001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nationice for all. >> Thank you gentlemen. I appreciate you. Welcome everybody. I am going to turn the meeting over to our superintendent to get started. Thank you Mrs. Pace. And I'm going to turn it over to our wonderful middle school staff and students who are here to do our student showcase tonight. >> Hi, good evening. I'm Professor Mike, principal at Long Beach Middle School presenting today on our middle years program. Uh with me is Miss Behan, one of our teachers and our IB coordinator for our middle years program. uh she's been highly instrumental in working this year towards our NYP evaluation that we have coming in March. And so I really have to just say thank you right now
002for all of your hard work this school year. And also with us is Miss Donovan who is one of our sixth grade teachers. And so a big part of our project today is presentation today is on service learning and projects at the middle school. And so Miss Donovan has done a significant amount of work to uh get up and running our sixth grade service project that we'll highlight and showcase for you tonight. And then last, we have three of our eighth grade students uh who are going to present later on their eighth grade community project. We have Kieran, Levi, and Matthew. So, thank you boys for being here tonight. So, all of our work for my is tied to our learner profile. And so, IB has several traits uh which we dedicate one to every
003month that we want our students to exemplify. And so we've done a lot of work in the last two or three years in celebrating students and recognizing uh the high quality traits and characteristics they showcase each each month. So every month we have roughly 65 70 students that get recognized by a staff member in the building. Uh they receive credits towards our school store. Uh and we take a picture of them. We post them on social media. All of this is tied to our learner profile as a building as well. But again the main characteristics are students reflective are they knowledgeable? Are they open-minded? Are they risktaking? And a lot of this work you'll see tonight through our service learning and our projects as well. A big part of our instructional focus at the middle
004school level is making learning visible and thinking about ourselves in the classroom and our instruction and our pedigogy. How are we creating opportunities in our classrooms and through our lesson plannings for students to make their learning visible? uh for students to communicate with one another to reflect with one another and for learning to just not be a process from teacher to student but also uh from student to student within the classroom. So as part of our IB work this aligns through service learning and thinking about what opportunities do we have for our students to make their service projects and service learning visible within our building. And so what you'll see through the IB world in our presentation tonight, our students participate in direct service, indirect service, advocacy, and research as well. Um, and we want
005to provide more opportunities for students to participate in service learning at the middle school level. So one of the things that we changed at the middle school two years ago is we started a gradual release of service projects. Uh, and it's a continuum of work from sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Typically, our students have participated in an eighth grade community project where students work individually or in groups on their own project and giving back to the school or giving back to the community. Some of the things we're going to highlight tonight really starts from this gradual release uh starting in the sixth grade. So, in the sixth grade, Miss N will talk today about our sixth graders participate in a full grade service project where every student participates on one project where they give back
006to the community. Uh student voice is a big part of that project and we're happy to share what some of the results were from last year as well as this year. That work continues in seventh grade where students work in teams. So team 71 has a service project, team 72 has a service project, team 73 as a service project and they all fall within the same theme uh which is military and our veterans. And so the goal for our work really is if we model explicitly for students what high quality service projects look like and we walk them through the process from start to finish what service projects should be that by the time they get to 8th grade uh they'll have a solid understanding of what a service project whether it's direct or indirect
007should look like within the community. the impacts that it has on a local and a global scale and we're going to increase the output of what our students have here at the middle school. >> Hi everyone. Um I'm here to present about the sixth grade community project. Um it really was kind of a passion project being able to work directly with our community, get in touch with some people, see what they need throughout the community. Um student choice and student voice was especially important for this one. So, we provided students with four different options that they could vote for. We did Bobby and the Strays, which is an animal shelter, um the Long Beach Soup Kitchen, birthday wishes wishes, um which provides birthday parties for undergrowded children, as well as the Long Beach Cleanup. Um
008it was an opportunity to give students a way to collaborate and think about how we could better serve our community while also being able to choose um with our vote, which was very exciting. The kids were very excited when they saw that Bobby and the Straits was the clear winner. Um, and it was all about the animals. They were so excited and they got straight to work. They started creating materials. But before we went in to do that, we had to craft a proposal. What was really great about this sixth grade project is that it really reflects the eighth grade project. So independently once they get into eighth grade, they should be able to do this proposal. And we followed those same steps, but we did it as a whole class so that it could
