001and reporting to the board as described above and be it further resolved with the board of education hereby suspends employee number 06 1522 without pay for a 30 calendar day period commencing on june 16th 2022 and then and then with pay during dependency of these proceedings if during a time when the employee would otherwise be entitled pay i have a motion second tip okay any discussion all in favor of the resolution please say aye aye opposed nay aoe 94 3020a be resolved that employee number 0615 shall be suspended with pay during dependency of section 3020a education law proceedings against said employee you may have a motion on the resolution any discussion all in favor please say aye aye aye opposed name financially adopted next item on the agenda is approval minutes uh june 1st 2022
002may i have a motion any discussion any corrections or discussion changes hearing none all in favor adopting the minutes please say aye aye opposed nay anonymously adopted minutes of june 8th 2022 may i have a resolution to adopt those days me yes i was in prison so i'm gonna be voting okay um so all in favor please stay on on nave extensions okay we have a public comment sign-up sheet here's the next item on the agenda um dr palino has requested a statement to be that he would like to make a statement before may i have a motion to suspend the agenda any discussion would you like to read your statement thank you and it's just a very brief statement i know that many people are here tonight to discuss safety and concerns surrounding safety
003and i just wanted to give a quick um just a quick statement on what we're doing right now and what and what's real and what is uh perceived i guess in our community of what we're doing but our building and district administrators have reviewed and enforced all of our safety procedures and protocols in all of our buildings our district uh coordinator of safety and prevention and director of buildings and grounds have addressed any issues that were identified through those processes i know much focus has been on much work has been on outside assistance such as law enforcement which has been providing us with increased presence over the last several weeks and it has been greatly appreciated the implementation and appearance of our current building safety plans has been the area of our focus as far
004as the administration here in kingston is concerned these plans reflect best practices in school safety recommended to us by law enforcement and our practice regularly through drills communicated effectively with our faculty and staff and known well within our buildings and our community we continue to add improvements to our building safety including door alarms that alert us to open doors additional cameras our upcoming smart schools bond project will be increasing and improving multiple areas of our service our safety equipment such as intrusion alarms as well as proximity cards and when i say intrusion alarms i mean after hour and true alarms like when we're not we're not in session um the partner i know a lot of conversations have been about school resource officers or armed security guards in our buildings the board of ministries has
005not discussed that nor do we know in order to be nor are we necessarily in favor of that type of security within our buildings nor do we know if our if our local law enforcement we need to have the capacity to provide that if the board should choose to do so again that would be much larger much longer much more inclusive conversation than just to make that happen immediately so i said our focus at this point is of our current safety procedures that we believe are proper and will protect our students making sure that they are implemented with fidelity in all of our buildings and making improvements to any areas of those plans and our physical infrastructure that needs to happen to keep everyone our students and our faculty and staff safe you know and
006that is all i got to say thank you thank you um [Music] the next 99 agenda is a public comment good evening all 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 because we do take your concerns seriously we want to have time to process and research issues 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 compared a written statement and do not have the opportunity to present it please leave it with the clerk of the board
007and we'll see that all trustees receive it please note that stated federal privacy laws and collective bargaining agreements prevent us from discussing certain topics in this venue the guidelines are posted on the boardroom wall i don't know if we're there we have them here in the in the kingston auditorium we thank you for the appearance to the rules and your interest in the continuous improvement of our district we have a three-minute time limit on public on public comment if you request that you adhere to that the board clerk will give you a 30-second warning and a signal when you're out of time the first person who was signed up is justin hulkstrom pronounced her name here good evening members of the board and members of the community i hope everybody's doing well i just wanted
008to take a minute to speak out about what i've heard rumbling in various communities including our own which is the suggestion that there be an increase in the police presence within our schools all available research shows that increasing police presence within schools does not do anything to effectively prevent mass shootings and i think that it would be tragic for the kingston city schools to move towards that sort of militarized model of schooling wherein students have free-roaming officers with the capacity to take away their their lives roaming within their educational environment i would prefer to see something more along the lines of free-roaming social workers free-roaming mental health counselors it worries me that there's a vocal minority out there pushing really hard right now to see the see the sro thing get bumped up i have
009a student he's a he's a young man of color i know for him cops don't make him feel safe and i know from all of the research that i've digested that they they don't period they they don't make schools a safer place what works is create a sense of community anyway yeah hard times in education hard times in america but um we work together hold space for everybody you get to a better thank you malia cordell who's the next person signed up [Music] uh [Music] good evening as you know this spring i ran for a seat off the pcsd board of education well i wasn't if you would like you could take your mask off so you can speak directly into you don't want to just speak correctly okay so while i wasn't elected my
010goals for the district remain the same and are as urgent as ever the vast murders of buffalo and in and this has only underscored the importance of my goals the washington post reported that 70 of school shootings since 1999 were carried out by children under 18. experts conclude that the best way to deter future shootings is not through increased policing rather through improving the connections in our schools and the events that we've already demonstrated but things like more police and more active shooter drills are definitely not the answer here are some recommended preventative measures that i think the district should take increased mental health supports for our students and teachers ensure all teachers and staff are well trained in and practicing peaceful conflict resolution methods and trauma-informed approaches to classroom management center building children's skills
011around conflict management stress management and empathy for classmates also known as social and emotional learning and this should take place in all pre-k through grade 12 classes we must also teach our students the knowledge and the critical thinking skills to discern between truth and misinformation especially as it pertains to online activities we must also create and swiftly implement a digital literacy program we must also increase the sense of community in all of our schools especially the middle schools in kingston high school this should include fostering a supportive school environment where students feel safe to talk to each other and to staff and i understand that that is not the case for some high schoolers and some middle schoolers too i assume we must also make sure that every single student has at least one adult
012who they trust and connect with at school i've met high schoolers who say that is not the case we must do everything we can to prevent future violence make our schools a supportive and welcoming learning environment but investing more in school policing security and surveillance will not address the root causes and issues that lead to mass violence on school campuses investing on the things that i mentioned however will help prevent both violence and bullying and lead to a better school environment for everyone i look forward to hearing the districts planned for the upcoming school year and i would also like to make a suggestion um next year can you please have the retirement party maybe on a different day thank you [Applause] charlotte adamus who's the next signed up speaker machine here good evening and
013thank you so much for holding this public session i wanted to start with paraphrasing um mrs jordan who was quoted in the hudson valley one article that stopping an active shooter is important but so is stopping it from happening in the future according to a 2019 study there is little evidence as uh several people have said before me that increased school security measures have decreased gun violence in our schools and this was based on the author's review of nearly 20 years of school shootings what we need the authors of this and other studies have concluded what actually works is prevention this includes more programs to address bullying conflict resolution both inside the school and in the community educating our students to tell an adult when they learn about a peer just threatened firearm violence and
014more mental health services many of the k-12 school shooters were identified as feeling marginalized more than half had a history of rejection and many experienced bullying one study found that more than half the school shooters have a history of psychological problems however blaming mental illness for mass shootings unfairly stigmatizes those with diagnoses and ignores other potentially more salient forces and factors that being said there is still value in identifying certain commonalities behind school shootings problems that can be addressed in light of this i'd like to know if the district was able to fully provide the required mental health training for all staff during the 2021 school year because according to the new audit from the state controller most school districts did not and if we were unable to provide the full training to all staff
