001This call educ. Yeah. favor. Okay. right Get the Google. >> Yeah. >> Welcome to the Hide Park Central School District Board of Education meeting. It is September 11th, 2025. We are returning to open session at this time. Please join me in welcoming Lauren Barrett. Um, she was elected by her peers as this year's ex officio student board member rep. So, welcome Lauren. We're happy to have uh moving on to 3.2. Would you please rise for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing afterwards, please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please join us as we observe a moment of silence to honor the victims, heroes, and families affected by the attacks
002of September 11th, 2001. Thank you. We have any agenda modifications? Good. Okay. So, may I have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented? >> Move. Second, Christine. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Um upcoming events. K2 meet the staff night is Monday, September 15th at all the elementary schools from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. FDR meet the staff night is Wednesday, September 17th at FDR High School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. And Havlin Middle School meet the staff night is Thursday, September 18th at the Havlin Middle School from 6:30 to 8:30. And our next board of ed meeting is Thursday, September 25th here at district office. Open session starts at 700 p.m. For the most up-to-date information on school events, please check the district calendar or on our website
003hpcsd.org. >> Are there any other events anybody wants to add? >> Um 3 to 5 meet the staff night on the 16th. >> Oh, good. Thank you. I don't have that on that. Thank you. Thanks. So Rita, can you say that again? Pause. >> Me need the staff. U grades three to five is on Tuesday, September 6th. >> Thank you. Already got that. >> Okay. Thank you. Um we're going to move to 6.1 Pride. Lauren, you want to start us off? >> Okay. So for the high school, FDR has had a great opening. So far this school year, they held class assemblies by grade level to review academic goals and student expectations. The counselors, class adviserss, and student government representatives were able to introduce themselves to the students, and all classes were respectful and receptive
004of the information. Their staff looks forward to meeting families at the staff on Wednesday, September 17th at 6:30 p.m. For Havlin, they have experienced a wonderful opening to the school year. They were happy to see all of the returning and new students and welcome sixth grade class and they're excited to prepare to come. They want to thank their 12-month employees including their clerical staff and custodians who worked tirelessly to get them ready for the past week. They did a wonderful job and because of their efforts, HMS has realized attention to detail matter and directly impact the students experiences. It has been wonderful to welcome back the faculty and staff to summer break. There's been so much excitement and energy in classrooms and programs for the students's return. Lastly, they want to thank the Roosevelt Fire
005Department for their support on the anniversary of September 11th and assisting them with their 911 flag ceremonies. Through their efforts along with the support of the High Park Police Department, district office, and various people around the district, they were able to share in a moment of remembrance and hope. Ralph Laur is happy to say thanks and staff. Staff members are working on implementing their new literacy curriculum, HMH's into reading with all the students. Their PTA hosted a chalk the walk event the night before school started and they also had several events coming up in the month of September. Their first all school assembly is this Friday and musician Jared Campbell will be visiting for an assembly September 17th. And lastly, Violet Avenue's room 9 is celebrating their first VIP of the year, Jordan Grio, who
006they are proud of. Mrs. Scots and Mr. Daniel's fifth grade classes started out the year with positivity and encouragement. They went outside and chopped the walk to encourage all of the younger students to be positive and >> thank you. >> Yeah. So, we have a number of things that we want to highlight this evening. First and foremost, I want to dubtail off of what law Lauren just shared. Um there was a really good feel to our buildings uh during the opening days. Um, I want to thank everyone that was involved and you know oftentimes I leave a group out so I don't want to start naming any groups but a whole team effort. Our our mantra this year is one mission, one vision, one dream, one team and it truly showed this this first week.
