001got a plan did you not yet [Music] congratulations you don't want to know you don't want to know it it's okay it is 4 minutes 7 we have returned from executive session to continue our public meeting if we could please call the RO Mr Mr lamb here M fitgerald here M Jordan here M Anderson here Mr R here and if we could stand the to the flag of the United States of America the stand Nation indivisible andice for all we actually have we have three actions coming out of executive session so I'll be looking for motions for all three first is Boe 43 be it resolved that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools approves of the terms of settlement agreement and general release between the district and employee number
0025358 and authorizes the superintendent of schools to sign said agreement the settlement agreement and general release between the district and employee number 5358 shall be incorporated by reference within the minutes of this meeting second all in favor of accepting Boe 43 any oppos 43 the second is Boe 44 both these board nomination be resol of Board of Education nominates Suzanne Jordan for election at at to an atlarge seat on the ster County Bosey board for a three-year term from July 1 2025 through June 30th 2028 some move second all in favor I congratulations Miss Jordan and thank you um our third is Boe 45 amend to amend the 24 425 Master calendar be it resolved that the Board of Education approves the amendments to the 2425 school calendar emergency give back day as determined by
003the superintendent and a second second all in favor I any opposed soe 45 appr that brings up our uh student recognition Okay Dr P okay today our student recognition is going to be our senior Jackson KRON who's standing right there uh Jackson is celebrating as as this year's olster County representative for the American Legion oratorical contest after finishing first in the county and District levels Jackson came in second in the zone level and is an alternate to the states Jackson is a 2024 boy state candidate serves on the Kingston City School District Shar decision-making team and the Kingston High School building leadership team uh he's the class of 2025 treasure member of the national National Honor Society film club academic world CL Club Quest and he's the founder and president of the KHS debate team
004how' you make out today against the Brut hofs today uh that would be the mo trial team oh it was mock trial okay I think they did good but it's the M of yeah I know I saw on the sign I thought um so according to Dr scor Jackson is humble and kind and has positive attitude and always help always happy to help and work for the greater good so congratulations to our student recognition this month Jackson Kon congratulations and I'm told Jackson has some words he'd like to say I'd love to just thank um everyone for giving me this it's a huge honor and I'm so happy that I've had the privilege at the high school to be able to do all these clubs and great experiences and it's made it uh an amazing
005four years that will sadly be ending in just 12 or so weeks so thank you for that thank you to my parents for all the help of this and uh thank you for the um ol County American Legion who has help me with the these opportunities of boy State and the aoral contest congratulations Jackson you make us proud that brings us to um public comment is there anyone is there anyone in the audience that would like to address the board okay that moves us to the minutes from the the February 19th meeting I have a motion to approve those minutes and a second any discussion on those minutes all in favor of approving minutes from February 19th I and the opposed so the February 19th minutes are approved and our superintendent report Dr patalino thank
006you Miss Anderson first on the superintendent report we have m Jameson the principal of JFK and her entire [Applause] staff good evening good evening Board of Education Dr patalino cabinet my entire staff um those who are here tonight and those who are watching at home I'm as always thrilled to stand up here and share some of the things we're doing at JFK with all of you going to start with a little bit about our student demographics we currently have 317 students 20 classes two classes that looped this year 39 enl students 69 students with IEPs we continue to be a title one school with 74 to 79% of our students being economically disadvantaged our SE commitments this year might sound familiar because they are truly the three things we believe in most at JFK meaningful
007learning opportunities a sense of belonging and commun Community I'd like to start by highlighting our second and third commitments that every child will feel safe respected supported and a true sense of belonging in our community and that we strive to establish strong trusting relationships with families across the school community on the right side of the screen you'll see data from our 100 day survey where 100% of our families reported that they're having either a five or four four star start to the year and 96% of our families reported that their children feel safe have of belonging and build positive relationships at JFK with only 4% not being sure and no parents answering this that they disagree or strongly disag one of the ways that we're working to build community and support our families is with
008walking School Bus this year I'm so proud that we were able to extend our walking school bus from two days a week to five days a week thanks to a crew of very dedicated JFK staff members we are out every single day rain shine snow or ice and there was a lot of ice school year and we have a rotating staff and I myself go out on Mondays Thursdays and Fridays and it is my favorite way to start a school day since I started at JFK we've been focused on improving our attendance and lowering our chronic absenteeism rates and this year we decided to do some work to formalize that process we formed a JFK attendance committee made up of our instructional coach social worker nurse teachers and teaching assistants we formalized a protocol that
