001She's ready. It is 10 minutes past 7. We have returned from executive session. I would ask the uh clerk to call the role, please. >> Mr. Spicer is excused. Dr. Collins >> here. >> Miss Anderson >> here. >> Mr. Ryder is excused. Miss Corsones >> here. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick >> here. >> Mr. Lamb >> here. >> Miss Karns >> here. >> Dr. Ber is excused. If we could stand for the pledge of allegiance 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. We have one action coming out of executive session BOE24. Appoint an interim principal. Be it resolved upon the recommendation of Dr. Paul J. Padalino, Superintendent of Schools, that the board of education hereby appoints Dr.
002Laura Sean to the position of interim principal assigned to George Washington Elementary School on a contract basis and authorizes the superintendent of schools and board president to execute a contract in lie of probation on behalf of the district with Dr. Sean whereby she shall perform services as interim principal beginning on October 20, 2025. A copy of said contract shall be incorporated by reference within the minutes of this meeting. If I could have a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor of BOE 24. >> I. >> Any opposed? So the resolution is approved and Dr. Sean is here. I don't know if you want to recognize. >> Thank you Dr. Sean. >> Thank you for taking We have minutes to approve from the October 8th meeting. We could have a motion. >> Second. >> Any discussion
003on the minutes from October 8th? All in favor? >> Any opposed? The minutes from October 8th are approved. And we do have a a student representative that just joined us. >> Miss Collier, stay here. >> Welcome back. That brings us to public comment. Do we have anyone signed? >> Good evening everyone. We are about to enter the portion of the meeting where we welcome public comments. Although state law does not require that we hold a public comment period, we feel it is crucial that we hear from our community about their concerns. The board is here to listen. Your concerns and questions may be addressed at a future meeting of the board or you may be contacted by the appropriate staff member or administrator. If you have prepared a written statement and do not have the
004opportunity to present it, please leave it with the clerk of the board who will see that all trustees receive it. Each speaker will have three minutes and this public comment period will not exceed 30 minutes in total. It is important to note that state and federal privacy laws and collective bargaining agreements prevent us from discussing certain topics in this venue, including specific employees or students and pending grievances or negotiations. Any speaker who does not adhere to these posted guidelines will forfeit the remainder of their time. Just a reminder, comments about any employee should not be positive or negative. They're not allowed. Thank you for your adherence to the rules and your interest in the continuous improvement of our district. Mario Fiori, good evening. So, thank you for that vote. You just passed. I'm not going
005to say names or anything, but thank you for that. Um I just wanted to also thank you for the process that seems to be happening. Uh we want to make sure uh that there is a formal post for once there is a search for a principal for George Washington that is a job listing statewide. Give other candidates an opportunity to make George Washington as great as it used to be rather than demand that someone local be assigned to the position. So u I hope that you will continue in that path uh to do a national search for the next principal. Also we want to know what's going on with the the previous one. Um is she going to be retired resigned? You know I know you cannot mention it but we are very curious about
006what's going on. Um and in terms of immigration I'm very thankful as well that a lot of steps are being taken to protect all students. uh make sure that all adults have know your rights training, general protocols, not just security personnel the same way that they are fire drills. What about ice drills at the schools? Um also what's going on? How are you going to resolve the issue with bus stops and fears that parents may have to bring or wait with children for buses not on the bus which he you address a little bit Dr. Palino and also where where is the board resolution that was proposed I guess about a month ago in terms of immigration and this where the school district stand I know there was um a resolution being discussed at the
007policy committee so I would like to know what's going on with that too thank you >> um AJ >> hello uh good evening Evening. I think this isn't on. My name is Anna Jacobs. Um, I live in the Kingston School District and I, um, am here again to talk about concerns about immigration enforcement and raids, um, in Olter County and making sure that the, um, Kingston School District is doing absolutely everything in their power to protect immigrant students and families. Um, for folks who do not know, we two people were detained yesterday, were taken by ICE in Olter County. One of them in Lake Katrine and the other one who is a Kingston resident. This is devastating. This should not be happening. One of the people who was taken lived um was has is the
008uncle of a student in the Kingston school district. They live together in the same household. This is traumatic for all of us, for young people, for immigrant families. It's impacting people's lives, their ability to move through the world, to come to school, to feel safe coming to school. And we as Olster rapid response and as members of the community want to continue to implore you to pursue all avenues possible to make sure that we have the strongest protections so that nobody else is taken from our community. And if and when that happens that we are able to support our students, our families, and our community to the fullest degree possible. That means protections for buses, for outdoor areas, after school, um where after school activities are happening. That means making sure that every single person
009who works in the school, whether they be contracted staff or full-time teachers or administrators, that they have know your rights trainings, that they understand the protocols for if ICE or immigration enforcement, any kind of federal agency comes to your doors. It means having mental health care and supports and traumainformed um training for all of the all of the staff that it's relevant to. Um we just really want you to continue to to show up for this and to also inform the community about what you are doing. We know that you have taken steps and we're grateful and we want you to continue. Thank you. And that's all that is signed up. Is there anyone else who would like to address the board that may not have signed up? Okay, that will move us into the
010superintendent report. >> Thank you, Mr. Uh, first on the superintendent report would be Mrs. Nelson and her report on Meer Elementary School. Good evening, Board of Education, families, and community members. My name is Erin Nelson and I am honored to be here tonight as I begin my 24th year serving Kingston City School District and my seventh year as principal of Meyer School. It has been a privilege to lead this incredible learning community and one of the greatest joys of my role is watching our students grow and thrive. Tonight, I'm proud to feature some of our fourth grade students, many of whom I've had the pleasure of knowing since their very first days in kindergarten. This will be the third class I will have seen through their entire journey at Meyer, from curious kindergarteners to confident
011fourth graders. Also featured tonight are some of our talented teachers who will speak to some of the rich learning experiences our students receive. with them. I'm excited to share the initiatives that make me a model of whole child education. We begin by sharing our demographic data. In the slides that follow, we will include information on this year's school comprehensive education plan key strategies, curriculum offerings, and some of the preliminary 2526 diagnostic data. Our key strategies focus on enrichment, student experiences, social thinking, collaboration with our community, and communication. The yellow and green zones represent 65% of our students who performed at or above grade level in math at the start of this school year. 74% of our students performed at or above grade level in reading at the start of 2526. Students performing in the red
012zone for math and reading receive tiered supports tailored to their skill-based needs and most of them have an IEP or a 504 plan. Restorative practices in schools are strategies that focus on building relationships, repairing harm, creating inclusive, respectful learning environments. We use student reflection think sheets to support the development of accountability by encouraging respectful dialogue and reinforcing the idea that like academic growth, learning appropriate behavior is an ongoing process. At this time last year, 28 think sheets had been completed and board I have included a hyperlink for you to see this think sheet and as that's compared to 15 to date this year. Student attendance is moving in the right direction as well. Our overall chronic absence rate was 12.33% in 2425 and it is currently 3.57 so far this year. Now I get to
013introduce our amazing speakers. So first up we'll have Miss Pewig, one of our fourth grade teachers. And we'll have the first Good evening. My name is Lauren Pewig and I am a fourth grade teacher at Meyer. We use core knowledge language arts, also known as CKLA, and I ready math to support strong academic growth. CKLA provides a rich knowledge building curriculum that integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It helps students develop deep comprehension and vocabulary through engaging topics in history, science, and literature. I Ready Math offers a robust curriculum and personalized instruction based on students needs. It uses diagnostic assign assessments to tailor lessons, ensuring that every child is challenged and supported. These programs help us meet students where they are and accelerate their learning through data-driven instruction and and engaging content. Hello, my name