015what is the district's plan to make this happen now and finally if we as a community want to stand up for safety in our schools then i believe that we as a community need to stand up to politicians who don't have the backbone to restrict youth access to firearms thank you next speaker signed up is matthew mccoy matthew who is a former board member board president um 2012 to 2014 i believe for um 2006 iran no attention i got a call in the spring of 2007 it was the district office i answered the studio hey it's gonna be on right yeah you haven't put in your petitions this year i said i don't plan on running did you see what happened last year oh come on matt you gotta run you gotta run you're in
016for the right reasons i said yeah she convinced me to run i did i finished in first place that year within the end of that term i was the vice president went on to be president of the board you know we passed a lot of capital projects together in the community it was different back then and this is great look at this look at the space that right and a lot of that stuff because the meal i mean you guys you guys are still together this board stays together there's people that come and go but for the most part the majority of this board is still here i've been going for seven years yeah the people elect you if you stay because camille is crazy so thank you thank you for all you've done for
017this community you work in the background but what you've done and some of the votes that have gone down you know what it happened about you and there's a person that's also in this room like there's one vote that i do regret while i was on the board and if i could take that hope back to ms anderson i'm gonna apologize i that was not the right goal when you came out of that high school principal position and i truly regret that but thank you camille for everything um you know my life on the board is straight and turn into many opportunities so thank you members of the board thank you for what you do for the community thank you for doing a great job [Applause] thank you the next person signed up is new
018soldier newman hey everyone my name is franny can you hear me okay yeah thanks um so um i'm sharing notes from the conversation a conversation i had with the people in my household who range from age 9 to 50 years old school is for learning and being with friends and for recess schools shouldn't feel like a jail let's just say there are a lot of reasons i'm gonna assume that was an accident okay okay let's just say there are a lot of reasons we shouldn't have police officers in school number one i don't want them inside because it would make it feel weird a bunch of police officers if you're just trying to get to music class that's weird in a bad way two i don't want them to be harassing people and probably it
019will be worse for some kids because police are more dangerous to people who are black even if it's not on purpose which is not fair and is scary three i don't want people going through bags because that's private if police are there it's like the school is expecting people to do a crime and that just feels terrible most kids are not doing crimes and all kids want to feel actually safe not like they could go to jail if they make a mistake or make a bad choice if they're having a hard day thanks [Applause] um rachel gauss hello can you hear me yes um thanks my name is rachel gans and um a child who graduated from here i have some kids and i have i work with some kids that go into our school
020district and i'm speaking strongly against not only an increase in armed police officers in the school but you know hearing that there's more already i think that should be reduced immediately and and um because as many people have already spoken it does not do anything to reduce school shootings which people are talking about now but rather we need to invest money not in surveillance and security measures that were mentioned by the superintendent but rather in mental health and trauma trauma support and [Music] counselors guide you know guidance counselors social workers and and you know i think somebody else mentioned that people need to know what's going on with the kids at the school and and i've seen you know and and there's a lot that's not talked about um like we all saw i mean
021we all but there was a lot of videos online about the fights at the school and i know that was taken down the site but like watching how the adults interacted with the kids during those fights was pretty upsetting to me and the kids that i know saw that so you know again i think that really the focus needs to be on healing the kids and and really you know dealing with the fact that we we have a lot of problems in our society and we need to help people through those problems and and to overcome them not to police them so thank you um ethan burnett is the next person hey i'm gonna hold this because it came up my name is evan scott barnett i am a resident of kingston i graduated from
022ronda so i want to be very clear but for the past 12 years i've been able to do different types of youth mentorship from rhondda to kahana to taconic in the hillsdale area so i've had this opportunity to work with different youth and specifically i'm trying to understand the ways that they transition out of high school into society and the ways they can grow and the ways they can build and one of the main issues that we saw during the pandemic is food and as you know the kingston emergency food collaborative did a lot of this work to absolve the struggles of food insecurity and you know i'm grateful for the board and the collective hiring of chef dave because chef dave has ultimately transformed the way we think about food amongst our youth and
023i think his work and the extension of the 9th period pantry has been instrumental in establishing that people have increased food opportunities and that they can go home with a little something else in their stomach even if they're not eating later in the day another thing that i realized was i spent time with these kids is that one of the biggest issues they have is mental health right so as they go home they're often in places that are housing insecure as the larger issue of kingston is that the housing market is being crushed so when we're serving folks and we're in different opportunities to meet with these kids and meet with these parents they're often hotels and what we find is what they're in motels is that they're often over police because these issues and
024these spaces are not safe so then they have this understanding that home isn't safe so when they go to school and there's increased police presence they're also recognizing that school isn't safe because they're faced with the same traumas that they are at home when they're in secure housing right so for me this is all centered around food because when we have nutrients whether intellectual physical or mental stimulation in the school which kingston high school is by far the most important institution in the city of kingston absolutely we then recognize that their home life is better when their school life is better and even when home is impenetrable and it's one of the worst places in the world they can come to school and feel safe right but those barriers and those social emotional different formats
025of health and care i recognize that with increased presence whether it's sros whether it's police officers or whether it's just bodies that are intending to crush one another and that could be one student to a student one teacher to a student or one officer to a student is i would like to think of similar creative situations and i'm helping to build i'm hoping to join any committee just as you have with chef dave to seek our different solutions for food and community is the way we can do with safety and community care thank you [Applause] phil hearn county legislature good evening thanks for the introduction of president shaughnessy and uh i've had the privilege to meet mostly on the board um even though this is my first board meeting that i'm coming to as well
026as having had a meeting with the superintendent with some other legislators and thank you for that and i want to thank the public in the room as well for uh your having supported me to enable me to be in the elective position that i'm in so i'm here partly to give a brief uh report from that and also as as just the regular resident of the kingston school district before i got into this office i had participated in some of the speaking out around uh school resource officers so i just want to make clear where i have been on that before while recognizing the community is divided i think we all do want safety and we need to be frank and talk about what that means what does that look like and so part of
027me regrets that my my introduction here formally to the board is under grave circumstances the community who we've heard from so far i've brought up a number of different points with uh i agree with all the solutions proposed from anti-bullying measures and mental health support and and food i i work in farming where i did more before i had to take this this uh take on all my legislative responsibilities and um i'm hoping that we can recognize the much bigger problem that this discussion is bringing out in our community and we have a summary in which we can take stock some good news coming out of the county is there's a resolution around bringing a social worker into each of the county districts that will deal with mental health so that that's on the table
028right now you should know and uh would love to hear from the support the support of the board for that we've heard about how increasing police and militarizing in the school is an aspect of the school-to-prison pipeline which we must reject so uh thanks for bearing with this little little bit of a ramble um oh and i do appreciate the superintendent's report on what has been done thank you and so i i look forward to being in good communication with the board going forward i'm always happy to come and talk to you about what's going on in the county and uh i i do i do have her think that increasing police in the schools is the wrong direction for the reasons that we've heard already tonight so thank you very much [Applause] we have
