001Okay, we'll call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Uh just want to open up the meeting. Um school's ready to open in two days with students. I know staff was in today. I want to commend our director of facilities and his entire staff for uh great job that they done over the summer months uh preparing the schools for opening day uh amidst all the construction that was going on at all three campuses. So, uh, kudos to our record facilities and their staff. Uh, to our 12 month employees that work throughout the summer. Thank you for your hard work and
002hopefully we'll have a very successful opening day and a successful uh, 2526 school year. So, thank you to everyone. We'll open the meeting up to public comment for agenda items only. Okay, we'll close public comment. We'll go into our consent agenda items D A1 to B1. The norm, if you want to pull something out, you need any clarification, shout it out, and hopefully we'll be able to answer it. I think at this point um outside of a of a um bus drivers and some custodial help we're pretty well >> and one nurse shape right now >> got my motion. >> I have a second Tom second by Tom. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor? >> Opposed? Any abstensions? So carried. >> Okay, we will move right along. Our assistant superintendent comments, Dr. Boyd.
003>> Yeah, just to echo that, we are in great shape uh staffwise. Um for that, I mean, school bus drivers are always going to be a you know, a deficit for us, but um knock on wood, we didn't have any last minute uh teacher changes with any transfers to the districts or anything. So um we're in pretty good shape there. Um, we had our new teacher orientation on August 20th. We had eight new teachers um, joining us this year. So, we had a full day uh, of training for them and getting them set up uh, and ready to go for for day one. Uh, last week we had our lead evaluate lead evaluator recalibration for all of our administrators to reertify, get together to look at our certifiation process. Um and then there was some
004questions at one of the last meetings about uh some of the title grants and some of our money. Uh we did end up getting all the allocations before and we had them submitted in time. Uh a net from 2425 to 2526 we were about $29,000 less than we received uh in the federal title grant ESSA monies. Um there is usually a change year to year. It was a little bit more of a a bigger change this year. Um so we had a little bit less money there. Um, and lastly, uh, we had a great first day today, uh, with staff back, a lot of our trainings at the beginning of the day, um, with our, um, council, uh, providing some of them, and some of them were on their own. And we look forward to
005welcoming our kindergarteners tomorrow for kindergarten orientation, uh, and then our all of the students back on Thursday. >> Dr. Boyd, uh, what was the total enrollment for kindergarten? Do we have that? >> Uh, one It's between 111 and 115. >> So, we had a decent uh Yeah. A little spurt. And >> Yeah. I can get you the No, that's fine. >> We had a couple of last minutes. >> A few years we were in the high 80s, low 90s up. >> And some of those numbers will fluctuate out over the next couple of weeks. Sure. And so in uh Principal McCormick's report for the next meeting, you should have a firm number by then. Good. Anybody have any questions for >> from experience on that one? >> Dr. Boyd, >> is there any way we
006can get um just a list of um mostly in teachers but changes in their you know we've had a lot of teachers go from third grade up to the middle school or from fifth grade down to kindergarten. It's just I I tend to hear of all of them and it would just be nice if we could just have a listening if it's possible. >> Patrick, with new staff coming in, um teachers, any position within the district, it'd be nice to encourage them to come to a meeting, especially the meeting they're being appointed at so that we can see them. So hopefully in the future, >> typically we always encourage people to come to at least the meeting that they're appointed at. Uh I know this summer we had a few that were coming from out
007of state and were in the process of moving. Um but yeah, >> when they get here and they move here, you know, try to make a meeting. >> Yep. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Okay, we'll go to our superintendent's comments. >> All right. Well, Dr. Boy stole my thunder with some of his announcements, but uh yes, we had a great opening day today with our staff. Uh and then just again to reiterate some of our back to school evenings with our our parents. Tomorrow we're going to have kindergarten orientation. On the 8th, we're going to do curriculum night for grades K and five at 6:00. On the 9th, grades K and one at six o'clock. Sorry, not K and one, one and three. And then on the 10th, grades two and four
008at six o'clock. Middle school meet the teacher is on the 15th at 6 pm and the high school openhouse is on the 17th at 6 pm and those are all on the district calendar. But um those are great nights to get our families in to meet the teachers to see what uh they can expect for the upcoming school year. Um I do want to just acknowledge uh to Mr. Miller's point about asking folks to come in. A lot of the employees that are uh being approved this evening are either existing employees and there are a few that are brand new kindergarten parents. So I'm sure they're the evenings are not easy for them with uh with daycare. But the every employment that we do, every change, we let them know what board meeting it's going