009really represent and show what our plans were and how we wanted to move forward as a group so that hopefully in seventh grade as a team they can do that and then independently once they get to eighth grade. The expectations were clear and they were able to show this and then get it approved so that we could begin our um our process in getting supplies for Bobby in the streets. Um through the long process um the students made flyers, they worked together, they made sure that every single student was held accountable and each student had a job. This whole school was filled with flyers at Bobby and the Straits. Other kids that weren't in sixth grade probably like what is going on with these kids? Um it was just crazy, but it was also very
010exciting. We had kickoff um events for it. Um, and the best part was at the end when we collected over 90 items, the kids actually were able to bring these items to Bobby Industries. Um, really seeing what impact they had on these animals. So, they got to see that not only did they do this, but it was actually serving for a greater good. Um, next, I believe the next slide is going to be a video of actual sixth graders that are now in seventh grade and the impacts that this actually had because you guys don't want to listen to my voice, you want to listen to theirs. The voting impacted me so in a positive way. So I could choose what I want to do instead of being forced to do something that I didn't
011want to. I was really excited that we chose Bobby in the strays cuz it's always for the animals. The animals are key in our lives. The reading journal helped me reflect by showing me new ideas that I could use for the project. The sixth grade project helped me prepare for the seventh grade project because it honestly helped me gather the confidence to either present my own ideas or even do something that I thought I'd never had the courage to do before. I like the community project because we made bigger bonds with their classmates and we made the community a better place. Um clearly this was really impactful for students and hopefully they were able to carry these lessons into their seventh grade project. Um it's really exciting being able to watch it begin again. Um
012it looks like we're going to be serving posh pets. These kids really love the apples man. Um so hopefully it's going to be a great process once again. Um but that is our seventh grade. Thank you for having us tonight. Um the seventh grade is a lead off of the sixth grade experience in order to help prepare students move into the eighth grade where they'll work more independently. Um the difference between the sixth and seventh grade is that as seventh grade students they work within their teams to do one service project in a smaller environment rather than as a whole grade. Uh part of what's different with the sixth seventh grade is that one of our uh focus areas in the seventh grade is to think about the why behind the project. A lot of
013our work in seventh grade um has to do with the military and service members and looking at American history and how our military has served our communities. And so as seventh graders, we think about what kind of role does the military play in our lives and how can we give back to others within our community. So team 71 in the beginning of the school year works on the field of honor project. Uh so everybody has seen the the uh fields of flags around our community in front of the administration building at other school buildings. Um but what they don't see is within our classrooms we're doing a lot of reading with non-fiction and fiction texts related to military and the role that they're playing within um our culture and in our communities. not only with
014their experience uh as military members at war, but also as they come home and they serve our communities uh as they're living within our world uh at home. And so this gives students an opportunity to understand how we can give back to others who have served us and think about why do we select different service projects that we may want to choose. Uh as seventh graders then move through the school year, the other teams will continue to work on projects. uh 72 last year worked at Memorial Day on poppy projects. So they research the history behind the poppy and what the uh poppy symbolizes within our world and why we see those within our community at Memorial Day. Uh and then they built their own poppies using pieces of tissue paper and um uh pipe
015cleaners. Thank you. uh and then they were able to pass those out within our school community and at veteran organizations in order to let the community know that we're uh supporting them within our school building. Uh 73 this year is going to be doing a service project in the next few weeks where we're going to be recognizing veterans that are currently living in our community and we're going to title that uh Hearts of Heroes. And right around Valentine's Day, we're going to ask our students to bring in pictures and names of current military members within our community so we can honor them within our school building. And then you utilizing our advisory period, we're going to be creating cards to send out to those veterans to let them know that we uh honor them and
016that we're committed to supporting them within our school community here. uh our f our hope is that as students move out of seventh grade and into the eighth grade, understanding the reason why we're selecting the projects that we're selecting will help them to think about what kind of experiences have they had, what do they see within our community that's important to them, and how could they bring their own work out into the world. Um, one of the major reasons that we selected the community service projects to highlight tonight was that at the heart of my is really thinking about how is it that what we're doing in school translates into our own world and into our own lives. So, how can we take what we've learned as communicators, as collaborators, as reflective individuals, and take
017those skills that we have um strengthened within our work and bring that out into the world in order to make us more productive members of our own communities. And so, the IV my community projects are really there for students to think about what can we take that we've learned within our own school building and bring that out into the world. And so as students have learned to have to go through the process in sixth grade and think about the meaning behind the projects in seventh grade, they should be better equipped to do this more individually with guidance from um staff members in the eighth grade. And so as they move into eighth grade, um students work with groups of their choice or as individuals guided by adult adviserss within the school building in order to