007So I want to thank the entire uh school community for making that happen for our students. Uh let's see here. So the next slide. So this this just highlights uh some of the uh positive energy that we saw uh in the first uh few days of school. So all of us were in schools uh during those those first days. We saw a lot of students just buzzing with energy, smiles. Staff were outside as you can see. We had the the Hawk out there at Netherwood. Uh we had uh some of our scholars on the bus. I was actually had the fortune of uh riding the electric bus. Um by the way, it's actually a really nice ride and the kids could hear each other. You didn't have to yell across uh the aisles. Um but
008it was great. I had a a ride um a ride along with uh Tommy who was one of our drivers and I got to say um the energy that they showed him as one of the students entered the bus she started pumping her fists and she was so excited because she saw Tommy and it was just the most amazing thing to see because our our drivers are the first ones uh that our students see and the last ones that they see. So, it's just a testament to all the great work that they do in building relational capacity with our students and families. Um, the uh next slide. Uh, it really is a a testament of what we're trying to do in the district in terms of showing appreciation. Uh our HR department um has has
009a a a appreciation um week uh where or excuse me appreciation uh initiative where we're highlighting different things that are happening uh in our schools. This past week was National Arts and Ed Week. And so we were actually going to each of the schools, myself, uh, Ryan, as well as, uh, Matt Punigello, uh, the new director for fine and performing arts, and just letting our teachers know that we really appreciate them. We visited every, uh, arts and music teacher in the district and uh, gave them just a small token of appreciation. And I want to thank Ryan for coordinating that. Uh, I want to give them a round of applause for all that they do this morning. Um, Havlin uh, middle school as was highlighted. Uh, they do an annual uh, tradition there where they
010actually take the flag that's flown in the front of the school. They actually take it down on 911 each year. They fold it uh using the appropriate techniques to do so and they actually award it to a student at the end of the year for demonstrating outstanding leadership uh kindness, respect and the faculty and staff vote on that student and that student is awarded with that flag. Each year they then hoist up a new flag and let it hang for the uh entire year. And so I want to thank the entire Havlin community for doing this as well as Chief Benson, his officers. Uh we had the Roosevelt Fire Department there and this is an annual thing and um it was just an amazing moment to be able to um remember uh all those individuals
011uh not only that we lost but also those that were affected and all the courage and strength that we had for many uh emergency responders and volunteers that were involved in that in that um on that day. So, just want to thank um our entire Havlin community as well as all of our other schools who celebrated a moment of silence uh today as well as our district office. Uh have a couple uh more items just to share uh in terms of the cell phone policy. So, um, as many of you know, uh, this year is the first year that we've implemented, uh, the, um, zero distraction, um, uh, policy whereby students, uh, will are not allowed to have their cell phone devices out, uh, headphones or any, um, smartwatches. And, um, we knew that this
012was going to be a significant change for students and families. What I'm surprised by is my visits to the schools and speaking to students at lunchtime that they were speaking to one another. They were actually looking at each other like face to face across the tables instead of down under the table. Uh it was really interesting to hear the feedback. Um some of the feedback that we received was classes are better. Uh this our our peers are more social and interactive. The atmosphere has changed and is more relaxed. They're making new friends. Um privacy is respected because people are not talking about videos in the hallway. Um there's more respect for for teachers. Um so there's there there has been a positive positive feedback from the students and um and so I I think that
013this is going to be a significant change. We had two incidents uh at the high school that were reported uh that we we have to deal with and we have to provide some interventions and supports for those for those uh incident or those students that are involved in those incidents. but two out of our entire uh school district. Um that that's pretty that's pretty remarkable and I think that that's a testament to our educators, our support staff, our administrators, um our families who are sending the message that this is this is the new way of doing things. And um I want to thank a number of individuals who helped us get this word out. Lauren was part of a podcast uh that we uh that we have started. It's called Park and Listen. Uh so
014she was part of the first episode. Uh Melissa Reer, our director of guidance, was also on on the episode and our very own Michael Davis uh was also moderating the session. So um again, just getting the word out to families so that they understand um how we're moving forward with this policy. Um something else that I want to share is um the the regional um the regional planning uh with with regards to Boseies um is actually um being completed. Uh it's actually due to the state. This is where Boseies is actually looking at how do we regionalize our our support services uh in different areas of the state in order for us to leverage those resources and support one another. So uh that report is actually being finalized. We're meeting um as superintendent tomorrow. But