009to be at and ask them to if they could come to please come. But many of them have it a difficult time in the evening. So, um, just to to mention that and, uh, and that's all that I have. We're looking forward to Thursday. >> Any questions for superintendent? >> Great report. The weather's held right. It's all moving in the right direction. >> Buildings are all presentable. Everything's good. >> Beautiful. >> As always, we worry during that last week of August. And Pete and his crew always come through and our students uh never see a building the way we see it all summer. >> No, I understand that. You know, when we do our walk through >> Yep. >> Every year there's spotlight. >> Always beautiful. >> Proud of. >> Okay. Um there's no question,
010no more questions for the superintendent. We'll move on to the board of education. Um, other new business, does anyone have anything they want to One item I have is we're going to establish a board retreat and within the next uh two to three weeks, four weeks maybe, right? probably before our October meeting, we'll have a uh a board retreat. Try to find a venue that's close by and we can uh we haven't had a board retreat in a good number of years. So, >> we are good on cell phone policy and making sure we're ready to roll that out. I'm kind of advised teachers, >> everything's out. Parents have been informed. The signs have been up. Actually, this this building um signs are on like they're around every corner. >> Okay. >> So, >> good.
011>> Yeah. And I do think uh I think the high school administration will be meeting with the students and it won't be such a shock because they knew it was coming. They had the conversations with them in the spring. >> It's a statewide conversation >> and it's a statewide thing. Um we do have some flexibility in where they go during the day. They could go in a a sealed pouch. They could go in a locker. they could go in your book bag. Um, we opted for the uh putting them in the bag and students will be told this is your opportunity to prove to us that that's what you're going to do. If we have to up the ante, we will, but um giving them they were very good about it in the spring. So,
012I have no reason to believe that they won't follow through. Uh, middle school and elementary school always kept them in their bags or middle school some of them use the lockers. So, these kids have some options. uh you know either their locker or their bag and that's on the signs throughout the building. But they'll be told that if this does not work out, we could always up it and be more restrictive like um some other districts. I >> think that the state policy said it's not to be on their person and we're interpreting the bag. It's not >> legal counsel has >> good. I want to be sure >> that was my concern with legal counsel and they made it very clear that they could have it in their bag as long as it's off
013and away. >> Right. So it's not >> as well as the watches, right? those. >> Okay, we'll go into uh any any other questions. >> No, I was just going to say I think we'll see more technology come out related to that. I mean, my daughter was actually showing me today a video of a school district and I don't even know where it is, but um there's a new app technology that basically there's a pad on the wall when you walk in and you have to tap your phone and basically that turns it off to everything except the actual phone. So, it turns off all apps like there's no access to them until you walk out and you tap it again and it actually takes attendance as well for the the teachers. So, I think
014we're gonna see more technology, but it'll be interesting to see how it evolves. >> Secondary apps to buy investing. >> Well, yeah, always. Right. >> Spoofing. >> I had a question. I think probably it belongs under new business just because the facilities new, but I was curious as to um so now we have new outdoor public restrooms. >> So, if I come here to use the track in the evening, are those accessible to me? Are the ones alongside the building still the ones open? What do we have for public use now that there's that new facility? >> I believe if the if the concession stand is open, those facilities are open. >> I don't have an exact because I haven't seen Pete to try to get Pete and >> All right. Yeah, no problem. You
015could always email. I'm just curious or are you know the original bathrooms are still there and they're probably up and running. >> The goal was to have all of the bathrooms available at all times. >> Okay. I think if you're coming just to use the track, right? And it's just for personal use, right? The bathrooms aren't aren't >> open. It would only be if you were coming here for something that was taking place, >> right, >> at the pavilion, >> right? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Anything else? Then we'll move on to old business. Um, our board of education goals and mission statement. I think we'll have just a little conversation because I'd rather hopefully see uh all seven board members here to develop uh our mission statement and uh board goals. All right. Um