014is Thomas and I feel the happiest at school when we are learning using CKLA. And I think that you should know that Meyer is a great school because we get to do science experiments. I have grown the most in math, reading, and science. And I love learning because my teachers help me grow. My name is Ashton and I have grown the most in my own reading. I love to read. I also like to help my younger brother AJ who is in first grade. We both enjoying learning new things every day. >> Hello, my name is Mr. Heley. I am the general music and strings teacher here at Meyer. One of the hallmarks of Meyer school is our commitment to crosscurricular collaboration. Our classroom teachers work really closely with our PE, art, and music teachers um
015to create inter disciplinary experiences for our students. Um for example, um our music and kindergarten teachers synchronize music and CKLA skills such as blending consonant, vowel, consonant words together. Um students learned an original song called the blender. Um, in this song, students practice blending sounds and singing skills in a fun and engaging way. My name is Brady and all of my teachers from kindergarten through fourth grade have helped me with learning new skills and techniques. I have grown the most at writing. I feel the best at school and I am playing my cello. Words and notes are are both forms of communication and we learn best when we can make these connections. We also learn best when we can when we have new experiences. Meer is a great school because we get to go on
016field trips and and trips to help us learn. Hi, I'm Shannon Ashcraftoft and in addition to being the speech language pathologist and the administrative intern at Meyer. I'm also co-chair of the Meyer wellness committee and I'm proud to announce I'm proud to announce that Meyer is the first and only school in New York State to receive the All-Star School award through America's Healthiest Schools recognition in all nine areas that you see here. So, we have worked super hard We've worked super hard to make visible and measurable changes to the health and well-being at Meyer School. That includes um coordinating with food service and parent volunteers to feature a fruit and veggie of the month um called Tri Tuesdays. Um we're also uh coordinating weekly donations through the Hudson Valley Farmhub and now Milestone Mill to
017get organic, fresh, local locally grown and locally mil products distributed at Meyer every week. Um we deliver tobacco prevention lessons and social thinking lessons as you can see on our bulletin board there. You are a social detective in every classroom to all students. We launched a walking club where students can walk during recess. Uh we created a myer uh neurodeiversity library which features um books with neurode divergent main characters and also includes educational materials for teachers and a neurodeiversity affirming handbook for goal writing and planning and things like that. Um and also our inclusive playground committee made sure that our new playground, thank you. Um was adapted and accessible for all students, not only increasing the inclusion of students with disabilities, but also broadening the environments for physical therapy and adapted PE. Hi, my name
018is Valerie and at Meyer our families help us learn too. We have a very active PTA who planned fun events like the garden party, family fun night, trunk or treat, field day and more. I am very proud that I have learned to have a growth mindset because of my experiences at Meyer. Hello, my name is Rosie. Our families are invited to come into our classrooms to share stories, traditions, and knowledge that connect to what we're learning. We've learned about different cultures, languages, and careers. It helps us see the world in new ways and understand each other better. And it feels amazing to have our families visit during the school day and teach us and our friends. Every step at Meyer in friendship and music. I love Meyer. >> Hello, my name is Crystal Pice. I'm
019a fourth grade teacher, um, special education teacher and for monthly PD, Mrs. Nelson has introduced us to the Ed Camp model, which gives us voice and choice in what we want to learn about. Faculty choose sessions that match our interests and needs. This model fosters meaningful conversations, real time problem solving, and the sharing of best practices. During our October faculty meeting, we generated topic ideas. These were organized and categorized onto our session board. At our November faculty meeting, we will have the opportunity to choose a session from the board, move to our breakout rooms, and participate in the PD that we choose. We will reconvene at the end to share out with the group. We're excited to use this learning format and it makes us feel professionally respected. >> Hello, my name is Owen. Did
020you know that research shows that recess helps kids focus better, build social skills and friendships, and increase school enjoyment? I feel happiest at school during recess. We love having time to play and move. It helps us do better in class, learn to collaborate and work with others, and then come back into the classroom feeling refreshed and ready to focus on learning. >> Hello, my name is Gio and we love recess at Meyer. We have received 40 minutes of recess every day since kindergarten. This time helps me be a better student and has all of the benefits you see here. I think MA is a great school because they give us extra recess time and treat everyone fairly. Hello, my name is Alison Beer and I'm a fourth grade special education teacher at Meyer. We are
021a proud PBIS school, which means we use positive behavioral interventions and supports to help all students succeed. We implement PBIS with Fidelity, offering tiered behavior supports that include the we thinker social emotional learning curriculum. This curriculum helps students develop skills like self-regulation, empathy, and problem solving, creating a safe and supportive learning environment for all. We also integrate mindfulness in the form of mindful movement, brain breaks, breathing exercises, journaling, and more, which help improve focus, reduce stress, and help our students develop better emotional regulation skills that are essential for lifelong success. >> Hello, my name is Jot. I was looking at this. My name is Jai and I like art, lunch, and recess and learning to play the drums. I love to play. I love to learn how to make stories and drawing and writing because
022I have a lot of ideas in my mind. I also like to be a buddy to younger students and help them learn. Hi, my name is Barbara. At Meyer, we learn how to be good friends, solve problems, and understand our feelings. Our teachers are great, and I remember feeling like I was soaring at Meyer. When I earned my very first My Eagle, we get to earn positive recognition when we do the right thing, and it is very motivating. Everybody works hard for my Eagles. Hi, my name is Kelsey Dexter and I'm one of the fourth grade teachers um and also one of the student government adviserss. All fourth grade students at Meyer participate in student government, a group that the fourth grade teachers started at Meyer about 10 years ago. Our original goal was to
023help our fourth graders feel and act like role models of the school and create a united cohesive fourth grade group between our regular ed students and our self-contained students. It has grown over the years to include regular meetings where students choose spirit days, support local community service with projects and donations, speak up about issues that they think are important for students and would like to see changed, and interact with all the younger students with personalized activities for each grade. Our specific plan for each year is directed by the students who become our officers with the our adult guidance as well as committees of students who work towards specific activities. This experience is another way that we co-create a positive school environment where students feel involved. This year we have 21 of our 50 fourth graders
024running for officer positions. Uh president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Uh, this represents a healthy and engaging, supportive school community. Each student will be reading their speech in front of all of the third and fourth grade staff and students on Friday, and they will all then vote for who they think would be the most successful in each position. Every year before this election, we spend a great deal of time leading students through character and team building activities to help them focus on kindness and competence as the reason for their vote instead of popularity. Um, the selected officers will help run our meetings and guide the agenda for the year. Over the years, we've been amazed at all the things that the students have come up with and their ability to work together to make them
025happen. I hope we were able to bring you a little bit of joy this evening. Something we get to experience every day at Meyer. Thank you, board of education for all you do. Dr. Padalino, all of our students, faculty, staff, communities, partners, and our families as well. And of course, the teaching and learning department. Thank you all for all you do every day and we appreciate all of you. Thanks for having us. >> Questions or comments for Miss uh Mr. Lamb? First of all, Meyer is a wonderful place and you have wonderful teachers and I'm glad to see best practices because coming back because a lot of what you're talking about doing are things that we did over the years. This district spent a lot of money training me and Heidi Jacobs and doing the
026all the integrated work. And the fact that that's coming back says to me that you're going to have a great education because it's exciting to see how the relationships work in all the areas and it's how you learn and I'm I'm so glad to see science and being put to use with the CKLA and the studies. We're finally getting there and and you are evidence of it. Thank you all the students and teachers that are here tonight and our administration because you're making a difference. Thank you, >> Dr. Collins. And then Mrs. Karns, >> thank you so much for the presentation. Um, and really thank you for the students and the parents who brought the students, I presume. Um, it's always fun to see um, sort of the stars of the district at the microphone.