015there's three specific air or four specific areas that we're actually looking to advance. Uh number one is expanding educational options. Uh two is to collaborate and plan to provide uh educative professional development uh a more robust uh offering. There's also enhancing uh school safety and uh school security. And so those are the areas that we'll be focusing on as a as a region. Excuse me. Uh that plan is going to be uh submitted to the state um by October 1. So again, all the district superintendents are working with uh Duchess Boseis to make that happen. I do want to share with the board on November 19th, um I along with uh the board president are being invited to um Harrison, New York, and I'll share this via email with the board. uh 78 public school
016superintendents and board presidents will be meeting with state legislators to talk about public school priorities and what is needed from the state government to support students in our schools. So that's taking place again November 19th at 700 p.m. at Harrison. I will be there. I'll make sure that the board has that information. Uh lastly, uh the stopped arm. We had a uh one of our residents come in uh about two meetings ago. um to ask that information about the start stop arm uh be shared. So that is actually being um uh public uh excuse me uh published tomorrow in our highlights. Uh so we have information uh going out to our our community tomorrow and our highlights uh to share that information. And at this point that concludes my items, but I know that some
017of my colleagues have some some items to share. I'll start with Melissa. Sure. Um, so I have two things. September is attendance awareness month. So we will be um sending out information to families every Friday in September. The first letter will go out uh tomorrow. And one of the things that we're really proud of is that last year through um a collective effort we were able to reduce chronic absenteeism by 5.2%. Um that's that's a really big number for us to um accomplish in one year. So, we're hoping to continue that effort this year and continue to support families through a wide variety of ways, including our community schools initiative and our community school liaison who do a lot of work with families to come up with attendance improvement plans and uh supports that students
018need to come to school every day and remove barriers if they exist. Um, and on that note, our community schools uh initiative is underway this year and we just sent out our firstformational flyer to families um where we are offering classes for adults for the first time. We all of our efforts so far have focused on uh students but this is our first effort to focus on adults and we are offering in conjunction with Hide Park Library English as a new language classes for our adult families. So, um, there's information that's been sent out through Parent Square and it starts on September 24th from 6 to 6:45 at HPE and they, uh, the class will meet twice a month. >> So, um, I just have one item. Uh we uh recently sent out the tax
019bills uh for school taxes and uh after that we received notification from Duchess County that the tax bills that they prepared and printed for all school districts in Duchess County had an error on the uh printed portion of the tax bill. So the tax bills uh don't show any exemptions for individuals that received the star credit. Um the total amount on the tax bill is accurate. It's just people won't see their exemptions listed. Um, if anyone were to go to our website and print a copy of the tax bill from our digital file or ask us to print it, the exemptions will show. It's just a a bill that they'll receive in the mail from that were mailed from the county won't have that information on it. And we are prepared to help any taxpayers
020that call our office um with questions about that. >> Greg, thank you. Um so a couple of things from the HR and professional uh development side of things. So one of the other great points of pride for the district is we had recently been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools. Uh and with Dr. Roman's support um I'll be joining uh school HR professionals from across the country for a recruitment and retention collaborative as part of the innovative schools and that's going to be starting um in October. First of all, I really look forward to sharing u my learning with other colleagues from across the country throughout the year as that collaborative takes off. Kind of along those lines of recruitment and retention, some of the the things that we have been implementing this year,
021Dr. Roman already talked a little bit about the appreciation days and visits. So this uh week we did the music and art teachers, but we have a full calendar year planned to make sure that everyone in our district um and every role receives um strategic appreciation. Um so you know this upcoming week we is community schools week. So we're going to be visiting our community schools folk. It's um technology staff appreciation as well this upcoming week. So we'll be visiting all of our our tech friends as well. um and that has been very wellreceived and honestly is like my favorite thing. So, uh we will continue to um work on our uh having a robust appreciation um program for all of our staff. Along those lines as well, on opening day, uh the HR department
