to your guys's attention um for you guys to to to think about it we certainly do appreciate it and obviously we are going to look into it um don't see an objection At All by any form number we try to do it with all numbers every year but you know statistics
012in front of us Reagan always makes us statistics of what's going on with B pass so it's a and the athletic committee like I said they meet all the time yeah and this this what I'm saying doesn't hold any water in girls Sports whatsoever it's it's completely warranted the GB Bell fast girls uh soccer and baseball you have more kids out there I completely understand none of what I'm saying is at all against being unified with Belfast and all these other sports I'm really only bringing it to the table just based on numbers and giving the kids in this school district and in the Belfast School District all of those kids the ability to play basketball if they want to play it that's basically that in a nutshell I get it because uh basketball you're
013putting five kids on Flor soer you're putting 11 at a time basb you got nine it's much more apparent when you have kids sitting on the bench the basketball Sport with some of the other sports are the Belfast numbers similar are they Rising as well they're um they're so in third and fourth grade and in fifth and sixth grade when we played Belfast this year in both of our home and away games uh our third and fourth graders there were enough kids from both schools that we had to split we couldn't just play on one Court we had to split all the kids up into two separate courts because there was that many kids between the two schools in fifth and sixth grade it was the exact same way we had to split up um
014both schools at the fifth and sixth grade level at this weekend's Allstar tournament that we competed in that we won mind you um that uh both teams had uh enough kids to make an All-Star team they had to cut not cut kids but they Belfast selected their All-Star team jenese Valley selected their All-Star team um and there was enough to even to even do that I would probably would guess that these numbers look a little bit better than Bel F but do I believe that they would have enough for a team based on what I'm seeing and based on the parents that I've been connecting with over there I've I've actually offered I've offered multiple Belfast families the opportunity to play on some of my travel a basketball teams that I do a few of
015them have latched on a few are still hesitant because we're not we're we're divided right um but I've tried to bridge the gap and there's a few of them that I would absolutely love for my boys to be able to play basketball up through school with and I think that we could be competitive but also I'm one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet ever but this is not going to sound anything like me whatsoever but I would rather sacrifice some of my my boys being able to play with some of those better players who allow my boys friends who aren't as good to play on the team I just want these kids to be able to play on the team that's all um you know if we went to Wellsville Hornell o land
016bigger schools like that that's the lay of the land there's Cuts they're cut and modified JV Varsity everything it is what it is most of us choose to live in these small communities to let our kids be able to participate in anything and everything you know um so just you know think about it and then you know maybe in a few months I could reach back out to Max and see if I can come back in again and see if you guys have talked about anything or uh frean giving you guys any data or anything along those lines um just because I'd like to stay with it you know there's a lot of other people that really feel the way that I do right now but there's people that don't that don't want to come
017in and talk they don't want to stand up in front of the room um they're scared that people are going to be upset with them or they're going to make enemies I have not a single enemy in this entire room I I've have a relation I've built a relationship probably with most everybody in here um and uh and also on the Belfast side of things I wouldn't want any of them to think that I'm trying to um undermine them in any way either but at the end of the day it's all about these Gene Valley kids for me those are the people those are the kids that I put first as a as a youth coach as someone that uh uh does a major fundraiser for these kids to help these parents pay for $4
018to $500 basketball camps me and Michelle will be able to expand on that because Nick is our main go-to for that but um yeah that's really all I got for you I think it's good that you come in there and you're willing to say that I wish more State hold wood and it's our duty to listen make sure we do our duil for it thank you yeah I appreciate it I told Max I'm like you know Regan had reached out to me back in uh September October asked if I wanted to coach JB basketball I said I'm a few years away stop the I'm a few years away but I told Max I'm like I'll do whatever it takes you pay me $1 I'll give the rest of the sale to the sports boosters or