029a uh i'd like to i'd like to ask the board to extend a public comment period by 30 minutes we have a new policy that gave us 30 minutes for um for public comment i think we're about up with that we still have three members signed up and an opportunity for anyone who's not signed up to speak so could i have a motion to extend uh public comment uh i don't believe it'll be for 30 minutes but if we can do that so moved all in favor please say aye all right opposed name is that one man um good evening everybody can hear me yes um my name is ann ames i've been living in kingston for about 2001 21 21 years i've had two children went through the school system and what i wanted
030to say a lot has already been mentioned i just want to bring your attention to the washington post who has been doing databases on violence for about 20 or so years they have databases on all kinds of violence and what struck me about this particular one is that there's been over 311 000 students have experienced gun violence at school since columbine and the other thing that struck me is that um of the 300 and we 300 hoping to get together here we got notes all over the place of the 200 of 200 deaths since columbine two-thirds are committed by kids under the age of 16. so what i think what we need in the schools is we probably need a mental health vaccine we need to be more preventive in mental health therapist crisis intervention
031because the kids that are going to be murdering anybody's children tomorrow are already in the schools today they're already here and it might not be a shooting it might be a fire it might be anything because it's all about rage and trauma if you look at your own kids and imagine what would make my kid want to come to school and kill somebody well we hurry up here it says here in this washington post thing here a six-year-old boy who killed the classmate after saying he didn't like her a fifteen-year-old girl who did the same to a friend for rejecting her romantic overtures so now we have the presence of guns now when you have young kids bringing guns to school that means that they're not being locked up they're not the kids just have
032free range to pick up the guns and come to school so then you have that whole gun thing going on but the first thing you have is the state of mind of the children so the next shooter or the person who's going to be perpetrating violence and kingston is in elementary school now and we're going to see these kids we're going to say oh yeah that's so and so he's always into something or this one is always into something but nobody's intervening so i think there should be some kind of um i don't know some kind of outline some kind of format that is followed um say kids kids missing school kids are acting out young grades elementary school that's the time that there should be intervention thank you [Applause] uh next person is christina
033carr good evening i am a mother of two young girls one in first grade at george washington elementary and one entering pre-k at mahara in the fall my family and i moved here seven years ago from australia a country that after one mass shooting banned guns altogether and a big surprise hasn't had a mass shooting since i am as furious and terrified as any other parent standing up here to have to worry that my children could get shot in their own school beyond all of us advocating for policy change at a federal level which we should all be doing i believe that the solution for our district in city is a complex one that does not involve stacking our schools with more cops and armed security guards which numerous studies as we've talked about tonight
034have shown to not work actually a 2021 gem a network study which showed that the rate of deaths was 2.8 times greater in schools with an armed guard present and that police presence in schools does impact students of color negatively what we need is a change in the culture of our schools when it comes to mental health and discipline and we need to do it at an elementary level on up to address these concerns early on with children at a young age not just wait to deal with them at a middle school and high school level when it can sometimes be too late we need to hire a director of mental health who will work alongside the director of diversity equity and inclusion who will in turn dramatically increase the number of mental health professionals
035in all of our schools from counselors to psychiatrists from psychologists to social workers we need more of them and we need to offer community-based services for individuals with risk factors for violence recognizing that violence is not intrinsically a product of mental health and we need to clearly communicate these services to all parents the director of mental health should also implement a required training program for mental health and crisis intervention as well as discipline reform training to all school administrators and teachers the disciplinary practices in many of our schools including my child are exclusionary and often discriminatory they shame children and they label them from an early age as bad a label that sticks with them throughout their years of school and these often archaic practices do not foster positive social behavioral emotional and academic success
036for all students i urge the district to use some of its newfound funding some of which is expressive to be used for social emotional learning loss to invest more heavily in mental health and discipline reform from the elementary level on up and to foster a school culture that is inclusive and communicative i look forward to seeing these changes implemented in a swift and sweeping manner across our district thank you for your time [Applause] and the last person signed up for this i'm speaking is katrina hauser [Music] good evening can everybody hear me well everybody has said everything so i'm just gonna put anger management what people fail to realize right now is we have a lot of angry kids walking around a lot of angry kids and the reason they're angry is the gentleman that
037got murdered down the street in front of his children his step-children his nephews his cousins they go here they're angry a little girl that got murdered on man losing street her cousins her friends her siblings they come here they're angry the little boy that played with the gun with his friends and shot himself in the head his siblings his cousins his friends they're angry they don't know what to do with this anger is hurt that they're feeling because we as adults don't know how to process it well we don't need police in here to abuse them more than they're already being abused by the world in the street it's hard for kids to understand what they're going through into processing and if you don't know what these kids are going through you can't help them
038i'm a part of this community and i walk up and down these streets every day talking to these children these children are hurt and they're angry and they have nobody to talk to nobody to turn to there's no mental health workers in here there's no crisis workers in the schools there's no anger management workers in the school you need more help for these children in the school for them not to be going from school to first pipeline is there anyone else who has not signed up who would like to address the board come forward second opportunity second request any other third okay we will proceed on to the superintendent's report thank you all for your public comments and thank you for observing the time limits so the first the first well i'll let dr paulino
039he handles the superintendent thank you his first leadership intense report is our kingston high school principal's report and i introduce mr pittsburgh [Music] thank you everyone so i'm vince cecile principal kingston high school this is the kingston high school seth presentation which is a school comprehensive education plan thank you for having us here tonight thank you for all showed up we appreciate it our class of the 2022 graduates will graduate on june 24th at 5 pm at deek stadium these students returned to in-person learning in september and successfully navigated a year of change transition and transformation our mission has always been to graduate all students so they are college and career ready this introduction is done for a purpose it will segue into our first commitment of our set plan you're all going to be
040celebrities for a moment so please bear with me our goal is for the students to be ready for college or successful career better whether whether it be suny ulster mit a local restaurant owner or a hall monitor kingston high school's graduation rate has greatly improved over the years this is something that the entire kingston school district community feels proud about i speak with principals throughout the county regularly sharing best practices that affect graduation rates i also research how other schools districts are performing like hudson for example our e l population is one of kingston high school's biggest challenges and is one of our top priorities the pandemic calls students to miss the true high school experience with band musical sports and all extra critical activities taking a step back we are glad to see these
041events return stronger than ever during pandemic everyone in our building stepped up and took on additional new responsibilities in order for us to survive our school monitors created and implemented a hallway direction plan that was very successful at khs modifying on the go was the new norm our school monitors also became experts at material distributions cobia 19 test kit distributions one particular monitor that we have can single-handedly operate a successful drive-through test kit distribution of over 1000 test kits if i let her do it by herself it would be done flawlessly i'm so very proud of all of our staff members of khs reaching out to our community members and rebuilding strong partnerships was successful at khs for example our relationship with the state university of new paltz has again allowed seven student observers and
042four student teachers to join us in person this year during the school year our relationships with maria scarangella beatrice vidas and dr alex petersey allowed the kingston city school district to successfully complete a mental health program for all of our employees during our school opening superintendent's conference day and it was amazing the focus was restorative practices trauma resilience practices and racial trauma recognizing staff is so important rubber ducky day just for fun i'll explain that in a minute walking the halls and just thanking teachers and helping students recognizing teachers monitors sros and school counselors on their professional recognition day is important in one small way to build morale this leads us to our first commitment students can see themselves belonging to the entire school community and reflecting the school culture our commitment is that every