022launched what we're calling the presidential perks program, which is a unique program that offers um discounts and benefits to all High Park staff um outside of the traditional health benefits. So everything from discounted work shoes and pet insurance to um reduced tuition costs for continuing their their education and is going to be a really key aspect in uh High Park starting to grow its own professionals. So, we really want one day to get to the point where someone came to High Park for a job and they retired having had a career. Um, helping folks to really build their career here in district with us. Which brings me to the other point um in terms of developments in the HR department and that is really focusing on moving our department from um procedural human resources which
023is you know a whole lot of uh paper quite frankly to more um strategic human resources. So now that our department is is fully staffed, um we're utilizing our current office space to the best of our ability in a temporary capacity. Um but we are looking to reimagine the space so that it is a space where not only do those procedural aspects of HR happen. Um, but also to make it more of a space where people can come for all of their employment needs. They're greeted by, you know, a lovely person that can give them great customer service, um, but can really be a place where we move towards strategic HR and career development and coaching within district so that people can come to us um, as any employee um, and grow their profession here
024with us. And so we've been really working on streamlining um our procedures to improve compliance and efficiency. And then as we streamline those procedures, that will free up space and capacity um for the career development and coaching aspects that we hope to implement over time. Um so as we move towards that vision, the roles of folks in the human resources department will be shifting and evolving. Our space will be shifting and and evolving. hoping that one uh one day we can get to to that point where um we are known as as the place where people came for a job and retired having had a robust amazing career. So um lots of uh great changes ahead. We'll we'll continue to give the board updates um because the the the HR space that you see right
025now is not going to be the HR space that we have in hopefully by the end of this year. Uh, and it's going to be creating that that space that Ryan just described. We're going to put the human back in human resources based on the results that we have from from our audit about a year and a half ago. Um, we want to shift those results um in an upward and positive direction. Thank you. >> Thanks. Um, I just want to add I really like this. This kind of piggybacks off what we did when we did our um the board did a tour of facilities and when we were at the transportation department um some of the workers there shared that the space wasn't quite conducive to meeting families and with our in-house um facilities
026crew they were able to tweak the space open it up so it was more friendly to people coming in. So listening to those people and making our departments which are already I think really great um even better because it's it's going to uh better serve our community. So it sounds like HR is next after what we did in transportation. >> Exactly. >> Okay. Great. Anybody have anything else? >> Okay. Um so and we didn't we kind of went right from pride into superintendent report. Did anybody have any other pride? Can I go back and just clarify that? Was there any other pride? Because we didn't get I didn't get to ask anybody if they had pride they wanted to share. >> So, just one quick pride I wanted to share. Um, our fifth grade teachers
027at North Park, Mrs. Reyes and Mr. Sheilan, they were nice enough over the summer to type up letters and send congratulation notes to um our seniors who graduated in June and so forth. So, I just wanted to tell them we just got the letter. you know, it got routed through Oklahoma or something, but we just got the letter last week, you know, congratulating our son, Gage. They sent them out to all their students. So, we did get the letter and uh that was a very, very nice touch to do, you know, after school was done. They took the time on their own to do that. That was very nice. >> Great. Uh, moving on to 8.1 p open public participation. Um public participation is open for our community members to address the board. We ask
028all participants to speak respectfully and courteously modeling proper civility and decorum for our students. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak at which time you will be prompted to finish up. This public participation is limited to 21 minutes. There is a second opportunity to address the board later in the meeting. when you approach the podium, please provide your name and address when when um before you speak. And I also want to it's great to see new faces here. I just want to um share some protocols here. The way we do this is everybody speaks and then we don't respond until everybody's had a chance to speak. We uh close public participation and then we can respond. So I just don't want you to feel like if we don't respond to you right away,