018culminate their NYP learning through service projects in the community. and students have the opportunity to propose projects of their own in order to think about what matters to me and what do I care about that I want to give back to within our world using all of the different skills and all of the different traits and the lessons that I've taken in order to to put those to use in our community. Um some examples, we had students that go into our um community centers in order to bring holiday cheer to our seniors uh in our community. We've had students that have created virtual playlists in order to bring um songs into the um I think they brought it into the Grandell and they had um community centers where the elderly were able to come and
019listen to the students playing. uh we have students that work within our school community in order to take the NYP and enhance it so that it's more visible and so that students understand how we're using this within our world and why this might be important and showcasing some of the work that we're doing. And here with us tonight we have Matthew Rabona, Levi, and Kieran in order to share their experience this year so far taking what they have worked on in school and bring that back out into the community. So I'm going to hand the floor over to them to share some of the work that they have done. >> So with our project we worked on testing how mung beans and Daphneia are affected with nitrates. Um we received data from Tana Hemstead through
020um contacting Cassidy. She's helps um she's at the data center for town homestead and we took that data and compared it to what our findings are the Daphnneia and lung beans and we are seeing how if these trends continue how they could possibly get dangerous to humans and plants within the waters. Um, we want to at the end of this um create a pamphlet or um some sort of letter out to inform people of how they could possibly increase their usage of nitrates and how waters and why it is important that we stop dangerous runoff. So it took a lot of preparation just like ideas and brainstorm just to get to our project idea and we got to a lot of this from past projects like NHD may not have been a direct point of
021actually using the same like uh project or topics HD but the organization that it taught us really helped us organize all information throughout our grass and everything like that. National Junior Honor Society helped us uh manage our time perfectly because National Junior said we do community service and with the community service you can manage out your schedule and my you also have to do that with leading up with your team and that helped us a lot and um and the feel of even the evening projects like that taught us to work as a team helped us build our helped us build our teamwork skills just every project we do helps us build up more so we can be better for projects like this that help us for the future and even even longer and you
022guys may be thinking like how this affect us after middle school and it will affect us I guess think how to learn like think outside the box and stay organized and it'll also help us be a better human overall because when you get to the high school that you learn um and you do I courses you need to be a good teammate and work well with people and it will help you be a a good and well-rounded student. Um, the MIP project will help me set a plan so I can prepare for high school and just be a better student overall. Bobby Stray has a community service to help out stray cats and dogs and donate stuff like food, blankets, um dog bowls, leashes, litter, all that kind of stuff. The best part of the
023service project was just working together for like a school project, but it's actually helping people and animals outside of school like for a good cause. The field of honor service project was important to me because it helped me show my respect for America and its veterans. I think service projects are a valuable experience because it shows that how the community can get together and help each other and just like even little things like just holding a door open or biggest things like putting flags up on the front lawn of middle school. It was really awesome. So I love that we got together >> for our service project. Our team created poppies for National Poppy Day. For this project, we used tissue paper and pipe cleaners to create poppy flowers. >> The poppies are a symbol
024of soldiers that gave their lives for this country. >> Our team created over 700 poppies for all of the students and teachers in this school. >> After handing out all the poppies, the extras were donated to our local American Legions unit. The best part of this service project was wa seeing all of the people wear the poppies in remembrance of these soldiers and going home and explaining to family members at our house what those poppies meant. Our MIP community service project was about teaching the Leo Elementary School students about beach safety. >> This is so important to us because we live in a beach community where the beach plays such a big aspect in our lives. The best part about our community service project was being able to go into Leo Elementary and teach all
025the kids about beach safety. >> This is such a valuable experience because we get to make sure that the kids have a fun and safe summer. >> All right, so I just want to start first by just saying to our eighth grade students, amazing job. Again, this exemplifies what you described today is a high quality project uh that's geared from eighth grade students. it's interdiciplinary in nature and so I'm very excited to see what the results are of your project and see you present at the end of this year. So nice job. Um and so yeah, all this work really is built on building community within your school and inclusivity within your school and it's something you could feel when students participate in these projects. You feel it. You see the signs in the hallway.