027So, we do appreciate that a lot. Um, and I just I don't actually have a question today. I more just have a comment. I really appreciated the highlighting of the crossd disciplinary um beyond just CLA, but also with the arts. I really love that. Thank you for highlighting that as well as the ed camp model. I don't know how widespread that is, but I really like this idea um at least as um spoken by Miss Priest that that it really increases the sense of value of professionalism in your building. And I think that there's nothing there's no way that that can't translate into better teaching in a happier, more joyful and professional place. So I really just appreciate that so much. So thanks again for the presentation and everyone who showed up today. >> Mrs.
028Karns, >> I just want to highlight the amazing students. Your articulation and projection should be commended. Um really really impressed by all of you and thank you for taking the time to share about your school. It really helps us understand you better and how you're learning and what you love about your school. So, thank you for being here and taking the time and I hope you get a good dinner for and thank you to the administration and the teachers. It's so valuable to hear your insights and your highlights about the school. I particularly appreciated the data points that you did share with us tonight. Those highlights really help us concretize an understanding of your goals and we can look forward to the development of those numbers throughout the school year. So, thank you all. Mr.
029Fitzpatrick. Um, >> well, it's not a competition, but um bring bringing the children does make it fun. >> I was excited to hear about um staff wellness. Can you talk a little bit more about how you're able to do that? >> Um the staff wellness slide, we featured the ed camp model. Um is that what you're referring to? >> Yeah, we like things for your for your stats as healthy. >> Yeah. So, um when I was a teacher many years ago in the early years of my 24 um I actually joined uh a PD outside of school hours. It was called Ed Camp and Mr. Cersei was actually one of the organizers of that ed camp. And I just found it to be a really low prep work on the front end way of honoring
030everyone's um expertise that they already bring and giving them the opportunity to choose what they need because we have to honor our professionals and what they want and need is typically what they need. Um, so it just is a is a nice way to be able to bring that learning into a faculty meeting because if it can be shared in a memo, we put it in the memo. So yeah, any other comments or questions? Thank you very much. Nice job. Congratulations to your students and staff. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Can I Sorry. I didn't see >> I was really interested in your guys's um imple of your tobaccof free school program and I was curious what type of curriculum and how you educate your students at Iowa with that. >> So our wellness committee
031um took that on as one of the data points in order for us to earn that recognition and the America's Healthiest Schools program really gives you um best practice guidance. So it's also served as some inspiration for us. So, Miss Ashcroft helped, she was instrumental in bringing that um recognition to life for us. So, I'll let her speak briefly about that. >> So, yes, I didn't really reinvent the wheel. Um the America's Healthiest Kids um or America's Healthiest Schools uh has a wealth of resources to use. So, um there were lessons that were linked and resources that were shared and one of them was a a lesson that was out of uh Stanford University and it was really geared toward the um smaller children. So, um last year also we were doing our social emotional
032um curriculum lessons every cycle pretty much. I was in every classroom last year and so I substituted one of those lessons for the tobacco prevention and um The kids loved it because we just I pretended like I was mixing chemicals, but it was really food dye. And they really got it. They really got like the awful things that were in the the vapes and the cigarettes and the 6,000 chemicals and no, you would not put that in your body. Do you want to drink this? No. You know, like that. And um and the other piece was I just lost my train of thought. Um the student government. I involved the student government. um they were so happy to be involved. Teach um students created PowerPoints, so we had peer-to-peer instruction, too. So, fourth graders created
033PowerPoints and they went and taught in younger grade levels. And um they also helped us with signage. There was no signs around the school that said this is a faculty campus freezone. So, we created signs for that. And the student government, the fourth graders, they decided where the signs were going to be displayed all around the building. So, we have 10 signs up now. You can know everything. Anyone else? Sorry, Ben. I didn't mean to skip over here. Thank you very much. Have a good school year. >> I'll pause for a second. [Laughter] was good. >> You missed out. >> I was a slight. >> Don't worry, buddy. I'll make something next time. >> Okay. Well, I guess that pretty much does it. >> So, uh, just before so next to my supervisor, I just
034want to um just want to again recognize Dr. Sean who has taken over as the interim principal at George Washington and she came here because I think there's new board members who didn't know Dr. when she first came when she before she left and so I just want to make sure you introduce her and thank her for taking this on and thank your family um to you in this in that effort if there's anything you'd like to say please feel free I'm just honored and thrilled to be here >> and we crunched apples today >> thank you Dr. Um, just wanted to also give credit and that's too bad Mr. Nelson left because I want to give credit to all the people who involved the high school in the homecoming weekend. So, it was a
035great weekend. It started off with the football with the it started off with the parade. Start off with the parade which was as always great. Um, we went into the football game which we'll just say there were 3,000 very, very excited, well behaved fans there. We'll leave it at that. Um, but still great event. Uh I'm told the dance on Saturday night was a was a big success and then Sunday we we topped it off with the fall fan fair. So for everyone involved from the high school administration to our band directors to our our class adviserss to our students uh it it was really a nice fall weekend here in Kingston and um something worth mentioning. >> Absolutely >> tiring but fun. >> Um just wanted to give you a quick facilities update. The
036last few times I've been here been telling you about things that were going to be done at Bailey and Essen. We are just about there. There are a couple items that are just that are behind because of backlog of of ordering. One of them the two that are most importantly stick out are the shades at Bailey and the interior doors for the administrative suite at Edson. So those are two things we're really I think other than that we're very small items. So we're expecting within the next two weeks to be done completely. Um, we're looking at other other trying to source our shades from another vendor actually. There's just not we can't wait much longer. So, but there is really good progress and we're excited that this is almost ready to shut down for now
037and then start up again right around spring break. >> Uh, and I do some of the um speakers came and talk about uh our work with UIDN. I did want to say we have been working very closely with UD UDIN. Um the we've established the communication network the events that were spoken about at the at the microphone. We were aware we were able to identify the families. We were able to identify the student and the students school and make sure that they had their they had their counselor and the social worker were available for that student. So we we were you know the communication came to us through UIDN. We were able to to Mr. Parker. Mr. Parker was able to reach out to the go into our student base and figure out who this