029we're not being rude. We're just following protocols. Okay. So, would anyone like to Oh, I'm sorry. I have to uh motion to open public participation first. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Those in favor? >> I opposed. Okay. Motion carries. We're in public participation. >> Sorry to jump the gun. >> That's okay. Welcome. >> Uh Jeff Hair, uh 103 Walnut Lane, Statsburg. um taxpayer for 41 years and a 1975 alumni of FDR High School. So I'm here today to um u address the board and Dr. Roman in regards to a proposal um that was submitted uh by myself and um some other classmates uh and alumni. Um, a little background on that proposal. Um, we had a 50-year reunion last fall at the high school for a football team um that were state champions. And after
030that lovely event, which was uh graciously uh conducted by the AD and the school, um we had a really great time um at the school. Um there were coaches there from the team uh particularly the head coach and after the uh the event it was floated up by some members of the team that it would be really nice to see some recognition for the coach somewhere you know on the facility. Um when we were there, we noticed that there was no per se field name at the at the at the Oval Office, right? Um which we did not know at the time was the Oval Office, but we found out later. Um so after some uh groundwork, um we put together a proposal and we contacted the AD's office to see how to proceed. and
031you know they said that well the the board is the place to go because they have to name facilities. Um so we submitted a request in April to the board. Um, and I know there was some uh discussions back and forth with uh one of uh one of our members, John Marine, um with I believe Jay and and some other people that were covering for Jay at the time. Um we really didn't get any reply or response. Um, I sent an email out on the 8th of August or the 1st of August, I'm sorry, to Jay and Mike Zorski, who I guess is gone now, >> not here tonight. Not here today. >> She's not here tonight. >> Oh, okay. >> Um, and uh some dialogue started to come back um primarily with uh with
032John who authored the you know original request. Um, since then I think there's been some uh maybe misrepresentation of what we were trying to achieve. Um, we were not uh the proposal was not to rename the Oval Office, you know, or or change that, but primarily work on naming the field in honor of uh Robert H. Brad. uh we sent in the u credentials and I believe there were many letters sent to the board from alumni in support uh as well um you know over that time. Um so since then I know John and and Dr. Roman have had conversations and we got a note back basically saying that the board, you know, was not interested in in naming the field that the field was named the Oval Office. And uh I I don't believe
033that's the case. I I think the facility, the stadium is the Oval Office, not the field. So, we'd like, you know, the the board to consider our proposal. Um, we also proposed that the alumni would pay for the sign. Um, there would be no cost to the district to do this. Um, other than possibly hosting a a dedication serum. Um, and I think that's that's it for right now. >> Thank you. Hi everybody, Jennifer Morris. I live on Connelly Drive in Statsburg. Um, I'm speaking to you tonight as a proud graduate, um, but an even prder teacher of 30 years at FDR. While I was not a student during the time of Bob Bragg's legendary run as the coach of FDR's football team, I can tell you that his name is exactly that, legendary. His
034run with that team is talked about to this day. And for many of us in Hide Park, Bob Bragg's name will forever be linked with FDR football. Um, never before and never since has our football team been so successful. His name and his team are iconic in FDR lore. They're the standard by which all others are compared and they set the bar that all others hope to reach. At every board meeting, including tonight, we listen to a presentation titled Pride. Well, Bob Bragg's pride was, let me change that. Bob Bragg's name is in my mind synonymous synonymous >> synonymous with High Park Pride. The pride that Bob felt for FDR was palpable and he instilled the same pride in his players which spread to affect the entire school for many many years. This pride deserves
035permanent recognition. When I heard his former players had reached out to you to request that our beautiful new field, the Oval Office be named after him, I jumped at the opportunity to support them. It seemed to me a clear no-brainer to make this happen. I urge you to make Bob's legacy and that of his team something permanent and visible for all to recognize by naming the field in his honor. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Roman. Three Stburg Drive, New York. Uh, I had a question because we've had two fire drills at FDR and I remember when we changed the district safety plan a few years back and I remember it being that you had to have the fire drill at different time and then both fire drills for first period. So, I'm just wondering what
036is a different time of the school day because when I think of a different time in a school day, I think we do it at a different period. So, we'd maybe be exiting in a different spot or a different way or at least something different. But maybe it's like, oh, this one was at 804 and then the next one was at 805. But that's my question. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening everybody. Um my name is Liam Woods. I grew up in Parkplace with um my mom and dad and this is my little sister Sierra Woods. And we are actually Bob Bragg's grandchildren. So we both went through the Hide Park School system, graduated from FDR 2019 and you >> 2023 >> and uh it is true. We I still had bragging rights to uh