009teachers can follow once a student hits three days out and those aren't consecutive days we start tracking students once they've hit their third absence for the year our protocol includes a script that's meant to take all shame out of calling families and asking about absences because we are truly coming from a place of support of understanding and of wanting to help there's a QR code at the bottom of the sheet that many teachers have right by their classroom phone that if they're Outreach is not successful they can scan and make a referral right to our JFK attendance committee who will continue Outreach before passing along to the district attendant social worker on our family survey 100% of families reported that they either agree or strongly agree that they know why it's important for their child
010to be at school each and every time another way we've been supporting our families is we are so proud to offer tops this year four days a week December through may we have 117 students currently enrolled in tops which means that 37% of our students have a safe and supportive place to complete their homework four days a week and then attend exciting enrichment classes such as creating art out of recycled materials physical education logic games dance um and and many more but it's been a really successful start to our tops program we truly see our families as partners in this work and we'll invite our families in any chance we get that's something that hasn't changed at JFK we also continue to support our themes and the things we believe in with picture books through
011our book fa program and this year we're so excited to partner with Dr Javon Hunter on a schoolwide book program that will be multi-disciplinary and using the book I AMU it's a book of umuntu which boils down to um I am you you are me whatever I do to you I also do to myself our amazing music teacher Miss Hansen who's here tonight has also written a song to go along with this work and having a school song is always something I wanted so I'm really excited to share that at next year's board meeting the rest of my presentation will focus on our first commitment which has to do with meaningful learning and engaging every single child in the school in meaningful learning here you'll see our I ready Ela data on the top you'll
012see from starting in the fall we started with 18% of our students honor above grade level and by the winter diagnostic we're up to 30% of our students honor above grade level we started our year with 42% of our students two or more grade levels below and by winter we're down to 28% of our students two or more grade levels below and I included last year's data so you can see that we continue to also Trend positively year after year there are similar Trends in math where we started the year with only 5% of our students on or above grade level that are up to 15 by the winter diagnostic we started the year with 48% of our students to are more grade levels below in math and are down to 35 by the winter
013assessment I'm really excited to share with you JFK's experience with CK this year we were so proud to have six classes pilot this work many of our pilot teachers are sitting behind me right now we piloted in a class on every single grade across the school including two classes with English language Learners three classes with students with IEPs and a class that looped meaning that last year they had one curriculum looped with the same teacher and are using CK La this year there's a beautiful graphic from Dr Sarah Holbrook that shows throughout the grades the growth that our students will have once this curriculum is adopted schoolwide and tonight you'll hear so many things that our staff and students love about CK but one thing I'd really like to highlight myself is that for years
014we've been working tirelessly tirelessly at JFK to close the achievement Gap to really improve overall student achievement at JFK and we know that the one major thing we need to do to get off the CSI list is to drastically improve state test scores and I believe that CK is the missing piece to this puzzle it's a tier one whole class grade level curriculum that gives our students the background knowledge the content knowledge the vocabulary the exposure to sophisticated literature science and social studies Concepts and most importantly the stamina and confidence to successfully Excel on our state tests I believe that we'll start seeing the results as early as this year in our third and fourth graders because it's already showing in our I ready data so here's a snapshot of our pilot classes and the
015improvements that they've made specifically from the fall to the winter diagnostic talking about sophisticated content and vocabulary here's just a snapshot of what kindergarten is covering this year in the ca room this is a quote from veteran teacher Joan Williams who here with tonight who speaks about um how she was curious about cka and I might even use the word skeptical which will come up a few times with our teachers today um but the major shift in the way that literacy and and Ela curriculum is taught specifically that letter names aren't taught until February in kindergarten which is a major shift from how things have been done in the past but she shares that at this point all students in her room including her English language Learners are reading and reading well they can easily
016any word they see have beautiful handwriting are writing organically she said Student Success in this program has been phenomenal and she is Thoroughly impressed here's a quick look at the units of a glance in first grade I interviewed first grade students JD and Sasha from the pilot class and JD shares about how he started the year thinking there were only three layers of the Earth but CA taught him there are actually four and that he shares them with us in his video and Sasha talks about the skills portion of CK and how much content she's learned in skills alone let alone the knowledge strand their teacher Miss Miller shared that she was really excited to Pilot CK and she loves the cross-curricular aspects to the program she speaks about how specifically in writing it levels