038student was, get the rights resources and put them in place for the student to help them out. So, we have been doing, you know, making that happen. And so, we're excited that our communication actually, you know, while we don't want to put it to work, we were excited that it did work. Um also the executive director of UIDN will be part of our superintendent conference day on November 4th providing um know your rights training for our our uh security guards and monitors. So we are uh again the collaboration has been a great collaboration and we're going to continue to to expand that. I've actually had other districts in the county ask me to introduce them to people at UIDN so they can get get involved and get the supports there too. So we're ready to
039do that. In the same vein, we were I was asked last evening about attendance. Um, you know, our student attends, especially our our students who are, you know, our Latino students who may be impacted this. I am happy to report that we did dig deeply into our attendance to take a look and we really are about the same place we were last year at this time. So that that's I feel that's a a great um statement about our students feeling safe coming to school and that we are doing our best in within our schools to keep our students safe. So so our student attendance among our Latino population among our L population or our immigrant population are um is is about the same as it was last year just a little bit above 93%. So
040we're we're pleased that it's staying steady. That's all I have. >> Any questions for >> Dr. Leo? Okay, I guess >> I have to conser >> about the about the are we talking about the the um >> cameras? >> No, I haven't done that yet, but I will do that. >> Thank you for reminding me. Any other >> uh the wall at um I I saw that the other day and that looks like a wall now. That looks great. Like how what is that? Is that kind of I know that was supposed to be like temporary bandaid. It kind of doesn't looks like a wall. >> It looks pretty good, but it is tempor is it really it's not going to hold up. the, you know, the issue behind the wall isn't necessarily even the
041wall. It's the drainage behind the wall. It's the lack, I should say, the lack of drainage and the year in and year out, water getting into the into the cracks there, the expansion and, you know, during the winter and those kind of things that creates these gaps. Um, those, you know, you don't see those walls anymore for a reason. You know, they're they're very expensive. It's it's um artisan work to put them up and to and to fix them. So, but we are looking at options. We have the same problem at the high school around the high school with that wall. So GW and and high school both have those, you know, really old stone handlaid, you know, um, walls there, but we're going to we're we're still looking for contractors to help us out
042with that. So we did price a couple of years ago the high school wall a complete rep uh replacement of the high school runs in the well, three years ago was about $3 million. So we're so yeah that's that's a lot of dollars for the wall >> and again because it's not just the wall is that you got to create the you know create the proper drainage from the you know Kingston High School is on the hill so everything runs right down on that wall but yes that's it's a temporary fix but we're going to we're going to continue to look to see what we can do to make it permanent. >> Were you given any sort of idea how long that would >> last? >> No, I don't know. I could ask you know
043we have facilities on Tuesday. Maybe we could ask I'm sorry you don't have to share anymore. >> We facilities on Tuesday I will ask >> any other questions comments. It brings us to our student representatives. If they have anything they'd like to share or ask or comment on we have very minimal updates right now. Currently, we are working on reaching out to all of our population of KHS, but we have heard very very limited feedback so far. Um, so we are trying to really engage people with uh using surveys and we're going to uh probably interview a couple students from every grade level and our next steps are reaching out to middle schools and trying to get that involvement as well. And we are also trying to get a focus as well on a perhaps
044another solution for the vaping issues at the high school. And that is one of our bigger focuses right now. And we have some ideas in a very rudimentary stage that we're going to work on and developing and hopefully bring to the board in future meetings. >> Okay. >> Mrs. Current. >> Yes. I have a question for the student representatives. Um are you um working with any of the existing leadership groups within either the high school and middle schools that already created groups of students who are specifically interested in feedback. >> Ben, you want to take that? >> Yes. Uh, yes. We've reached out in the high school only to the class of 2026, but we plan on expanding and improving our survey and finding the right way to get the data and the communication that
045we expect because to be frank, we only got one response from that survey. Um, so we're trying to figure that out and we're going to be messaging the principles of both middle schools to figure out the best means and their advice for conducting surveys and getting that information and connecting us to those resources. So, >> thank you for your work on that. >> If you would like a a better tool for um surveys, I think maybe you could reach out to Miss Bonville. She could help you out and get you on to our thought exchange, which would be it's it's much easier. And then when you do more than one person, you can you'll collect the data for it and we're more than happy to make that available to you. >> Also, we heard tonight
046and we've heard it before that our elementary schools have student governments. >> Yeah. >> So, that might be, you know, for you guys to pay a visit there and just meet with the uh student government. I think you'd learn because younger kids for some reason have a tendency to share oral So that would be great. That would be great. Anything else? >> Not going to meet. >> Well, we appreciate you both being here. So, we know you're busy. >> When I asked Dr. Schwer to ask me if they wanted to meet with me monthly, they said they didn't have time. I guess that tells you what they do all day. >> The one night I have off from bed rehearsal. So >> that brings us to uh committee reports. Mr. Lamb is or Mr. um
047Spicer is not here to give a facilities committee report. Um I was at that meeting and I might be able to I don't have my notes in front of me but I could kind of just summarize. Um we uh uh KSQ gave an update on the remaining items on phase one that was this past summer. Um Dr. Palino also comment commented on those and and the bid process for phase two. And I do believe in our packet we had um several documents in terms of bids that would have been awarded for phase two. So that's next summer's work. We also got a an extensive um athletic field study report um that uh incorporated m much much of what we looked at last spring and tabled because of timing and cost and so forth. but um
048and they've done a a nice job of kind of um looking at some of the concerns that we had and and making adjustments. The bottom line dollar figure didn't change very much though. So, um, and we as a board will probably have to look at whether or not we want to support that and send it out for vote or whether we um, wait another but time, but we're not there yet. So, um, we did talk about the wall at GW. Mr. uh, Bogart reported on the plan to get the work done. So, I'm I'm pleased to hear that that has been done and trying to think what else. Um, I think that pretty much covers it. Yeah. So, any questions on facilities? Um the so the athletics master plan um I remember getting the information
049back in the spring. Um rather than decide whether we do something that or or wait um I feel it might be a better um time to look at how to better meet some of those needs in other ways. Um I know a lot of it's um to bring um more modern fields to you know to to the other to other schools. But Maybe bringing students to the stadium that we already have is one of the things that I feel, you know, looking at meets a lot of those goals in the the plan other ways. I I >> I mean I think I think when when we do talk about the reason the needs for this get to it and I think they're clearly outlined you know while the stadium is the stadium there's only one
050stadium only can be used by one team there's 66 athletic teams you know over 2,000 students participate in athletics we kind of forget that we have freshman we have modified we have JB we have so you know we have 27 sports with over 900 students playing in the alone. So I know you so that's that's going to the stadium you know we we really reserve the stadium use for mostly our varsity teams but you know just think about the football we have field hockey we have soccer boys and girls we have football you know so we have a lot of use and then like last week and this last week and this week we had the band leading that field so we had to move people to other places so the band priority because they're