019use sports or do whatever for these kids I do not care I what I care about is these kids that I spent the last seven years of my life with that love the game of basketball and I just don't want to see them I get it it's a way of life where you get your heart ripped out every once in a while but there's a lot of other worst things in the world they're going to have to experience and maybe let's just give them a chance to to play and make the team like being a bills like being bill man I appreciate it Ryan thanks definely ma we'll stay on top of I appreciate it well we're off to baseball practice o thanks guys have a good one board I need a motion to approve
020the minutes for the February 11th second any questions concerns on all in [Music] favor administrative reports I think we all got them on our email have any questions comments what's anything new for you guys all good busy thank you very much board committee reports the we were going all right I guess we're going to financial reports then I'm gonna go through the presentation that you guys were emailed last week these are just fre reference [Music] this work I've never used one of these all right so this all should look really familiar to you here is just a um budget calendar update so March March 11th we're going through yeah sorry it's really small but you guys all have a copy of it so you need it for reference um next week we have another budget
021Personnel committee meeting um which we'll be going through um some more additional information and then hopefully by the next board meeting we should have a a draft budget that's my goal anyways it'd be aggressive but that's my hope and then you guys will adopt the budget later on in April so here are some of the discussions that we continue to have on a daily basis I'm doing to go through Department budgets and cutting what I can um staffing needs that's going to be an ongoing discussion right up until the end of the budget special education placements as well that changes every day but I'm in constant contact with Sarah um that will change as the process goes on and then the after school and summer programs what that looks like we include it in our
022budget or if that's going to be something that's outsourced going forward as of right now it is included in the budget we'll touch on that a little later um retirees these are the current retirees um as of right now our total projected budgetary savings for this is just over $100,000 um it's a little difficult when you replace these replace existing staff with new staff health insurance is the biggest piece of that we do save um and salaries obviously but we also have to budget for family health insurance so whether these employees have family or not we at least have Tod budget family health insurance so that could be a big expense but bottom line we are still projecting a savings there um our health insurance this will be finalized on Thursday but right now we
023are anticipating just a 2% increase so that is positive news and then our foundation made that we're expecting a minimum of 2% both both these expenditures are increasing quite a bit this year our three-year average I mean it's just the reality more kids are going to Bose's in our 11th and 12th grades so as our average as those numbers increase our threee average increases as well um we are budgeting for four students that could be High um but we are pretty sure three of those four students are definite for New Visions but we are hoping that the fourth student gets in as well um and then we are sending two students to Elm Street for sure so that is an additional expense as well and then Capital Outlet project that's the $100,000 Capital Improvement line
024that we include every year so here's the after school and summer program budgets um they are just they're budgeted the same as what they were last year um we are for the summer program alone it would be $53,000 in our after school is 102 so once I get a final yes or no with that then we can decide what we want to do um extracurriculars this is one of the handouts that I gave you this kind of goes through everything that's included in the extra particular line all the um all the stiens as well as what we um budget for contractual and supplies and that if you guys have any questions feel free to interrupt um here's some of the changes in the budget currently we have an additional kindergarten teacher included in there um
025the new position with Benefits is just over $90,000 um we are looking to reduce the speci special education director from a 12- month 10-month um position so that would be a savings there um increase Aid support um I've talked about this numerous times but in this budget there's 15 additional AIDs that have not been budgeted for so five of those are out of District um and that decrease just based on our in District needs and 10 of them are Jesy Valley AIDS so the out districts are offset by the tuition from other dist from other districts and then the genese value ones are fully absorbed in our budget so that's a large ticket item is there like a specific way to touch this not a teacher here what's going on the mouse isn't is there
026a remote there does that remote do it's always something technology wise I know I'm sorry tonight oh yeah wish I would have printed out a copy IED yeah it's fully Frozen yeah it's frozen because it's 99 got to memorize there yeah I could okay that's this sure so some of the other projected changes in the budget um currently we are contracted to the visually impaired um service um one of our staff members is actually now um I guess certified there you go to be in that position so we are replacing that contract with our own existing staff we are reducing one of our special educ education classrooms our 811 shipping staff so one of the the special education teachers will Shi into Randy is the the teacher that is certified and um we'll shift the