037tell kids on the football team that that state championship was my grandfather. And um I'm uh somewhat lucky that my last name was Woods and not Brag because then every single teacher in school would know exactly who I was as soon as I got freshman year. So knowing my grandfather, I know he's somebody who takes he's somebody who takes every little thing into account with a high sense of sensitivity. So, what I mean by that is something as simple as giving him a phone call every two weeks. I'm always reminded by my parents to make sure to do that. I even forget at 24 to call my grandparents. Um, he remembers that for the next two weeks until I call him again. So, I can only imagine uh something like this to him to come
038onto the field that he once coached on. I once played on thinking about this as I drove by today seven years ago. I was under the lights playing as goalkeeper for FDR. And um I can only imagine the look on his face that this would probably be the highlight of one of the highlights if not the highlight of his entire life at 87 now 88. >> 87. >> Yeah. So I would just like to add my two cents to that. I also would like to say um even being the second child to go through the high school, even without the brag last name, I'd still get teachers coming up to me even when I forgot he was a teacher and asking if that's my grandfather and just how much of impact he's made, not only
039as a teacher, but as a football coach. And he's never asked for anything back for what he's done to the school or just anybody in his life. So he just does it because of what he loves to do and just to be recognized for everything that he has done for the football team and he didn't just treat them as a team but also as his family. So to see just not only him be recognized on the field but him as what he's done for that entire time I think would make his heart melt. Love you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good evening. My name is Dan Duffy. I'm a resident of High Park. I've been a resident for over 50 years. I was also a board member for 18 years. I also coached a couple
040of times uh in as a filling coach when we didn't have a school budget for sports. Um I'm speaking just to quick add a boy that these people have stepped forward to recognize or request a recognition for what is an exceptional legend in Bob Bragg. A wonderful leader, a wonderful teacher and a marvelous football coach setting the standards of way sports was always to be and should always be. respect for the team, respect for the opponent, respect for the school. Bob was all of this and well beyond that. He is a true legend and stands up there with other honores like uh Dwayne Davis who was a a similar type of person and Bob deserves to be there. He deserves to get this recognition. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. So, at this time I'm
041going to close public participation. Um, I'd like to I'm will ask people to respond. Um, I just want to remind you we can't have convers dialogue, but I do want to address a couple of points. First of all, thank you for all of to all of you for coming. Um, I have to say that one thing I would I would have to stress is that I did not I do not know Bob Bragg, but probably one of his biggest accomplishments, yes, the football, but that his two grandchildren came and spoke so lovingly about him and that you remember to call your grandpa every other week. Truly, that that speaks very well for him as well. So, I ju I just have to say that is probably going to be one of his crowning moments. um
042your speak there, your speech there. So, thank you. Um as a board, we we have I just want to say that we have been talking about this. We certainly want to honor Bob Bragg. We're looking at different ways. This is a complex thing and though and I totally recognize all of his accomplishments. We want to do this. We want to do it well. We want to honor him, but there's a lot of factors that go into this. So, I that's just something I feel we need to say right now. Um, we don't have the full board here tonight, but there are conversations that are ongoing. So, I apologize if you got the feeling that we had said no to everything. It's we want to look at how we can do this while keeping in mind
043the whole community input here. So, um, I hope I'm saying that to to help bridge communication here. Um, it wasn't a no, it was a no to the whole big thing, but we want to look we want to look at all of this and how we can do this. So, we want to set up some more dialogue. Uh maybe we could have a smaller group because we can't have a full board, but we could have a small group with board representation um meet with some representatives so that we can you know it's hard to go email back and forth, right? We need to sit down and really talk about this. >> So Jeff, um you know, my apologies if if the messaging got to you that the board has said completely no. There were a
044number of options that were shared uh in terms of ways to recognize that the board had considered and that was shared um accordingly. And so in terms of naming of the field, that was that was what the feedback was about naming the field. But there were at least a couple other options about black dedications, about naming that was shared with with uh Mr. uh Marine. So uh we'll certainly uh go back to the table and uh see what the board's wishes are and they'll communicate that with you. Um, and then did somebody want to address u fire drills? >> Yeah. Um, so the the language for fire drills has changed. You're right, Roman. And um the language says that there should be different times of day, but it doesn't quantify like how much time difference.