017the playing field for our students that they're not just writing about their experiences that they have on their own at home that the students are now tasked to write about the curriculum content that they're learning in class all together she said that as other teachers will speak about tonight that she was a little nervous about the um about the high level of vocabulary being used in the curriculum but that the students are using those words in regular conversation throughout the day she also highlights that she was able to partner with our stem lab ta and um really give the students some amazing virtual reality experiences directly tied to the curriculum um they took a virtual tour using VR headsets of the pyramid and I was lucky enough to be there when they took a virtual
018tour of outer space and you could hear their excitement throughout the entire School the data shows just how effective this work is so here's her annual typical growth and annual stretch growth as compared to the non CA pilot classes here's the grade two units at a glance I interviewed JF uh second graders Simone and James Simone talks about how um the insect unit is her favorite particularly learning about friends and foes and James talks about how his favorite thing that he's learned in C is the War of 1812 which I never thought I'd he a second grader speaking about um and their teacher Miss checkfield talked about how purposeful and complete the curriculum is and how she sees the um the connection between the skills and the knowledge strand how it's a program that is
019engaging that she that is really fun for her to teach and the students are really excited to learn from she also mentioned the positive results that she's seeing you can see compared to the non-pilot classes here are third grade units out of glance uh here a third grade student Alex is showing off something that his teacher Michelle um started in her room which is using doodle notes because the curriculum is very very the content is very heavy she has her students sketching as they're learning so he's showing off his sketch of the eye and the human body and was so excited to share with me that you are born with more bones than you end up with later in life and Henry speaks in his video about how exciting he was to learn about animal
020classification and he thought he was teaching me a lesson in it so it's a fun video If you haven't had a chance to watch it their teacher Miss shelle said that CK has has completely transformed the way she delivers Ela instruction and the way she views her students like others have said she was really worried about the rich vocabulary and that it would be too difficult for them to comprehend and said boy was I wrong she hears students using words like conceited transformation and interconnected as common language across her classroom and she said she just recently overheard a discussion between a group of students debating whether a dust particle could travel from the cornea through the layers of the eye into the optic nerve and enter the brain she also says like I've been sharing
021all along that the results speak for themselves she said her diagnostic scores have never improv so much between fall and winter Administration and here's her annual typical growth and stretch grow compared to the non cles here our fourth grade units out of glance JFK fourth grade student Micah shares about his love of how how much he finds the curriculum interesting how much he's enjoyed the personal narrative unit and learning about real people their lives her also really enjoyed the personal narrative unit and mentions that she loved learning about polio and she also mentioned that she thinks that the content is so much more challenging than Ela instruction has been in her past experience at JFK and how she thinks it's a good thing her teacher Mr Manley said that he's seen as fourth graders flourish
022this year that the content is engaging and relatable the students are accessing a real depth of knowledge and addition to learning vital literacy skills that will set them up for Success later in their academic careers and here's the fourth grade data CK pilot class compared to the non-pilot classes I'm now so excited to welcome up to the St um up to the podium Dresden Smith who's the class president of Mr manle and Miss Toro's fourth grade class who's piloting this curriculum when I asked Mr manle and Miss Toro who they thought I should interview he was the first person that they suggested he's an incredible representative of our school community so I thought it was really important here tonight in person to share with you what he thinks about CK and a little bit about
023the work he's doing my name my name is Jan Smith and I am in fourth grade at JFK I have been a JFK student since kindergarten and I love all the staff this year my class switched to CK for reading and writing I think CA is interesting it's a little harder and feel like you have more room to learn than last year last year reading was really easy we got to learn about new things with C kill we got to learn about poetry the Middle Ages all this brand new stuff it's a lot but you can still remember it and it's really interesting because cqa is pushing us to Rite more and use bigger words I think it's getting me ready to go to middle school next year the most interest thing thing I've learned