016I know several members had developed their own mission statements, submitted that. Joel put that through a process and and was spit out back in August. um couple mission statements and then Mike, you moved forward and mashed them up a little bit and and eliminated some wording. So I asked Joel to Does everyone have >> Everyone has it. >> We have copies. >> Yeah. Um so let's go through and see where we are on the mission statement. If you know, if I may, it seemed like the group was real comfortable with Joel's um uh summary document, the initial um and uh if the board's ready, you know, likes that as a whole document, we could certainly move forward with that. Um I think I probably was too narrow, focused on just a mission statement, just a
017few sentences. That's why I got into the writing schema. But, you know, the more I looked at the summary document, the more I liked it. I like those board of ed ideals. Like, it laid it out in a bit of a different format than what we're used to seeing. So, as I I continued to read it, and I certainly like those. I I think those board goals make sense. The only question I had here tonight was there are district goals on there. >> I was just going to mention that. And is that something that looks good to our senior administrators? Cuz that's really, you know, is that something you could provide an example? Because as soon as you say, "Hey, these are district goals." >> Well, everything kind of starts to revolve around that. >>
018I think the nice thing about goals is that it it gives you something to try to reach. You may not reach them in a year. It may take a couple of years, but I think keeping those overarching goals in place gives us a place to go and gives us a direction to always make sure that any decisions that we're making, we're trying to tailor them towards what those goals are. So, I do think some of our goals in the past were a little scant. >> Yeah. >> Um and I think it didn't necessarily provide for um some robust dialogue because we were only going to what those things were. I know from when I sat in the seat of a principal, I saw the goals and I'm like, well, that's it. >> So, I do
019think these are a little bit more robust and I I think they're attainable. Maybe not in the year, but you know, there's definitely that fiveyear strategic plan that I think we always need to be looking whether it's for transportation technology that our technology plan is up this year. So, that is something that we're working toward. That's typically a three-year plan, but also with the change in >> graduation AI tools alone should >> with the graduation measures changing through New York State that's going to really dictate some of the the pathways that we go down. >> A portrait of a graduate. >> There's I would take it that we have two mission statements. Uh the first paragraph and the third paragraph. Um I mean I like both. I I think the third paragraph there that I
020would call the second mission statement uh kind of >> uh hits on some of the things that I've been trying to promote with >> with the values and the skill trades and the lifelong learning. You know, not just college >> career ready, you know, does success in higher education skill trains and lifelong learning. I mean, I think that's what we as a district have to strive to to push for our students to achieve. Um, I kind of like that. I mean, the top statement is is also very good. So, that's just my uh perspective on it. um noticeably missing in each one as far as the second one especially were denoting higher education skill trades learning. Uh neither one has any mention whatsoever of another viable option for students as going into the military services
021there. Yeah, but I don't know if that's a >> we're not a mission that we should be promoting, >> support them, but that's not our >> mission. Military service and mission state. >> Oh, no. And I think I think our guidance staff is always making that. >> I mean, we cooperate. They come in recruit directly from our ranks. So, I mean, you don't get better participation in that. >> And I would think that these skills are what they'd be looking for in in the armed services. You know, it's obviously it's got to be somehow somewhere by the school promoted as an option to the students. So if we don't truly say it in our mission statement, as long as there's information, I think we we actually honor those students who make that a choice at
022the end of every we do, but they've made that choice or maybe some other ones who weren't thinking about it with an open option and they were told about it and encouraged to look. >> I think the guidance offices allow for that, right? they they when they're going through their classes they >> think they're providing an armed services day where the they come uh into the school and >> okay as long as that's happening that's a >> step for several months and they were next to us so there was three different booths for them so I mean they're well represented I don't know that it necessarily needs to be called out mission statement they are definitely well represented >> our mission statement is providing the kind of candidates they would want for that kind of
023service >> I agree with you Tom I think in some culture we to be I think we support it though. I I do that. >> But you know I mean if we want we could we can kind of integrate you know the top mission statement with that bottom one and and develop one you know for next uh meeting two weeks from now our next meeting. >> I'd like to see all seven board members here if it's possible to adopt. We all have >> subscribe to a PR service. They're experts in taking two pieces of information and making it >> blending it like one. I'd love to see >> I could run it by them. >> I like that idea of blending the two of them together. >> I even like >> What about the bullets?