051going to go win at the state championship at Syracuse next weekend so that's you know so there's a lot then we have and that's not that's not what the practices that are going on. So I mean the number of fields we have um we have the right number of fields but they get beat up >> they get beat up so they're not really usable fields by the end of the fall we are these fields are dirty >> dirt by August especially especially the Crosby field with the practice all summer right so we have you know that that's really the issue and being able to give some fields a rest and rotate through to let things happen, you know, would be a real um luxury actually if we had other turf fields to play on. >>
052So those are the kind of things that we're that we're thinking about. But I think we'll give more specific data and reasoning and you know we can run through a whole schedule of how we schedule our spring and our fall sports to see exactly how much use these fields get. That's before we have community use. >> So that's before local youth teams use use any of our fields. So it's a it's a challenge. >> Um any other facilities questions? Mr. Lamb. Policy. >> We had a very long policy meeting. Um we do not have minutes to approve because we do not have a qu for quum of the board members. But it is okay for us to have discussion about policy. Um you have first reading policies. If you look at two um 2110 just
053so you know that's 2110.1 combined with 2110 because 2110.1 had all the parts of the the one before it but it was more it was more it was newer and the language was better legally. So um our legal council has combined those and then we have gone over words on 2110. That's a first reading and questions on 2110. >> Dr. Collins, >> I do have a question. I um I appreciate all the work by the way that's going into these policies. They um there clearly has been a lot of changes made and I think it's for the better um for the most part. I I mostly just had a clarifying question. is that with regard to data requests >> that was in 20 make sure I'm in the right policy we had too many um
054yes right >> line number >> no it's actually not a specific line so much as um we talk about the well in line 102 might say when the board members request does not have the support of the majority of the board etc etc um I think I'm wondering where committees sort of fit into this and I' maybe they are not folded into the policy but I wonder there are a lot of data requests that are made in the context of committees and sometimes it does require additional work on the part of the administration and so I guess my question is whether via the chair of the committee who's who's operating in conjunction with the data with the administration to make that request if it's assumed then that that it's we have support of the the
055no sorry please >> no it's not assumed the in the purpose of the especially when we look at let's say teaching and learning for example if you look at superintendent's goals and if I'm presenting effectively or I'm having data presented effectively to the teaching and learning and to the board to to um illustrate that we're achievement goals I'm making that request of those four people over there for the most part so you're not making you know you're not necessarily making the request you're telling me this is how you can show me you're doing your job kind of thing. >> That that clarifies it perfectly. Then I just wanted to make sure you didn't need to have a committee line in there. That's >> other on that. All right. The next one is 2160. Um and
056let's just update it. Any questions on that one? What we're doing is we'll take these back to committee before second reading and that way we don't have to keep going back and forth. We're trying to be efficient here. So other issues discussion 2160. >> Yes. Um to 200. I don't >> I don't understand why we're >> you said 95. >> 195. Sorry. Thank you. >> Okay. So, your question is on it >> actually. No, never mind. This looks a lot better. >> That one's okay. Next one is 2310, which is going to be regular board meetings. We don't have the only thing we did on this one is we combined 2310 and >> 2382 sorry >> we just combine those two together because all the language in 2382 is already in 2310. >> Um >>
057Sophia >> Benny and I don't have access to this and we're wondering if that's because it's uh not something we should or >> we can get it to you. >> Okay. Because that would be that would be appreciated. >> I'd like to know. >> I will show you how you do it. And we they should know how to get to the um board policy manual as well, which they can. >> Yeah, that's that's public information. So >> the changes wouldn't be >> No, the changes wouldn't be, but we'll make sure that you get the changes. >> Okay. >> But it's helpful to know what the policy manual looks like and what ones applied to the board. >> Thank you. >> It's riveting. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, try >> it. Any sweet problems you have. >>
058Trust me, I've got enough to go around. >> Um, I mean, this one's a pretty straightforward policy number. >> Oh, go ahead. >> We're 20 for 2310, right? >> Yes. >> Yeah. It just I just want to remark that um it seems pretty clear that that some of the constraints around being present by video are maybe structure than we have adhered to all the time since co. And so I just want us to be mindful that we have a very clear step-wise if one of us has gone and we want to be part of the board meeting. Um we should just make sure we have a very clear set of action steps around the affidavit and address and all of those things make sure we're compliance with this. And so >> the first thing we
059should do is contact you if we're going to get one and then with advanced notice enough to be able to sign these documents and do all these things. So it's just a little bit of since I just want to make sure everyone's aware of that. >> Thank you. >> 23 go back to 21. >> Yep. >> 2160 on line 127 number five >> 12. Okay. >> This this um limits what we hear from from people. And I'm I'm wondering why this is necessary. >> I think maybe if we provide clarification on what this says. >> I was going to say I'll read that. Um or Mr. Lamb, you could read it. 127. It's bullet five. >> After termination of service or employment with the district, appear before the board in relation to any action proceeding
060or application in which they personally participated during the period of their service or employment or that was under their active um consideration. And that prohibited activities. That's what it's under. So for for a couple reasons um you know I don't think you I mean I guess you could have that in the stipulations of what is acceptable public comment but to have it in a policy that um you know controls the you know, our employees. Um, I I I guess for one, like maybe we would want to hear that and two, how how would we expect to enforce that? How would you enforce it? >> Yeah. >> Or because that's not the president from the board president. >> Well, I guess I guess what I mean is is u you know, if we really wanted to
061say that we don't want to hear from past employees about things they worked on, um they We can take that back to the lawyer and at the next policy meeting revisit. That's the easiest thing to do. >> I think it is law though. >> I believe >> I think that came >> you think >> I I think it's so an employee that leaves can't come back and talk about their job, >> right? >> Or the job that they did. And you know we can't come back and talk about you know students personally identify >> yeah attorney so that >> all right so we'll take that back >> 10320 was special meetings our lawyers basically aligned with um what other districts have and made this a more clearly stated policy on how we would go about
062calling and and scheduling special meetings. Mr. Patrick consensus of three or more board members on something that >> all right >> they explained it as you're not trying to get people to have your opinion. you're getting trying to find if you have three or four or two or three board members that have interest in that so that we're not scheduling a meeting hopefully that's not going to happen. Um and it takes it off of somebody had suggested that it would be the president would and that was not liked because that puts that person in a power position. It makes sense to have two or three in a board of nine. Um most districts have one or two or two or um one or two, but those boards are three member boards or two me or