024this year so far was poetry I I I've really love learning poetry we are reading about poets and their process we learned about Sherman Alexi he expressed his anger through poetry he was so angry because people used to judge him the doctor said he wouldn't make it past his through his first birthday everybody laughed at him and made fun of him poetry gave him to express his feeling we also learn about linkston Hughes and my favorite linkston Hughes poem is Harlem we've learned about how to write our own poems empathizing words line breaks and when to use lines the most recent po poet we learned about is Walt womman we read his poem I hear America singing and I wrote my own poem using the same structure I I'm really proud of and I would
025like love to share with with all of you tonight I hear JFK I hear my school singing The Very carols I hear of those teachers in school each one singing his as it should be bleed and strong Miss Jameson singing as she directs morning announcements Miss TR singing as she Glides her EXO marker across the Whiteboard Miss Julie singing as she happily greets people into our special Community Miss H singing as she leads the chorus while playing the piano to stay in key the dim teacher singing as they bow the whistles to remind students the of the proper form needed to do PS the bus driers singing as they transport people safely to JFK Mr Brown singing as he munches on girl scout at his at his back table Mr M singing as he eats
026well as he hits the Bell to get everyone's attention each singing what belongs to him or her and To None Else singing with open mouths they're strong and melodist songs um that that concludes my presentation and I would just like I would like to thank Dresden and his mom and his family he has two uh JFK siblings former JFK siblings um and just such an incredible member of our community thank you to my entire Community my staff students and families to Emily zip for supporting the work that I spoke about tonight every step of the way to Dr ficel the school board Dr patalino all district administrators for all your support to my elementary crew who I could not do this without and to Brad and Lily watching at home now as a proud JFK
027mom I am thrilled to say that my JFK kid loves our school as much as I do almost sounded like you were thanking for getting an Oscar I think the last two years in a row I left someone very important out so I was like let me just write it all down questions are coms Mr lamb and then Mrs Jordan I've walked in that building and it I had a sense of belonging there and I got to tell you your staff and you are wonderful and doing a wonderful job and what a incredible young man I mean that was the highlight tonight so thank you very much for all you were doing at JFK staff and Jord I don't know how you can stand up there with the star Dr I know but um congratulations
028but um I want to thank you for making uh the CK such uh presenting it with such Clarity for all of us we've heard a lot about it but it was really such a clear presentation and the fact that you um added the students and the voices of the teachers really just highlights how great it is my only sadness is that it took so long for us to find it you know I'm so pleased for Justin and his Co you know cohorts and the younger kids coming up but I think that um it's so important that when we find something of quality that we stick with it and that that we don't um then have something new and shiny coming along because it sounds like everybody agrees that it really is as put so over
029the missing piece so congratulations and I hope that all the kids can continue to benefit from this high level instruction and I love to hear things about vocabulary building because it just enhances our communication and if we communicate better then we have less conflict so thank you so much I'm just going to make a quick comment I don't usually Cy a meeting but um it's very touching to hear you dread in and I think that you're going to go very far in life um I'm so happy that you have this support behind you but you yourself being a young man willing to stand the podium in Fr of people and he did it very well H El did it very El and all your md SCH that poetry any other I just also want to
030thank you as you know and a lot of your staff knows JFK is the school that was always very near and J to my heart and I used to be there for many many hours many days throughout years and it's just so wonderful to see the energy the passion that everyone has come together and you are fabulous you did a great job so thank you for that because you're why we all are here we're here to support you so that you can Thrive and do everything I guess I have one question because I know how challenging it is to change uh in instruction how what have been some of the challenges here staff because I know you know your staff in students well what are some of the challenges that maybe they encountered as they
031shifted over and how you been able to support them and address I think the number one challenge is the time commitment so um CA in kindergarten first and second grade is a 2hour time commitment um which means that if you were piloting this program with Fidelity some things have to go so in class year so there are things that we're balancing to make this work in third and fourth grade it's a slightly less time commitment but still one nonetheless so I think that if I was to pick one challenge with implementing this curriculum it's making the timing work but I'm very grateful that I have a group of Administrators who's been meeting with the principles and working on how we can make this U work across our entire school next year Meet the time con
032STS and still do the things that really matter to us outside curricul great thank you Mr Fitz pck to um I just want to say your words are beautiful child you are her future and um I think that it's well I I love seeing that um that you guys see your um your walking to school bu every day that's that's great it seems like you have quite a lot of kids do you do you have any idea about how many say the average is about 20 students but it really varies um so some days we've gotten up to almost 40 students come along but it really varies day to day and we will go um shouting wake up calls through Windows if we have to would say St was was it about that when you