024Do they survive? The ones in the middle. >> You like those? They stand. Mission statement up top and those stand middle paragraph. They're kind of incorporated. >> I think they are incorporated. I think you just kind of pull them out as a but that can be incorporated into the paragraph. >> I almost like the first sentence of the the third paragraph where it says our mission is to provide and then the second sentence of the first paragraph. That makes sense. We strive to inspire students to think critically. So see what they maybe they match but >> yeah it's a good idea. >> And then in the past we've developed board goals and district goals. So I don't know how you want to the board goals are are probably the last set of bullets. I mean
025that's something the board does seek fair and cost effective contract settlements. Uh deliver a fiscally responsible budget. That's all board uh duties. And then uh district goals can be that middle top set of bullets which you know enhance student achievement, ensure fair access to opportunities. I mean that all uh would have to you know be initiated by administration to you know bring to the board to to develop that. So I I mean we don't necessarily have to have district goals and board of ed goals, but if you want to differentiate the two, we can do that. That's what we've done in the past. >> Some districts don't. >> So you're saying take the board of ed ideals and turn those more into >> district >> the district goals. >> District goals >> incorporated the ones
026on the back. >> Yeah. And then the ones on the back are >> Yeah. Oh, all right. Go ahead. But I could I could uh >> and I could meet with uh our PR folks. >> We we don't want to have, you know, 15 because I don't think we're going to be productive enough to >> Yeah, sounds good. >> To develop. I'm going to have to uh >> again the beginning of a new 5 to 10 year cycle. So >> yeah, >> you know, um it brings back academics into the microscope and that's a perfect time because a portrait of a graduate is helping shape that and that'll probably bobble along for you know next year or two. >> Yeah. And I think moving forward once we develop these new sets of goals and and
027mission statement I think periodically we have to you know look at them and say are we >> addressing those portrait of a graduate is this incoming freshman class. >> Yeah. They will graduate in four years under this new model framework, if you will. >> Okay. Sounds like we're moving very >> I'll try to have that for Friday and I'll get it in the the update. >> If not, definitely by the following Friday, but I'll try for this Friday. >> And that one's moving to adoption, or is that still a review? >> That's up to you folks. I think we can move it to adoption in uh >> well >> two weeks. >> Yeah. I mean we'll get it ahead of time. >> It doesn't need readings. It's not like board policy. So you can adopt
028it at any point if you were in agreements this evening. You could have adopted tonight. But >> conversations have been good though. >> Get it over. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Anyone have any old business that you haven't been brought up to speed on and want some clarification? No, we're opening up all our buildings. They look fantastic. And uh yeah, I have a question. It's unrelated to anything really, but you just had me thinking about it with the cell phone policies. Do we have any data markers that we have access to in the this past GRA 2024 uh 25 graduating class that we can use as a a comparison or a touchstone against the graduating class in four years time? I'm just curious if we can >> what kind of data specific to cell
029phones or >> Yeah. spec well to see I'm wondering what we can see to see if there is a positive effect if we >> oh and like overall achievement >> I mean if we look at four years without cell phones you know and we look at the so if we go 21 to 21 would have been postcoid so we could if we have students went to high school four years and then we had um if we had markers that we could follow uh following just to see what the from a an academic standpoint see if there's a correlating data >> I I guess we'd have to decide. >> You'd have to Yeah. Find the >> data points are like >> what we have in existence. We'd have to you know, >> are you looking at
030like graduation rate because I don't >> Well, I think maybe scores >> that. But >> no, maybe maybe scores. Yeah. That's I'm wondering what we have. >> I think the more difficult piece is going to be once portrait of a graduate goes in and the markers the markers are going to change again because of the less emphasis maybe on regions exams for some uh some would have them you know. So I I >> we're not going to have any similar data points. I think we could have uh referral data, but I think maybe we didn't write as many referrals back five years ago that maybe they did in this past year when we were trying to get the cell phone policy in place. I think there I mean from what I saw in the spring,