043student who walks through those doors every day will have a sense of belonging how can all of our students see themselves embedded in the curriculum materials used in the classroom that was our question we asked every teacher this year during their appr process when that happens learning becomes meaningful for all students so if you notice what i just did i tried to bring you all and represent you all to the materials of this presentation this is what we did during the school year with our teachers i mentioned mit hopefully got mr shaughnessy a little bit excited um local business owners with mr michael hudson high school mr spicer and dr pamela know programming i know that's uh that's very important to dr collins the band and mr lamb i mean who loves the band more
044than mr lam miss lao school of monitors student calls for doctors code wits mental health program mrs jordan i know it's something very important to you and recognizing staff mrs shearer always has a gift for someone i drove to work one day and it was rubber ducky day so during our summer night program our sros give out a rubber ducky when the students find the pool or give out a bookmark when the students find the library during the scavenger hunt today that they produce so when hero's rubber ducky day i went around and handed out whatever happens to his staff members just try to build them around a little bit and the staff member gave me permission to share this quick very quick story it was i handed it out on friday on sunday she
045sent me an email said mr zico i need to tell you this first i want to thank you for supporting me through my father's death thank you for coming to his wake but what you didn't know is my father was a older oil company and every day when he came home he took a shower and a bath we kind of poked fun at him and bought him rubber duckies he had quite a collection so when you walked into my office on friday he handed me that rubber ducky it was like a sign from him telling me how he's okay and uh you never know what a little thing he's gonna do how he's gonna press someone to make them happy or how it's gonna impact a person so that was one of the most amazing
046moments i've had during the school year and i just wanted to share that with you all but today i looked it up mr sheer and today is smiley day if you look in front of you by your microphones you all have a gold star with a smile face on it so i just wanted to hand it out for a little gift for tonight right now two of our high school administrators will now explain and give examples of what we did through the appr process focusing on our first commitment to start off i have one of our newest uh assistant principals mr rolando preseno with the 2021 cohort good evening thank you mr desicco for the opportunity to share my observations with the community it's just a fraction of the fine instructional program and work that's
047taking place at kingston high school and i'd like to share a recent visit to mr richter's music technology class now i entered the class using our instructional lens that commitment that mr desicco drives home each and every day mainly are students represented is learning meaningful do students have a sense of belonging and i walked into a class where students were working on finalizing their final projects it would be a capstone to a years long process of building their their portfolio as i'm talking to students during my visit i find out that they were able to plan and mold their projects from a choice from a menu of seven options to complete their work so i'll go through a few they're all listed there on the screen writing an original song mashing up all of their
048projects for from the year into one cohesive work uh creating a backing track of a popular songs basically deconstructing a song and putting together a different beat or different type of backing music scoring a short film clip or creating a bad lip reading video so so why have i chosen to share this with you tonight well it it really represents the collaborative and supportive effort from the board to the student level and that that was really represented in that class for example mr richter has continued to keep his own training up to date so that he is up on the latest hardware software pop culture trends and best teaching practices the final project addresses those key domains in danny and danielson rubric and of course our commitments it captures students interests when it comes to
049creativity expression and exploration with the opportunity to express themselves and choose and design a project of their own learning becomes meaningful and even useful as a vocational tool lastly students have a sense of that belonging and this is where i'm going to get off script for a little bit i'm going to share with you that uh there have been times the last couple months that i've just gone over to mr richter's studio just visited sometimes after school and i find him with groups of students and they're in the studio they are laying down tracks working on rhymes new beats uh maybe working on a podcast and some of those kids are not even his students they just kind of heard word of mouth that hey there's this teacher he's got like this amazing studio and
050he'll let us go in and and record some stuff and just mess around with sounds um and that's just like a perfect example of a connection that he's made and that he's making it's a sense of belonging uh it's it's giving the students a safe place to be a creative place a non-judgment zone um and it's it's certainly something that has given us thought to like hey maybe we can expand this what can we do with this seed that we have and i know that mr richter is already thinking about music tech two or three um so he has plans for the future for that so it's that's really meaningful and it's definitely giving students a chance to feel like they belong so now i'd like to share um just 10 seconds 15 seconds or
051a longer clip this is uh produced by one of the students it's the final product now it's a video clip but i'll ask you not to necessarily focus on the visual that's that's not what the student created it's the sound that the student created um and they were engineers they created the sound mixed it edited uh it's all their creation so sit back relax and enjoy this very brief but fast paced clip okay yes [Music] all right uh so that definitely gives you fast and furious money um but uh i hope you you were able to um really point in on the the sounds that the student created i've i've also seen other works where uh the teacher himself has actually gone in and like used his voice or led his like breath to the
052sound so it's really exciting good work and um thank you for listening hi thank you good evening everyone um as i was observing some classes there was one specific lesson that really stood out to me and it was an art class and i wanted to share that with the board and the community that's joined us tonight mr sheffel is an amazing teacher and he contacted me just to do a walk through because he thought i was really going to enjoy this lesson and it was probably it stood out to me as maybe one of my favorite moments from the 2022 school year and the students went through the process of choosing either their school photo or one of their favorite pictures of themselves and mr shuttle brought them to the computer lab and he worked
053with them on photo shopping and playing around with the images and if you've ever done paint by number color by number that was kind of what was happening is that they blew up the photos they traced them and then they were painting them and what is important to mention about this population of students is that they are in a lot of the self-contained classrooms so they're not normally big art fans they don't necessarily have artistic talent but what was amazing as you'll see is by blowing up the photos and kind of doing the paint by number style they were able to create these amazing photos of themselves and just watching them paint and how many adults were just kind of used to being much more hands-on were stepping back as the kids were going through
054their pictures and painting and these were displayed in our hallways for several weeks in the basement the main basement and it was almost like they were amazed with their own artwork and their talent and they got to bring these home and what a better way to really feel like you belong by getting to choose a picture of yourself go through this process and then have an amazing finished product so i really thought that this was a project and a lesson that i observed that really exemplified the idea of that sense of belonging and just to leave you with a few more photos and again the students were so pleased and ultimately their parents were also blown away by the fact that they had these self-portraits that they painted and i think i covered it agency
055creativity and self-worth that's what stood out to me the most thank you very much thank you very much i also want to mention mr elliott is here our assistant principal um as well as ms bartley [Applause] joining us tonight um also my wonderful secretary ms hammerley is here as well [Applause] i don't say hi to my wife i'm in trouble thanks for coming so commitment number two fostering a sense of community through reciprocal relationships between students families partners and the school if we look at our graduation rate starting in 2007 which was about 10 years ago we had a 76 graduation rate 61 black graduation rate and 4 out of 11 ell students graduated at 36 that's important to pay attention to that number 11. the 2015 cohorts this is going into the graduating class
056of 2019 right before the pandemic 83 percent total graduation rate 78 black students 8 out of 36 the other number significantly increases but a 22 graduation rate of our ell students last year's class 79 black students 10 out of 43 now graduate for ell students at a 23 rate the projection for this year 81 is the low number we're hoping to hit 84 this year 81 black students 18 out of 46 enl students which is 39 it's a slight increase but still a long ways away from even the average we know ell is our ell students are our most biggest challenge they're the subgroup that is not graduating at the rate that we need them to graduate and during our set plan this year we asked for an ell social worker who was hired we