027the teacher of that 811 classroom into a different classroom and then we are going to be restructuring your mental health supports as well um so right now the projected special education tuition is just over a million dollars currently have $950,000 this year's budget so that is a slight increase um we have several anticipated opening spots for some of those classrooms um we have one spot in our 811 kindergarten through two three spots in our 811 3D through 5th two spots in 1211 K through3 and one spot in 1211 9 through2 so if all of those spots were taken which you know who knows what could happen now that um in tuition only it would be just over a $200,000 increase plus the related services so it would probably be more like a 300 $400,000 increase
028um but more to come on that we'll see if for those um our tax levy so I submitted it at a 0.9% increase we've done that for many years in the past last year we did a one and a half% increase but I kind of like to keep it right around that 1% um so that is an increase of about $28,000 um our maximal our maximum allowable Levy that we can increase it is about 3.55% it's just over $100,000 so my recommendation is to stay at the 0.9% for the tax um fund balance our current un unappropriated fund balance is just over 1.2 million um as of early March we were at 1.6 and that's just kind of where our Reserve transfer go so that was all included in the budget and I'm anticipating about
029a $1.3 million access fund balance so I'd like to keep it right around the 6% um budget to budget uh appropriated fund balance is $725,000 I don't recommend increasing that or changing that um I don't anticipate using that for this year's budget that so that will just stay and go on to next year's budget have lost set those costs so our current budget snapshot our revenues are about 16 million our expenditures are 21 million um ping in that $725,000 appropriated fund balance as well as the tax levy our current Gap is about 99 ,000 um the budget salaries again this is this was sent to you but I just kind of outlined what our um instructional salaries are this year and what they looking at for next year it's just a large for you guys
030to see that is are there any questions on I know you guys have seen that specific questions that you guys have as far as that digal can teacher what I mean on the what benefits wise are we talking Health yeah that's it's your your Social Security family all so a step one kindergarten teacher cost not step one I did it at step three because that's kind of where we are averaging it's hard to do SE one I mean we haven't hired a SE one I can I was the handouts that I gave you capture classroom was included in that budget line as well as the current grants that we have and what those grants are being utilized for so to go along with Buddy's question and it's probably more of a Brian question than Aaron
031question but I'm guessing that's in there because their recommendation as Brian is to add a kindergarten classroom yes okay so You' also given us the numbers for next year and on my home but I think kindergarten next year did project to have 44 kids in subed have 4 well that that number changed since last week okay so you said 48 but the Comm first so is it the difference in the kids that makes you think maybe one versus the other or is that something more than that yeah what about curriculum wise and I mean you know that I'm aing at kindergarten but what are the thoughts about so well and I couldn't really necessarily find it but some of you were on this board at one point in time where we felt strongly about having
032those additional classrooms and I think the numbers were still pretty close around to I mean at one point did we have like 11 12 kids in each class okay so I guess I was just wondering looking at other numbers maybe what is different going into next year when we would have more than what we historically had that we wouldn't be supporting it now so couple of things one um going in projected at 42 isly divided in two there two sections of these are projections and know we see we again get 10 more kids over summer which would would force the district to high for great all you can get 10s and that's also a reality as well you look at the skill acquisition that takes place between kindergart and first grade those are two of
033the most important Foundation skills letter association association So based upon our experience and and what we what we feel is what's best for the district both financially as well as the recommendations for two sections in first grade we also have a significant amount of intervention support that comes in around those those sections so um both Ela and math who have litery you have internet teachers who are assigned to those grades to provide support one of the things that we did today was we looked at a new new program that with the goal of drying reduce the number of students opportunity to this in laa so again my goal always is that they have 100% of our students to but it's it's a balancing act between what we can afford and what Mak what is best