031there were very few referrals. Uh there wasn't an uptick. The kids bought into what it was that we were doing and you know they know now that this is a state thing. So, I mean, of course, we can always look at, you know, what referrals are based on. Um, >> that could be one thing. It's not not going to necessarily tell us whether it's improving academics, >> but anecdotally, uh, just from what I've been hearing in other from other places is that engagement is up >> and kids are actually talking to one another. I mean, I think that that's a feel-good data point that I don't know that you can put a number on it or >> social engagement, >> you know. I think the feedback that we get from teachers when they say that
032kids are more engaged. >> I don't know if it's truly measurable or it's just >> I ultimately one would and this is just a supposition but I think that would that would play out to the area of mental health that we would see an increase in mental health >> and a decrease in concerns other than the normal >> ones that would be to a developmental set. My guess is the state will be collecting some sort of data from us and will extrapolate out something. What that's going to be we we don't necessarily know. That's why that the data piece >> hard data points. Anecdotally, what we'd like to hear and that time will prove this right or wrong is incidents of bullying where the phone is the precipice for the event. Does that decrease? >>
033Sure. Well, that would Yeah. and that >> but that's it's all anecdotal because there's no you know >> but I'm curious as to the the point of engagement if engagement with the lesson engagement with the instructor if we will actually see uh hard data points there but like we said we don't we don't have anything to to correlate accurately I can see >> when you have exciting teachers and exciting content engagement comes naturally >> I think we're going to hear from the teachers very quickly into this school here that it it's it's working or maybe it's not, but I have a feeling it's going to air on the side of kids are more engaged because we heard that already starting back in March when we put this into place and it was just uh it
034was regulated within the classroom, not necessarily the whole day. I think they saw engagement. >> Let's hope this is here. >> So, yeah. >> Okay. Uh, anything else under miscellaneous? Uh, couple comments I have. I know we have uh our athletic director here, Frank. Um, you've seen an uptick in I know fall sports is off and running now. I'm sure uh games are right around the corner for most of the uh teams. Have you seen an uptick in enrollment in the fall sports >> or certainly sports? Yes. But overall the numbers similar to what we usually have, >> right? Okay. >> Um I mean I you know girls soccer, we don't have any JV soccer for boys or girls. We have two varsity teams with 20ome players on it. So the roster is a good
035roster to have. >> Volleyball is we have full rosters. We're not scratching. >> Volleyball we have JV. >> Volleyball has a JV. Um cuts were made in volleyball. So, you know, um football, >> what an exciting season. >> Probably around 27 28 kids, >> which a little low, but >> um >> a lot better than it was several years ago. >> Yeah. >> Do you think Frank that the soccer has been pretty much consumed by lacrosse? >> I'm sorry, what? >> The development of the lacrosse teams. Do you think that's pretty much consumed the who those who would be soccer players? And yeah, but I also think with um the emergence of the High United Soccer Club over the last couple years with the young kids, I think in time you'll see that JB will
036come back to what it used to be with the numbers. >> That program has grown quite a bit. >> No, I'm saying yeah, both of they're both very positive. I just >> I think there's over >> it seems like there would be overlap between the two skill sets. >> I think there's over 115 kids in the Highland United Sacramento. So, I mean, they're they're growing it. >> And um Tiffany, not to put you on the spot, but is there any any feedback from like the town board in regards to any school functions, activities, or >> No, not really. Um, you know, I had brought the point that Ed had made um the last meeting that I was at just kind of like the lack of people showing up at board meetings because we see that