026You see the students decorating the building. You see them working with their teachers handinand on the project. And it really is beautiful to see. Uh just really quickly, I know it's been a long presentation, but just some things to highlight that we're really excited about. New additions for this year, we're really partnering our student organization uh with other students who are going to need service project ideas. So, you know, starting with just Mr. Creme, Mr. Petty, Miss Healey, and Miss Callahan. They've done a great job over the past two years in working with different uh community partnerships and identifying a need within the community that we're going to begin to pair students that are struggling to find a project idea, or struggling to get the ball rolling to ensure that all students are participating in
027the greatest capacity possible in this project. So the SO this year has developed quite a few partnerships and there's significant need out in the community and our intention is to pair students up that are struggling to find a project so they can successfully participate in this as well. Um and we're also really excited about some of the service within the district particularly from the secondary level to the elementary level. We've always had a sixth grade ancient Egypt museum uh which is beautiful. The the library turns into a museum. This year we opened up for the first time to parents at night, but we also opened it up for four days for fifth grade students to come from each elementary school. And so, not only did they see the work uh and were the teachers handinand
028with the students, our sixth grade teachers introducing themselves, uh, showcasing the work, but I'm proud to say that we did have sixth grade students that served as tour guides. And so, they greeted the students and they didn't just talk to them about what was built. They talked them to them about what they learned, what the learning process was for them through the journey. And the fifth grade students left excited to be part of the middle school next year. Again, it was a chance for our sixth grade students to make their learning visible for elementary students. And our fifth grade students coming in know what the expectation is for the social studies work in the project. When they left excited, they felt included and it was really beautiful to see our sixth grade students uh vocalize
029their learning and you know continue to build that community in Long Beach. So that's all we have. Thank you all. >> Thank you. do some comments. >> Yeah. Yeah, sure. So, I think I say it every board meeting when there's always a highlight for the students to come and speak to us. No offense teachers. We love hearing from you guys. But students, no, I know you guys want to get out. It's cold out. Um but I I just want to tell you how much you are so impressive to all of us. Um the way you communicated your thoughts, your feelings, the whole entire process of your project. You could see the passion that you had within you to do such a project and it actually made me think about something that the town of Hemstead
030is doing and I actually pulled it up on my phone. Kind of goes along with what you were talking about where you want to um alert the community about the nitrate runoff. Town of Hemstead is actually putting out giving out grants to people who would like to create native gardens because you're saying native gardens actually diminish the amount of the nitrates and fertilizer runoff. So it's I'm sure you guys can look it up if you want to. It could be an added to your project, but that's another great way that you can work together and add to your community. Um, I guess I'm just bringing that up because you talk a lot about life skills and how you're connecting them to the community and you guys are in middle school and you're basically doing the
031same thing that people in government are doing right now. So, I really want to thank you for taking the time to explain all of that and I can't wait to see what else you guys have in store for us. Um, speaking of those community projects, it it really is wonderful to hear when a project touches a ch child's heart. Um, you talked about the Egyptian Museum and how just you think of it as so simple as just bringing the kids over so the little kids can fifth graders can see it, but it's not simple. It's something that's so meaningful because you're letting them know that they matter and you're allowing the sixth graders to show that they are leaders to other kids. So, it's a beautiful thing that you're doing and and I love to
032watch how it was going to progress throughout the years. Um, I love how you guys are showing that the students voice counts no matter what. Um, and you're trying to find different ways and helping them to show that their voice counts. I love listening to how you're going to actually help other kids get involved in the teamwork that you guys are so strongly talk about how you're going to spread that out with other students who may not always be so willing to be part of a team or know how. Um, it's just just wonderful to see all the great things that you guys are doing and thank you for taking the time to share it with us and and I don't know if you know this, but I I am an avid animal lover. >>
033So, when you brought up Bobby on the Straits, you had me. >> Oh, good. I I actually have three dogs from them. So, >> thank you. >> I I can attest to Miss Conway because she always has dog hair on her. So, she's definitely an animal lover. Sorry. Um, great job presenting. Great job to the staff and everyone who's involved. My eighth grader is in the room. Great great work. So, I'll tell you something. Being a role model is not a job you can choose to take, right? Someone selects you to do it. And what you're doing up there is becoming role models for other kids. What we're doing here on the board is like and the teachers and the staff, the administration, it's not about tests. I mean, that's a big part of it.