033only did it um some days no it's it's grown throughout time and I think it's very weather dependent but I days a week it's a really Steady Crew of students that we can come to expect from Ronda from Village and the surrounding areas that we have our regulars now and a pretty solid group I heard a lot of good things tonight but I have to say the one that stuck with me is the attendance calls with no shame it really speaks to knowing your community and knowing that there are reasons why kids aren't in school and not shame anyone into um having to make up a story or lie or or feel bad about it so thank you for that I just have a question first of all I don't know why Mrs Jordan gave
034me that look um I want to know about can the dust particle I don't know Michelle is not okay can you app that report back got thank tomor morning you have to rep straight stud thank you very much just a few other things I know probably anyone who's listening at home or some of the people sitting here heard the one resolution coming out of executive session about the calendar so Our intention is tomorrow to uh communicate with our faculty staff and parents and students we will be uh changing our April break our give back over April break to extend April break to the 22nd and 23rd with students returning on the 24th and 25th and then we will be adding the other two give back days if they happen because we could still have snow
035to the 20 22nd and 23rd of May but we'll put out a more clear um communication about that tomorrow as well as the order what the give backs the take backs from us would be if we get more snow if we do have more snow days like maybe Friday um saying there going to be a snow dance Friday heard but so again Thursday and Friday 24th 25th of April students will return from Spring Break and the 22nd and 23rd of may we will be off for an extended Memorial Day weekend um that being said just a quick update uh we are moving forward obviously on on the budget um we have our next board meeting is April 2nd which is a a focus on the school budget so um Miss carbin and the rest of
036the team we've been working diligently and I know there was a lot of concern about the the deficit that we talked about or the Gap that we talked about we're we're whittling that down we're looking through everything that we that we do here um we're using a little different process this year so it's a little more painful and a little slower than before but um but back when we come back early next week or late next week you'll all get more information and then on the second we'll have our first um world full-blown presentation of the School District budget hopefully probably not but hopefully by April first the state will pass their budget and we'll have real accurate data but I'm being informed that probably won't be the case but we'll say so that's where
037we are as far as the budget is concerned um just quick things on our building project that we have going on um we have our 2023 bond which is the bond that goes to all of our buildings um our contractors for Phase One have been on site um they're going to start doing some of the work over spring break so we're really moving quickly there um for phase two we what schools those those would be Bailey and edit Bailey and edit um phase two is is Wai awaiting approval for from New York State education department but it's all in and ready to rooll uh we're working up estimates on phase three and phase four the stakeholder meetings are beginning in Meyer Graves and JFK um deep stadium is up and running for our spring Sports
038we had a few issues over the last few weeks around uh Ada hardware and some of the some of the locker rooms but that's been we've worked together with the city we we fixed that and we're moving forward and our playgrounds with the exception of a few little bits here and there are open and operational for all our students to use as the weather gets nice like it was today and that really concludes my superintend report for tonight okay any questions or comments for the superintendent um rosby I here um did they they recently lost a playground yes so what do they have they have a brand new playground that we put in this well over the last year and a half the playground in the front of the building was deemed unsafe by our
039insurance company our Architects and engineers and we took it down we're working um Mr um Bogart is working with Miss sickles over there to find out what she would like to do with that space and and one of the ideas was maybe put some more put some swings in and use the space kind of as an open outdoor place you know play area for for our students down okay um I I'm very appreciative of the work that are going into the bu this year because I understand that the difficult environment that we're working in in terms of budg this year seems like it's a little different than other years so I think a lot more tweaking is happening um and so I can appreciate all of the work going just a it is a different
040climate this year and I'm appreciate the efforts thank you any other question comments that brings us to the uh Board of Education committee reports we only have one committee report for evening bye kfk thank you we have ay meeting I put my stff because it tonight so forgive but we um had several policies that we considered for a long time and most of them were sent to our attorney for review there is one policy that was put in your library for review about our student who will be serving starting next year it was provided by um missa the differences are that our local high school principal and along with Dr Williams um came up with a wonderful way of bringing it to the high school so that process is completed do we have an update