063four member boards, but they're not a nine member board. That's what the the this is what most districts >> well small city schools. This is specific to small city schools, >> not all districts, >> right? The smaller number would be common districts >> have conversations with each other. >> Yeah, we're you're not having a premeating. You're just having is there interest in I'm concerned about this. Can we have a meeting? >> Would you support having a meeting? >> And you can pose that to the entire board. It doesn't have to like you're going around. You can say I have concerns about this. Does anyone support this conversation and see if you solicit a response from the group? Because I do I'm >> when I first read this, I was thinking maybe the same thing you
064were, which is we had talked about the idea of we should be really careful about going and soliciting for report on something before it's discussed. >> It's a yes or no, >> but it has to be really clear that it's this is what I'm posing. interest because I believe that interest will be shared. It is enough of it shared within this policy that it would come to a meeting. >> Well, and it might be something that are shared but people don't feel is conducive of having a special meeting before our regular schedule because some things can happen on our regular schedule meeting >> and are not time sensitive. There are other things that people feel are timesensitive and that's really what special meetings should be. >> Dr. Cole, >> I was just going to sort
065of make that point as well because I think there are many boards who don't meet every other week and we meet every other week which means that really a special meeting should be a very time-sensitive manner in my opinion. So I really support the work of the committee on these changes. Um and I realize that timesensitive is still in the eye of the beholder to degree, but at the same time um it does make clear that you know we that there should be a temporal component to this decision and within the context that we meet every other week and so it has to be an important amount to time sensitive enough to to to meet before next week. So thank you appreciate that work the that wasn't already in the original policy that there needs
066to be a timely reason. A reason that I can't leave. >> No, there was not. So that would I guess it would be my preference that the amount of people to be like prescribed seems like an unnecessary burden to get, you know, I think it's just, you know, something has to be timely. Something has to not be able to wait. >> Sure. Dr. Collins. >> Yeah. I think my interpretation there is that because timesensitive is still a little bit in the eye of the beholder like what is time sensitive to me may be different than what's time sensitive to Miss Corzone that having at least three people on the board agree that it's both important enough and timesensitive enough that we need um sort of compensates for that lack of clarity in that timesensitive definition
067to me that's that's how I read that and So um so you know the number three is a slightly arbitrary but it sounds like it's a little bit a function of the proportion of the total amount of four. >> Um which makes some sense. >> Well so I guess if it would make sense for the threshold to be at least three people agree that like yeah this is you know a time doesn't matter. I just can't wait. You should do it right away. But that's a different thing than having three people agree that they want to have a meeting and have discussions. And I think the the nature of what it could be is, you know, like I just propose just in the interest of time knowing that we're reading through this I I hear
068your point. Your point is made. I'd like to hear your proposal for change language like as a matter of us going back to to editing this if we feel like it needs more work. Um but I just feel like when you leave room for one individual to constantly call a special emergency meeting is unproductive and ineffective. And so this better defines us as a cohesive group to identify matters in which call for more frequent meeting or more urgent meeting than waiting until the next meeting every two weeks. And considering it's best practice in small city school districts, it feels like it aligns with other practices and other types of schools um district board models. So it feels like the evidence was there for this to be a really clear policy. I would just like to
069understand from you exactly what the difference would be. Then if it's just that you're looking for it to be timesensitive, I think that that is still defined. I there's no way for anyone to define what is timesensitive. So there has to be another component to that. And what does that look like? I also think that if there is an urgent matter, probably the entire board would recognize it. So, it it's not like you're you're trying to recruit people to to agree. It's um urgency usually is identifiable pretty quickly by more than than one person. >> I guess I I guess I'm not understanding how time sensitive can be misconstrued like to to me it seems like this is time sensitive would mean there's a deadline on Thursday and we meet next Wednesday >> that would
070be timesensitive deadline then >> we wouldn't need a special meeting we've had we've had time sensitive things like tax setting tax rates. We've had and we have to have them by such a date or our tax bills are not going out or we have to have a principal in place because somebody has left the district and they have they have a principal to open school. I mean, we've had things that are time sensitive. Some things have to be done by a certain date and other things an extra 5 days isn't going to make a difference. We had great discussion on this that a great deal of discussion and a at our meeting the people that showed up. Um I I think Mrs. Karns makes a a good point. If you have language that you think
071should be reviewed by the committee, we could do that at our next meeting. >> In next policy meeting, >> not committee. We'll have another policy meeting before our next board meeting. >> So, does that mean the next time this comes before the board is that's the first reading? >> If there's substantial changes, >> right? >> All right. And the last policy is 925 not employees salary benefits and conditions of employment. um like two lines basically a couple lines to eliminate and align change in this to make this align more with our aligned employees basically because there's this small number of people that had different rules than everybody else and this is why this this is here to correct that and make everybody on the same playing And that was the extension of So okay, >>
072questions and our next policy which we had discussion about this because um our lawyer is not available our regular lawyer is not available. We will meet on the Friday the 7th at 9:30 here in the boardroom for the next policy meeting. >> So second the there's about you know three of these that we at least one of them working on for a while. These are all first reading right? >> These are all first reading. So, and that the purpose of that is so we can see it and talk about it and also the public can, you know, weigh in if they did that sort of thing. So, could we just take some of these off of our plate right now? >> Wave the wave the second rating. Is that what you're recommending? >> Yeah. and
073pass them now. >> Yeah. >> Well, the only one that you didn't just send back to committee is 9215. That's the only one that >> But what about the >> regular meetings? >> You mean 2310 the regular meetings? We are missing three board members >> considering it's first reading. I just don't think that's good >> unless you feel like it's people have commented to you as >> well. I I would prefer that >> and let other people have a chance to read them other members. my preference. >> Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Legislative action. >> Yes, the legislative action committee met on October 8th. Um, and it was our first meeting of the year. Um we started the meeting by having a brief history of why the committee was originally developed and um its initial purpose.