034tests and curriculum and all these other things. But our goal is to prepare you for life, give you experiences, have you overcome challenges, move on so you can be successful as adults once you leave school, right? And I think this is a true testament to how we prepare you guys for the future. So great job to everybody and great job public speaking. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I'm just going to echo basically what everybody has said already. Um, I think the thing that most impresses me about this and I and and everything that you're doing, all of those projects are wonderful. You have a lot of animal lovers up here and when you were talking about going to Bobby and the stress, they're all like, "Oh." Um, and and one of the things about
035that is sometimes you have kids who have dogs and cats and pets at home and they easily embrace that, but then you have the kids who don't have that. And so it's a good opportunity for kids to get to know the the animal world from the other side. So that's that's really nice. But I just want to say I'm so impressed that you already have the feeling of community and that is important. We don't live in a vacuum. We have our own homes and our homes are important and our families are important, but we need to take that feeling out into the world and this is your community and the fact that you're starting there and working bringing your projects out into the world is very impressive and very mature and it's wonderful to hear
036your passion for that. So keep it up guys. Thank you for sharing with us tonight. >> I just want to thank you and the teachers for coming out tonight. What impressed me most about the presentation was the cross discipline. I saw social studies, I saw science, I saw English language arts, I saw art, the making of the pockies. So it was nice to see the interdicciplinary work involved. Could somebody please tell me going back to the first slide why program was spelled the way it was >> program? >> No, I want a student. >> It was spelled P R O G R A M E. Why? I can tell >> I suspect because of the European influence of the program that the program stems from Europe and program is felt that way because that's the
037originated form of the program. But once again, thank you for coming out on a cold night. I enjoyed your presentations. I look forward to hearing from you guys in the high schools. I suspect you'll be at future board meetings and leaders in the high school in the years to come. I thank the teachers for your efforts in getting the kids here tonight and getting them where the slides indicated they are. Thank you. >> I don't have anything to add. Thank you, gentlemen. You did a beautiful job. You were excellent public speakers. It is not easy to get up and speak in front of everyone. So, thank you for that. And thank you to the teachers that principal. I don't know where he Oh, he's hiding over there. I can't see you. You're right behind the
038podium. And thank you for the beautiful presentation. And I too, you had me at dogs. I You lost me there. That was fabulous. So, thank you everybody. >> Thank you so much. Another dog lover here at Cats. I have many. My house is like a farm. But thank you for everything that you did today. You did a great job. And you are welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but I totally understand if you have a better to do. So, you can feel free to jump out if you want to. Yeah. >> Thank you again. Oh yeah. >> Good evening everybody. We're going to talk about central support this evening with a spotlight on our facility structures. So when we talk about central support, we're talking about all of the functions that begin
039A1. It's what we call the 1000 series functions. It's what supports all of our district operations. And what we don't have in this total is A1620, A1621 and A1680. 1620 and 21 we're going to talk about in a future slide. That's our operations and our maintenance on the facilities side. And 1680 we spoke about already. That's our technology infrastructure. So what it includes? It includes all the offices at our central administration building in terms of the functions that we perform whether it's curriculum um business office HR office and then things like legal services and um insurance as well as the board of education our district meetings and um superintendent's office. You see here an increase of about 3.2% 2% and which amounts to about $163,000 increase there. Why um is it going up and what
040does this funding include? We have insurance premium increases. Nicer is our insurance company, New York State Insurance reciprocal, the acronym nicer and we are having to shoulder some premium increases that are projected for next year. both sees some cooperative service lines, some up to 5% going up, projected to go up. And then Long Beach civil service, we have to pay part of the Long Beach Civil Service office for the functions that they perform on behalf of our civil service employees in Long Beach, and that is projected to go up as well. All the other codes within those A100 functions remain stable with just some minor adjustments up and down. Our facilities functions include two. It's 1620 which is our operations. It's going up about 8%. And I'll talk a little bit about why that's going
041up. Um and maintenance just about 5%. A short way of trying to distinguish between operations and maintenance. The operations is everything on the inside. So for example, our cleaning staff, custodians, the utility bills, things that keep our buildings on the inside operating properly. And then the maintenance is the outside. So our mechanics, our grounds, everything having to do with what's outside of our building. So the proposed budget for 2627 on the operation side includes funding for an additional cleaner at the high school so that the night custodian can more fully supervise the night cleaners. And that's something that we started in the middle of the current year based on some feedback that we received from the building community over at the high school that we really needed full-time supervision. We have several night cleaners and