041we are thank you there were 19 candidates that made it um through the process but some could not commit once they understood the time commitment so 13 ultimately were interviewed by uh committee at the high school inclusive of some of our professionals who are part of the student governing bodyes our principal one of the students um and they ultimately selected two students whose names if they haven't been forwarded to the board of ed will be forwarded to the board of ed for you to meet and um decide if you would like to move forward with the selection of the two studs oh that's wonderful thank you so much so we have that that new policy for we had a first reading but we can I think we can vote on it we' discussed it I
042don't think unless somebody has concerns or additions that we like to send back so I would move that we accept the policy and I can't find my I showed it to you at the beginning of the meeting did you but I don't oh here it is okay never mind so it's policy 2245 discuss any discussion um um I have an amendment so i' like to move to amend this policy to break the um the the section that that lays out that they don't have to appear during the month of July and August State regulation no no it's not State regulation the board the board could have the board could have a policy that they could be a 12 month or a 10mth obviously a 12 month is is more difficult for our for students um
043but that's a that's the decision of the board and may change the responsibility the the candidates attitudes towards whether they want to serve can I ask you why well uh first of all do we have a second I'm sorry I to do that do we have to do we have to vote on the first motion got it so why are you proposing that well I feel that um we do that we are pretty when people can't make it or whatever I feel like having it written that in July and August we're not not best way to write this I feel like if you know students can't be there over the summer and something that I feel like we would probably be able to um well I I understand I understand where you're coming from I
044think the board the the policy committee felt that we didn't want to put an undo burden on the student and since school was not the session but I wonder if we can add the word may instead of um I'm not I don't know Mr Mr because that's in there doesn't mean we would not welcome them at the the summer meetings what it it just allows them to not have to commit to those I certainly would hope that they'd be welcome to come to any meeting that would it I think that was the in ention of the policy committee not making it mandatory says op would it be I mean I guess what maybe you're getting it would be encouraged option not bar from coming it's just that it's optional so that they're not feeling like
045they're they're not meeting their obligation if they're not there I think the expectation is that they have their family vacations they have whatever you know if they're going to be seniors they might be going on College vations a number of things but I think the idea was that if it's optional that they can attend they would sit at the table if they're not here we don't want to mark them as Captain it's just the present but not an you know what I mean students work in the summer yeah different obligations they have is that we went through this entire process and um we have two candidates who expected that it was optional for the summer and so um I I would not support that change I think that the language allows them to come or
046not come I think after a year if it becomes if if the student recommends that you know I think every student next year should be here as part of it I would be more comfortable changing that front before the process of selection nting inly that's kind of important I mean I don't want to you know well the agendas would still be they're not in an executive session and it's a boiler lots of things that to and they don't vote no they don't and they would um they would have access to the agenda so I think if they want to I just think it's too late at this point after we've gone through the process after months of talking about it um we discussed it at the committee as well that I mean I didn't think
047it read optional I understand your point I just think there's a lot there's a reason regation so can we call the question on the vote for the amendment you just all in favor of amending the policy 2245 all post what was so there will be no change in the wording of 2245 now we have to pass can we follow this question we can I think you just did um so all in favor of accepting policy 2245 I any oppos okay so that is our newest policy um the other part of my report I just want to call to your attention to look for um policy 5151 education of promos or temporarily house students we have to review that there have been changes it did go through policy was intended to be a first reading so
048if you could just make sure that that's done before the AIL uh seconde so that if there are no problems with it we will pass it okay thank you very much because to the consent agenda are there any items that trustees would like pull from the consent agenda hearing none if I could have a motion so second and any discussion on the consent agenda all in favor any opposed so our consent agenda is passed we do have a few donation yes we do the Board of Education of the Kingston City School District hereby accepts with Greatful appreciation the following generous donation to Ernest C Meyer Elementary School from Community foundations of the Hudson Valley a donation in the form of a mural by muralist yalani Crooks to chavers elementary school from the Community Foundation of
049the Hudson Valley of donation in the form of a mural by muralist yolani cooks and to JFK Elementary School from the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley a donation in the form of a check of $2,000 so thank you to all of them thank you you bring you to Old business old business yes Mr lamb I still have an issue with how we get into the high school for performances and I I get there was a parking lot I have a need that needs to be replaced I don't have a handicap thing so I can't park in that spot number one I wouldn't take that from someone can there are older people walking with canes and it's either a steep grade up from Broadway or a steep grade down from when we have a hallway