037here unless it's like a big, you know, catastrophic thing happening. Um, just kind of like the lack of kind of communication between community and and different boards. So, >> so you see it on the town board that >> Yeah. And you know, we would like to community body doesn't come out to the meetings unless there's unless there's an issue and then they come out and >> and I said the same thing you know I mean obviously you guys have the same meetings same time every month we have the same meetings same time every month and how can you really kind of pull more people in to to to engage I don't you know I don't know I know that you guys had mentioned you know trying to organize something to get some involvement happening and
038I made the same suggestion, but it's hard. >> Yeah. No, understood. >> Okay. And I guess I got two more comments. Um, one I don't want to leave Desmond out the whole conversation here. Is there any um anything going on in the business? All our tax bills went out successfully, I'm assuming, because I got mine. >> You're welcome. Absolutely. >> Um so all the tax bills have gone out on time. That's one of the items. Um we are in the process of finalizing the state aid reports, the SAM's reports and the ST3. Those are all the information we have to put together. So the state determines how our state aid is. That is due by the end of the week. It will be certified by the superintendent. Um once we get through that big hurdle,
039then we just kind of dive right in into looking at budgets. We're always looking at where we can find funds. um that's one, you know, where we can get extra dollars. So, that's kind of where we're a little bit slower in making that submission. We want to make sure we're putting in the correct numbers so we don't have any errors coming back. And that's where we are currently. Um, everything else that we can we've talked about, we've we've sent emails and information about >> I I know we're about 16 months away from what the governor has said several years ago that by 2027 we cannot purchase any more fossil fuel buses. Has that >> gained any traction recently? Do we do we know? I mean, yourself or Joel? No, we've had the same conversations we've
040had for the last year or so. If I had major movement on that um nothing in terms of what we have our requirements or obligations, nothing has been put out there. When we do get something, we'd of course let the board know and kind of advise and kind of bring you up to speed. >> Yeah. I mean, I was I'm hoping that we get something because our next budget cycle is the 26 27 >> correct >> budget cycle. And if we have to implement anything to cover ourselves with that mandate and we got to um January which is four months away we got to start the dialogue. So >> one of the major one of the major um designers builders of electric buses went out of business went bankrupt. It's causing issues for the districts
041that have their vehicles as far as warranties and that sort of thing. My guess is that I will hear more when we attend the Niscus meeting at the end of September. That's >> the next big time that all the superintendents are together and then the school boards are together in October. My guess is that there'll be some more information that comes out at that point. >> I'm surprised there isn't a hybrid that's come up, you know, with electric in combination with fuel. That would have seemed to be the natural transition, right? Thank you. >> Not a lot of answers. Somewhat frustrating. >> Aside from the equipment, the one concern obviously is uh sort of the number of driver positions open and you know, is that where we need to provide more incentive? How do we
042how do we get creative? How can we help >> our our fleet? She's, you know, does the impossible every single day. Y >> we got to give them 25, you know, 2,000 signing bonus, but you get that in June 30th or or you know, it's so difficult. >> Um >> because we we provide all the training too. We will take a person and get them a CDL. Is that accurate? >> That's correct. >> Uh and all this, you know, I mean, it's just unbelievable. >> And I think every district head runs their own. We do as much as we can as far as advertising, but how do you move beyond that to incentivize it? I think that's what I'm trying to think about. >> Would it be possible to set up a longevity? >> What
043do you do with Central Hudson? You guys got >> for every complete year >> before we go down that road. That's we're going to have to talk to legal council because now we're talking about a collective bargaining agreement, >> right? >> So, um, this was one of the conversations that happened during the last round of bargaining. So, without getting into too much of that, >> yeah, sure. I mean, all of this would need to obviously be um reviewed. >> I'm not aware of any districts that own their own buses that have gone into incentives. If you're if you're getting your bus from uh I don't even know, Bluebird or Laid Law or whatever it is, Let's Egg, they may be able to do um some kind of uh sign on bonuses because it's not part