034for kids no I I mean I understand I understand with their numbers I think for me I just was wondering you know given kind of the the Gap that we had maybe what the thought process was between behind one versus the other or at all the last thing I would like to see is sessions of 24 of the reality in first grade you can do that is it is it ideal no but when you look at the when you look at the the fact the attributes of classrooms that are that really have the biggest impact on student learning it's the relationship with the teacher it's the type of instruction strategies that need to complete and one of the key pieces that we're our first grade team is finally com to centers ear so kids are
035are working together they're doing more of those activities and then providing opportunities for more individualized instruction there was certainly an implementation Gap this year with um our first grade with came to realizing how how they've been structured with really small sections all of a sudden have much larger section sah kindgarten had some had some culture shock too initially that came about there is also a desire to finish the curriculum inti certainly much easier to do with a section size of 12 and 13 however the the goal isn't always just to finish the curriculum it's to make sure that the skills that are being presented are gained in a way the students are are being successful with so we have more students there certainly is there are more shifts along those lines I don't want you
036to get the impression I'm blaming it it's just a different it's a different teaching style that you're going to impose with a group of 12 or 13 one to so that's one of the things that we' worked on early in this to provide not only additional supports in the classroom but also making sure that we're supporting our teachers to share their instru instuctional the the four additional kids that are coming in are these just maybe you know family are kids that haven't historically gone to school or I honestly I honestly don't know I didn't I got the number to be honest with you but I didn't look that I think those broadcast probably identifi they are so well I so I guess my question is and you don't have to say individual but you guys
037know that I said on the policy committee and I did bring this up and I'm not saying I would still support an additional kindergarten class but we do have a policy that kind of is specific about if creating another section um by taking out a district kids if it if you know we would incur a cost to create a new section for that so I guess my question is do you think that that is is attributed to it all out of District kids you meant first grade right well I guess I could ask about both but he's not recommending that there be an additional first grade class correct so I guess I'm specifically asking for kindergarten there there are certainly a number a lot of District kids that are not staff members children that are
038included in that section yes we have a board policy that that says if if if if that is a significant barrier to the budget we we could say no we haven't traditionally in the past and the kids that are here have been here so many of them for prek to in prek many of them have siblings in the building that is a decision that you will have to make as a board as we get closer to the the final budget as to whether or not you want to enforce that policy on a on a grade level basis uh or by overall that's one of the things I would just caution you is if you're looking grade level specifically to enforc policy and not enforc policy on other big levels you're opening yourself up for a
039can for a lot of a lot of criis in particular if you're looking at and looking you have siblings and other grade lovers of our district that do attend the school sale and denying some based upon one gr I think you're really setting yourself up for conf um by by could you could you have the section sizes in kindergarten possibly because again we don't this is as of March we don't know what September is going to look like until September Comes and there could be a significant reduction in students that come in kindergarten you could have section sizes at kindergarten of really small and that that decision could also be made at that point to to reduce that kindergarten section back to two and to reutilize the teacher in in a different capacity that that
040may be advantageous to students in another place we've always had that flexibility in the district challenge is what you don't want to have to do is to go in September one and hire correct buddy because we've been doing that in the past where we've had to come in and say that's the hard part so the goal is to budget for this now uh with the the kindergart teach you're in there um as long as I've been I've never SE not a couple other I was other so I mean if if you're talking 48 now there's still four or five that are lacking that are coming in I don't disagree with you I we're going to be up in the 50s yeah with kindergarten without issue we had we had eight kids just toec after the
04115th when we have to decisions about District we had eight kids in kindergarten this year 15 I mean that was a big shock we were we were in classes two one class 15 and 16 for kindergarten this year until we school started I think those kids have stuck around all year too no maybe not some yes some yes some no it's it's questionable there's a few of them that have outside outside issues that are we got on one of them today so we don't know what will happen with that that could change dramatically in that's a couple kids so we well I don't want to say we wouldn't I guess I'm curious so going if we if we had two kindergarten classrooms would we have I guess if we have three we had more kids