050goes through if it's the rest of the building being open I think we should get something to block those hallways so they can't wander because it's the straight path from that back door in the pouring rain for some events or cold and snow or other events it's a straight path down to the elevator down of a half of light on the elevator and you're at the it's that that building is not even with that little parking area that's still not handicap accessible for for our elderly handicapped and other people and I think we need to address that people were parked all over the lawn on that side of the building and I know Dr Panino arrived great deal after I did I always go in the back because I don't want to take up those
051spots all right so but they I know he found spots over by the Fieldhouse so I I get it but that's still those spots over by the Fieldhouse are not really handicap accessible we have a beautiful entrance way we have those monitors we could have on with events that are going on in that high school and we could show pieace what the community has given to us and let people have an easy access to the building and I I think that's what we need to do for event and it was such a wonderful event too so we'll get to that later but I I just I I think are you referring to the main entrance yes so main entrance yes cuz you have that hallway and if you go to the left so you weren't
052a because I was able to get through that main entrance I wasn't and and you know what it didn't make a difference for me to be honest with you but other people well yeah it does and it it it's it's locked up it's it's like for and the one event there was someone sitting there to tell you that you couldn't enter through that way which which was a security person there's nothing more disappointing to somebody who needs to go in that me greeted by security saying you can't come in this way and you know I I I think we need to make that building welcoming to the community because it it's gorgeous and it we've done a lot of work and it's an issue we'll discuss it with Safety and Security and the building Administration
053again my only problem with that is we've been discussing it for two years and that really well we I mean and I think we have I mean they said I was there and and on a Sunday on a Sunday afternoon we can't close off hallways it's against fire code so you can't put up those Gates like we used to in the old days and close things off if it's a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon we have night school going on so we got a couple hundred other kids in there so people coming through um you know there's there's a limit to what our security can do we our concern was the people with the handicap parking so we created that easy walk right to that door right to that elevator right up the stairs right to
054where they needed to be um you know it was so we felt we had a reasonable um solution to that uh and again I agree I I would like to see people be able to see everything that that is in there but we also especially during the week I mean everyone here knows go to Kingston High School Saturday this week there'll be 16 things going on in that building so keeping all of that under control as well as waiting for you know 650 people going through the hallways down to the play is a is a challenge um you know it's there's there's the handicap leas I thought was was handled well was staffed well people got where they were supposed to be pretty easily um and like said Mr lamb said I was I was
055I got there quarter of I drove all the parking lots to see where people were to see where parking was I went around three times so people I saw out there were our people I was the last person through the door at 458 no one came in behind me so no one got there late because of a parking issue or not being able to get through the building um so but I mean we can always look to tweak and improve we thought we had a pretty good plan as far as the um you and you know sometimes when there's concerts during the week like we had some some we have we have a lot of things going on in that building during the week and we would like to see the people going to the
056concert go through the way we want them to go to the concert the people going to the robotics competition go the way we want them to go to robotics the kids who are in night school over here we want to make sure that they are separated from any you know basically adults that are walking through the building that don't go through the Raptor system so we don't know who they are so there's a lot of different security concerns going on there but again we can we can look at to tweaking it um Sunday it probably would have been fine right suay right there's nothing going on but but the play so Sunday we probably could have set it up to walk right true but many days there is a lot going on in that high
057school and the best we can you know funnel people to exactly where we want them to go using the doors we want them to use is is in the best interest of the district our students and and just overall safety I was wondering it doesn't sound necessarily like waying and sign I don't know that that it might be so transient like where you're moving people yeah I think I mean signage could probably always do better with signage but you know I rather especially for all the reasons I just listed i' rather of people because anyone can wander off wherever they want in the building if they get through those doors and and it's a so that's where we want to have people there to guide people where they need to go you know you've all