057also hired an ell guidance counselor any llb teacher in the ell bilingual family worker we already had we already have our ell lead teacher that is the team mrs rojas our bilingual family worker ms vasquez our ubl guidance counselor monica d'amico our elle teacher and estella rosario our new ell social worker and what we realize is that we now have a team a team of professionals that can focus on the elo population we met 39 out of 40 weeks once a week in my office to align resources for our students to just discuss issues that need to be addressed and it was a very very um rewarding year i'm glad we had that experience this year together and we learned a lot and there's some things i want to point out that really um came
058to the surface that was very important this year the goals of our team was getting to know the students to provide resources as necessary to assist the students we treated this as one of our cohort teams like our other cohort teams um meet once a week and align resources with the guidance counselors we did the same thing but concentrate our ell students our ell guidance counselor assisted with the master schedule i don't even think she knows what she did but it was amazing where she had requests in for every student during our first run this year and in the past we'd all scramble together late in august and try to find schedules for the ell students we did that first run about a week and a half ago mrs montano leads our scheduling department all
059those students had a schedule this early on is amazing and that's because of the team that we hired and the efforts that are put in to to really um concentrate on this population so that's gonna that's gonna help a lot this year we're real glad we have her in that position so our goal is to increase graduation rate by aligning appropriate programs and resources for enl student population we also on our set plan we had an ell outreach program and right now i would like to introduce miss amy capes our social worker and miss erica christian our school psychologist for the 2019 co-work team who will explain that outreach program hi i'm erica christian and this is my second year here and i am um extremely happy to just be part of the kitchen school
060district but i'm going to be towing here and and i definitely was happy to be part of the enl ell outreach working or coordinators um and working with amy keepers so good evening everybody um really quickly this was intended to be a k-12 initiative uh our primary focus this year our referrals came from the high school it was an exciting creative new approach um that was a great child of dr felicello and we felt that the strengths were really the flexibility in it the community-based increased opportunities for intervention and partnerships we took this project on with the support of the ymca as a community partner and that it took a more supportive not punitive approach working with our families sending out former enl kingston graduates who were trained with us and um really tried to
061connect with families and and understand why kids weren't attending so we all know that attendance enl or not is obviously something that's an issue in schools and we need the students to be here to be successful so enl students who feel displaced from coming from different countries um definitely need more of that support so this initiative was really exciting it was great to be able to connect the students that graduated from here talk about sense of belonging they came back here they were able to be trained and we created a microsoft forum that they went there and they asked the families and the students what is it that the school district needs so you can come to school every day we gather data um and i think the biggest thing for us is the fact
062that it wasn't someone with a uniform it wasn't someone you know it was just a younger or a little bit older than they are spanish-speaking students and it made a difference i know that i i went to a lot of the enl meetings that mr secret just spoke about and i could hear tatiana saying hey you know that student came the next day and so it's an initiative obviously it's the beginning of it um i think um like escapist was saying um i think uh it's just another resource that we have another tool that we have and so i think it was it was great and i hope you continue this if possible thank you very much so here's the good news this leads us to our last commitment and we're almost done here so
063to identify and create reparative solutions towards overwhelmed wellness of the students staff and community in the wake of the collective trauma caused by kovic 19 pandemic we held individual and small building tours during the summer months to address safety and wellness concerns of students the first week of school we reached out to getting to know our students student-led discussions around the need that have arisen during code 19 pandemic we said no academics the first week of school let's just have conversations with students let's get find out how they're doing start conversations and make sure everyone's okay that's something we plan on doing again this coming school year we work with community partners rebuilding our relationships to create intentional experiences for social connection mreerna will now talk about the community partnerships and the internships she's our
064transition coordinator hey at kingston high school guys the transition coordinator the community partnership liaison and co-chair and i work with students to form work based learning opportunities every year i take on an intern this is rebecca hansen she was from adelphi and this year we placed 43 students in paid positions in the community that number's still counting so we really want to hone in on the individuality creativity of the student that we work with so no two learners are alike and their abilities and interests and talents are all different so we really want to work on each individual student in our office these are just some past pictures that we've worked on we've done workshops with students to work on their resumes their cover letters we've done some really fun creative opportunities out in the
065community we've built ceramics together this last year we just went to ulster suny with eight students who have no transportation out to sydney they can learn the transportation and all of those students also receive some great scholarships so we're really proud of them some steps that we work on we work with students to do their naviance assessments so what that is is there's a series of assessments that they can take right through a platform and a portal and it kind of gives a breakdown on what they might be good at based on their interests and what they enjoy and their personality um step two we kind of review that with either myself or my intern or we connect them with their school counselors and other people within the school to really look at exploring careers
066college trade school and then step three is working with them on a one-to-one referral process or in a small group setting in an internship opportunity so we have some past pictures of students um this is my favorite gary who got me started and all of this with their tiny home build all the way to the right and how we do this is through the naviance visual workbooks resume writing interest inventories interviewing and mapping so really looking at everything within their brain their community and really planning out what that all looks like for them this is a little bit about the naviance assessments that we have so in here um in ninth grade they have four assessments that they can take they're going to go through they'll take a um a skills one they'll take a
067personality test and then they'll take a productivity and learning um assessment and as they go through they can retake these every year and they can also um they they'll learn and they'll build upon each other every year um so my interns come in um from adelphi and they take these assessments at the beginning of every year with me as well so they can learn a little bit about themselves as adults these are some more pictures we've gone to new york city as a trip we've placed a book in our library and we've created a lot of different opportunities for our students around so wild earth was one of our new opportunities here at kingston high school where students worked in a group setting they received mentoring and different training here at kingston high school and
068then they went and went over to jfk elementary school this year we worked with chef dave to create a weekly food bank where we served over 24 000 pounds of food to students in need through the backpacking and then we recently brought in our food pantry and working together to keep that open on mondays and fridays at first we started off pretty slow with five students and this past week i opened it up to 40 students before heading out and we also work with students on in an individual basis so if a student says hey miss diorna i think i want to be a vet tech i'm going to go and search for a vet office that might be willing to take a student on a voluntary basis and then help them get a paid
069job with them so we've placed four students over the last few years at burley vet clinic and all of those students are now paid employees up there we do a lot of learning in action so this year we started the period power movement i think it took off pretty slow but it's really growing we did an open mic night with our students recently we've created a lot of fundraisers fundraisers and activism opportunities for our students these are just some of the things that we put through the internship and career center so students are looking for more financial assistance maybe they want to work at our tops program over the summer if they're interested in gardening or lawn care we have people that call up and say hey i really need somebody who might be able
070to help with this we've created an arts field trip we've introduced place corps to the community and a lot more opportunities it's a little bit about the food um the free food store is what we're calling it so it's open mondays and fridays ninth period by appointment or just by coming in and then this is a little bit about our menstruation products we have them in my office um here at kingston high school we're hoping to get them in every bathroom at the middle school levels and at the high school we've raised over hundred dollars in this club this year um and if you don't wanna miss a beat go ahead just scan that happy retirement thank you very much [Applause] you have a lot of slides here pretty good um so to close this