042come in there's more flexibility right but if we had two and we had say a 5-year-old that moved into the district and their family wanted them to be in kindergarten but these class sies were 24 each would we ever say that we wouldn't accept that student or we would okay because I know like 4K we have never had that as issue as policy I mean I knew the board could s CL as kindergarten is not a mandatory grade level obviously none was F want to turn just I don't hear you advocating but I am saying to you that as a board you wanted to create a policy that said the maximum number we're going to allow for a section just again caution you down the road that that limit your budgetary decisions you about s
043well what I was really thinking is if you're at 48 you have then you have more flexibility that's that's one of the reasons as like yesterday that are not C we have a couple kids are in um special class and things like that they're going to continue so we have 40 kids moving forward of those four are out of District not teachers kids two of them have been here 33 two of them one of them is new to us this year and um one of them has we could if that was a determining Factor we take it have two classes 16 that's one of the things that could happen how [Music] many can be one year one year we had one fifth grade set up and we had 10 fifth graders in last week so
04424 so you just never know just never know what I will say is right now most of the houses and places to live both Angelica and Delma are full they really are we got we got so many new kids this year that moved into the district that their houses are full right now there's not last year there was more openings in in housing than there is right now so are we saying that the preference would be if we were able to from a budget standpoint to have an additional first grade classroom but we can't or are we saying that we just don't recommend the first grade class I don't think it's sizes just about 10 I don't think it's educationally sound it's too small that's what I was wondering was budgetary deis so my only
045other question was and I mean I guess I'm going to put it on on us as a board although I don't know who has to make the final decision but we've had a lot of conversations about after school in the summer program and every time I hear from you know Brian or Aon what's the directive that this board wants to go I'm not sure if that's still true but I guess I'm just wondering if we are how we're going to go about handling that and making a decision suggestion sure that's the only thing right now I have on the agenda for our committee meeting next week is that discussion so my recommendation that would come out of the budget committee recommendation to the board looking looking more in two programs C programs that right now
046is that's the only item I have to talk about I think it's probably a good discussion one will take all your time I think so too an additional thought on that is is there a possibility of applying extended school dat cover something here does that timing my knowledge to my knowledge something that's going to open between now and the start of the school year that would allow that to take place Tim the timing usually comes out in August July to August before the and it's and a lot of times sometimes they start the following year sometimes they start as effect of January it all depends on the Grant and and again Federal they're minimal to no federal grants this is going to be something they States after we have the budget committee meeting have time
047to discuss it with the board oh yeah they'll be on the top whoever's not on that committee hear what the any other questions on rep I motion to approve the pressure second any questions comments concerns on that all in favor oppos motion Carri I need a motion to approve the warrant rep max any questions comments concerns on that all favor I need a motion to approve the funds transfer any questions comments concerns on that I need a motion to approve us purchase proposition on the M ball unbelievable Sean when who was second any questions comments concerns on that Willie right here if you need any all in favor I need a motion to approve the town library proposition for me 25 on motion Max motion James second any questions comments concerns on that allv agenda
048we have on agendum under agenda number one change just the title and then under five is uh volunteer Josh for modified baseball under Joe anybody have any a motion on who was the second one Sean one any questions comments concerns on that no that that policy though so it's not just the title change yeah you guys see the way that that is no that all in favor personal action items I need a uh motion to amendable motion changes the name of Rights position from technology to agriculture technology Max mo Jamie with the second any questions comments concern for that the benefits of changing it her request okay definitely makes more sense she I know she's doing a lot with the egg stuff so it's reflective of her degree gotcha favor I need a motion to