042that's when the bulk of the work was performed the evening. It started about 2:30 after the kids are just as the kids are getting ready to leave. And we felt that having the custodian there who up until mid year had some sections to actually clean was better if that night custodian really was full-time supervision checking on all the sections making sure that everything was done properly. And so we needed to hire additional cleaner there and put that in the budget for next year. We also added some additional security staff at the elementary buildings based on feedback that we received from our elementary buildings that we really should have security staff there after the regular school day to be on site when we have our extra school or after school activities. And we started that at
043the beginning of this school year, but it wasn't in the current year budget. So we wanted to add that into the next year budget as well. vendor repair services which involves anytime we bring in a business to perform services in the district they're considered a vendor and we do see some increases both on the operations and on the maintenance side due to our aging infrastructure and just our rise in costs. So we have a budget driver there in terms of those line items A1620.431 431 and that same object code 431, but also on the maintenance side A1621. We've included funding for energy cost increases for natural gas and electricity that we expect to see. And we're also going to replace a van that some of our our operation staff uses. So, there's money in there
044to replace that van. On the maintenance side now again going to A1621. It includes funding for a new Kabota which is good timing because we use that for snow removal. It's a smaller trunk that's used to get into tighter spaces. Um and we actually had more money in the current year budget for equipment on the maintenance side. So an overall reduction there helped to offset some otherre increases in projected staff compensation. Again, our budget calendar. We're in the beginning stages of budget development. It's January, so we have another couple months of presentations. Um, our next board meeting, we'll start talking about our curriculum. Then we'll go into elementary, secondary, and then PPS. On April 14th is our budget adoption. May 12th, the week before the budget vote, budget vote is the budget hearing, and then
045the budget vote trustee election. May 19th, which is always the third Tuesday in May. comments or questions for the board. First, please >> I'll just say thank you for always keeping us updated and it's a long process and and the fact that you break it down and simplify it for us makes it much easier to understand. Appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Yes, Michael, as always, thank you so much for always explaining everything so well and so detailed. Um my my big concern and I know it's has nothing to do with Bills is the energy cost increases for natural gas and electricity. >> Y >> um I I don't know. I know that it's going up and up and up. What do we have plans to help protect us from any surges
046in gas prices or electricity? I know we have solar. Are there any other plans we have to help lower those costs at all? >> Well, not not at the moment. You know, several years ago, we did an energy um >> yeah, we had our energy program where we were able to use the savings that we did when we replaced some of the lights and we went to LEDs. We did better insulation in our buildings to fund new roofs. We had two new roofs that we use with that money. Of course, you mentioned the solar. We have solar on on all of our buildings. So we we did that recently. You know, that was maybe going about maybe about six years maybe until we did that. So um we're always open to things that are coming,
047but there's nothing really planned at this point. You know, we do have that energy study that we've been working on regarding the buses. So that is something that is in the works um on the energy side, but it's really just, you know, making sure that we, you know, do what we can to just be efficient. But there's nothing special that I can that I can do. >> Um, thank you also for the snow removal book. You really have to thank our staff for cleaning all that snow. That must have been some major job. >> Yeah, thank you. And I will share we I you know we don't sometimes we get some nice emails from families, community members and we did get a nice email today uh positive feedback about what a great job the crew
048did over here at the complex in terms of just the grounds and the pathways and the you know the roadways and the parking lots. So it's always appreciated. I will pass that along. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else? We also >> I think we're up to student organization announcements. >> He's not here. So, nobody's here. Okay. Questions and comments uh from the public for tonight's agenda only. Hello, good evening. Um just briefly wanted to make some comments about the uh uh proposed uh code of conduct which I've commented uh for the past uh few meetings and that it seems that at this meeting on the agenda is a final adoption of the code of conduct. I would encourage the school board to uh table this adoption and I think as I've said in