071out i have maria scarangella here from family woodstock who's going to speak about restorative practices hi everybody thank you everybody for being here um i wish i was going to speak about restorative practices i made this really really short and unfortunately i'm not going to be able to get into what restaurant practices really are we would need a whole hour for that because it's a really deep topic but um i've worked for family woodstock oh this is my clicker all right so i've worked for family of woodstock um doing restorative justice and restorative practices were used in adults in ulster county for the last eight years this past year i was recently given the opportunity to become a community partner with the district and i've been working with staff and students here to try and
072make restorative practices reality at kingston high school um so i can't really go in into a lot of detail about what respiratory practices are but what i can't say is that it really speaks to a lot of what um i heard please for here tonight restorative practices is it is social emotional learning it is mental health awareness and um it does support wellness and it is at its core disciplinary reform as well um and [Music] and sorry and at its core though what it really is if i were to sum it up is that it's changing the way that we relate to one another it's how we respond when situations and conversations are difficult we change how we respond so that we can be more supportive um all right so because this is sort of
073the sum up at the end of the year i wanted to just share what i did do at the school this year um so for the most part most people know restorative practices as an alternative to discipline and they were used that way multiple times over the course of the year one one good example is the one conference that i did earlier in the year a conference was like a formal intervention and what i did was i sat down with parents and the assistant principal um for with a student who had gotten in trouble and we talked about how their behavior had had an impact on them and the larger school community and we were able to come up with a plan and an agreement of what that student could do to repair the harm
074that was done and they were then able to return early from out of school suspension um the thing that i'm most proud of though this year is my mediations and how my mediations went so i had a bunch of mediations with students who were getting close to fighting and they through the mediation they had the opportunity to hear each other out and overcome their differences and i also had one one one mediation with a pair of staff which i was very proud of and i was very excited to do that because one of the things about restorative practices is that it doesn't just have to happen with the kids in fact when it's being done correctly and with fidelity it's penetrating like all levels of the school community and it's being used with everybody um
075i'm gonna skip over a couple of these because i was gonna try and keep it short but the most important thing that i want to talk about is the circles that i did um and really focus in on that because circles is kind of the fundamental compo the core component of restorative practices what circles do is they give everybody an opportunity to share themselves and it's and they're getting being given this opportunity in a way that isn't solely focused on academics they're able to be authentic with each other so that classmates and colleagues alike can really begin to feel connected with one another and connected to their larger community and i did circles not only with students in multiple classrooms throughout the year but i also did them with kids as an alternative to iss
076for being tardy and i also did them with whole departments at the district and with all of the community partners that we partner with here at khs so um i did get to do quite a bit this year but i figured that i would just share what i feel like could be better next year um really my plan is i really want to extend my reach while i'm here um i want to do more mediations i want to do more circles and i just like to be here more um because i really want to help the school move towards like full and implementation of these practices because if you'll look these numbers they're great numbers they're great numbers but i know there's also like this is a very very big school and one person and
077but i'm really driven and i really love this work so i'd really love to just like expand what i'm doing this year next year so thank you all [Applause] so that's it thank you all for your support this year and if there's any questions um i'll be glad to hear that mr lynn fine thank you not a question i would like to thank the staff the administrative team from the high school for the presentation because you're addressing exactly what we need to address and it's a wonderful place the title is a beautiful building we have beautiful children or students and we have beautiful teachers and you know what you just proved it the the food bank the all of that is exactly what this community needs and these are more people here to hear this
078thank you just so you know those commitments mostly came from our students through student interviews that we have as part of the process now for the set plan so this is what our students told us we needed in this school but i also um feel that a lot of the concerns that people bring uh are brought very respectfully tonight um are being addressed and have long been addressed by the district and so it's so important that people understand that there are resources in the school because i think sometimes we don't realize that there's so much here going on and if a need cannot be met with what we currently have i know that you and your staff would do everything that they could to create that opportunity so i just um really appreciate everything that
079you offered and the thoughtfulness in attending to this age population which is different you know and the needs that they have are so diverse and i just really appreciate all the people who work here and the support thank you thanks i'd like to say that i found this really impressive and i know that we're the administration is working on a communications plan and i really hope that in the future that we get more of this we don't have to wait until june 15th june 16th next year to hear what's going on at the high school because i think it would really benefit not only it would benefit the entire community and it would benefit the students and [Music] it would benefit the board also if we knew what was going on on a more regular
080basis because if no one tells us how do we know i agree there's so much that we have to share there really is there's a lot that we're doing that i don't think people really know about like miss deere could talk for three hours if we let her you know you know angela can talk about her program forever i mean just so much going on i'm proud of everybody at our school everybody's really doing a great job working very hard and they really care yeah and it really addresses you know the things that we have we had 11 or 12 people at public comment and they were you know we are addressing their concerns they just don't know about it then they left before the presentation right so um we're working on that thank you
081mr president um i know this is just the tip of the expert there are wonderful things going on here um it's been a long time since i worked here but i did work here and this this school has always created me to to my heart but um i know that it's that and so much more that's going on and mr shaughnessy's right i've always said the superintendent we need to do more crowing about the good things that are happening because people aren't aware and also um you know invite them to come to board meetings and access our policies read plans online they're up there and you know i think you're not really aware of all the wonderful things that are going on we tend to focus on a problem and we miss all this great
082stuff so thank you thank you [Music] okay thank you everybody thanks for having [Applause] us thank you and i think i have to agree over the last two weeks or so i've been called over several times to you know be in pictures with students who are involved in different programs at the high school and each time i come over there's a different group of students are involved in a very different diverse program and i'm going to ask tina to tell me what was the name of the program that we took a picture with the other day was it now this is a place where there's a very different program from anything else we've offered it's really a paid gap year for students where they they go and they live together and they do community service
083and it's a real it's a it's i was so impressed by the by the um by the program and what it entailed and the students that were that were going to be part of this and what they're going to come out of that with um i almost feel like every student should have to do that it's it's a real um it means a maturing thing that helps students get ready for that next step but i thought that was a phenomenal program and quite honestly i didn't know we had it until we came over here so i think there's so many things going on at the high school and um it's maybe mr tacico and his team have to present three times a year well i'd like to thank you uh mr tasiko for i mean
084i was proud he pointed out a graduate of mit um last thursday we all we went down dr patelino and you and i and three students and uh i think there were three parents there as well to the ulster boces student recognition branches and and this year our valedictorian is going to mit i think her brother was valedictorian last year uh he went that he's he's finishing his freshman year at mit two years ago our valedictorian was accepted at mit and princeton and for some reason i don't i can't imagine why he decided to go to princeton um and you know and at the same time you know a year ago you know we got letters from people in the community what's happening with the academic success of of of khs it's not what it
085used to be um and uh you know it was only 34 of our students are going to four-year colleges but 76 are going on to higher education you know a lot a lot of kids are going to off suny officer you know to get their first two years of college uh education and that's a fine program it's a good way to start it's it enables more people more students you know to get a higher education and then a lot of students are at boces too moses has excellent programs uh students come out of boces and make 65 75 000 a year uh you know as 18 year olds or 19 year olds higher how much higher uh you know we need plumbers and we need electricians um it's not that it's not bad pay it's