049appoint the school year advisor and spring coaches he Durant is an elementary Cher and assistant person golf coach Caleb is the motion second any questions comments concerns with that all in favor I opposed motion Carri Point extended day school extended school day program work so motion Jamie with a second any questions comments concerns with that all in favor opposed B all right need Point Elementary principal somebody give me a motion to motion too s Taylor as a el who got it Jamie Jamie got it Jamie with a second any questions comments concerns all in favor congratulations interiew very well thank you all right Sarah Sarah in the same office well at least one of us will answer can't get it wrong Y at one of our principl for all right I need a motion to
050approve the memorandum agreement that was sent to all of us uh between genese valy and Belfast Central School I hope you guys all have time to read through it Mr Weaver as supervisor and tempor supervisor of we got James with the motion on second Johan will the second any questions comments concerning that thank you forting that did Willie come to present to us Willie has a formal presentation this so anyone like I kind of feel like if he showed up he should be working at his second job right he is here at your request you requested as a board for willing to be here so yes please ask him a question you have any questions I can answer well so I guess actually the only thing that I was thinking about in reading the agreement
051and I think the agreement reads really well if you guys are comfortable with it I certainly am comfortable with it I just appreciate that it's reduced a writing uh of course kind of singles you out the most is there anyone else that you supervis here that's a GV employee that's going to help with this that should be compensated somehow too or that was the only question I really had um that has been talked about and if this continues past June that's going to have to happen Okay um so like for instance right now I'm actually training bus drivers for them so that kind of takes away from a lot of my time that I should be providing J C ba or this driver that I am training my plan is to share this driver two
052districts so will you know if this extends past June like how how does this how's that work what's that what's when will you know if it extends past June do we just run out is there going to be something presented to us in May I kind of see in my vision I I think that it probably is going to be extended past then I think it' be the best interest of both districts to have that happen but I would request some help from we have one of our employees as a certified C in the certified sbdi that's one of our bus drivers that I would like to see be both districts training so we training bus drivers um that takes a lot of time it's 20 25 hours training before you can even go to
053road test so like right now I shouldn't be helping Mike in the shot more I'm not I'm trying to organize my time I'm streamlining Bast right now so challenging right now but as we move forward it's going to be way better as I get organized that what I'm going to do we getting them in another process so I guess your question is obviously because this is good till June 30th but after June 30th we would have another proposal put in front of us I would say yeah hopefully even ear I would hope so that one doesn't run out and have a gap well I mean the other District if you decide not to renew would have to hire a new would have to hire someone Ro right so I would think that you would be
054having those conversations and would know by May whether or not guys were going probably definitely by May within the next few months because they're still having uh possibly having a personal issue which just is unknown right now um so that might have a a role in especially moving forward after July one so um just got to see we don't know that yet so you're basically just recording the time spot doing stuff now to a certain extent like I try to get over as much I can I try to go every day it doesn't work out I try to go there for a couple hours it's not working out now because I'm training that driver here so I spend two hours on him today so like tomorrow I might Tom I'm not training so Thursday I'll
055do two hours here in the afternoon I go to do I think it's very important for their their personnel to be able to see me to not just talk to me on um sell phone a lot of the time SP right now is trying to coordinate their their systems without hours like leave requests um you know Transportation requests they use different systems we try to link them to my email so I don't have a gva Belfast email on system to belf system to GV that was strugg start they were putting in for time off I wasn't getting it their principle related that to me it was just it was tough we're getting there in a state of time no yeah I just think I think right now it's kind of the estimate that agreement is
056okay and then anything over that basically goes off she is I mean so really figure that out because all the scheduling I'll do here so when I schedule our drivers for the and I try to do a out two weeks so every week I always keep weeks out for now both schools um so when I do our drivers I'm doing their drivers sure so Sports and their field trips our field trips so it's hard to differentiate that respect you know how much I'm spending to buy it do you feel um this is manageable I know right now you said it's kind of crazy getting used the systems processes but like you're not going to get stressed out and just quit on us because you don't want to do this right like this is going to