049the past I think we need to go back to the drawing board on the code of conduct and uh uh prioritize um order prioritize proper discipline as well as removing the term restorative justice from the code of conduct as well as um ensuring that we're in compliance with uh recent executive orders as well as guidance from the Department of Education regarding uh uh school discipline. And so I I think that the changes that uh are being proposed are insufficient and that uh we need to comprehensively look at the code of conduct engaging uh the community through uh speaking to uh current parents as well as um even students and really uh taking a comprehensive look. Thank you. That's it. That's it for the same. Okay. Um approval of minutes for executive session and regular meeting
050January 13, 2026. >> Motion. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss. >> Yes. Um Doc, >> yes. >> Miss Pel, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. Uh presentation attempt. Thank you. I ask to consider item one, certificated personnel. >> Motion made >> second. Any discussion? >> Mr. P. >> Like to congratulations to our retirees and I vote yes. >> Yes. And I would just like to thank all of the retirees for all of their dedication to our students and I wish them the best of luck in their retirement. And I vote yes. Uh Duck, >> I vote yes. Miss Belie, >> I vote yes. >> And I vote yes. Um item two, C not certificated personnel. Motion second discussion >> like to congratulate our retiree for her great work in the
051district and I vote yes. >> Miss Conley, >> I vote yes. >> Yes. >> Miss Kelsey, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. Um, item three is the second reading of policy 5681, a new policy on the creation of school and district safety plans. No action is necessary and I'd ask the board to consider items 4 through 10 together. Motion second. Any discussion? >> Mr. Po, >> yes. >> Miss Conway, >> yes. Do >> yes. >> Miss uh Belie and I vote yes. >> Okay. uh board of ed any new or old business. Um Miss Pace. Yeah. Hi. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Okay. Um I just really first I want to thank all of our bus drivers for their dedication to our students. I watched them drive around this morning and they they really maneuvered
052very well around traffic and they took their time and I know that they were really considering everybody's safety. So, please give them my thank yous for that. Um, I'd also like to remind everybody about the middle school musical that's coming up in February. What's the Do we know the title? >> Once Upon a Mattress. >> Oh, Once Upon a Mattress. That's exciting. So, those are always wonderful plays I look forward to. It's a musical. And that that's it for me. Thank you. Stay warm, everybody. >> Anybody else? Um, questions and comments from the public good evening again. Um I have a question of uh does the school district allow uh biological men to play in women's sports? >> The district follows the state laws governing athletics. Um do we have any I I don't know
053the answer to that right now but we follow the state laws on on athletics which currently doesn't. >> Okay. So, if a biological man wanted to play a woman's sport that the school district would have no problem with that. >> There's certain procedures that the athletic director would go through to get that approved, but I believe that state law that we have. >> Can you go into some detail about those procedures? >> I can get back to you on it. I don't know what's >> Okay, if you can please do that. And then uh same thing about uh do we allow uh biological men to use women's restrooms as well as women's locker rooms. >> So I don't think we've had issue with that um Eddie because we renovated all of the bathrooms in the
054high school over the past five years. They're all single so single room bathrooms now. Um I I honestly don't think we have any >> but it includes like are the locker rooms still >> there's still there's still single Mr. help me out. I just haven't done a locker room in a while. There's still a single gender, >> right? Yeah, we still have locker rooms broken out into the men's or women's locker rooms. Um, and that is in the process of having a a renovation in terms of the capital projects that are underway over the next couple years. We're going to be renovating those. And would those renovations have separate changing stalls for uh individual students or still? >> We haven't completed the designs on that yet, but I know we are considering different options including
055uh private types of facilities um perhaps shower area or changing areas where it's being under consideration at the moment. >> Yeah. The reason Thank you. The reason why I asked these questions to the board is because of a um the federal government has uh repeatedly stated through executive orders, through guidance that Title 9 uh prohibits biological men from both participating in women's sports, entering women's bathrooms, and uh using women's locker rooms. Uh the district has repeatedly through Dr. Gallagher told me that as she did tonight that we're following state law. However, state law does not trump federal law and right now uh Belmore merit is currently facing a probe from the department of education uh civil rights division for these specific policies. So the argument that we are just following state law, I don't think
056will hold up in a federal civil rights probe and I strongly encourage the district to reevaluate those policies. Thank you. >> Does anyone else? >> Okay. Uh announcements. Long Beach Classroom Teachers Association. Thank you. >> Um administrative Supervis supervisor DPS >> LBSCI here. Uh PTA all set. >> Can I get a motion to >> motion? >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Stay warm. Thank you.