086not bad work anyway okay thank you okay i said two more things on they will actually two more things on my uh superintendent's report and i'll try to be very quick with them first of all uh you have two resolutions four resolutions actually on the agenda that i wanted to address the first one is the secret resolution and the approval of the playground renovation project that we have put out that we um it's part of our art funding plan we are investing 1.3 million dollars in new playgrounds in our school buildings so we are and and improvements in the ones that we have in place um existing playgrounds that are getting getting upgrades and some new elements that are more useful for some of our students with disabilities above and beyond ada requirements it grades
087gw and edson we're getting all new playgrounds at chambers crosby and meyer and both middle schools will be getting playgrounds so we are again our commitment at the beginning of the year our funding for art was that we would be spending about a million dollars on um not only social emotional well-being it's much higher than the million dollars but a million kind of physical well-being and health of our students and one of those things that came to us from our students and our parents in our surveys was upgrade and update this place basis and one of the things our principal said was give me play areas for my students with disabilities who may have a physical disability that keeps them from getting onto our playground even though they are ada compliant that's a minimal standard
088we wanted to be above that so you do have a presentation in your packet i won't do it's answer if you want to look over and we can talk about it more next week but we've gone um and we we have really great plans really high-end um equipment new different um we did away with the wood chips that were that that will go around playgrounds we're putting in that we're putting in the board you know the rubberized floors that aren't plated much of a problem for our students with if they have allergies or sometimes there's bees that can decide they can live in those and their students b allergies and not just and nobody wants to get stuck in any way that would you're not so we're really excited to be able to start this
089pro project and get going and have brand new safe above ada compliant um playgrounds in every one of our buildings and i know i've been being i've been bothered a lot by people not bothered but pestered i'll say a lot on the promise that we would put them at the middle school so i'm really excited to be able to do that the other two resolutions are secret resolution and then the approval resolution for our energy performance contract miss uh shearer had spoken about this supported me a couple of times i'm just going to give you a quick update on this so what we're looking at is conservation measures using this energy performance contract yeah like everybody just here to observe make sure i do it right so we're going to replace our building management system
090in all schools to provide a single important control so our energy management systems right now are split between several different companies we're going to consolidate them into one company and have better control of our systems we're going to have boiler replacements in some of our schools of grades is really where we're looking at the boilerplate boiler replacement we are putting in things like plug load controls which means devices that are plugged in that aren't being used are turned off we're looking at insulated insulation around our mechanical uh units uh installation of piping and related mechanical systems to conserve energy building envelope improvements insulation door sweeps things like that to stop that to to stop that air infiltration so we can keep our buildings warm led lighting upgrades is one of the big things in this
091we are retro commissioning uh all mechanical equipment maximum efficiency and we do have some educational opportunities in here as well we have students shadowing an internship team left but she'll be interested in that there are student engagement support class projects regarding conservation that we'll be able to do and the project is looking we are looking to expand this project into some solar coming up soon but we're waiting on that we have some other details we'll do this we're gonna do this piece first and then we'll look at the solar after um this was about a 3.9 million dollar project it's self-funding over 15 years and the energy savings is guaranteed so we're approximately about 180 200 188 thousand dollars a year will be savings so this project is going to pay for itself long-term beginning
092with the first year beginning with as soon as we a quick report on what you're going to be voting on so what if this were to go this weren't an energy performance contract and the district were to pay for it what is the capital cost of the life of the contract well it's a 3.9 million project that's the total private cost so since there's a savings i mean that's that's it's a capital project but um because it's paying for itself and it's an energy performance contract it doesn't require a vote of referendum like most capital contracts with capital correct does not require a photographer they spent a year and a half prior to the court doses that the public may need a year and a half actually analyzing everything investigating where they could save money
093and some of the things that are included in this will actually fall off of the proposal for the tiger capital plan because for instance the boiler grades will be taken care of under this particular plant right and the energy of the energy at the engineering group specializes in performance contracts is our owner's representative they focus on meeting the scope that saves money from the district they rfp for the project they compare all the sed submissions and they're going to oversee the project and uh energy systems group or esg will be the contractor that performs the work so we have we've really done a lot of due diligence around this and working with energy to make sure we got the right contractor and we're getting the right things that are going to actually help us meet
094this savings and pay for this project short term and long term so i had um this is the per to send this out that a week and a half ago it came with an email and it's also in the library this week the approval there's a there's a ref there's a resolution in the consent agenda to approve this there's a secret resolution and then there's the resolution for approval of the project both for the playgrounds and the energy performance contract okay board of education is the next agenda section we have a report from the facilities all committee uh the facilities committee met on june 8th uh via teams it's a very large committee they're about 24 hours president for that one we approved the minutes of may 11 and then we had an update on
095the proposed um performance contract so we kind of sort of had that right now and we asked that dr piolino was saying there may be a second portion of this where we may be able to provide solar for some of our buildings and we're waiting for guidance on that i know that they're looking into more information about that shall be shortly forthcoming but the project that is on the consent agenda is without that it makes sense to get started because they've spent a lot of time a lot of thought a lot of research in putting together the first part of the plan um um in terms of an update on the pool mr quadrini our architect stated that they have found concealed structural condition where the deck needs the gutter and i told you there's
096a 14 to 16 inch gap there and water was not trekking where it should have there was some erosion we suspected that for a long time that the pool was losing water over a long period of time so they got together and they come up with a plan the engineers confirmed the scope of demolition they were completing probes into the soil from the area underneath and they confirmed that the oil soil can remain because it's been there for decades it's compacted and they're going to flood the space the with team worked out the new design and the new deck will be structurally supported not sitting on the earth below it and it's appropriate to put trench stairings around the perimeter where there are now but there will be mr andrews from bbl reported that the
097design has progressed and they've been working with ksq they removed all the tile from the pool deck confirmed that there is no asbestos just good news um saw put the slabs and core drilled at the bottom of the pool deck for additional epoxy injection that'll all support the new deck mr guadrini say there'll be an additional cost they need more time to finalize the numbers but the important thing is it's going to stress the deadline so we are the completion date will be delayed for three to four weeks and we've had problems with supply chain all the way through many projects mr silverstein is scoping out the use of other pools for the swim season and most of the the meats for this coming upcoming season are away means because we're anticipating that um in
098terms of edson phase two project mr anderson's reporting they went through a couple of weeks ago the teachers are packing up everything they're removing the blinds they're going to do something with window treatments that's much better than blind shades and the materials some will be stored in the gym some will be a taxi but the good thing about this is all materials are inside there will be no supply chain issue with this in terms of the change in sequence of proposed projects for the five year capital improvement plan they've been working on that and dr pillino stated the bidding environment is concerning they've been monitoring the problem monitoring projects around it so there's an inflation cost right now that that we're contending um okay all the schools for smart tools bonding phase one uh have
099been surveyed and mr tonsek gave us good news he is able to buy a hundred cameras from his budget that we don't have to take out of and we had a question about converting bathrooms on the lower level music wing for a compliance and we're working on a plan for that we've announced that mr olsen was retiring we found it out earlier at this meeting and um miss clark okay clark said that the comments on the air conditioning project projected for kingston high school for next summer summer 2023 i have been responding to by the state and they're they're answering questions from the state we hope to have everything in place and it'll be a lot cooler here eventually our next meetings will be whenever the new schedule comes out we have our organizational meeting