057be manful after a while I was going to quit on you already done that I don't see that blame you but I think it's going to be benefit definitely for both schools and actually in the long run saving money for both schools just for example Sports um it was tough because before I would schedule all the all the sports for both schools but I would hand off what they're supposed to do to their supervisor and he would schedule them to the D was like a third person there before it got to them and a lot of overlapping buses that didn't need be because their drivers would get big in they were get the hours you know I thought and we we used to have that here but not So Much Anymore um we just have
058different style drivers some of them are just here for the medical insurance you know some are here for their actual this is the only thing they have to make money other to have businesses during the day so we only have a handful of drivers that are really rely on that for their main income so I blast them as much as I can I actually they get sick of me because I they second driving school bus so that's where why we hire these Subs to come in to help with sports weekend field trips drivers lot so we don't have that bicker now Bast is going to get blasted in the same way um we have a lot of contract field trips through bothies that they pay us to do and so kind of included Bast on
059that too to start blasting them with hours I know that sounds weird but it keeps them happy and it keeps them from it just works I don't know at one point I don't know you were here at one point we had you and two right Sean both and we cut back when John we didn't repl well originally mik was a fulltime bus driver SL yeah mechanic that's right so I guess I'm assing that I mean as far as I know me speaking with the board we're leaving it all in your hands you're comfortable what what just you know when it comes back to July and we have to re negotiate there's different stuff that you want to put in there please bring it back to Bo this is all on you I said like next
060week next month I just a little Bast FL meeting and I'm going to you know present that some help by one of our other staff certifi and take some of that bur burden off that frees me up to because right now you know I'm not really into their Fleet at all I just haven't had time I kind of started that this week but it need attention and I don't have time to go work on their stuff get do everything so that's where we're running a little shy but like I said just keep the superintendent updated and anything changes you'll keep that communication is really there and I just want to interject and say how great of a job's doing um just the we he's been on this it's made some changes for best it's it's
061really been great so all while maintaining our Fleet so like I said I I appreciate everything you've done and we were all more were concerned about your wellbeing than it was anything else I you GV is my number one so I point in time I get overwhelmed fast no know start losing any more hair just get B all right all right is there any other questions for will okay everybody uh all in favor oppos Mo need to uh for a motion to approve the me memorandum of agreement the GBA for educational reimbursement for Al Le second any questions comments concerns with that all in favor oppose motion carried I need to a motion to approve the memorandum of agreement with csca for educational reimbursement C motion Michelle second any questions comments concerns with that may
062comment so remember when we went to that um New York State training in Buffalo uh there was a program for teachers teachers AIDs that would move into the role and then and I don't know I don't remember what it was called but you could also get some Aid back on that um is that something that we could look into for you know people like person we didn't qualify time okay so yeah one of the things that we looked at it and we didn't have the people at that time do so what was the I just curious it was based just what JB said it was based on it was a it was a I believe a a grant funded initiative that was funded run through iosis that allowed them we didn't because we were we
063didn't have teacher teacher aids at the time I going okay so that was why so this is the this again is from our Future Leaders but this is MH $10,000 be budgeted last year to support future future development for people we supporting three people this year to live theas want to do the leaders that's going to taking place all favor opposed thank one 601 on your addendum under personal action items H need a motion to approve Works agreement motion second Jamie any questions comments concerns with that all in favor oppos car six1 pan I need a motion to accept the resignation of Sarah Taylor don't AC I think that should fur Jamie any other questions comment concerns all in favor post um information instuction I have one the dinner that Pam sent out uh was
064she kind of made a mistake she thought it was all rolled in the one but this is the annual dinner and meeting it's only in Center they're going to go over the B budget at the dinner she sent you an email I think she thought just like I thought it was just for delance but I think all you got a lot of question this then you'll also notice that pass and then I'll leave the rest up to that uh the upcoming meeting dates are on counter that's all I have to share you have questions what bud said though make sure you get to me by the 21st April sorry April anything else order I get a motion to adjourn MO 639 all in favor oppos motion car good night e