074And we spent quite a bit of time talking about uh first of all we would very much like to have community member voice representation. So, um, we've asked, um, the board clerk to please reach out and see if we can't have people join us. We have identified our meetings for the year. Um, which I think should all get posted on the website. I believe I sent them to you. Um, so we have the meetings for the year. The next thing we did, and I have to thank Ms. Karns for her leg work on this is we began to discuss what our priorities should be for the year and she came up with five suggestions. Um and the first being what we had actually spoken about last year, which is protect and strengthen foundation aid that
075we really need to focus on um advocating with the state to maintain full funding for foundation aid and to establish multipleear plans so that more stability for school districts can be created. um especially given the unique situation we're in, our diverse population and our diverse needs. So that's one that we would uh priority we would like to put forward to the board. Uh the second is to continue to invest in student mental health and well-being. um urging our legislature to make more funding available for school-based um mental health programs and advocate for uh cross agency collaboration. We all know that we do not have enough mental health professionals in our greater community regardless of which district we're in. So that was the second one. And um the third one was to preserve local control and
076reduce our mandate burden. Um we want very much to continue to ask for some of us to continue to man uh advocate for reduced unfunded mandates and streamlining state reporting. I know that probably everybody who has ever been part of an organiz educational organization in New York has probably worked on this over the years. Um but we remain ever hopeful that perhaps we'll be able to um have a little more flexibility in that area reducing the burden which it presents for school districts. So those were the three top ones. I don't know if you have anything you'd like to add to that. >> No, thank you for >> um and um once we um understand the desires of the board, we will then create um an action plan so that we can put some um
077evidence in place and measurables and timelines in place. But we felt it was premature to do it and so we had board support for those three initiatives. So, I welcome any questions as does Miss Curts. >> So, do we have to pick one? >> No, we actually she presented five. We whittleled it down to three. Um, I don't know. I had asked that these be put in. I don't know if the minutes were actually put in. I had asked uh Karen to put them in so you could see the others uh that were um uh recommended as well. But we felt those of the five were kind of the top priorities uh given where we are and where we're headed in the next few years. So, were you looking for a response from the board
078tonight? If we can, if you didn't have these and I couldn't find them in the board um thing, but I had sent them to Karen and asked that they be put in. Um if you'd like to be able to review them, we can wait till the next board meeting. That's fine. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick and then Dr. Collins. >> So, I mean, I guess I could hunt down the other two. Do you know what the other two were? >> Uh, yes. Um, the other two were addressing transportation and staffing shortages. Um, funding safe, sustainable, and mo and modern learning environments. Um, and then we had some suggestion some suggestions of what the committee could do, but I think we felt the other two would be rolled into these three. >> Is if you'd like >> Yeah,
079that's right. It wasn't dep prioritizing the others. It just felt like we needed to create truly achievable goals. Um, especially if we're going to engage more voices of the community, which we feel this committee needs a lot of. We really seeking quite a bit of community but it's a great space to come in and advocate for our district. Um, and so having those three pointed areas of of support felt like a reasonable way to step further into this community's work. >> Dr. Collins, >> I don't I don't really know how to ask this question in articulate way, but I'm wondering what efforts or frameworks exist right now in particular protecting and strengthening foundation aid like what is happening so what does it actually look like to engage with that as a committee and as a
080board see Dr. A lot of it is is um letter writing. Um really championing and advocating to um those responsible for lobbying or trying to angle for certain um financial supports for schools and districts based on size. And >> I think school districts and I know Dr. panel could expand on this. Certainly um are doing some lobbying in this just from my own background. I've done a lobby a lot of lobby work meeting with legislators about the foundation aid formula. Understand that as a small city school district, we are more aligned with other small city school districts. At least our our interests are more aligned with other small city school districts for that. So it would be to continue to meet with legislators, advocate to that. >> I think take big big time big picture,
081you know, taking advantage of the New York State School Board Association lobby days, taking advantage of what my conversations I'll have with you around New York State's um council mostly schools, you know, taking advantage of those kind of lobby days. But really one of the really important things is local >> absolutely >> our local people is really important um that we that we have those communications relatively new to the to to the position not really not not very engaged with the school district right now and just from last time around I think not as well informed and I that that's that's on me and on us and you guys are well informed about our situation why we you know what happened with the foundation aid how we how things change so dramatically here. I think
082having those having those sit downs and those conversations locally are that's really important. Um and you know in a lot of ways pe elected um officials are tired of hearing from me. Not necessarily but they're tired of hearing from superintendents. You're also locally elected officials. So hearing from you is is, you know, has not that it has more I' I'd be there forformational purposes and give things out, but I think really having you all as the advocates um in that conversation is really important. >> Um, one of the things I used to do is meet with our legislators, our local legislators on a quarterly basis to identify what those issues are and the impact. And I know I wasn't able to go last year because of conflict, but um we worked with um Miss Carbone
083and she created I say it the right way. >> Carbon and she and she created you know she worked with us and we actually created um a one page two page you know front back handout that Mr. Lamb and Mr. Fitzpatrick met with our legislators about when they went to the um NISBA lobbying day. >> So, it's continuing that effort, but having it be very honestly more than just once a year >> and they like having something in their hand because you know they're seeing hundreds of people that day and they're taking notes what we're saying and having that piece of paper was a definite advantage. Storytelling is really essential for them to be able to have a a story that they can relate to for their position priorities. So being able to work with
084administration, making sure that we have specific stories for the priorities we want to push with >> and how it really impacts students, how what the what this planning has done, how it impacts our ability to really provide those opportunities for our students. The Olster County School Boards Association always does a legislative and that will be in January. So, um, keep keep that in mind. By that time, we might have a clearer picture of how to articulate our concerns. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick, then Dr. Collins, >> do you guys know what foundation a is? >> I've heard of it. >> I mean, it's basically like the complicated thing. says how much money one school district, >> but um I know in one of the conversations I had with um Michelle Henchie um she pointed out that in
085in Olster County, even though the the the changes to the foundation aid wasn't great for us, all of the other county, all the other districts in county did get more help it, you know, >> right? And that's why I >> that's why I said small school boards working with small school boards. But we make no bones about it. We have the most diverse we are the most diverse district in Olster County. We are the only small city school district in Olster County. So that's why um you know we did not receive the benefit of uh of a full funding for we got the minimum funding for foundation aid if memory serves me correctly. >> Yeah. >> Dr. Collins. >> Um sorry I have a lot of questions. This is the first time I've heard about