100thank you are there any questions i have a question um but so well it's not solar so we have the experts back there in the corner is there any possibility for uh geothermal savings at some point in the future without calling on our group in the back geothermal is not something we've investigated at this point we have been going through this process and looking at solar but in the past we are working with our previous engineers and in our architects geothermal was not one of the things that was recommended for the way we would not for renovations it's for new construction yeah and so we are we've been going more towards the solar than towards the geothermal based on our architects and engineers recommendation on the best way to create that type of energy with
101this district okay thank you for our current building policy committee mrs jordan no problem love worth if there's no other questions this is jordan thank you uh we did meet although i have to say that my mind is kind of foggy now and all the meetings of the year are blending into one but we did meet on june 3rd and we had a presentation by the wellness committee um who i can't remember the two lovely women who came from cornell cooperative extension but they are the people who actually provide the grant and so they are very knowledgeable about what has to be included in grant in terms of getting the highest value so they had some suggestions to include language that had not been in the wellness committee prior to this and they have provided
102us with that and dr paulino indicated it would not be a problem to have that right in the policy rather than where we might put it in regulations so we're going to we have that sent to our attorney to review and that will be in your library probably at the next meeting we also briefly talked about grading but there will be no changes as of now to the policy and i want to thank mr olson for all of his very detailed work and expertise with grammar he's been a great addition to the committee while we miss him and i'm sure he's going to miss being on policy tremendously he'll probably just come to meetings because people want you yeah he did mention that he would like to remain on the couch another emeritus um but
103i also want to welcome kathy saletti who is going to join the committee permanently and because the committee has policy committee has really tried very hard to look at all of our policies with a lens as broad as possible i think kathy will bring an expertise to us in terms of our equity list so that we can make sure our policies are improved as much as possible and our next meeting is on july 8th and mr lam is joining me at bailey school tomorrow to get some input about dress codes from the middle school students that's it so word of education about a you said something about you talked about reading [Music] well mr shaughnessy had asked us about the regions and whether or not we should change the policy and the consensus was that
104we don't want to [Music] put students in a position where they have to take any more tests at the end of the year than they already so we're going to wait until we get such time as the high school or any school and group of teachers feels that there's a way of proving it but for now we we really felt that we don't want to put more pressure on students at the end of the year so if um regions are adequate and used in classrooms regularly as a final exam we don't want to overrule that and if they're not we don't want to overrule that either so our policy is just going to remain as it is and the the teaching and learning department and miss bonville specifically the secondary level and dr alveto have
105been working with our classroom teachers to get their feedback on how they did how they feel this could move forward and when we have that feedback we will come back to the policy committee for conversation of the greeting i think that's really the spirit of what the policy committee wanted was input from the field of the people who were who are actually doing this yeah i mean that's not something we felt should cut down from us right unless there was [Music] department that doesn't think you should use the regents as a final exam at all so that is a balance i'm glad that that teachers are weighing in and we'll talk about it i think i think i think that's where the you know that's really when we want to get that information in that
106people from the field not from and i think i mean it is complicated you don't want to over test kids they have to take the region so i'm glad teachers it's a competition with you one thing that i would like to see um is a study of the correlation between region scores and the average of quarterly grades so if the regis is going to be the final then it should correspond closely to what i would think it should what the uh what the students quarterly averages are for that course to make sure that the regents is an accurate representation of what's been taught and what they've accomplished during your regular work throughout the year just my opinion any other comments okay consent agenda are there any items any resolutions that a board member would like
107to have pulled from the consent agenda i'd like to request ble89 people any others okay so can i have a motion for approving consent agenda for eoe 89 exactly okay any questions about any items on the consent agenda uh hearing none uh all in favor of the consent agenda of sp 89 ble89 you say aye hi opposed nay man boe 89 is the ktf memorandum agreement can i have a motion to consider voe 89 okay um i asked for this to be moved to be pulled from the consent agenda there's a provision in the memorandum of agreement that i strongly disagree with anyone who's on medicare has a portion of their anyone who's on social security has a portion of their social security payment uh deducted as a standard premium for medicare part b and
108you know that standard premium everybody pays them a premium as a health as a health insurance premium there's an adjustment called the income related monthly adjustment which is calculated based on your income for the prior year and it's treated in this memorandum of agreement as a as a a health insurance premium and i disagree strongly with that i think it's a tax uh because i can't i don't know of any other and anyway so the agreement is to reimburse that to retirees and also to extend that reimbursement to past retirees and that has to be done in board policy i strongly disagree with that and i will vote no uh on the contract because of that so there's no other discussion uh i'll call the question we'll call the role please dr collins yes doctor
109yes ms jordan mr lam yeah miss lau yes mr michael yes mr shaughnessy no this year yes mr spencer yes next item on the agenda is old business if there's any old business to talking about consider is going to be under construction starting spring next year it's actually starting even in the winter next year okay all right so have we figured out where we're going for the time mr silverstein has been finding spaces all over the place and we're actually going to start developing some of our own fields to hold some of those events but yeah probably okay it would be great to have um yes a report and then some kind of a list or something online because parents are really certain i'm sure as soon as we have something solid we'll put it
110up thank you thank you so would all of those teams that normally use deets would they be away games um it will depend it will depend on the sports but like i said we're developing some of our own fields now we're doing some different work and tom and tom clapper and his team have been helping mr silverstein and kind of recreating some areas receiving some areas being able to create bigger uh many spaces out like more spaces that we had and um we're so it's going to be a mix of things i think our varsity football for example we're going to be playing away that season you know those kind of things so and probably our varsity lacrosse those that probably be playing away for the most part but some of the other programs that
111were in there that um maybe playing in fields of time on our campus or maybe the city did you see football [Music] oh yeah i mean we've had we've had offers they're not i mean obviously there's not very many local fields against teams that we play but we've got to offer some other school districts to share space with us so we're working on that all right but nothing's going to give you just one point and we're not going to we're not gonna play behind miller for varsity you know those kind of things um what about grandstands for sports that um draw larger crowds along the sidelines yes the larger crown was that we're looking at using other other people's facilities any other old business new business no new business we have a second public commentary
112on the agenda is there any member of the public left who would like to make a comment hello i just wanted to say it one more time tonight my name is scary for anyone who doesn't know me in the room left in the room um one more time tonight i just want to say thank you to camille um for everything she has done for all of us throughout the district and so as one of my last acts as the official spokesperson of the district on behalf of all of us thank you camille for everything you have done absolutely thumbs up on that board member announcements i would like to wish mr olsen who i've known for almost 10 years and mr karna who i haven't known for 16 years who has been a wonderful friend
113and i know at times had long discussions with her about parenting and things like that um and it moves on to you know parenting discussions about grades with children or those with children you still have discussions about parenting with your adult children too right that always goes on um you don't pass it you never become not being a parent and so thank you and and best of luck in your retirement and i know you'll be on you'll be on call asking answering a lot of questions i know you told me i mean i think it was wonderful for matt mccoy to come tonight and uh i know you told me that you know i mean matt is lord and i think he was he was poor clerk at catskill too right before he went to
114before he went to newburgh and i know you told me that when you started out as a board clerk and you've got a lot of phone calls from him and so maybe maybe karen can call him if she has problems yeah don't change your phone number you can return the favor okay any other board member announcements is there any uh executive session is there any need for an executive session okay hearing none i'll ask your emotions for a journal section all in favor say hi thank you very much the reorganization meeting uh is going to be on july 7. july july 6th so that's three weeks from today july 6th six o'clock and again thank you mr michael for your service on the board oh yes graduations [Music] okay [Music]