045So, um it's a good opportunity to send a reminder to our administrators. And um just as a reminder, there are eight fire drills throughout the year and they do need to happen at different times a day and families do need to be notified ahead of time for any drills that we have. >> But his suggestion about different periods makes perfect. >> Oh, you got the inside scoop. Yes. And it might just be I'm thinking beginning of the year that is the total there's a >> it's about building routines too. So you know the first one or two you may want to practice in a similar way >> so that kids get the feel for where you're going what you have to do. Then you start to build in differences so that then they can apply
046that to different areas of the building. That's good. Keep them on toes. >> Anybody else? Okay, moving on to 9.1. Board subcommittee reports or professional development updates. Did any committees meet yet? I think we're working on getting schedules. I haven't gotten schedules. Everybody's busy beginning of the year, but I haven't gotten um schedules for when our committees are going to meet. I assume that's going to be coming once people get settled for the school year. Um, and then we'll have others >> buses and audit committee. >> Nothing else. Okay. 9.2 board discussion. Uh, we have to look at our board goals and we did get packets. The goals have been updated with the discussion topics from our last meeting. And so we're just looking at are there any changes. This includes the wording that we
047worked on last. Uh we narrowed it to three board goals. First goal being communication structures and protocols. Second one being support of the administrators uh wildly important goals wig and then board of board of ed self-evaluation. So, we're just looking for any changes or we're going to prove it as is. But have any changes? We're all good. Do we need to vote on that or that's later in the later in the just if there's any changes. So, we're not changing anything. This is good. It's September and we have our goals done. >> Okay. Um All right. And then board any discussion on the c consent agenda items? Any questions on consent agenda? >> Okay, seeing no questions, may I have 10.1. May I have a motion to accept the consent agenda items? So >> move
048it, Christie. >> Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. One second. Just takes me extra quick. Sure. >> Thank you. Okay. So, moving on to 11.1 board goals for 202526. Um, may I have a motion to adopt the new board goals as stated? >> So moved, Katie? [Music] >> One and a second. Okay. >> Any discussion? >> I just like the fact that I think this is very doable. Sometimes you get overwhelmed with goals and the list gets longer and longer. So I think this is something that's uh concise, important, and doable. >> Thank you. Okay. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. And moving on to 12.1 public participation. Second public participation. We're moving along tonight. >> So move. >> Second. >> Same rules as business. >>
049Any discussion? >> Did we get a second? Okay. Discussion. All those in favor? opposed. Okay, so we are now in sorry um sorry I voted um second public participation if anybody would like to address the board. Um, same rules. >> Janet Duffy, please tell me I park New York. Been an employee for many years here. Um, I would be remiss if I didn't mention and support their effort. They met Bob. He was my uh boss for a while and always remember his kindness when we had the tragedy of my son passing away and was always there for us and he did accomplish so much uh with that team. I can't say I remember that because I was home with kids but uh he deserves it. The field needs and can be nothing that's crazy but
050very simple. I've given them some idea that I've seen in other fields that looks great be very noticeable and he would be very proud of I think he deserves it but I have to say that thank you glad you did back again um so I'm not sure that we're debating the the uh credentials Right. I think that's pretty much a done deal. Or and if it's not, we can we can add some more to that because um two things we did want to bring up that I didn't mention. Um one is uh we're not looking for a memorial because he's still alive. So, you know, memorials are great. Um there's one at the high school right now uh for Dwayne Davis. Um the court was named after him in the gymnasium. Uh I just want
051to bring that to your attention. Uh that was done back in uh December of 2014 uh by the board of ed. Um similar situation. uh it's a stadium so to speak you know the gymnasium but the court's named after Dwayne and he had very similar credentials so that just sets a precedent in my name in my you know mind in our mind that this can be done easily and the field could be named after Bob not something else. So we still want to make sure that's our point. Um, there's another point that uh, again, this kind of goes back to the times uh, the the 70s, the early 70s. Um, and I don't know if you're a fan of uh, sports movies, but remember the Titans? Um, and I can honestly say that it was
052a very hard time. There were a lot of racial tensions back then and as you people can attest, Dan can attest, right? That man brought people together and people that you would not necessarily be friends with or want to be around in those days. They became your friends and you became, you know, buddies and you had a goal and it made things work. Um and and that's lost in a lot of this sometimes, right? And it wasn't just men as well. He had uh women um that were staticians and and there's many that return to our again our uh gatherings that knew him back then. So again, you know, just to bring that forward, but we we don't want to give up on the field. We we know that again, Dr. I'm replying to your