058been in the building you get to the end of the main hall the cafeteria in front of you go left you go right you can choose and you go left you're going to get down to like a maze yeah you're go down left you're going to get down to the you're right you're going to you're going to access the whole other the whole other wing of the building including the Fieldhouse you got a lot of different things to we a lot of different things to kind of secure and you're right I wish back in the old days we had gates gates if thr lock on WE close off certain sections of the building we're not allowed to do that anymore I will say that the handicapped lot making that side lck handicapped inste for handicapped
059only really helped a lot and I think what we like people I knew I suggested that they drop people at that entrance because there were people there to welcome them and then the elevator was right there so it might not be a bad thing when we have those events that that is the handicapped entrance so you can drop somebody off and they go park and that's what a lot of people did and there were many many I think the first night Wednesday people might not have been aware that that was going to be designated all no they security was out there because that's the problem is people like I don't enter from that way I'm from the other side of town so we come in from Mary Z and go up and park in there
060were no signs at all there and the other thing is getting back around to that door to pick somebody up is is a problem I mean because the traffic going out of those lots of St it didn't seem to be a problem when I was near the elevator and helping people the funniest thing was that people don't understand the r are and the little thing light up I go down to the basement and then I still go two r one R but it's just getting familiar with it I'm just saying that if that was always designated handicap and people knew that you have to you know you have to recognize that when you go to any store there's two or three handicap spaces that's all the they have it is a large building I think
061that night school issue for some people for a couple of the nights Friday wasn't a problem wedn Wednesday and Thursday you know maybe we have to do a better job of communication golf well and Wednesday was senior night that kind of didine it problem we'll be brief with the our security team I'm sorry any other old business new business or the one item that we had on was the Bose's board member nomination but we've already done that so who can skip over that just a quick question Miss Siri do you know you have to turn that into bosies tomorrow morning right thank you so no other new business that brings us to public comments I'm not seeing anyone in the public so I guess we can skip over that board member announcements Mrs Jordan and
062then Mr L um I just want to congratulate everybody who was involved with the play but I also want to thank the community for supporting um the the kids so generously throughout the process of the play from Wednesday night all the way through Sunday and um there are a lot of people parents were just there's a lot of people you don't see the volunteers who sell the tickets and and are backstage and helping and the the people who create the stage and build the stage and do the props there were just it was a lovely lovely group of people involved and they got their just rewards because people really enjoy the show so I want to thank the community but the families and students and teachers everybody inv I just want to piggy back on
063that because that was my living and I got to tell you it was the best High School production I have ever in my life seen and they it was just amazing there were parents and and community members that built sets there were community members that did costuming there the pit is all student pit and people don't understand that many or most high school hire a pit they don't have enough students to do it and the job that our music department does with that and the job preparing our singers and the acting it was just incredible and i' I'd like to thank everyone who was involved in any way for that production our our lighting has got better there was not one sound incident on Sunday and I got to be honest with you the last
064time I saw Broadway production without one sound incident I can't remember right so I I just I think they were amazing so thank everyone involved and thank the district for supporting I think last year that's what you guys said about the seems like they themselves again last year had I just have announ and that is the eler count schol Board Association their next meeting is April 10th that's that's the bosei celebration where the kids cook for us um but it's the conflict for us because it's National Honor Society induction so keep that in mind as you uh going to be a dilemma for me for sure I do have rep April 22nd we are required by the law to have a board meeting to vote on the bud the V budget and the V board
065members April 22nd we do not have that's hard is it spring bre spring bre it's part of the spring break extension Tuesday Tuesday after Easter Monday e do we have to adjust a policy do we don't have a policy that we our does not say weon have okay so we can it's just an inconvenience is it going to be a one a one um agend one item agenda cabinet what about SEC yes the whole cabinet has to be here they're fine they'll be good I say you're not worried about me we [Laughter] so do we have to make that decision tonight well we have to have a meeting right okay and we're not going to be in school so two facts that we can't change have to be at the same time your mic is
066off you have to start over enjo um I just briefly I won't give a full report but just to announce that earlier today Miss Anderson Dr patalino and I met with the um aler County IG representative of the ultra County IGA and had an inter conversation which will summarize I guess at a later date very I thought it was very informative both from both sides so we can give a report I think it has potential that we can work together for the best interest of the school so and the community all right that brings us to a motion to a thank you allk yeah yeah