086these three and they all like choosing among them sounds really challenging to me. Um and so there may be ways parallel tracks here, but I'm curious. A couple of years ago, Jen Mezer was making a very big push around mental health supports and partnering agencies, and some of those funds were lasting for only two years. So, I'm imagining that they're out. I don't know what the current status of that is. Mental health is something I think as a board we've talked a lot about and prioritized and wanted to prioritize. So, I it's very hard for me to select past that. um for except that this idea of foundation a sounds very wide like potentially big impact widespread impact if we could have a positive impact. So but I'm curious if you know the current status
087right now of our local um partnerships and legislation or legislators views on mental health like are there so >> is there a momentum in that direction right now? So our work has to begin once you endorse the you know what I mean like this is our very first meeting to develop these ideas. I mean I could share from a work perspective that insight but not as a >> right and just I can just tell you okay makes this meeting shorter. Um the >> are you saying I'm asking too many? >> I would not judge you. The that money is still there because it wasn't But it was 2 years, but it wasn't put it wasn't used for a while while they got things up and running. But it's still, you know, a million dollars for
088Olster County is nothing. I mean, you know, that's shouldn't say it's not nothing, but it it doesn't it's just a drop in the bucket. >> You know, that's seven school districts. That's this huge school, you know, this huge county that we have. Um, and it's and there's one of the challenges they're having also is the the shortage of, you know, licensed clinical social workers that they're they're looking for and therapist that they're looking for out there. So, there's a lot of of there's been a lot of challenges around it's not that the that the county, at least as far as the county executive, isn't committed to it. I think there's just a lot of um hurdles and for for a district our size, it's small. Anyone at the table over there want to add to
089that or no? >> Maybe what would be wise if if your notes come out and everybody has a chance to to review them and then we can um um make a decision at our next meeting. >> Okay, Dr. Collins, >> it's just a favor that I don't know what's in these notes. I haven't seen them. Um but um I would like to also for the same question I generally had about the first about foundation I'm interested in local mandates to sort of what frameworks who who's working on that are there other people what's happening already. It seems to me that especially given that it's November understanding something like latching on to something some some momentum already happening over this might be a good move and as well as professional education organizations in New York that
090have working on unfunded mandates on their docket. I'm sure Dr. Palo is members of some I'm members of some um so it's not something we would necessarily be doing from scratch, but one of the things which we haven't gotten to our suggested committee actions yet because we decided to stop until we knew what the priorities were. But uh some of it is to join uh join joint advocacy meetings and groups. Okay, just so you know. >> Great. Well, I I can direct the rest of my questions maybe individually also to the people in this committee as I think about it in the next week. Thank you very much. So, real quick, I want to point out that uh you know the when the budget season comes around, the uh the Senate puts out I believe
091it's the yellow book and the the House puts out their their blue book. And when I looked at this last and like what they want and what the what he wants and then you know we get what the governor wants. Of course, the one that the put out last year was very heavily aligned with all of the things that we brought to our representatives. So, I'm going to dig that up and I'm going to send it to people open an email with a many hundred page documents. >> Why said it? Thank you. >> That brings us to the consent agenda. Are there any items that trustees would like to have pulled from the consent agenda? >> Ask questions. >> Yes. So, we're not pulling anything. So, I need a motion to accept the Sent agenda
092>> and a second >> and now discussion. >> Mr. Lamb >> and I I left it at home and Karen printed it for me on the contracts. There are things crossed off like um flooring for the for the stage and stuff. That doesn't mean we're not doing those. Correct. Those are they're just out of that second. out of that bid >> and they're going to till we done. >> Mhm. >> Okay. That because like I'm going through that and there were things like the floors that I wasn't willing to buy but that okay thank you. >> Any other discussion on the consent agenda? All in favor of accepting the consent agenda. >> Any oppose? So our consent agenda is approved. We do have several donations. >> Board of Education of the Kingston City School District
093hereby accepts with grateful appreciation the following generous donations. To Ernest Meyer Elementary School from the Meer PTA and Kevin and Laura Healey, a check in the amount of $489. to Kingston High School from the Connect Kids Field Trip Grant, a grant award of $500. To Chambers Elementary School from the White Eagle Benevolent Society and the Town of Olter Seniors, a donation of care closet items and school supplies valued at $500 to M. Miller M. Clifford Miller Middle School from Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Field Trip Fund, a grant award of $2,000 to the Kingston City School District Athletics Department from Olster Host Company number five, a refrigerator for the district's concession stamp valued at $2,999. And to Edward Arcros, the Elementary School Library from Amanda Green, a donation of library books. >> Thank you
094very much. That brings us to old business. Any old business items? New business. Mr. Lamb. We have a policy in the district that our students for an entire school day cannot be on their cell phones. Every board meeting before today, there's been cell phones that ring during it. There are people that sit on cell phones. I've got comments from other people talking about how they're watching from home and there are people sitting there on cell phones and not paying attention to what's going on in the meeting. I have asked for a yonder pound. My cell phone will be locked in here as we expect our students to do because it's lead by example and I would like to challenge the rest of you to do the same. >> I get an exemption. What if we
095don't have our cell phones out? >> Do they still need to be yondered? >> What about us sending yers to our teachers? I've seen for my yonder. >> We do have a bag full of yonder right behind my sheriff and >> yes. Is there an opener? Oh, good. Just make and the closer. >> Any comments or questions for Mr. Lamb's proposal? >> There wasn't a motion, just a comment. I don't know if you want to make a motion. I think that may come through. >> Okay. >> All right. Board member announcements. >> Oh, yes, >> Mr. Lamb. And then Sophia. >> Fanfare was fabulous. I thank the band and I thank all the people that were involved and homecoming was fabulous. But the will be performing two more times. They perform at Norwich on Saturday
096and then they will be in Syracuse on Sunday. And if you have the opportunity that the Syracuse show is a wonderful experience number one, um great family event and I would say anyone that would like to go. I'm I'm driving up but I'm going out for the Norwich show the day before. Sophia, did Mr. Lamb steal your thunder? >> You know, there's some You can also there's live streams of Syracuse online if you you can find it. >> And also the day after there will be very unofficial YouTube videos posted. So, pick your poison. >> Thank you. >> I just have one thing I wanted to say on my N my um report. I forgot to and just want to make sure everybody Monday, October 27th, teaching and learning will be in this room 9:30
097a.m. And then Tuesday, October 28th, we have audit and finance at 9 here in this room. And then we have facilities at 3:30. So we have heavy Monday, Tuesday committee meetings. >> Audit and finances >> 9 9:00 here on Tuesday, October 28th. That's our regular. Any other announcements? >> Any of those things different? >> No. >> I think the the policy meeting changed though. Is that right? >> No. Policy kept the same. >> It affects some of our members um that have other commitments by changing days. So, it's more important that we have our >> Yeah. policy. We have a lot of administrators that attend policy and they have other responsibilities. So it's I have to be mindful of that. We are at the second public comment. Anyone joining us tonight that would like to
098speak to the board? >> Sure. >> Right now simple Google search for will tell you suicide high schoolers that's like I don't even know suicide like% I mean crisis so just tying in with that legislation experience here the law >> thank you >> that brings us to a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor of adjourning. >> Thank you all very much. [Music] >> I thought maybe I thought maybe he was like standing outside because of the Meer crowd. >> I had this moment. >> I read