053reply. You've thrown out that you're looking at other options. Um those options could take years and honestly they may not they may not hit the mark for what we're looking for here. So just want to make sure that points made. Seems like a simple simple thing that could happen. Thank you. >> Thanks. me again, Jennifer Morris. Um, Connelly Drive, Statsburg. I just wanted to kind of piggyback on what Je was saying and just I just want to I think I would just want to ask for an explanation because I think I heard you say that there was it was a no to naming the field and you were looking at other dinos. So, I would we can't die while I saw. So, um, I'm looking for an explanation as to why it couldn't be why
054can't we name the field after it? That's all. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else like to address? >> I'm not sure if I can speak because I I'll start this way. I'm a graduate of EAS Havlin FDR 77. I'm Joe Brunner. Joe >> 43 back road island New York lived at 28 Prince Road for a number of years high park had the house up till three years ago currently is my seventh year coach at Red Hook varsity basketball I played Bob Bragg I was a sophomore when they won the championship I was a JB captain and I got to come up and practice with him for the week and I thought I was going to press and it's we it rained all week and I got to watch the game from the sidelines of my
055street clothes. And I'm not kidding you, Mrs. Duffy knows this story. They went down there as a 30-point underdog. I'm not kidding you. They went down to Westchester County, 30-point underdog, and they won 284. And they didn't just win, they they dominated that game. Then I got to play for coach next year, a start starting left guard. We went six and two. Following year, my senior senior captain and Freddy Novak. Uh we lost to Kingston's open opening day went on a fivegame winning streak, four shutouts, beat 29 nothing at their homecoming and we fell six in short against Lords. Next last game went a minute ago lost 127. First and goal for the three even punch it in. Uh so anyhow, but we had a heck of a ride. And here's the other end of
056it. I coached at FDR starting in 1980. Oh, then seven of us from the football team went over and played baseball for third year coach Dwayne Davis and we met Ricky Horton who played hoop with Mike Ner. Ricky and I were the captains of that team. Journal used to give great writeups. They picked us for fifth in the 10 team league. The pitcher was phenomenal. Timmy Cole was in Soures. We beat him twice. He got drafted number four pick in the nation by the Braves. And Ricky got picked in the 20th round. He went to Virginia, became a star there, eight years in the pros. And uh so long story short, I coached baseball for 21 years. One year of RC when Dwayne took off to uh coach his son who played JV basketball for
057me that year along with Kevin Var who was my shooting guard. He was a hell of a basketball player by the way, your current coach. >> He says so. >> And yeah, he'll tell you we went 15 and five in a very difficult league. And uh anyhow, coach took a year off work with PJ and I coached the varsity in 91. And then uh I was Corey Vanzant uh assistant coach as a varsity player, your current coach. So 20 21 years as a coach. And Dwayne Davis, my second father, and I talk to Coach Bragg every holiday. And he's my other second father. They both deserve a field name. And coach Davis got his and coach Bragg alongs right with him. Thank you very much. John Marine grew up in High Park. Went to school
058obviously in High Park, but I don't live in High Park. So that's why I haven't been up here. Please don't take because I've been sitting there quiet that I don't care. You read the original note that was sent. That's heartfelt. Not only by me, but by the whole team. when I put the when I put this out that we were looking for this that we were asking the board for this inundated with team and coaches writing me back and like I said I offered I said please send Jay uh an email if you want and she should have gotten several what 15 or so notes back so I'm going to sit there because I'm not high park live in high park when you're saying you got to be in high park but please don't interpret
059that as not there Okay. Anybody else address the board? Okay, we're going to close second part public participation. Um, one thing that I want to um point out is I think that's why I think sitting down and having conversations is a good idea. Um, and this may be um in the translation, but my understanding was that the request was for uh the Oval Office name to be gone and for it to be the Bob Bragg and may I might have misunderstood that, but that's why I think um and we can't have the dialogue, but that's I just want to clarify that it wasn't that's why I said it wasn't a no, it was a how can we do this? So excellent. >> So, um, what we'll do is set up when we have a full
060board and and I and I do recognize that we're not talking about putting this off for years, right? That that you're looking for uh >> you're looking for something soon and and we do we hear you, right? Okay. Thank you for for that. >> Anybody else? >> Just sitting here thinking that I had a couple of coaches that I had to go back to my high school and start something. got with um it is great when when you touch that many lives. >> Um okay, moving on to other matters deemed necessary by the board. Are there any other matters to discuss? Okay, then may I have a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting? Some >> discussion. All those in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> This meeting is adjourned. Thank you for joining us.