044of a collective bargaining agreement. So, that I'd need to research that more. >> I think they struggle too though. Of course. >> Oh yeah, >> the private uh bus companies struggle to get drivers for sure. >> I mean advertising is one thing >> as I see that number grow on the >> Well, I will say give give kudos to our drivers, our current drivers, they are constantly looking for people friends of theirs and they're bringing people in to to go through the program and and Kathy's providing that training and getting those CDLs. I think >> we have one that's coming up. >> Sorry. I said maybe local reporters could uh >> Yeah, there you go. >> Anyway, thank you. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> And I think my last question would be u and I'm sure
045we're going to get that during u principal report with u attendance not attendance uh enrollment >> have off the top of your head has enrollment increased in the district >> from last year? >> Yeah. No, we are almost exactly we were like >> 10 or 12 students le last year. >> Yeah. I mean I see all the new development, all the uh housing coming into the community, but it's not bringing any, you know, influx into school system. >> I mean, it's bringing some, it's just not overwhelming. Um, >> transfer in and out. >> I think many of them the target is that upper tier. >> Um, so it's interesting. It's interesting. >> Is the amount of homeschooling still pretty consistent? >> Um, so when COVID hit, we definitely saw an increase. We we were usually
046at about somewhere around 30 students per year. CO hit, we got up to around 60 or 70 and now we're hovering right around 50 to low 50s. >> Still that high. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> What are the the birth are the birth rates correlated? I mean, they're they're going up now, aren't they? >> Well, I think you're I think you're going to see a little bit of a a bump because of co And then statewide the birth rate is is down. >> Is it down? >> I haven't heard that it's going >> generationally it had dropped down. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Anybody have anything else? Uh I'll open the meeting now to public comment for general items. >> Yes. >> I a couple questions. Um could you explain what that budget transfer was the
04742077 what that's for? business or business official. >> So that's a budget transfer actually that is for technology. We're moving some money from the Boseies line to the technology line and actually there'll be a savings in doing so. So there's actually a technology work that we're trying to process. We thought we could do it through Boseies. We found out that was a little bit more expensive and through the technology director we realized that we could keep that savings. So I moved the entire 42,000 that was budgeted accordingly to the technology line where he will use some of that and kind of like build it for other things. So it's kind of a savings but he's also going to help you get some other items. >> Is it for equipment or programs? >> It could be
048a combination. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Okay. >> Um I wanted to ask about the prek um enrollment. Do we know what that is? And there are three places that the school district uses. >> Two. What are those two? And how many kids are in it this year? Um, it is uh Stepping Stones and Joyful Moments. >> Okay. >> And the exact numbers >> the exact number was said a couple meetings ago. I off the top of my head I don't have >> I'd have to I'd have to go look it up. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, and the other thing was Joel when you said that about the phone thing where kids can keep it in their bags. Does the bag have to be put in their locker or is that they carry it
049around? >> They they can keep it in their bag just like they did when they were at the middle school >> and walk around with it to class. Okay. Thanks. >> Yep. >> Okay. Anyone else for public comment? No. Marian, you don't have anything now. One. Okay. >> One of these meetings. >> I'll stop it. >> All right. Uh, close public comment. And I guess we're all going to go home early tonight. I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Tom, second by Heather. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Okay. So, carry time. Right here. >> Yeah. >> Funny thing is my wife almost drove here this morning. She was going to have me. >> It's not your driver. >> It's the whole footed. I had those like What?